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The value of tokenized real-world assets (RWAs) on public blockchains has climbed about 66% in 2026, reaching roughly $23.6 billion as of Wednesday, according to DeFiLlama data. The market stood at around $14.1 billion on Jan. 1 before steadily rising through early March. Tokenized funds, including products backed by US Treasury bills, bonds and money market funds, account for the largest share of the sector. DeFiLlama data shows tokenized funds represent about 44.5% of the total market with $10.5 billion in value, followed by tokenized gold and commodities at roughly $6.5 billion and tokenized equities at nearly $4 billion. Other…

Aster has overhauled its tokenomics by removing its monthly ecosystem unlock and replacing it with a staking-only emission model, reducing the amount of $ASTER entering circulation by about 97%. [Important Notice] Tokenomics Update: Restructuring Ecosystem Emissions We are replacing the monthly Ecosystem unlock with a staking-only emission model, significantly reducing the amount of $ASTER entering circulation each month. Previously, 78.4M $ASTER (~1% of max supply)… — Aster 🥷 (@Aster_DEX) March 30, 2026 Under the previous structure, roughly 78.4 million $ASTER, or about 1% of total supply, was released each month on a linear schedule. That mechanism has now been scrapped.…

In brief The U.S. Senate unanimously passed S. Res. 708, banning senators from trading on prediction markets. Republican Senator Bernie Moreno of Ohio introduced the resolution targeting potential advantages from non-public government information. The ban represents the first major regulatory action specifically prohibiting government officials from prediction market participation. The U.S. Senate has banned senators from trading on prediction markets, with the chamber passing a resolution targeting potential insider trading advantages from non-public government information. The Senate resolution prohibits senators and their staff from participating in prediction markets where users can bet on political outcomes, policy decisions, and other events…

A pseudonymous researcher has posted a suspicious trade by a collection of Hyperliquid wallets that some crypto traders suspect of having a special relationship with Robinhood. Continuing a pattern of curious trades, the “insider” opened a prescient short on Hyperliquid’s HOOD perpetual futures contracts — crypto derivatives that mimic the price of Robinhood’s common stock — mere hours before Robinhood’s scheduled first-quarter earnings release. After its disappointing earnings, shares of Robinhood’s stock fell sharply yesterday evening, rewarding the traders’ leveraged short in after-hours trading. Stock price chart of Robinhood over the past day. Source: TradingView The trader(s) at the center…

Publicly traded crypto mining companies are posting strong gains in 2026, even as the broader crypto market remains under pressure. All ten of the largest publicly traded mining stocks are in positive territory year-to-date (YTD), with gains ranging from around 5% to more than 85%, according to data from Bitcoinminingstock.io. Top Bitcoin mining stocks by market cap. Source: Bitcoinminingstock.io Top Bitcoin mining stocks by market cap. Source: Bitcoinminingstock.io TeraWulf, Inc. leads the group with gains of about 85%, followed by Hut 8 Corp. at roughly 67% and Riot Platforms, Inc. at around 46%. Other major miners have also posted strong…

According to a recent report published by Bloomberg, the long-dormant wallets belonging to Satoshi Nakamoto, the pseudonymous creator of the original cryptocurrency, could be in the crosshairs of future hackers. It was previously assumed that Satoshi Nakamoto’s Bitcoin wallets would never be moved or sold. The mysterious Bitcoin creator handed over the project in 2011 and disappeared. Due to lost private keys and the deaths of early adopters, an estimated 2.3 If quantum hackers successfully break into these dormant wallets, the economic impact on the crypto market would be catastrophic. In 2024, the German government seized and liquidated 50,000 $BTC.…

The promise of decentralized finance was once a clarion call for a democratic financial revolution. It envisioned a world where the rigid, exclusionary walls of traditional banking would be replaced by transparent, automated, permissionless systems. As we move through 2026, that early optimism has given way to a more sober reality. Singapore Summit: Meet the largest APAC brokers you know (and those you still don’t!) While the technology remains powerful, the economic foundations of most DeFi lending protocols are still structurally weak. Much of the system operates on reflexivity, where value is borrowed from the future to support the present.…

The leading cryptocurrency, Bitcoin (BTC), is struggling around $70,000 amid the uncertainty and tension created by the US-Iran conflict. The war between the two countries has driven up oil prices, indirectly increasing inflation concerns. Analysts worry that inflation, which the US Federal Reserve (FED) has long been trying to bring down to its 2 percent target, may come under renewed upward pressure with this increase in energy prices. While there is talk that the Fed might even raise interest rates in the face of inflation risk, the US February inflation data, which the Fed closely monitors when making its interest…

General Updates Bane Labs launched the Neo Oracle Gateway, enabling Neo X smart contracts to request and receive external data through Neo N3’s built-in oracle service via the Arbitrary Message Bridge. Bane Labs is the development entity comprising Neo Global Development, AxLabs, and Neo SPCC. SpoonOS announced a partnership with Sumplus, combining SpoonOS’s AI agent ecosystem with Sumplus’s composable financial tools, including Maria, Arsenal, and Yield, to enable AI agents to access secure on-chain financial capabilities. NeoRedPill noted that Coinbase Commerce no longer supports merchants in Germany for BTC, ETH, and USDC payments, and confirmed that direct NRP and $GAS…

$XRP is in the spotlight again as a top crypto exchange, BitMEX, teases a major announcement involving the XRPL native token in Vegas. BitMEX shared a cryptic message on X, eliciting reactions from the $XRP community. The exchange stated that “all eyes on $XRP in Vegas for us,” teasing that a major development involving the asset could be unveiled at the conference in Las Vegas this week. Key Points BitMEX shared a cryptic message on X, suggesting that a major development involving $XRP could be unveiled in Las Vegas. The tweet followed an earlier post in which BitMEX disclosed that…