BlackRock's iShares Staked Ethereum Trust ETF (ETHB) recorded more than $15.5 million in first-day trading volume, after launching with over $100 million in assets. The fund stakes the majority of its ether, distributes around 82% of rewards to holders, and charges a 0.25% annual sponsor fee, temporarily reduced to 0.12% on the first $2.5 billion for its first year.

U.S. SEC Commissioner Hester Peirce said at an Investor Advisory Committee meeting that staff are crafting a more limited innovation exemption to permit restricted trading of certain tokenized securities. The IAC had urged the commission to avoid a broad blanket exemption and instead pursue rule-by-rule reforms, arguing that tokenized securities should remain fully subject to core investor protections.

Metaplanet has created two wholly owned subsidiaries, Metaplanet Ventures and Metaplanet Asset Management, and approved these moves at a board meeting, according to CEO Simon Gerovich. The firm plans to deploy ¥4 billion over the next few years into bitcoin-focused infrastructure in Japan and will invest ¥400 million in yen stablecoin issuer JPYC as the VC arm's first deal.

On March 10, DeFi platform Aave faced a temporary oracle issue on its Ethereum Core and Prime deployments that triggered about $26 million in unfair wstETH liquidations across 34 accounts. The malfunction was linked to a misconfigured Correlated Asset Price Oracle that applied an incorrect capped exchange rate, and a compensation plan involving 141.5 ETH recovered plus up to 345 ETH from the DAO treasury is being prepared for affected users.

South Korea's Gwangju District Prosecutors' Office sold 320.8 BTC seized from an international gambling platform, generating 31.6 billion won for the national treasury. The bitcoin had been stolen in August 2025 through a phishing attack but was returned to the authorities last month, after which it was sold between Feb. 24 and March 6 while the hacker remains under investigation.

In a recent report to the Vancouver City Council, municipal staff concluded that bitcoin does not qualify as an allowable investment asset for the city under the Vancouver Charter and recommended ending work on a proposed BTC reserve. The motion, introduced by Mayor Ken Sim in November 2024 to make Vancouver more “bitcoin-friendly” by allocating part of its reserves to BTC, had been approved in December 2024 pending a feasibility review.

In a post on X published on Wednesday, Eric Trump accused JPMorgan Chase, Bank of America and Wells Fargo of lobbying through the Clarity Act to block U.S. crypto platforms from paying 4–5% yields on stablecoin deposits. He argued that banks, which he said currently offer around 0.01% to 0.05% APY while receiving about 3.65% from the Federal Reserve, are protecting a low-rate monopoly at the expense of consumers. Jamie Dimon has called for stablecoin products paying interest to be regulated like banks, while White House advisor Patrick Witt countered that the key regulatory trigger should be lending or rehypothecation of underlying funds rather than the mere payment of yield.

The U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission submitted commission-level interpretive guidance to the White House on March 3 on how federal securities laws could apply to certain crypto assets and related transactions. The document, now in a prerule interagency review stage, is expected to outline a token taxonomy that would clarify which assets fall under SEC oversight, while the CFTC separately advanced a measure on prediction markets following remarks by its chair about forthcoming rulemaking.

White House digital asset advisor Patrick Witt publicly rejected JPMorgan CEO Jamie Dimon's recent claim that paying yield on stablecoins should automatically trigger bank-style regulation. Witt argued that the real regulatory concern is lending or rehypothecating the dollars behind those balances, stressing that the GENIUS Act explicitly bans such practices for payment stablecoin issuers. Ongoing disputes over how to treat stablecoin rewards have been tied to delays in wider U.S. digital asset market structure legislation, including the CLARITY Act.