On Tuesday, Aave founder and CEO Stani Kulechov published an essay arguing that the Aave DAO must evolve toward faster, more centralized execution while preserving tokenholder safeguards. His remarks follow a governance dispute in which key contributors BGD Labs and the Aave Chan Initiative decided to step back from the protocol over concerns about the "Aave Will Win" proposal and Aave Labs' influence. Kulechov said Aave has streamlined its product suite and wants governance to concentrate on major protocol and treasury decisions, while operational execution remains led by dedicated teams.

On 10 March 2026, China introduced a 96-core blockchain acceleration chip built on RISC-V architecture to support the national Chang'An Chain, also known as ChainMaker. The hardware is designed to deliver 50x faster smart contract processing and 20x faster digital signature verification, and is already used by central ministries, major state enterprises, and hundreds of thousands of cross-border trade firms. Analysts suggest the system is aimed at migrating real-world institutional processes onto a high-throughput, domestically controlled blockchain network that could serve as alternative financial infrastructure.

Trust Wallet has introduced an automatic Address Poisoning Protection feature on its mobile app, initially covering 32 EVM-compatible networks. The tool scans transactions in real time, compares destination addresses and flags lookalike or known scam addresses before funds are sent, aiming to counter a scheme that Cyvers estimates generates over one million preparations per day on Ethereum.

In March 2026, CoinPoker launched a new software client and mobile app while rolling out rake-free poker games and adding Abby Merk and Alejandro 'Papo MC' Lococo to its ambassador roster. The platform is offering daily rakeback and promotional formats throughout March, and its tournaments and cash games are played in USDT with support for other major cryptocurrencies. CoinPoker has also been recognized among leading poker apps and reports record traffic during the launch period.

The U.S. Department of Justice has asked Judge Katherine Polk Failla of the Southern District of New York to schedule an October 2026 retrial for Tornado Cash co-founder Roman Storm on unresolved sanctions and money laundering charges. Storm was previously convicted only for operating an unlicensed money-transmitting business and sentenced to five years, a move critics say clashes with recent Treasury language and a key Uniswap ruling viewed as favorable to DeFi developers.

On Monday, Tron’s DAO announced the network has become a member of the Linux Foundation’s Agentic AI Foundation and will sit on its governing board, alongside firms such as Circle and JPMorgan. Tron plans to help build open infrastructure and interoperable standards for agentic AI, as founder Justin Sun has said AI will be a core focus for the network in 2026.

Aon has carried out an institutional pilot that allowed clients such as Coinbase and Paxos to pay insurance premiums using USDC on Ethereum and PayPal USD on Solana. The trial kept existing policies intact while replacing traditional bank transfers with stablecoin-based settlement, highlighting interest in faster cross-border payments. The initiative comes as dollar-backed stablecoins surpass $300 billion in value and U.S. regulation for stablecoin issuance evolves.

NFT lending platform Gondi disabled its Sell & Repay smart contract after a hacker stole around $230,000 worth of NFTs, and it has started compensating impacted users. The team says the rest of the protocol remains safe, with lending and NFT trading functions deemed secure after reviews by Blockaid and an independent auditor.