Crypto News. March 10, 2026

Mar 10, 2026

Neobank KAST raised $80M at Series A round

Building a stable future for everyone 🌎 We've raised a historic $80M Series A to give everyone access to stablecoin-powered financial services. Special thanks to @QEDInvestors and @leftlanecap for co-leading the round and to all our members for believing in our mission.

10:38 AM · Mar 9, 2026 · 187K Views

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Nasdaq partnered with Kraken to distribute tokenized stocks globally via xStocks framework.

The Wall Street Journal@WSJ

Nasdaq said on Monday that it will work with crypto exchange Kraken and issuing companies in developing its plan to offer tokenized stocks on its exchange

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Nasdaq Partners With Kraken in Plan for 24/7 Tokenized Stock Trading

11:36 AM · Mar 9, 2026 · 110K Views

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xStocks@xStocksFi

xNasdaq? Soon. The xStocks framework will power a new gateway connecting @Nasdaq’s tokenized equity markets with blockchain networks. TradFi isn’t so traditional anymore.

11:07 AM · Mar 9, 2026 · 263K Views

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Virtuals Protocol and Ethereum Foundation co-developed ERC-8183, a new Ethereum standard enabling trustless AI agent-to-agent commerce using on-chain escrow.

Virtuals Protocol@virtuals_io

https://t.co/W7gzclxJ7h

4:20 PM · Mar 9, 2026 · 308K Views

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Sonic Labs unveiled USSD, a network native dollar-backed stablecoin using Frax’s GENIUS infrastructure

Sonic@SonicLabs

Introducing USSD, the US Sonic Dollar. A network-native USD stablecoin built to be the stable liquidity layer across the Sonic ecosystem and a core piece of our vertical integration initiative. Built on @fraxfinance's infrastructure. Backed 1:1 by U.S. Treasury bills from

1:57 PM · Mar 9, 2026 · 105K Views

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The Bank Policy Institute may sue the OCC for granting national trust bank charters to crypto and fintech firms

Ous@DangaWrites

The Bank Policy Institute is weighing legal action against the OCC over national trust charters for crypto and fintech firms, per The Guardian. Five firms, including, Ripple, Circle, BitGo, Fidelity Digital Assets and Paxos, got conditional approvals in Dec. Full report ⤵️

2:02 PM · Mar 9, 2026 · 9.58K Views

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Microstrategy acquired additional 17,994 BTC at $70,946 per BTC, now holds 738,731 BTC

Michael Saylor@saylor

Strategy has acquired 17,994 BTC for ~$1.28 billion at ~$70,946 per bitcoin. As of 3/8/2026, we hodl 738,731 $BTC acquired for ~$56.04 billion at ~$75,862 per bitcoin. $MSTR $STRC strategy.com/press/strategy…

12:01 PM · Mar 9, 2026 · 2.65M Views

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Bitmine added additional 60,976 ETH, and now holds 4,534,563 ETH.

Bitmine (NYSE-BMNR) $ETH@BitMNR

🧵 1/ BitMine provided its latest holdings update for March 2nd, 2026: $10.3 billion in total crypto + "moonshots": - 4,534,563 ETH at $1,965 (@coinbase) - 195 Bitcoin (BTC) - $200 million stake in Beast Industries @MrBeast - $14 million stake in Eightco

1:08 PM · Mar 9, 2026 · 162K Views

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Circle announced native USDC and CCTP are now live on EDGE chain.

Circle@circle

USDC and CCTP are now live on EDGE Chain! Developers, DeFi users, and market makers on EDGE Chain, which underpins @edgeX_exchange, can now access the world’s largest regulated stablecoin for a range of use cases: → DeFi trading: Power spot and perpetuals DEX trading with USDC

3:00 PM · Mar 9, 2026 · 26.2K Views

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Zcash Open Development Lab (ZODL) raised $25M+ in seed funding from Paradigm, a16z etc

Zashi → Zodl@zodl_app

https://t.co/MtgE0AF2eg

1:15 PM · Mar 9, 2026 · 498K Views

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Brian Armstrong said AI agents may soon out number humans onchain, noting that while they can’t open bank accounts, they can own crypto wallets.

Brian Armstrong@brian_armstrong

Very soon there are going to be more AI agents than humans making transactions. They can’t open a bank account, but they can own a crypto wallet. Think about it.

2:58 PM · Mar 9, 2026 · 3.1M Views

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Hyperliquid HIP-3 markets hit $1.2B open interest all-time high

kirbycrypto@kirbyongeo

Hyperliquid HIP-3 Daily Open Interest just hit a new ALL TIME HIGH. $1.26B. For context, this was ~$500M just a month ago. The growth has been parabolic.

9:12 AM · Mar 9, 2026 · 18K Views

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Pudgy Penguins launched Pudgy World, a free to play browser-based game.

Pudgy Penguins@pudgypenguins

We’re excited to announce that Pudgy World, our free to play browser-based game, is now live. Explore 12 unique towns across The Berg, help Pengu find Polly, and play mini-games, all on @PudgyWorld_. Play now: PudgyWorld.com

6:17 PM · Mar 9, 2026 · 937K Views

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Anthropic Introduced Code Review feature for Claude code.

Claude@claudeai

Introducing Code Review, a new feature for Claude Code. When a PR opens, Claude dispatches a team of agents to hunt for bugs.

7:22 PM · Mar 9, 2026 · 12.7M Views

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Coinbase and Paxos used USDC and PYUSD to settle insurance premiums with $86B insurance firm, Aon.

Cointelegraph@Cointelegraph

🔥 UPDATE: $86B insurance brokerage firm Aon completes a stablecoin premium settlement test with Coinbase and Paxos.

7:30 PM · Mar 9, 2026 · 18.9K Views

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NFT marketplace, Gondi announced it patched the Sell & Repay contract flaw that let an attacker steal 78 NFTs and is compensating affected users.

GONDI@gondixyz

✅ UPDATE: Exploit Contained We can now confirm the situation is fully contained and no further NFTs are at risk. What our investigation found: • A limited number of NFTs were affected • The exploit was isolated to the Sell & Repay contract deployed on February 20 • All

2:59 PM · Mar 9, 2026 · 20.7K Views

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Vitalik said the Ethereum Foundation is staking ~72K ETH using DVT-lite to enable distributed validators and improve decentralization.

vitalik.eth@VitalikButerin

The Ethereum Foundation is using DVT-lite to stake 72,000 ETH: firefly.social/post/x/2026218… My hope for this project is that in the process, we can make it maximally easy and one-click to do distributed staking for institutions. Choose which computers run your nodes, make a config

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View @ethereumfndn's post on Firefly