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Arizona is lending its Bitcoin
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Europe's $2.3T manager went on-chain
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Morgan Stanley is building a full-stack crypto bank
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who owns the agent economy?
On March 18, 2026, Stripe and Tempo co-released the Machine Payments Protocol, an open specification for machine-to-machine payments.
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Wall Street just put stocks on a blockchain
On March 18, the SEC approved Nasdaq to trade and settle U.S. equities as blockchain tokens.
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the SEC sorts its tokens
Hey, it’s Marc, For the first time ever in their combined 183 years of existence, the SEC and CFTC published a joint document agreeing on what crypto actually is. They named 16 specific tokens as commodities. They said staking isn't a security. And they formally acknowledged that
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Mastercard acquired BVNK for $1.8B
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Florida's stablecoin bill
Hey, it’s Marc, JPMorgan closed Trump’s accounts. Congress froze on crypto regulation. Whereas, Florida just built the first state-level stablecoin regulatory system in America. And it did it unanimously. In one legislative sprint, the state passed a stablecoin issuance framework, authorized a potential $24B+ sovereign digital asset allocation,
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NYSE's parent just bought 120M crypto users
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4.5% broke Congress
Hey, it’s Marc, The CLARITY Act missed its March 1 deadline because banks and crypto can't agree on one number: 4.5%. That's the yield Coinbase pays on USDC. Your bank pays 0.01%. A Treasury study says $6.6 trillion in deposits are at
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Nasdaq ate crypto and called it an upgrade
Hey, it’s Marc, Crypto promised to kill the middleman. The middleman just hired crypto instead. Nasdaq and Kraken are turning every Nasdaq-listed stock into a blockchain token, same CUSIP, same rules, just faster. Through Kraken’s xStocks, NASDAQ has access to 68% of the tokenized equities market with $25B+