March 2026: U.S. regulators propose ERBA that trims bank capital by 4.8–7.7% — Fed votes 6–1, Barr dissents
Federal regulators in March 2026 proposed a new “expanded risk‑based approach” (ERBA) that would lower required capital for U.S. banks…
Market & Industry
Polymarket Pulls Missing U.S. Pilot Market — What Its Removal Reveals About Governance and Insider-Trade Risk
Polymarket removed a prediction market on the fate of a missing U.S. pilot after political backlash, but the platform’s silence…
From Middle East shocks to market stress: why $150 oil is now Bitcoin’s liquidity test
Bitcoin’s price sensitivity just shifted from a narrative about safe-haven upside to a conditional, liquidity-driven downside. A run of oil-price…
Ethereum Foundation Nears 70,000 ETH Stake: A Treasury Pivot to Yield, Not Sale-Driven Price Support
The Ethereum Foundation has staked roughly 69,500 ETH (about $143 million), coming up short of — but effectively meeting —…
OCC’s December 2025 trust-charter approvals: which crypto firms entered federal custody supervision and what to check next
The Office of the Comptroller of the Currency (OCC) granted conditional national trust bank charters to five crypto firms in…
Drift’s $280M Hack Was a Durable-Nonce Multisig Takeover — Not a Smart‑Contract Bug
Drift Protocol lost about $280 million in early April 2026 through a premeditated social‑engineering attack that exploited Solana’s durable nonce…
XRP’s six-month slump masks Ripple’s institutional build — liquidity recovery is the signal to watch
XRP has fallen for six straight months since October 2025, losing more than 55% of its value even as Ripple…
Polymarket added stock and commodity markets — the real shift is Pyth’s first‑party institutional price feeds
Polymarket has launched daily up/down and closing-price prediction markets for U.S. equities and commodities, but the material change is technical:…
IRGC’s 18-Company Hit List: Treating Commercial AI and Cloud as Battlefield, Not Symbolic Threat
On April 1 at 8 p.m. Tehran time the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) issued a list naming 18 American…
Singh’s $3.7M Settlement: The Backdoor Code Is the Signal, the Fine Is Not
Nishad Singh’s recent CFTC settlement is less a standalone headline about a modest monetary penalty and more a window into…