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Stablecoins Face Tighter Rules As Delaware Unveils New Bill
A federal push to shift crypto oversight away from the Securities and Exchange Commission may be reshaping how states like Delaware think about stablecoins and digital asset regulation in general.
Last Friday, the SEC sent two proposed rules to the White House that could lead to most crypto assets being treated outside of securities law, with the Commodities Futures Trading Commission potentially taking the lead. Days later, Delaware made its own move.
A Two-Bill Package Targeting Finance And Digital AssetsOn Monday, Democratic Sen. Spiros Mantzavinos and Representative Bill Bush filed a pair of bills — Senate Bill 16 and Senate Bill 19 — designed to bring Delaware’s banking laws into the modern era.
The Banking Modernization Act focuses mainly on traditional finance, updating corporate governance rules and introducing definitions for digital assets to give the sector clearer legal footing.
The Payment Stablecoin Act goes further, creating a licensing system for stablecoin issuers and digital asset service providers operating in the state.
Both bills borrow language from the federal GENIUS Act, a stablecoin bill working its way through Congress. The state measure outlines required safeguards: reserve shortfall rules, set timelines for customer redemptions, capital requirements, and anti-money laundering obligations.
If signed into law, the State Bank Commissioner would be responsible for putting the rules into effect.
Governor Matt Meyer backed the effort. “This legislative package sends a signal loud and clear,” he said, adding that Delaware aims to make it easier for residents to send, receive, and save money using only an internet connection.
A State That Has Been Here BeforeDelaware has courted stablecoins and blockchain companies for years. Back in 2016, then-Governor Jack Markell launched the Delaware Blockchain Initiative to attract firms working in the space.
Incremental regulatory changes followed over the years. But the state hit a rough patch recently when several technology and crypto companies pulled out.
Coinbase, one of the largest crypto exchanges in the world, reincorporated in Texas after publicly criticizing Delaware’s Chancery Court, which handles corporate disputes.
The new bills are widely seen as an attempt to win back that kind of business. “Our administration is focused on attracting the jobs of the future,” Meyer said.
Stablecoins: More Legislation Still ComingNeither bill is close to becoming law. Both must clear the Senate Banking Committee before reaching the full Delaware Senate floor for a vote. A third bill is also on the way.
Officials said lawmakers plan to file the Delaware Money Transmission and Virtual Currency Modernization Act in the coming days.
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Cardano Founder Unveils Midnight Rollout Plan As Mainnet Launch Begins
Cardano founder Charles Hoskinson says Midnight has entered its federated mainnet phase, marking the start of a guarded rollout that he described as the first step in turning on one of the most technically ambitious networks in crypto.
In a March 23 livestream, the Cardano founder framed the week as “Midnight Week” and said the network was being activated gradually with daily operational checkpoints. “What’s happening this week is the federated launch and this is basically the mainnet network and it’s turning on step by step,” Hoskinson said. “Every day we have a go no-go meeting and based upon what we’re getting back from the federated mainnet nodes, they tell us a whole bunch of stuff. … Basically the goal here is to get to a stable network.”
Cardano’s Midnight Launch Week BeginsThat first phase is intentionally restrictive. Hoskinson said Midnight is live as a mainnet rather than a testnet, but operating in a guarded mode where transactions and decentralized application deployments are limited until the team is satisfied that consensus, block production, and core cryptographic components are working as intended. The immediate user-facing milestone, he said, is DUST generation, which should become visible through an update to Lace after the earlier Glacier Drop period ended.
The rollout is being handled by federated node operators, or FNOs, rather than an open validator set from day one. Hoskinson said those operators include firms such as Google Cloud, Telegram and MoneyGram, drawing a parallel to Cardano’s Byron era, when a small group of entities initially ran the network before control was broadened over time. Once the network proves stable, Midnight plans to lower its guardrails in stages and begin deploying applications in waves.
“So you go from just dust generation to Lace plus DApps and you can actually start using some of these experiences,” he said. “You’re basically looking for a stable consensus. You’re looking for stable block generation in the mainnet environment. And then as that gets stable, everybody’s happy, you go from guarded to less guarded to less guarded to less guarded.”
Hoskinson argued that Midnight’s launch path is more complicated than Cardano’s because the system spans both Cardano and Midnight, with separate roles for its assets and multiple address formats across public and private ledgers. He also pointed to its layered design, naming consensus components such as Aura, Grandpa and Beefy, while describing Compact as “basically Zcash with smart contracts.”
That framing is central to the pitch. Midnight, in Hoskinson’s telling, is not just another chain launch but a privacy-preserving smart contract system being opened in phases. The first version shipping with the federated mainnet includes zero-knowledge tooling such as Plonk and Halo 2, while later upgrades are expected to bring composable contracts, Nightstream-related infrastructure, capacity exchange, crosschain intents and the Midnight passport system.
The decentralization roadmap comes later. Hoskinson said Midnight is now entering phase two, with phase three set to introduce an incentivized testnet for stake pool operators, allowing them to begin making blocks in parallel with ongoing federated mainnet upgrades. Governance experiments are also expected to begin in that phase, although he cautioned that Midnight’s broad token distribution through its “glacier drop” means the ecosystem needs time to mature before full governance can be safely turned on.
“One of the problems with Midnight, and this is why you need at least 6 to 12 months to stabilize, is that Midnight was distributed with a glacier drop,” he said. “That’s a huge benefit because you get lots of people. The problem is that those people haven’t decided whether they want to be a good-faith member of the Midnight ecosystem community or if they just want to dump their NIGHT or be adversarial.”
Hoskinson also used the livestream to make a much broader claim about Midnight’s long-term role, describing it as infrastructure for privacy, compliance and AI-driven commerce. He said the system’s mix of zero-knowledge proofs, multi-party computation and trusted execution environments could make it a natural framework for autonomous software agents to transact and verify one another.
At press time, Cardano traded at $0.2611.
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Prominent Analyst Thinks The Bitcoin Macro Bottom Is In, But…?
With the Bitcoin price continuing to bounce off from the $60,000s level, it is starting to look like the digital asset has found a bottom. Although there is still some weakness in the market, as crypto investors remain fairly cautious, there have been a number of recovery attempts that suggest that buyers are stepping back into the market. If this is indeed a macro bottom, then it only marks the beginning of what could possibly be the next bear market. However, there is still the possibility that the price has not bottomed, and lower lows could be coming.
There Is Still A Lot Of Fear In The MarketAs crypto analyst Sykodelic explained in an X post, there is still the possibility that the Bitcoin price has not bottomed, and this is due to a number of factors. The first of these is the budding US-Iran war that has seen oil prices shoot up and could possibly affect the crypto market as well. Even now, there continues to be tensions regarding what could happen regarding the Strait of Hormuz.
Another factor is that the Bitcoin 200 Moving Average (MA) is sitting around $58,000 on the 1-Week chart. This means that there is a possibility that the bears will attempt to push the price toward this level again, given that there is major support brewing there.
Last but not least is the fact that bulls have failed to hold above $74,400, as the price has been ranging between $60,000 and $76,000 for months. Sykodelic believes that currently, the Bitcoin price is looking similar to the structure that led to the crash from $98,000 back in January.
Bitcoin Bulls Are Still In The GameDespite the rising bear structure, there is still a lot of opportunity here for the bulls, according to the crypto analyst. They explain that the price might have already hit its macro bottom, suggesting that the recovery from here would be one that goes on for longer.
Some factors that also serve as evidence for this bullishness are that the funding rate is still positive. This means that long traders are now paying short traders to keep their positions open, something that could be bullish for the short term. Additionally, the Coinbase premium has moved into the negative territory and is continuing to move. Selling has also greatly reduced in favor of buying on centralized crypto exchanges such as Binance.
Given this trend, the crypto analyst believes that even if the Bitcoin price were to crash again, the worst-case scenario would be that the cryptocurrency returns to sweep the $60,000 lows. It could eventually wick down as low as $56,000, but not another major crash as has been seen in recent times.
Warren Seeks Details Of MrBeast’s Crypto Plans, Orders Response By April 3
Senator Elizabeth Warren has formally pressed Beast Industries and YouTube star Jimmy Donaldson—known as MrBeast—for detailed information about the company’s recent acquisition of Step, a fintech app that offers banking services to teenagers and previously permitted minors to trade crypto.
In a March 23 letter sent to Beast Industries CEO Jeff Housenbold and Donaldson, Warren warned that any expansion of financial services to young users, especially into decentralized finance (DeFi) or digital assets, must be handled with exceptional care and full compliance with legal protections.
Warren Demands ExplanationsWarren’s letter frames her request as a response to Step’s product history and Beast Industries’ public statements of interest in crypto and decentralized finance.
Warren raised particular alarm over Step’s prior advertising and product plans related to cryptocurrencies. She cited a 2022 Instagram post in which Step reportedly told “teens under 18” they would be able to access “50+ tokens” and buy NFTs—suggesting the company intended to offer a wide array of crypto assets.
The Senator contrasted that promotional language with later Step disclosures that characterized many tokens beyond Bitcoin (BTC) as “extremely risky, extremely volatile” and warned users that it is “easy to get wrecked” investing in them.
Warren emphasized that despite those internal warnings, early outreach to minors appears to have marketed speculative crypto products to a vulnerable audience.
The senator’s inquiry also notes recent corporate developments tied to Beast Industries’ pivot into fintech. In January 2026, Beast Industries announced a $200 million investment from BitMine Immersion Technologies.
The acquisition of Step in February 2026 was the firm’s first major move following that investment, according to Warren’s correspondence. The timing, she argues, merits scrutiny given BitMine’s role and the potential for deeper ties between Beast Industries and crypto infrastructure providers.
Senator Questions MrBeast Over Past Crypto ClaimsWarren further highlighted allegations surrounding MrBeast himself. Her letter references a 2024 report that accused Donaldson of engaging in insider trading, allegedly misleading investors, and promoting tokens before selling them.
The senator noted that Donaldson has denied wrongdoing and stated that third parties manage his crypto investments, but she nevertheless referenced the seriousness of the past allegations in requesting clarity about Beast Industries’ plans for Step.
Expressing concern about Step’s previous targeting of alleged volatile investments to a youthful audience, Warren underlined the company’s appeal to children and teenagers and the “loyal” nature of MrBeast’s followers.
She said these factors, together with the company’s product history and the allegations concerning Donaldson’s crypto dealings, justify a thorough accounting of how Beast Industries will operate Step going forward and what safeguards it will adopt to protect young customers.
To obtain those answers, Warren asked Beast Industries and MrBeast to respond to eleven specific questions by April 3, 2026.
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Crypto Vs. Banks: Key CLARITY Act Meetings This Week And What They Could Decide
Negotiations over the CLARITY Act — the Senate’s long‑anticipated crypto market‑structure bill — appear to be nearing a conclusion, but key details remain under wraps, and no official date has been set for a Senate Banking Committee markup.
Industry sources and reporters tracking the talks say progress has been significant, yet the bill’s final language and whether it will resolve the long‑running dispute between banks and crypto firms have not been publicly confirmed.
Banks’ Concerns AddressedSenator Cynthia Lummis, who chairs the Senate Banking Committee’s digital assets subcommittee and has been a lead negotiator, told colleagues that talks are “99% of the way to resolution” on the thorny issue of stablecoin yield.
This signals that negotiators believe they are close to bridging a central divide: banks’ concern that yield on stablecoin deposits could prompt deposit flight and strain traditional lending, versus crypto firms’ desire for commercially viable yield options.
Reporting by Eleanor Terrett of Crypto In America added new detail to the picture. Terrett said the White House has tentatively reached a compromise with Senators Thom Tillis and Angela Alsobrooks, who have worked for nearly two months to hammer out language tied to the CLARITY Act.
According to Terrett, the draft reportedly acknowledges banking sector worries and would likely include measures aimed at limiting yield on idle balances. Banking sources told Terrett they do not yet know the precise contents of the text and said the provision has been kept closely held.
Senate To Hear Crypto, Banking Feedback This WeekIndustry engagement with the process is continuing this week. Crypto trade association representatives are scheduled to meet with the Senate Banking Committee later Monday, while banking groups are set to review the draft text on Tuesday.
Those briefings will be critical: crypto stakeholders must decide whether the compromise language is acceptable, and banks will review whether the bill sufficiently addresses their deposit‑flight concerns.
While the draft reportedly will include a ban on yield on idle balances, other sensitive topics remain unresolved. Terrett reported that the bill still needs work on several areas, including decentralized finance (DeFi), token classification, and tokenization.
Those sections will require careful drafting to balance innovation, investor protection, and financial stability before the Banking Committee’s chair, Senator Tim Scott, can move to schedule a markup.
As NewsBTC reported last Friday, some sources suggest that a markup could occur between mid and late April, though no formal scheduling has been announced by the Banking Committee.
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Strategy Adds 1,031 Bitcoin As Price Remains Below Cost Basis
Bitcoin treasury company Strategy has made a new Bitcoin purchase, adding another $76.6 million worth of the cryptocurrency to its stack.
Strategy Has Bought Another 1,031 BitcoinIn a new post on X, Strategy co-founder and chairman Michael Saylor has shared the details related to the latest Bitcoin purchase made by the treasury company. On the last two Mondays, the firm made giant purchases worth more than $1 billion each, but it seems that the firm has slowed back down again with the latest acquisition as it has involved just 1,031 tokens.
For comparison, the previous two buys saw 17,994 and 22,337 coins enter Strategy’s coffers. The latter was the largest acquisition of 2026 and in fact, the fifth largest buy overall made by the firm since it started accumulating BTC back in 2020.
Strategy spent a total of $76.6 million for the latest acquisition, coming down to an average of $74,326 per token. According to the filing with the US Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC), the company funded the purchase entirely using sales of its MSTR at-the-market (ATM) stock offering. This means that this purchase diverges from what has been witnessed recently.
As Strategy highlighted in an official X post a few days ago, the company has been shifting toward more credit recently.
As displayed in the above chart, Strategy’s purchases got 55% of their funding through credit in March before the latest acquisition. “We’ve been buying more $BTC through $STRC lately,” noted the company in the post. For the latest buy, though, the company didn’t use STRC at all. That said, the acquisition was also a lighter one compared to other purchases from this month.
Following the new addition, Strategy’s Bitcoin holdings have grown to 762,099 BTC, equivalent to nearly 3.81% of the entire circulating supply of the cryptocurrency. Saylor’s firm spent a total of $57.69 billion on this stack, but currently, these reserves are underwater as BTC has continued to trade at levels lower than the company’s cost basis of $75,694.
Though, Strategy isn’t in a big loss right now. A treasury company that’s facing a much steeper unrealized loss is Bitmine, the Strategy-equivalent for Ethereum, the second largest digital asset by market cap.
Despite being deep underwater, the firm has continued with its aggressive ETH buying recently. According to a Monday press release, this accumulation has furthered over the past week. Thomas “Tom” Lee, Bitmine chairman, said:
Bitmine has maintained the increased pace of ETH buys in each of the past three weeks, as our base case is ETH is in the final stages of the ‘mini-crypto winter.’ In the past week, we acquired 65,341 ETH compared to an average of 45k to 50k weekly prior to that.
BTC PriceBitcoin dropped below $68,000 earlier, but the coin has since jumped back to $70,500.
SBF Legal Saga Continues: Prosecutors Question Authenticity Of FTX Founder’s Retrial Motion Letter
FTX founder’s legal saga continues as federal prosecutors question the authenticity of a retrial letter attributed to Sam Bankman-Fried (SBF) due to major inconsistencies in signature, address, and delivery method.
SBF’s Retrial Motion Letter Under ScrutinyOn Sunday, the US Department of Justice (DOJ) questioned the authenticity of a letter submitted by Sam Bankman-Fried from prison in support of his motion for a new trial, citing inconsistencies in the signature, address, and delivery method.
In the filing, prosecutors told Judge Lewis Kaplan that the Government did not object “to a reasonable extension for the filing of the defendant’s reply in support of his motion for a new trial.”
However, they affirmed that “there is reason to doubt” that the letter, docketed March 16, was actually submitted by the former FTX CEO. As they stated, the letter was delivered via FedEx, and according to the Federal Bureau of Prisons’ Program Statement 5800.16, inmates are not allowed to send mail via FedEx or other private carriers.
In addition, the envelope indicates that the letter was sent by “S. Bankman-Fried at Terminal Island DOC, San Pedro, CA 90731.” Prosecutors noted that the BOP facility at Terminal Island is a Federal Correctional Institution (FCI), not a Department of Corrections (DOC) facility.
“While the return address indicates it was sent from ‘San Pedro,’ where the facility is located, FedEx tracking shows the package was picked up and shipped from Palo Alto or Menlo Park, California,” the filing highlighted.
Lastly, they also argued that the letter was signed with an “/s/” instead of the SBF’s actual signature. This format is commonly used in electronic legal filings rather than physical prison correspondence.
According to previous reports, Judge Kaplan had extended the FTX founder’s deadline for SBF or his lawyers to request more time to reply to the government’s arguments until March 23, but emphasized that the court doesn’t accept phone calls from litigants or family members.
The judge’s extension and disclaimer follow Barbara Fried’s, SBF’s mother, attempts to request additional time to file papers on her son’s behalf, citing the FTX founder’s limited prison access to files and an anticipated transfer.
DOJ Requests Denial Of FTX Founder’s New Trial BidIn November 2023, Bankman-Fried was found guilty of seven criminal counts, including fraud and conspiracy. He was later sentenced to 25 years in prison and ordered to pay back $11 billion to FTX customers.
Last year, SBF’s lawyers claimed that the crypto-exchange founder was unjustly convicted and denied a fair opportunity to present his defense due to undue pressure from the media and prosecutors.
In February, Bankman-Fried filed a motion for a new trial without assistance from his legal team, arguing new evidence could tilt the scales in his favor. In his new-trial bid, he affirmed that the testimony from two former FTX executives, Ryan Salame and Daniel Chapsky, could have weakened the government’s case against SBF at trial.
Moreover, he claimed he was a victim of a “weaponized” Biden-era Department of Justice, while requesting a new judge under the argument that Kaplan had “manifest prejudice” toward SBF.
The Department of Justice urged Judge Kaplan to deny Bankman-Fried’s request for a retrial earlier this month, asserting that the defense has not come close to meeting the legal requirements necessary for one.
As reported by Bitcoinist, prosecutors refuted SBF’s claims. They stated that the two former FTX executives were already known to the defense prior to the 2023 trial, rendering any new evidence they presented as irrelevant.
Cardano Founder Says The Old System Is Breaking Down
Charles Hoskinson used a March 19 livestream to deliver a defense of crypto as a response to political dysfunction, market weakness, and what he described as a broader collapse in institutional legitimacy.
Broadcasting from Colorado, the Cardano founder framed the current macro backdrop in apocalyptic terms, citing war, layoffs, inflationary pressure tied to energy costs, and a growing sense of social pessimism. Markets, he argued, are reacting to that broader stress rather than suffering from a crypto-specific failure.
“The markets are down a little bit. They should be,” Hoskinson said. “The world is literally on fire and we’re trying to douse the flames by pouring money on the fire, thinking somehow that’ll make the fire go out.” In his telling, weak market conditions across crypto, real estate, and other asset classes are symptoms of a deeper problem: a legacy system losing coherence.
A Bigger Future For Cardano And CryptoThat was the core thesis of the livestream. Hoskinson argued that monetary systems, governance systems, and even shared social meaning are all being contested at once, creating a more structural crisis than a single recession or geopolitical conflict. Against that backdrop, he positioned crypto as infrastructure for whatever replaces the current order.
“If we win, we will bank the unbanked. Everybody will own their own identity and we will for the first time in human history have fair markets for everyone everywhere,” he said. “The billionaires, the three comma club gets the same marketplace as the poorest people in the world.”
The remarks were also a defense of persistence during a weaker market cycle. Hoskinson repeatedly pushed back against what he called cynicism inside and outside crypto, arguing that falling token prices have not invalidated the sector’s long-term purpose. He cast the industry as a toolset for censorship-resistant money, non-custodial ownership, alternative governance, and digital identity, all themes long associated with Cardano’s broader positioning.
At several points, he linked that argument directly to AI. Hoskinson said crypto is not just a monetary alternative but potentially the framework that can regulate increasingly powerful machine systems. “Like has to regulate like,” he said. “It’s the single most important invention in the history of humanity.”
The stream also offered a window into how Hoskinson sees AI changing crypto development itself. He said he recently generated a 40-page internal paper in roughly 90 minutes using an agentic workflow built from Midnight and Sui source code, internal white papers, multiple language models, and adversarial testing agents. According to Hoskinson, the result condensed what would once have been six weeks of architecture analysis into a single afternoon.
That matters because Midnight, Cardano’s privacy-focused partner chain, is nearing launch. Hoskinson said he had been speaking with Shielded Technologies CEO Mike Ward and that “we’re launching at the end of the month,” placing the discussion in the context of active design decisions around consensus, performance, and architecture. The larger point was that AI is compressing research cycles and expanding what small teams can do.
Still, the livestream was less a product update than a manifesto. Hoskinson moved freely between macro history, US politics, AI optimism, and anti-establishment rhetoric, arguing that entrenched elites are less competent than they appear and that new systems will be built by younger, more adaptive actors.
He closed by returning to crypto’s social function. “It’s the control layer for those who cannot control themselves. It’s the trust layer for those who cannot trust each other,” he said. “It is the mirror that keeps the dishonest honest. And it’s the thing that enables everyone to play, not just a few people to play in the global economy.”
At press time, Cardano traded at $0.2494.
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