Kraken is nearing a $1.5 billion deal to acquire a futures trading business, NinjaTrader — WSJ
Trump Media executives launched Renatus Tactical, a Cayman-registered SPAC, seeking $179M for crypto and tech acquisitions — Forbes
Gotbit founder Aleksei Andriunin reached a plea deal, forfeiting $23M in crypto for market manipulation charges — Decrypt
Nillion (NIL) goes live on Binance Launchpool, with trading set to begin on March 24 at 1:00 PM UTC — Binance
Walrus Foundation raises $140 million from a16z and Standart for a high speed storage network — Fortune
TON Foundation secures over $400 million investment in TON coin from Sequoia, Ribbit, Benchmark, and Kingsway — The Block
Koda integrates with Core, enabling Bitcoin staking and driving institutional adoption in Korea — DLNews
Binance will delist AERGO, AST, BURGER, COMBO, LINA on March 28th — Binance
Korea Financial Intelligence Unit (FIU) initiated a sanction process against BitMEX, KuCoin, CoinW, Bitunix, and KCEX — Hankyung
BNB Chain completed Pascal hard fork enhancing EVM compatibility with EIP-7702 and gas optimizations — Twitter
LG is shutting down its NFT platform, following a trend of industry closures — The Block
Binance Futures will launch USDⓈ-Margined BRUSDT and PLUMEUSDT perpetual contracts with up to 25x leverage — Binance
Strategy upsized its STRF Perpetual Offering to $711 million, with plans to acquire more Bitcoin — Twitter
Ethena’s TVL has surged over 10% in the past week, reaching a new all-time high of $6.55 billion. It now ranks as the 4th largest DeFi protocol by TVL — DefiLlama
Binance completes USDC integration on Aptos, with deposits opening on March 21 — Binance
Tornado Cash-related addresses removed from OFAC (Office of Foreign Assets Control) sanctions list