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The State Duma of Russia (the lower house of parliament) has passed the "Digital Currency and Digital Rights Bill" in the first reading, marking a key step towards the legalization of cryptocurrency assets in the country.According to the bill, the Bank of Russia will become the core regulatory body for the cryptocurrency market, responsible for issuing licenses, approving or prohibiting related transactions, and defining the legality of transactions. The bill proposes to classify cryptocurrencies as "property," but explicitly prohibits their use as a means of payment domestically, with the ruble remaining the only legal tender. However, in the context of Western sanctions, cryptocurrency assets can be used for cross-border trade settlements, including service payments, intellectual property transfers, and other scenarios.In addition, the bill allows Russian residents to legally invest in cryptocurrency assets through licensed institutions, but will implement a tiered investor system, setting testing and annual investment limits for ordinary investors (with a suggested cap of 300,000 rubles). Initially, only high-market-cap mainstream assets like Bitcoin and Ethereum will be allowed for trading, with a whitelist established by the central bank. The bill is expected to be formally passed and come into effect by July 2026 at the latest. However, some lawmakers and banking industry figures have criticized the overly strict regulations, which may affect market activity and even lead to funds remaining in the gray market. At the same time, accompanying legislation is also proposed to introduce criminal penalties, with a maximum sentence of 7 years in prison for illegal cryptocurrency trading.

Real estate investment company Cardone Capital CEO and billionaire Grant Cardone posted on platform X: "I have purchased 500 properties in prime locations and will additionally buy 400 bitcoins." Real estate investment company Cardone Capital has been building its bitcoin treasury since last year and has continued to increase its holdings to this day.

Aave DAO passed the first binding proposal of the Aave Will Win framework through Aave Labs on Sunday. The proposal received 522,780 AAVE in support and 175,310 AAVE in opposition, with a support rate of approximately 75%. According to the voting results, Aave Labs will receive a grant of 25 million USD in stablecoins, which includes an immediate allocation of 5 million aEthLidoGHO, as well as a total of 20 million aEthLidoGHO liquidity payments distributed over 6 months and 12 months.In addition, Aave DAO will allocate 75,000 AAVE (approximately 6.8 million USD) from the ecosystem reserve, which will be unlocked linearly over 48 months. The Aave Chan Initiative cast 166,200 AAVE in opposition. Support votes came from addresses such as ParaFi Capital (190,000 AAVE) and luggis.eth (123,580 AAVE). The fund execution is scheduled for Monday afternoon, at which point the funds will begin to flow to the address controlled by Aave Labs.

The Ethereum Foundation stated on the X platform that today it will exchange 5,000 ETH for stablecoins through CoWSwap's TWAP feature, as part of ongoing funding for research and development, grants, and donations.

According to Cointelegraph, the governor of Alabama has signed the "Decentralized Non-Registered Non-Profit Association Act," becoming the second state to grant legal status to DAOs after Wyoming.The act provides legal status and limited liability protection for DAOs, allowing them to have full corporate entity qualifications, own property, sue and be sued, and enter into contracts, while individual members and managers are exempt from personal liability. The eligibility requirements state that a DAO must have at least 100 members and be formed for a common non-profit purpose (such as governing a blockchain network or smart contract system). The policy director of a16z Crypto stated that decentralized governance is at the core of the future of crypto, and this act provides certainty for decentralized communities to build, govern, and scale in the real world. A similar bill in West Virginia has passed the House and is awaiting the governor's signature.

The Uniswap Foundation released an unaudited financial summary as of December 31, 2025. By the end of 2025, the foundation holds $49.9 million in cash and stablecoins, 15.1 million UNI, and 240 ETH (valued at approximately $85.8 million at the time).In terms of grant commitments and incentives, a total of $106.2 million has been allocated. Among them, $87.5 million is for pending grant commitments, and $18.7 million is reserved for previously committed grants, awaiting distribution. An additional $26.3 million is allocated for operating expenses and employee rewards.In the fiscal year 2025, the foundation's total operating expenses amounted to $9.7 million, excluding 450,000 employee rewards distributed in UNI tokens. The foundation also obtained 20.3 million UNI tokens from the Uniswap treasury through the Uniswap Unleashed proposal (valued at approximately $11.4 million at the end of the year). Additionally, the foundation earned $1.7 million in interest income from its fiat holdings.

According to Cointelegraph, the Thane District Court in India ruled on March 23 that there was no preliminary evidence of a crime involving CoinDCX co-founder Sumit Gupta and Niraj Khandelwal in a fraud case involving 7.1 million rupees (approximately $75,000), and granted bail to the two.The court investigation revealed that the fraudulent activity actually occurred on the counterfeit website coindcx.pro, which has no connection to the official CoinDCX platform. The main suspect, Rana, has fully refunded the victims, who also confirmed in court that the two founders were not the parties they met at the café.CoinDCX subsequently issued a statement characterizing the incident as "third-party impersonation" and reminded users to verify domain names and interact only through official channels to guard against the increasingly rampant impersonation and phishing scams in India's cryptocurrency industry.

Trevor Milton, the founder of Nikola who was previously convicted of fraud and later pardoned by President Trump, is planning to enter the AI aviation sector. Milton, along with an investment group, acquired the struggling airline SyberJet Aircraft at the end of last year and plans to raise $1 billion to drive its transformation.It is reported that Milton has recruited dozens of former Nikola employees and is actively seeking funding support from potential investors in places like Saudi Arabia, while also investing hundreds of thousands of dollars in lobbying efforts. His core goal is to develop a brand new avionics system from scratch to create "the first light jet focused on AI flight," and to open up the defense contract market. Milton admitted that building an airplane is "ten times harder than making Nikola."

According to market news, after the Federal Reserve approved the main account application of the cryptocurrency exchange Kraken, U.S. banking organizations expressed strong opposition, warning that this move could allow cryptocurrency institutions to access the central bank's payment system without the same regulatory protections as traditional banks.The Bank Policy Institute stated that it is "deeply concerned," believing that the Kansas City Fed approved the application before the Federal Reserve finalized the framework for a limited-purpose main account policy, and that the approval process lacked transparency. The Independent Community Bankers of America also stated that allowing non-bank entities and cryptocurrency institutions to access main accounts poses risks to the banking system. A Federal Reserve governor mentioned last month that they hope to launch a streamlined account structure later this year.Some participants in the cryptocurrency market believe that Kraken's approval signifies a breakthrough in establishing non-depository banking operations that do not rely on loans. In a previous news report, it was mentioned that Kraken was approved for a "streamlined" Federal Reserve main account, becoming the first cryptocurrency company authorized to access the Federal Reserve's core payment system, Fedwire.

A U.S. federal judge ruled to dismiss the remaining state law claims against Uniswap Labs and its founder Hayden Adams, ending a years-long class action lawsuit.The plaintiffs attempted to hold the platform liable for losses incurred from "scam tokens" traded on the Uniswap protocol. Judge Katherine Polk Failla of the Southern District of New York issued the ruling on Monday, dismissing the plaintiffs' second amended complaint "with prejudice," stating that the plaintiffs failed to present a viable legal claim. The court noted that the plaintiffs had multiple opportunities to amend their complaint but still could not demonstrate that Uniswap was responsible for the misconduct of unnamed third-party token issuers.The plaintiffs claimed to have suffered losses due to actions such as "rug pulls" and "pump-and-dump" schemes, arguing that Uniswap "aided fraud" by providing a platform for buyers and sellers to trade. However, the court clearly stated that merely providing a decentralized trading platform does not constitute "substantial assistance" to fraudulent activities. Judge Failla reiterated her previous view that holding developers of smart contract code responsible for the abusive actions of third parties on decentralized platforms is "logically difficult to sustain."The case was initially filed in 2022 and originally included federal securities law claims. The related securities claims were dismissed in 2023, and the Second Circuit Court of Appeals upheld that ruling, remanding the remaining state law claims to the district court for consideration. This ruling signifies the formal conclusion of the case and further tightens the boundaries of state law liability for DeFi platform developers.

FTX founder SBF posted on X platform and @Trump, stating that the "Cryptocurrency Market Structure Bill" (the CLARITY Act) will become an important milestone in the history of cryptocurrency development and a significant achievement for President Trump. "I once actively promoted a similar bill aimed at freeing cryptocurrency from the control of former SEC Chairman Gary Gensler, but Gensler helped Biden's Justice Department send me to prison."Imprisoned SBF is launching a futile campaign for a presidential pardon in the United States. Trump pardoned SBF's cellmate, former Honduran President Juan Orlando Hernández, on December 2 last year. Since then, SBF has frequently tweeted his support for Trump's policies, trying to curry favor with Trump in hopes of a pardon or sentence reduction. In fact, SBF's family has been publicly lobbying Trump since early 2025 and actively arranging meetings with his allies. However, earlier today, a White House spokesperson made it clear that Trump has no intention of pardoning SBF.Note: SBF is still in prison, and this message is being forwarded by a friend who has access to SBF's account.

According to Kommersant, Russian President Vladimir Putin has signed a new law that grants Russian courts new powers to confiscate cryptocurrencies in criminal investigations.The law will amend the Russian Criminal Code to classify cryptocurrencies as a form of intangible property. Elena Ardabyeva, Deputy Minister of Justice of Russia, stated that the law formally incorporates existing digital asset confiscation protocols into the legal framework and provides a legal avenue for cooperation with foreign cryptocurrency exchanges.The law stipulates that requests for the confiscation of cryptocurrencies made by police or prosecutors must include detailed information such as the type of tokens, quantity, and wallet addresses. Experts suggest that the Kremlin may begin to block citizens' access to foreign cryptocurrency exchanges this year.

Ethereum co-founder Vitalik Buterin responded to Sigil on the X platform, stating that extending the feedback distance between humans and artificial intelligence is not a good thing. This trend often leads to AI generating low-quality content rather than truly solving real human problems, and it has not achieved good optimization even at the level of entertainment experience.Vitalik further warned that once AI develops to a sufficiently powerful and potentially dangerous stage, such developmental paths could maximize the risk of irreversible anti-human outcomes, even leading the promoters themselves to feel regret. The goal of Ethereum is to grant freedom to humanity, not to create a self-operating system that leaves human conditions unchanged or even worsened.Additionally, Vitalik Buterin pointed out that current mainstream models operate on centralized infrastructure such as OpenAI and Anthropic, which is not true self-sovereignty. This disregard for centralized trust assumptions is contrary to the principles that Ethereum opposes.The trend of exponential technological growth itself is difficult to stop; therefore, the core task of the current era is not to further accelerate exponential expansion, but to guide its direction of development, avoiding the system sliding into uncontrollable or undesirable attractor states.ChainCatcher previously reported that X user @0xSigil announced on the X platform the construction of an AI system capable of autonomously generating income, self-improvement, and replication without human intervention. This technology aims to provide AI with "write" permissions to the world and supports a "new network" composed of exponentially growing sovereign AIs.The author introduced the concept of "WEB 4.0" in related discussions, defining it as the stage of the birth of superintelligent life. This system demonstrates the technological path for AI to achieve self-sustainability and evolution.Moreover, both Solana and Ethereum have retweeted this post, stating that the technology is closely related to the project.

Quantoz holds an electronic money institution license issued by the Dutch central bank. The three electronic money tokens it issues, USDQ, EURQ, and EURD, are all subject to the electronic money regulations of the European Economic Area. The reserves are stored in a dedicated account under a bankruptcy-remote fund structure at a 1:1 ratio and must additionally maintain at least a 2% reserve buffer on the balance sheet.

Aave Labs has initiated a Temp Check proposal to token holders, requesting approximately $50 million in funding in exchange for directing all revenue from Aave-branded products into the Aave DAO treasury.The proposal includes up to $42.5 million in stablecoins ($25 million base grant and $17.5 million milestone rewards) and 75,000 AAVE tokens (approximately $8 million). In return, Aave Labs will allocate 100% of the revenue from all products, including aave.com, the planned Aave Card, and Aave Pro, to the DAO. This proposal has raised concerns within the community about the concentration of voting power. Marc Zeller, founder of the Aave Chan Initiative, pointed out that this funding package represents a significant portion of the DAO treasury and questioned whether the 75,000 AAVE token grant could lead to excessive concentration of voting power, calling for the proposal to be split and for the recipients to disclose their holding addresses.Aave founder Stani Kulechov stated that this move would shift the DAO towards a "token-centric" model, enhancing its ability to fund growth and execute buybacks. The proposal is currently in the opinion-gathering stage.

Global leading full-stack Web3 security company ExVul has established a long-term strategic partnership with high-performance financial public chain Pharos, jointly setting up a $1.25 million security audit Grants to support the development of early startup teams within the Pharos ecosystem.The Grants are aimed at early projects in the Pharos incubator, providing complete security audit services for core smart contracts and key system modules, along with funding and ongoing security advisory support. The collaboration between Pharos and ExVul fully reflects a high level of trust in their professional capabilities and highlights the close binding of both parties in the long-term construction of the ecosystem. Through this cooperation, ExVul will build a sustainable, secure, and compliant infrastructure for Pharos's early projects, solidifying the foundation for the ecosystem's long-term development.

According to Cointelegraph, billionaire Grant Cardone stated that he will list his mansion located on the Gold Coast for sale at 700 bitcoins, while a similar property owned by his neighbor is listed for $88 million. He said, "Even if my neighbor gets a bit more fiat currency, my life will be better in four years."