BNB Chain has successfully completed the Pascal hard fork, introducing the EIP-7702 smart contract wallet. This upgrade aims to enhance EVM compatibility and developer support, along with optimizing features such as gas fee abstraction, smart payment interfaces, and batch transactions.The official roadmap outlines future improvements, with the Lorentz upgrade scheduled for April 2025. This upgrade aims to reduce block time to 1.5 seconds, enhancing transaction speed and network efficiency. Following this, the Maxwell upgrade in June 2025 plans to further accelerate block time to 0.75 seconds.

Binance has announced the upcoming delisting of five digital tokens:Aergo (AERGO)AirSwap (AST)BurgerCities (BURGER)COMBO (COMBO)Linear Finance (LINA)The delisting will take effect on March 28, 2025, and is part of Binance’s routine asset review process aimed at protecting users and maintaining a healthy trading environment.

Odaily Planet Daily News The Australian government plans to release a draft cryptocurrency regulation in 2025 and promises to work with the four major banks to address the issue of debanking. The new framework will implement compliance requirements of existing financial services laws for crypto exchanges, custody services, etc., including customer asset protection, financial services licenses and minimum capital requirements. In addition, the government will review central bank digital currencies and launch an enhanced regulatory sandbox in 2025 to support companies in testing new financial products without a license. The Albanese government also stated that it will focus on the combination of cryptocurrencies and debanking issues to ensure that Australia maintains its advantage in global competition. (Cointelegraph)

Binance has introduced a new governance mechanism called Vote to Delist, giving users a greater voice in the future of tokens listed on the platform. This initiative complements the recently launched Vote to List mechanism and is designed to ensure that only quality projects remain available for trading on Binance.What Is Vote to Delist?Vote to Delist allows verified users to vote on whether certain tokens in Binance’s Monitoring Zone should be delisted. This feature empowers the community to flag low-quality or underperforming projects. The mechanism applies only to tokens currently carrying the Monitoring Tag—indicating higher volatility or risk.Tokens in this category are at risk of delisting due to poor liquidity, inactivity, or other red flags. You can explore them at: Binance Monitoring Tag.How the Voting WorksVoting Period:March 21, 2025, 06:30 UTC to March 27, 2025, 23:59 UTCWho Can Vote:Must have a verified Binance accountHold at least 0.01 BNB in your master account throughout the entire voting periodVoting may not be available in all regions due to local regulationsWhere to Vote:Only votes under the official post on Binance Square will be considered validVoting Rules:Users may vote on up to 5 projects per voting roundOnly one vote per project per user is allowedVotes cannot be changed once submittedCriteria for Monitoring and Potential DelistingBefore delisting a token, Binance considers a range of factors, including but not limited to:Commitment and responsiveness of the project teamQuality and consistency of developmentTrading volume and liquidityCommunity engagement and transparencyRegulatory compliance risksTechnical performance and network stabilityUnusual token supply inflation or tokenomics changesEvidence of unethical or fraudulent behaviour

Odaily Planet Daily News BNB Chain has successfully completed the Pascal hard fork. This upgrade introduced the EIP-7702 smart contract wallet, which aims to improve EVM compatibility and developer support, as well as optimizations involving fuel fee abstraction, smart payment interface and batch transactions. The official roadmap for future improvements was announced: the Lorentz upgrade scheduled for April 2025 aims to reduce the block time to 1.5 seconds, improve transaction speed and network efficiency. After that, the Maxwell upgrade in June 2025 is planned to further speed up the block time to 0.75 seconds.

According to PANews, South Korean crypto lending platform Delio has accumulated a debt of 378.7 billion won (approximately $258.7 million) owed to creditors. Jung Dong-hyun, a bankruptcy administrator from Hyunwoo Law Firm, reported during the first creditors' meeting that as of March 12, registered bankruptcy claims include 15.62 billion won in cash claims across 48 cases and 363.04 billion won in virtual asset return claims across 1,162 cases, totaling 378.66 billion won. The won amount is calculated based on the exchange rate on the bankruptcy declaration date, November 22, 2024.

Paul Atkins, Trump’s SEC Chair nominee, faces a Senate confirmation hearing on 27 March, where lawmakers must rigourously evaluate his regulatory vision.

Australian authorities have ramped up their efforts to dismantle a sophisticated crypto scam operation, where fraudsters have been impersonating Binance, the world’s largest cryptocurrency exchange by trading volume.

Australia’s government, under its ruling center-left Labor Party, has proposed a new crypto framework regulating exchanges under existing financial services laws and has promised to tackle debanking. It comes ahead of a federal election slated to be held on or before May 17, which current polling shows is shaping up to a dead heat between Prime Minister Anthony Albanese’s Labor and the opposing Coalition led by Peter Dutton. The Treasury Department said in a March 21 statement that crypto exchanges, custody services and some brokerage firms that trade or store crypto will come under the new laws. The regime imposes similar compliance requirements as other financial services in the country, such as following rules safeguarding customer assets, obtaining an Australian Financial Services Licence and meeting minimum capital requirements source: https://cointelegraph.com/news/australian-treasury-outlines-crypto-regulation-to-tackle-debanking?utm_source=rss_feed&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=rss_partner_inbound

.S. This reaffirms Bitcoin’s decentralized nature and removes regulatory uncertainty for investors and miners. Unlike many altcoins facing scrutiny, Bitcoin remains free from SEC oversight source: https://coinpedia.org/crypto-live-news/sec-confirms-bitcoin-pow-mining-not-securities/

White House crypto and AI czar David Sacks was among a number of Trump administration officials who recently met with United Arab Emirates officials to discuss emerging technologies and UAE’s potential plans to increase its investment in the United States.  Sheikh Tahnoon Bin Zayed Al Nahyan, the Gulf nation’s national security adviser and brother of the country’s president, said in a March 20 X post that he had spoken with Sacks about AI’s impact, “the expanding role of digital currencies” along with “the investment opportunities emerging at their convergence.” US President Donald Trump hosted Tahnoon for dinner at the White House on March 18 and posted on his Truth Social platform a day later that he and senior US officials discussed with Tahnoon “ways for our countries to increase our partnership for the advancing of our economic and technological futures.” Tahnoon (left) meeting with Trump (right) in the Oval Office source: https://cointelegraph.com/news/trump-crypto-czar-sacks-talk-uae-senior-official-on-crypto-ai?utm_source=rss_feed&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=rss_partner_inbound

Eric Trump will assist the company in advancing its mission to expand its bitcoin treasury, Metaplanet CEO Simon Gerovich said. source: https://www.theblock.co/post/347420/bitcoin-focused-metaplanet-appoints-eric-trump-to-advisory-board?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss

The real culprit is nothing new and can all be traced back to the 2021 crypto VC (venture capital) bubble.

Token issuance, Messari, Messari: Why buybacks can’t prevent a sharp drop in token prices Golden Finance, Prices driven by revenue growth and narratives

US SEC: Participants in PoW mining activities do not need to register with the US SEC under the Securities Act

The CEO of Solana has finally broke his silence and owned up to his mistake of releasing the controversial Solana advertisement.

Tether purchased $33.1 billion in U.S. Treasury securities, becoming the seventh-largest holder of U.S. government debt. This move strengthens the stability of its USDT stablecoin and highlights its growing role in both digital and traditional finance.

Kraken is acquiring US retail futures platform NinjaTrader for $1.5 billion, expanding into the futures and derivatives market. The deal adds 1.8 million customers and grants Kraken an FCM license for regulated trading.

Recently, the United States announced its strong support for the development of cryptocurrencies and crypto assets, and announced that it would build a national strategic Bitcoin reserve.

PumpFun has quickly emerged as the leading meme token issuance platform on the Solana blockchain, and its newly launched decentralized exchange (DEX) PumpSwap marks a major milestone in its development journey.