Playnance's G Coin began open-market trading on MEXC after the project's Token Generation Event on March 18, with the G Coin/USDT pair shown as live. MEXC said deposits were open and that withdrawals would start on March 19. Playnance also points to early staking activity and public tracker figures, including a fixed 77 billion maximum supply and billions of tokens categorized as locked or in treasury.

The European Central Bank has opened applications for two industry workstreams on how a potential digital euro would operate across ATMs, payment terminals and existing acceptance infrastructure. The effort focuses on offline functionality and interoperability with European payment standards, alongside proposed testing, certification and approval frameworks for digital-euro payment solutions.

On March 1, Bitrefill reported a cyber intrusion that led to the theft of cryptocurrency from certain hot wallets and misuse of its gift card supply flows. The company's investigation has identified indicators consistent with techniques attributed to the North Korea-linked Lazarus/Bluenoroff group, and traced the breach to a compromised employee laptop. Around 18,500 purchase records were accessed, while Bitrefill says financial losses will be covered from operational capital and most services have been restored.

On Wednesday, Fortune reported that prediction platform Polymarket acquired crypto payments startup Brahma for an undisclosed sum. Polymarket expects Brahma's DeFi expertise to enhance user experience and strengthen liquidity for smaller, thinly traded wagers. Brahma, founded in 2021, has processed more than $1 billion in transactions and aims to reduce friction around wallets, deposits and token redemptions on Polymarket.

SBI VC Trade, the digital asset arm of SBI Holdings, will start a USDC lending service in Japan on Thursday, allowing individual users to lend Circle's stablecoin to the platform under fixed-term contracts. Participants can apply to lend up to 5,000 USDC per offering, earning interest while bearing direct counterparty risk as SBI may re-lend the assets and user funds lack bank-style segregation protections.

On Wednesday, S&P Dow Jones Indices licensed the S&P 500 mark to Trade[XYZ] to support what it describes as the first officially licensed perpetual derivative contract tracking the index. XYZ will list this product for 24/7 trading on the decentralized derivatives exchange Hyperliquid, which holds over 36% of DEX perps market share.

On 18 March 2026 in Tel Aviv, Playnance launched trading for its native GCOIN token on MEXC following the project's Token Generation Event earlier that day. The ecosystem now counts more than 300,000 GCOIN holders, supports over 10,000 on-chain games, and processes around 2 million on-chain transactions per day as the listing aims to broaden global access and user participation.

Tempo, the payments-focused blockchain incubated by Stripe and Paradigm, has appointed RedStone as its oracle provider to power FX data and stablecoin pricing, including the first native feed for its pathUSD token. The integration will support local-currency pricing and settlement for Tempo applications, such as a global payroll platform and a financial institution testing tokenized deposits. RedStone's RED token traded around $0.13 at 13:00 UTC on Wednesday, while the oracle network reports securing over $8.5 billion in total value locked.