At a Tuesday panel in Washington, DC, CFTC Chair Michael Selig said the agency is working to authorize true perpetual futures contracts for cryptocurrencies in the United States within "the next month or so." He and SEC Chair Paul Atkins also discussed prediction markets and an evolving digital asset market structure bill in Congress, which could reshape how both regulators oversee crypto products.

In a Monday filing with the US Securities and Exchange Commission, MARA Holdings said it may sell some of the Bitcoin on its balance sheet from time to time starting in 2026, after already allowing sales of mined coins in 2025. The update comes as major mining firms face higher production costs, post large 2025 losses and increasingly redirect infrastructure toward artificial intelligence and high-performance computing services.

In a Thursday notice, the US Department of Justice said it froze, seized and began forfeiture proceedings on more than $578 million in digital assets tied to criminal groups. The actions, carried out over three months by the District of Columbia's Scam Center Strike Force established by US Attorney Jeanine Pirro in November, target Southeast Asian crypto-related fraud.

On Thursday, Representatives Scott Fitzgerald, Ben Cline and Zoe Lofgren introduced the Promoting Innovation in Blockchain Development Act to curb prosecutions of developers without custody or control of others' crypto assets by narrowing Section 1960. The Blockchain Association and the DeFi Education Fund backed the proposal, which they say could influence cases involving Roman Storm and Samourai Wallet.

In a filing in the Southern District of New York, Judge Lewis Kaplan ordered U.S. prosecutors to answer Sam Bankman-Fried's request for a new criminal trial by March 11. The former FTX CEO, convicted on seven felony counts and sentenced to 25 years in prison, argues that new witness testimony could change his case, while the White House has reportedly indicated that President Donald Trump is not considering a pardon.

In February 2026, the Dubai Land Department launched the second phase of its real estate tokenization pilot after roughly $5 million in property was tokenized into about 7.8 million tradable tokens. Infrastructure partner Ctrl Alt will issue Asset-Referenced Virtual Asset management tokens on the XRP Ledger, with Ripple Custody securing onchain transactions, while DarGlobal and Trump-backed World Liberty Financial plan to tokenize the development phase of a Trump-branded resort in the Maldives through Securitize.

On Wednesday, lawmakers and industry leaders are set to convene at Mar-a-Lago for a crypto policy forum organized by World Liberty Financial, co-founded by Eric Trump and Donald Trump Jr. Ahead of the gathering, WLFI climbed more than 23% to about $0.12 from $0.10, with 24-hour volume above $466 million, while President Trump was not slated to appear.

CFTC chair Michael Selig said the agency filed an amicus brief to protect its exclusive authority over prediction markets and cautioned that state-level challenges would be met in court. His comments accompanied ongoing state actions targeting event-contract platforms, a Wall Street Journal op-ed he authored, a letter from 23 senators urging restraint, and a November court hearing he referenced.

On Monday, the Nevada Gaming Control Board filed a civil enforcement action in the First Judicial District Court against Coinbase Financial Markets, alleging it offered unlicensed wagers on sports event contracts. The regulator is seeking a temporary restraining order and preliminary injunction to halt Coinbase's operation of a derivatives exchange and prediction market tied to sporting bets, shortly after Coinbase announced prediction markets across all 50 U.S. states through a partnership with Kalshi.