On Wednesday, Eightco Holdings (ORBS) announced it had raised $125 million led by Bitmine, with additional capital from Ark Invest and Kraken's parent Payward, sending its shares up more than 11% by Thursday's close. The company said the funds will back new investments in artificial intelligence, blockchain infrastructure and digital consumer platforms, including a $50 million allocation to OpenAI and $25 million to MrBeast's Beast Industries.

On Monday, Tron’s DAO announced the network has become a member of the Linux Foundation’s Agentic AI Foundation and will sit on its governing board, alongside firms such as Circle and JPMorgan. Tron plans to help build open infrastructure and interoperable standards for agentic AI, as founder Justin Sun has said AI will be a core focus for the network in 2026.

Ethereum treasury firm Sharplink reported a $734.6 million net loss for 2025, mainly from a $616.2 million unrealized loss on its 868,699 ETH holdings and a $140.2 million impairment tied to staked Ether. Despite Ethereum's swing from $4,829 in August 2025 to roughly $3,000 at year-end, the company says it will keep accumulating ETH while boosting revenue and its Ether-per-share ratio.

Toward the end of 2025, finance and insurance job openings in the United States fell to a 13-year low, with vacancies dropping by 117,000 since December to 134,000. While the broader economy unexpectedly lost 92,000 jobs in February, the financial activities sector still recorded a net gain of 10,000 positions. Healthcare, information, transportation, warehousing and the federal government all registered notable job losses over the month.

On Thursday, the Federal Reserve, Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation and Office of the Comptroller of the Currency stated that tokenized securities will receive the same regulatory capital treatment as traditional securities. The guidance explains that banks do not need extra collateral for eligible tokenized securities and that related derivatives and financial collateral status follow the rules applied to non-tokenized instruments.

Blockchain security firm OpenZeppelin reported that OpenAI's EVMbench benchmark suffers from training data contamination and methodological issues in classifying smart contract vulnerabilities. The audit found that several AI models may have been pre-exposed to the underlying vulnerability reports and identified at least four cases labeled as high-severity that are not practically exploitable.

Solana-based NFT marketplace Magic Eden will wind down its Bitcoin and Ethereum NFT support to concentrate on its on-chain casino and sportsbook platform Dicey. CEO Jack Lu said EVM and Bitcoin-based Runes and Ordinals markets will close on March 9, with the Bitcoin API ending March 27 and its crypto wallet shutting on April 1. The move follows a two‑month closed beta for Dicey in which about 200 users wagered over $15 million, leading the firm to prioritize iGaming and NFT packs that better support revenue.

Chainalysis' annual report finds ransomware leak events climbed 50% in 2025 to nearly 8,000, while on-chain ransom payments slipped 8% to $820 million. The firm cites regulatory pressure, enforcement against laundering infrastructure, and more refusals to pay, prompting a pivot toward small and mid-sized targets.

The US Federal Reserve has requested public comments over a 60-day period on a proposed rule that would remove "reputation risk" from banking supervision. In a Monday press release, the Fed said the change would formalize guidance issued last June, limiting supervisory pressure to financial risk considerations and addressing concerns over crypto debanking.