🐶📰 Weekend Update

BTC $68,500 (-3.2%) | ETH $2,077 (-3.8%) | SOL $87 (-3.3%)

Welcome to the Daily Bone Weekend Update where we recap the top stories from the week. Be sure to check out our daily newsletter to get all of your news hot off the press each and every weekday!

Headlines

• Crypto volatility spiked over the weekend as Trump sent mixed messages about Iran war

• SEC and CFTC release joint statement confirming most cryptocurrencies are not securities

• SEC approved trading of tokenized equities on Nasdaq

• Dow Jones partnered with TradeXYZ to launch first official S&P500 perps contract on Hyperliquid

Macro

• February PPI came in hot at 3.4% above 2.9% estimates — Fed held rates steady and projected just 1 cut for 2026

• Meta shut down Metaverse project after investing $80B in the project

• Elon unveiled Terrafab, a collaboration between SpaceX and Tesla to manufacture compute

Crypto

• MLB names Polymarket as its official prediction market partner — Polymarket “Situation Room” bar opens in DC

• Netflix released the cast for show based on FTX collapse

• Kraken paused IPO plans due to market conditions

• FTX to distribute $2.2B on March 31

Tokens and NFT

• Aster stealth launches Aster Chain

• XRP flips BNB in market cap amidst local high in active users

• USDAI CHIP claims went live

• Rekt Drinks collab with Birb sells out

AI

• Google released vibe coding studio

• Visa released payments CLI

• Stripe introduced Machine Payments Protocol as Tempo mainnet went live

• OpenAI to acquire Astral startup

• Cursor released “Composer” which outperforms existing coding models