Welcome to the 123th edition of Sharding Weekly!
2026/3/16 - 2026/3/22
Some Highlights:
🔸SEC & CFTC confirm most crypto assets aren’t securities
🔸The Fed holds rates steady
🔸US Feb PPI beats estimates: +0.7% MoM, +3.4% YoY; Core +0.5% MoM, +3.9% YoY
🔸SEC approves Nasdaq rule change for tokenized securities trading
🔸SEC Chair Paul Atkins says the agency is creating a crypto framework to provide certainty
🔸Senators strike deal with White House to settle stablecoin yield dispute with banks
🔸PayPal now offers stablecoin access in 70 countries
🔸Markets now price a 50% chance of a US rate hike by December
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📰News
$BTC
•Strategy has bought 22,337 BTC for ~$1.57B at ~$70,194 each
•Metaplanet raised $255M from institutional investors, with potential capital reaching $531M to support its 210,000 Bitcoin goal
•North Carolina has proposed a bill to create a state Bitcoin reserve
•Morgan Stanley files S-1 for a spot Bitcoin ETF, ticker MSBT
$ETH
•ShapeShift founder Erik Voorhees bought $56M worth of Ethereum, according to onchain analysts
Others
•South Korea fines Bithumb ₩36.8B ($27M) and suspends part of its business for 6 months over AML violations
•Robinhood’s startup fund invests roughly $35 million across Stripe and AI audio firm
•Moody’s launches a token integration engine to bring credit analysis onchain, starting with Canton
•Kraken halts multibillion-dollar IPO amid tough market conditions
•S&P Dow Jones licenses the S&P 500 to @tradexyz for perpetuals on Hyperliquid
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📖Good Reads
•@RayDalio - It All Comes Down to Who Controls the Straight of Hormuz: The “Final Battle”
•@hooeem - I want to become a Claude architect (full course)
•@DeRonin_ - How to become an AI Engineer in 6 months (RESOURCES)
•@Delphi_Digital - Stablecoins Are Coming for FX Markets
•@defi_monk - The Great Perpification
•@mikeahorton - Robotics $25T by 2050? No, Physical AI will be 10x Bigger
•@0xBobdbldr - Alliance DAO ALL16 demo day
•@sytaylor - The Intention Layer
•@blknoiz06 - The next billion-dollar opportunity
•@balajis - Zeihan is wrong, China is strong
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💰Crypto Fundraising
Blockchain Infrastructure
•@YumiFinance - $TBD Pre-Seed
DeFi
•@derivio_xyz - 6m
•@CurrentSUI - $TBD
•@lendasat - $TBD Pre-Seed
Chain
•@avax - $TBD investment from @animocabrands
CeFi
•@dtcpay_official - 10m Series A led by @vertexventures
•@Kalshi - 1b Series E led by Coatue Management
That’s all🥂
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