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Sunday, March 22 (Yesterday)
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The White House released its first national AI policy framework explicitly calling to block all state-level AI regulation and declaring AI training on copyrighted material is likely legal.
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Sen. Marsha Blackburn simultaneously dropped a competing 300-page federal AI bill with criminal penalties for chatbot developers who allow explicit conversations with minors and a sunset of Section 230 protections.
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Mistral Small 4 launched configurable reasoning effort, and using the phrase 'think step by step' in prompts remains a free upgrade to deeper reasoning across almost every major AI model.
→Saturday, March 21
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The SEC and CFTC jointly released landmark crypto taxonomy guidance formally classifying major crypto assets under federal securities law, though legal experts warn key provisions leave issuers without a formal compliance verification process.
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TradeXYZ secured an official S&P 500 license from S&P Dow Jones Indices to launch the first sanctioned on-chain perpetual futures contract, exclusively on Hyperliquid.
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OP_NET launched a native DeFi stack on Bitcoin mainnet embedding smart contract execution directly into standard Bitcoin transactions, while OpenSea delayed its SEA token launch for the second time.
→Friday, March 20
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SEC and CFTC jointly released sweeping crypto guidance, ending the era of broad regulatory uncertainty and giving the industry a clear compliance path.
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MLB announced a partnership with Polymarket, marking a major mainstream sports endorsement of a crypto-native prediction market platform.
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Amundi launched a fund on Ethereum and Stellar, while BTCfi protocol OP_NET launched on Bitcoin L1, signaling continued institutional and developer adoption.
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