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Tron (TRX) founder Justin Sun, who is close to US President Donald Trump and is one of the biggest investors in the TRUMP token, and his team have made a new move.

Tron DAO announced it has expanded its AI and stablecoin funding to $1 billion.

Tron DAO announced in a post from its X account that it has increased its AI and cryptocurrency fund, which it first launched in 2023, from $100 million to $1 billion.

According to the announcement, the fund will invest in four areas: “1) AI agent identity projects, 2) Stablecoin-based payment projects, 3) Tokenization of real-world assets (RWA), and 4) Developer tools for autonomous financial systems.”

“TRON announced it is increasing its AI funding from $100 million to $1 billion. The fund will aim to invest in and acquire early-stage companies that are building the foundational infrastructure for an agent-based economy.”

The expanded fund, now at $1 billion, will focus on investing in projects that use artificial intelligence to improve blockchain scalability, security, and user experience. TRON’s initiative reflects the growing trend of leveraging AI capabilities within the crypto industry and demonstrates its ambition to be a leader in this field.

Tron is also just one of many cryptocurrency-based ecosystems aiming to invest in AI and target an agent-based payment economy, while Solana and Base are also taking steps to expand into this space.

Tron founder Justin Sun had previously stated in an interview that many use cases for AI agents involve small and frequent operations, and that these “require fast and inexpensive networks.”

*This is not investment advice.

Bitcoin recently found support at a key onchain metric — the average realized price for a specific year — in this case the 2023 cost basis.

The 2023 average realized price currently sits around $63,700. During the local bottom in early February, when bitcoin dropped roughly 50% from its October all-time high, to roughly $60,000, price effectively tested and held this level as support.

This behavior mirrors the previous cycle. In early 2023, as the bull run began, bitcoin experienced several small corrections and repeatedly used the 2023 realized price as support. This can be observed in March, July, and September 2023, when price consolidated in the $20,000 to $26,000 range.

Looking at newer cohorts, the 2026 average realized price started the year near $90,000 and has since declined to around $77,000. With bitcoin currently trading just above $70,000, the average 2026 buyer is underwater. Notably, this cohort’s cost basis has also fallen below both the 2024 cohort at $81,500 and the 2025 cohort at $96,400.

Zooming out further, the aggregate realized price, which represents the average cost basis of all coins in circulation, is currently around $54,360. Historically, bitcoin has traded below this level in every major bear market, including 2011, 2015, 2019, and 2022.

So far in this cycle, bitcoin’s lowest price has been around $60,000. If that level fails, it becomes the next key support to watch, with the realized price at $54,000 acting as a deeper historical floor.

Another platform is shutting down in the cryptocurrency market. The latest news comes from the DeFi space.

The company that founded decentralized finance (DeFi) giant Balancer has announced its closure. Balancer co-founder Fernando Martinelli stated that Balancer Labs, the institutional organization that developed and funded the DeFi protocol, will be shutting down.

This decision comes approximately five months after a v2 vulnerability in November 2025 resulted in the theft of around $110 million worth of cryptocurrency (including osETH, WETH, and wstETH).

Martinelli stated, “The November 3, 2025 v2 attack created real and ongoing legal risks.” The co-founder emphasized that the v2 vulnerability attack led to ongoing legal risks and harmed the future development of the protocol because maintaining a corporate structure responsible for past security incidents became unsustainable without a revenue stream.

Martinelli stated, “BLabs, as a corporate entity, has become more of a liability than an asset for the future of the protocol, and without any revenue stream, it is not sustainable in its current form.”

However, Martinelli said the protocol would continue operating even after being restructured with a leaner economic model.

At this point, Martinelli added that he supports the ongoing token economic restructuring proposal, which includes reducing BAL emissions to zero, shutting down the BAL system, directing 100% of protocol fees to the DAO treasury, reducing the V3 protocol fee share to 25% to attract liquidity, and providing exit liquidity to holders through BAL buybacks.

*This is not investment advice.

South Korea’s leading cryptocurrency exchanges, Upbit, Bithumb, and Coinone, announced that they have lifted their previous delisting order for IoTeX ($IOTX). This development is seen as a significant step towards restoring confidence in the project.

The exchanges stated that the factors that led to $IOTX being placed on the watchlist have been resolved following a comprehensive review process. The review included direct communication with the project team and a detailed assessment of the past security incident and the response to it.

Authorities emphasized that the technical reports and improvement steps submitted by the IoTeX team were deemed sufficient, concluding that there were no longer any risk factors that would prevent the asset from being traded.

As is known, a crypto asset being placed on the delist watchlist means that risks have been identified in various criteria such as security, transparency, project development, and market performance. During this process, projects are expected to address these shortcomings.

Experts say that $IOTX’s delisting is a positive signal for investor confidence and could set an important precedent for projects in similar situations. However, investors are warned that risks in crypto assets persist and developments should be closely monitored.

*This is not investment advice.

Tempo Chain is now integrated into DeBank. The portfolio tracking platform, which covers Ethereum and EVM-compatible networks, has added Tempo as a supported chain with Uniswap included in the first batch of protocols.

For a Layer 1 blockchain built specifically for payments that went live on mainnet, appearing on DeBank is a meaningful infrastructure milestone. Users with assets on Tempo Chain can now track everything in DeBank without switching tabs or tools.

What Tempo Chain Is

Tempo is a purpose-built Layer 1 blockchain for payments, developed in partnership with leading fintechs. It is not a general-purpose smart contract platform that added payment features later. The entire architecture is oriented around payments at scale, which shapes everything from its consensus design to its fee structure to the kinds of applications it prioritizes for its ecosystem.

The fintech partnerships matter. Most payment-focused blockchains are built by crypto-native teams working toward traditional finance from the outside. Tempo was developed with fintech partners involved from the start, which changes the product priorities.

Fintechs care about different things than DeFi developers. Reliability, throughput, user experience that doesn’t require a crypto background to navigate. Tempo was built with those requirements in mind from the start.

The network is already live on mainnet. This is not a testnet integration or an announcement of future plans. Tempo is running, and the DeBank integration reflects its current operational status rather than a roadmap item.

What DeBank Adds for Tempo Users

DeBank is the portfolio tracker a lot of serious DeFi users rely on daily. One view, every chain, every position. Tempo Chain being added means anyone with assets on Tempo can now see them sitting next to their Ethereum, Base, and Arbitrum holdings without opening a separate tool.

That might sound like a convenience feature, but it has practical implications for adoption. Users who already rely on DeBank are more likely to explore and use a new chain when it shows up there. Discovery happens inside the tools people already use. A chain that isn’t visible in portfolio trackers is effectively invisible to a large segment of active DeFi users, regardless of what’s being built on it.

DeBank also functions as a credibility signal. It doesn’t add every chain that asks. Its integration decisions reflect what it considers active and legitimate enough to put in front of its users. Getting listed is itself a signal.

Why Uniswap as the First Protocol

Uniswap being the first supported protocol on Tempo Chain within the DeBank integration is not a minor detail. Uniswap is the most recognized DEX in crypto along with Hyperliquid. Its presence on a new chain signals that the network has enough liquidity infrastructure to support meaningful trading activity, and it gives DeBank users a familiar entry point for interacting with Tempo Chain for the first time.

For a payment-focused blockchain, having a major DEX operational and trackable early in its lifecycle also means users can move between payment utility and trading activity without leaving the ecosystem. Payments and swaps go together. Uniswap handles the swap side on Tempo Chain. The native payment infrastructure handles settlement. Both running on the same chain is the point.

The Bigger Picture for Tempo Chain

A payment blockchain needs two things. Infrastructure that actually works, and enough visibility that users and developers show up to use it. Tempo has the first in place with its mainnet launch and fintech partnerships. The DeBank integration, with Uniswap as the opening protocol, starts building the second.

More protocols will follow in subsequent batches. Each addition to DeBank’s supported protocol list for Tempo Chain expands what users can track, which expands what they are likely to use, which expands the activity that makes the chain more attractive to the next developer considering where to build.

What’s Ahead

Tempo Chain landing on DeBank with Uniswap as the first supported protocol is a straightforward but important step. It puts a payment-focused Layer 1 blockchain in front of DeBank’s active DeFi user base at the point when those users are already managing their portfolios. Visibility in the tools people use daily is how new chains build their initial user base, and Tempo now has it.

Cryptocurrency exchange Binance has announced the delisting of certain trading pairs from its margin trading platform. According to the official statement, specific cross and isolated margin trading pairs on Binance Margin will be delisted on March 27, 2026, at 09:00 AM.

According to the announcement, the trading pairs that will be removed from cross-margin trading include XRP/BNB, Axie Infinity/$BTC, Ethereum Classic/$BTC, Cosmos/$BTC, Dash/$BTC, Bitcoin Cash/$USD1, Pundi X/$USDC, Avalanche/$USD1, and F/$USDC.

Regarding isolated margin trading, it was stated that the following pairs will be removed: Avalanche/ETH, Axie Infinity/$BTC, Ethereum Classic/$BTC, Cosmos/$BTC, Dash/$BTC, and F/$USDC.

Binance advised users to close their open positions and manage their assets before the specified date to avoid potential losses. Otherwise, automatic liquidation processes may be initiated by the system.

Stock exchange officials stated that the products offered in the margin market are regularly reviewed and that such updates are made based on criteria such as liquidity, trading volume, and risk management. Experts, however, emphasize that investors should exercise caution, bearing in mind the high risk involved in margin trading.

*This is not investment advice.

ENI and GANA Insight have announced a partnership to advance PayFi infrastructure on $BNB Chain. GANA brings a decentralized payment and DeFi layer that is already running. Not a pilot. Not a testnet. Fully audited, wallet-integrated, and live with real payment utility.

ENI brings the blockchain infrastructure underneath it: high throughput, low latency, built for enterprise use. Together, the partnership targets the gap between on-chain settlement capability and the merchant-ready experience that makes crypto payments usable in practice.

What GANA Insight Actually Does

GANA Insight is a decentralized PayFi infrastructure built on $BNB Chain. PayFi combines payment functionality with DeFi mechanics, allowing value to move through payment rails while also interacting with decentralized financial primitives like lending, yield, and settlement protocols.

What separates GANA from earlier attempts at crypto payment infrastructure is that it is already running. The platform is fully audited, wallet-integrated, and live with real payment utility rather than in a testnet or pilot phase. Merchants can accept payments through it. On-chain settlement is operational. The UX is designed around merchant needs rather than crypto-native users, which matters for any payment product trying to reach real commercial adoption.

The $BNB Chain foundation gives GANA access to a high-throughput, low-fee environment that makes small and frequent payments economically viable. Payment infrastructure that costs more in gas than the transaction is worth doesn’t work at scale. $BNB Chain’s fee structure solves that problem for the kinds of everyday payment volumes GANA is targeting.

What ENI Brings to the Partnership

ENI is an enterprise-grade Web3 blockchain built for real-world scale. Its design priorities are ultra-fast throughput and low latency, the two properties that matter most when payment infrastructure needs to handle volume without degrading user experience. A payment confirmation that takes seconds is still too slow for point-of-sale environments. ENI’s infrastructure is engineered around the performance requirements that enterprise and commercial payment contexts actually demand.

The combination of ENI’s performance layer with GANA’s live payment infrastructure creates a stack that covers both ends of the PayFi problem. ENI provides the speed and scale. GANA provides the payment logic, merchant UX, and DeFi integration that turns raw blockchain performance into something a business can actually use.

The PayFi Model and Why It Matters

PayFi is a relatively new framing for something the crypto industry has been trying to build for years: payment infrastructure that works like real payments while connecting to the broader DeFi ecosystem. The traditional payment stack, cards, bank transfers, payment processors, is slow, expensive, and siloed from the yield and settlement opportunities that DeFi offers.

PayFi infrastructure like GANA’s is designed to let value move through payment rails while simultaneously interacting with on-chain financial mechanisms. A merchant receiving a payment doesn’t just receive funds that sit idle. Those funds can settle, generate yield, or interact with other DeFi protocols in the same transaction flow. For businesses, that means payment infrastructure that is also a financial tool rather than just a value transfer pipe.

The permissionless nature of the infrastructure matters here too. Traditional payment systems require approval from intermediaries at every layer: payment processors, banks, card networks.

A permissionless PayFi infrastructure removes those gatekeepers, which has practical implications for merchants in markets where access to traditional payment rails is limited or expensive.

What the Collaboration Produces

TheENI and GANA partnership marks what both parties describe as another step toward a truly usable Web3 financial ecosystem. One partnership doesn’t solve the entire adoption problem for crypto payments. But it does add a layer of infrastructure that wasn’t there before.

Specifically, the collaboration connects ENI’s enterprise performance capabilities to GANA’s already-live payment utility on $BNB Chain. Merchants using GANA’s infrastructure gain access to the performance characteristics of ENI’s network. Its ecosystem gains a payment layer with real commercial utility already demonstrated.

The fully audited status of GANA’s infrastructure is worth noting for enterprise adoption. Businesses and institutional partners evaluating payment infrastructure need audit documentation before deploying at scale. GANA having that in place removes one of the more common blockers for enterprise integration.

Conclusion

ENI and GANA Insight are combining enterprise blockchain performance with live, audited PayFi infrastructure on $BNB Chain. The partnership doesn’t just describe what crypto payments could be. GANA is already running, merchants are already using it, and the on-chain settlement layer is already operational. ENI adds the performance infrastructure to support that at scale. That combination moves the Web3 payments conversation from theory to something closer to practice.

Blockchain-based prediction market platform Polymarket has rolled out a referral program that lets users monetize their network by earning a cut of trading fees.

Direct referrals generate 30% in rewards, while indirect referrals bring in 10%, with unlimited upside. All earnings are calculated in real time and deposited directly into the user’s account balance.

We’re excited to announce we’re expanding the release of Polymarket’s Referral Program from private beta to all traders with >$10k in volume

You will now be eligible for rewards proportionate to the trading volume of all new users you refer

Get started:https://t.co/uJhBnhMJub

— Polymarket (@Polymarket) March 23, 2026

According to the team, users can launch multiple referral campaigns, each with a unique link, to track which sources drive the most engagement. Links can be shared across social media, websites, or private channels, and referrals are automatically tracked upon sign-up.

Users who try to game the referral program through deceptive practices, policy violations, or abusive behavior will be permanently suspended and lose eligibility for any future referral earnings, the team has warned.

Polymarket is also updating its fee structure, according to the project’s documentation.

Effective March 30, taker fees will expand from just two market categories (crypto and sports) to nine, covering politics, finance, economics, technology, culture, weather, and more.

Fees will follow a standardized formula based on trade size and price, with peak effective rates reaching up to 1.8%. As before, fees will be lowest near extreme probabilities and highest near the midpoint.

Polymarket built its dominance on a deliberately frictionless model, charging zero fees across nearly all categories, which drew millions of users and billions of dollars in wagers.

During the 2024 US presidential election, more than $3.3 billion in bets flowed through the platform.

The company is said to be considering a fresh raise at a valuation nearing $20 billion, as rival Kalshi also eyes a comparable figure. At the same time, both firms are dealing with increasing regulatory scrutiny at the state level.

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