📰 Crypto Digest
Regulatory focus on privacy tools and mixers; Coinbase launches regulated European futures; Nasdaq-Kraken tokenized stocks gateway; Strategy's sizable bitcoin purchases; Tornado Cash retrial news.
Press review for 10 mars 2026 – editorial selection
Last updated: 07:17
Daily News Summary: Regulatory updates on crypto privacy and mixers; European futures expansion; tokenized stocks infrastructure; major bitcoin purchases; and Tornado Cash retrial developments.
🏦 Coinbase launches regulated Bitcoin and crypto futures across Europe
- Coinbase has rolled out regulated Bitcoin and crypto futures contracts across 26 European countries via Coinbase Advanced.
- Contracts are offered by a MiFID‑registered European entity to ensure regulatory compliance.
- Futures come in perpetual-style and dated formats with up to 10x leverage; fees start at 0.02% per contract.
- Eligible users must pass trading experience checks and KYC before funding with euros or USDC, per the article.
🏛 US stablecoins CBDCs in disguise? Treasury privacy report signals lawful uses
- Treasury's GENIUS Act report states lawful users may employ mixers to protect financial privacy on public blockchains.
- It cites $1.6 billion flowing through a mixing bridge linked to DPRK activity since May 2020, with over $900 million on one bridge.
- The report proposes a digital asset–specific “hold law” to temporarily freeze suspicious assets during investigations.
- It notes custodial mixers would register with FinCEN; non-custodial mixers are not newly restricted by the report.
The full digest continues below for logged-in members only.
🏦 Nasdaq Kraken tokenized stocks gateway to global markets
- Payward (Kraken) has partnered with Nasdaq to build a gateway connecting traditional markets with blockchain networks via xStocks.
- The gateway will move tokenized equities between regulated institutional markets and permissionless DeFi networks where approved.
- Kraken has previously gained direct Fedwire settlement access through its Kraken Financial master account.
- Nasdaq’s tokenized equity framework is expected to go live in the first half of 2027, preserving issuer rights and regulatory alignment.
💰 Strategy buys Bitcoin again: 17,994 BTC for about $1.28B
- Strategy purchased 17,994 bitcoin for about $1.28 billion between March 2 and March 8 at an average price of $70,946.
- The firm’s total holdings rise to 738,731 BTC; market value approximates $50 billion at current price near $68,000.
- Strategy has spent about $56.04 billion on bitcoin since inception, at an average price of $75,862 per coin.
- The purchases were financed via equity sales and STRC preferred stock; 6,327,541 common shares raised about $899.5 million and 3,776,205 STRC preferred shares raised about $377.1 million.
- Last week, Strategy bought 3,015 BTC for about $204.1 million at an average price of $67,700.
🏛 Trump DOJ retrial for Tornado Cash developer Roman Storm sought
- The DOJ is attempting to retry Tornado Cash developer Roman Storm in October, even as Treasury acknowledges mixers may have legitimate uses.
- The GENIUS Act report outlines tools and frameworks to counter illicit finance while recognizing lawful privacy use cases.
- Tornado Cash sanctions were imposed in 2022; Storm was later convicted of operating an unlicensed money transmitter in a separate proceeding.
Review based on an editorial selection of reliable press sources.
