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Uniswap v2, v3, v4, and the first aggregator hook are live on @Tempo Plus, Uniswap API and a new pay-with-any-token skill for Tempo's Machine Payments Protocol are available from day one

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THEY DID IT. The SEC and CFTC just dropped a landmark document that officially classifies crypto assets. They're actually telling us which crypto assets are securities and which ones aren't - by name! THIS IS SOMETHING GENSLER REFUSED TO DO (he focused on prosecuting crypto out of existence) This rule doc gives crypto many of the benefits of the clarity bill - it lifts us out of the gray market - it gives every asset a path. It's almost like the Clarity act just passed by way of regulator. (of course, the actual clarity act will harden all this into legislation and make it irreversible in the event we get another Gensler, we still want it) This rule says there's 5 categories for crypto assets: 1) Digital Commodities - assets tied to a functional, decentralized crypto system (e.g., BTC, ETH, SOL, XRP, ADA, DOGE). Not securities. (yes, they name them on page 14) 2) Digital Collectibles - NFTs, meme coins, artwork tokens, in-game items. Not securities (fractionalized collectibles may be an exception). 3) Digital Tools - membership tokens, credentials, domain names (e.g., ENS). Not securities. 4) Stablecoins - payment stablecoins under the GENIUS Act are not securities. Other stablecoins, it depends. 5) Digital Securities - tokenized versions of traditional securities. Like tokenized stocks. Always securities. Amazing! This makes so much sense I can't believe it's coming from a regulator. No more enforcement threats to Ethereum developers and crypto exchanges. How about the Howey test? More common sense! If an issuer makes specific promises of managerial efforts from which buyers expect profits, the offering is a security until those promises are fulfilled. Then it's a commodity. The asset itself was never the security, the deal around it was. (E.g. XRP was a security pre launch, became a commodity after). How about stuff like staking and mining? Mining? Not a securities transaction. Staking? Also not a securities transaction, that includes custodial and liquid staking even with LSTs! How about wrapping BTC? Not a securities transaction. Airdrops? NOT SECURITIES. NO MORE GEO BANS PROTECTING AMERICANS from free airdrops. Remember this is a joint doc from the SEC and CFTC, They're actually cooperating on this, no internal strife, this is binding to both. SEC regulates $80-100 trillion assets CFTC regulates $5-10 trillion assets Both of the world's largest capital markets are showing us that crypto assets are here to stay and they're welcome alongside traditional assets. Every country will follow. This is the biggest move toward legitimacy I've seen in all my time in crypto. Maybe bigger than the genius act since is covers all crypto assets. Well done @MichaelSelig and @SECPaulSAtkins. And especially well done to the indefatigable @HesterPeirce. Her fingerprints are all over this, couldn't have happened without her eight years of principles-based curiosity.

See you at @DigitalChamber’s DC Blockchain Summit. Dinari Co-Founder & CLO @Chasramp will be speaking on the future of on-chain capital markets. Details: x.com/DinariGlobal/s…

Big news for North American data centers. Moment Energy has signed an MOU with SFU to explore battery energy storage solutions for one of North America’s most powerful supercomputers. Full details: hubs.ly/Q047cl-T0

From day one, compliance has been Dinari’s north star. Not working around securities laws — working with them. Dinari COO & Co-Founder @booi explains why the company built tokenized equities infrastructure with regulation in mind from the start.

There will be a repricing event when yall realize - this team is here to stay and it’s safe to hold for more than a week - all the value is for the token and they genuinely believe that - they’re spending on growth is extremely calculated - growth is continuing in this market - tvl on the restaking side looks crazy as eth goes up again - there are no more investor unlocks - they have real users that aren’t on ct and will launch a trading product to them - there are basically no other teams in crypto that just added $100m revenue business lines and didn’t slap a new token/raise on it Salgidadgadze mode Note: dcf cap seeded etherfi

$ETHFI card product continues to set new highs (over 60% of revenue now comes from the neobank product) $50MM active buyback program Last investor unlock on March 18th Next major resistance around $0.89. Will be interesting to follow.

Looking to learn about crypto risk? You'll be hard pressed to find a better opportunity than attending this panel at @ITI_Insurtech with our own CLO @AniaWiktoria7! Drop us a message if you'd like to connect with the team to talk risk 🤝

A good example of our crypto-as-a-service (CAAS) integration: Webull used CAAS to bring crypto trading to millions of users. By working with us, they didn’t need to start from scratch on custody, trade finance, and regulatory compliance. Faster shipping, and better products for users. Everybody wins.

AI doesn't hack your firewall; it impersonates your boss. 🤖 Join us March 19 @ 12 PM ET to learn: ✅ How AI clones voices in seconds ✅ Why old checklists fail ✅ The 2-person rule to stop fake transfers Register for the #FraudPreventionMonth briefing: hubs.la/Q046YcxS0

the Uniswap ui for crosschain has improved a ton you can now swap pretty much any two assets between any two chains

As it turns out, throwing people at problems is expensive and slow. FDEs for customer service AI, at least, is a total anti-pattern and a side-effect of demand being way in front of supply. The tide will go out again eventually.

What comes after ETFs? Dinari Co-Founder & CLO @Chasramp will be at DC Blockchain Summit Summit 2026 discussing the next phase of on-chain capital markets. On-Chain Capital Markets: What Comes After ETFs Mar 18 · 11:20–11:50 AM ET

Druck is right. Saddle up.

This is the new EF Mandate. For many of you, the contents should be no surprise, and a clarification along the lines that we have been going and thinking for the past few months. But the clarification is nevertheless worth making. Ethereum is a unique object and has a unique role in the world. Its role is to be a sanctuary technology, to preserve technological self-sovereignty, to enable cooperation without coercion, domination or rugpulling, and to provide an escape hatch, to ensure that no single person, organization or ideology's victory in cyberspace can be total. The Ethereum Foundation is a steward of Ethereum - the original steward, and today, the steward specifically dedicated to preserving and expanding the above aspects of Ethereum. This means a heavy emphasis on CROPS (censorship and capture resistance, open source, privacy, security), both at the protocol layer, and at the access layer, user-facing applications and tools that we create or contribute to. There are things that we do in Ethereum because we believe that they are valuable for the underlying goals that we have for Ethereum. There are things that we do not do because from the perspective of our values we find them uninteresting (or worse, harmful). But there are also things that we do not do because while they are useful, they are not our role. At the Ethereum protocol layer, we focus on decentralization, verifiability, inclusion guarantees, protocol liveness, security and privacy first and foremost. We also value capabilities (eg. L1 scale, account abstraction, perhaps some forms of in-protocol aggregation), particularly because improvements in these capabilities better enable users to properly benefit from Ethereum's CROPS properties and displace the need for higher-layer intermediaries that might weaken the extent to which Ethereum's properties carry over into the full stack. We also believe that the Ethereum protocol must strive to pass the walkaway test. "We do X to specialize to serve the use cases of today, if more use cases appear later, we will continue to keep adding more EIPs for them later" is logic fit for many other blockchains whose names you hear often on this forum, but we do not believe it is logic fit for a decentralization-first blockchain like Ethereum. At the application layer, we focus on making "the zero option" - user experience that goes hard on ensuring security and privacy, avoiding dependence on intermediaries, and respecting the user's agency - as high quality as possible. We see this as complementary to work in the Ethereum ecosystem that "goes broad", starting from the world that it exists, and brings it onchain and improves its properties over time. Such work has its natural home outside the EF. We intend to be supportive of such efforts. We believe that the two are complementary: tools that are developed within the EF can be adopted by anyone, including partially, and even partial adoption that improves people's security, privacy and agency is a good thing. But the form of user experience that is more heavily insistent on CROPS properties is where we want the EF to develop its center of expertise. This does not mean shrinking from the hard questions. We believe in a vision of self-sovereignty that protects users, and does not leave users in the cold to face environments where they lose their life savings if they make a mistake, and click "yes" on a confirmation screen by accident two seconds after. But such protection must be designed based on a philosophical baseline of empowering the user, not empowering centralized organizations that claim to act in the user's name. This quadrant of design space - caring about users' (including non-experts') well-being and safety, and yet insistent on doing this in a way compatible with their agency and freedom, is underserved (not just in crypto, but in the world). We wish to use Ethereum as a platform to build out and showcase this quadrant, and ideally work with others to expand its reach over time. This is also a new chapter in how we see our position in the world. We must see ourselves not just as the Ethereum community, but also as maintainers of the Ethereum tool within what you might call the CROPS community or the sanctuary tech community, or a dozen of other words that have for a long time been used by people with similar values to us but far outside Ethereum. This means open-mindedness to new conceptions of what things in the world are our natural allies. Ethereum is not the world. Ethereum is a specific object in the world that is here to have specific properties. The Ethereum Foundation is a specific organization within Ethereum - one steward, not the sole one. I encourage all to read the mandate in detail; it includes concrete examples of how we intend to deal with the challenges and nuances of these ideas. We are doubling down on Ethereum and are excited about its next chapter.

Base just crossed $300B in all-time Uniswap Protocol volume You know what to say

South Korea’s digital asset tax just made on-chain yield and spending more relevant than ever, and EtherFi is ready.