Polymarket has added Pyth Network as the resolution source for a new set of traditional-asset prediction markets, enabling trading tied to U.S. equities, commodities, and ETFs. The rollout includes daily up/down and daily close markets for major equity indices, plus gold, silver, WTI crude, and natural gas, along with more than a dozen U.S. stocks such as Tesla, Coinbase, Palantir, Nvidia, and Apple.

Circle has unveiled cirBTC, a wrapped bitcoin token backed 1:1 by native BTC and aimed at giving institutions verifiable onchain bitcoin exposure across DeFi and TradFi. The company says reserves will be independently checkable onchain in real time, and cirBTC is set to debut on Ethereum and Arc, with multichain support planned. The product is listed as “coming soon” with availability subject to regulatory approvals.

Coinbase said Thursday it received conditional approval from the U.S. Office of the Comptroller of the Currency for a national trust company charter tied to Coinbase National Trust Company. The structure would be a non-insured national trust focused on custody, staking, and related fiduciary services, and Coinbase said it already holds more than $245 billion in assets under custody. The company must still meet OCC pre-opening requirements before it can begin operating under the charter.

On Thursday, SoFi Technologies launched SoFi Big Business Banking, enabling U.S. enterprises to hold deposits, move money, and settle in fiat, SoFiUSD, and select cryptocurrencies 24/7 from SoFi Bank, N.A. The company says the platform combines a nationally chartered bank’s regulatory framework with API-based rails designed to reduce settlement delays tied to traditional banking hours.

OpenAI said it finalized a $122 billion financing on March 31, 2026, setting a post-money valuation of $852 billion and marking a new high for private capital raises. The company outlined plans to deploy the funds into compute infrastructure, model R&D, chip work, and product expansion, while broadening access through bank channels and Ark Invest ETFs.

EDX Markets Holding Company, Inc. is seeking approval to form EDX Trust, National Association, a de novo national trust bank based in Chicago, to serve institutional clients with digital asset custody, asset management, and settlement. The application became public on Wednesday, April 1, and the OCC had already placed it on its pending digital-asset licensing list on March 26. If cleared, EDX Trust would operate electronically with no branches or retail offering, while trading and order matching would remain with affiliate EDX Markets LLC.

Cango Inc. closed a $65 million insider equity placement on March 31, 2026, and completed a $10 million convertible note on April 1, 2026, for a combined raise of about $75 million. The company said the proceeds will support acquisitions and AI computing infrastructure under its Ecohash unit, alongside integrated energy and distributed AI inference pilots. Cango shares traded at $0.40 on April 1, down 5.18% on the day, after falling 73.65% year-to-date.

Drift Protocol said it was investigating unusual activity on April 1, 2026, after onchain trackers estimated $200 million or more was drained from protocol accounts. The outflows were traced to Solana wallet HkGz4KmoZ7Zmk7HN6ndJ31UJ1qZ2qgwQxgVqQwovpZES, while DRIFT fell from about $0.072 to $0.055 amid uncertainty.

SpaceX has confidentially submitted a draft registration statement to the U.S. SEC, a step that could set up a public debut as early as June 2026. The company is said to be targeting a valuation above $1.75 trillion and a $50 billion to $75 billion raise, while reporting roughly $15 billion to $16 billion in revenue and about $8 billion in profit in its most recent year.