Wallet

An Oobit study of 1,000 U.S. crypto holders found that 35% have lost access to a wallet or account, most often due to human error rather than hacking. The leading causes were forgotten passwords or login failures (33%), lost seed phrases (21%), and losing 2FA access (20%), while platform bankruptcies accounted for 16%. Among those locked out, more than 1 in 10 said a single incident cost them over $5,000, and the median reported loss was 30% of total crypto holdings.

LastPass US is moving forward with a proposed class action settlement tied to a data breach that occurred between August 2022 and November 2022. The deal includes an $8.2 million fund that may reimburse up to $10,000 per person for documented extraordinary losses, plus smaller amounts for other eligible losses and added monitoring services. Claims must be filed by July 2, 2026, ahead of a July 14, 2026 final approval hearing.

Federal prosecutors in Connecticut recovered more than $600,000 in USDT tied to a phishing scheme that used a mailed letter to trick a Ledger hardware wallet user. Court records say the victim received the letter in September 2025, and the U.S. District Court entered a forfeiture decree on March 31, 2026. The seized stablecoin is set to be returned through the Justice Department’s asset management process.

Coinbase said it received conditional approval from the Office of the Comptroller of the Currency to form Coinbase National Trust Company under federal oversight. Announced on 2 April, the national trust charter is positioned as a custody and market-infrastructure vehicle rather than a commercial bank, with no deposits or lending.

Sei rolled out zero-fee swaps across MetaMask, Backpack, and YeiFinance, a change that coincided with SEI climbing more than 10% over the past 24 hours. Trading volume jumped over 258% as activity spread across multiple wallets, though the token still sat in a descending channel with resistance near $0.062 and $0.070. TVL fell to $43.2 million, down 7.32% in 24 hours, raising questions about how durable the move is.

Bitgo Prime said it launched an integrated digital asset financing platform in New York on March 31, 2026, aiming to simplify collateralized borrowing and lending for institutional clients. The setup combines borrowing, lending, and collateral management in one workflow and supports liquid assets, locked tokens, and staked positions. It also enables crypto-backed loans against BTC, ETH, SOL, and various stablecoins through Bitgo's interface.

Google updated its post-quantum guidance on March 25, setting a 2029 target for full cryptography migration. On March 31, its Quantum and AI team published research suggesting elliptic-curve schemes could be broken with 20x fewer quantum resources than earlier estimates, raising urgency for wallet and signature security.

Square, a subsidiary of Block, Inc., will begin automatically enabling bitcoin payments for millions of eligible U.S. merchants starting March 30, 2026. Block's Bitcoin Product Lead Miles Suter said qualifying domestic sellers will have BTC acceptance turned on by default, while settlements will be delivered in U.S. dollars to reduce volatility exposure.

Coinfello launched March 30 at EthCC in Cannes, positioning itself as a self-sovereign AI agent platform built to automate on-chain actions while users keep custody of wallets and private keys. The web app uses delegated, user-defined permissions, human-readable transaction reviews, and smart accounts for automation, and it integrates with Metamask and other EVM wallets. Company executives say the product is aimed at retail users and developers now, with expectations for institutional adoption later.

Coinbase has suspended trading for Ronin (RONIN) as the network moves into the execution stage of its planned migration to a new Ethereum layer-2. The exchange said on 30 March that users can still withdraw funds, but it will not handle the migration for customers and RONIN must be moved to a compatible self-custodial wallet before the upgrade completes.