Tempo Launches Mainnet & Introduces Machine Payments Protocol (MPP)

Tempo has officially launched its mainnet, enabling developers to build via public RPC endpoints while introducing the Machine Payments Protocol (MPP) — an open standard for programmatic, machine-to-machine payments.

🔤 What is MPP? It's a payment coordination layer co-developed with Stripe, designed to standardize how agents and services request, authorize, and settle payments, without custom billing flows.

MPP supports multiple payment methods (stablecoins, cards, Lightning) and introduces “sessions” for continuous payments , enabling real-time pay-per-use with microtransactions aggregated into a single settlement.

ℹ️ About. Tempo is infrastructure for real-world payments at internet scale. It’s designed for instant settlement, predictable low fees, high throughput, and global availability.

👉 x.com/tempo/status/2034253704807780543?s=20

Polymarket Expands DeFi Stack with Brahma Acquisition

Brahma integration is expected to boost liquidity in niche markets, reduce slippage, and improve efficiency on low-volume bets, while streamlining wallets, deposits, and redemptions. Brahma will fully focus on Polymarket, sunsetting external clients.

ℹ️ About. Brahma, founded in 2021, has processed over $1B in transactions and brings deep DeFi expertise that could help attract more capital into smaller prediction markets.

The move comes as Polymarket reportedly explores raising funds at a $20B valuation, signaling continued expansion in the prediction market sector.

👉 fortune.com/2026/03/18/exclusive-polymarket-acquires-the-startup-brahma

Kraken Pauses IPO Plans Amid Crypto Market Turmoil

Crypto exchange Kraken has put its IPO plans on hold after confidentially filing with the SEC in November. The pause comes as declining crypto prices and lower trading volumes weigh on valuations and investor sentiment.

⏮️ Kraken raised $800M at a $20B valuation, including $200M from Citadel Securities, aiming to bridge traditional finance and blockchain. The IPO may resume when markets improve, with 2026 listings likely emphasizing compliance, recurring revenue, and operational resilience over trading growth.

This follows a banner 2025 for crypto IPOs, where firms like Circle, Bullish, and Gemini raised a combined $14.6B. Kraken’s delay underscores the caution firms are exercising amid market volatility.

👉 coindesk.com/business/2026/03/17/crypto-exchange-kraken-freezes-ipo-plans

Mezo Airdrop Checker Now Live

The Mezo Airdrop Checker is live for Phase II MEZO allocations. Eligible users with historical activity on platforms like Aave, MakerDAO, Compound, and Morpho can claim their tokens.

⏮️ Mezo Latest Updates
Since Phase I, over 20,000 envelopes have been distributed, with 7,500 activated so far. MUSD, Mezo’s Bitcoin-backed stablecoin, is now live on Base, and the MUSD/USDC pool on AerodromeFi is eligible for AERO emissions.

🔤 MEZO Tokenomics Details

– Total Supply 1,000,000,000 MEZO
– Allocation. Community 40%, Investors & Partners 30%, Team 20%, Foundation 10%
– Vesting. 36 months from TGE, 12-month cliff, then linear unlock
– Emission Model. Bitcoin-inspired halving every 2 years, 2% tail emissions after year 8, rebase protection for veMEZO holders
– Weekly emissions are split between validators, staking gauges, and ecosystem initiatives. veBTC voters direct rewards to gauges, and MEZO boosts veBTC yields up to x5

ℹ️ About. Mezo builds a decentralized Bitcoin lending layer with BTC-backed loans, a stablecoin (MUSD), and fee capture that rewards BTC holders. Its dual-token system separates BTC for fees and MEZO for incentives, letting users earn BTC directly without synthetic assets or centralized risk.

👉 x.com/MezoNetwork/status/2034302809181769970?s=20

MeMoo Launches Memecoin Launchpad on Solana With Pioneer Incentives

MeMoo introduces a memecoin launchpad built around bonding curve launches, featuring flexible graduation targets and automatic liquidity migration to Raydium.

Beyond the standard model, it adds fee sharing for creators and holders, a live token scoring system, and social tracking that rewards early signal (Alpha Yappers).

For the first 24 hours, only Pioneers can launch tokens and earn MooPoints, while others can trade and explore ahead of full public access

👉 x.com/memoofun/status/2033892166423171516?s=20

Magma Launches gVaults — Staking Vaults Built for Monad

gVaults introduce a unified liquid staking token, gMON, minted for all depositors and designed for seamless DeFi integrations.

For the first time, liquid staking users on Monad can effectively operate their own validators through gVaults, offering an institutional-grade entry backed by 40+ validators across ecosystem.

Additionally, Magma is launching a new pool on Balancer V3 combining gMON with WMON, further boosted via Neverland to enable dual yield streams in a single pool.

👉 x.com/MagmaStaking/status/2033917514850189640?s=20

​​Mapping 2026 TVL Flows. Winners & Losers

Tracking TVL changes helps identify where liquidity is consolidating and where it is leaving the market. While some protocols attract inflows, DeFi overall has lost $28.96B in TVL since the start of 2026.

​​Top DeFi Protocols by Fees Generated Growth in the last 30 Days

Despite a cooling DeFi market, several protocols are posting notable fee growth over the past 30 days. The trend reflects fragmented demand rather than broad-based expansion.

Nasdaq Gets SEC Green Light for Tokenized Stock Trading

The rule allows pilot participants to settle stock trades in tokenized form while using the same order book and execution priority as traditional shares. Tokenized equities must also grant investors the same rights as standard stocks.

Under Paul Atkins, the SEC is moving forward with crypto rulemaking, including a potential exemption for onchain securities. Still, tokenized securities are expected to comply with existing regulations.

👉 theblock.co/post/394238/sec-approves-nasdaq-tokenized-equities-trading-pilot

Robinhood launches Social Trading Platform in Beta

Robinhood Social is an in-app platform designed for traders to share strategies and follow verified activity. The beta allows users to post real, KYC-verified trades, track performance, and execute trades directly from the feed.

📊 Key Features
– Social trading feed integrated directly into the app
– All trades are verified and posted in real time
– Trade directly from posts (stocks, crypto, etc.)
– Follow traders, hedge funds, and public figures

Earlier this week, Robinhood’s startup fund invested roughly $35M across companies including Stripe and an AI audio firm.

👉 robinhood.com/us/en/newsroom/robinhood-social-beta/

S&P Dow Jones Indices brings the S&P 500 onchain

S&P Dow Jones Indices has licensed the S&P 500 to TradeXYZ to launch perpetual contracts on Hyperliquid. The product enables 24/7 trading of the index in a crypto-native format, bringing one of the most important TradFi benchmarks onchain.

TradeXYZ is a perp DEX built on Hyperliquid, offering both crypto and traditional assets — including stocks, indices, commodities, and forex — with 24/7 access.

👉 x.com/tradexyz/status/2034260987197444255?s=20

Visa Crypto Labs rolls out CLI payment tool for AI agents

Visa CLI is a beta command-line tool that enables AI agents, bots, and automated workflows to make secure programmatic card payments directly from the terminal without API keys.

The solution lets agents programmatically pay for external services without pre-funded accounts, supporting use cases such as image and music generation APIs, as well as access to paid data streams, including market data and analytics.

👉 x.com/cuysheffield/status/2034294126565626179?s=20

​​Binance Futures has launched EDGE Pre-Market trading

edgeX is a Perp DEX built for CEX-like speed and liquidity, allowing traders access deep-liquidity futures with self-custody and low-slippage execution. Current Pre-Market Price is $0.601. Max Leverage is 5x. Total Value Locked is $176M.

👉 binance.com/en/support/announcement/detail/edgex-listing

Perle Foundation Opens PRL Airdrop Registration

Perle has launched the official registration flow for its upcoming PRL airdrop, targeting early contributors and active community members.

Users can register by connecting a Solana wallet, linking X and Discord, completing simple tasks, and passing human verification via VeryAI.

This is a registration phase, not the final claim. Allocation is provisional and may depend on user activity, with no KYC required.

ℹ️ About. Perle, backed by Coinbase, is building a sovereign AI layer integrating human data annotation, supporting multimodal models across text, image, audio, and video, and has raised $17.5M from HashKey Capital, Framework Ventures, CoinFund, and Breed VC.

👉 x.com/PerleFDN/status/2034435589290738148

​​Fraction AI Spotlight. Recent News and Updates

Fraction AI has rolled out several updates, including Stable Up updates, new agent launches, and expanded integrations with platforms like Grvt and Hive.

Below is a closer look at Fraction AI’s product developments, agent ecosystem growth, and recent platform milestones.

USA₮ x Rumble Wallet Introduces Digital Dollar Payments

Tether’s U.S.-regulated stablecoin, USA₮, launched a large-scale offline activation in New York City during St. Patrick’s Day. During the campaign, $10 in USA₮ was offered to users via the Rumble Wallet download.

25,000 promotional postcards were distributed across Times Square and parade routes, reaching ~2M attendees during the largest St. Patrick’s Day parade. The campaign was focused on converting offline attention into on-chain adoption, with Rumble Wallet as the primary onboarding layer.

Paolo Ardoino, CEO of Tether, noted that USD₮ already serves 550M+ users globally, positioning USA₮ as an extension of this infrastructure tailored for the U.S. market.

ℹ️ About. USA₮ is issued by Anchorage Digital Bank, the first federally chartered crypto bank in the U.S., aligning the stablecoin with regulatory standards from launch.

Download Rumble Wallet 👉 apps.apple.com/us/app/rumble-wallet

​​Emerging Projects Building Crypto’s Payment Rails

Stablecoin payments are moving from narrative to real infrastructure. These early-stage projects are building layer that could bring crypto payments to real users and businesses.

Kalshi raises $1B+ in new funding at $22B valuation led by Coatue

Kalshi is doubling its valuation again just three months after raising $1B in Series E at a $11B and cementing prediction markets as one of the fastest-scaling categories in fintech and crypto-adjacent trading.

Kalshi is a CFTC-regulated prediction market platform that handled around $10B in monthly volume in February and is pushing consumer growth with viral campaigns like $1B March Madness bracket challenge.

Polymarket is also reportedly in fundraising talks at a similar ~$20B valuation, showing investor appetite remains strong across the prediction market sector.

👉 bloomberg.com/news/articles/2026-03-19/kalshi-gets-1-billion-in-new-funding-at-22-billion-valuation

World Liberty introduced the open-source AgentPay SDK

AgentPay SDK is a toolkit that lets AI agents hold, move & transact with USD1 across EVM chains The SDK supports integrations with tools like Claude Code, Codex, Cursor, and OpenClaw, while adding local signing, approval thresholds, and programmable payment.

Beyond AgentPay, World Liberty recently expanded USD1 into new utility through Aster’s USD1-denominated perpetual markets and Myriad’s switch to USD1 as its exclusive settlement asset on BNB Chain.

👉 x.com/worldlibertyfi/status/2034708006366044486?s=20

Amundi and Spiko launched a $100 million tokenized fund

Amundi, Europe’s largest asset manager with ~$2.3 trillion in AUM, has launched a $100M Spiko Amundi Overnight Swap Fund (SAFO) on Ethereum and Stellar designed for treasury and collateral management, offering 24/7 transferability.

SAFO offers fully collateralized total return swaps with top-tier banks to maintain overnight liquidity, subscription, and redemption in four currencies, including EUR, USD, GBP & CHF.

👉 theblock.co/post/394348/europes-largest-asset-manager-amundi-debuts-100-million-tokenized-fund-on-ethereum-stellar

​​OpenAI is preparing to release a desktop “SuperApp”

OpenAI’s planned “SuperApp” will combine ChatGPT, Codex, and its Atlas browser into one app as the company streamlines its product lineup, doubles down on enterprise and agentic AI, and responds to growing competition from Anthropic in coding tools.

👉 cnbc.com/2026/03/19/openai-desktop-super-app-chatgpt-browser-codex.html