Cryptocurrency Exchange Gemini has laid off about 30% of its workforce and introduced AI tools to increase efficiency

March 20 — Binance announced in an official statement that starting at 08:00 UTC+8 on March 20, 2026, it will launch an airdrop campaign for eligible users holding World Liberty Financial USD (USD1) on its platform. Eligible participants will split a prize pool of 135 million World Liberty Financial (WLFI) tokens. During the campaign, WLFI rewards will be distributed every Friday to eligible users with USD1 holdings. The event runs from 08:00 UTC+8 on March 20, 2026, through 08:00 UTC+8 on April 17, 2026.

March 20 — Per official sources, Sui Network has officially launched Hashi, a new project aimed at pioneering a new era in Bitcoin finance. The initiative is backed by industry players including BitGo, Bullish, Erebor Bank, FalconX, Fordefi, and Ledger. Currently live on Sui’s Devnet (development network), Hashi is designed to bring core financial services—such as credit issuance and lending—to the Bitcoin ecosystem within a transparent, compliant framework. Its goal is to boost large-scale institutional adoption of Bitcoin, thereby enhancing the ecosystem’s capital efficiency and financial depth. Through Hashi, both institutional and retail Bitcoin holders can earn yields, lend out BTC, or borrow against their holdings. The platform also offers developers the infrastructure to build innovative financial tools, unlocking BTC’s utility in more real-world use cases.

March 20 — On-chain analyst Ai Auntie (@ai_9684xtpa) reports that Intuition founder billΞ.eth has "rug pulled" 5,571 ETH, incurring a $703,000 loss. Previously, on March 16 amid a significant ETH rebound, the founder purchased 7,768.56 ETH on-chain at an average price of $2,240.10 (valued at ~$17.4 million). Over the past 10 hours, they sold 72% of their holdings at an average of $2,113.77 (a partial "rug pull"), with the remaining ETH already deposited into Etherfi.

March 20: A wallet tied to HYPE Genesis Whale tummy.hl (@tummyy1) is selling 498,914 HYPE via a TWAP (Time-Weighted Average Price) order, per Onchain Lens monitoring. The $20M+ transaction is set to wrap up within the next 21 hours.

On March 20, Onchain Lens data shows a crypto whale flipped from short to long, opening a 20x leveraged long position holding 284.68 BTC and 9,336 ETH. The whale has netted over $4 million in profits from frequent similar trades.

On March 20, Cointelegraph reported that U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) Chair Paul Atkins said in prepared remarks at a law practice forum on Thursday that the SEC will adopt a different approach to digital assets than its prior "enforcement-focused regulation." Following the signing of a memorandum of understanding (MoU) with the Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC), the SEC will first prioritize clarifying how federal securities laws apply to crypto assets. "While this interpretation delivers the long-needed clarity, I want to assure you it is just a beginning—not an endpoint," Atkins noted. Earlier reports indicated the SEC and CFTC jointly issued new regulatory guidance, explicitly stating most digital assets are not securities, with the aim of establishing a clearer regulatory framework for the market.