White House: Trump to Host Cabinet Meeting on Thursday

March 26 (local time) — In the early hours, the chair of Iran’s Parliamentary Civil Committee stated the country is pursuing a bill to legally defend Iran’s sovereignty, control, and regulatory authority over the Strait of Hormuz while generating revenue via toll collection. The draft legislation has been drafted but not yet finalized as a full proposal. It will be submitted to the parliament’s Research Center next week for refinement by the legal team, then formally filed once the legislature convenes to take up the proposal. Under the bill, Iran will levy tolls on vessels transiting the Strait of Hormuz. (CCTV)

March 26th: Diplomatic efforts to end the US-Iran conflict remain unlikely to bear fruit, though senior Middle East observers note a path to an agreement still exists if both sides are willing to engage. Turkish, Egyptian, and Pakistani mediators are actively pushing for a US-Iran official meeting as early as this week. U.S. President Donald Trump and his political allies have signaled openness to negotiations. While Iranian Foreign Minister Abbas Araghchi stated Wednesday night that Iran is not interested in talks, Arab mediators say Tehran is more open to dialogue in private and is currently weighing proposals from various parties to set conditions that could bring both sides to the table. U.S. officials have highlighted a key challenge to negotiations: the U.S. and Israel have removed Araghchi and hardline Iranian Parliament Speaker Mohammad-Bagher Ghalibaf from their targeted killing lists for 4-5 days to allow their participation in the early stages of talks. Both sides’

On March 26: After a month of inactivity, a whale withdrew 11,999 ETH (valued at $26M) from Coinbase and staked the tokens. The whale now holds 22,618 ETH (worth $49M), with an unrealized gain of $1.2M.

On March 26, Vibhu Norby—Chief Product Officer of the Solana Foundation—told attendees at the New York Digital Asset Summit (DAS) that the Solana network has processed 15 million on-chain payments from AI agents, primarily for machine-to-machine business interactions, with stablecoins serving as the default settlement tool for AI agent compute and services. Norby noted the programmable nature of AI agent payments gives it a unique edge in the crypto payment space, adding this trend will fundamentally reshape the internet’s commercialization model by enabling microtransactions as low as fractions of a cent (billed per usage)—a capability traditional payment rails lack. When AI agents choose a crypto payment method, Solana consistently ranks highly. He expects 95% to 99% of future crypto transactions will be initiated by large language models, and users’ primary interaction with crypto networks will shift to AI agents.

March 26th — Former Design Lead at Base Benji Taylor has announced he’s joining X to lead the platform’s design team and is eager to collaborate closely with Elon Musk, Nikita Bier, and other team members.