A certain CEX has again expressed to the U.S. Senate that it cannot support the latest draft of the Clarity Act due to core disagreements over stablecoin yield provisions. The CEX has expressed "serious concerns" about the new proposal and pointed out that this regulatory direction has significant implications for its future finances.

BlockBeats News, March 26 — According to SolanaFloor's report, the Solana Foundation announced an update to the participation requirements for the validator delegation program, with the new rules taking effect on May 1, 2026. The latest requirements mandate that validators must comply with fair transaction ordering rules, must not implement transaction censorship, and must meet stricter block time specifications while being subject to restrictions on Autonomous System Numbers (ASNs) and data center concentration to reduce centralization risks in network infrastructure.

The Bank of Korea is recruiting 10 new employees, with some positions requiring 5 years of cryptocurrency industry experience, to research the impact of digital assets. This recruitment is synchronized with the restart of the CBDC plan, with the goal of distributing 25% of government subsidies in digital won before 2030 and lifting the ban on cryptocurrencies.

Gate News reports that on March 26, Onchain Lens monitoring showed that a Hyperliquid whale with cumulative profits and losses of +$16.39 million, suspected to be associated with NervousDegen, recently opened long positions. The address opened 100 BTC longs (40x leverage) with a notional value of approximately $7.09 million; simultaneously opened 1 million LIT longs (5x leverage) with a notional value of approximately $982,000. Additionally, the address currently holds 75,160 HYPE spot and staking positions with a combined value of approximately $3.01 million.

On March 26, Polymarket's probability of the Clarity Act becoming law dropped to 54% due to industry disagreements over a compromise proposal on stablecoin yield provisions. A certain CEX expressed dissatisfaction with the compromise text, with divided opinions within the industry affecting stablecoin issuer stock prices. A White House advisor stated the matter will be addressed, with the final text expected to be released this weekend.

As of March 26, Ethena (ENA) price increased 14.98% to $0.10898, with a market cap of approximately $925 million. Ethena is a synthetic USD protocol based on Ethereum, launching USDe and sUSDe products, supporting multi-chain deployment, and providing 3.5% APY yield.

Gate News Report: On March 26, according to Gate's market data, as of press time, MON (Monad) is trading at 0.02658 USD, up 13.53% in the past 24 hours, reaching a high of 0.02732 USD and a low of 0.02278 USD, with 24-hour trading volume of 5.3128 million USD. Current market cap is approximately 288 million USD, ranking 156th globally. Monad is building a high-performance Layer 1 blockchain for the next generation of decentralized applications. As an Ethereum-compatible high-performance chain, Monad offers 10,000 TPS, sub-second finality, low fees, and scalable decentralization. Monad's mission is to construct blockchains that are 100x to 1,000x faster than its closest competitors.

Lithuanian e-money institution Newrails launched the MiCA-compliant euro stablecoin EURW on the Monad platform on March 26, supported by 1:1 euro reserves and freely exchangeable, aiming to provide stablecoin infrastructure for Web3 and payment developers.

BlockBeats News, on March 26, the Chairman of the U.S. Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC) Michael Selig stated that promoting the return of truly meaningful cryptocurrency perpetual futures business to the United States is a core component of the CFTC's innovation policy agenda.

Meituan Longcat Team's open-source LongCat-Next is a multimodal model based on MoE architecture, integrating five capabilities including text, visual understanding, image generation, and speech. Its core design DiNA achieves unified task processing through discrete tokens, while the dNaViT used in the visual aspect enables excellent image generation performance. Compared with similar models, LongCat-Next demonstrates leading benchmark performance across various metrics, showcasing its advantages in multimodal understanding and generation.