Last mentioned: Mar 21, 2026
SEC Approval
The SEC grants historic approval for Nasdaq to put the stock market on the blockchain.
Official Release
The Trump administration formally unveils the National Cyber Strategy pledging crypto support.
Strategy Leak
Initial reports surface regarding the administration's new focus on blockchain security.
Formal Proposal
Nasdaq submits a formal rule change to the SEC to allow DLT-based clearing.
T+1 Implementation
US markets move to a one-day settlement cycle, highlighting the need for further efficiency.
Digital Assets Launch
Nasdaq launches its dedicated Digital Assets division to explore institutional tokenization.
The SEC has officially approved Nasdaq's plan to migrate core stock market settlement and clearing functions to a blockchain-based system. This historic regulatory shift marks the beginning of the 'T+0' era, potentially eliminating billions in collateral requirements and systemic risk for the US financial system.
Mastercard has reached a definitive agreement to acquire stablecoin infrastructure provider BVNK for up to $1.8 billion. This strategic move aims to integrate blockchain-based payment rails directly into the global financial giant's core infrastructure, bridging the gap between fiat and digital assets.
The Trump administration has unveiled a landmark national cyber strategy that explicitly pledges federal support for the security of cryptocurrencies and blockchain technology. This policy shift elevates digital assets to the status of critical national infrastructure, signaling a move from punitive regulation to proactive technological fortification.
Customs administrations are shifting from human-centric governance to algorithmic intelligence to eliminate fraud and systemic extortion. By leveraging blockchain, AI, and IoT, authorities aim to replace human discretion with immutable code-based verification.
This page surfaces every story mentioning Blockchain across our crypto coverage. We track each entity's appearance over time so readers can trace how the narrative evolves — which developments are isolated incidents, which build into longer arcs, and which reframe how operators in the space think about the entity. Story selection uses the same multi-source verification gate applied across the rest of our coverage.
Read our editorial methodology for how we identify, deduplicate, and score entity references. Our glossary defines the technical terms used across stories on this page, and our trends index contextualizes individual developments against the longer-running crypto beat. Cross-entity comparisons live on our compare view.
| What you see | What it tells you |
|---|---|
| Story count | Number of distinct stories where Blockchain was a primary or referenced actor. |
| Recency clustering | Whether mentions are concentrated in a recent window (a news cycle) or distributed (a sustained arc). |
| Sentiment distribution | Aggregate sentiment of the stories mentioning this entity, weighted by impact score. |
| Cross-niche links | When the same entity surfaces in our sibling networks, we link to those views to enrich context. |