Solana co-founder Anatoly Yakovenko described the Drift Protocol incident as "terrifying" after details pointed to a long-running, in-person social engineering operation. Drift Protocol was drained of $270 million and then halted deposits and withdrawals while warning users it was not an April Fools' joke. The report says the attackers built trust from late 2025 through March 2026 before delivering malicious links and software to contributors.

Japan's Financial Services Agency (FSA) is advancing a regulatory overhaul that would shift crypto assets toward a financial-instruments framework and tighten investor-protection rules. The plan, based on findings published in February 2026, includes stronger disclosures, broader supervision of crypto businesses, and crypto-specific insider-trading restrictions as legislation moves through parliament.

Japan's JVCEA keeps a "Green List" of more than 30 crypto tokens that can be listed on domestic exchanges through an accelerated process under Financial Services Agency oversight. As of April 2, the updated list includes major assets such as BTC, ETH, and XRP alongside a wider set of established altcoins. Separately, Japan's Diet is reviewing reforms tied to the 2026 Tax Reform Proposals and FIEA amendments, with enforcement referenced as beginning Jan. 1, 2027.

President Trump announced Thursday that Deputy Attorney General Todd Blanche will serve as interim U.S. attorney general, replacing Pam Bondi. Blanche previously signed an April 2025 DOJ directive that dissolved the National Cryptocurrency Enforcement Team and told prosecutors to avoid regulatory-violation cases against crypto firms. The policy has already been cited in the SDNY case involving Tornado Cash developer Roman Storm, where one charge was dropped after prosecutors referenced the memo.

The U.S. Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation (FDIC) will vote on proposed stablecoin rules on 07 April 2026, covering capital requirements, redemption rights, and prudential standards. The agenda focuses on state-level issuers of stablecoins with less than $10 billion in supply, alongside coordination with other regulators ahead of the GENIUS Act's 18 July 2026 implementation deadline.

Human.tech has announced an AI-agent wallet infrastructure called Agentic Wallet as a Protocol (WaaP) that converts wallet actions into natural-language interactions while keeping users as the final authority. The system uses cryptographic controls such as spending limits, time windows, approved addresses and step-up human approvals for higher-risk actions. The company says its Human Passport ecosystem has more than 3 million users, has secured over $500 million against Sybil attacks, and is backed by $3 billion in restaked ether.

The IMF said in a report published Thursday that tokenized finance could make market stress unfold faster by removing traditional settlement delays that give regulators time to intervene. The paper warns that instant settlement, automated margining and feedback loops may strain crisis tools designed for business-day cycles, and it flags stablecoins as run-prone structures similar to money market funds.

Ethereum co-founder Vitalik Buterin wrote this week that he has fully moved away from cloud AI and now runs a sandboxed, local LLM workflow. He said he switched off cloud services in April 2026 and runs Qwen3.5:35B on an Nvidia 5090 laptop at 90 tokens per second, while warning that AI agents and plugins can embed malicious instructions.