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Robinhood Ventures Fund I discloses its first investments, buying $14.6M of Stripe shares and $20M of ElevenLabs' preferred stock in March (CoinDesk)
https://www.coindesk.com/markets/2026/03/17/robinhood-s-new-ventu…

Robinhood’s new venture fund just snapped up stakes in Stripe and ElevenLabs
The closed-end fund aims to give everyday investors exposure to private firms before they go public.

The average temperature over the entire contiguous U.S. (CONUS) in March was 10.5°C, 5.2°C above average, ranking as the warmest March in the 132-year record.
This marks the first time any month's average temperature has exceeded 5°C above its 20th-century baseline.
https://www.ncei.noaa…

FBI opened probe on Minneapolis shooting; -- but none exists now, Justice Dept. says
An agent in Minnesota conducted an initial review of the shooting of Renee Good and determined that sufficient grounds existed to open a civil rights probe into the actions of Jonathan Ross -- the officer who shot Good,
according to the people, who spoke on the condition of anonymity to discuss internal deliberations.

The existence of the civil rights investigation stands in sharp contra…

FBI opened probe on Minneapolis shooting; none exists now, Justice Dept. says
After the death of Renée Good in Minneapolis, FBI agents launched a civil rights probe into the shooting. The Justice Department says no such case now exists.

Kiley switches parties, loses committees (Meredith Lee Hill/Politico)
https://www.politico.com/live-updates/2026/03/18/congress/kiley-switches-parties-loses-committees-00834740
http://www.memeorandum.com/260318/p98#a260318p98

I Guess I’m now the first ever Indiekit Instance on the #fediverse
Thanks to Fedify
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An Argentine court ruled Polymarket lacked approval to operate and directed ISPs and app stores to restrict it; Polymarket is now unavailable in 30 countries (Francisco Rodrigues/CoinDesk)
https://www.coindesk.com/policy/2026/03/17

Argentina joins growing list of countries blocking Polymarket access
The ruling directs internet providers to block access to the site, and Apple and Google to remove or restrict Polymarket's mobile apps.

U.S. Hardens Allegation That China Conducted a Secret Nuclear Test (Michael R. Gordon/Wall Street Journal)
https://www.wsj.com/politics/national-security/u-s-hardens-allegation-that-china-conducted-a-secret-nuclear-test-644a918a
http://www.memeorandum.com/260218/p62#a260218p62

Sources: Kraken has paused its IPO plans, amid the downturn in crypto markets since October, and may revisit a listing when market conditions improve (CoinDesk)
https://www.coindesk.com/business/2026/03/

Payward, parent of crypto exchange Kraken, has put its IPO plans on hold
Kraken's parent company filed a draft S-1 registration statement with the SEC in November regarding the proposed initial public offering of its common stock.

Stripe's stablecoin firm Bridge wins conditional approval from the US OCC to form a national trust bank, which would allow it to issue and manage stablecoins (Krisztian Sandor/CoinDesk)
https://www.coindesk.com/business/2026/02/

Stripe's stablecoin firm Bridge wins initial approval to form national bank trust charter
The license would allow Bridge to issue and manage stablecoins under direct federal oversight.

Binance and Bitget to probe a rally in RaveDAO's RAVE token, which surged 4,500% in a week, after ZachXBT alleged RAVE insiders engineered a large short squeeze (Francisco Rodrigues/CoinDesk)
https://www.coindesk.com/business…

Binance and Bitget to probe RAVE’s 4,500% token surge as claims of insider-orchestrated rally grow
Nearly 90% of RAVE's supply was concentrated in just three wallets, and millions of tokens were transferred to exchanges before the price surge.