Potential Next Fed Chair Has Crypto Portfolio - Kevin Warsh, nominee to replace Jerome Powell as Fed Chair, disclosed significant assets including stakes in Solana, Polymarket, and Blast via DCM Investments 10 LLC.
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Webinar Series: A Valuation of Polymarket (POLY)
Polymarket is one of the leading prediction market platforms, and with a POLY token likely launching in 2026, the central question for investors is whether the $20 billion FDV Polymarket was reportedly seeking on March 7, 2026 is justified. In this webinar, Messari senior research analyst Austin Weiler builds a ground-up fee multiple valuation across bear, base, and bull scenarios to find out.
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On March 5, the Opinion Foundation held a Token Generation Event (TGE) for the OPN token, with 19.9% (198.5 million OPN) of the 1.0 billion total supply circulating at launch.
On March 14, Opinion.Trade launched Maker Rebates for sports, esports, and macro markets, which offer a maker rebate up to 50% on taker fees. From March 14 to March 30, the Foundation distributed $52,200 USDT in maker rebates.
In March 2026, the business sector led Opinion.Trade trading volume with a 28.3% share ($134.2 million), followed by politics at 25.1% ($119.3 million) and macro at 17.6% ($83.6 million).
On April 2, the Opinion Foundation launched its dispute resolution process using the OPN token, requiring disputers to deposit the greater of 1% of market open interest or 1,000 OPN, and rewarding 1:1 of the disputer’s committed deposit if correct.
From November 2025 to March 2026, Opinion.Trade surpassed $3.1 billion in monthly notional volume in four of the five months, and from Oct. 24, 2025, to March 31, processed $23.4 billion in cumulative notional volume.
By: Eric Manoukian · @CryptoRick98 · Research Analysts
Arcium is a decentralized encrypted compute network that uses multiparty computation (MPC) to process data without ever exposing it. Its Mainnet Alpha launched on Solana in February 2026, introducing Multi-Party Execution Environments (MXEs) as configurable virtual machines for encrypted workloads.
Umbra is a private wallet for Solana, powered by Arcium. It provides the infrastructure for private, secure, and compliance-ready transactions, making the onchain privacy experience seamless.
Arcium’s MPC is paired with Umbra’s zero-knowledge proofs (ZKPs) to combine encrypted compute with anonymity in a single stack.
Umbra is structurally different from earlier privacy tools because it combines private balances, unlinkable transfers, and composable encrypted shared state in one system. That gives Arcium a more credible application-layer proof point than a standalone mixer or isolated shielded product.
Umbra has two products. The Umbra Wallet is the consumer-facing product, designed as an everyday private wallet. The Umbra SDK allows wallets, DeFi protocols, and other Solana applications to integrate private payments, shielded interactions, and encrypted balances through a developer-friendly interface.