Yesterday's US Bitcoin Spot ETF Net Inflow $7.8M, Ethereum ETF Net Outflow $8.5M

March 26 A Turkish oil tanker was targeted in a drone attack in the Black Sea near Istanbul, Turkish TV channel NTV reported. The incident occurred 15 nautical miles from the Bosphorus Strait, striking the M/T Altura. Ship tracking data indicates the vessel carried roughly 1 million barrels of Urals crude oil loaded from Novorossiysk. The M/T Altura is sanctioned by the UK and EU but not on the U.S. sanctions list. Turkish maritime news site HaberDenizde notes an explosion on the tanker’s bridge and flooding in the engine room. No casualties have been reported so far.

March 26 — U.S. lawmakers introduced a bill Tuesday aimed at banning members of Congress, the president, and other top government officials from betting on prediction markets, per Cointelegraph. The measure, co-sponsored by U.S. Reps. Adrian Smith and Nikki Budzinski, is dubbed the "Preventing Real Online Threats Endangering Retiring Congressional Kin and Y.O.L.O. Act" — or the PREDICT Act.

On March 26, the Financial Times reported that U.S. Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen has discussed strengthening the Treasury’s oversight of the Federal Reserve by drawing on elements of the Bank of England’s model—a move that would reshape the relationship between the Fed and the U.S. government. According to senior financial industry executives with knowledge of the matter, Yellen has told market participants she admires the 1997 reforms the UK government implemented, when the Bank of England was granted operational independence to set monetary policy. While both central banks formally maintain independence from their respective governments, the Fed has greater autonomy in how it pursues Congress’s mandates of price stability and full employment, as well as how it responds to financial instability. Yellen has publicly stated the Fed should undergo reform while preserving the independence of its monetary policy. Last year, she published a 6,000-word article in *The International