Tokenization hearing set for March 25, 2026, with industry and government experts.

SEC open to collaboration on tokenized instruments and exchange-traded products.

CLARITY Act progress offers regulatory clarity and boosts investor confidence in crypto.

https://coingape.com/us-congress-schedules-tokenization-hearing-next-week-as-clarity-act-advances/

TERAFAB Summary (Joint Tesla + SpaceX + xAI project, as of March 23, 2026)

Overview & Purpose
The world’s largest semiconductor fab (~100 million sq ft, roughly 10× Giga Texas). Built for extreme vertical integration to solve chip shortages for Optimus humanoid robots, autonomous vehicles (FSD/Cybercab), and SpaceX orbital AI data centers.

Goal: enable 1–10 billion robots/year and turn low-Earth orbit into the planet’s biggest AI compute cluster — “the next step towards becoming a galactic civilization.”

Cost
$20–25 billion (joint investment; analysts note total capex could reach $35–45 billion).

Location & Construction
Austin, Texas (eastern Travis County). Small “advanced technology fab” already starting on Giga Texas North Campus for rapid chip iteration.

Full TERAFAB too big for Giga Texas — needs thousands of acres at a nearby site (multiple locations under review).

Construction/site prep is imminent; no exact groundbreaking date released yet.

Timeline Announced: March 21–22, 2026 (livestream from Austin’s Seaholm Power Plant).

Small-batch/research output: Late 2026.
Volume production ramp: 2027.

Full-scale (1 TW capacity): 2028+ (typical 2nm fab takes ~38 months to build; analysts say meaningful high-volume output mid-2028 at earliest).

What It Will Build
2nm process chips (logic + memory + advanced packaging) — simplified to just two product lines for maximum speed. Terrestrial: AI inference chips for Optimus, Full Self-Driving, and robotaxis (100–200 GW/year).

Space: Hardened “D3” chips (run hotter to cut radiator mass) for orbital AI satellites.

Capacity: 1 terawatt (TW) of AI compute per year at full scale — 100–200 billion chips/year, scaling from 100k to 1 million wafer starts/month.

Energy Use & Powering
>10 GW at full scale (roughly 2% of average U.S. electricity). Fab itself: Texas grid + Tesla Megapacks/solar.

Most compute (80%+): Shifted to space-based solar-powered AI satellites (5× better solar + free vacuum cooling) because Earth power is the hard limit (U.S. grid only ~0.5 TW average). Plans include launching 100 million tons of solar capture into orbit per year via Starship + Optimus.

Workforce
Tens of thousands of direct jobs (engineers, technicians, etc.). Hiring already active at terafab.ai. Millions of Optimus robots will assist with construction and operations long-term.

Other Key Info Continues buying chips from TSMC/Samsung/etc. — they just can’t scale fast enough.

Two separate lines (one chip design each) for ultra-fast daily iterations.

Still very early stage — many exact details (final site, precise power contracts, full headcount) coming soon from Elon/Tesla/SpaceX.

Biggest risk: execution at unprecedented scale, but seen as the “final missing piece” for Musk’s ecosystem.

This is one of the most ambitious industrial projects ever announced — and it’s moving fast. Updates will come directly on X.

🔻The deadline was never for Iran.

It was for the 13 families.

48 hours. Not a military countdown. A financial execution order. Signed. Sealed. Delivered through a Truth Social post disguised as a threat.

While the Pentagon aimed at power plants, the Treasury aimed at accounts. 1,437 frozen. Zurich. Geneva. The Cayman Islands. All in the last 6 hours.

SWIFT is offline in 4 countries tonight. They are calling it a “technical issue.” There are no technical issues. Only scheduled demolitions.

THE PETRODOLLAR DIED AT 11:59 PM EST.

You were not told. You were not meant to know. But the gold moved. 3,800 metric tons. From the Federal Reserve vault in Manhattan to a location that does not exist on any map.

Hormuz was the trigger. Not the target.

03.24.2026. The day the invisible war became visible.

NOTHING YOU SEE TOMORROW WILL BE AN ACCIDENT.

Watch the markets. Watch the banks. Watch who resigns.

The first domino has already fallen.

🔻Three meetings took place in the last 72 hours that no camera recorded.

The first: a room beneath the Pentagon. No phones. No aides. Only 7 men and a decision that will reshape the Middle East before Friday.

The second: a private jet. Tail number blocked. Departed Zurich at 3:17 AM. Landed at Joint Base Andrews. The passenger has not been seen in public since 2019. You were told he was dead.

The third: Camp David. Not the official visit the press was briefed on. The OTHER meeting. The one with no guest list. The one where the new financial architecture was signed into law before the ink on the ceasefire was dry.

Trump did not pause the strikes because of diplomacy. HE PAUSED THEM BECAUSE THE MISSION WAS ALREADY COMPLETE.

The 5-day window is not for negotiations. It is for extraction. 14 high-value targets are being moved from 6 countries to a single location. A location the public will learn about soon enough.

The war you saw on television is ending. The war you were never shown is entering its final phase.

THE DEALS ARE SIGNED. THE GOLD HAS MOVED. THE NAMES ARE SEALED.

All that remains is the announcement.

And it will not come from the media.

Crypto industry trade associations are meeting today with the Senate Banking Committee to review the legislative text of a compromise on stablecoin yield/rewards. Bank representatives follow tomorrow (March 24).

This is the direct result of a deal brokered last week between:

Senators Thom Tillis (R-NC) and Angela Alsobrooks (D-MD)
The White House Crypto Council
The compromise unblocks the CLARITY Act (the Senate’s comprehensive digital asset market structure bill). It’s been stalled since January 2026 mainly over one issue: whether crypto platforms can pay customers yield or rewards on stablecoin holdings.

The Core Compromise (Still Under Wraps, But Here’s What We Know)
Banks have been fiercely opposed, arguing that stablecoin yield causes customer deposits to flee traditional banks and hurts lending. The expected language:

Likely bans passive/idle-balance yield (anything that “sounds like banking”).

May still allow activity-based rewards (subject to review).

Senator Cynthia Lummis (R-WY) has already signaled: “Anything that sounds like banking product terminology will not appear.”

Crypto reps get their first look today; banks tomorrow. Reaction from both sides will shape the final text.

Why This Matters (Bigger Picture)
This was the last major roadblock to advancing the CLARITY Act.

Once cleared, the Senate Banking Committee is targeting a markup (amendments + vote) before the end of April (after Easter recess).

The bill would create clear federal rules on:

Digital commodities vs. securities
DeFi
Token classification

Tokenization
Stablecoin regulation (building on the already-passed GENIUS Act)
It’s bipartisan, has White House involvement, and Chairman Tim Scott (R-SC) has called it a priority to make America the “crypto capital of the world.”

ICE has helped totally CLEAR OUT the TSA lines at Southwest Florida Airport

"This morning, travelers experienced a wait time, but since I got here, the lines are moving SMOOTH."

"COMPLETELY empty!"

Radical activists are screaming at ICE agents during a detention of a woman who’s in the country illegally.

She had a young child with her and claimed it was her daughter, but couldn’t provide any documentation.

Situations like this are exactly why agents have to verify everything.

People underestimate how often children are brought across the border without clear proof of parentage or legal status and then go on to be trafficked.

🚨 JUST IN: Africans and Indians are FURIOUS after trying to go to Nayib Bukele's El Salvdor, but realizing they charge a $1,000+ "airport IMPROVEMENT FEE" before they can enter the country

"If you are Indian, do not travel to El Salvador!" 😂🔥