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Wednesday2026/04
03-18
Five new addresses withdraw 29,598 ETH, worth $68.94M, from Coinbase
ChainThink reports that on March 18, on-chain analyst Aunt Ai (@ai_9684xtpa) monitored that five new addresses withdrew 29,598 ETH from Coinbase eight hours ago, valued at $68.94 million. The receiving addresses have not yet transferred or sold the ETH, with an average withdrawal price of $2,329.
SEC Officially Clarifies: BTC, ETH, SOL, XRP, DOGE Are Not Securities
For ten years, no one has known whether the crypto assets in people’s hands qualify as securities. SEC Chairman Paul Atkins directly announced: This ends today!The SEC officially established four categories of crypto assets that are not securities:1. Digital assets: Including major cryptocurrencies ...
xStocks Launches xPoints Program, Offering the Highest Rewards for Liquidity Providers on Byreal
ChainCatcher report: Kraken’s tokenized U.S. stocks platform, xStocks, has officially launched the xPoints rewards program. Byreal and Orca are the first on-chain DeFi protocols to support the program, with providing liquidity on Byreal earning the highest tier of point multipliers, surpassing those...
Oaktree's Howard Marks Warns Investors Underestimate AI's Impact
Article by Zhao YingSource: Wall Street JournalArtificial intelligence is making the world more unpredictable than ever before, and most investors have yet to realize the full depth of this impact.Howard Marks, co-founder of Oaktree Capital Management, said on Tuesday at a New York capital markets i...
dTRINITY: dLEND on Ethereum Hit by Deposit Inflation Attack, Resulting in $257,000 in Bad Debt
ChainCatcher report: The DeFi lending protocol dTRINITY disclosed on X that its dLEND deployment on Ethereum suffered a first-deposit inflation attack, depleting all dUSD funds in the lending supply and resulting in approximately $257,000 in bad debt. The protocol has been temporarily paused, and th...
xStocks Launches xPoints Program with Byreal and Orca as Initial Chain-Supported Protocols
According to official announcements, Kraken’s tokenized U.S. stocks platform, xStocks, has launched the xPoints rewards program. Users can earn points by holding tokenized assets on xStocks, providing liquidity, and participating in the lending market, with the highest point weights assigned to liqu...
LazAI paper accepted by IEEE ICME 2026 with a 28.89% acceptance rate
BlockBeats report: On March 18, the LazAI team’s paper, “QoS-Aware Token Scheduling and Private Data Valuation for Multi-Modal Agentic Networks,” was officially accepted by IEEE ICME 2026.IEEE ICME (International Conference on Multimedia and Expo) is one of the premier academic conferences in the fi...
U.S. Senator Tim Scott Announces Progress on the Crypto Market Structure Bill, with a Stablecoin Yield Draft Expected This Week
ChainThink reports that on March 18, according to CoinDesk, Tim Scott, Chairman of the U.S. Senate Banking Committee, stated at the Blockchain Summit in Washington, D.C., that the previously stalled Crypto Market Structure Act is making substantial progress behind the scenes, with a new draft of at ...
NVIDIA Expands Autonomous Driving Partnerships with BYD, Geely, and Others
After labeling a $1 trillion order, Huang Renxun brought BYD and Geely to the autonomous driving table.1|Huang Renxun's trillion-dollar valuation doesn't even include the road.This morning, Jensen Huang announced at GTC that orders for Blackwell and Vera Rubin through 2027 will exceed $1 trillion—do...
Strategy Uses Preferred Shares to Buy 22,337 BTC in Largest Purchase Since 2026
ChainCatcher report: According to market sources, Strategy last week used perpetual preferred shares as its primary tool for acquiring Bitcoin for the first time, signaling a potential shift in its financing strategy. On Monday, the company announced the purchase of 22,337 Bitcoin, marking the fifth...
EPOCH Launches Tokenized Private Credit Fund TPLUS with Synthesys and Chainlink
Odaily Planet Daily reports: EPOCH Digital Credit has announced a partnership with Synthesys and Chainlink to launch TreasuryPlus (TPLUS), the first digitally native tokenized private credit fund managed by a traditional asset management firm. On its launch day, it reached six major financial market...
U.S. stocks closed higher, with the crypto sector rising as Circle (CRCL) gained over 5%.
Odaily Planet Daily report: According to data from msx.com, at the close of U.S. equities trading, the Dow Jones Industrial Average rose 0.10%, the S&P 500 increased 0.25%, and the Nasdaq Composite gained 0.47%. Most cryptocurrency-related stocks strengthened, with Circle up 5.15%, Coinbase up 3.40%...
U.S. Senator: Progress in Crypto Market Structure Bill Negotiations; Stablecoin Yield Draft Expected This Week
ChainCatcher report, according to CoinDesk, U.S. Senator Tim Scott, Chairman of the Senate Banking Committee, stated at the Blockchain Summit in Washington, D.C., that the previously stalled Crypto Market Structure Act is making substantial behind-the-scenes progress and is expected to receive a new...
New wallet deposits 2M USDC to open a 10x long position on HYPE on HyperLiquid.
ChainThink reports that on March 18, according to Onchain Lens monitoring, a newly created wallet deposited 2 million USDC into HyperLiquid and opened a 10x leveraged long position in HYPE, with a liquidation price of $29.04.
U.S. Establishes Five-Category Framework for Crypto Assets in Major Regulatory Shift
On March 17, 2026, the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) and the Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC) jointly issued Interpretive Release No. 33-11412, a 68-page guidance that formally marks the end of America’s decade-long era of “enforcement-first” crypto regulation and ushers i...
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