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Wednesday2026/04
03-17
Aster Mainnet Launches, Largest ASTER Long Position on Hyperliquid Earns $3.9M Profit
BlockBeats news, on March 17, according to LookonChain monitoring, Aster has officially launched its mainnet, and its block explorer is now live on the official website.Meanwhile, the largest ASTER long position on the decentralized derivatives platform Hyperliquid currently holds 25.93 million ASTE...
Aethir Launches Managed Kubernetes Service to Enter Enterprise AI Infrastructure Market
BlockBeats news: On March 17, the decentralized GPU computing infrastructure Aethir officially launched its managed Kubernetes service, marking a major strategic expansion into the enterprise AI infrastructure market.Kubernetes (K8s), the industry's gold standard for open-source container orchestrat...
Moody's Launches Blockchain Data Integration Platform: Token Integration Engine
According to Investing.com, Moody’s, one of the three major U.S. credit rating agencies, has officially launched the Token Integration Engine, a platform designed to integrate analytical data into blockchain networks and distribute credit ratings on-chain. Yuval Rooz, co-founder of Canton Network an...
U.S. CFTC Says Phantom Wallet Not Required to Register as Broker
ChainThink reports that on March 17, U.S. regulator CFTC issued a no-action position stating that Phantom Technologies Inc., a developer of self-custody crypto wallets, is not required to register as a broker under specific conditions.The document states that the software provided by Phantom is sole...
Aethir Launches Managed Kubernetes Service for Enterprise AI Infrastructure
ChainCatcher report: Decentralized GPU compute infrastructure Aethir has officially launched its managed Kubernetes service today, marking a strategic expansion into the enterprise AI infrastructure market. As the industry “gold standard” in open-source container orchestration, Kubernetes (K8s) enab...
The U.S. CFTC States Phantom Wallet Is Not Required to Register as a Broker
BlockBeats news, on March 17, the U.S. regulator CFTC issued a no-action stance indicating that Phantom Technologies Inc., a developer of self-custody crypto wallets, does not need to register as a broker under specific conditions.The document states that the software provided by Phantom is solely i...
Tether Launches Cross-Platform BitNet LoRA Framework for Consumer GPUs and Smartphones
According to Tether CEO Paolo Ardoino, the Tether AI team has released a new version of QVAC Fabric, integrating the cross-platform BitNet LoRA framework to enable training and inference of billion-parameter large models on consumer-grade GPUs and smartphones.
The new QVAC Fabric LLM achieves, for...
Sharplink reports $36 million in staking rewards, equivalent to 15,464 ETH.
BlockBeats news, on March 17, Sharplink, the Ethereum reserve company, disclosed that its Ethereum reserve strategy has accumulated 15,464 ETH in staking rewards, worth approximately $36 million at current prices.The company stated that it earned 493 ETH through staking last week alone, worth approx...
Bitcoin Reserve Firm Capital B Raises 3 Million Euros in Financing Round
BlockBeats news, on March 17, Bitcoin For Corporations disclosed that French company Capital B has raised €3 million through warrants, with investors including TOBAM and UTXO Management, to accelerate its Bitcoin reserve strategy.According to the disclosure, this financing is expected to add approxi...
Kraken Pro Launches Traditional Financial Futures for EU Professional Traders
Odaily Planet Daily reports that Kraken has launched traditional financial futures contracts on its Kraken Pro platform for eligible EU customers, offering approximately 70 fixed-term contract varieties, including stock indices such as the S&P 500 and Nasdaq 100, commodities like gold and crude oil,...
Chinese hacker group allegedly stole $7 million in crypto assets via supply chain attacks
ChainThink reports that on March 17, the official WeChat account of the Cyber Investigation Institute revealed that a Chinese hacking group experienced internal conflict over a dispute regarding the division of stolen funds. A member publicly disclosed that the group had previously stolen approximat...
Chinese hacker group allegedly stole $7 million in crypto assets via supply chain attack
BlockBeats news, on March 17, according to the official WeChat account of the "Cyber Investigation Institute," a Chinese hacking group experienced internal conflict over a dispute regarding the division of stolen funds. A member publicly revealed that the group had previously stolen approximately $7...
U.S. regional banks to build a tokenized deposit network on ZKsync
PANews, March 17: According to CoinDesk, U.S. regional banks are jointly developing a tokenized deposit platform called Cari Network, operating on ZKsync’s private permissioned chain, Prividium. Participating banks include Huntington Bancshares, First Horizon, M&T Bank, KeyCorp, and Old National Ban...
Aster Chain Mainnet Launches with Institutional-Grade Privacy for Traders
Odaily Planet Daily report: Supported by YZi Labs, the trading ecosystem Aster today announced the official launch of the Aster Chain mainnet. Designed specifically for traders, the chain addresses the “transparency trap” in DeFi, providing institutional-grade privacy and near-centralized-exchange e...
Arbitrum 2025 Transparency Report: RWA Exceeds $800M, Over 1,000 Projects Developed
ChainThink reports that on March 17, the Arbitrum Foundation released its 2025 Transparency Report, stating that 2025 will be a pivotal year for large-scale adoption of on-chain infrastructure by traditional financial institutions. The report shows that throughout the year, the foundation approved 1...
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