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According to The Block, the crypto advocacy organization Digital Chamber (TDC) stated that Sherrod Brown's victory is "the most adverse outcome for the crypto industry," and that his priorities regarding financial stability, consumer protection, bank regulation, and illicit finance issues may influence the Democratic Party's overall attitude toward the crypto industry.

Crypto journalist Eleanor Terrett published an article summarizing the key results of the U.S. midterm elections, stating that the outcomes are generally unfavorable for the Republican Party and the crypto industry. She pointed out that despite over $64 million invested by the crypto industry, it was unable to prevent Sherrod Brown from returning to the Senate, where Brown may gain a leadership position on a committee with jurisdiction over crypto issues. Sherrod Brown previously served as the chairman of the Senate Banking Committee and holds significant influence over legislation and regulation of digital assets.Eleanor Terrett noted that Brown is cautious and even skeptical about crypto, emphasizing that consumer and investor protection should take priority. He advocates for enhanced information disclosure, segregation of customer assets, combating conflicts of interest, and anti-money laundering measures, opposing industry-led lax legislation. While he does not outright reject reforms on stablecoins and market structure, he insists that the regulatory framework must become stricter and not dilute the standards of traditional financial markets.Additionally, pro-crypto representatives Bryan Steil, Zach Nunn, and Ann Wagner were defeated, and Mike Lawler has conceded to Cait Conley, although the Associated Press has yet to make a final determination on New York's 17th congressional district. Kirsten Gillibrand, chair of the Democratic Senatorial Campaign Committee, helped the Democrats secure a Senate majority that exceeded expectations. After the Republican Party lost control of the Senate, Tim Scott is expected to transition from chairman of the Banking Committee to minority leader; the outcome in French Hill's district has not yet been determined, but it appears he may narrowly win and is expected to become minority leader, with the chairmanship taken over by Maxine Waters. Pete Ricketts won in Nebraska, and Andy Barr secured the vacant Senate seat in Kentucky, succeeding Mitch McConnell and potentially competing for a position on the Banking Committee.

Due to the implementation of Daylight Saving Time in the United States, the U.S. "small non-farm" data will be released at 21:15 Beijing time. The market generally expects that the October ADP new employment figures may drop to around 70,000. This data will influence the Federal Reserve's interest rate pricing for December and may trigger fluctuations in the prices of assets such as the U.S. dollar, U.S. stocks, and gold.

The NFA has approved PM Derivatives LLC, a subsidiary of Polymarket, to operate as a Futures Commission Merchant (FCM). An NFA spokesperson stated that the subsidiary has met all requirements for FCM registration, but actual futures brokerage operations still require approval from the Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC).If approved, PM Derivatives will be able to act as an intermediary to receive customer orders and funds; Polymarket stated that the subsidiary plans to adopt a full collateral model, requiring customers to provide sufficient funds for the entire position at the time of the transaction. The CFTC is currently still investigating Polymarket.

Democratic senators in the U.S. Senate have accused Elon Musk's social media platform X of giving preferential treatment to the prediction market Polymarket. Nevada Democratic Senator Catherine Cortez Masto, California Democratic Senator Adam Schiff, Nevada Democratic Senator Jacky Rosen, and Connecticut Democratic Senator Richard Blumenthal wrote in a joint letter first disclosed by Semafor that typically, X allows users to report ads for various reasons. However, when users attempt to report Polymarket's ads through X's standard interface, they are unable to select the report option. Other types of ads, including those from Kalshi, do not have this issue.This letter, which includes screenshots, claims that this seemingly unfair special treatment raises questions about whether X is trying to provide Polymarket with an improper competitive advantage, thereby benefiting the U.S. President and his family. Donald Trump Jr. has invested in Polymarket and serves as an advisor to the platform.

Binance founder CZ recently accepted an interview with Japanese business media PIVOT, discussing his decision to voluntarily go to the United States to plead guilty and pay a hefty fine. He emphasized that this was because he did not want to be a fugitive or evade issues. CZ stated that Binance was only involved in registration-related violations, with no fraud and no victims, and that users have always been well protected. Serving time was an unpleasant experience and a lesson.CZ also mentioned that recently, American banks have committed more serious violations but were only fined $1.2 billion and were not prosecuted. He stated that the world is inherently unfair, but he is no longer entangled in it and wants to focus on moving forward, learning from experiences to do more positive things.

The Financial Supervisory Service of Korea stated that it will conduct a rapid investigation into unfair trading associated with virtual asset issuance foundations in order to address behaviors that harm market order.Related content was presented in the report on the current status of supervision by the National Assembly's Political Committee, with a plan named "Strengthening User Protection for Digital Assets and Establishing a Sound Trading Order."

According to a report by Reuters, Apple Inc. is facing a class-action lawsuit in London, with claims amounting to £2 billion (approximately $2.7 billion). The lawsuit was filed today in the London Competition Appeal Tribunal by Ann Pope, a former senior official of the UK's Competition and Markets Authority, representing app developers.The core allegation is that Apple's "App Tracking Transparency" (ATT) feature, launched in 2021, imposes stricter restrictions on third-party developers than on its own services, giving Apple's own advertising ecosystem an unfair competitive advantage. Ann Pope stated that Apple's policies "have caused very significant harm to businesses that rely on Apple as a gatekeeper."Since its launch, the ATT feature has been a focal point of concern for global regulators for several years. Apple's official stance is that the feature is designed to allow users to control whether to permit apps to track their activities across other companies and websites.However, the plaintiffs argue that the actual enforcement of this rule has a double standard—tracking requests from third-party apps require strict pop-up authorization, while Apple's own personalized ads and services can bypass the same restrictions. This lawsuit represents the latest legal challenge Apple faces regarding its ATT policy and is the first large-scale private antitrust lawsuit initiated in the UK market against Apple's app ecosystem rules following scrutiny from regulators in the EU, the US, and several other countries.

Gate US's wholly-owned subsidiary Gate Futures LLC has completed the independent introducing broker registration with the Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC) and has officially become a member of the National Futures Association (NFA).

According to The Block, CryptoQuant's research director Julio Moreno stated that the bottom for Bitcoin may be around $53,600, which is the current realized price and has historically marked the bottom of bear markets multiple times. Currently, Bitcoin is trading at approximately $62,150, about 9% higher than that level. However, demand conditions remain weak. CryptoQuant estimates that total demand decreased by 652,000 BTC last week, marking the largest single-week decline since January 2022. The 30-day ETF demand growth has dropped to -74,000 BTC, the weakest level since the ETF was launched. Meanwhile, the realized losses over the past 30 days amount to 187,000 BTC, significantly lower than the 400,000 BTC when it first fell below $60,000 in February and the 1.2 million BTC during the FTX collapse in November 2022, indicating that a capitulation-style sell-off has not yet been reached. Moreno stated that while the price level may suggest a bottom is near, a bull market requires a recovery in demand, which has not yet been reflected in the data. Until total demand stabilizes, ETF capital flows recover, and realized losses reach capitulation peaks, the current price should be viewed as a candidate for valuation bottom rather than a confirmed cycle bottom.

The Huobi HTX VIP private class "AI + Trading from Theory to Practice" was held in Shanghai, where early Bitcoin miner and pyra.io CTO Tian Jia shared the development of quantum computing and the impact of AI on trading.He believes that in the AI era, investors are more equitable in "gaining knowledge," such as establishing institutional-level trading frameworks. However, in "trading competition," it is less equitable, such as training institutional-level trading models. The real enhancement of fairness comes from AI lowering the cognitive threshold, while the true unfairness expands from the concentration of data, speed, capital, and platform manipulation capabilities.

According to Cointelegraph, SpaceX plans to conduct a $75 billion IPO in June, and if its valuation reaches $1.75 trillion to $2 trillion after going public, it may enter the Nasdaq 100 index within 15 trading days through Nasdaq's "fast track" rule, thereby increasing the index's exposure to Bitcoin.According to SpaceX's latest S-1 filing, it holds 18,712 BTC, valued at approximately $1.45 billion. If combined with Tesla's 11,509 BTC, the two companies under Musk will become significant holders of Bitcoin in the Nasdaq 100.Strategy CEO Phong Le stated that with the SpaceX IPO, Mag 7 will become Mag 8, with 25% of the companies' balance sheets holding Bitcoin.However, analyst Nic Puckrin believes that the SpaceX IPO could be bad news for tech stocks. After being included in the Nasdaq 100, passive funds will need to buy SpaceX and sell existing components like Nvidia, Apple, and Microsoft, potentially creating a large-scale capital siphoning effect.Reports indicate that Bitcoin has recently been highly correlated with large tech stocks, with a 30-day correlation of approximately 0.81 between BTC and the Magnificent Seven ETF (MAGS). Analysts suggest that if tech stocks face pressure due to index rebalancing, Bitcoin may also face downward risks in the short term.

According to CoinDesk, Ethereum application developer Consensys has postponed its potential IPO plans until at least the fall due to unfavorable market conditions. Consensys had planned to confidentially submit an S-1 registration statement to the SEC by the end of February this year and had hired JPMorgan and Goldman Sachs to lead the process.In February 2026, the cryptocurrency market saw a significant decline due to macroeconomic uncertainties, tariff concerns, and outflows from Bitcoin ETFs, leading several crypto companies to suspend their IPO plans. BitGo was the only crypto-native company to go public in 2026, but its stock price fell about 36% from its IPO price. A Consensys spokesperson stated that they do not comment on market speculation. Consensys completed a $450 million Series D funding round in early 2022, with a valuation of $7 billion.

ChainCatcher live report, Wanxiang Group Chairman and CEO Lu Weiding delivered the opening speech at the 2026 Hong Kong Web3 Carnival. He pointed out that four years ago, the SAR government released a virtual asset policy declaration, establishing Hong Kong's position as a global digital asset center, and in the future, it should contribute a "Hong Kong solution" in areas such as stablecoins and asset tokenization.He emphasized that we are currently at an irreversible starting point, where Web3 establishes trust and ownership of value, AI unleashes data-driven productivity, and the deep integration of both with embodied intelligence will jointly build the core driving force of the smart economy infrastructure, which will become the core explosive power of Hong Kong's Web3 ecosystem. He stated that the past three carnivals have become a global hub connecting the East and West, bridging the digital and the real, "not just observing trends, but shaping trends."

According to official news, from April 1 to April 7, the TRON ecosystem will launch an Easter egg treasure hunt event, with a total prize pool of up to 1,000 USDT. Participants need to find 5 hidden keywords on the official X platform account pages of AINFT, JUST, WinkLink, and BitTorrent, submit the complete answers in the comments section of the event tweet, and @ their favorite TRON ecosystem project and 3 friends, while also adding the topic #TRONEasterFun to participate in winning rewards. The moment to test insight and speed has arrived, and we sincerely invite users from the global community to join this fun and challenging on-chain adventure.

According to China News Network, the "3·15" gala reported on the "poisoning" chaos of AI large models. Li Fumin, an expert from the Institute of Intelligent Social Governance at Shandong University of Finance and Economics, stated that the behavior of businesses conducting targeted training on large models through services like GEO to guide AI in generating specific product or service recommendations is essentially a new form of unfair competition and consumer misleading behavior that uses technical means for covert marketing and fabricating facts. This leads consumers to receive implanted marketing content without their knowledge, and its harmfulness and illegality need to be taken seriously.On one hand, the above behavior infringes upon the consumers' right to know and the right to fair trade as stipulated by the Consumer Rights Protection Law. On the other hand, it constitutes false or misleading commercial promotion using technical means, disrupting the normal order of recommendation algorithms and the market competition environment, thereby forming unfair competition.The governance of the above AI poisoning behavior requires a multi-faceted approach. Regulatory authorities should include AI-induced marketing in key monitoring and strengthen law enforcement supervision; AI operators should enhance the review of source materials and output filtering, and establish traceability mechanisms; consumers should improve their awareness of the commercial nature of AI-generated information and actively protect their rights through complaints and reports.

The BNB Chain developer team stated that as the ecosystem continues to expand, applications need to share rules for seamless collaboration. To this end, BNB Chain has launched the BAP (BNB Application Proposal) mechanism, allowing developers to reach consensus on application layer standards such as NFT utility, AI agent behavior, and identity specifications without touching the consensus layer or EVM.The official introduction also presented the first proposal BAP-578, which is the Non-Fungible Agent (NFA) token standard. This standard proposes that the NFA is an AI-driven asset existing on-chain, capable of autonomous operation, wallet holding, executing transactions, recording behavioral history, and functioning across multiple dApps. BAP-578 is seen as one of the infrastructures for the "agent economy," aiming to promote the flow and collaboration of AI agents within the BNB Chain ecosystem according to unified standards.BNB Chain pointed out that the BAP is designed to be community-driven, allowing developers to participate in reviewing BAP-578, providing feedback, or submitting new BAPs to collectively shape the application layer standard system.

Binance founder CZ posted on social media, stating that there are signs of a suspected organized public opinion attack surrounding his recent remarks.CZ mentioned that some accounts, which were previously unfamiliar, have concentrated on posting highly similar content within a short period, displaying obvious characteristics of copying and amplification. The overall behavior is more akin to systematic operation rather than natural discussion. The related topics continue to spread within the community.

According to Jinshi Data, White House National Economic Council Director Hassett: After the Supreme Court's (unfavorable) ruling, Trump can immediately implement a 10% tariff.