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According to market news, Moon Kyung-ho, head of the Income Tax Division of the Ministry of Economy and Finance of South Korea, stated at an emergency meeting on the taxation of virtual assets that the government will proceed with the taxation of virtual assets as originally planned starting January 1 next year. This is the first time the Ministry of Economy and Finance has publicly expressed its stance on the issue of virtual asset taxation.According to the current income tax law, income generated from the transfer or lending of virtual assets will be classified as other income, with a tax rate of 22% applicable to virtual asset income exceeding 2.5 million won (20% other income tax plus 2% local income tax). The tax targets approximately 13.26 million investors. Head Moon revealed that the National Tax Service is formulating relevant announcements and has had multiple discussions with the five major virtual asset operators, expecting to conduct legislative announcements soon.

Bitcoin mining company and energy infrastructure platform Hut 8 announced that its subsidiary has reached a $200 million Bitcoin collateralized credit agreement with FalconX, replacing the previous financing arrangement from Coinbase Credit. The new financing has an annual fixed interest rate of 7.0%, a decrease of 200 basis points from the previous 9.0% financing from Coinbase; during the period from December 2023 to March 2025, the financing cost was as high as 10.5%–11.5%, with a cumulative reduction of up to 450 basis points, demonstrating progress in continuously optimizing debt costs.After this refinancing, Hut 8 has approximately 3,300 BTC converted to an uncollateralized state, valued at about $260 million based on the market value as of May 1, 2026, significantly enhancing its balance sheet flexibility and liquidity. Meanwhile, the credit structure maintains key risk control terms, including a limited recourse structure, a no-rehypothecation clause, and a fixed LTV threshold design, preventing additional margin calls triggered by a decline in Bitcoin prices.Hut 8's management stated that this financing not only reduces financing costs but also releases more uncollateralized Bitcoin assets, helping to enhance capital allocation flexibility across different market cycles; FalconX emphasized that this transaction reflects its ongoing expansion capabilities in institutional-level Bitcoin credit solutions.

SpaceX announced today that it has reached a cooperation intention with AI programming startup Cursor, which grants SpaceX the right to acquire it later this year for $60 billion, or to pay $10 billion to advance the cooperation between the two parties.It is reported that Cursor's developer Anysphere completed a $400,000 Pre-Seed round of financing in April 2022, jointly invested by Alameda Research and Heroic Ventures. Among them, Alameda invested $200,000 in Anysphere, acquiring about 5% of the shares.This equity was sold at the original price during the bankruptcy liquidation of FTX. Based on a $60 billion valuation, if the equity had not been sold, it would currently be worth about $3 billion.

According to Jinshi reports, U.S. President Trump stated in an interview that he was surprised by the rebound of the stock market during the Iran war, as he originally thought the Dow Jones index would drop by 20%.

According to Arkham monitoring, Dragonfly received 55.8 million LIT from Lighter. Analysis indicates that this may be the investor token share of Dragonfly, which will be locked for 1 year and will be unlocked in phases after the TGE. It is expected that these tokens will not be liquid again before December 30, 2026.

Binance founder Zhao Changpeng (CZ) recalled in his new book that he was approached in early 2014 to become the CEO of Mt. Gox's China region. This position was facilitated by the head of Susquehanna International Group's China region, originally planned for Susquehanna to provide funding support, Mt. Gox to handle technology, and CZ to manage operations in China, with an approximate 10% equity stake.CZ stated that he subsequently met with Mt. Gox founder Mark Karpeles in Tokyo, but just as both parties were close to signing, Mt. Gox suddenly suspended withdrawals on February 7, 2014, leading to a crisis, and he ultimately decided not to join.

According to Hurriyet Daily News, the Turkish parliament has removed the tax provisions related to crypto assets during the review of the comprehensive bill.The deleted provisions would have imposed a 0.3% transaction tax on the sale and transfer of crypto assets conducted through service providers and taxed cryptocurrency gains, primarily through withholding at the source. Although these provisions have been removed from the current draft, officials have stated that a revised version may be reintroduced to the parliament in the form of a separate legislative proposal.

According to Hurriyet Daily News, the Turkish parliament removed the tax provisions related to crypto assets during the review of the omnibus bill. The provisions had proposed a 0.3% transaction tax on crypto transactions conducted through service providers and imposed withholding tax on crypto gains.This adjustment stemmed from strong opposition from the opposition parties. Officials stated that the relevant content may be resubmitted in the form of separate legislation in the future.

Elon Musk stated that the planned "increase the exposure weight of creators based on their region" will be paused and further consideration will be given.Previously, X product head Nikita Bier revealed that starting this Thursday (March 26), the X platform will adjust the revenue-sharing incentive mechanism for creators, focusing on increasing the weight of exposure from the creators' regions. This adjustment aims to encourage content that resonates with users in their own country, neighboring countries, and those who speak the same language, while reducing the motivation for creators to specifically optimize traffic for U.S. or Japanese accounts, in order to promote a more diverse content ecosystem on the platform.

YZi Labs transferred 87.5 million RDNT (worth $470,000) to Binance. These RDNT were obtained through vesting unlocks over the past two years, with a value of approximately $3.86 million at the time of unlocking, and now only worth $470,000.

The DeFi protocol Neutrl stated on platform X that in response to the recent DNS hijacking incident, the team has migrated the official domain to a new address and switched to a new DNS service provider. The smart contract has been unpaused and is now operating normally.Neutrl further stated that all user funds are safe, and the protocol's net asset value (NAV) and reserve assets are stored in a custodial wallet, isolated through a custodial framework and over-the-counter settlement mechanism (OES), effectively avoiding front-end and infrastructure risks.The official reminder is that users should no longer access the original domain, which will gradually be phased out. Users who have interacted with the affected domain are advised to revoke related authorizations, including Permit2 authorizations for specified malicious addresses, and to clear all unknown authorizations.

According to CoinDesk, South Korea's opposition party has proposed a bill to completely abolish the cryptocurrency income tax system that was scheduled to be implemented. The bill states that the current plan is to impose a 22% tax rate on cryptocurrency investment gains, while stock investment gains are not subject to income tax, which is deemed unfair to cryptocurrency investors. If the bill passes, South Korea's planned cryptocurrency tax collection scheme will be canceled.

Former Bybit Co-CEO Helen Liu stated on social media, "We will launch ABFinance, a one-stop platform designed to integrate deposits, earnings, trading, and consumption, becoming a bridge between fiat and crypto assets. From day one, ABFinance has been built on a compliant and robust licensing system in the United States to establish trust. Welcome to join ABFinance and become a pioneer in digital finance."Earlier reports indicated that Bybit announced Co-CEO Helen Liu will step down on April 30, 2026, to start her own entrepreneurial journey.

According to the official announcement, Gate Booster officially launched its first promotional task from February 26, 16:00 to March 12, 16:00 (UTC+8). This phase initiates an original content collection activity centered around the TradFi theme, where users who successfully participate and pass the review will have the opportunity to share a prize pool of 5,000 USDT.It is reported that participating users need to publish an original piece of content related to TradFi on X (Twitter) or YouTube, and submit the post link within 24 hours after registration, which will be considered as a preliminary completion of the task. The total prize pool for this task is 5,000 USDT, limited to the first 200 users who pass the review, on a first-come, first-served basis.As a promotional task and incentive platform launched by Gate, Gate Booster targets KOLs in the crypto industry, content creators, community builders, and promotional partners. Relying on standardized task processes and a transparent reward mechanism, it continuously provides promoters with priority participation in official activities and stable incentive support, helping to enhance the influence and commercial value of individuals and institutions in the Web3 field.

Vitalik Buterin posted on the X platform, stating that there has been an increasing discussion about the ongoing role of L2 in the Ethereum ecosystem. Due to the slow progress of L2 entering phase 2, and the expansion of L1 itself, it is expected that the Gas limit will significantly increase by 2026. This means that the original vision of L2 as Ethereum's "branded sharding" is no longer applicable, and new paths are needed.Vitalik Buterin pointed out that L1 no longer needs L2 as branded sharding, and that L2 cannot or is unwilling to meet the attributes required for true branded sharding. He suggested that L2 should identify value points beyond "scalability," such as privacy, efficiency for specific applications, extreme levels of scalability, non-financial application design, ultra-low latency, and built-in oracles. When handling ETH or other Ethereum assets, L2 should at least reach phase 1 and support maximum interoperability with Ethereum. Additionally, Vitalik Buterin stated that he has become more convinced of the value of native Rollup precompiles in recent months, especially after having the ZK-EVM proof needed for scaling L1. This precompile would make EVM verification without a security committee feasible. He believes that research should be conducted on how to design this precompile so that it can verify the EVM portion when L2 includes "EVM and other content." This would make achieving secure, robust, and trustless interoperability with Ethereum easier and enable synchronous composability.

Aave and Lens Protocol founder Stani Kulechov posted on X that he will transfer the governance of the social protocol Lens Protocol to the Msak Network team, which has been focused on advancing the development of Lens Protocol at the application layer.The Lens social foundational module will always remain open source and will continue to serve as the infrastructure for anyone building social applications on a decentralized track. The original team will continue to serve as technical advisors while focusing on innovation in DeFi, which has always been their core area of expertise.

X official creator account @XCreators announced that X has reached a new high in creator earnings distribution by the end of 2025 since the launch of the profit-sharing program, and it will increase incentives for original writing content. The official stated that 2026 is designated as the "Year of Creators," and the platform will focus on investing in long-form content such as articles, and plans to launch a more detailed Creator Studio earnings overview panel.The announcement shows that X will award an additional $1 million bonus to the most outstanding original articles in the next earnings reward cycle. Participating articles must be original content, with a minimum word count of 1,000 words, and the main evaluation criterion will be the exposure on the homepage timeline, limited to U.S. users. Articles that violate platform policies, contain hate speech, fraud, or manipulative content are not eligible to participate. The publication window for eligible articles is from January 16 to January 28.

Ethereum co-founder Vitalik Buterin posted on social media that in 2014, he envisioned building a decentralized, permissionless application network based on a technology stack. Now, all the conditions to realize the original Web3 vision are in place and will continue to strengthen. It is time to build a decentralized world.He mentioned that the decentralized messaging protocol Waku has supported applications like Railway and Status, and IPFS performs strongly as a decentralized file retrieval method, although storage issues need improvement. Taking Fileverse, a decentralized alternative to Google Docs/Sheets, as an example, its usability has significantly improved, utilizing Ethereum and Gnosis chains for account handling, processing documents with decentralized messaging and storage, and also through open-source "exit tests." He criticized the various drawbacks of "corporate bloated products" and cited cases to prove the risks are real.Today, decentralized applications like Fileverse are good enough to use. He frequently uses them to write and collaborate on documents, contrasting this with the difficulty of decentralized applications in 2014. He calls on builders to collectively embrace the decentralized renaissance.

The CEO of ECC, the original development team of Zcash, Josh Swihart, stated in a post on X that they will continue to fully invest in Zcash. In addition, they will build a new Zcash wallet, which is now open for pre-application.