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According to Jinshi reports, U.S. Secretary of Defense Esper stated that President Trump is willing to reach an agreement.U.S. Secretary of Defense Esper stated that the coming days will be a decisive moment in the war with Iran, and Iran is powerless in this regard. A regime change has occurred in Iran. If Iran is wise, it will reach an agreement. If Iran does not reach an agreement, the war will continue with greater intensity.

According to a report by CCTV International News, U.S. Vice President Pence stated in an interview regarding the Iran issue that the United States has no intention of staying in Iran and will withdraw quickly after handling current affairs. He added that there is every reason to believe that the U.S. has completed all military objectives. The ongoing military action is due to President Trump wanting to ensure that Iran completely loses its ability to threaten the United States.Regarding the current rise in domestic oil prices in the U.S., Pence stated that this is an extremely brief market reaction to the U.S.-Israel-Iran conflict, and that oil prices will fall back after the U.S. withdraws from Iran.

According to Beincrypto, French President Macron will deliver a speech at Paris Blockchain Week on April 15. The event will take place from April 15 to 16 at the Carrousel du Louvre, and he will also become the first sitting G7 head of state to speak at an institutional-level conference focused on digital assets. This move is seen as a historic milestone and further confirms France's institutional leadership position in the European digital finance sector.President Macron will outline the strategic priorities for shaping European digital sovereignty to approximately 10,000 attendees, including the development of stablecoins denominated in euros, the launch of the digital euro, and the establishment of relevant regulatory frameworks to promote Europe's core position in the global digital economy. The conference will also invite several senior French government officials directly involved in European digital asset regulation, stablecoin policy, and the construction of institutional financial infrastructure to attend.

U.S. lawmakers have introduced the PREDICT Act, which aims to prohibit the President, members of Congress, and other senior government officials from participating in prediction market trading.The bill was jointly proposed by Adrian Smith and Nikki Budzinski and aims to restrict the use of insider information in prediction activities related to political events or policy outcomes, extending its scope to the spouses and family members of the relevant personnel. The bill also proposes a penalty of 10% of the total contract value for violations, with all profits being forfeited to the U.S. Treasury.

According to crypto KOL Crypto Fearless, Gala has returned to OKX, where the department is the President's Office and the position is a strategy role.Additionally, according to the crypto asset data platform RootData, Gala was previously the Director of Ecosystem Development for BNB Chain, the Head of Partnerships for OKX Marketplace, and the Investment Director at Zonff Partners, graduating from the University of Washington.

Lily Liu, president of the Solana Foundation, posted on X stating that "games on the blockchain will not return" and indicated that blockchain gaming is dead.Liu's remarks stem from a Polymarket post earlier this week, which stated that Mark Zuckerberg's Meta is abandoning its metaverse vision after investing $80 billion. Although Meta's vision does not explicitly include blockchain or crypto assets, its strategy shares similar characteristics with various blockchain-based web3 game concepts.Reports indicate that Mythical Games is still advancing mobile games for the FIFA and Pudgy Penguins brands, while Gunzilla Games' shooting game Off the Grid has on-chain interactions set as optional.

According to Argentine media El Destape, forensic experts extracted an unpublished document from intermediary Mauricio Novelli's phone, detailing the payment agreement for the Libra token scam, totaling 5 million dollars, primarily pointing to Argentine President Milei.The document shows that the agreement is divided into three payments: an initial payment of 1.5 million dollars in tokens or cash as an advance; a second payment of 1.5 million dollars, contingent on Milei announcing Hayden Davis (CEO of Kelsier Ventures) as his advisor on Twitter; and a final payment of 2 million dollars, contingent on Milei signing a contract regarding blockchain/AI government consulting in person with his sister Karina. The document was created on February 11, 2025, just three days before Milei posted the relevant tweet and the Libra token went live.Call records have also drawn attention. The forensic report shows that Milei had multiple calls with Novelli within minutes before and after the tweet was posted, and his sister Karina was also in frequent contact; after the token price plummeted that night, Milei's advisor Santiago Caputo joined the call circle late at night, with call records indicating that all parties continued to coordinate in response to the crisis.

According to AXIOS, U.S. President Trump claimed during a G7 call that Iran is "about to surrender."

U.S. Treasury Secretary Becerra posted on the X platform that he met with Salvadoran President Nayib Bukele at the "Americas Shield" summit held in Doral, Florida.He expressed his pleasure in hearing about Nayib Bukele's efforts to advance pro-market reforms and to make El Salvador a digital asset hub, while emphasizing that both sides will continue to work together to strengthen strategic cooperation in the Americas region.

Robert F. Kennedy Jr. has confirmed that he will run in the 2028 U.S. presidential election. Previously disclosed information reveals that he owns at least $1 million in Bitcoin and does not intend to divest this asset. He has also publicly stated that he is a staunch supporter of Bitcoin, believing that decentralization, a capped supply, neutral currency, and other hard assets like gold and silver can stabilize the dollar and prevent currency devaluation.

The Deputy Director of the Iranian President's Office stated that (to clarify the Iranian President's remarks) Iran will respond firmly to any acts of aggression by the United States at its bases in the region.

According to Jinshi Data, on March 7 local time, Iranian President Pezeshkian delivered a speech calling for national unity to defend Iran, stating that Iran would never unconditionally surrender. In his speech, Pezeshkian apologized to neighboring countries and stated that the interim leadership committee approved on the 6th to no longer attack neighboring countries or launch missiles unless these countries first attack Iran.

Backpack Exchange announced today that former U.S. Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC) Commissioner and Acting Chairman Mark Wetjen has officially joined the company as President of Backpack US. In this role, Wetjen will lead Backpack's strategic expansion in the U.S., helping the company continue to build a regulated global on-chain financial platform.

According to Jinshi reports, European Central Bank Vice President Guindos stated that if inflation expectations change due to the situation in Iran, the European Central Bank may alter its policy stance.

Strive's Vice President of Bitcoin, Joe Burnett, stated that AI-driven deflation could force central banks to adopt more accommodative policies, potentially driving Bitcoin to $11 million per coin by 2036, with a market capitalization of $230 trillion.This prediction is based on Bitcoin growing to approximately 12% of the global financial asset value, and global wealth growing at a compound annual growth rate of 7% by 2036. Given that Bitcoin currently accounts for about 0.2% of all financial assets, this implies that Bitcoin's market capitalization will increase more than 176 times over the next decade, reaching $230 trillion.

The U.S. presidential envoy, Wittekov, stated that reaching an agreement with Iran is impossible, describing the meetings with Iranian officials as unproductive.

The U.S. House of Representatives is expected to vote on a war powers resolution on Thursday. The resolution requires the president to obtain congressional approval before taking any further military action.

According to Hong Kong media Hong Kong 01, Hong Kong Executive Council member and former president of the Hong Kong Monetary Authority, Joseph Yam, stated that the evolution of geopolitical dynamics has increased the importance of the Hong Kong dollar's peg to the US dollar, and bluntly remarked that "the Hong Kong dollar is actually the largest stablecoin of the US dollar."Joseph Yam pointed out that by 2025, Hong Kong is expected to hold approximately $256 billion in US Treasury bonds, a scale larger than any so-called US dollar stablecoin currently. Therefore, Hong Kong's financial direction is very clear: to maintain the linked exchange rate system. Hong Kong is the most active US dollar market in Asia, and it would not be wise to force a major buyer to sell if the Hong Kong dollar is no longer pegged to the US dollar.

The President of the United States, Trump, posted on Truth Social that Iran's Supreme Leader Khamenei is dead.