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Bitfinex reports that Bitcoin has experienced a consecutive five-month decline since 2025, marking the first occurrence of a "five consecutive down" structure since 2018, with a monthly drop of 14.93% in February and a maximum cumulative drawdown of approximately 52.34%. However, early signs of market recovery have emerged in March.Data shows that since March 1, approximately $3.2 billion in BTC has been systematically purchased at market price across exchanges, successfully reclaiming the $65,000 level; the Coinbase premium index has ended its continuous 40-day negative value and turned positive, indicating a return of U.S. spot buying. The derivatives structure also remains relatively healthy: open interest has risen to $53.1 billion, a 15.4% increase from Sunday’s close, but the perpetual funding rate is only about 9.5% APR, showing no signs of overheating. Open interest and spot have expanded in sync, reflecting that this round of increase is more driven by spot absorption.Regarding ETFs, the U.S. spot Bitcoin ETF recorded approximately $1.1 billion in net inflows last week, with a total of over $450 million on Monday and Tuesday, indicating that institutional demand remains a core support. Analysts believe that if key support holds, Bitcoin may recover to the $80,000-$85,000 range in the next 1-3 months; in the short term, attention should be paid to the $72,000-$74,000 area of concentrated short liquidations and the potential dynamic support at $66,000. The overall judgment remains cautiously bullish.

According to Politico, citing two informed sources, President Trump met privately with Coinbase CEO Brian Armstrong on Tuesday.As the discussion was a closed-door matter, the sources requested anonymity. It is unclear what was specifically discussed during the meeting, but shortly after, Trump posted on social media that banks "need to reach a good deal with the crypto industry" to advance the digital asset legislation currently stalled on Capitol Hill. He also stated that a recently passed crypto law "is being threatened and undermined by banks, which is unacceptable"—a statement that echoes Coinbase's position.

According to market news, Politico revealed that Trump has privately met with the CEO of Coinbase.

The founder of Binance, CZ, responded to early Bitcoin investor Davinci Jeremie regarding the "zero balance" experience of his multi-signature wallet, stating that if a wallet software upgrade changes the derivation path, it is "very bad and scary," referring to it as "self custody perks."Previously, Davinci pointed out that his 2-of-3 multi-signature wallet was unable to find the original address and balance despite using the correct private key due to a software change in the derivation path, and he ultimately relied on the saved old path to recover it. Several industry participants added that different standards (such as BIP44, BIP84, BIP86) can generate different addresses under the same mnemonic phrase, and if a wallet upgrade is not adequately prompted and migrated, it could lead to users misjudging the risk of asset loss.

The Ethereum Layer 2 network Starknet, developed by StarkWare, announced the launch of a new type of asset based on Bitcoin, strkBTC, which supports balance shielding and private transfers while maintaining full composability in decentralized finance applications.It is reported that strkBTC allows Bitcoin holders to interact on Starknet DeFi while keeping transaction amounts and counterparties private. The system will deterministically issue strkBTC based on verifiable Bitcoin deposits, avoiding arbitrary control during the issuance process.

According to GoPlus monitoring, the privacy gaming platform FOOM CASH was attacked on Base and Ethereum, resulting in a loss of 24,283,773,519,600 FOOM (approximately $2.26 million). The vulnerability that led to the attack was due to a misconfiguration of the verification key, which the attacker exploited to forge zkSNARK proofs and then extracted a large amount of FOOM tokens from the attacked contract.

Bitcoin fell back after a strong rise to $70,000 during the U.S. trading session on Wednesday, reporting around $68,600 during the Asian session on Thursday, failing to effectively hold the key integer level. Since the end of February, BTC has maintained a range-bound structure, having dipped to $62,500 earlier this month and reaching $71,100 on February 15.Market participants noted that Bitcoin had previously broken through a similar range in January, but then quickly fell from $98,000 to $60,000, forming lower highs during this downward cycle, which has made some traders cautious about the sustainability of the current breakout. Derivatives data shows that the total open interest (OI) in cryptocurrency futures has increased by over 6.6%, approaching $100 billion, with a growth rate higher than the overall market cap increase, indicating new capital inflow.In the options market, Deribit data shows that the Bitcoin rebound has driven an increase in demand for call options with strike prices between $85,000 and $90,000. However, the overall options structure still leans towards bearish protection, with $60,000 put options being the current most popular position, having a nominal open interest exceeding $1.4 billion, indicating that the market still retains concerns about downside risks.

According to the official blog, Starknet has announced the launch of a new type of wrapped asset, strkBTC, aimed at providing optional privacy protection features for Bitcoin. strkBTC is an asset issued on Starknet that can be exchanged bi-directionally for native Bitcoin, designed to address the financial privacy leakage issues caused by the transparency of the Bitcoin ledger.strkBTC supports two modes: in "non-shielded mode," it operates as a standard ERC-20 token, with balances and transfers publicly verifiable; in "shielded mode," asset balances and transaction details will be hidden. This privacy mechanism is designed based on pragmatism, defaulting to confidentiality for the public, but supporting compliance audits through a Viewing Key to ensure it can operate in regulated environments. With strkBTC, users can participate in DeFi collateralization or settlement without exposing their positions and strategies. Starknet states that strkBTC will be officially launched soon and will gradually expand its privacy features in the future.

NEAR has launched the Confidential Intents feature, which is a built-in cross-chain transaction privacy execution function within NEAR Intents, aimed at addressing the long-standing issue of transaction transparency in DeFi.Confidential Intents constructs a restricted visibility execution environment through NEAR private shards, making transaction details invisible to the outside during the settlement process. Users can freely switch between their main account and confidential account within the application, enabling privacy mode for operations such as transfers, deposits, and withdrawals. The privacy feature for currency swaps is also set to launch soon. This feature is targeted at institutional capital, enterprise users, and advanced DeFi users, providing a privacy protection layer for cross-chain positions.

Stock-related index contracts are particularly active in the cryptocurrency derivatives market, driving a significant increase in the open interest of several mainstream index contracts, indicating a growing enthusiasm for participation in index market fluctuations.According to CoinGlass data, mainstream stock index contracts have been active in the past 4 hours, with the Hang Seng Index (HK50), Dow Jones Industrial Average (US30), S&P 500 Index (SPX500), and Nasdaq 100 Index (NAS100) taking the top four spots in open interest growth, with increases of 1831.54%, 502.20%, 211.87%, and 143.03%, respectively, all from the Gate platform.Gate has pioneered global index perpetual contracts, targeting mainstream global indices and volatility indices, introducing market sentiment indicators into the cryptocurrency derivatives trading system, supporting USDT settlement and 24/7 trading, providing users with trading options that are more aligned with the global macro market.At the same time, Gate has fully laid out its traditional financial trading area, including stocks, metals, foreign exchange, indices, and commodities, continuously building a multi-asset contract system covering mainstream TradFi assets, creating the industry's most comprehensive index and traditional financial asset contract trading area.

According to the latest exchange evaluation report released by CoinDesk, Gate ranked third in the global centralized exchange spot market share in January this year, and fourth in the derivatives market share. Data shows that Gate's spot trading volume reached $74.4 billion that month, with a month-on-month growth of 11.1%. Among AA--A rated exchanges, Gate ranks in the top three by spot trading volume, accounting for approximately 50.2% of the total trading volume when combined with leading platforms.In terms of derivatives, Gate's trading volume market share is 11.2%. The platform ranks among the top three retail exchanges in terms of open contract size, with a share of 10.1%, demonstrating its sustained activity and capital capacity in the market.Additionally, Gate's cumulative TradFi trading volume has surpassed $70 billion, with a single-day peak exceeding $10 billion. The platform has officially ended its public testing phase and launched a web version, achieving full coverage across multiple terminals. Users can trade global contracts for difference (covering foreign exchange, stocks, and precious metals) using USDT as margin under a unified account system, and access the MT5 execution system for unified margin management across asset classes.At the same time, Gate has officially launched GateAI and introduced natural language trading features, supporting the completion of spot and wealth management order operations through conversational commands, further streamlining the AI analysis and multi-terminal trading execution process.

According to CoinDesk, American private credit giant Blue Owl Capital announced the sale of approximately $1.4 billion in loan assets to meet redemption demands from investors in its retail-focused private credit fund.The fund will return about 30% of its net asset value (NAV) to qualified investors, with the asset sale price equivalent to 99.7% of face value. As a result, Blue Owl's stock (OWL) fell nearly 15% this week, with a cumulative decline of over 50% compared to the same period last year; shares of other private equity firms such as Blackstone, Apollo Global, and Ares Management also saw significant declines.Experts liken this to the "canary in the coal mine" signal before the 2007 financial crisis, warning that excessive expansion in the private credit market (especially related to AI investments) could trigger systemic risks, credit tightening, and banking contagion.If pressure intensifies, forcing central banks to cut interest rates and inject liquidity, it could recreate the post-pandemic scenario of 2020, providing momentum for Bitcoin and the crypto market, and driving the next bull market.

On-chain analyst Specter posted on the X platform, stating that IoTeX may have experienced a private key leak incident, with all assets in its token safe being transferred out by attackers, resulting in a total loss of approximately $4.3 million.On-chain data shows that the attackers transferred multiple contract assets, including USDC, USDT, IOTX, PAYG, WBTC, and BUSD. Subsequently, the stolen assets were exchanged for ETH, of which about 45 ETH have been transferred to the Bitcoin network via a cross-chain bridge. The incident is still under further confirmation.

According to tracking data from the Web3 asset data platform RootData X, in the past 7 days, the decentralized derivatives exchange MYX.Finance has been the project with the most new followers among top figures on X (Twitter). New influential figures on X who have followed this project include zac.eth (@zacxbt) and Pump Man (@crypto_pumpman).

The CEO of the Hyperliquid Policy Center, Jake Chervinsky, stated on the X platform that the front-end interfaces connecting decentralized trading protocols should not be required to perform KYC. U.S. law does not, and should not, mandate non-custodial software developers to "monitor" users without a warrant, as financial privacy is a fundamental right.While regulators cannot turn a blind eye to illegal financial activities on-chain, even if their scale is much smaller than that of the traditional financial system (TradFi), the solution is not to simply impose old regulatory rules that exclude billions from the financial system onto new technologies that can provide better solutions.

Bubblemaps reveals that Hayden Davis, the key figure behind the LIBRA token scam, is actually the second-largest investor in the Pump.fun private round, having invested a total of 50 million USDC, and sold at a total price of 65 million dollars on the first day of listing. Most people remember that Pump.fun raised 500 million dollars in a public offering in July 2025, but few recall that they also conducted a private financing round with several undisclosed investors.After investing 50 million dollars, Hayden Davis's active address received 12.5 billion tokens when the PUMP token was launched, valued at 73 million dollars, with expected earnings of 15 million dollars. This address had been previously identified, but its actual owner has only been confirmed now. It is still unclear whether Pump.fun's officials are aware of this, but the address is clearly linked to Hayden Davis on-chain and is interconnected in various ways.

According to Cointelegraph, Dash is a Layer-1 blockchain protocol with privacy features, announcing the integration of Zcash's "Orchard" shielded pool into the Dash Evolution chain, which is a secondary layer on the L1 network that supports smart contract functionality.The integration will go live after the completion of a network security audit, expected to launch in March. Initially, the integration will support the basic transfer functionality of Zcash. The announcement stated that the transaction will transfer from one party to another on the Evolution chain, with subsequent upgrades adding Orchard's privacy features for tokenized real-world assets (RWA).

According to official news, Owlto Finance has now launched the Privacy Mode (Beta) privacy cross-chain feature. This mode is aimed at cross-chain transfer scenarios, supporting one-to-many address batch sending, and provides parameter configurations such as random amount ranges and random sending intervals to reduce on-chain transaction correlation and enhance privacy protection experience.Previously, Ethereum co-founder Vitalik Buterin recently stated that on-chain privacy is a key component. The launch of Privacy Mode by Owlto is to fill the basic capability of privacy protection in cross-chain usage scenarios.

According to Jinshi News, ECB Executive Board Member Fabio Panetta: The digital euro network will be ready for use by private payment systems before 2029.

StarkWare posted on the X platform that the zero-knowledge privacy protocol Nightfall developed by Ernst & Young has been deployed on Starknet.