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Decentralized health incentive protocol BitRing announced that the team will launch the AI short drama "BitRing-Satoshi Nakamoto Block Zero."It is reported that the visuals, actors, performances, voice acting, and emotional expressions of the drama are all completed by AI, featuring cinematic-level visual quality.

According to official news from Kite AI, Ehsan Yousefzadeh, former Head of AI Payments at PayPal, has officially joined Kite as Head of Product. Ehsan previously served as Senior Director and Head of Product at PayPal AI, where he led the development of intelligent agent commerce, intelligent agent payment protocols, and the native AI agents for PayPal and Venmo.He has over 12 years of experience in consumer internet, payments, and AI product management, having previously worked at Uber on market matching and driver incentive products, and at Amazon on Same-Day Delivery technology development. He holds a Master's degree in Data Science from the University of California, Berkeley. Kite AI stated that Ehsan's addition will accelerate the development of agent-based economic infrastructure and the implementation of next-generation autonomous intelligent agents.

A federal judge in Manhattan, Jeannette Vargas, dismissed a civil lawsuit that sought to hold Binance and its founder CZ accountable, accusing their trading activities of aiding terrorist organizations in carrying out global attacks.The judge found that the 535 plaintiffs (including victims and their families) failed to reasonably explain that the defendants "intentionally conspired with the terrorist attacks, participated in their execution, or ensured the success of the attacks through their actions." The plaintiffs alleged that the attacks occurred between 2017 and 2024 and were carried out by external terrorist organizations such as Hamas, Hezbollah, the Iranian Revolutionary Guard, ISIS, Kata'ib Hezbollah, the Palestinian Islamic Jihad, and Al-Qaeda, attempting to attribute hundreds of millions of dollars in cryptocurrency and transactions with Iranian users to Binance and CZ.The judge noted that while Binance and CZ may have some awareness of the potential for terrorist financing through the exchange, their relationship with terrorist organizations was limited to "their or their affiliates' accounts on Binance and trading in a fair manner." The judge also criticized the plaintiffs' 891-page, 3,189-paragraph complaint as "entirely unnecessary," but allowed for amendments. A Binance spokesperson stated, "The court correctly dismissed these baseless allegations. Binance strictly adheres to compliance requirements and has a zero-tolerance policy for illegal activities on the platform." CZ also mentioned that the plaintiffs were attempting to leverage Binance's acknowledgment in November 2023 of violating anti-money laundering and sanctions laws and paying a $4.32 billion penalty to seek triple damages.

According to market news, Nevin Shetty (42) from Washington State, USA, secretly transferred $35 million of company funds to his own DeFi platform HighTower Treasury while serving as CFO of a private software company, investing in high-yield lending protocols, which later resulted in the funds nearly being wiped out due to the Terra crash.The incident led to the company laying off 60 employees and nearly going bankrupt. Shetty was convicted of four counts of wire fraud, sentenced to two years in prison, ordered to pay $35 million in restitution, and will be subject to three years of supervised release after his release, during which he is prohibited from holding any executive position in any company without approval.

Vitalik Buterin posted on the X platform, stating that in the discussion of Ethereum's consensus mechanism, there is a proposal to replace the current finality component Casper FFG with a new one called Minimmit. He believes that Casper FFG employs a two-round finality mechanism (validators need to sign twice to complete "proof" and "final confirmation"), while Minimmit requires only a single round of signatures to achieve finality.As a trade-off, the fault tolerance threshold of Minimmit will be reduced from 33% in Casper FFG to about 17%. Although the fault tolerance ratio decreases, Minimmit can more likely allow the network to enter a state of "multi-chain competition rather than erroneous final confirmation" in various attack or client vulnerability scenarios, which is easier to recover through community coordination. He believes that compared to erroneous blocks being finalized, the absence of finality for a short period is safer and more recoverable, thus suggesting that Minimmit may be superior in overall security trade-offs.

According to Jinshi, the U.S. Treasury has issued a license authorizing specific activities involving gold of Venezuelan origin.

According to market news, the top 100 cryptocurrencies by market capitalization performed as follows, with the top five gainers: Humanity Protocol (H) up 17.6%, current price $0.1695; River (RIVER) up 11.99%, current price $17.78; Kite (KITE) up 5.62%, current price $0.2834; MemeCore (M) up 4.51%, current price $1.49; Pi (PI) up 2.27%, current price $0.1979.The top five losers: Zcash (ZEC) down 8.6%, current price $212.49; Morpho (MORPHO) down 8.35%, current price $1.78; Ethena (ENA) down 7.4%, current price $0.1071; Pump.fun (PUMP) down 7.29%, current price $0.001906; Worldcoin (WLD) down 6.19%, current price $0.3867.

Glassnode stated that after briefly touching $74,000, Bitcoin has pulled back, but options data is releasing positive signals: implied volatility has significantly dropped below the early February peak, and the market's pricing of tail risks has clearly cooled; the options skew has narrowed from 20% to about 10%, with panic hedging demand continuing to fade; trading flows are becoming more balanced, with 54.4% of options trades expressing a bullish stance, while only 21.3% are shorting the rise.Overall, market sentiment is shifting from panic to rationality, and short-term volatility expectations are narrowing.

According to Globenewswire, Nasdaq-listed company Jiuzi Holdings announced that it has reached and signed an investment agreement with a strategic investment institution, which will subscribe to 40 million shares of its common stock at a price of $2 per share, for a total investment amount of $80 million. The initial investment funds have been delivered, and the new funds will be used to expand cash reserves to support the construction of a cryptocurrency treasury, formulate asset allocation strategies, etc. The treasury is expected to consist of various cryptocurrencies, including Bitcoin, Ethereum, and stablecoins.

Bank of Canada completed a pilot project called Project Samara with several major Canadian banks, testing the feasibility of issuing, trading, and settling bonds on a distributed ledger.In this experiment, Export Development Canada, the official export credit agency of Canada, issued a bond worth 100 million Canadian dollars (approximately 73 million US dollars) with a maturity of less than three months, selling it to a small group of institutional investors. Participants in the project also included RBC Dominion Securities, RBC Investor Services Trust, and TD Securities under Toronto-Dominion Bank. The results of the experiment showed that a single blockchain-based platform could support the entire lifecycle of a bond, including issuance, bidding, coupon payments, secondary market trading, and maturity redemption processes. Additionally, the project tested on-chain settlement using a wholesale digital Canadian dollar issued by the Bank of Canada, allowing funds and bonds to be settled on the same ledger. This pilot comes at a time when Canada is strengthening its regulation of digital assets. The government plans to introduce regulatory legislation for Canadian dollar stablecoins and has passed a new framework for crypto asset custody to enhance asset security and risk management on trading platforms.

According to official news, MEXC has launched the "Gold vs Cryptocurrency" themed trading event. During the event, users participating in designated spot and contract trading can enjoy a 0 fee discount. The event also includes various activities such as price prediction, staking rewards, and new user bonuses, with a prize pool of $1,000,000 to be shared.Event time: March 6, 2026, 18:00 (UTC+8) to April 4, 2026, 18:00 (UTC+8).

According to CoinDesk, the Bank of Canada, in collaboration with major banks such as RBC and TD, successfully completed the full process testing of issuing, trading, and settling a tokenized bond worth 100 million Canadian dollars (approximately 73 million USD) through distributed ledger technology (Project Samara).This experiment verified that a single blockchain platform can support the complete lifecycle of bonds and introduced tokenized wholesale Canadian dollars for on-chain digital settlement for the first time.

According to Solid Intel, the Central Bank of Kazakhstan plans to use part of its gold and foreign exchange reserves to invest in the cryptocurrency sector, with an amount of up to $350 million. Currently, the official has not disclosed the specific asset categories and timeline for the investment.

According to Onchain Lens monitoring, as LIT declines, a certain whale has shorted LIT 2x, currently with an unrealized profit of 1.36 million dollars.

The cryptocurrency exchange Bybit is officially opening the "AI vs Human: 1v1 Trading Competition" event to retail users today, providing an opportunity for users to face off against advanced artificial intelligence models. This three-week event runs from today until March 27, and successfully participating users can be randomly matched with over 30 AI models provided by the platform or institutions, including top models like ChatGPT, Gemini, Claude, DeepSeek, Qwen, and Kimi, with a total prize pool of up to 360,000 USDT.This event offers flexible competition duration options, allowing users to choose trading times of 1, 2, or 4 hours. Each match won will earn double points, while a loss will yield regular points. The higher the trading volume, the more points earned.Bybit provides users with two prize pools:Daily leaderboard: The top 1,000 users with the highest daily points can share a daily prize pool of 73,500 USDT, with a maximum win of 3,500 USDT.Total points leaderboard: The top 5,000 leaders with the highest cumulative total points after the competition can share a prize pool of up to 288,888 USDT, with the champion receiving 88,888 USDT.It is worth mentioning that this competition also includes 6 professional teams, including Amazon Web Services, AlibabaCloud, AI Agent trading institution NOFA.ai, as well as AYC Fund, ALPHAGATE, and QuantumEdge. The retail version of this competition provides users with pre-selected world-class AI opponents, allowing users to click on the AI teams to view the real-time performance of each AI's returns, while eliminating the need for complex API integration, enabling users to compete with AI at the lowest technical threshold.

The digital asset trading platform Gate has launched a no-code AI quantitative workstation, which allows users to generate trading strategies through natural language and deploy them to live trading with one click. Users do not need to write code; they simply describe their trading ideas in natural language, and the system automatically generates executable quantitative strategies. It also conducts backtesting based on real historical market data, supporting one-click deployment to operate in the real market. The platform connects natural language strategy generation, production-level backtesting engine, and real trading execution, forming a complete closed loop of "strategy conception --- data validation --- trading execution," significantly lowering the barriers to quantitative trading.At the same time, Gate has launched Gate for AI, building a unified AI capability interface system that integrates five key capabilities: CEX, DEX, wallets, real-time information, and on-chain data. The AI quantitative workstation further expands application scenarios on this basis, extending AI from data and research to strategy generation and trading execution. With the continuous integration of AI and trading infrastructure, Gate is continuously strengthening AI-driven trading capabilities and advancing the implementation of the Intelligent Web3 strategy.

According to HyperInsight monitoring, the wave giant "pension-usdt.eth" is currently shorting 1,000 BTC with 3x leverage, with an average opening price of $68,182.7, and is currently facing an unrealized loss of $2.2 million.

The Hurun Research Institute released the "2026 Hurun Global Rich List," with the wealth calculation cutoff date of January 15, 2026. Binance founder CZ has a wealth of 200 billion RMB, ranking 12th on the Chinese entrepreneurs list and 76th in the world. There are a total of 23 billionaires in the global cryptocurrency sector, among which CZ's wealth increased by over 30%, Ripple's Chris Larsen saw his wealth return to 110 billion RMB, and Revolut's Nikolay Storonsky experienced a 122% increase in wealth.Elon Musk, with a wealth of 5.5 trillion RMB, has become the world's richest person for the fifth time in six years, with an increase of 89%. Jeff Bezos ranks second with 2.1 trillion RMB, an increase of 13%. Alphabet's Larry Page saw his wealth grow by 65% to 1.9 trillion RMB, entering the top three for the first time.