Today's crypto news summary: A Bitcoin miner independently mined a Bitcoin block, with a total income of over US$266,000. A whale bought 7074 ETH today

Today's crypto news summary: 1: Coinbase is in-depth negotiations on the acquisition of the world's largest Bitcoin and Ether option platform Deribit, with a valuation of $4-5 billion. Both parties have informed Dubai regulators about the progress that Deribit holds a local license and can be transferred with the acquisition. The platform's total transaction volume last year was nearly US$1.2 trillion, doubling year-on-year. 2: Former US SEC official John Reed Stark opposed the amendment of the Securities Act of 1933 and 1934 at the cryptocurrency roundtable to adapt to digital assets. He believed that those who buy cryptocurrencies are actually investors and should be protected by the current securities laws, and said that cryptocurrencies are not innovative. 3: A Bitcoin miner independently mined 888,737 Bitcoin blocks, which contained 2327 transactions, and the miner received a 3.125 BTC block reward and a 0.032 BTC handling fee. Based on the current Bitcoin price of $84,257, the total revenue exceeds $266,000. 4: Coinbase CEO Brian Armstrong expressed opposition to the illegal use of cryptocurrencies but emphasized that privacy is crucial to law-abiding citizens, believing that sanctions on open source code violate the principle of freedom of speech. He welcomed Tornado Cash's removal from the U.S. Treasury sanctions list, saying he was willing to cooperate in the crackdown on about 0.1% of abusers. 5: A whale bought 7074 ETH (about 13.8 million US dollars), of which 4511 ETH were withdrawn from OKX and deposited into Aave and borrowed 5 million USDT. Then, using the funds to purchase 2563 ETHs on OKX. 6: Bitcoin ETF has a net inflow of 1,498 BTC (about US$126 million), and BlackRock iShares has increased its holdings by 2,046, with a total holding of 572,600 (about US$48.1 billion). Ethereum ETFs had a net outflow of 5,908 ETH (about US$11.52 million), iShares had a net outflow of 4,542, and a position of 1,197,800 (about US$2.34 billion). 7: Coinbase CEO expressed support for user privacy, opposed sanctions on open source code and pointed out that this move violated the principle of freedom of speech. He welcomed Tornado Cash's removal from the sanctions list, saying he was willing to work with the Treasury Ministry to crack down on about 0.1% of cryptocurrency abusers. 8: The German Financial Regulatory Bureau BaFin stopped Ethena GmbH's USDe stablecoin business, saying that it has compliance defects such as improper asset reserve management and failure to meet capital standards, and freezes assets, restricts management authority and closes official website functions. The institution also suspected that it illegally issued securities tokens sUSDe, and current customers cannot redeem USDe, but the secondary market transactions are not restricted, with a circulation of about 5.4 billion. 9: Germany's BaFin rejected Ethena GmbH compliance application, but USDe has not been frozen, and its exchange listing and its casting redemption services through British Virgin Islands entities are operating normally. USDe maintains full asset support, the platform will evaluate the new regulatory path and update the terms of service, and the user usage process will not be affected. 10: MegaETH announced the opening of the public test network, supporting 20,000 TPS, 1.7 Gigas/s computing power and 10ms block production time. The network airdrops ETH to more than 190,000 wallets, and is completed within 15 seconds. Based on the Ethereum Rollup architecture, parallelization, JIT compilation and optimized storage backend will be introduced in the future. Users can visit testnet.megaeth.com to experience the testnet application, receive test ETH and explore native integration with MetaMask. 11: The ORCA deployment address transferred US$9.62 million tokens to Wintermute, and some of them have been deposited into exchanges such as Coinbase and Binance. Wintermute still holds 2.2 million ORCAs (about $7.5 million). Since the first recharge to the exchange, the ORCA price has fallen from $3.642 to $3.39, a 7% drop. Wintermute interacted with ORCA in December 2024 and is suspected to be not involved in its liquidity management for the first time. 12: A newly created wallet withdraws 200 million DUCKs (about $940,000) from OKX, about one-third of which has been pledged to DuckChain's Staking pool. 13: Kaito AI founder Yu Hu announced that he purchased 1 million KAITO (about 1.4 million US dollars) with personal funds and pledged it in full, becoming the second largest pledger on the chain. The pledged token will be unlocked according to the agreement revenue: up to $50 million to unlock 50%, and up to $100 million to fully unlock. Its strategy and vision will be disclosed tomorrow. 14: Perhaps affected by the lifting of sanctions by the US Treasury Department, the privacy agreement Tornado Cash token TORN has risen by more than 50% in the past hour and is now at $12.23. The agency previously announced the formal lifting of sanctions against it. 15: The US Treasury Department lifted sanctions on Tornado Cash, and its related Ethereum address has been removed from the sanctions list, ending economic restrictions since August 2022. The decision is based on a technical and legal review of the applicability of financial sanctions, and the Ministry of Finance reiterated its continued crackdown on illegal activities by North Korean hackers using cryptocurrencies. 16: The TON Foundation clarified that it had not raised $400 million, and some media reports were false. In fact, it holds more than $400 million in Toncoin for several U.S. venture capital companies, and is not a foundation fundraising. 17: The US SEC will hold a roundtable meeting on crypto asset regulation on March 21, focusing on whether crypto assets constitute securities attributes and regulatory paths. The meeting was chaired by former SEC members, participated by institutions such as a16z, Delphi Ventures, and academic circles and regulators. The entire official website was broadcast live. 18: The US Treasury Department’s Office of Foreign Assets Control has removed Tornado Cash and several related Ethereum addresses from the sanctions list and officially lifted the blockade. 19: Spot gold prices fell sharply, falling below the integer mark of $3,000 per ounce, falling more than $50 from the historical high, with an intraday decline of nearly 1.5%. 20: A senior Trump administration official said that the administration has "proposed countless plans to buy Bitcoin" and will adopt the "best plan". 21: US regulators eliminated the "reputation risk" assessment clause in bank inspections. One of the main reasons for the "debanization" was that regulators require banks to consider the risk when reviewing customers. The Fed had previously asked to pay attention to the controversial remarks of executives and now promised to delete relevant terms. The Monetary Supervision Agency (OCC) has officially removed it from the inspection standards, emphasizing the future focus on transparent risk areas. 22: At 21:29 Beijing time, the Grayscale Bitcoin Trust Address transferred 664.15 BTC (approximately US$55.536 million) to the two addresses. Related Transaction 23: After meeting with US President Trump, the UAE promised to establish a 10-year investment framework in the United States with a total amount of US$1.4 trillion. 24: China Taiping launched a tokenized US dollar fund on HashKey Chain, with the subscription scale of US$100 million on the first day. The fund is custodian by Standard Chartered Bank and is aimed at professional investors. It mainly invests in US dollar short-term fixed income tools and high-quality money market assets. 25: The confidential computing network Arcium announced the token economic model, and the community round will launch CoinList on March 24 and unlock it 100%. The total supply of tokens is 1 billion (SPL standard), all unlocked during TGE and can be pledged. The purpose is to cover node activation, calculation of payment and governance, and a dynamic supply mechanism is used to regulate network load. The allocation ratio includes 20% of the community (2% of the CoinList target), 20.8% of the core contributors, 20.4% of VC, 28% of the ecology and vault, 5.8% of the angel investment, and 5% of the verifier. 26: At 20:20 Beijing time, 50 million USDCs (about US$50.01 million) on the Ethereum chain were destroyed at USDC Treasury. 27: Strategy raised the issuance scale of STRF Series A permanent preferred shares from US$500 million to US$722.5 million, with an issue price of US$85 per share, with an annual interest rate of 10%. It is expected to settle on March 25, with a net fundraising of approximately US$711 million for purchases of Bitcoin and daily operations. The preferred stock has a quarterly cash dividend mechanism, and compound interest will be calculated after-payment, with the highest annualized interest rate reaching 18%, and will be underwritten by Morgan Stanley, Citi and other institutions. 28: Pundi AI announced a partnership with Conflux Network to integrate AI data solutions into Conflux's Tree-Graph blockchain architecture to improve the performance of decentralized AI applications. Conflux adopts a PoW+PoS hybrid consensus mechanism and supports 3000-6000 TPS high-speed transactions. The two parties will integrate the AI ​​data platform and the market. Developers can use labeled data sets to deploy AI models on Conflux. Its EVM compatibility ensures seamless connection of the Ethereum ecosystem. The first batch of tools support P2P sharing AI training resources. 29: Maryland and New York State Assembly members jointly wrote a letter to Congressional Democratic leaders, demanding that the federal cryptocurrency regulatory framework be promoted and the policy fragmentation of states is prevented. The letter pointed out that 35 states have introduced crypto legislation, and the lack of unified guidance will aggravate market uncertainty and affect business development. Confessionalists fear anti-crypto stances such as Elizabeth Warren hinder bipartisan cooperation and call for clear regulation to maintain U.S. competitiveness. 30: Japan's core inflation rose 3% year-on-year in February, and the overall CPI fell to 3.7% and was still higher than the central bank's target. The inflation gap between the United States and Japan reached a new high in 2015, and the rise in wages in spring pushed up the Bank of Japan's expectations of interest rate hikes. The interest rate spread of US and Japan Treasury bonds narrows, and the strengthening of the yen may trigger risk aversion. If the value continues to appreciate, it may put pressure on the crypto market, similar to the adjustment risk in August 2023. 31: SlowMist discloses CREATE/CREATE2 re-deployment attack methods. The attacker deploys malicious contracts by self-destructing the original contract reuse address, and uses delegatecall to hijack DAO governance rights. The defense plan recommends recording contract hash value verification, using delegatecall with caution and preventing the risk of address reuse. 32: After Zoth was attacked, the hacker exchanged USDO++ for 4,223 ETH, and the relevant funds were deposited into the address 0x7b0c…60cf. Currently, the address holds about 4,200 ETH. 33: The wallet associated with James Wynn once again transferred 389.18 billion PEPEs (about $2.84 million) to Binance. The address has purchased a total of 2.82 trillion PEPE in two years, with an initial cost of only 6.89 ETH (US$13,000). It has sold 192 trillion PEPE for profit of US$5.63 million and US$160,000 USD, with a cumulative income of more than US$16 million. It transferred PEPE worth US$7.52 million 10 months ago. 34: The total locked position of physical assets on chain (RWA) exceeded US$10 billion, and Maker, BUIDL, a subsidiary of BlackRock, and USDtb, Ethena, each TVL exceeded US$1 billion. The locked USDtb supported by BlackRock money fund has surged by more than 1,000% in recent months, becoming the fastest-growing project. 35: Zoth confirmed that it had encountered a security breach and is investigating urgently and dealing with it in coordination with partners. The preliminary analysis is that the contract was maliciously replaced by the leak of permissions. The official promised to publish a detailed report and implement remedial measures. Users should suspend contract operations and pay attention to subsequent notifications. 36: Zoth lost about $8.5 million due to the leakage of the administrator's private key. The attacker's funds are now located at address 0x7b0c…60cf, and the initial source is ChangeNOW platform address 0x3b33…01e5. 37: GoPlus' parent company has completed KYB verification and the GPS token repurchase procedure is about to be launched. Previously, due to the delay caused by opening a Binance corporate account, the community questioned the progress of communication, and the official promised to improve information transparency and promote cross-chain asset development. The relevant results will be announced within a week. 38: At 17:19 Beijing time, about 20.32 million UNIs (about 140 million US dollars) were transferred from Uniswap to unknown wallets. 39: The Zoth platform is suspected to be attacked due to the leakage of administrator rights, and the core logic contract has been tampered with and replaced with a malicious version. Related 40: The ancient giant whale, which purchased ETH at IC0 price (USD 0.31) in 2015, transferred 10,000 ETH to address 0x7d6…841B4, worth about USD 19.69 million. Previously, the address had sold 3,000 ETH in batches and made a profit of US$6.978 million. Currently, its five addresses still hold 215,000 ETH, worth approximately US$424 million. 41: South Korean host KODA announced that it will support Bitcoin PoS network Core from March 20, 2025, becoming its first partner. Institutional investors can use native token CORE and participate in Bitcoin earnings products through the compliance framework. 42: Backpack Exchange launched its first season of points, and 475,000 users have received the first batch of incentives. Users can earn points and improve their rankings through transactions, and rewards are issued every Friday. The evaluation indicators cover dimensions such as liquidity contribution, recommended trading volume, contract position volume, etc., and the algorithm filters abnormal data to ensure fairness. Previously, the total trading volume reached US$7.03 billion in the platform contract testing phase. 43: 18 states in the United States have promoted 33 Bitcoin strategic reserve bills. If they are implemented and implemented at the upper limit, they may generate US$53.4 billion (about 630,000 BTC) in buying demand. This scale is 1.5 times the net inflow of spot Bitcoin ETFs, equivalent to 1.26 times the MicroStrategy position, and is estimated based on the 20-day average price of Bitcoin $84,634. 44: Bitcoin price fell below the 7-day and 30-day moving averages and showed a bearish trend, but rose 0.3% to $86,000 on the weekly basis. Trump's digital asset summit speeches, the Federal Reserve's slowdown in quantitative tightening and MicroStrategy's $10.7 million increase in holdings drove bullish sentiment. Russia was exposed to the use of cryptocurrency to evade sanctions and increase bullish momentum. If it cannot break through the resistance range of US$90,000-92,000, it may continue to consolidate. 45: Player qianbaidu.eth (PEPE OG) bought 188.8 billion PEPE (about 2 million US dollars) through the quotation 20 minutes ago. The address has been traded four days after PEPE went online, and has made a profit of US$1.484 million through band operations. 46: Hong Kong stock data shows that the total transaction volume of Hong Kong virtual asset ETFs today is approximately HK$6.8005 million. The China Bitcoin ETF was traded at HK$2.5025 million, and the Ethereum ETF was traded at HK$622,300; the Jiashi Bitcoin ETF was traded at HK$12,500, and the Ethereum ETF was traded at HK$12,400; the Boshi Bitcoin ETF was traded at HK$1.2811 million, and the Ethereum ETF was traded at HK$2.3697 million. China's two ETFs have also set up RMB counters, and the rest of the products include Hong Kong dollar and US dollar counters.