Silk Road founder Ross Ulbricht receives pardon from President Trump

Polymarket's prediction market, "What price will Bitcoin reach in 2025", has so far predicted a 4% chance of Bitcoin reaching $1 million, a 14% chance of reaching $250,000, a 17% chance of reaching $200,000, a 27% chance of reaching $150,000, a 40% chance of reaching $130,000, and a 51% chance of reaching $120,000. As of now, the size of the prediction pool is close to $5.20 million.

ZK Nation posted on the X platform that since the quorum has been reached, the voting period for the ZIP-8 proposal will be extended to around 19:20 UTC on March 17 (3:20 Beijing time on March 18). It is reported that the proposal will update the new chain creation parameters to unlock the creation of new chains after the ZIP-6 upgrade. In addition, the low-severity L1GenesisUpgrade issue will also be fixed.

According to on-chain analyst Ember Monitor, a whale/institution withdrew 134,000 AUCTION from Binance 20 minutes ago, worth about 4.15 million US dollars, and now the number of AUCTION they proposed has reached 2 million, worth 62.44 million US dollars, which is 26% of the total AUCTION.

According to Coinglass data, or influenced by the news that "Telegram founder Pavel Durov has been allowed to leave France", the unpositioned squaring position of the TON futures contract on the whole network has increased by 62% in the past 24 hours, and is now reported at $162.74 million. The increase in unpositioned squaring positions often indicates greater price volatility. According to HTX market data, TON broke through $3.6 today and is now trading at $3.44, an increase of 17.12% in 24 ho...

Jason Calacanis, an early investor in Uber and Robinhood and a well-known angel investor, wrote on the X platform that Bitcoin has been monopolized by some giants, and now is the best time to build a better Bitcoin, "the game needs to be restarted". However, Jason Calacanis's views seem to have caused disagreement in the industry. Brady Swenson, a co-founder of Swan Bitcoin, said that Bitcoin is a technological revolution that changes all industries, rather than following a single technology ado...

US support for cryptocurrencies and non-bank finance risks triggering the next financial emergency, according to Francois Villeroy de Galhau, a member of the European Central Bank's governing council. In an interview with the French weekly Tribune Sunday, he said: "It is possible for the US to commit crimes through negligence. Financial crises often originate in the US and spread to other parts of the world. By encouraging crypto assets and non-bank finance, the US government is sowing the seeds...

According to ZachXBT, a highly credible Tornado Cash asset theft investigation revealed that on March 11, 2025, after using Tornado Cash to complete the mixing of coins, North Korean hackers used some ETH funds to buy 437.60 billion PEPE, worth 3.10 million US dollars. More detailed analysis shows that North Korean hackers used the problematic Tornado Cash user interface to experience asset theft. Previously, according to Lookonchain monitoring, three wallets bought a large amount of 689.79B PEP...

According to the chain analyst @ai_9684xtpa monitoring, "20 times short BTC and ETH whale" last night took profit of 387.02 BTC short orders, and proposed 6 million USDC from Hyperliquid; up to now, 12 million USDC has been proposed from Hyperliquid, of which 10.60 million USDC is the margin, and the 1.40 million USDC proposed is part of the position squaring profit, the remaining position is still 1.83 million dollars. The total size of the remaining positions is 11.275 million USD, as follows:...

Leverage Shares, an exchange-traded product provider, has announced the launch of the first cryptocurrency-centric exchange-traded fund in the United States, the Leverage Shares 2X Long Coinbase Daily ETF (COIG), which tracks Coinbase stocks and provides investors with 2x long trading exposure. The ETF will be listed on the Nasdaq.

Sigma Prime, the Ethereum 2.0 client side Lighthouse development team, has announced that Lighthouse is enabling default light client side support, making trust-minimized wallets more viable than ever. With this launch, the share of beacon nodes providing light client side data is expected to increase from 5% to 30-40%. The currently available Lighthouse v7.0.0-beta.3 for Holesky has fixed bugs that cause nodes to get stuck (only recommended for Holesky node upgrades). Lighthouse 7.0 light clien...

Next week's important macro events and data forecasts are as follows (all in Beijing time): In terms of macroeconomic data: Monday at 20:30, the monthly rate of retail sales in the United States in February and the New York Federal Reserve Manufacturing Index in March. On Tuesday, the Bank of Japan will announce its interest rate decision. At 14:30, Bank of Japan Governor Kazuo Ueda will hold a monetary policy press conference. Wednesday at 18:00, Eurozone CPI data for February. On Thursday at 1...

Gitcoin, an open-source crowdfunding platform on the Ethereum chain, announced the details of the six community rounds of GG23 on the X platform, namely Regen Coordination, GoodDollar GoodBuilders, Token Engineering the Superchain Retro Round, Regen Rio de Janeiro, Gitcoin Grants Garden and Web3 for Universities. Each round of funding is about $21,000. In addition, the application time of the open-source software project OSS Program is scheduled to be from March 17th to 31st, and the QF donation...