The Ethereum Foundation: Applications for the 2025 academic grant round must be submitted by March 16

The Bank of Korea made it clear that it "has never considered including bitcoin in foreign exchange reserves". In response to a written question from a lawmaker and member of the Planning and Finance Committee, Cha Gui-geun, the Bank of Korea said on the 16th, "We believe that we need to be cautious about including bitcoin in foreign exchange reserves...

The latest data shows that US spot bitcoin ETFs have reduced their bitcoin holdings by 4.76% since February 6, 2025. From January 1 to February 6, these funds added about 56,802.86 bitcoins to their balance sheets, but their holdings have decreased by 55,348.00 bitcoins over the past 35 days. As of March 14, the total value of bitcoin held by these funds was $93.25 billion, accounting for about 5.6% of bitcoin's total market capitalization. BlackRock's IBIT saw a net inflow of $39.24 billion and...

According to on-chain analyst Ember Monitoring, the sudden pull of BTC last night did not liquidate the Hyperliquid 50x whale, and now the price of BTC has fallen back to around $82,000. So his BTC short is now $8.30 million: the number of short BTC is as high as 5608, worth $460 million. The cost price is $83,923, and the liquidation price is $85,803. In addition, he opened 3.39 million MELANIA ($2.40 million) at $0.69 an hour and a half ago. After he started to open more MELANIA, the direct fo...

Arbitrum development company Offchain Labs announced in an X post that it will announce the progress of major projects today.

21:00-7:00 Keywords: Federal Reserve, Lazarus Group, Unlock 1. The US Treasury Secretary cannot guarantee that the US economy will not decline. 2. In the past 24 hours, the whole network contract was liquidated at 178 million US dollars, and the main explosion was multiple orders; 3. Next week, MRS, FTN, QAI and other tokens will be unlocked in large quantities; 4. With three days remaining before the Federal Reserve's interest rate decision, the probability of a rate cut in March is only 2%. 5....

The market shows that BTC has fallen below $82,000 and is now trading at $81998.01, a 24-hour decline of 2.81%. The market is volatile, so please do a good job in risk control.

Dune data shows that the total value of zkSync bridged storage is 3,752,843 ETH, the total value of Starknet bridged storage (TVB) is 969,810 ETH, and the total number of bridged user addresses is 1,227,680; Arbitrum bridged storage is 4,770,622 ETH, Optimism bridged storage is 873,643 ETH, and Base bridged storage is 630,882 ETH.

According to Coingecko, the total cryptocurrency market cap fell to $2.80 trillion, down 3.1% in 24 hours. On the day Trump officially took office in his second term (January 20), the total market value of cryptocurrencies was 3.621 trillion dollars, and the total market value of cryptocurrencies has decreased by about 821 billion dollars since Trump took office, a decrease of 22.7%.

According to tonscan data information, the TON network currently pledges 766 million TON, in addition, the current pledge APY is 4.9%, and the network has a total of 398 verification nodes.

On March 17, local time on the 16th, US Secretary of State Rubio said in an interview with US media that the United States will continue to strike the Houthis in Yemen until the Houthis no longer have the ability to attack other countries' ships and the US Navy. Rubio also said that the United States is not currently discussing ground military operations against the Houthis, saying that he "does not think it is necessary to do so now". On the same day, US Defense Secretary Hegseth said in an int...

On March 17th, on the evening of March 16th, Xiangcai shares and Great Wisdom both announced that Xiangcai shares and Shanghai Great Wisdom joint stock company are planning to issue class A shares to all class A shares of Great Wisdom through Xiangcai shares. The way to exchange shares to absorb and merge Great Wisdom, and issue class A shares to raise supporting funds. Due to the planning of major asset restructuring, the two companies' class A shares have been suspended since March 17th, and t...

On March 17, Waltz, the national security adviser to the US president, said on the 16th that the US military killed a number of Houthi leaders during the air strike in Yemen on the 15th. Waltz said in an interview with ABC TV that day that the Trump administration regards the Houthis as a foreign terrorist organization. The air strikes "actually targeted many Houthi leaders and have eliminated them". He said that the US military's operation in Yemen is different from previous ones in two ways. "...