Cesar Ruiz, Chief Investment Officer of Pictet Group in Switzerland, believes that there will be both traps and opportunities in 2025. Many economists are concerned that the tariff policies promoted by the Trump administration will cause inflation, but Ruiz is confident in market growth. He believes that in the first half of the year, the uniqueness of the United States will remain strong, and the growth of the U.S. stock market will be sufficient to allow investors to achieve steady returns. Ruiz compares the new Treasury Secretary, Yellen, to Ben Bernanke, the former chairman of the Federal Reserve during the global financial crisis. Bernanke "was the best person for the job at the right time. Yellen is also the same." Ruiz expects that there will be large-scale consolidation among mid-sized financial companies in the United States, making it a good time to buy stocks of potential acquisition targets. With Trump cutting regulations, mergers and acquisitions will increase significantly alongside IPOs, providing good opportunities for investment banks or trading targets. (Jinshi)

survey of institutions showed that analysts interviewed expect the European Central Bank to cut interest rates twice again this year, and no longer expect the bank's rates to fall below 2%. The monthly survey shows that after six rate cuts so far, the European Central Bank may still cut rates in April and June. However, unlike the previous survey, respondents expect the deposit rate (currently at 2.5%) to remain at 2% by the end of the survey period. In mid-February, a slight majority had expected rates to eventually drop to 1.75% by March 2026. European governments plan to significantly increase defense spending, which could boost sluggish economic growth and exacerbate inflation.

Coinbase CEO Brian Armstrong recently wrote on the X platform that Coinbase is currently cooperating with 145 government agencies in the United States and 29 government agencies overseas; with the launch of the US strategic Bitcoin reserve, we are seeing more and more governments interested in this.

According to OnchainLens monitoring, a whale staked 70,966 SOL (worth $8.95 million) and, 13 days later, unstaked and deposited the SOL into Coinbase, losing $1 million.

according to Coinglass data, if Bitcoin breaks through $85,000, the cumulative liquidation intensity of mainstream CEX short positions will reach 7.44 billion. Conversely, if Bitcoin falls below $82,000, the cumulative liquidation intensity of mainstream CEX long positions will reach 4.14 billion.

JPMorgan Securities raised its year-end forecast for the yield on Japan's benchmark 10-year government bonds from 1.55% at the end of January to 1.7%, believing that US policies may bring various risks. It is predicted that the Bank of Japan will raise interest rates in June and December, but actions that the US may take could complicate the situation; if tariffs put pressure on global economic growth, it may hinder the Bank of Japan from raising rates, but if Japan is accused of letting the yen depreciate, it may hastily raise rates, fixed income research director Takashi Yamawaki and strategist Hiroki Yamamoto wrote in a report on March 10.

according to the AI analysis platform aitools.xyz, DeepSeek has become the fastest growing AI tool globally, with its monthly new website visits surpassing OpenAI's ChatGPT. The report states that DeepSeek reached 525 million visits in February 2025, exceeding ChatGPT's 500 million. Currently, DeepSeek has a market share of 6.58%, second only to ChatGPT and Canva, which account for 43.16% and 8.27% respectively.

 ai16z founder Shaw tweeted that ElizaOS v2 1.0.0 version is currently in development and will soon release a beta version for testing. There is still a lot of work to be done before the final release, and the new version will have an app.exe so that anyone can run the agent without needing any cumbersome programs.

according to CryptoQuant data shared by on-chain analyst Ali, the total balance of addresses holding 1,000 to 10,000 Ethereum decreased from about 12.8736 million on March 11 to about 12.7467 million on March 15, a decrease of about 127,000 coins.

According to Lookonchain monitoring, a whale is shorting the ETH/BTC exchange rate. This whale withdrew 2770 cbBTC (243 million US dollars) from Coinbase, deposited 2219 cbBTC (194.6 million US dollars) into Aave, and borrowed 45,441 ETH (99 million US dollars).

 GMX reiterated on the X platform that it has thoroughly investigated the Abracadabra vulnerability and can confirm that the GMX smart contract remains secure and unaffected. In addition, MIM Spell has also released a security update stating that it is working with Chainalysis and zeroShadow to track the stolen funds, and will release a comprehensive event report in the next few days. MIM Spell also stated that the rest of Abracadabra's products have not been affected by this incident.

On March 8th, MegaETH co-founder Lei Yang posted on social media that the RPC outage incident yesterday exposed an interesting edge case. Debugging the RPC method call resulted in the server allocating a large amount of memory for an excessively long string, ultimately leading to memory exhaustion. The MegaETH team has decided to build their own RPC stack in order to apply multiple optimizations on the RPC stack to improve performance. From a performance perspective, the results are good, but the cost is that the team will need to handle the maintenance of the infrastructure themselves. It is expected that there will be more outage situations in the future, and more post-incident analysis reports will be released. It is hoped that these reports will stimulate interesting discussions. They encourage everyone to provide more edge cases for testing now, rather than encountering problems months later.

US stock index futures continued to rise after Trump's speech, with Dow futures up 0.5%, S&P 500 index futures up 0.6%, and Nasdaq futures up 0.54%. (Jinshi)

SlowMist security team revealed a critical vulnerability in the widely used elliptic encryption library (GHSA-vjh7-7g9h-fjfh). Attackers can extract private keys with just one signature by constructing specific inputs, which could lead to the theft of digital assets or identity credentials. This vulnerability may affect blockchain applications and digital identity systems that rely on this encryption library.

According to The Miner Mag, the Bitcoin mining company MARA is about to deploy an additional 2.5 EH/s of computing power in Ohio. The company is "on the verge of completing" the construction of a 40-megawatt (MW) data center in Ohio, with plans to install over 10,000 Immersion S21 Pro mining machines.

The U.S. Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC): As of the week ending March 4, the net long position of Bitcoin was 614 contracts. (Jin Shi)

According to PeckShield monitoring, Delta Prime hackers transferred 310 ETH to Tornado Cash. Delta Prime suffered a hacker attack in November 2024, losing about $4.8 million.