The U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development is considering using blockchain and stablecoin payments to monitor subsidies. The meeting also discussed the idea of ??experimenting with stablecoin payments to recipients of the Department of Housing and Urban Development, which may first be tested in one office of the department and then widely implemented in other offices.

On March 3rd, Galaxy Digital's research vice president Christine Kim posted on X platform: "The latest weekend update on the Ethereum Holesky testnet status: Developers held a meeting on Friday to coordinate large-scale penalty measures and accelerate the exit of inactive validators. However, it seems that the number of active validators on the testnet is insufficient, and developers lack confidence in advancing the plan. Therefore, they have decided to give more time over the weekend for more active validators to join Holesky, and no later than Monday to coordinate a large-scale penalty action. If you are running a Holesky validator and have not yet tried to bring it back online, please do so as soon as possible and delete your slashing protection database.

according to Yonhap News Agency, Kim Sik-hwan, representing Wemix Foundation, a blockchain subsidiary of Wemade, admitted at an emergency meeting that they lost approximately 8.65 million WEMIX tokens (valued at about $6.22 million) due to a hacker attack.

On March 10th, news came that Sonic (formerly Fantom) co-founder Andre Cronje (AC) has added the "flyingtulip founder" tag to his personal X profile. According to the project's official website, flyingtulip is positioned as a next-generation intelligent trading protocol that can support leverage trading of over 50 times. The protocol uses adaptive curve technology to automatically adjust between constant product and constant sum curves based on real-time market volatility, providing traders with better execution prices and bringing the best returns to liquidity providers.

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).

According to reports, the US-listed cryptocurrency exchange Coinbase announced that it is considering expanding into the Asia-Pacific market. John O'Loghlen, General Manager of the Asia-Pacific region and Director of Australia, stated that they withdrew from the Japanese market two years ago. Although Japan has recently relaxed token restrictions, the variety of tokens is still very limited and platforms must have at least 10 actual employees, which poses a challenge from a business perspective.

according to on-chain data analyst @ai_9684xtpa monitoring, the address 9YteR...Yj1WT suspected of cutting positions at the 145 dollar level two weeks ago to establish a position of 30,000 SOL (approximately 3.9 million dollars), is expected to lose 456,000 dollars; SOL has fallen by nearly 25% in the past month.

China Banknote Printing and Minting Corporation issued a statement on March 13: Recently, we have received reports from the public that some criminals are impersonating our company to sell virtual currency on websites and apps. We hereby solemnly declare that we have never sold virtual currency through any channels. We urge the public to be vigilant and avoid being deceived to prevent economic losses.

According to Whale Alert monitoring, in the past two hours, the USDC Treasury has added a total of 479,734,456 USDC tokens.

According to OnchainDataNerd monitoring, in the past 24 hours, some whales have withdrawn a large amount of Bitcoin from Binance:

according to on-chain data analyst @ai_9684xtpa monitoring, half an hour ago timothy0x.eth allegedly opened a position of 1553 ETH, worth 3.2 million USD, with an average price of about 2063 USD.

according to Arkham data, a wallet that has been dormant for 3 years sold all of its 1014.67 ETH (worth $1.92 million) for a profit of only $126,000. The wallet purchased ETH at an average price of $1771, with a peak unrealized profit of $2.3 million.

On March 10th, Scalar Capital co-founder Linda Xie announced on social media that she officially joined the decentralized social protocol Farcaster team, responsible for developer ecosystem development.

According to CME's "Fed Watch": The probability that the Fed will maintain interest rates in March is 93%, and the probability of a 25 basis point rate cut is 7%. The probability of maintaining the current interest rate in May is 68%, the cumulative probability of a 25 basis point rate cut is 30.1%, and the cumulative probability of a 50 basis point rate cut is 1.9%. (Jinshi)

according to on-chain analyst Scam Sniffer (@realScamSniffer), a user lost $304,091 due to copying the wrong address. Scam Sniffer said that this was a typical transaction history poisoning attack, where hackers send small transfers to make similar addresses appear in the user's history, leading the user to mistakenly copy the fake address for the transfer.

David Bailey, CEO of Bitcoin Magazine, posted on social media, "If the US Department of Justice continues to hastily liquidate the bitcoins held by the US government within three months of obtaining court approval (against the president's wishes), then the recent price trend of Bitcoin can be explained." This implies that government selling may be an important reason for the recent pressure on Bitcoin prices.

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.

According to ai_9684xtpa monitoring, a suspected Amber Group address is building a position of 11,000 ETH in an upward trend, worth $27.49 million. Amber proposed this portion of tokens seven hours ago at a price of $2,499, but the actual entry point may be lower.

GMGN Haze responded to "opening web pages that are stuck, sometimes having problems with buying and selling" by saying that it is generally caused by too many browser plugins leading to webpage crashes, webpage stuck, affecting performance, and also interfering with webpage loading.

according to Cobo co-founder and CEO Shenyu's analysis, Strategy (MSTR) cleverly amplifies Bitcoin's high volatility by 2.5 times and transmits it to the US stock market. Professional institutions use this high volatility for arbitrage to gain short-term profits; MSTR obtains cash for hoarding a large amount of Bitcoin through issuing convertible bonds and ATM issuance; ordinary shareholders bear the risk of severe stock price fluctuations and short-term declines, but passively receive "Bitcoin income" with more Bitcoin per share; Bitcoin holders benefit from continuous market capital inflows and rising Bitcoin prices.