the US Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) announced today that it has canceled 167 contracts, saving approximately $115 million in total. This includes a $2.23 million contract for the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) "Existing Project Policy Fairness Assessment".

Golden Finance reported that, according to The New York Times, billionaire and Airbnb co-founder Joe Gebbia is reportedly set to participate in Musk's government plan. (Golden Ten)

The US Securities and Exchange Commission has officially recognized submissions from Grayscale, a crypto asset manager, to introduce exchange-traded funds (ETFs) for spot XRP and Dogecoin. The SEC's acknowledgment on Feb. 13 of Grayscale's Form 19b-4 filings for the Grayscale XRP Trust and the Grayscale Dogecoin Trust signals the beginning of a 240-day review period for the agency to make a decision. The 240-day countdown will commence once Grayscale's filings are entered into the SEC's federal register, usually occurring shortly after submission. If the filings are made now, the SEC's decision deadline would fall around mid-October. Additionally, the SEC has also acknowledged applications for Litecoin (LTC) and Solana (SOL) ETFs in the past two weeks, indicating a shift in approach to crypto-related listings under the current SEC leadership.

according to The Wall Street Journal: U.S. Vice President Pence said on Thursday that if Russian President Putin does not agree to a peace agreement with Ukraine that guarantees long-term independence for Ukraine, the United States will impose sanctions on Russia and may take military action. If Russia does not negotiate sincerely, the option of sending troops to Ukraine is still "on the table."

according to Cointelegraph, Michigan State Representatives Bryan Posthumus and Ron Robinson submitted HB 4087 on February 13th, aiming to amend the state's "Management and Budget Act" to establish a Bitcoin strategic reserve.

On March 17th, OKX CEO Star stated that "OKX DEX is being upgraded, and aggregator trading services are temporarily suspended." OKX Web3 has implemented multiple control measures to combat abuse, including IP blocking and real-time blacklisting of addresses in restricted markets. In the future, OKX will continue to work with global partners to establish industry control standards. Star emphasized that OKX DEX aggregator does not touch or store user private keys, nor does it custody user funds. All user transactions require the use of personal private keys for signing and execution. OKX Web3 itself does not have the ability to execute any transactions or trades, playing a role in the blockchain industry similar to Chrome and Google in the internet industry, focusing on providing software and services. Many well-known companies also provide similar aggregator services, but OKX Web3 has greater influence in the industry due to community support.

On January 14th, the AIOS Foundation announced that it has completed the destruction of tokens held in its wallet. Previously, the AIOS Foundation issued a statement stating that in order to further enhance the transparency and fairness of the AIOS community, and to promote the AIOS project with the highest standards of integrity, it will destroy all AIOS tokens held by the foundation within the next 24 hours. Two addresses held by the foundation held 64.03% and 2.58% of the AIOS tokens respectively.

 The Data Nerd has monitored that Amber Group deposited 2.2 million VIRTUAL coins with a value of approximately 5.19 million US dollars to Gate 9 hours ago. On the other hand, 2 whales accumulated a total of 1.17 million VIRTUAL coins (approximately 3.03 million US dollars) from Gate 2 hours ago.

according to Web3 asset data platform RootData token unlocking data, FLock (FLOCK) will unlock approximately 9.46 million tokens at 10:00 on June 30th Beijing time, worth approximately 1.4 million US dollars.

according to Lookonchain monitoring, a certain whale continues to short the ETH/BTC trading pair. The whale withdrew 3,644 cbBTC (worth $304 million) from Coinbase and deposited 3,034 cbBTC (worth $253 million) into Aave. Then borrowed 79,638 ETH (worth $152 million) from Aave and deposited it into Coinbase.

Charles Hoskinson, the founder of Cardano, revealed that Cardano is discussing the possibility of integrating Ripple's new stablecoin, RLUSD. The aim is to strengthen Cardano's DeFi ecosystem and provide wider opportunities for the use of RLUSD.

On March 17th, according to 4E monitoring, under the continuous impact of Trump's tariff policy, the three major indexes of the US stock market collectively fell last week after experiencing significant volatility. The Dow fell by about 3.1%, marking its worst weekly performance since March 2023. The S&P 500 fell by 2.27% and the Nasdaq fell by 2.43%, both marking the fourth consecutive week of decline. Large-cap tech stocks, except for Nvidia rebounding by nearly 8%, all closed lower for the week.

According to JPMorgan's estimate, ETPs for XRP and SOL may attract nearly $15 billion in net inflows. Matthew Sigel, Director of Digital Asset Research at VanEck, said the forecast takes into account the market capitalization and ETP traffic performance of BTC and ETH.

Gryphon, a bitcoin mining company listed on NASDAQ, announced that its stock price rose by 20% on Friday after acquiring an 850-acre industrial site powered by natural gas from Canadian oil and gas company Captus Generation for $18.7 million.

Algorand raised $ 10M on Feb 15, 2018

 in a public letter on January 12th, Warren asked incoming Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent if the Treasury Department should have more power to sanction the cryptocurrency industry. Warren wrote, "Should the Anti-Money Laundering/Counter-Terrorism Financing and Sanctions Programs include a well-designed, risk-based provision to prevent money laundering or terrorist financing involving digital assets?" He is about to become the chief Democrat on the Senate Banking, Housing, and Urban Affairs Committee.

Kevin Weil, Chief Product Officer of OpenAI, said in an interview that ChatGPT-5 will be released soon. I won't give you a specific time, but GPT-5 will appear soon. We are already working on this seriously. In addition, he also said that AI will achieve 99% code automation within this year, and will not be delayed until 2027.

According to official sources, Astar Network has announced that Astar zkEVM will be migrated to Soneium L2. Liquidity providers will need to withdraw assets and liquidity from DEX/DeFi projects on Astar zkEVM and transfer them to Ethereum using Astar Portal's native cross-chain bridge for ETH, DAI, MATIC, USDC, USDT, WBTC, or wsETH. vASTR holders will need to cancel their pledges through Omni and once the pledge period ends, ASTR tokens will automatically be transferred to Astar zkEVM. Other token projects should pay attention to relevant migration announcements. NFT holders do not need to take any action.

 Luo Zhuojian, a member of the National Committee of the Chinese People's Political Consultative Conference and a consulting expert of the Ministry of Finance, called for the active development of stablecoins to maintain Hong Kong's financial center advantages. He pointed out that Hong Kong can cooperate with financial institutions in other regions in the application of stablecoins, explore their potential in international settlement and cross-border application models, and also encourage traditional financial institutions, payment platforms, and technology companies to cooperate in promoting the application of stablecoins. In addition to cross-border and payment, stablecoins can also be used in fundraising and asset management, further expanding their application scope. In addition, it is necessary to expand the participation scope of the sandbox, relax the application conditions, and allow more start-ups and innovative projects to test new products in a low-risk environment.