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Gate officially launches the TradFi trading API and simultaneously upgrades the leverage mechanism for TradFi products, further enhancing the maturity of the multi-asset trading ecosystem. The newly introduced TradFi trading API supports automated trading for metals, foreign exchange (FX), indices, commodities, and other mainstream global asset classes. Users can directly access the Gate TradFi trading system through the API.In terms of functionality, this API supports programmatic order submission and management, meeting the needs of algorithmic trading and systematic strategy execution; it also provides real-time market data and order book depth information, offering data support for quantitative analysis and strategy optimization. Additionally, account and position information can be called in real-time through the interface, including balance inquiries, position details, and historical order records, enhancing overall operational and risk control efficiency.In terms of product mechanisms, the Gate TradFi zone innovatively launches an adjustable leverage mechanism, adding multiple leverage options on top of the maximum 500x leverage to meet different strategy needs and enhance the flexibility of position and capital management. The multi-leverage structure continues to maintain the advantages of high-efficiency trading while providing a more flexible parameter space for diversified strategy execution.At the same time, the platform continues to adopt a unified account system, allowing users to trade digital assets and traditional financial products such as metals, foreign exchange, and indices under the same account, using USDT as the unified margin asset to achieve cross-market capital sharing and flexible allocation.The launch of the TradFi trading API creates a closer synergy between programmatic trading capabilities and the multi-leverage mechanism. The automated interface significantly enhances strategy execution efficiency and systematic management levels, while the multi-leverage structure provides more refined options for strategies with different risk preferences and trading cycles.Currently, Gate has established a multi-asset trading system covering digital asset spot, derivatives, and traditional financial products. With the launch of the TradFi API and the implementation of the multi-leverage mechanism, the platform's synergy capabilities in terms of unified accounts, unified margin, and trading tools have been further strengthened, providing more efficient cross-market solutions for institutions and professional users. Looking ahead, Gate will continue to improve interface capabilities and product structures, deepen multi-asset integration and technological upgrades, and accelerate the construction of an integrated intelligent trading infrastructure, expanding broader development space in the competitive landscape of global comprehensive trading platforms.

According to market trends, on February 25, gold (XAU) briefly broke through the $5200 mark, while silver (XAG) also strengthened and surpassed $90, significantly amplifying volatility in the precious metals market. Against this backdrop, Gate TradFi has launched an innovative adjustable leverage trading mechanism for gold, providing traders with a more tiered choice space based on different risk preferences.The mechanism initially launched XAUUSD20 (Gold 20x), XAUUSD100 (Gold 100x), and XAUUSD200 (Gold 200x) contract products, adding multiple low-leverage options to the existing 500x high-leverage system, offering traders a more flexible allocation plan.This product upgrade further enriches the tiered structure of gold trading, allowing users to flexibly adjust their positions and risk exposure based on market fluctuations and their own strategies. In addition to gold, Gate TradFi also offers XAGUSD (silver) contract trading, covering traditional financial assets such as stocks, indices, foreign exchange, and commodities, including popular targets like Tesla, Nvidia, and Apple, supporting both APP and Web trading.

Arthur Hayes published an article titled "Woomph" analyzing that the recent continuous depreciation of the yen and the decline in Japanese government bond prices are triggering "anomalies" in the global financial markets. He believes that the Federal Reserve and the U.S. Treasury may be forced to work together to directly intervene in the yen exchange rate and the Japanese government bond market by expanding their balance sheets, thereby injecting new liquidity into the global fiat currency system.He stated, "The yen is strengthening against the dollar, and Bitcoin prices are falling. I will not increase risk until it is confirmed that the Federal Reserve is printing money to intervene in the yen and Japanese government bond market. If there is a significant increase in foreign currency-denominated assets on the Federal Reserve's balance sheet, it will be a good time to increase Bitcoin holdings." Before the yen's trend shows volatility, he has closed positions in high-leverage Bitcoin-related assets such as Strategy and Metaplanet; if his judgment is validated, he will re-enter the market.While waiting for policy clarity, his fund Maelstrom continues to increase its holdings in Zcash, while maintaining positions in other quality DeFi tokens; once the Federal Reserve confirms balance sheet expansion intervention, he will consider increasing positions in DeFi assets such as ENA, ETHFI, PENDLE, and LDO.

According to Yu Jin's observation, a market rebound of about 4% at 3 AM led to the liquidation of one-third of the short position of the rolling trader 0xD83...Fd7, amounting to approximately $332 million, with unrealized profits plummeting from $24 million to $4 million.High-leverage rolling strategies have very low tolerance for errors; even a slight price reversal can result in the loss of all profits or principal. Currently, this address has replenished part of the short position and still holds approximately $266 million in short positions.

According to Solid Intel, following recent market fluctuations, the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) has strengthened its regulation of high-leverage ETFs, issuing warning letters to relevant issuers and effectively halting the launch of new 3x to 5x leveraged products.

The U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) has issued a series of warning letters to some of the country's most prolific high-leverage exchange-traded fund providers, effectively halting the launch of products aimed at offering two or three times the daily returns of stocks and commodities.In nine nearly identical letters released on Tuesday, the SEC informed companies including Direxion, ProShares, and Tidal that it would not proceed with the review of proposed issuance products until key issues are resolved. The core concern of the regulator is that the risk exposure of these funds may exceed the SEC's limits on the risks that funds can take relative to their assets. These letters instruct fund managers to either modify their investment strategies or formally withdraw their applications.

According to HyperInsight monitoring, the "0x184" address deposited 1 million USDC into HyperLiquid this morning and opened a 25x leveraged long position in ETH. The opening price was $2799.01, the liquidation price was $2628.69, and the position size gradually increased from 4685 ETH to 6800 ETH.The long position was completely closed half an hour ago, with a profit of over $230,000, taking only 1 hour.

According to OnchainLens monitoring, the address "0x184" deposited 1 million USDC into HyperLiquid and opened a 25x leveraged long position in ETH. The opening price was $2799.01, the liquidation price was $2628.69, and the position size reached 4685 ETH. Prior to this, the address had traded SOL and made over $100,000 from it.

According to Onchain Lens monitoring, Machi has once again injected $250,000 USDC into HyperLiquid and opened a 25x leveraged long position on Ethereum, indicating a bullish outlook on ETH's future market.

According to statistics from Ember (@EmberCN), the six major high-leverage contract whales on HyperLiquid all faced liquidation after reaching massive profits of tens of millions of dollars, with an average loss exceeding 40 million dollars. Among them:"James Wynn" used a principal of 21.77 million dollars, with a maximum profit reaching 87 million dollars. He once opened a BTC long position with a notional value of 1.23 billion dollars on Hyperliquid, but ultimately not only returned all profits but also lost all principal, ending up at zero."Insider Whale falling" had a principal of 3 million dollars, with a maximum profit of 26 million dollars. Previously, he was skilled at betting before data/policy announcements, but ultimately made consecutive wrong bets, returning all profits and losing the principal."Whale AguilaTrades" had a principal of 37.62 million dollars, with a maximum profit of 41.7 million dollars. Each time he increased his position to 400 million dollars, he faced a pullback, ultimately resulting in an account balance of zero."Rolling Long Whale" had a principal of 125,000 dollars, with a maximum profit reaching 43 million dollars, achieving a return of 344 times. Ultimately, after a market reversal, he was bitten by the rolling strategy and lost all funds in a short period."Brother Maji" Huang Liben had a principal of 15.29 million dollars, with a maximum profit of 44.84 million dollars, primarily engaging in long positions. Ultimately, he insisted on going long during a market crash and faced liquidation."100% Win Rate Whale" had a principal of 30.17 million dollars, achieving a maximum of 14 consecutive wins, with a maximum profit of 26.6 million dollars. After the winning streak, he increased his position and encountered consecutive losses, resulting in an account balance of zero.

According to Onchain Lens monitoring, "Maji" has deposited 275,000 USDC into HyperLiquid again and opened a long ETH position with 25x leverage.He was also partially liquidated in this transaction, and the total loss in his account has reached 15.16 million dollars.

According to ChainCatcher news, on-chain analysts have monitored that the address associated with Andrew Kang has opened a short position of 10,275.86 ETH at 25x leverage and a short position of 269.53 BTC at 40x leverage, with a total short position value of 68.24 million USD.The address still holds ENA long positions, having made a profit of 5.6 million USD in the past week.

ChainCatcher news, according to Lookonchain monitoring, a certain whale (0xebb2...0a03) is using maximum leverage to long BTC, DOGE, PEPE, and FARTCOIN, currently with an unrealized profit of over 9 million dollars.The whale has set take-profit limit orders: 1,250 BTC (worth 145 million dollars): take-profit price between 117,000 to 127,000 dollars; 75 million DOGE (worth 22.4 million dollars): take-profit price between 0.35 to 0.7 dollars; 1.5 billion PEPE (worth 18.5 million dollars): take-profit price between 0.015 to 0.03 dollars; 20 million FARTCOIN (worth 18.5 million dollars): take-profit price between 1.2 to 1.6 dollars.

ChainCatcher news, according to Onchain Lens monitoring, the address starting with 0xeA2 deposited 2.087 million USDC into HyperLiquid and opened a long position in BTC with 40x leverage, while also opening a long position in YZY with 3x leverage.

ChainCatcher news, according to analyst Yu Jin's summary, the three major Hyperliquid high-leverage whale positions have "gone to zero," with a total loss exceeding $140 million:JamesWynnReal, after reaching a peak profit of $87 million at the end of May, ultimately lost $21.77 million on a $1.23 billion Bitcoin long position;"Insider whale" qwatio went from a $3 million principal to $26 million, only to lose everything including the principal and interest;AguilaTrades continues to open high-leverage positions after multiple liquidations, currently with a total loss of $37.5 million. All three traders employed leverage of over 20 times and frequently rolled over their strategies.

ChainCatcher news, according to Ember monitoring, following the liquidation of the contract trading whale AguilaTrades at 2 AM with only $30,000 remaining, several high-leverage rolling whales with similar trading styles that have attracted market attention all ended up with losses. Among them:Whale James Wynn had a profit of up to $87 million at the end of May, but subsequently not only gave back all profits but also lost $21.77 million of principal. At its peak at the end of May, he opened a massive BTC long position worth $1.23 billion on Hyperliquid.Insider whale qwatio used $3 million in principal to achieve a maximum profit of $26 million, but ultimately faced a liquidation that wiped out both principal and profit.Contract trading whale AguilaTrades ultimately lost $37.6 million.

ChainCatcher news, according to Cointelegraph, Ethereum founder Vitalik stated that the Ethereum treasury company has expanded the channels for broader investors to acquire ETH, but warned that if mishandled, this trend could evolve into an "over-leveraged game."

ChainCatcher news, according to Lookonchain monitoring, the whale 0x4a20, with total profits exceeding 62 million dollars on Hyperliquid, has started to long again 30 minutes ago, where:25x long on ETH, position value 14 million dollars, opening price 3705 dollars;40x long on BTC, position value 27 million dollars, opening price 115,629.9 dollars.

ChainCatcher news, according to Decrypt, the South Korean Financial Services Commission (FSC) and the Financial Supervisory Service (FSS) expressed concerns last Friday regarding Upbit and Bithumb's lending products that offer up to 4x leverage, which allow short selling by borrowing funds.Upbit has suspended its USDT lending service, while Bithumb adjusted its structure on Tuesday but retained the controversial 4x leverage ratio. South Korean crypto experts warn that stricter regulations may push users towards offshore platforms with weaker compliance standards, undermining South Korea's ability to protect investors and shape its cryptocurrency market.