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According to Investing.com, one of the three major credit rating agencies in the United States, Moody's, has officially launched the Token Integration Engine, a platform designed to integrate analytical data into blockchain networks and distribute credit ratings on them.Yuval Rooz, co-founder of Canton Network and CEO of Digital Asset, stated that the platform will enable clients to access credit rating data in digital markets and on-chain financial workflows. In addition, Moody's Ratings has been operating a node on the Canton Network.

Blockchain and artificial intelligence infrastructure company Gency AI announced the completion of a $20 million financing round, led by TikTok, with participation from HF0, XYZ, Streamlined Ventures, Hat-Trick Capital, Arksteam, MH Ventures, ViaBTC, and Basics Capital.The company is currently focusing on the advertising market, introducing on-chain verifiable credentials and automated revenue distribution mechanisms. Utilizing smart contracts and privacy-preserving computing technologies, the number of ad impressions, conversion results, and revenue distribution can all be independently verified and automatically settled. The new funds will be used to expand its decentralized advertising execution and settlement network, strengthen the privacy-preserving computing stack, and accelerate product deployment and ecosystem collaboration in North America, Asia, and Europe.

According to crypto analyst Yu Jin @EmberCN, the investment firm Blockchain Capital has transferred all of its 216,000 AAVE to Coinbase Prime, worth approximately $24.8 million.The firm had accumulated about 233,000 AAVE from October 2020 to March 2023, with an average price of around $94, and has long been one of the major institutional holders of AAVE. Previously, near the price peak of AAVE in December 2024, Blockchain Capital sold 16,900 AAVE through FalconX, worth about $5.04 million. After this transfer, its early holdings have basically been fully exited.

According to Arkham data, at 01:25, 216,300 AAVE (worth approximately $24,799,900) was transferred from Blockchain Capital to an anonymous address (starting with 0x5329...). Subsequently, the address transferred all AAVE to Coinbase Prime.

The blockchain attendance proof protocol POAP announced that it will enter maintenance mode starting March 16, 2026, ceasing the onboarding of new issuers, but existing issuers, integrations, and collection tools will continue to operate.POAP co-founder Isabel Gonzalez stated that the platform successfully found its niche in the crypto-native community but failed to break out of the niche to achieve larger-scale expansion. The platform began charging commercial clients in 2023 to sustain operations, but still could not support further development.Since its first issuance at the 2019 ETHDenver hackathon, POAP has minted over 6.7 million tokens, attracting more than 37,000 issuers, including brands like Adidas and Porsche. The team is currently focused on building an open digital collectibles standard to provide a more sustainable infrastructure for community event records and participation certification.

According to CoinDesk, a report released by CryptoQuant shows that despite Ethereum network activity reaching an all-time high, the performance of ETH prices and underlying fee revenue has lagged behind.In February, the daily active addresses on Ethereum approached 2 million, and smart contract calls exceeded 40 million, both surpassing the peak levels of the 2021 bull market. However, the price of ETH has dropped by about 30% over the past six months, resulting in a negative market capitalization for the first time in a year, indicating a net capital outflow. Exchange flow data shows that ETH is moving to trading platforms faster than Bitcoin, reflecting increased selling pressure. CryptoQuant believes that current capital flows, rather than network activity, better explain the dynamics of ETH prices, and the correlation between activity growth and valuation has weakened.In terms of fees, Ethereum generated about $10.3 million in transaction fees over the past 30 days, lower than Tron’s $25 million and Solana’s $20 million; it ranks fifth in protocol revenue, behind Tron, Polygon, Base, and Solana. Although Ethereum hosts about $162 billion in stablecoin supply (accounting for 52% of the global total), its value capture ability has declined, and the Layer 2 ecosystem has dispersed economic activity.

According to market news, Binance, PayPal, and Ripple have joined Mastercard's new initiative in the blockchain payment sector.

The blockchain gaming platform Genome announced that due to changes in market sentiment, the decline of the InfoFi sector, and shifts in external conditions, the project is facing closure, and the team is evaluating whether it can continue to move forward.The announcement disclosed that over the past 8-10 months, Genome has raised approximately $600,000 through NFT sales and public fundraising, while core team members have personally invested about $500,000. Additionally, some members chose to delay salary payments in exchange for token allocations, bringing the total investment to around $950,000 to $1,000,000.During this period, the team completed the development of several core products and infrastructure, including the Splice platform, but the project could not be sustained due to changes in the X API. The announcement detailed the team composition and monthly costs, covering engineering positions such as front-end, back-end, smart contracts, and machine learning, as well as functions like product, operations, and design.Operational costs include cloud infrastructure, development tools, third-party APIs, etc. The raised funds were initially stored in an exchange wallet and later used for development, infrastructure, and operational expenses. The team stated that they are exploring possibilities for financing, acquisition, or collaboration, but there are currently no definite outcomes, and the project has not issued tokens.

The Chairman of the U.S. Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC), Mike Selig, disclosed his remarks at the FIA Global Clearing Markets Conference, stating that the U.S. is undergoing a new technological revolution driven by AI, blockchain, and prediction markets. The CFTC needs to ensure that the regulatory framework adapts to this transformation.Selig outlined the focus areas for the coming years: achieving forward-looking derivatives market regulation through principle-based oversight with minimal effective intervention; addressing the legacy issues of the Dodd-Frank Act; ending the regulatory turf battles and enforcement-style regulation between the CFTC and SEC; ensuring that the U.S. maintains its status as a global crypto hub by clarifying classification rules for real crypto perpetual contracts; establishing a gold standard regulatory framework for prediction markets; making the U.S. a leading market for AI computing; refocusing the Commission on its core responsibilities, moving away from non-core areas like climate policy; prioritizing the needs of the agricultural and energy communities; and bringing markets for critical minerals back to the U.S.

According to PR Newswire, the private market blockchain infrastructure Corastone announced that it has received investments from Fidelity, Future Standard, and Hamilton Lane, with the specific amount undisclosed.The new funding will support its development of a proprietary licensed blockchain network to provide a unified infrastructure and data standards for the private market to support higher transaction volumes and more complex transaction structures.

The People's Committee of Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam, has officially approved a project to establish a large new venture capital fund. This venture capital fund plans to raise 50 trillion VND (approximately 190 million USD) by 2035 to promote the development of the city's technology ecosystem. Priority investment areas include artificial intelligence and blockchain digital technology, semiconductors, biotechnology, and renewable energy. Several enterprises and investment funds, including Vingroup, Sovico Group, VinaCapital, FPT Corporation, and Lotte Ventures Vietnam, have formed a consortium to participate in this fund.

According to Startupresearcher, Ho Chi Minh City in Vietnam has approved the establishment of a large new venture capital fund, which plans to raise 50 trillion Vietnamese dong (approximately 190 million USD) by 2035 to promote the development of the technology ecosystem in Ho Chi Minh City.Priority investment areas include artificial intelligence and blockchain digital technology, semiconductors, renewable energy, etc. Currently, several companies and investment funds, including Vingroup, Sovico Group, VinaCapital, FPT Corporation, and Lotte Ventures Vietnam, have formed a consortium to participate in the fund.

The White House released the "America's Cyber Strategy under President Trump," which explicitly mentions the support for the security of cryptocurrencies and blockchain in U.S. cybersecurity strategy documents for the first time: "The United States will build secure technologies and supply chains that protect user privacy throughout the entire process from design to deployment, including the security of cryptocurrencies and blockchain technologies."

Galaxy Research's research director Alex Thorn posted on the X platform that the White House has released the U.S. cyber strategy document titled "President Trump's Cyber Strategy for America." This strategy consists of 7 pages and 6 main pillars, emphasizing cyber offense and deterrence, but it is relatively limited in specific implementation details. For the first time, the document explicitly mentions cryptocurrency and blockchain technology in the U.S. cybersecurity strategy, proposing the need for "protection and security assurance" for these technologies, which were not mentioned in the national cybersecurity strategy released by Joe Biden in 2023.However, the strategy also proposes to "eradicate criminal infrastructure and cut off financial exit routes," along with a new executive order to combat transnational cybercrime. Analysts believe this statement may provide a policy basis for regulators to strengthen their crackdown on mixers, privacy coins, and unregulated deposit and withdrawal channels. Additionally, the strategy suggests expanding the authority for offensive cyber operations and plans to mobilize the private sector to combat hostile networks while promoting AI-driven automated cyber defense systems. The accompanying executive order will also establish new operational units within the national coordination center to coordinate law enforcement against transnational cybercrime groups.

Blockchain payment infrastructure company Utexo announced the completion of a $7.5 million seed round financing, led by Tether, Big Brain Holdings, and Portal Ventures, with over a dozen institutions including Franklin Templeton, Maven11 Capital, and Flow Traders participating.Utexo integrates Bitcoin, the Lightning Network, and the RGB protocol to provide payment operators with a single API access, enabling instant settlement of USDT on the Bitcoin native network, with fixed and predictable transaction fees, settlement times of less than 1 second, and fully encrypted private execution throughout the process. This move marks the official "return" of USDT to the Bitcoin network after more than a decade, and is expected to promote Bitcoin as the core settlement track for global dollar payments.

Bank of Canada completed a pilot project called Project Samara with several major Canadian banks, testing the feasibility of issuing, trading, and settling bonds on a distributed ledger.In this experiment, Export Development Canada, the official export credit agency of Canada, issued a bond worth 100 million Canadian dollars (approximately 73 million US dollars) with a maturity of less than three months, selling it to a small group of institutional investors. Participants in the project also included RBC Dominion Securities, RBC Investor Services Trust, and TD Securities under Toronto-Dominion Bank. The results of the experiment showed that a single blockchain-based platform could support the entire lifecycle of a bond, including issuance, bidding, coupon payments, secondary market trading, and maturity redemption processes. Additionally, the project tested on-chain settlement using a wholesale digital Canadian dollar issued by the Bank of Canada, allowing funds and bonds to be settled on the same ledger. This pilot comes at a time when Canada is strengthening its regulation of digital assets. The government plans to introduce regulatory legislation for Canadian dollar stablecoins and has passed a new framework for crypto asset custody to enhance asset security and risk management on trading platforms.

Bitcoin mining company DMG Blockchain Solutions released its operational performance report, disclosing that it mined 23 BTC last month. However, due to the sale of some of its Bitcoin holdings, its current holdings have decreased to 410 BTC, and the overall platform hash rate has increased to 1.78 EH/s. Additionally, the company stated that it has been approved to increase its total available power capacity to 75 megawatts and plans to explore power financial hedging contracts to mitigate the impact of power outages on Bitcoin mining and artificial intelligence data center operations.