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According to Jinshi reports, Federal Reserve official Williams stated that the current monetary policy is "in a favorable position" to support the Federal Reserve's goals.

According to Forbes, Trump recently warned that U.S. military actions against Iran could last more than five weeks, stating that "the real large-scale operations have not yet begun, and the big ones will come soon." The market believes that if the Middle East conflict becomes prolonged, it may drive up fiscal spending and increase the likelihood of the Federal Reserve easing monetary policy or even restarting large-scale liquidity injections, which could benefit cryptocurrencies like Bitcoin. Some aggressive predictions suggest that Bitcoin may hit highs of $200,000 to $500,000 within the year.Additionally, a potential financial crisis driven by artificial intelligence could trigger impacts more severe than those of 2008, also favoring Bitcoin to reach new historical highs. Analysts point out that geopolitical risks, expectations of fiscal expansion, and shifts in monetary policy are becoming important macro variables for the current market's bets on Bitcoin's upward movement.

According to Fortune, the cryptocurrency startup Bridge, acquired by Visa and Stripe in 2025, plans to expand its stablecoin-supported card business to 100 countries across Europe, Asia, and Africa. This collaboration has already been implemented in 18 countries, allowing users to make payments at Visa-accepting merchants using the stablecoin balance in their crypto wallets.Zach Abrams, co-founder and CEO of Bridge, stated that Visa's strong merchant network and acceptance built over the past 40 years remain highly valuable in the world of stablecoins. Additionally, Bridge will participate in a pilot project that Visa is conducting, which explores the feasibility of using stablecoins on the blockchain for payment settlements instead of traditional bank transfers.Cuy Sheffield, Visa's head of cryptocurrency, said, "If we can move billions on-chain, we can move trillions on-chain."

According to the official blog, Binance, in collaboration with INTERPOL, AFRIPOL, and law enforcement agencies from 16 African countries, launched the "Red Card 2.0" operation to combat high-yield investment scams, mobile payment fraud, and fraudulent loan applications.During the approximately 8-week operation, police arrested a total of 651 suspects, seized 1,442 malicious IPs/domains/servers and related equipment, and recovered over 4.3 million dollars in funds. The investigation revealed total associated losses exceeding 45 million dollars, confirming 1,247 victims.

According to the official blog, Binance, in collaboration with INTERPOL, AFRIPOL, and law enforcement agencies from 16 African countries, launched "Operation Red Card 2" to combat high-yield investment scams, mobile payment fraud, and fraudulent loan applications.During the approximately 8-week operation, police arrested a total of 651 suspects, seized 1,442 malicious IPs/domains/servers and related equipment, and recovered over 4.3 million dollars in funds. The investigation revealed total associated losses exceeding 45 million dollars, confirming 1,247 victims.

According to official news, the Brazilian listed company BTC Treasury has held a total of 3,723 bitcoins, with a total investment of approximately $392.34 million, and an average purchase price of $105,382.13 per bitcoin.The company has achieved a cumulative bitcoin return of 2.54%, with a bitcoin return of 0.15% in the first quarter of 2026.

Bitget announced a series of activities for International Women's Day under its women's public welfare project Blockchain4Her, advocating for gender inclusivity and diverse development. Bitget stated that gender equality and industry diversity are important foundations for promoting the long-term healthy development of the blockchain field, and called on the industry to further recognize the significant role women play in technological innovation, market liquidity, and industry expansion, viewing gender balance as an important issue for industry and economic development.In addition, Bitget will collaborate with Bitget Wallet to launch a limited edition co-branded card for International Women's Day, transforming the concept of gender diversity into actionable practices with anti-bias design principles and exclusive benefits. Offline, Bitget will host a series of activities such as creative workshops, roundtable dialogues, and thematic meetings in Southeast Asia, East Asia, Europe, the CIS, and Latin America around the "Lady Forward" concept, creating a platform for communication and collaboration among female practitioners.

Bitget officially announces the launch of the Smarter Speed Challenge 2026, an online interactive game that incorporates elements of MotoGP racing. The total prize pool for this event is 120,000 USDT, and it offers VIP on-site viewing experiences for MotoGP. The game integrates various assets such as crypto assets, US stocks, foreign exchange, and tokenized gold into its racing mechanism, presenting a multi-asset trading scenario through interactive means.This event continues Bitget's collaboration with MotoGP that began in 2025. Since the start of the partnership, related activities have garnered over 6 billion exposures globally. In the 2026 season, the event will align with the official MotoGP schedule, featuring stages in Brazil, Qatar, France, and Malaysia, and will enhance user participation and interaction across different asset classes through leaderboard competitions, daily milestone lotteries, and a seven-day sign-in mechanism.

The Japanese yen stablecoin issuer JPYC has signed a strategic cooperation memorandum of understanding with Sony Bank and its Web3 subsidiary BlockBloom. The two parties plan to provide real-time bank account transfer functionality on the "JPYC EX" platform, allowing users to purchase JPYC directly from their Sony Bank accounts without manual remittance.In addition, both parties will explore collaborations with entertainment IPs such as music and gaming, applying JPYC to digital content purchases and fan rewards.

The Hong Kong Monetary Authority, the Shanghai Municipal Data Bureau, and the National Blockchain Technology Innovation Center of China today jointly signed the "Memorandum of Cooperation on Digitalization of Freight Trade and Finance between Shanghai and Hong Kong" to further promote in-depth cooperation between Shanghai and Hong Kong in the fields of digital empowerment of freight trade and finance, leveraging Hong Kong's unique advantages as a "super connector" and "super value creator" to facilitate internal and external connectivity, and supporting Shanghai in connecting with the international data ecosystem through Hong Kong.According to the "Memorandum of Cooperation," the Hong Kong Monetary Authority, the Shanghai Municipal Data Bureau, and the National Innovation Center will jointly research innovative cooperation in digital technology and applications, promoting innovation in the application of digital technology in freight trade, finance, and other fields. The parties will jointly explore the use of digital technology to build a "cross-border platform," carry out cross-border financial cooperation in the Ensemble project, study how to apply electronic bills of lading, and promote integration with commercial data connectivity and CargoX, using freight and trade data to drive trade financing between the two regions.

According to Cointelegraph, NYDIG's research director Greg Cipolaro stated that if artificial intelligence disrupts the labor market or causes volatility that prompts central banks to ease monetary policy, Bitcoin will benefit. He pointed out that AI, as a "general technology," will transmit its effects on employment and economic growth to Bitcoin.If AI-driven growth is accompanied by liquidity expansion and controlled real interest rates, it will support Bitcoin; conversely, if it raises real yields and tightens policy, Bitcoin may come under pressure. If AI triggers labor disruptions and leads to monetary easing, liquidity injections will be favorable for Bitcoin. He acknowledged that the transition will bring challenges but expects AI to follow the "historical pattern" of technological development—integrating rather than displacing.

Ethereum co-founder Vitalik Buterin published a post on social media outlining the Ethereum execution layer roadmap, focusing on two major changes: the state tree and the virtual machine.Regarding the state tree, Vitalik supports upgrading the current hexadecimal Merkle Patricia tree to a binary tree based on a more efficient hash function through EIP-7864. This change can shorten the Merkle branch by four times, reducing the bandwidth cost for client data verification; at the same time, the hash function can be replaced with the Blake3 or Poseidon series, significantly improving proof efficiency.The binary tree design will also group storage slots into "pages," lowering the access cost for adjacent storage, allowing many DeFi applications to save over 10,000 Gas per transaction. Additionally, the binary tree structure is simpler and can reserve metadata bits for future state expiration features.On the virtual machine front, Vitalik proposed that the long-term direction is to replace the EVM, potentially adopting the RISC-V architecture. The new VM needs to meet four goals: higher raw execution efficiency, making most precompiles unnecessary; proof efficiency superior to the EVM; support for client-side generation of ZK proofs; and maximum simplification of code implementation.He pointed out that if Ethereum only stays at the "EVM + GPU" level, it may be "sufficient," but a better VM can make the protocol stronger. The deployment roadmap is divided into three steps: the new VM will first be used to replace precompiles; then users will be allowed to deploy contracts based on the new VM; finally, the EVM will be retired, transitioning to smart contracts written with the new VM, achieving full backward compatibility.

According to Fortune, OpenAI founder Sam Altman stated that OpenAI is in discussions with the U.S. Department of Defense to reach a potential agreement on the use of its AI models and tools, although the contract has not yet been signed. OpenAI will retain control over the implementation of technical safeguards, the deployment targets of the models, and the regions, limiting the deployment scope to cloud environments rather than "edge systems." In a military context, edge systems may include devices such as aircraft and drones.As a significant concession, the U.S. government has agreed to incorporate the "red lines" set by OpenAI into the contract terms, including a ban on using AI for autonomous weapon systems, domestic mass surveillance, and critical decision-making areas.

Bloomberg and cryptocurrency market data provider Kaiko announced a partnership to directly embed Bloomberg's licensed financial data into blockchain environments, aiming to address data inconsistencies in the tokenized market. The first application scenario of the collaboration focuses on tokenized U.S. Treasury bonds and the repurchase market on the Canton Network, targeting institutional clients such as banks and asset management companies, rather than retail crypto traders.Both companies stated that by providing a unified authorized data source on-chain, market participants can reference the same dataset, effectively reducing reconciliation disputes and enhancing data integrity. Kaiko CEO Ambre Soubiran pointed out that institutional-grade data is the foundation for the effective operation of financial markets, and this collaboration will extend traditional market data to the next generation of tokenized securities infrastructure.Kaiko had acquired European crypto index provider Vinter in 2024, continuously expanding its influence in the regulated benchmarks and index services sector.

Cobo co-founder and CEO Shen Yu stated on social media that the development of AI Agents will have a profound impact on corporate organizational structures. The disruption will not target individual skills, but rather the management systems that have long been centered around Standard Operating Procedures (SOP).He pointed out that traditional enterprises standardize human execution processes by continuously adding SOPs. If AI, which has autonomous planning capabilities, is simply embedded into existing processes, it may lead to internal efficiency losses. In the future, companies may reconstruct processes with "intent and boundaries" at their core, where humans set goals and rules, AI is responsible for autonomous optimization, and humans take on supervisory and decision-making roles.Shen Yu believes that as AI participation increases, departmental barriers and middle management functions may weaken, and organizational forms are expected to evolve towards more efficient dynamic collaboration models.

Decentralized Artificial Intelligence Infrastructure Protocol 0G Labs announced the launch of the "0G Apollo Accelerator," which plans to provide up to $20 million in funding support for incubating and scaling revenue-generating AI applications based on decentralized infrastructure.The accelerator is established in collaboration with the Blockchain Builders Fund (BBF). BBF is part of the Stanford University blockchain ecosystem, which includes projects such as the Stanford Blockchain Accelerator, BASS, and MS&E 447. The project is also supported by Google Cloud, with each selected team receiving a $200,000 cloud resource allocation.In addition, the wallet infrastructure platform Privy (acquired by Stripe) will provide production-grade wallet solutions for selected teams, aiming to help projects have enterprise-level computing and infrastructure capabilities from the early stages.

The development team behind Worldcoin, Tools for Humanity (TFH), is collaborating with Gap, Visa, and Tinder to promote the implementation of its "World ID" human verification product.Reports indicate that some Gap stores in San Francisco have deployed "Orb" devices to collect facial and iris information from users to generate World ID. Meanwhile, TFH plans to launch a payment card related to Visa, allowing users with World ID to spend digital assets. The dating app Tinder is also testing this identity system in Japan to verify that users are real individuals and that their age information is accurate.TFH states that the Orb device will convert facial and iris images into anonymous digital identifiers and store them on the user's device, with the company itself not retaining the original biometric data. Its business model aims to generate revenue by charging applications for verification service fees.

According to TheBlock, due to the de-pegging event of the deUSD stablecoin in October, which triggered automatic liquidations across multiple protocols, MEV Capital suffered losses exceeding $10 million, and the company's managed assets dropped by 80% from a peak of $1.5 billion to approximately $300 million.Belem Capital stated that it has terminated its management mandate with MEV Capital and will internalize the company's institutional asset management team to integrate risk and execution frameworks.