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The discussion surrounding Bitcoin Improvement Proposal BIP-110 continues to heat up. Bitcoin pioneer and Blockstream co-founder Adam Back retweeted to remind the community that Bitcoin's upgrade capability may be suppressed. This proposal, although described as a temporary soft fork to clean up "garbage data" on-chain to curb the on-chain data inflation brought by protocols like Ordinals, may hinder Bitcoin's future upgrade capabilities because it disables the OP_SUCCESS opcode in Tapscript, which is seen as an important reserved mechanism for future soft fork upgrades of Bitcoin.Additionally, BIP-110 will limit the Taproot control block size to 257 bytes, which may affect the development of potential Layer 2 technologies like BitVM that rely on extensive script execution. Although BIP-110 is positioned as a "temporary measure," Bitcoin soft fork upgrades typically require years of coordination, and restricting upgrade interfaces during this period may have long-term impacts.

Polkadot announced on platform X that its token issuance model upgrade has officially taken effect. This protocol update will introduce several key adjustments, including setting the maximum supply of the native token DOT to 2.1 billion tokens, with approximately 80% of the tokens already issued. At the same time, the issuance rate of DOT will be reduced by about 53% in one go, with plans to continue gradually lowering it in the future.It is reported that the above adjustments were proposed by the community and approved through the OpenGov governance mechanism, aiming to maintain the network's incentive mechanism while limiting the long-term issuance scale and providing the market with a more transparent and predictable token issuance path.

Etherscan posted on social media that there were approximately 17 million poisoning attempts on Ethereum from 2022 to 2024, affecting 1.3 million users, with confirmed losses of at least $79.3 million. After the Fusaka upgrade (December 3, 2025), transaction costs will decrease significantly, and dust transfers will explode, increasing by 612%.Etherscan recommends that users take the following measures:Always manually verify the complete target address before transferring (most important)Add private name tags for frequently used addresses + use ENS domain namesEnable the Etherscan Address Highlight feature · Pay attention to pop-up reminders when copying addresses.

The globally leading cryptocurrency trading platform Gate has announced that the CEX MCP within the Gate for AI system has completed an important upgrade.This upgrade focuses on optimizing the AI Agent access and authorization process. After the upgrade, users can complete authorization directly within the conversation when using Gate MCP in AI tools, without the need to manually open a browser or switch pages; the authentication process can be completed in the same chat window. Whether using tools like Cursor, Claude Code, or OpenClaw, the overall experience is much smoother. Additionally, the platform provides a one-click installation tool and supports both API Key and OAuth authorization methods, making it simpler and more flexible for AI models to access trading capabilities.In terms of capabilities, the tool system of Gate MCP has further expanded, with the total number of tools now increased to 161. The callable capabilities of the AI Agent now cover market data, spot trading, contracts, and have expanded to include options, delivery contracts, wealth management, and more product scenarios, enabling AI not only to execute trades but also to participate in a more complete asset management and strategy execution process.

The digital asset trading platform Gate announced that its Gate for AI system has upgraded the Wallet MCP module, providing on-chain asset management and wallet interaction capabilities for AI Agents. Through the MCP interface, AI can create non-custodial wallets, query account assets, send tokens, and obtain real-time Gas information, achieving an integrated capability for on-chain asset operations and information retrieval.The Wallet MCP also supports asset management and token security detection for over 100 mainstream networks, and can facilitate interaction between web and plugin through plugin wallets, offering a more flexible human-machine collaboration mechanism between automated execution and manual confirmation.Currently, Gate for AI has established a standardized data and transaction access system through MCP and Skills modules, covering five major capabilities: CEX, DEX, wallet signing, real-time information, and on-chain data, providing a complete capability entry for AI Agents to enter the digital asset market. This capability system will further promote the deep integration of AI and digital asset trading scenarios.

The global cryptocurrency trading platform Gate has announced the upgrade of its AI Agent infrastructure, Gate for AI. Today, the DEX MCP has been fully upgraded to provide native full-scenario market insights and cross-chain trading capabilities for AI Agents.Gate for AI has now connected CEX and DEX, building five major capability systems. First, centralized trading capabilities (CEX), supporting the invocation of products such as spot, contracts, wealth management, and IPOs; second, on-chain trading capabilities (DEX), supporting Swap, on-chain perpetual contracts, and Meme coin trading, deeply aggregating liquidity from 20+ mainstream public chains, and achieving optimal price execution through smart routing; third, wallet and signature systems, supporting wallet creation and on-chain signing; fourth, real-time information and sentiment data systems, providing structured market news and event data; fifth, on-chain data and industry information query capabilities, supporting queries on currencies, projects, addresses, and risk information.Gate for AI connects centralized and on-chain markets through a unified interface, allowing AI to conduct research, strategy generation, and trade execution within the same framework. After developers integrate mainstream AI systems, AI can directly invoke trading and data capabilities.This system adopts a dual-layer architecture of MCP + Skills, aiming to extend the exchange capabilities from traditional user interfaces to infrastructure that can be invoked by AI. This upgrade marks a gradual shift of trading platform capabilities towards AI-native infrastructure, and Gate will continue to promote the application of AI Agents in the digital asset market.

Bitget announced a significant upgrade to its AI infrastructure platform, Agent Hub, introducing two new modules: Skills and CLI. Together with the MCP and REST/WebSocket API launched last month, they form a complete calling system of "MCP+API+Skills+CLI," connecting AI models, development tools, and real trading execution links.After the upgrade, Bitget Agent Hub covers 9 major capability modules and 58 tools, including spot trading, contracts, copy trading, and wealth management. Users can connect to OpenClaw (Lobster) in just three steps and approximately 3 minutes, enabling capabilities such as market data, spot trading, contract trading, and asset management, accelerating the implementation of AI-driven trading applications.Bitget CEO Gracy Chen stated, "AI will usher in a new era of Vibe trading. Our vision in the AI era is to enable 100 million users to stand shoulder to shoulder with Wall Street. After this upgrade, Bitget Agent Hub has achieved the broadest functional coverage and the most complete technical standard coverage among mainstream exchanges, and the integration experience is now more intuitive and smooth. Although AI trading still requires more user education and trust, we believe its turning point is approaching."

According to the official announcement, Binance will upgrade the Ethereum network (ETH) on March 10, 2026, at 14:00 (UTC+8). To support this upgrade, Binance will suspend deposits and withdrawals for the Ethereum network (ETH) on March 10, 2026, at 13:55 (UTC+8). The maintenance is expected to take 1 hour, and deposits and withdrawals will automatically resume after the upgrade is completed.

Binance announces the upgrade of the U-based contract WebSocket URL architecture to support traffic growth and enhance overall stability and scalability. The new architecture is divided into three specialized base URLs by data category: Public (high-frequency public market data), Market (regular market data), and Private (user data stream).The new WebSocket URL is available for use starting today, and the old URL will be permanently decommissioned on April 23, 2026. Additionally, this upgrade continues to support both ws and stream access modes and combined subscriptions.

The short-selling firm Culper Research announced a short position on Ethereum and ETH-related securities, including BMNR. The firm believes that the economic model of the ETH token has been damaged after the Fusaka upgrade, which raised the Gas limit to 45 million to 60 million. While a decrease in Gas fees of 10% to 30% was expected, the actual decrease was about 90%. Vitalik and validators' calculations of L1 demand elasticity are based on outdated models, with errors reaching 3-9 times.Culper refuted Tom Lee's bullish viewpoint. Lee cited the growth of active addresses and transaction volume as evidence of strengthened ETH fundamentals and institutional adoption, but Culper's analysis shows that on-chain data from January 2025 to February 2026 indicates that these activities are actually caused by address poisoning and dust attack-induced low-value trading waves.After the Fusaka upgrade, 95% of new wallets were created for dust attack wallets, and the number of poisoning attacks has increased more than threefold, accounting for over 50% of ETH transaction growth, currently representing 22.5% of all ETH transactions. Culper claims that Vitalik is well aware of this and is selling off, expecting ETH to decline further.

The CEO of the Hong Kong Securities and Futures Commission, Ashley Alder, delivered a keynote speech at the 2026 EU-Asia Financial Services Dialogue organized by the Asia Securities Industry and Financial Markets Association. She stated that Hong Kong must thoroughly upgrade its market infrastructure, particularly in the areas of financial product segmentation, clearing, and settlement. Distributed ledger technology and the development of tokenization provide a way forward. The true value of tokenization lies in its programmable nature, which can support a wide range of investment products, including bonds, funds, and even gold. As the tokenization ecosystem continues to grow, it is essential to effectively integrate related innovative projects, seamlessly combining market confidence in traditional finance with the efficiency of decentralized finance, further unlocking liquidity.Alder revealed that the Hong Kong Securities and Futures Commission has co-led a working group under the Asia-Pacific Regional Committee with the Australian Securities and Investments Commission to combat online scams and has participated in the standard-setting and coordination work in areas such as digital assets by exchanging intelligence with global peers.

The CEO of the Hong Kong Securities and Futures Commission, Ashley Alder, delivered a keynote speech at the 2026 EU-Asia Financial Services Dialogue organized by the Asia Securities Industry and Financial Markets Association. She stated that Hong Kong must thoroughly upgrade its market infrastructure, particularly in the areas of financial product segmentation, clearing, and settlement. Distributed ledger technology and the development of tokenization provide a way forward, with the true value of tokenization lying in its programmable nature, which can support a wide range of investment products, including bonds, funds, and even gold.As the tokenization ecosystem continues to grow, it is essential to effectively integrate related innovative projects, seamlessly combining market confidence in traditional finance with the efficiency of decentralized finance to further unlock liquidity.Alder also revealed that the Hong Kong Securities and Futures Commission has co-led a working group under the Asia-Pacific Regional Committee with the Australian Securities and Investments Commission to combat online scams, and has participated in the establishment and coordination of standards in areas such as digital assets through information exchange with global peers.

UniSat announces that it will complete a system upgrade around the latest version of Ordinals, covering the indexing layer, protocol support layer, product layer, and API layer. This upgrade is expected to be gradually completed in the coming weeks, aiming to enhance the standardization of the Ordinals ecosystem and the on-chain data expression capability.At the infrastructure level, UniSat is upgrading its Ordinals index to the latest version, providing a data foundation for supporting new features in the future while improving the stability and scalability of the index. After the upgrade, the index will support the Traits feature recently introduced by Ordinals, allowing for attribute-based filtering in transactions, enhancing the expression capability and composability of collection assets.The next version of UniSat Wallet will add support for the import process from other mainstream wallets. UniSat Marketplace will gradually implement multiple functional upgrades in the coming weeks, and UniSat Inscribe will support the new on-chain collection inscription, simplifying the existing inscription process. The updated UniSat API will also support the aforementioned new features, including querying new on-chain data such as Traits, minting on-chain collections, and enabling zero-fee transaction capabilities.

Binance has completed the token swap, increment, and brand upgrade of MANTRA (OM) to MANTRA (MANTRA), and has opened the deposit and withdrawal services for the new MANTRA token.Binance has opened spot trading for MANTRA/USDT, MANTRA/USDC, and MANTRA/TRY today at 16:00. Users can enable the new trading pairs through the spot follow-up settings.

The cryptocurrency trading platform Gate has officially launched the new Gate Card, further strengthening the product's differentiated positioning in the crypto payment market through a high cashback mechanism, a dual-track upgrade system, and high limit design.The Gate Card offers up to 5% cashback on spending, supporting multiple currencies such as BTC, ETH, USDT, and GT, with a monthly maximum of up to 250 USDT. Under a 1% fee structure, high-level users can cover their costs with the cashback rate. The tiered system adopts a "dual-track upgrade" model based on spending or VIP standards, setting up a T0--T4 tiered rights structure that progressively increases the cashback rate and monthly limits. The Gate Card has a maximum single and daily spending limit of $500,000, a monthly maximum of $1,500,000, and no annual limit for the highest tier, supporting over 100 countries and regions globally, covering approximately 130 million merchants that accept Visa, and providing both virtual and physical card forms.With a mechanism design centered around "trading + spending + tier," Gate is enhancing user retention and asset accumulation through payment products, promoting the further integration of cryptocurrency assets into real economic scenarios.

According to market news, 1inch Network has upgraded its platform, enhancing user experience and speeding up Swap transaction times. This upgrade has reduced the median execution time for Swap transactions from 26 seconds to 14 seconds.

GoPlus has released a security alert that a vulnerability in the Chrome browser allows malicious extensions to escalate privileges through the Gemini panel. Please upgrade your Chrome browser to version 143.7499.192 or above immediately.This vulnerability allows malicious extensions to control the Gemini Live panel in the Chrome browser, thereby escalating privileges to access the camera and microphone, take screenshots, access local files, and more without user consent. The vulnerability is identified as CVE-2026-0628, and Google has fixed it in the Windows/Mac versions 143.7499.192/.193 and the Linux version 143.7499.192 at the beginning of January 2026. Please check and upgrade your Chrome version immediately.

According to the official announcement, Binance is expected to suspend the token deposit and withdrawal services for Polygon (POL) on March 4, 2026, at 21:00 (UTC+8) to support its network upgrade and hard fork.The project team will conduct the network upgrade and hard fork at block height 83,756,500 (expected on March 4, 2026, at 22:00 UTC+8).

GoPlus Chinese Community has issued a warning that the OpenClaw Gateway has a high-risk vulnerability. Please upgrade to version 2026.2.25 or higher immediately, and audit and revoke unnecessary credentials, API keys, and node permissions granted to Agent instances.The analysis states that OpenClaw operates through a WebSocket Gateway bound to the localhost, which serves as the core coordination layer for the Agent and is an important component of OpenClaw. This attack targets the vulnerabilities in the Gateway layer, requiring only one condition: the user visits a malicious website controlled by hackers in their browser.The complete attack chain is as follows: 1. The victim visits a malicious website controlled by the attacker in their browser; 2. JavaScript on the page initiates a WebSocket connection to the OpenClaw gateway on the localhost; 3. Subsequently, the attack script attempts to brute-force the gateway password hundreds of times per second; 4. Upon successful cracking, the attack script silently registers as a trusted device; 5. The attacker gains administrator-level control over the Agent.