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According to The Block, Bitcoin mining company TeraWulf raised $900 million through a stock issuance, and the funds will be used to build AI data centers. After the news was announced, TeraWulf's stock price fell.

Web3 asset data platform RootData has outlined Binance's business partners, covering key aspects such as stablecoins, payment channels, blockchain infrastructure, risk control compliance, and application scenarios, forming a cryptocurrency liquidity center centered around "capital flow."Binance, as a self-circulating capital system, has funds entering, flowing, consuming, and settling all within the same system: At the base level, Tether and Circle provide core liquidity; on the entry side, PayPal, VISA, Mastercard, and others continuously introduce new funds; on the blockchain and trading layer, Aptos, TRON, and others enhance asset richness and circulation efficiency; at the same time, Binance maintains compliance capabilities through TRM Labs, Elliptic, and others.All partners serve around "liquidity efficiency." The role of scenario-based partners like Travala, predict.fun, and Four.Meme is to continuously extend the lifecycle of funds within the system, creating a sustainable cycle. In terms of brand strategy, Binance focuses on areas such as F1 (Alpine) and football, and is committed to promoting cryptocurrency education.In addition, Binance is also strengthening the connectivity of the "tool layer," besides the early acquisition of CoinMarketCap, it is also forming synergies with data and analysis tools like RootData and Bubblemaps, gradually incorporating information flow and decision flow beyond capital flow into its ecosystem. Related collection 【Binance Web3 Partner Network Collection (continuously updated)】Note: This statistic does not include Binance token airdrop partners (including Alpha / Holder airdrops and staking yield projects), mainly due to the large number of related collaborations, which are more inclined towards incentives and do not constitute the core business structure.Cryptocurrency projects actively showcasing their partner networks has become a key way to enhance transparency and market trust. It is reported that RootData welcomes Web3 project parties to claim data, and continues to track and open more project business relationship disclosure channels. The platform has continuously released multiple editions of cryptocurrency project ecological maps, nominating Web3 ecosystem partners for upstream clients such as Visa, Mastercard, and Coinbase.If you wish to nominate your project in future ecological maps, please fill out the 【RootData 2026 Industry Ecosystem Mapping】 form to supplement your important clients and partners.

The Web3 asset data platform RootData has outlined Mastercard's cryptocurrency business partners, which now exceed 100, covering multiple key areas such as public chains, stablecoins, trading platforms, risk control services, and payment infrastructure. Unlike Visa and PayPal's more "selective partnership" strategy, Mastercard aims to become the connective layer for all payment links.Structurally, this network can be understood as a "multi-node collaborative system":Assets and Settlement: Through stablecoin issuers like Circle and Paxos, as well as multiple public chains, it undertakes on-chain assets and settlement capabilities.Connection and Circulation: Integrating cross-chain protocols, custody services, and payment channels to allow different chains and assets to flow within its system.Compliance and Security: Introducing risk control service providers like TRM Labs and Elliptic to build compliance capabilities aimed at the global regulatory environment.Applications and Reach: Collaborating with exchanges, wallets, and financial institutions to transform on-chain capabilities into user-perceived payment and consumption scenarios.Therefore, Mastercard's strategy is essentially not about selecting suppliers but about lowering access thresholds and expanding network externalities. It connects more upstream chains and asset issuers while attracting payment institutions and financial terminals downstream, making its strategy more aligned with the center of the next-generation payment system. Related compilation: 【Mastercard Crypto Partner Network Compilation (Continuously Updated)】Cryptocurrency projects actively showcasing their partner networks have become a key way to enhance transparency and market trust. It is reported that RootData welcomes Web3 project parties to claim data and continues to track and open more project business relationship disclosure channels. The platform has continuously released multiple editions of the cryptocurrency project ecosystem map, nominating Web3 ecosystem partners for upstream clients such as Visa, Stripe, and Coinbase.If you wish to nominate your project in future ecosystem maps, please fill out the 【RootData 2026 Industry Ecosystem Mapping】 form to supplement your important clients and partners.

NASDAQ-listed company AVAX One Technology (AVX) announced the advancement of its AI infrastructure strategy. The company has signed a FEED plan for a 10MW AI/HPC microgrid data center, located in Alberta, Canada, leveraging the local low-cost natural gas power to create a high-cost-performance, scalable dedicated AI computing facility. The project is designed by BlueFlare and is one of the first AI computing centers in the area.At the same time, the company invested less than $500,000 to purchase 220 Bitmain S21 Pro mining machines, increasing Alberta's computing power from 150 PH/s to over 200 PH/s. This move serves as a transitional cash flow source during the construction period of the AI center, achieving a dual-track layout of "mining + AI computing power" to quickly monetize existing power capacity.

According to Decrypt, Coin Center Executive Director Peter Van Valkenburgh stated that the Trump administration has not fulfilled its promise not to prosecute developers of cryptocurrency privacy software, and there is a clear contradiction between actual law enforcement and policy statements, putting developers at risk of uncertain legal consequences.Currently, the U.S. Department of Justice is still suing several developers of privacy tools and even sentencing them, including cases involving tools related to Bitcoin and Ethereum, among which Ethereum developer Roman Storm has been partially convicted, and prosecutors are attempting to revive the remaining charges.Coin Center warns that in the absence of "binding legal clarity," the act of developing privacy tools may still be held accountable due to user purposes (such as money laundering), exacerbating compliance uncertainty in the industry.

According to CoinDesk, Cipher Digital (CIFR) stock price rose about 9% in pre-market trading after the company announced a 15-year data center leasing agreement with an investment-grade hyperscale client and secured a revolving credit facility of up to $200 million.According to the announcement, Cipher will develop and deliver high-performance computing (HPC) facilities at its existing site in the third data center campus, further strengthening its position as a partner for AI infrastructure for large tech companies. In terms of financing, the company has secured a revolving credit facility supported by a syndicate of global banks, with a total size of up to $200 million, along with a $50 million additional expansion option, providing non-dilutive funding support for its expansion, liquidity management, and future growth.

According to a report by Jinshi Data, to help users safely use OpenClaw, the National Internet Emergency Center and the China Cybersecurity Association jointly released the OpenClaw Safe Use Practice Guidelines on March 22, aimed at ordinary users, enterprise users, cloud service providers, and technical developers, providing security protection recommendations. Among the suggestions for ordinary users are: using dedicated devices, virtual machines, or containers to install OpenClaw, ensuring environmental isolation, and not installing it on daily office computers; not running OpenClaw with administrator or superuser privileges; not storing or processing private data in the OpenClaw environment; and timely updating to the latest version of OpenClaw. Recommendations for cloud service providers include conducting security assessments and hardening of the basic security layer of cloud hosts; deploying and integrating security protection capabilities; and ensuring supply chain and data security protection.

According to The Block, the publicly listed Bitcoin mining company HIVE Digital Technologies is undergoing a major strategic adjustment due to tax disputes and operational uncertainties. The company plans to gradually reduce its Bitcoin mining operations in Sweden while significantly expanding its artificial intelligence (AI) data center capabilities in Canada.HIVE stated that its ASIC Bitcoin mining operations in Boden, Sweden, are facing challenges such as the "misuse of existing tax rules" by local authorities, including mandatory margin requirements, which have created operational uncertainties. As a result, the company is gradually scaling down this business and reallocating resources to its AI and high-performance computing strategy in Europe, with a potential complete exit from Bitcoin production in Sweden in the future.Meanwhile, HIVE, through its subsidiary BUZZ High Performance Computing, plans to quadruple the capacity of its liquid-cooled AI data center in Canada, increasing from 4 megawatts (MW) in Manitoba to 16.6 MW across two provinces. The new capacity includes a 5 MW hosting facility in British Columbia, which can be expanded to 12.6 MW.

According to Nikkei Asia, Japanese fiber optic cable manufacturer Fujikura announced that it will invest up to 300 billion yen (approximately 1.9 billion USD) in Japan and the United States, planning to triple its fiber optic cable production capacity to meet the strong demand brought about by the construction of artificial intelligence data centers.This investment is part of a series of actions by Japanese material companies in response to the Japan-U.S. Economic Cooperation Agreement and to accelerate their layout in the U.S. Meanwhile, several Japanese companies are also actively following up on investments related to AI infrastructure, including JX Advanced Materials expanding AI material production capacity and Japan promoting the construction of a domestic AI chip ecosystem.

The Digital Renminbi Operations Management Center officially announced three types of "scam" schemes: Scheme One is using "Digital Renminbi promotion" as a pretext to conduct pyramid scheme fraud. The Digital Renminbi has never engaged in activities such as "recruiting promoters," "promoter exams," "down codes," or "developing subordinates," and has never charged a 400 yuan/device installation service fee. Any recruitment of "civilian promoters" through group chats or offline and online meetings is a scam; Scheme Two is luring individuals to transfer money under the guise of "order brushing and rebates," and Scheme Three is tricking individuals into downloading counterfeit apps to steal information or funds.

The monitoring data from the China National Cybersecurity and Information Security Information Notification Center shows that there are currently over 200,000 active OpenClaw internet assets worldwide, with approximately 23,000 active OpenClaw internet assets within the country, exhibiting explosive growth, mainly concentrated in internet resource-intensive areas such as Beijing, Shanghai, Guangdong, Zhejiang, Sichuan, and Jiangsu.A large number of OpenClaw assets exposed to the internet pose significant security risks and are likely to become prime targets for cyberattacks. Among them, the behavior of the agents is uncontrollable, making management difficult. During the execution of commands, OpenClaw agents are prone to privilege escalation, leading to unauthorized task execution and disregard for user instructions, which may result in the deletion of user data, theft of user information, and takeover of user terminal devices, causing significant economic losses.

The National Internet Emergency Center has issued a security risk alert for the OpenClaw application. Previously, due to improper installation and use of the OpenClaw agent, some serious security risks have emerged. It is recommended that relevant organizations and individual users take the following security measures when deploying and using OpenClaw:Strengthen network control by not exposing the default management port of OpenClaw directly to the public internet. Implement security management for access services through identity authentication, access control, and other security measures. Strictly isolate the operating environment and use technologies such as containers to limit the excessive permissions of OpenClaw;Enhance credential management by avoiding storing keys in plaintext in environment variables; establish a complete operational log audit mechanism;Strictly manage the sources of plugins, disable the automatic update feature, and only install signed extensions from trusted channels;Continuously monitor patches and security updates, and promptly perform version updates and install security patches.

Solana has reached a partnership with Alibaba's Shanghai Hongqiao Ali Center to jointly establish the Solana Shanghai Builder Station. This site is supported by relevant government units in the Minhang District of Shanghai and is the first Builder Station set up by Solana in the Chinese-speaking market. It is also a co-creation space for developers centered around the international public chain ecosystem.The platform is positioned as a long-term infrastructure node for technological development, aiming to provide developers with technical co-creation, industry connections, and international links, while offering full-chain incubation support around Layer 1 underlying technology research, Web3 application development, and more.

Core Scientific sold approximately 1,900 BTC in January for about $175 million, currently holding less than 1,000 BTC, and is shifting its business focus from mining to AI data centers.

NVIDIA announced strategic partnerships with photonics device manufacturers Lumentum and Coherent, each investing $2 billion, totaling $4 billion.Both investments are aimed at supporting each other's R&D, manufacturing capacity expansion, and operations in the United States, with Lumentum planning to build a new wafer fab. Both agreements are non-exclusive collaborations, including multi-billion dollar procurement commitments and future capacity rights for advanced laser and optical network products. According to market news, the stock prices of both photonics companies surged significantly after the announcement.

According to CCTV News, on March 2 local time, Amazon Web Services announced that three of its data centers in the Middle East were attacked by drones, resulting in significant business disruptions.In a statement released on its official website, the company stated that two attacks directly hit its data centers located in the UAE, while another facility in Bahrain was affected by nearby drone explosions. The company did not specify the responsible party for the attacks. The company stated, "These attacks caused structural damage, affecting the power supply to our infrastructure, and in some cases triggered fire suppression systems, leading to additional water damage. We are working closely with local authorities and prioritizing employee safety during the recovery process." The company noted that the damage has affected multiple Amazon services, and given the extent of physical damage, recovery efforts may "take a long time."

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.