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According to Jinshi News, the Federal Reserve will announce its interest rate decision and economic outlook at 2 AM Beijing time on Thursday, followed by a press conference by Powell. It is expected that the Federal Reserve will press the "pause button" for the second consecutive time.Against the complex backdrop of oil prices exceeding $100, the dual mandate "conflict," and political pressure, every word and action of Powell is under close scrutiny. Investors need to pay attention to the associated risks.

According to Decrypt, Bitcoin Depot, the world's largest Bitcoin ATM operator, has had its money transmission license urgently suspended by regulators in Connecticut for several reasons: overcharging more than 500 users approximately $150,000 in fees (exceeding the 15% cap within the state), failing to fully refund scam victims, and insufficient compliance disclosures.The company must immediately cease operations in the state and shut down all ATMs. Meanwhile, Bitcoin Depot also expects to disclose "significant weaknesses" in internal controls in its annual report. Analysts point out that this suspension is a "structural blow" to Bitcoin Depot and indicates that the Bitcoin ATM industry as a whole will face stricter regulatory scrutiny.

According to official social media news, Huobi HTX will hold a themed live broadcast titled "HTX Comprehensive Empowerment: A New Cycle for $HTX" today at 20:00 (UTC+8). At that time, HTX DAO core builder Molly, HTX DAO governance committee members DaDa, Sister Mao, CDCClub co-founder Tingting, Ctalks co-founder Daling, CMO DI Michill, and HTX research team leader Cloud will be invited to attend. They will discuss the empowerment path of the HTX DAO ecosystem and the application expansion of $HTX in various scenarios such as trading and rights, exploring the positioning upgrade and value reassessment of $HTX in the new market cycle.

According to Onchain Lens monitoring, a certain whale (0xeBE...eF27) purchased 3,156 ETH from Binance, worth 7.34 million USD. Currently, this whale holds a total of 4,697 ETH, with a total value of 10.91 million USD.

According to PR Newswire, the tokenized securities infrastructure development company Ironlight Group announced the completion of a $21 million Series A financing, with participation from former TD Bank President and CEO Greg Braca, the Sei Development Foundation, and Laidlaw Private Equity, among others.The new funds will be used to expand the scale of Ironlight Markets' alternative trading system (ATS) and accelerate the construction of a market that unifies core capital market functions within the U.S. regulatory framework, supporting tokenized securities covering areas such as private equity, structured products, fixed income, private credit, and real estate.

According to SoSoValue data, as of 8:30 AM Eastern Time on March 16, 2026, the total net purchase of Bitcoin by global listed companies (excluding mining companies) for the week was $1.57 billion, an increase of 22.7% compared to last week.Strategy (formerly MicroStrategy) announced on March 16 that it invested $157 million (an increase of 22.7% compared to last week's purchase amount) to acquire 22,337 Bitcoins at a price of $70,194, bringing its total holdings to 761,068 Bitcoins.The Japanese listed company Metaplanet did not purchase any Bitcoin last week, marking nine consecutive weeks without purchases.Additionally, two other companies purchased Bitcoin last week. The UK Bitcoin company The Smarter Web Company announced on March 10 that it invested $200,000 to buy 3 Bitcoins at a price of $65,291, bringing its total holdings to 2,695 Bitcoins; the UK Bitcoin company BHODL announced on March 13 that it invested at a price of $71,161 to purchase 1 Bitcoin.NASDAQ-listed company Zeta Network Group Inc. announced the issuance of $10 million in convertible bonds, of which the first phase of $6 million will be used to purchase Bitcoin.As of the time of publication, the total amount of Bitcoin held by the listed companies worldwide (excluding mining companies) is 1.02 million Bitcoins, an increase of 2.1% compared to last week, with a current market value of approximately $75.4 billion, accounting for 5.1% of Bitcoin's circulating market value.

According to PR Newswire, Bitmine announced today that its total value of crypto assets, including cash and the "Moon Landing Plan" holdings, has reached $11.5 billion. As of 7:00 PM Eastern Time on March 15, 2026, the company's crypto holdings include 4,595,562 ETH, 196 bitcoins (BTC), a $200 million investment in Beast Industries, an $83 million investment in Eightco Holdings (NASDAQ: ORBS), and a total of $1.2 billion in cash. Bitmine's ETH holdings account for 3.81% of the total ETH supply (120.7 million ETH).In the past week, Bitmine also took two strategic actions. First, Bitmine increased its investment in the existing "Moon Landing Plan" company Eightco (stock code: $ORBS) by an additional $80 million. ORBS acquired a $50 million stake in OpenAI and a $25 million stake in Beast Industries.Lee stated, "ORBS is now the only publicly traded stock in the world that allows investors to directly access OpenAI. The highly anticipated IPO of OpenAI will take place in 2026, and investors can now gain direct investment through ORBS."Additionally, we see a significant synergy between World Chain (proof of humanity), the leading AI platform (OpenAI), and the globally renowned content creator Mr. Beast. Eightco has invited Cathie Wood's ARK to serve as a strategic advisor, further enhancing the appeal of ORBS.Secondly, Bitmine purchased 5,000 ETH from the Ethereum Foundation, enabling EF to fund its core operations. Lee stated, "Bitmine's acquisition of these ETH is to demonstrate our support for EF's goals and operations, and to allow EF to raise funds without having to sell its ETH on the open market."Lee pointed out, "In the past two weeks, Bitmine has slightly accelerated its pace of ETH purchases each week, as our fundamental judgment is that ETH is in the final stage of a 'mini crypto winter.' In the past week, we acquired 60,999 ETH, while the recent average weekly acquisition has been between 45,000 and 50,000 ETH."

In response to community users asking why oil prices have recently fallen while Bitcoin prices have shown a parabolic rise, crypto analyst Willy Woo stated that current oil prices are returning to the mean from a previous overbought state, while Bitcoin is showing a mean reversion trend from a locally oversold level. This change is more of a short-term technical adjustment and "does not require excessive interpretation."

Binance will grandly launch the Midnight (NIGHT) Super Earn Coin event on March 16, 2026, at 20:00, lasting until March 25, 2026, at 07:59. Users can subscribe to designated tokens in the Super Earn Coin pool to share a maximum reward of 120 million NIGHT. During the event, more than 480 million NIGHT rewards will be distributed.

A fire broke out at a fuel tank facility near Dubai International Airport (DXB) on March 16 local time, initially identified as a drone attack. Flights at Dubai International Airport were temporarily suspended, and Emirates Airlines announced the suspension of operations, with some flights originally scheduled for today being canceled.Today, several flights from China to Dubai were diverted to other airports, including flight EK363 from Guangzhou to Dubai, flight EK303 from Shanghai to Dubai, and flight EK329 from Shenzhen to Dubai, which were diverted to Al Maktoum International Airport (DWC). Flight EK307 from Beijing to Dubai was diverted to Muscat. Previously, Chinese airlines had suspended flights to Dubai until the end of the month, with only Emirates Airlines continuing to operate.

According to @ai_9684xtpa monitoring, ShapeShift founder Erik Voorhees has bought 1,915.28 ETH again in the past 5 minutes, worth 4.17 million dollars. In the past week, he has accumulated a total of 29,191.82 ETH, with a total value of 61.65 million dollars and an average cost of 2,112.19 dollars, currently dispersed across 22 addresses.

U.S. President Trump stated that the most important decision for me is tariffs. The court knows my stance is firm, how eager I am to win this victory for our country, but it decided to potentially hand over trillions of dollars to those countries and companies that have been taking advantage of the U.S. for decades. Our Supreme Court made these countries very happy, but as the court pointed out, I have the absolute right to impose tariffs in another form, and I have already begun to do so.On February 20, the U.S. Supreme Court ruled that Trump's trade tax policy is illegal.

According to IT Home citing The Information, two informed sources stated that TikTok's Chinese parent company ByteDance has suspended its global launch plan for the latest video generation model Seedance 2.0 after a series of copyright disputes with several major Hollywood studios and streaming platforms.The report stated that ByteDance originally planned to launch this new video model to global users in mid-March, but has now suspended the related plans. The report added that ByteDance's legal team is investigating and addressing potential legal issues, and engineers are also increasing protective mechanisms to prevent the model from generating content that may lead to further intellectual property infringements.

Circle CEO Jeremy Allaire stated that traditional banks face pain points in cross-border remittances such as high fees, slow speeds, and multiple intermediaries, while stablecoins can enable instant, low-cost peer-to-peer transactions.He pointed out that in Turkey, locals are more inclined to hold digital dollars to avoid the risk of local currency depreciation. He believes that in the future, software tools based on open internet infrastructure are expected to compete with traditional banks, but banks may also transform by integrating blockchain technology.

According to OnchainLens monitoring, in the past 24 hours, ShapeShift founder Erik Voorhees spent 29.44 million USDT to buy 13,986 ETH.In the past 6 days, he purchased 21,293 ETH at an average price of 2,091 USD, totaling 44.52 million USD.

According to on-chain analyst Yu Jin's monitoring, an address that received 7,400 ETH from Tornado (hacker?) dominated tonight's liquidation event of CAKE and THE collateral, resulting in Venus incurring a liquidation deficit of about $2.15 million (1.18 million CAKE + 1.84 million THE), while the hacker obtained approximately $5.07 million in funds from Venus (2,172 BNB + 1.516 million CAKE + 20 BTC):The address first received 7,400 ETH from Tornado through the address 0x7a7...234, then deposited it into Aave to borrow 9.92 million U (including USDT, DAI, USDC) and transferred it to multiple wallets to purchase THE.Around 8 PM tonight, he likely pumped the price of THE in a CEX (it is presumed he had previously deployed long positions). Then, through two wallets, he deposited 36.1 million THE into Venus, borrowing assets like BTC, BNB, CAKE, etc.Forty minutes later, the price of THE plummeted (most likely due to his closing of long positions and opening of shorts), and his collateral on Venus was liquidated, further pushing down the price of THE. Ultimately, the collateral from these two wallets was completely liquidated, but there remained about $2.15 million (1.18 million CAKE + 1.84 million THE) in loans that had not been repaid, resulting in a deficit for Venus.Overall, he borrowed 9.92 million U to create chaos, but the assets borrowed from Venus were only worth $5.07 million. While it may not seem profitable on-chain, it is speculated that he aimed to dominate the decline of THE through on-chain liquidation, thus making a profit on his positions in the CEX.

According to the RootData calendar page, next week includes several important news items such as project dynamics, macroeconomic finance, token unlocks, incentive activities, and presale events. Details are as follows:March 16:ARB unlocks 123,527,800 tokens, worth $12,410,200, accounting for 2.08% of the circulation;VANA unlocks 2,565,100 tokens, worth $3,642,400, accounting for 8.324% of the circulation.March 17:ASTER unlocks 164,672,500 tokens, worth $115,946,800, accounting for 6.649% of the circulation;SPK unlocks 278,906,200 tokens, worth $6,341,400, accounting for 11.308% of the circulation;ZK unlocks 173,144,700 tokens, worth $3,285,500, accounting for 1.878% of the circulation.March 18:QAI unlocks 1,000,000 tokens, worth $61,740,000, accounting for 125.648% of the circulation;Binance lists Katana (KAT) and adds a seed tag for it;Eurozone February CPI year-on-year final value;Eurozone February CPI month-on-month final value;U.S. February PPI year-on-year;U.S. February PPI month-on-month.March 19:RTX unlocks 4,808,900 tokens, worth $10,532,800, accounting for 28.865% of the circulation;ZKJ unlocks 30,972,200 tokens, worth $769,900, accounting for 6.911% of the circulation;U.S. Federal Reserve interest rate decision (upper limit) as of March 18;Japan's central bank target interest rate as of March 19;Eurozone European Central Bank main refinancing rate as of March 19;Eurozone European Central Bank deposit facility rate as of March 19;Federal Reserve FOMC announces interest rate decision and economic outlook summary;Federal Reserve Chairman Powell holds a monetary policy press conference;Bank of Japan announces interest rate decision;Bank of Japan Governor Ueda Kazuhiro holds a monetary policy press conference.March 20:BR unlocks 121,875,000 tokens, worth $7,243,500, accounting for 55.41% of the circulation;ZRO unlocks 25,708,300 tokens, worth $50,902,500, accounting for 12.709% of the circulation;KAITO unlocks 12,108,300 tokens, worth $4,378,800, accounting for 5.016% of the circulation;W unlocks 40,318,500 tokens, worth $668,400, accounting for 0.729%.March 21:GWEI unlocks 237,916,700 tokens, worth $10,220,900, accounting for 13.595% of the circulation.March 22:RIVER unlocks 1,562,500 tokens, worth $35,328,100, accounting for 7.978% of the circulation;0G unlocks 15,227,900 tokens, worth $8,903,000, accounting for 7.141% of the circulation.In addition, there is a button at the top of the RootData calendar page to generate image shares, allowing users to share important events.Risk Warning: This calendar does not constitute any investment advice.

In the Polymarket prediction event "Bitcoin price above x dollars," the current probability of BTC being above $72,000 today is only 4%, and the probability of being above $74,000 is less than 1%; the probability of being above $70,000 is also only 81% (below the current market price).Last night, the price of Bitcoin briefly surged, rising close to $74,000, but then quickly fell back, currently fluctuating around $70,600, with the probabilities in the related prediction markets clearly cooling down.

TokenInsight awarded Bitget the "Universal Exchange of the Year" award in its annual selection, recognizing its continuous innovation and comprehensive strength in the global cryptocurrency trading ecosystem.It is reported that TokenInsight's selection is based on a comprehensive assessment across multiple dimensions, including product system, liquidity depth, user scale growth, and diversified asset trading capabilities. Bitget is gradually building a comprehensive trading platform capability that covers spot, derivatives, asset management, on-chain ecology, as well as traditional financial asset trading such as stocks and CFDs, further reflecting the development direction of "Universal Exchange."