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According to Jin Ten, Fed's Goolsbee stated that interest rates can be lowered, but he does not want to make significant cuts before inflation eases.

According to Jinshi, Federal Reserve's Goolsbee stated that he is one of the most optimistic about interest rate cuts this year within the Federal Reserve.

According to TheDefiant, Resolv and Centrifuge have launched a $100 million tokenized credit strategy on the Aave platform. Tim Shekikhachev, co-founder of Resolv Labs, stated that the current operation flow of the entire supply chain is that funds flow out of Resolv USR, pass through Centrifuge's tokenization infrastructure, and ultimately flow into the leveraged layer of Aave Horizon.It is reported that the Resolv protocol maintains a total locked value of $162 million in USR stablecoins, and the protocol is utilizing Centrifuge's tokenization technology to add JAAA to its system. Centrifuge currently has a total locked value of $1.35 billion.

According to Coinglass data, the current 8-hour average funding rate for ETH across the network is 0.002%. Among the current mainstream exchanges, the rate on Binance is 0.0039%, OKX is 0.01%, Bybit is 0.0084%, and Gate is 0.0014%.

According to Coinglass data, the current 8-hour average funding rate for BTC across the network is 0.002%. Among the current mainstream exchanges, the funding rate for Binance is 0.004%, OKX is 0.0035%, Bybit is 0.004%, and Gate is 0.0034%.

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.

According to market news, Solana Treasury Company DeFi Development, listed on Nasdaq, announced a strategic investment in the stablecoin protocol Apyx, with the specific investment amount not disclosed, aiming to establish an early layout in the emerging Dividend Supported Stablecoin (DBS) category.The Apyx model can convert dividend flows into on-chain yields, providing scarce yield opportunities for the over $300 billion stablecoin market, while aligning with the trend of digital asset treasury companies accumulating digital assets through preferred shares.

According to Jinshi reports, Federal Reserve Governor Mester stated that she believes a rate cut of about 1 percentage point is needed this year.

According to Jin Ten, HSBC strategists have halved their exposure to the U.S. stock market and increased investments in emerging markets and Europe, as the latter shows strong economic conditions. Over the past two months, key cyclical indicators such as consumption and manufacturing have shown growth. The strategists stated that the positive trends in technicals, positioning, and market sentiment can offset concerns regarding geopolitics, trade, and artificial intelligence. So far this year, the S&P 500 index has risen by 1.5%, the global stock index excluding U.S. stocks has increased by 11%, and the emerging markets benchmark index has risen by 15%.

According to CoinDesk, three companies announced that they will include the perpetual preferred stock STRC issued by Strategy in their treasury allocations. Prevalon Energy, Anchorage Digital, and Brazilian Bitcoin fund management company OranjeBTC disclosed at the Strategy World 2026 conference held in Las Vegas that they have incorporated STRC into their balance sheets.STRC briefly touched the par value of $100 during Wednesday's trading session and returned to $100 in pre-market trading. STRC is a high-yield credit instrument that takes precedence over MSTR common stock, with an annual dividend yield of 11.25%, distributed monthly.

On February 26, Anything Labs announced a strategic partnership with the on-chain exchange UXUY. As the world's first crypto incubation institution to enter the AI stablecoin sector, Anything Labs will leverage UXUY's multi-chain ecosystem advantages to accelerate the expansion and application of AI stablecoins, exploring a new AI trading paradigm aimed at high-frequency, asymmetric trading scenarios.It is reported that the AI-native stablecoin UUSD launched by Anything Labs has seen rapid market attention just one week after its release. The UUSD team stated that they are currently accelerating penetration into the AI developer community, including OpenClaw, and addressing issues such as the native insufficiency of AI assets based on the X402 protocol.Patrick, the founder of Anything Labs, stated: "The application scenarios for AI Agents are continuously expanding, and the recent surge of Elsp further confirms the vast opportunities that AI holds in the social domain. Social scenarios will gradually generate payment demands, which will further extend to trading demands. The core value of UUSD lies in enabling stablecoins to serve not only transactions between humans but also applications in on-chain interactions of AI, building a peer-to-peer electronic cash system for the AI era."

According to Coinglass data, the current 8-hour average funding rate for ETH across the network is -0.0009%. Among the major exchanges, the rate on Binance is -0.0026%, OKX is 0.01%, Bybit is 0.01%, and Gate is 0.0028%.

According to Coinglass data, the current 8-hour average funding rate for BTC across the network is 0.0017%. Among the current mainstream exchanges, the rate on Binance is -0.0011%, OKX is 0.01%, Bybit is 0.01%, and Gate is 0.003%.

The cryptocurrency market has welcomed a strong reversal after experiencing significant fluctuations earlier. After bottoming out around $62,900, BTC has shown strong recovery momentum today, breaking through the $68,000 mark. As the price stabilizes, market trading volume has increased, showing characteristics of a rebound with volume expansion. According to derivatives data from the Gate platform, the current total open interest for BTC perpetual contracts is about $29 billion, with a long-short ratio of approximately 56% to 44%, indicating a relative advantage for long positions.Against the backdrop of deepening institutional trends, the demands for platform liquidity depth, execution efficiency, and risk control capabilities continue to rise. As one of the important platforms for institutional capital, Gate's asset scale has doubled over the past year, maintaining a trading volume among the top three in the industry, and has connected cross-exchange and third-party custodial over-the-counter trading (OES) through "SuperLink." During the current tug-of-war around $65,000, API trading for high-frequency and quantitative strategies remains active, and market volatility continues to test the platform's liquidity support and high-concurrency execution capabilities.

The founder of 360 Group, Zhou Hongyi, stated in an interview with the Global Times that the United States, under the banner of "protecting the rights of victims," has directly transformed the virtual currency assets involved in the case into strategic financial reserves under its control, completing a magnificent and legitimate transfer from the end of the criminal chain to national assets.This unilateral harvesting behavior by the U.S. not only undermines the law enforcement activities of other countries, leading to secondary losses for victims, but also disrupts the global flow of virtual currency assets, destabilizing the financial stability of emerging market countries. The ultimate goal is to consolidate the dominance of the U.S. dollar in the digital financial sector.

According to Coinglass data, the current 8-hour average funding rate for ETH across the network is 0.002%. Among the major exchanges, the funding rate on Binance is 0.0078%, OKX is 0.01%, Bybit is 0.01%, and Gate is 0.0078%.

According to Coinglass data, the current 8-hour average funding rate for BTC across the network is 0.0002%. Among the mainstream exchanges, the rate on Binance is -0.002%, OKX is 0.0086%, Bybit is 0.0035%, and Gate is 0.0013%.

According to Jinshi reports, International Monetary Fund (IMF) President Kristalina Georgieva stated that lowering the federal funds rate to a level between 3.25% and 3.5% is consistent with the goal of the U.S. economy returning to full employment.

According to Jinshi reports, CME's "Fed Watch" shows that the probability of the Federal Reserve keeping interest rates unchanged until March is 98%, while the probability of a 25 basis point rate cut is 2%. By April, the cumulative probability of a 25 basis point rate cut is 15.9%, the probability of keeping interest rates unchanged is 83.8%, and the cumulative probability of a 50 basis point rate cut is 0.3%. By June, the cumulative probability of a 25 basis point rate cut is 39.5%.

According to Jinshi reports, Federal Reserve officials stated that they will continue to raise interest rates if the objective possibility of achieving economic and price forecasts improves.