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Bitcoin mining difficulty decreased by 7.76% to 133.79 T, the second largest drop in 4.5 years
Gate News reports that on March 22, according to Cloverpool data, on March 21 at 05:54:19 Beijing time, Bitcoin mining difficulty completed its adjustment at block height 941,472, with mining difficulty decreasing by 7.76% to 133.79 T. This is the second largest drop in 4.5 years, second only to the 11.16% decrease in early February this year.

Gate News reports that on March 21, according to Coinglass data, if Bitcoin's price breaks above $73,000, the total short liquidation strength across major CEXs will reach $834 million. Conversely, if Bitcoin drops below $69,000, the total long liquidation strength across major CEXs will reach $940 million. It is important to note that the liquidation chart does not display the exact number or value of contracts pending liquidation, but rather indicates the significance (i.e., strength) of each liquidation cluster relative to neighboring clusters. Higher liquidation bars suggest that when the

Gate News reported that on March 20, U.S. Republican Senator Cynthia Lummis posted on social media stating: "We have gone too far to return to a state of regulatory uncertainty. Digital assets represent the future, and now is the time for America to provide them with the development environment they need." Previously, Cynthia Lummis posted that she met with Mike Selig, Chairman of the U.S. Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC, the federal agency responsible for regulating derivatives markets), to discuss digital asset market structure issues. Lummis stated: "Mike Selig understands the ur

Gate News: On March 19, if the proposed CLARITY Act passes, a certain CEX may face restrictions on providing stablecoin rewards, which could impact its strategy of attracting users through digital dollar incentives. The bill has been stalled in Congress since January and aims to establish a regulatory framework for stablecoins, with one contentious point being whether companies can share yields with stablecoin holders. While the bill prohibits direct interest payments, analysts believe alternative structures could still potentially allow rewards to reach users. Despite the potential ban, analy

Senator Lummis: Clarity Act Will Be Completed Before Year-End, Expected Review in Late April
Gate News, March 18 — According to reports from crypto journalist Eleanor Terrett, Senator Lummis stated that the Clarity Act (cryptocurrency regulatory legislation) will be completed before year-end no matter what. She also indicated that the Banking Committee is expected to review the legislation in late April following the Easter recess.

Gate News reports that on March 17, Joe Kent, director of the U.S. National Counterterrorism Center, announced his resignation effective immediately on Tuesday. Kent stated that he "cannot in good conscience support the ongoing Iran war," citing that Iran does not pose a direct threat and that "it is clear this war was provoked by us under pressure from Israel and its powerful American lobbying groups." Earlier this month, remarks by U.S. Secretary of State Rubio sparked controversy among the President's supporters when he stated that Israel insists on launching an attack against Iran, thereby

Barclays Adjusts Expectations: Bank of England May Keep Rates Unchanged in March, Previously Expected 25 Basis Points Cut
Gate News reports that on March 16, Barclays Bank adjusted its expectations for the Bank of England's monetary policy, believing the Bank of England will maintain rates unchanged in March, whereas the institution previously expected the Bank of England to cut rates by 25 basis points.

Gate News report: On March 15, Israeli Defense Forces military spokesperson Defrin stated that military operations against Iran will continue for at least three more weeks, with thousands of targets still pending strikes. Defrin said: "We have thousands of targets ahead of us. We are prepared and coordinating with our American allies, with the operation plan covering at least until Passover (approximately three weeks from now). After that, we have more in-depth plans lasting three weeks or more." He stated that the Israeli Defense Forces do not work according to a timeline, but rather to achie

Gate News, on March 14, Anthropic announced that Claude Opus 4.6 and Claude Sonnet 4.6 are now officially fully available, with both models supporting a 1 million Token context window. This capability was previously in Beta phase and is now available to users with pricing remaining unchanged. Regarding pricing, Opus 4.6 maintains 5 dollars per million input Tokens and 25 dollars for output, while Sonnet 4.6 is 3 dollars and 15 dollars respectively, with consistent unit pricing from the first to the millionth Token. In the long context capability test MRCR v2, Opus 4.6 achieved 78.3% accuracy,

Gate News reports that on March 13, the UAE stated that the country was hit by 7 missiles and 27 unmanned drones on Friday. On the same day, Abu Dhabi National Oil Company set the official selling price of Murban crude oil for April at $69.45 per barrel. Meanwhile, crypto KOL "Lin Wanwan's Cat" revealed that recently some family offices from the Middle East have been in contact with Singapore, planning to relocate funds to the region, with some Dubai family offices already beginning to discuss implementation details. However, the entry of relevant funds into Singapore still requires compliance

Gate News: On March 12, Tether CEO Paolo Ardoino stated that Tether has built an internal Bitcoin-dedicated dashboard for internal team use to promote Bitcoin adoption and education globally. The dashboard covers multiple dimensions including Bitcoin on-chain users, balances, and transactions. According to the data, Bitcoin's monthly active on-chain receiving addresses reached 4.7 million, the total asset value of on-chain users holding balances above $1 is approximately $1.6 trillion, and the daily on-chain transfer volume is approximately 728,700 transactions.

Gate News Report, March 10 — According to BlockSec monitoring, a suspicious transaction targeting the MT-WBNB liquidity pool was detected on BSC, with an estimated loss of approximately $242,000. The vulnerability stems from a flaw in the buyer restriction mechanism: under deflationary mode, normal buy operations are rolled back, while routers/trading pairs are whitelisted. This allows attackers to bypass restrictions through router swaps and liquidity removals to acquire MT from the trading pair. The attacker then sells MT to accumulate pendingBurnAmount and calls distributeFees() to directly

New wallets opened $10.2 million in 5x leveraged crude oil short positions in the past 2 hours, according to Gate News. On March 9, on-chain monitoring showed that the new wallet address 0xab96 opened 90,000 xyz:CL 5x leveraged short positions, totaling $10.2 million, with a liquidation price of $130.45. This activity occurred amid a continuous rise in oil prices.

Iran Launches Drone and Missile Strikes on U.S. Military Helicopter Base, No Response from the U.S.
Gate News reports that on March 8, the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) issued a statement saying that the IRGC Navy carried out a joint operation early this morning using drones and ballistic missiles, targeting a U.S. military helicopter base. The statement said the attack precisely hit helicopter maintenance facilities, helicopter and aircraft fuel tanks, and command buildings, causing significant damage. Iran stated that a fierce fire broke out at the base after the attack, with la

Gate News reports that on March 7, a senior defense official confirmed that the U.S. Department of Defense has sent a formal letter to an AI company A, which had previously threatened to sue the Department over related designations. According to sources familiar with the matter, amid the ongoing expanding conflict between the U.S. and Iran, the technology of this AI company is being used by the Department of Defense to analyze collected data and images to assist military decision-making. In recent weeks, there have been disagreements over the use of the AI system in classified systems: the Dep

Hong Kong busts 230 million HKD gold and silver smuggling case, the largest smuggling precious metals case on record. ChainCatcher reports that according to Caixin, Hong Kong Customs announced that they recently uncovered two suspected precious metal smuggling cases by air at Hong Kong International Airport. Approximately 168 kilograms of suspected gold sheets and about 285 kilograms of suspected silver sheets were seized, with an estimated total market value of about 230 million HKD. Based on the market value of the smuggled goods, this is the largest smuggling precious metals case ever crack

Tether Investment Funds Management and Settlement Infrastructure AxiymOdaily Planet Daily Report: Stablecoin issuer Tether announced an investment in funds management and settlement infrastructure Axiym. The specific amount has not been disclosed. The goal is to build a globally distributed funds settlement infrastructure within a regulated payment ecosystem, thereby supporting embedded financial services, including pay-in-advance and pay-after settlement solutions like (PNSL), while also enabling native integration of USD cash flows to expand the circulation of US dollars in a scalable, compl

ChainCatcher Message: According to market reports, oracle service provider RedStone has deployed a price oracle on the Stellar network. This move comes after a $10 million oracle vulnerability attack. As the Stellar network expands its decentralized finance infrastructure and explores lending and tokenized assets, RedStone's price oracle will provide critical price data support for the network. This deployment aims to enhance the security and functionality of the Stellar ecosystem while offering developers a reliable source of price information.

ETH 15-Minute Drop of 1.25%: Leveraged Liquidations and On-Chain Fund Outflows Drive Short-Term Selling Pressure
From 14:30 to 14:45 UTC on 2026-03-03, ETH experienced a rapid decline, with a 15-minute return of -1.25%. The price fluctuated between 1934.86 and 1977.42 USDT, with an amplitude of 2.17%. Short-term volatility increased significantly, market attention heightened, and trading volume expanded markedly compared to the previous period.
The main driver of this movement was concentrated liquidation of leveraged positions. Some high-leverage longs were forced to liquidate after breaking

ChainCatcher News, recently, OnGreen announced that renowned Yemeni leader Sheikh Nabil Mohammed Ali Al Khamary has officially joined the company as a co-founder. OnGreen stated that this move will inject stronger regional business influence and strategic capital networks into its green transformation strategy in the MENA (Middle East and North Africa) region, accelerating the development of an integrated platform for physical assets, impactful projects, and long-term regional growth. According to reports, Sheikh Nabil is a self-made entrepreneur and currently serves as Chairman of the Interna