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PANews March 2 News, X platform has removed "financial products, cryptocurrencies" from the banned industry categories in the "Paid Collaboration Policy." Nikita Bier, head of X product and Solana advisor, stated that this was a mistake and has been fixed. He also mentioned that he loves prediction markets. This means that cryptocurrency-related advertisements on X will be required to enable the "Paid Collaboration" disclosure label.
Earlier yesterday, the X platform updated its paid collaboration policy: cryptocurrencies, investment services, and others no longer meet the promotion criteria.

Gulf countries such as Saudi Arabia and the United Arab Emirates have indicated that they are unlikely to tolerate Iran's attacks in the long term and may begin targeting Iran's missile and drone launch sites. The UAE diplomatic advisor emphasized the need to adopt an active defense strategy to counter the emerging types of conflict.

Gate News bot message: According to the latest Gate TradFi data, XTIUSD has dropped 4% in the short term, with current volatility significantly higher than recent average levels, and market activity has increased.

ChainCatcher reports that, according to Jintao, European stock index futures declined, with the Euro Stoxx 50 index futures down 1.6% and the German DAX index futures down 1.7%.

Gate News bot message, a whale swapped 1,000 ETH ($1.94M) for 358.49 XAUT at a price of $5,413, facing a loss of over $60K.
Over the past 2 years, the whale received 1,645 ETH for $3.26M and still holds 645 ETH ($1.25M).
Address: 0x744b0b1c4132d79ec106cb62c630d961c4a0d849

Due to the global financial markets being closed, investors flooded into prediction markets and decentralized exchanges, attempting to bet on the impact of the US and Israel's attack on Iran. This subsequently sparked a public outcry, accusing insiders of profiting from insider information. Kalshi's CEO responded by saying they would refund the fees, but the user dissatisfaction has not been fully alleviated.

The U.S. stock Bitcoin treasury company EmperyDigital is facing shareholder disputes over its holding of 3,723 BTC. The third-largest shareholder, Tice P. Brown, has demanded the management resign and sell the Bitcoin assets, while the management opposes this, arguing that it would harm the company's long-term value.

Slovak Bitcoin developer Martin Habovštiak successfully wrote a 66kB TIFF image on the Bitcoin blockchain through a single transaction, challenging the BIP-110 proposal, which aims to limit on-chain data writing size. The experiment can be publicly verified and decoded into a complete image.

As the US-Iran conflict escalates, the crypto derivatives platform Hyperliquid has become a key venue for investors to hedge commodity risks. Traders are rushing into perpetual contracts for trading oil and gold to meet 24/7 trading demands, confirming its unique value when traditional markets are closed.

Ethereum co-founder Vitalik Buterin discussed the Ethereum execution layer roadmap on social media, including changes to the state tree and virtual machine. He supports upgrading the Merkle Patricia tree to a binary tree to improve efficiency and reduce verification costs. At the same time, he recommends replacing the EVM with RISC-V architecture to enhance execution and proof efficiency, as well as simplify code implementation. The overall deployment will be carried out in three steps to ensure backward compatibility.

The social platform X launched a new feature "Paid Partnership" tag on March 2nd, allowing creators to label third-party paid support when posting content to enhance transparency. This move aims to strengthen user trust in the platform and protect credibility. It is now available on iOS and the web, with the Android version launching the next day.

The Middle East situation worsens, with the US and Israel launching large-scale airstrikes on Iran, resulting in multiple high-level officials being attacked and killed. The conflict impacts global energy and financial markets, with oil prices facing upward risk and a rise in risk aversion. The disruption of supply through the Strait of Hormuz could trigger inflation reassessment, leading to increased volatility in global asset prices.

BlockBeats News, March 2 — U.S. President Trump posted this morning around 1 AM, stating, "Just received news that we have destroyed and sunk 9 Iranian Navy vessels, some of which are quite large and very important.
We will continue to pursue the remaining ships — they will soon sink to the bottom of the sea! In another attack, we nearly destroyed their naval headquarters. Besides that, their navy performed quite well." (Jin10)

Trump stated that the U.S. military will continue bombing Iran until objectives are achieved and mentioned that there may be more U.S. casualties. He confirmed that Khamenei has died, and the U.S. and Israel have launched strikes against hundreds of Iranian targets, calling on the Iranian military and police to surrender.

Anthropic has launched a tool that allows users to easily export ChatGPT's memory data and migrate it to their Claude model, potentially weakening ChatGPT's user stickiness. The market believes that memory mechanisms are an important moat for AI models, and the ease of data migration could change user lock-in strategies. The compliance of this tool is still unclear, and competition has shifted toward ecosystems and data sovereignty.

BlockBeats News, March 2nd, as the Middle East conflict escalates, triggering a global "risk-off" wave, gold, silver, and oil all rise, U.S. stock futures decline, and Bitcoin briefly dropped to $65,056 this morning. It has now rebounded to $65,824, with the 24-hour decline narrowing to 1.50%.

Gate News bot message: According to the latest Gate TradFi data, XTIUSD has dropped 2% in the short term, with current volatility significantly higher than recent average levels, and market activity has increased.

ChainCatcher News reports that the US Federal Funds futures declined, with the December contract down by 3 basis points.

ChainCatcher reports that, according to Gate market data, U.S. stock index futures opened lower on Monday, with Nasdaq and Dow Jones futures both falling more than 1%, and S&P 500 futures dropping over 0.9%.

Gate News bot message: According to the latest Gate TradFi data, AUDJPY has risen 0.5% in the short term, with current volatility significantly higher than recent average levels, indicating increased market activity.