according to Bloomberg, Morgan Stanley strategist Wilson said that although the US strike on Iran's nuclear facilities dominated the headlines, sell-offs triggered by geopolitical events usually last for a short period of time. After the US joined Israel's attack over the weekend, the market reaction was relatively mild, with Brent crude oil prices briefly rising by 5.7%, but most of the gains were given back on Monday. However, Iran may respond to the escalating situation by disrupting navigation in the Strait of Hormuz, which is a vital shipping route for global oil and natural gas.

according to Lookonchain monitoring, a whale has just deposited an additional 1.735 million USDC into Hyperliquid to long BTC.

The decentralized ledger network Hedera announced a strategic investment in the stablecoin payment gateway ivorypay.io, with the specific amount not disclosed. It is reported that ivorypay had previously partnered with the stablecoin issuer Tether, allowing direct minting and issuance of USDT through Ivorypay.

Offchain Labs CEO Steven Goldfeder said that the US cryptocurrency reserves should only focus on Bitcoin at least for now. Goldfeder believes that Bitcoin has emerged in a universally accepted way and focusing on Bitcoin is the cleanest and easiest move. He said that allowing other assets into the market is risky because regulatory agencies do not understand the complexity of all cryptocurrencies and do not know who is pushing for each cryptocurrency to be included in the market. In addition, if the US were to establish reserves focused on US cryptocurrencies, Steven Goldfeder believes that Arbitrum's native token ARB should be at the top.

concept stocks of US cryptocurrency rose before the market, including:

according to the relevant page, Binance Wallet StakeStone TGE is now open for investment, with the end time being 16:30 on April 3, Beijing time. The total fundraising amount is 1693.07 BNB (1,000,000 US dollars), and the number of STO tokens available for subscription is 50,000,000 (5% of the total supply).

ChainCatcher news, decentralized AI inference project Gaia core developer Harish Kotra recently attended the Eigen Games Hacker House event during ETHDenver 2025 and shared on topics related to running open-source LLM.GaiaNet is a decentralized network that provides secure, censorship-resistant, and monetizable artificial intelligence agents, integrating everyone's proprietary knowledge and skills while protecting privacy. GaiaNet does not establish centralized servers, but instead builds a distributed network of edge computing nodes controlled by individuals and businesses, hosting fine-tuned AI models based on the domain expertise and professional knowledge of node operators.

Santiment posted on X platform that in the past 48 hours, whales have purchased 1.1 million ETH.

OpenAI CEO Sam Altman accused Meta, owned by Zuckerberg, of trying to catch up in the artificial intelligence competition by offering $100 million in signing bonuses and higher salaries to lure developers away from OpenAI. Altman said that Meta, valued at $1.8 trillion, has started offering "huge bids" to employees in his team after falling behind in its current artificial intelligence advancement work. He also said, "I think it's reasonable for them to keep trying. Their current efforts in artificial intelligence have not met expectations, and I respect their continued proactive attitude. But none of the 'best talents' under me have accepted Zuckerberg's invitation." According to a source, as part of the Superintelligence program, CEO Zuckerberg has been personally selecting talents and calling them.

according to Spot On Chain monitoring, a smart money address has just deposited $5.22 million into Hyperliquid, opening high-risk long positions for ETH and BTC. Specific transaction details show that the address went long on ETH with 50x leverage at an entry price of $1884.4, with a liquidation price of $1838.2; at the same time, it went long on BTC with 20x leverage at an entry price of $82003.9, with a liquidation price of $61182. It is worth noting that in the past 2 days, this whale has closed two ETH long positions, achieving a 100% win rate and netting a profit of $2.2 million.

According to DefiLlama data, the total market value of stablecoins on the entire network is reported to be $2273.59 billion, with a growth of 1.03% in the past week, and USDT's market share is 62.98%.

On February 25th, according to official sources, Megabit will officially launch SHELL/USDT perpetual contract trading with leverage from 1 to 75 at 18:00 (SGT) on February 25th.

according to News.Bitcoin, the Solana Foundation has signed a memorandum of understanding with the government of Kazakhstan to establish the first blockchain economic zone in Central Asia, aiming to promote the development of tokenized capital markets, cultivate Web3 talents, and attract blockchain companies to settle.

legislators in Minnesota and Alabama have introduced companion bills to existing legislation that would allow the states to purchase bitcoin. On April 1, Minnesota Republican Representative Bernie Perriman introduced the "Minnesota Bitcoin Bill" (HF 2946) to the state House of Representatives, following a similar bill proposed by Republican State Senator Jeremy Miller on March 17. Meanwhile, in Alabama on the same day, Republican Senator Will Barfoot introduced Senate Bill 283, while a bipartisan group of House members led by Republican Mike Shaw introduced House Bill 482, which would allow the state to invest in cryptocurrency but essentially limit it to bitcoin.

According to Lookonchain monitoring, a whale sold 108,688 SOL at a price of $112.3, worth $12.2 million, almost at today's lowest price, resulting in a loss of $7.48 million. These SOL tokens were extracted from Coinbase 11 months ago when the price was $181.

The Financial Industry Regulatory Authority (FINRA) in the United States issued a press release on March 7th local time, stating that it has ordered Robinhood Financial to pay $3.75 million to customers, and fined Robinhood Financial and Robinhood Securities $26 million for violating multiple FINRA rules, including failing to respond to warning signs of potential improper behavior. In the settlement agreement, both companies accepted the findings of the FINRA investigation without admitting or denying the charges, and agreed to commit to addressing the related issues.

Binance founder CZ stated that he has donated 1000 BNB to Myanmar and Thailand.

Bitwise Research Director Jeff Park released an article stating that we are currently experiencing one of the fastest declines in Bitcoin history, and for those with foresight, now is a rare opportunity.The failure of the Strategic Bitcoin Reserve (SBR) lies in the fact that its hastily announced launch did not pave the way for Bitcoin to become the ultimate adoption as a global Store of Value (SoV). This is because a truly meaningful SBR must rely on multilateral cooperation. It is precisely this lack of cooperation that has led to selling in the market today, led by Japan.Furthermore, he also stated that market liquidity will recover. Trump will push the economy at all costs, and the global M2 liquidity indicator has already started to rise.

On March 8th, Linea Discord community administrators stated that the TGE will not take place in Q1. The team will announce progress once the final schedule is determined. In November last year, the Ethereum zkEVM L2 Rollup Linea developed by ConsenSys announced the establishment of the Linea Association, aimed at promoting Linea governance. Previous reports indicated that the project's TGE would take place in Q1 of this year.

On February 25th, Bitget CEO Gracy Chen announced that Bitget has lent 40,000 ETH to Bybit, with no interest and no collateral assets. This is just to support peers in need. We are happy to see Bybit fully recovered, and we have never worried about not being able to recover this loan.