Gate News reported that on March 19, Circle, the issuer of USDC, announced the appointment of a senior Microsoft executive to its board of directors. This personnel adjustment comes at a time of intensifying competition in the AI agent (Agentic) sector. Circle is the issuer of USDC, the world's second-largest stablecoin, and this board expansion is viewed as an important move in the company's technology strategy layout.

Gate News Alert: On March 19, the Bank of England will announce its interest rate decision (a policy decision on whether to adjust the benchmark rate) and meeting minutes at 20:00 Beijing time tonight, while the European Central Bank will announce its interest rate decision at 21:15. Affected by the Middle East conflict, both central banks face uncertainty in their monetary policies. The market expects this meeting to maintain a cautious stance, but bets on future rate hikes are continuously increasing.

Gate News Alert: On March 19, according to Gate market data, as of press time, XNY (Codatta) is trading at $0.00566, up 42.18% in the last 24 hours, with a current market cap of approximately $14.065 million. Codatta is an AI knowledge layer protocol dedicated to transforming data into tradable assets and enabling continuous royalty income. The platform builds a complete decentralized AI data ecosystem through three major roles: knowledge providers, knowledge validators, and knowledge supporters. Knowledge providers contribute structured knowledge and professional insights to enhance AI model capabilities; knowledge validators ensure data quality through expert review and voting mechanisms; knowledge supporters can make capital investments in high-quality knowledge and share AI-generated returns.

Gate News reports that on March 19, Trade.xyz deployed the S&P500/USDC (S&P 500, U.S. stock market benchmark index) trading pair on the Hyperliquid platform through the HIP-3 protocol, supporting up to 50x leverage. The contract officially launched last night (March 18), and as of press time, cumulative trading volume has reached 31.5 million USD, with open interest rapidly climbing to 19.6 million USD.

Gate News reported that on March 19, Polymarket announced the launch of an offline space called "The Situation Room" in Washington, D.C., USA, positioned as the world's first themed bar focused on "situation monitoring." The venue functions like an "intelligence version of a sports bar," integrating real-time X information feeds, flight radar, Bloomberg terminals, and Polymarket data screens to continuously track global trending events and developments.

Gate News has reported that on March 19, Monad co-founder Keone Hon posted on social media that the Monad mainnet will undergo a hard fork at 22:30 Beijing Time today to upgrade to the MONAD_NINE version. This upgrade introduces three improvement proposals: MIP-3, MIP-4, and MIP-5. Prior to the hard fork, node operators need to upgrade to at least

Gate News has reported that on March 19th, U.S. Republican Senator Cynthia Lummis tweeted: "Clear rules, regulations, and jurisdiction—this is what the CLARITY Act is all about. It's time to finalize the framework for digital asset markets."

Gate News – On March 19, in Polymarket's "NBA Regular Season Lakers vs. Rockets" prediction event, an account with profits exceeding $1.1 million placed a $150,000 bet on the Rockets defeating the Lakers at an opening price of 53.9¢. The NBA regular season Lakers vs. Rockets game will begin at 9:30 AM Beijing time this morning. The NBA regular season is currently in its final stage, with the Lakers posting a 43-25 record and ranking 3rd in the Western Conference; the Rockets have a 41-26 record and rank 4th in the Western Conference.

Gate News report: On March 18, according to Lookonchain monitoring, as of press time, today's US Bitcoin ETF net inflows were 2,492 BTC (valued at $179.33 million), Ethereum ETF net inflows were 13,478 ETH (valued at $29.99 million), and SOL ETF net inflows were 189,025 SOL (valued at $17.01 million).

A certain CEX responded to users stating that Bitcoin is not on the TON network. The tokens users transferred were tokens marked as "BTC," which are actually fraudulent tokens. The exchange is assisting in asset recovery, but the process is complex and time-consuming. They remind users to be vigilant against misoperations and fraud risks.