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Strategy, led by Michael Saylor, purchased 1,031 BTC for $76.6M, bringing total holdings to 762,099 BTC. This more measured acquisition follows previous larger buys and is funded through common stock sales. Current holdings are valued around $54B, about 7% below acquisition cost.

SurfAI has launched Surf Studio, a no-code platform enabling users to create Web3 applications and dashboards using simple language prompts. This innovation eliminates the need for technical skills, allowing anyone to build crypto tools while utilizing advanced AI capabilities and extensive blockchain data.

# Woke up, and BTC pulled back to 70k. On the drive this morning, the radio was reporting that gold came under pressure as the Fed's March FOMC meeting failed to meet rate cut expectations, erasing all gains for the year so far. Recently, geopolitical tensions in the Middle East have escalated, causing global capital markets to shake. According to classical narratives in traditional finance, geopolitical conflicts should push up gold prices—a logic rooted in gold's thousands of years of safe-haven attributes, long since becoming the instinctive reaction of market participants. Yet the market performance in March 2026 has shattered this stereotype: gold prices continued to decline, breaking through the critical support level of $4,500, while Bitcoin's decline was far smaller than traditional risk assets like stocks, displaying a certain characteristic of "relative safe-haven." This anomalous divergence, on the surface is a difference in asset price movements, but at a deeper level reflects a structural change long overlooked by the market: the investor base for gold and Bitcoin is undergoing a fundamental shift

Senator Elizabeth Warren (D-MA) has formally questioned YouTube megastar Jimmy Donaldson, known professionally as MrBeast, regarding his promotion of crypto products to a predominantly young audience. in a letter sent this week, Warren and Representative Warren Davidson (R-OH) demanded

The article discusses maximal extractable value (MEV) in Ethereum transactions and its influencing factors. Transactions first enter the mempool, where searchers generate MEV opportunities through front-running and sandwich attacks. Block builders optimize transaction ordering to ensure profitability and win block production rights. The centralization risks and incentive mechanisms in this process have significant impacts on transaction execution, driving industry development and technological optimization.

Decentralized Finance (DeFi) has unveiled several experimental financial models that target changing the behavior of crypto assets in markets. One of these innovations is elastic supply tokens, also known as rebase tokens. These tokens adjust the number of circulating tokens instead of enabling

Author: Xiaojing Silicon Valley is buzzing with a new term: Tokenmaxxing. Inside Meta and OpenAI, engineers are competing on AI usage leaderboards. According to foreign media reports, one engineer even consumed 210 billion tokens in a week, equivalent to the text volume of 33 Wikipedias. Some people have AI bills exceeding $150,000 per month alone. An Ericsson engineer based in Stockholm spent more money on Claude than his own salary, but the bill was covered by the company. Token budgets are becoming a new type of workplace benefit for engineers, "just like free snacks or free lunch used to be." Shopify CEO Tobi Lütke released an internal memo as early as April 2025, announcing that "AI usage is a baseline expectation at Shopify," requiring all teams

Wall Street broker Bernstein sees Bitcoin likely at its bottom, targeting $150,000 by year-end. Analyst Gautam Chhugani cites strong demand and institutional interest, while emphasizing resilient assets like Strategy (MSTR) as a Bitcoin proxy amidst market volatility.

_Ethereum L2s shift from scaling to specialized use cases like gaming, DeFi, and enterprise solutions._ _Ethereum L1 remains the core settlement layer and DeFi hub with ongoing scalability upgrades._ _Blob usage at 30% shows room for growth as Ethereum works to improve network

Crypto reporter Eleanor Terrett reports that the latest CLARITY legislative draft may prohibit platforms from providing yield on stablecoins, while allowing user behavior rewards that must not be construed as "interest-like." The draft requires regulators to define compliant rewards and may increase the difficulty of incentive design. Overall, the draft is stricter than previous versions while retaining transaction behavior incentive mechanisms.

Goldman Sachs predicts that due to soaring energy prices and conflicts in the Middle East, the likelihood of a U.S. recession has increased to 30%, and the unemployment rate forecast has been raised to 4.6%. GDP growth is expected to be below trend in the second half of the year, inflation will rise, and global GDP may be affected.

The Aave community overwhelmingly supports the V4 upgrade for Ethereum, featuring a modular design for improved liquidity and risk management. A governance vote is set to finalize its implementation, signaling a positive shift after recent internal conflicts.

Spanish authorities have arrested a suspect allegedly involved in the kidnapping of Ledger co-founder David Balland, a case that has drawn widespread attention. The suspect is accused of participating in the kidnapping and extortion, demanding 10 million euros. Balland was rescued after being held captive for 48 hours, during which the kidnappers subjected him to brutal torture.