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European crypto asset management company CoinShares has completed its merger with SPAC company Vine Hill Capital and will begin trading on Nasdaq today under the ticker symbol CSHR.The transaction values the company at approximately $1.2 billion and includes a $50 million investment from institutional investors.

Sources close to the White House say that as the Iran war enters its second month, senior White House aides and government officials are discussing the possibility of oil prices soaring to $150 a barrel or even higher records.Two industry officials in contact with the White House indicated that White House officials are assessing the impact of high oil prices on the economy and considering measures to reduce costs, including the use of additional emergency powers. Trump has also received reports from the Treasury Department regarding the recent outlook for energy prices. The U.S. Treasury currently believes that oil prices may remain above $100 a barrel for some time.Sources say the government views this figure as a "baseline" and does not rule out the possibility of oil prices rising to $200 a barrel. Another informed official revealed that the government is trying every possible idea to alleviate oil prices, including exercising emergency powers and responding to supply chain disruptions in the Strait of Hormuz for defense reasons.

According to Jinshi Data, Christopher Wong, a strategist at OCBC Bank in Singapore, stated that as people expect the Middle East conflict to ease and the strength of the dollar has weakened, the safe-haven demand for gold has begun to re-emerge. This further proves that gold has not lost its appeal as a safe-haven asset. It was once pushed out of the market by the dollar, and now that pressure is easing.In the short term, gold prices may continue to be influenced by expectations of the Federal Reserve's policy path, the movement of the dollar, and changes in the geopolitical situation. However, this rebound indicates that price declines may still find support unless real yields rise significantly.

According to a report by the WSJ, Meta Platforms (META.O) CEO Mark Zuckerberg hopes that everyone inside and outside the company will eventually have their own personal AI agent, starting with himself. According to insiders, Zuckerberg is developing a CEO agent to help him manage work affairs.The agent is still in development and is helping Zuckerberg access information more quickly. For example, it retrieves responses that would typically require layers of communication to obtain. The use of AI tools has rapidly spread within Meta, partly because it has now become a consideration in employee performance evaluations.Insiders revealed that Meta's internal message board is filled with employees sharing newly discovered AI cases and the new tools they are building with AI. Employees have begun using personal agent tools like My Claw, which can access their chat histories and work documents and communicate on their behalf with colleagues (or their colleagues' personal agents). There is even a group on the internal message board where employee personal agents communicate with each other.

According to a report by Jinshi Data, to help users safely use OpenClaw, the National Internet Emergency Center and the China Cybersecurity Association jointly released the OpenClaw Safe Use Practice Guidelines on March 22, aimed at ordinary users, enterprise users, cloud service providers, and technical developers, providing security protection recommendations. Among the suggestions for ordinary users are: using dedicated devices, virtual machines, or containers to install OpenClaw, ensuring environmental isolation, and not installing it on daily office computers; not running OpenClaw with administrator or superuser privileges; not storing or processing private data in the OpenClaw environment; and timely updating to the latest version of OpenClaw. Recommendations for cloud service providers include conducting security assessments and hardening of the basic security layer of cloud hosts; deploying and integrating security protection capabilities; and ensuring supply chain and data security protection.

According to WSJ, OpenAI plans to merge ChatGPT, Codex, and its browser into a single desktop "super app" aimed at simplifying the user experience.

The Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) has issued a warning that fake tokens impersonating the FBI have appeared on the Tron network, urging users to remain vigilant.The FBI's New York field office stated on social media that users who receive tokens claiming to be from the FBI in their wallets should exercise caution and never provide any personal identification information to related websites. According to disclosed information, these scams typically operate based on the TRC-20 token standard, where attackers send so-called "FBI tokens" to users' wallets and threaten to freeze assets under the pretext of violating anti-money laundering (AML) regulations, thereby inducing users to submit sensitive information and executing phishing attacks. The FBI also recommends that users report any suspicious activities through its Internet Crime Complaint Center (IC3). It is currently unclear how many users have been affected.

According to PRNewswire, the crypto startup Evernorth, supported by Ripple, announced that it has publicly submitted an S-4 registration statement to the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) regarding its previously announced business combination with the SPAC company Armada Acquisition Corp. II, sponsored by Arrington Capital, with the goal of becoming an XRP treasury company listed on Nasdaq.Previously, in October last year, it was reported that Evernorth plans to go public in the U.S. and raise over $1 billion to accumulate XRP tokens.

According to official news, digital asset wealth management platform Abra Financial Holdings, Inc. today announced a definitive merger agreement with special purpose acquisition company New Providence Acquisition Corp. III (Nasdaq: NPACU), which will go public through a SPAC.The new company is expected to be listed on Nasdaq after the merger, with the stock ticker "ABRX". The core terms of the transaction include:Transaction valuation: Based on Abra's $750 million pre-money equity valuation;Capital injection: The transaction is expected to bring up to $300 million in cash (held in a trust account, subject to shareholder redemptions);Shareholder structure: Existing Abra shareholders will transfer 100% of their equity to the merged company, including well-known institutions such as Adams Street, Blockchain Capital, RRE Ventures, and SBI;Market positioning: Serving the $100 trillion wealth management market, focusing on digital assets and tokenization.

According to Jinshi News, the International Energy Agency (IEA) stated that oil from emergency reserves will soon begin to flow into the global market, with stocks from Asian and Oceanian countries available for immediate use, while stocks from Europe and the Americas will be available by the end of March.Governments have committed to releasing 271.7 million barrels of crude oil from strategic petroleum reserves and 116.6 million barrels of crude oil from mandatory industry reserves, with member countries in the Americas providing 172.2 million barrels of oil. Of the planned oil release, 72% is crude oil and 28% is petroleum products.

According to statistics from ultrasound.money, the circulating supply of Ethereum has increased by over 1 million since the merge, with a total circulating supply of approximately 121.53 million. The annualized inflation rate of Ethereum since the merge is about 0.24%.

According to statistics from ultrasound.money, the circulating supply of Ethereum has increased by over 1 million since the merge, with a total circulating supply of approximately 121.53 million. The annualized inflation rate of Ethereum since the merge is about 0.24%.

Coinbase Institutional published an analysis on platform X, pointing out that amidst recent geopolitical turmoil disrupting traditional financial markets, sentiment in the crypto market may be shifting, especially with Bitcoin showing relatively strong performance.Since the beginning of this year, Bitcoin's performance has outpaced the U.S. stock market, and market views suggest that the crypto market may be gradually emerging from a "period of extreme pessimism." The latest macro data indicates that U.S. non-farm employment growth is cooling, challenging the previous narrative that "the labor market remains resilient." Meanwhile, Bitcoin's value proposition as a relatively independent asset may be further enhanced in the eyes of institutional investors. Additionally, the rise in systematic leverage ratios reflects an improvement in participation in the crypto market. However, the market remains cautiously optimistic, with investors still waiting for further confirmation of the trend and continuously monitoring whether market participation can support a sustained upward trend.

The main development branch of the Bitcoin client Bitcoin Core has merged the Cluster Mempool update (PR #34616), which is expected to be included in the upcoming Bitcoin Core 31 release.This upgrade will redesign the way nodes manage pending transactions (mempool) by grouping related transactions for processing, aiming to improve block packing efficiency and optimize fee calculations for RBF and CPFP transactions. Bitcoin Core 31 is expected to be released in the second half of 2026.

The National Internet Emergency Center has issued a security risk alert for the OpenClaw application. Previously, due to improper installation and use of the OpenClaw agent, some serious security risks have emerged. It is recommended that relevant organizations and individual users take the following security measures when deploying and using OpenClaw:Strengthen network control by not exposing the default management port of OpenClaw directly to the public internet. Implement security management for access services through identity authentication, access control, and other security measures. Strictly isolate the operating environment and use technologies such as containers to limit the excessive permissions of OpenClaw;Enhance credential management by avoiding storing keys in plaintext in environment variables; establish a complete operational log audit mechanism;Strictly manage the sources of plugins, disable the automatic update feature, and only install signed extensions from trusted channels;Continuously monitor patches and security updates, and promptly perform version updates and install security patches.

According to informed sources, the two top regulatory agencies on Wall Street, the CFTC and SEC, are discussing plans to move into the same complex in Washington, D.C., just steps away from the U.S. Capitol.The Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) and the Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC) oversee different markets. According to these sources, the plan will not merge the two agencies but is discussing relocating the CFTC to the same complex where the SEC is currently located, near Union Station. This relocation plan has been under discussion since last year, and according to these sources, it may not be implemented until as early as 2027. The agency responsible for overseeing federal real estate—the General Services Administration (GSA)—is also involved in these discussions.

Glassnode posted on social media that the outflow momentum of BTC spot ETF has slowed down, and the net inflow trend on the 14th has turned upward, indicating that as BTC breaks above $70,000, the selling pressure is easing. Although institutional demand still appears hesitant, early signs of re-accumulation have begun to emerge.