Hong Kong Legislative Councilor Wu Jiezhuang said that Hong Kong does not have an official currency. Some citizens and Web3 practitioners have asked me about someone impersonating the Chief Executive to post on the X platform that they will launch the Hong Kong Coin on the Solana chain (launch of the National Hong Kong Coin). The government has sternly clarified that the information is absolutely false and intentionally deceptive. Please remember to be careful and not to mislead and fall victim to fraud.

Robinhood will host financial, economic, and cryptocurrency-themed guessing games in its mobile app, and will distribute over $2 million worth of Bitcoin and Dogecoin rewards to participants. The first round of guessing, which starts at 4:45 PM (EDT) today, requires participants to answer 12 multiple-choice questions, with a time limit of 10 seconds per question. Users who answer all questions correctly will share a daily $1 million Bitcoin prize pool, and if no one gets all answers correct, the pool will be divided among users with the most correct answers.

The International Monetary Fund believes that Namibia does not have convincing reasons to issue retail central bank digital currency (CBDC). Instead, the focus should be on strengthening Instant Payment Solutions (IPS) to address affordability and interoperability issues.

Former Federal Reserve Chairman Bernanke stated that the recent global inflation acceleration may make it more difficult for central banks to control prices in the future. Bernanke suggested that central bank governors may be more vigilant in allowing prices to soar again. He cited research showing that the Federal Reserve policymakers in the 1970s (a period of economic shock from oil prices) were "generally more hawkish than younger people."

On March 6th, according to the meeting records of the Cryptocurrency Working Group of the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC), on March 5th, 2025, the staff of the Cryptocurrency Working Group met with representatives of Circle Internet Financial, LLC, as well as representatives of WisdomTree Digital Management, Inc. and its affiliates, to discuss methods for addressing issues related to cryptocurrency regulation. Circle and WisdomTree each provided accompanying documents, which were discussed during the meeting.

According to on-chain analyst @ai_9684xtpa, one of the AI agent token market makers, Amber Group, recharged 3.49 million tokens (3.04 million U.S. dollars) to Bybit 12 hours ago. After recharging the tokens, the coin price experienced a roller coaster ride: VIRTUAL surged by 40.5% in a short period of time (from $0.871 to $1.2236), then continued to fall for 7 hours, and is now priced at $0.8529.

The New Hampshire House Commerce Committee passed the Bitcoin Reserve Bill (HB302) with a vote of 16 to 1, and the bill will now enter the full House vote stage. If finally passed, the state treasurer will be authorized to invest 5% of the state fund in digital assets, currently only Bitcoin meets the $500 billion market value standard specified in the bill.

Goldman Sachs stated that it is expected that the European Central Bank's benchmark interest rate will reach 2% by June. It is expected that the central bank will not cut interest rates in July, while the previous forecast was a cut of 25 basis points. (FXStreet)

According to OnchainLens monitoring, Circle has minted an additional 250 million USDC on Solana. As of now, they have minted a total of 9.25 billion USDC on Solana by 2025.

According to a White House source, Cardano co-founder Charles Hoskinson was not invited to the White House cryptocurrency summit on March 8.

According to on-chain analyst The Data Nerd (@OnchainDataNerd), in the past 24 hours, multiple whale addresses have withdrawn large amounts of Ethereum from exchanges such as Binance, Gate, and OKX.

According to official sources, Pendle has launched the Community Launch, which will open up the revenue market deployment to external protocols. This move marks an important step for Pendle towards a fully autonomous and permissionless revenue market. Users will also have access to a more diverse range of asset investment choices on Pendle.

According to Onchain Lens monitoring, a whale unlocked and unstaked 63,208 SOL tokens (worth $9.33 million) after a 3-month hibernation.

OpenAI plans to charge $20,000 per month (approximately 145,000 RMB) for AI Agents that have reached the level of a PhD. These "PhD level" AI Agents are able to handle complex tasks in academic research and software development. It is reported that OpenAI plans to launch three types of AI Agents, with monthly fees ranging from $2,000 to $20,000.

According to official sources, the hardware-accelerated SVM project Solayer has launched native SOL staking, with the related page showing a direct yield rate of 12%. The announcement stated that the staked SOL is used to secure the Solayer infiniSVM, which is a hardware-accelerated blockchain capable of outputting 1MM TPS.

South Korea is gradually approaching the decision on Bitcoin ETF. The Financial Supervisory Service of South Korea has reviewed the legislative trend of digital assets by the Financial Services Agency of Japan and shared it with domestic relevant institutions. Japan has been cautious about digital assets in the past, but is now considering positioning cryptocurrencies as financial products and may lift the ban on cryptocurrency ETFs.

According to TraderT monitoring, the net inflow of the US spot Bitcoin ETF was 21.7 million US dollars yesterday.

According to Lookonchain monitoring, Tokenomist data shows that Ethena unlocked 2.07 billion ENA tokens yesterday (worth $740.71 million, accounting for 39.17% of the circulating supply). In the past two days, 12 wallets in total deposited 125 million ENA tokens (worth $45 million) into Binance, Bybit, and FalconX.

According to Globenewswire, the technology company BioNexus Gene Lab Corp. (NASDAQ stock code: BGLC), dedicated to technological innovation and healthcare, announced that its board of directors has officially approved the company's new Ethereum-focused financial strategy. This decision marks BGLC as the first NASDAQ-listed company to prioritize Ethereum as a strategic financial asset exclusively, in line with the recent announcement of Ethereum being included in the US "cryptocurrency strategic reserve".<br>

According to official sources, the cryptocurrency custody institution Hex Trust announced that it has obtained a major payment institution (MPI) license issued by the Monetary Authority of Singapore (MAS). The license was issued on March 1, 2025, authorizing Hex Trust to provide regulated cross-border remittance services and digital payment token (DPT) services. With this license, Hex Trust can now provide a fully integrated solution including custody, over-the-counter (OTC) trading, and settlement, while also covering fiat currency deposit and withdrawal services.