
US February CPI Meets Expectations at 2.4% as Bitcoin Rallies Toward $71,000
US Consumer Price Index held steady at 2.4% in February, matching consensus forecasts. Bitcoin surged 2.3% toward $71,000 following the data release.
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US Consumer Price Index held steady at 2.4% in February, matching consensus forecasts. Bitcoin surged 2.3% toward $71,000 following the data release.

Hyperliquid's cumulative perpetual futures trading volume has surpassed $4 trillion after three years of operation. The team has also launched the HIP-4 prediction markets protocol on testnet.

The Ethrex team, alongside Ethereum Foundation and L2BEAT, has released a proof-of-concept implementation of native rollups under EIP-8079, where the base layer itself verifies L2 state transitions.

Binance released a comprehensive report addressing accusations of routing $1.7 billion to Iranian entities, revealing the multi-layered fund flow and rebutting key media claims.

CryptoQuant analysts have identified a stark divergence between Ethereum's record-breaking network activity and ETH's price decline of over 50% from recent peaks.

Multicoin Capital's investment partner Shayon Sengupta outlined a vision for Internet Labor Markets (ILM) — decentralized networks where a billion people will earn their first crypto by completing tasks, not buying tokens.

Google has significantly expanded Gemini AI capabilities across Docs, Sheets, Slides, and Drive, making the assistant more personalized and better suited for collaborative work.

Bitwise CIO Matt Hougan laid out the case for Bitcoin reaching $1 million, while on-chain analysts signal early bear market conditions and a potential drop below $60,000.

Jefferies analysts project stablecoin market cap could reach $1.15 trillion within five years, gradually eroding traditional bank deposits and squeezing margins.

A misconfiguration in Aave's Correlated Asset Price Oracle (CAPO) caused erroneous liquidations of wstETH positions worth approximately $26 million. The team is preparing a compensation plan for affected users.

Capital deployed by Ethena in market-neutral strategies collapsed from $2 billion to $800 million, pointing to historically weak demand for leveraged long positions.

Prediction market Polymarket has teamed up with Palantir Technologies to develop a real-time monitoring system for detecting suspicious sports betting activity, powered by the Vergence AI engine.

OpenAI has integrated Apple's Shazam music recognition service into ChatGPT, enabling users to identify songs via voice or text commands without leaving the app.

Bitfinex analysts argue that Bitcoin's trajectory is now shaped by oil prices, bond yields, and Fed policy rather than crypto-native developments.

Nvidia's Jensen Huang published an essay comparing AI's expansion to the age of electrification, arguing it will create millions of skilled trade jobs rather than destroy employment.

SoftBank stock dropped 9.8% on March 9 after OpenAI and Oracle abandoned plans to expand their joint Texas data center under the Stargate initiative. The company has lost nearly half its value in four months.

Arkham Intelligence tracked major crypto asset movements: BitMine sent 9,600 ETH to Coinbase Prime, while the Kingdom of Bhutan transferred 175 BTC from its main wallets.

The US Treasury Department has submitted a report to Congress that, for the first time at the federal level, acknowledges the legitimacy of crypto mixers as financial privacy instruments. The document also examines the interplay between mixers, stablecoins, and cross-chain bridges.

Microsoft has unveiled Cowork, a new AI agent built on Anthropic's Claude model that can autonomously handle complex multi-step tasks across the Microsoft 365 ecosystem.

Sonic Labs has introduced US Sonic Dollar (USSD), a native stablecoin backed 1:1 by U.S. Treasury bills from BlackRock, Superstate, and WisdomTree, built on Frax Finance infrastructure.
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