As of March 15, China's AI large language models reached a weekly call volume of 4.69 trillion Tokens, surpassing the US for the second consecutive week, with all top three global rankings occupied by Chinese models. JPMorgan Chase predicts that AI inference Token consumption will grow significantly.

On March 22, following Trump's ultimatum to Iran, Bitcoin fell below $69,200, declining 2.2% over 24 hours. Market sentiment impacted mainstream crypto assets broadly, with declines across the board despite the Federal Reserve maintaining interest rates unchanged. War risk has made traders cautious. If Iran fails to restore Strait of Hormuz passage, the conflict could escalate, impacting global energy transportation.

Gate News reported on March 22 that Resolv Labs issued a statement on the X platform stating that the security incident involving unauthorized minting of USR tokens remains under investigation. Currently, the collateral asset pool remains fully adequate, with no loss of underlying assets, and the issue appears to be limited to the issuance mechanism of USR. The team's current priorities include containing the incident, assessing potential impacts, and ensuring that legitimate users are not affected. Resolv Labs stated that it will continue to advance the investigation and disclose more progress as soon as possible.

Ethereum co-founder Vitalik Buterin praised the mathematical analytical capabilities of AI model Qwen 35B, particularly its performance in parsing the Willans formula. He was impressed by the model's ability to complete complex calculations in a short timeframe and called its approach of combining modular arithmetic with elementary functions very cool.

Gate News reports that on March 22, DeFi risk management protocol Gauntlet released a statement stating that the USR abnormal issuance event did not affect most Gauntlet treasuries, with limited impact on a small number of high-yield vaults. Gauntlet stated that it will continue to update information and release subsequent progress based on the team's response to the current situation and liquidity management.

Zhipu Z.ai's global head Li Zixuan revealed that GLM-5 leads human benchmarks in the Prediction Arena prediction market with a 42.99% return rate, becoming the only AI model to surpass humans. The model executed 98 trades with outstanding performance.

Gate News reported that on March 22, Pan Gongsheng, Governor of the People's Bank of China, stated at the China Development Forum 2026 Annual Conference that the central bank will continue to implement a moderately loose monetary policy, comprehensively utilizing various monetary policy tools such as the reserve requirement ratio, policy interest rates, and open market operations to maintain ample liquidity. (China News Service)

March 22 News: Ethereum spot ETFs experienced a net outflow of $41.9715 million on March 20, marking the third consecutive day of capital outflows. Among these, BlackRock's Staked ETH ETF had a net inflow of $5.4658 million, while BlackRock's ETF ETHA saw a net outflow of $31.4508 million. Currently, Ethereum spot ETFs have total net assets of $12.328 billion, with cumulative net inflows of $11.729 billion throughout history.

On March 20, Bitcoin spot ETFs had a total net outflow of $52.1092 million, with outflows continuing for the third consecutive day. VanEck ETF HODL had a net inflow of $2.9646 million, with cumulative historical net inflows reaching $1.182 billion; BlackRock's IBIT had a net outflow of $45.9441 million, with historical net inflows totaling $63.257 billion. The current total net asset value of Bitcoin spot ETFs stands at $90.301 billion.

Katie Haun pointed out in an interview that the global payments sector is facing an arms race, with Mastercard entering the stablecoin market through its $1.8 billion acquisition of BVNK. Meanwhile, the CFTC and SEC jointly released guidance, and Congress urgently needs to advance the CLARITY Act. She believes AI will increasingly participate in trading, with stablecoins serving as the foundational infrastructure supporting this transformation.