Gate News reports that on March 16, US Treasury Secretary Yellen stated that there are currently approximately 140 million barrels of Iranian crude oil at sea. She pointed out that if oil prices surge to $150, Russian President Putin would obtain more funding. Yellen emphasized that claims the Iranian government is running smoothly are entirely fallacious.
Gate News report states that on March 16, MicroStrategy purchased 22,337 bitcoins last week at an average price of $70,194 per coin, with a total value of approximately $1.5 billion.
Gate News reported that on March 16th, Onchain Lens monitoring showed that a certain whale address withdrew 413.7 bitcoins from a CEX 6 minutes ago, valued at approximately $30.44 million. Data shows that the whale currently holds a total of 2417 bitcoins, with a total value of approximately $177.97 million. All these bitcoins were accumulated within the past 41 days.
Streamex Corp. announced the appointment of Christine Plummer as the new Chief Financial Officer, with over 30 years of financial experience and having held important positions at several renowned companies. The CEO stated that her background will provide support for the company's commodity tokenization products.
Gate News reports that on March 16, a certain address spent $1,163,753 on Polymarket to buy the event "Iran attacks Israel on March 10" which already has a 100% probability, at a unit price of 99.9¢, with current profits of $600. The event will settle in approximately 13 hours. Additionally, Polymarket still does not charge fees for political events.
Gate News reported that on March 16, according to Lookonchain monitoring, Jane Street-associated addresses received 205.36 bitcoins from a certain CEX within the past 2 hours, valued at approximately $15.08 million.
2026-03-16 10:45 to 11:00 (UTC), ETH price achieved +0.84% return within the short-term cycle, with price range between 2258.25 to 2278.47 USDT and amplitude of 0.90%. Affected by the anomaly, market attention notably increased, volatility intensified in the short term, and investors' short-term trading activity was active. The main driving force of this anomaly is short-term large capital inflows and significantly increased long position transaction volume in the futures market. On-chain data shows that ETH transfer transaction count increased approximately 12% compared to the previous hour within this time window, with multiple large capital flows directed toward DeFi.
