HYPE price rebounded to $42 on March 18, reaching a new high in nearly 4 months. The largest long whale's unrealized profits expanded to $4.7 million, with withdrawals of approximately $4.4 million. The whale's position reached $58.1 million with a floating return rate of 41%, liquidation price rose to $30.15, funding rate losses have reached $1.66 million, and the position remains unclosed, having been held for nearly five months.
March 18, Gate News reported that the crypto market overall retreated, with Bitcoin declining 1.92% to below $74,000 and Ethereum falling 1.30% to above $2,300. RWA, PayFi, and other sectors experienced widespread declines, but individual projects such as Siren and River rose against the trend.
March 18, bitcoin consolidated at high levels, HYPE surged and broke through $42. Trader "Maji" reduced HYPE long positions and increased BTC long positions, with total holdings reaching $33.61 million, profits of $2.4 million over the past week, holdings include ETH, BTC and HYPE.
A court in Zhangqiu District, Jinan, Shandong Province heard a virtual currency investment case, ruling that Liu's entrusted contract for investing in "Alpha Coin" was invalid because he participated in illegal financial activities, and losses must be borne by himself. The judge cautioned that virtual currency transactions are not protected by law.
Gate News Report: On March 18, according to on-chain analyst Ai Yi (@ai_9684xtpa) monitoring, 5 new addresses withdrew a total of 29,598 ETH from a certain CEX 8 hours ago, valued at approximately $68.94 million, with an average withdrawal price of $2,329.
LazAI團隊的論文《QoS-Aware Token Scheduling and Private Data Valuation for Multi-Modal Agentic Networks》被IEEE ICME 2026正式錄用，聚焦AI Agent網絡的Token調度優化和隱私數據估值。此次錄用標誌著LazAI的技術路線獲得學術界認可。
On March 18, a prediction platform showed that an account bet nearly $100,000 at a 57% win rate on the Nuggets beating the 76ers, with an opening price of 91¢. The game will take place at 10 AM this morning, with the Nuggets' record at 41-27 and the 76ers' record at 16-50.
On March 18th, gold and silver prices rose slightly, reaching $5,012.28/oz and $79.833/oz respectively. Bitcoin and Ethereum volatility indices showed mixed performance, while the US dollar rose slightly in the foreign exchange market. Global stock indices generally rose, while WTI and Brent crude oil prices declined.
U.S. Pentagon plans to introduce multiple large language models into government environments to gradually replace Anthropic systems due to supply chain risks raised by contract terms. Meanwhile, agreements have been signed with OpenAI and xAI, allowing the use of new technologies in classified systems, with the transition period expected to exceed one month.
Gate News reported that on March 18, Bitcoin Core released v31.0rc1 release candidate, which is the next major version following v30.2. The version is currently open for testing, and developers can download binary files and review the release notes. The official version is expected to be released after subsequent testing is completed.
