Gate News report: On March 17, Cboe (Chicago Board Options Exchange) submitted a proposal to the U.S. SEC, planning to launch nearly 24x5 U.S. stock trading hours on its EDGX exchange in December 2026. This would provide extended trading services for 5 trading days per week, approximately 24 hours per day.

Ledger Asia-Pacific head Shibayama stated that if the US implements a stablecoin yield ban, international discussions would increase. Countries like Australia have already provided regulatory exemptions, and currently most stablecoins do not offer yields to users. US regulatory legislation is progressing slowly due to opposition to ban provisions supported by the banking industry. Asian financial institutions' focus has shifted toward financial product tokenization and stablecoin issuance, rather than crypto-native products such as DeFi.

Gate News report: On March 15, according to monitoring by on-chain analyst Ai Auntie (@ai_9684xtpa), a certain whale address established a position of 3.667 million THE tokens one month ago at an average price of $0.2693. After an attacker launched a flash loan attack on Venus causing THE's price to surge, the address transferred all THE tokens to a certain CEX. If sold, it would realize a profit of $729,000.

Gate News report: On March 15, according to Caixin.com, the 2026 FIFA World Cup set to kick off in June may become the World Cup with the highest "AI concentration" ever. Industry insiders estimate that during the World Cup period, global daily Token consumption could reach approximately 5.35 quadrillion, of which Token consumption related to the World Cup would be approximately 1.6 quadrillion. In comparison, global Token consumption at the beginning of this year was approximately 2 trillion per day.

Gate News reported that on March 13, ElizaOS founder Shaw posted on Twitter accusing law firm Burwick Law of still failing to help victims recover any funds to date, and alleged that Burwick Law publicly defamed the project team, claiming they held no token supply until receiving donations. In response, Burwick Law stated it would retain all of Shaw's tweets attacking and threatening the law firm.