Gate News message. On March 31, U.S. stock today opened, and the three major indexes surged sharply. The Dow Jones Industrial Average (Dow) rose 1.18%, the S&P 500 Index (S&P 500) rose 1.08%, and the Nasdaq Composite Index (Nasdaq) rose 1.3%. On individual stocks, Marvell Technology Group (MRVL.O) jumped 9%; Nvidia invested $2.0 billion in Marvell to advance silicon photonics collaboration.

Oskar Thoren of the Ethereum Foundation said at the EthCC conference that privacy should be core infrastructure for Ethereum, emphasizing the importance of protecting business strategies and transaction privacy, as well as how the maturity of privacy technologies supports institutions. He introduced three R&D directions of the Privacy Maintainers team: privacy writing, privacy reading, and privacy proofs, to advance Ethereum’s privacy protection.

By the end of March 2026, due to remarks by Iran’s parliamentary speaker and comments by Trump that influenced the U.S. stock market sentiment, the U.S. stock market experienced volatility, and the S&P 500’s market capitalization rebounded by approximately $900 billion in the short term. The market is highly sensitive and responds noticeably to political statements. Despite the stock market rebound, oil prices remain high, and ongoing geopolitical impacts continue to attract investor attention; the future market trend will depend on the progress of negotiations.

The U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) has recently approved new rules allowing brokers to use S&P 500 and Russell 1000 constituent stocks as collateral in securities lending. This change gives institutional investors greater flexibility in capital deployment and is expected to improve market liquidity, potentially affecting the logic behind risk-asset pricing. How institutions adopt it in the future will be a key point to watch.

According to Gate News, on March 31 at the close of U.S. stocks, the Dow Jones Industrial Average inched up 0.11%, while the S&P 500 and the Nasdaq Composite fell 0.39% and 0.73%, respectively. The crypto sector broadly declined, with multiple tokens down more than 8%. Meanwhile, msx.com is a decentralized RWA trading platform that supports various U.S. stock and ETF tokens.

Gate News reports that on March 30, Lei Jun, the founder of Xiaomi, stated that Xiaomi's R&D and capital expenditure in the AI field this year has reached 16 billion yuan, and significant progress has been made on projects such as foundational large models, embodied intelligent robots, and smartphones. Now, the special recruitment for AI talent has officially started, including three major recruitment projects: top talent, campus recruitment, and internships, to create a one-stop, borderless channel for attracting AI talent.

Gate News reports that as of March 30, according to Gate's market data, AIA (AIA Chain) is currently priced at $0.129, up 28.28% in the past 24 hours, with a high of $0.15 and a low of $0.099. The 24-hour trading volume reached $5.4737 million. The current market capitalization is approximately $12.8335 million. DeAgentAI is the largest AI agent infrastructure covering the Sui, BSC, and BTC ecosystems, providing AI agents with on-chain trustless autonomous decision-making capabilities. DeAgentAI ensures the reliability of AI agents in consensus, authentication, and continuity by introducing the DeAgent distributed decision-making framework. Its core innovations include Executor & Co.

Bitmine Chairman Tom Lee said that the current crypto market may have already bottomed out and that the decline could end before 2026. He pointed to the correlation between Ethereum and the S&P 500’s drop, and noted that long-term holders are maintaining their positions, suggesting the market may be entering an accumulation phase. Bitmine has recently increased its holdings by more than 65,000 ETH.

On March 29, The Kobeissi Letter released an analysis stating that U.S. tech stocks have entered undervalued territory, with the forward price-to-earnings ratio premium of the information technology index reaching a seven-year low, suggesting it may be a good time to buy tech stocks.

Gate News message, March 29, according to data from Alternative.me, today the Crypto Fear & Greed Index has fallen to 9, down further from yesterday’s 12, and the market is still in an “extreme fear” state.