Gate News: On March 19, Circle, the issuer of USDC, announced the appointment of a senior Microsoft executive to its board of directors. This personnel adjustment comes amid intensifying competition in the AI agent (Agentic) space. Circle, the issuer of USDC, the world's second-largest stablecoin, views this board expansion as an important move in the company's technology strategy positioning.

Gate News reported that on March 19, according to Lookonchain monitoring, trader BlueHorseshoe86 placed a $92,000 bet on the prediction market platform Polymarket, predicting that the United States and Iran will reach a ceasefire before April 15 or April 30. This trader previously made $260,000 in profits by betting on the "Maduro's downfall" event.

South Korea's main opposition party has proposed canceling the digital asset tax plan scheduled for implementation in 2027, planning to revise the Income Tax Law to completely exempt taxation on cryptocurrency gains. The tax system was originally scheduled to be implemented in 2022 but has been repeatedly delayed due to industry opposition.

Gate News reported that on March 19, according to HyperInsight monitoring, "Da Ge Ma Ji" Huang Licheng's address just increased his ETH long position to 11,200 ETH (approximately $24.4 million USD), with an average entry price of $2,226.86 USD, currently showing an unrealized loss of $530,000 USD.

Gate News reported that on March 19, the Bank of England will announce its interest rate decision (the central bank's policy decision on whether to adjust the benchmark interest rate) and meeting minutes at 20:00 Beijing time tonight, and the European Central Bank will announce its interest rate decision at 21:15. Affected by the Middle East conflict, the monetary policies of the two major central banks face uncertainty. The market expects this meeting to maintain a wait-and-see stance, but bets on future rate hikes continue to increase.

Gate News reports that on March 19, according to fees.pump.fun data, Pump.fun has repurchased approximately $332 million worth of PUMP tokens, reducing the circulating supply by 30.015%. This large-scale buyback occurred when PUMP's market price was $0.001882, down 10.42% over the past 24 hours.

Gate News report: On March 19, Wells Fargo released an analysis of the Federal Reserve's March FOMC (Federal Open Market Committee) meeting decision. Wells Fargo noted that the Federal Reserve preserved policy optionality (Optionality preserved) during this meeting, while still projecting future rate cuts (cuts still projected). Detailed analysis content has not yet been disclosed.

This article summarizes cryptocurrency news for March 19, 2026, focusing on the latest Bitcoin updates, Ethereum upgrades, Dogecoin trends, real-time cryptocurrency prices, and price predictions. Today's major events in the Web3 sector include: 1. ETFs Absorb Over $1.1 Billion but Struggle to Save the Market? Powell and Oil Prices Team Up to Pressure Bitcoin, Breaking Key Support Levels; 2. Evernorth Submits IPO Application, Plans to Raise $1 Billion to Build the Largest XRP Treasury Company; 3. Federal Reserve Hawks Signal Weighs on Bitcoin, Multiple OGs Sell Over $100 Million in BTC.

Ripple Chief Technology Officer David Schwartz stated that despite XRP's role in the payments space and rising institutional adoption, its current price of approximately $1.50 may be undervalued, noting that market participants will exploit pricing discrepancies to correct the price.

Venus Protocol's $THE market suffered an attack, resulting in approximately $2.15 million in bad debt. The attacker bypassed supply caps by borrowing to purchase $THE, causing exchange rate inflation. Following the incident, Justin Sun and other holders made substantial XVS deposits.