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Decentralized social media project Bluesky completed a $100 million Series B funding round in April 2025, led by Bain Capital Crypto with participation from multiple investors. Previously, in October 2024, Bluesky had completed a $15 million Series A funding round.

Ondo Finance's tokenized stock platform Ondo Global Markets recently expanded its scale, adding over 60 new tokenized stocks covering multiple key industries. To date, the platform has supported over 250 assets, becoming the largest tokenized stock platform by TVL.

Who holds more on the last day is less important; what matters is the long-term combined impact of these two entities on market structure.
Written by: Jawad Hussain
Compiled by: Blockchain Plain English
The world's largest asset management company and a 37-year-old software firm that has shifted all its assets into digital assets are engaged in an unprecedented large-scale race to accumulate Bitcoin in the crypto market.
As of March 16, 2026, BlackRock's iShares Bitcoin Trust (IBIT) holds 784,062 bitcoins. Meanwhile, MicroStrategy (now Strategy) holds 761,068 bitcoins.
The difference between the two is approximately 22,994 coins. At Strategy's current rate of purchase, this gap could be closed within days.

The Trump family's crypto project World Liberty Financial has launched an open-source AI agent payment toolkit called AgentPay SDK, which supports payments using the USD1 stablecoin on EVM chains and features self-custodial key management and policy-based transaction authorization. The SDK also allows AI Agents to purchase gift cards and other items, aiming to promote the adoption of USD1 in autonomous AI systems.

North Carolina formally introduced the Strategic Bitcoin Reserve Act (S327) on March 20, and the bill passed its first reading the day after submission. After approximately 12 months of review, the state-level Bitcoin holdings are expected to reach $2 billion by 2027.

Circle is essentially an interest-rate-sensitive financial infrastructure company that earns interest on reserves rather than subscription or transaction fees from a software platform.
Author: insights4vc
Compiled by: Techflow
Techflow Introduction: Circle has listed on the NYSE under the ticker symbol CRCL. But what kind of business is this company really in? Based on its FY2025 annual report, this article breaks down Circle's revenue structure layer by layer, the reserve model, revenue-sharing arrangements with Coinbase, and the growth status of USDC and EURC.
The author's core conclusion: Circle is essentially an interest-rate-sensitive financial infrastructure company that earns interest on reserves rather than subscription or transaction fees from a software platform. This conclusion directly impacts the valuation logic for the company.
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Aave Mantle market has reached a total scale of $1.34 billion, becoming the third-largest lending market on the Aave platform. Since Aave V3 launched on Mantle, the market size has continued to grow, surpassing $400 million in the first week and has now built global-level liquidity infrastructure.

Huawei announced at its China Partner Conference that it will continue to open-source its self-developed Pangu large model and plans to launch more industry-specific intelligent agents, including an enterprise-grade intelligent agent development platform and data intelligent agents. At the same time, Huawei will integrate over 160 mainstream models to provide differentiated capabilities.

On March 20, South Korea's stock market gave back early morning gains due to foreign investors' selling of 1.26 trillion Korean won. Samsung Electronics edged down 0.25%, while LG Energy Solution and Doosan Heavy Industries rose, while SK Square and Hanwha Aerospace both declined. Retail and institutional investors remained active in buying.

According to Caixin, 12 commercial banks may be connected to the central bank's digital yuan system, with newly added banks including national joint-stock banks such as Shanghai Pudong Development Bank, China Guangfa Bank, and Huaxia Bank, as well as local city commercial banks from Jiangsu and Beijing. Currently, 10 banks are already involved in digital yuan operations.

On-chain analyst Cinder detected that a whale address, over the past year, borrowed USDC by staking WBTC, then recycled the proceeds to buy WBTC in a loop. The address ultimately liquidated 742.8 WBTC at $70,266 per coin, resulting in a loss of approximately $14.02 million.

Ethereum spot ETFs saw a net outflow of $129.8 million on March 19, marking a significant increase compared to the previous day. BlackRock's $ETHA experienced an outflow of $100.9 million, becoming the largest source of outflows. Only BlackRock's staking version $ETHB achieved a net inflow of $7.61 million.

Morgan Stanley has submitted revised documents to the SEC for its Bitcoin spot ETF application, confirming that its Bitcoin trust will be listed on NYSE Arca under the ticker MSBT, with an expected fundraising of about $1 million. If approved, this would make it the first major U.S. bank to directly launch a Bitcoin spot ETF.