According to Bloomberg analyst Eric Balchunas, the USO crude oil ETF experienced unusually high trading activity on March 9, with a single-day trading volume exceeding $7.6 billion, setting a new record. Since it primarily tracks oil prices through futures contracts, long-term holding may face cost and price retracement risks, so investors should exercise caution. This surge in trading volume mainly resulted from the participation of professional traders and high-risk retail investors.

The report shows that the SOPR indicator for short-term Bitcoin holders has been below 1 for 7 out of the past 8 days, indicating they are selling below cost. Additionally, the supply has decreased to 5.92 million BTC, reflecting realized losses or a shift to long-term holding.

Gate News Report, March 8 — According to Ember Monitoring, 1 hour ago, an address liquidated and cleared 115.6 WBTC on-chain, incurring a loss of $4.48 million. The cost basis of the WBTC for this address was $105,431, while the selling price today was $67,070. The sale of 115.6 WBTC was exchanged for 7.753 million DAI.

Affected by the Middle East conflict, the closure of UAE airspace has led to flight restrictions, gold transportation disruptions, and traders selling gold below the London benchmark price by $30 to avoid cost pressures. Although some cargo has been loaded onto departing flights, a large amount of goods remain stranded.

Blockchain project Doppler announces that its token issuance platform has officially expanded to the Solana network, offering native integration with the Solana Virtual Machine (SVM). This move will optimize developer tools, streamline the token issuance process, improve efficiency, and lower technical barriers. Doppler focuses on the SVM architecture, responding to Solana's high throughput and low-cost advantages, helping more projects quickly build digital assets and promote ecosystem development.

U.S. Q4 2025 labor productivity growth at an annual rate of 2.8%, exceeding expectations, indicating that companies are improving efficiency through new technologies to control costs. This trend helps ease wage pressures and suggests that the labor market is no longer driving inflation. AI investment growth is one of the key factors.

ChainCatcher reports that, according to market sources, the current Bitcoin mining cost has reached $70,027 per coin.

Odaily Planet Daily reports that on-chain analyst Ai Yi monitored that the address on OPN purchased 342,996 tokens immediately after Alpha went live, spending $200,000 at a cost of $0.5831 per token. The tokens were then transferred twice to storage addresses, currently with an unrealized loss of $39,000.

According to the Volcano Engine official website, the Seedance2.0 pricing has been announced. The cost including video input is 28 RMB per million tokens, and excluding video input is 46 RMB per million tokens. Generating a 15-second video requires 308,880 tokens, costing approximately 15 RMB, which is about 1 RMB per second. Additionally, the two pricing options correspond to different service features.

ChainCatcher News, according to Jinshi reports, Federal Reserve's Schmid said that the cost of losing inflation credibility will be high.