U.S. Senator Elizabeth Warren has expressed concern about Beast Industries' acquisition of fintech company Step and has requested more information. Warren emphasized that financial services should be cautious and compliant, especially those targeting children. Step allows minors to open bank accounts under guardianship, aiming to improve young users' financial literacy and management skills.

Gate News reports that on March 27, according to Gate Market data, NKN (NKN) is currently priced at $0.01559, up 118.83% in the past 24 hours. The highest price reached $0.02823, while the lowest dropped to $0.00651. The 24-hour trading volume is $1.8728 million. The current market capitalization is approximately $12.4498 million. NKN (New Kind of Network) is an open, decentralized, community-driven network infrastructure and ecosystem powered by blockchain technology. NKN incentivizes internet users to share network connections and utilize unused bandwidth through economic rewards. Its innovative features include dynamic routing, network relay proof, highly scalable consensus mechanisms, and resource sharing incentives.

Apple plans to open Siri to third-party AI assistants in the upcoming iOS 27 update, aiming to turn the iPhone into an AI platform and connect with competing service providers. At the same time, Siri will be integrated with the newly developed AI chatbot application.

Gate News reports that on March 26, the US stock market opened lower, with all three major indices declining. The Dow Jones Industrial Average (Dow) fell 0.48%, the S&P 500 dropped 0.74%, and the Nasdaq Composite declined 1.12%. Additionally, crypto-related concept stocks generally declined.

The Sonic SVM Foundation announced on March 26th that it has acquired the market-making tool developer ForgeX and open-sourced its ForgeX CLI product. This tool provides Solana developers with various on-chain operation features, including token creation, cross-DEX market making, and more, outputting structured JSON format for easy AI agent integration.

Reflection AI plans to raise its funding target from $2 billion to $2.5 billion, with its valuation expected to increase from $20 billion to $25 billion. This will be one of the largest funding rounds in the open-source AI field, aiming to build a freely accessible AI model ecosystem. JPMorgan Chase and existing investors will participate in the investment.

According to CoinGlass data, on March 26th, ETH's total contract trading volume across the network decreased by 8.21%, now totaling $46.33 billion. The trading volumes on various exchanges were $9.474 billion, $8.247 billion, and $5.443 billion, with open interest approximately $30.262 billion.

The trading volume of mainstream Perp DEX platforms has generally declined, but open interest remains high. Hyperliquid's 24-hour trading volume is $7.03 billion, while EdgeX and Aster are at $3.03 billion and $2.03 billion, respectively.

BlockBeats News, March 26 — According to Onchainlens monitoring, as ETH drops below $2100, "Brother Maji" Huang Licheng's ETH long position was liquidated again, but he immediately opened a new ETH (25x) long position. In addition, "Maji's" losses have now exceeded $30.7 million.

Between 09:30 and 09:45 (UTC) on March 26, 2026, BTC prices experienced a short-term decline within the range of 69,442.8 to 70,026.0 USDT. The 15-minute return was -0.75%, with an amplitude of 0.83%. Market attention remained high during the event window, volatility increased significantly, and short-term selling pressure was notably released. The main drivers of this movement were the increased leverage in the derivatives market and hedging effects before options expiration. Open interest in futures contracts reached $18–20 billion, and funding rates further rose to +0.51%.