At a White House roundtable meeting, US President Trump announced that Amazon, Google, Meta, Microsoft, OpenAI, Oracle, and xAI have signed a non-binding agreement called the "Rate Taxpayer Protection Pledge," promising to "build, import, or purchase" the electricity needed for their data centers themselves, without passing the costs on to consumers. Trump stated that data centers "need some public relations help," as the public is concerned that data center construction will drive up electricity prices, but he claimed this would not happen. Previously, a report released in February by the Harvard Kennedy School indicated that the electricity demand of AI data centers in some areas has already exceeded existing supply capacity, and that data center electricity consumption could account for 12% of total US electricity consumption by 2028. Data from the US Energy Information Administration shows that residential electricity prices will rise by 6% in 2025 and are projected to continue rising through 2027 and 2028. The pledge requires companies to pay for all new power infrastructure needed for their data centers, regardless of whether it is used, and to commit to local hiring, providing skills training, and opening up backup generators to the grid. This pledge was announced ahead of the November midterm elections, and it remains unclear how the White House will ensure that companies fulfill their commitments.

NERO Chain has entered into a strategic partnership agreement with security technology solutions provider Taisys to jointly advance next-generation wallet authentication and user access services. The agreement was officially signed on March 3rd at the Mobile World Congress in Barcelona, ​​Spain. This collaboration aims to combine enterprise-grade security standards with Web3-native infrastructure to enhance user security and experience in on-chain services. By integrating NERO Chain's account abstraction capabilities and execution framework with Taisys's technical expertise in security authentication and user access management, both parties hope to provide users with a more intuitive, secure, and easy-to-use digital wallet solution.

On March 5th, Sahara AI officially announced its 2026 strategic roadmap. Based on its investment in the intelligent agent Sorin and the local deployment tool ClawApp based on OpenClaw, Sahara AI is driving a paradigm shift in AI from dialogue to autonomous execution. Its underlying architecture will fully incorporate long-term agent memory, multi-agent collaborative networks, and automatic settlement at the protocol layer, creating a closed loop for on-chain value transfer. Currently, Sahara AI serves over 40 top institutions, including Microsoft, Amazon, and MIT, and has generated tens of millions of dollars in revenue. In 2026, it will strive to evolve AI from an assistant into an autonomous productive force, upgrading life experiences while building a fair, open, and decentralized agentic economy.

@sillytuna, a user of an EthUSDC account, reported a $24 million (approximately $10 million) loss due to an address poisoning attack. She stated that the theft involved violence, weapons, kidnapping, and threats of rape, claiming she was beaten and threatened with having her limbs cut off. According to PyShield monitoring, the attack involved address poisoning, and @sillytuna's wallet suffered a loss of approximately $24 million (approximately $10 million) in athUSDC. About 20 million DAI coins are currently stored in two intermediary wallets controlled by the attacker and have not yet been mixed. The attacker has begun bridging small amounts of funds to Arbitrum. @sillytuna has launched a bounty, offering 10% of the recovered funds as a reward. Previous news: Soulcast co-founder's address suffered a $24 million (approximately $10 million) loss due to an address poisoning attack.

In an interview with CoinDesk at NEARCON 2026, Davide Crapis, Head of AI at the Ethereum Foundation, stated that as AI reshapes fields such as finance and cybersecurity, Ethereum will not merge with AI at the raw computing power level, but rather act as a coordination and verification layer in an increasingly AI-dominated world. Crapis pointed out that if AI systems lack attributes such as decentralization, autonomy, censorship resistance, and privacy, and people rely on AI to handle everything, then these attributes will cease to exist. Ethereum's AI strategy is not to compete with OpenAI or Google on model scale, but to ensure that AI becoming the interface to the internet does not quietly lead to a recentralization of power. The strategy encompasses two main directions: First, decentralized AI coordination, providing the infrastructure for autonomous AI agents to identify, establish trust, and exchange payments. The AI's computational work remains off-chain, with Ethereum supporting agent discovery and verification through a public registry, transparent historical records, payment routing, and cryptographic proofs. The relevant standard protocol, ERC-8004, is under development. Second, it introduces core principles such as privacy, openness, censorship resistance, and security into the AI ​​field, encouraging more AI processing to be performed on users' local devices, reducing the amount of information transmitted to centralized servers. Crapis also stated that AI systems may automate and scale up cyberattacks in the future, challenging traditional authentication methods, while cryptographic keys will become increasingly important due to their mathematically verifiable nature.

The Director of the U.S. Federal Housing Finance Agency, Pulte, has indicated that while the transformation is not yet fully realized, there is an impending recognition of technology's swift impact on the mortgage market. According to Jin10, Pulte emphasized the significant changes technology is bringing to the industry, suggesting that widespread acknowledgment of these advancements is imminent. The statement highlights the evolving landscape of mortgage financing, driven by technological innovations that are reshaping traditional processes and practices.

U.S. Defense Secretary Mark Esper stated on Wednesday, the 4th, that the United States and Israel could fully control Iranian airspace within a week. According to Ming Pao, White House spokesperson Levitt later added that the U.S. is expected to soon achieve complete air superiority over Iran.

Several crypto companies have secured OCC conditional approval for a banking charter since the GENIUS Act was passed in July, including Circle, Ripple, Bridge and Stripe. source: https://cointelegraph.com/news/zerohash-applies-us-national-bank-charter?utm_source=rss_feed&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=rss_partner_inbound

Hong Kong's Commercial Crime Bureau has exposed a cross-border money laundering operation involving two individuals from mainland China. According to NS3.AI, these individuals utilized fake accounts in digital banks in Hong Kong to launder approximately HKD 230 million. The scheme involved transferring funds obtained from fraudulent activities into traditional bank accounts and subsequently converting them into cryptocurrencies through virtual asset exchanges to obscure the money trail. In late 2024, the individuals received prison sentences of 28 and 43 months, respectively.

Aptos is set to unlock approximately 10.94 million tokens on March 12 at 8 a.m. UTC+8. According to ChainCatcher, this token release is valued at around $11.03 million, based on data from the Web3 asset platform RootData. The upcoming unlock is part of Aptos's ongoing token distribution plan.

Metallica's official X account was hacked to promote the Solana token METAL, making them the latest victim of celebrity meme coin scams. Rapper 50 Cent and wrestler Hulk Logan also joined the growing list of victims this month.

Andrew Tate's meme coin, Daddy Tate ($DADDY), surged on Solana with his massive online following but faced steep price drops amid controversy and insider trading allegations, posing high risk for investors due to its dependency on Tate's influence and volatile market nature.