The weaponization of sanctions is effective for countries deeply integrated into the global system, but it also leads long-term sanctioned adversaries to turn to parallel financial networks, and even turns them into force multipliers.

U.S. Treasury Secretary Besant has emphasized the need for the Senate Banking Republicans to review and advance the CLARITY Act for President Donald Trump's signature. According to Odaily, the legislation has been in development for nearly five years, aiming to secure the future growth of the financial industry.

The White House National Economic Council Director, Kevin Hassett, has stated that the U.S. economy is expected to maintain a growth rate of 4% to 5% this year, despite ongoing conflicts. According to Odaily, this optimistic outlook comes amid challenging global circumstances.

The U.S. Congress is approaching a significant milestone in its efforts to establish a framework for the future development of the financial industry. According to BlockBeats, U.S. Treasury Secretary Besent announced on April 9 that Congress has spent nearly five years working on this initiative. It is now time for Senate Banking Committee Republicans to review and advance the CLARITY Act for U.S. President Donald Trump's signature.

U.S. President Donald Trump is set to participate in a Meme Coin conference later this month. According to BlockBeats, this event will include a grand luncheon for holders of the TRUMP token. Trump will be joined by 18 "superstars" at the luncheon, which is scheduled for April 25 at Mar-a-Lago. The top 297 token holders will be allowed to attend the luncheon, while the top 29 will receive invitations to a special VIP reception and champagne toast alongside President Trump.

Tether has introduced the QVAC SDK, a unified software development kit designed to enable developers to build, run, and fine-tune AI applications directly on any device. According to Foresight News, this SDK ensures consistency across different environments. Applications developed using the QVAC SDK can seamlessly operate on platforms such as iOS, Android, Windows, macOS, and Linux. The same codebase can function across all supported environments without the need for platform-specific branches, rewrites, or conditional logic. The QVAC SDK is built on QVAC Fabric, a branch of llama.cpp, offering broad compatibility with the llama.cpp model ecosystem for text generation, embedding, and multimodal workloads.

White House National Economic Council Director Hassett stated that despite the war, the U.S. economy is still expected to grow by 4% to 5% this year. (Jinshi)

The U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) and the Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC) have jointly established a framework on March 17, 2026, classifying XRP as a digital commodity. According to NS3.AI, this decision places XRP among 16 digital assets with formal legal status under U.S. law. In Japan, XRP is included on the JVCEA Green List, and 20 member exchanges have listed it. Additionally, SBI Remit operates live XRP Ledger corridors for real-time transfers from Japan to Southeast Asian bank accounts. U.S. spot XRP ETFs have surpassed $1.5 billion in assets under management as of early 2026. The upcoming CLARITY Act, anticipated in late April, is expected to further solidify XRP's status as a commodity.

Odaily Planet Daily reports that U.S. Treasury Secretary Bessant stated that Congress has spent nearly five years trying to pass a framework to ensure the future development of the financial industry. Now is the time for Senate banking Republicans to consider the Clarity Act and submit it to President Trump for his signature. (Jinshi)

According to official sources, Gate.com has launched pre-IPO stock contracts for SPACEX (SpaceX) (USDT settlement), supporting leverage from 1x to 10x. SpaceX, founded by Elon Musk in 2002, is currently the world's largest and most disruptive commercial space company. SpaceX has not yet officially gone public (no IPO), and this contract is based on SpaceX's current pre-IPO stage, aiming to facilitate market valuation and price discovery of its stock.

Stablecoin issuer Tether announced the launch of the QVAC SDK, a fully open-source, cross-platform software development kit designed as a general-purpose AI building block, supporting the running, training, and evolution of artificial intelligence on any device and operating system. Functionally, the SDK supports various AI capabilities, including Large Language Models (LLM), speech recognition, text generation, translation, OCR, and speech synthesis, and provides access through a unified API. It is based on QVAC Fabric (derived from the llama.cpp fork) and integrates local inference engines such as whisper.cpp, Parakeet, and Bergamot. The QVAC SDK reportedly adopts a "local-first" architecture, allowing developers to directly build and run AI applications on terminal devices (such as smartphones, PCs, and servers), achieving unified code deployment across iOS, Android, Windows, macOS, and Linux without requiring adaptation or rewriting for different platforms. In addition, the QVAC SDK also includes built-in peer-to-peer (P2P) capabilities based on the Holepunch technology stack, supporting decentralized model distribution, inference, and future distributed training, reducing reliance on centralized services. Tether stated that it will continue to increase investment to expand the QVAC open-source ecosystem, covering cutting-edge fields such as robotics and brain-computer interfaces, and promoting the shift of AI from cloud-based to on-premises deployment models to meet the demands for privacy, low latency, and high reliability.

With the FOCIL mechanism, unless a regulatory body can enforce oversight of all nodes on the network, it is difficult for it to interfere with Ethereum's neutrality through transaction blocking.

The term MEV no longer accurately describes the current situation, and the author proposes to rename it "Transaction Ranking Value (TOV)".

可能有一天我们最终要被它用一种高深莫测、悲天悯人且不容置疑的中二语调告知：你已经被AI优化掉了。

He Yi, Binance, SEC, Binance's predicament. Jinse Finance's "Binance Life" provides a rare insider perspective.

The Royal Government of Bhutan has once again dumped another $23 million worth of Bitcoin in the effort to clear its once-massive crypto reserves as the price of Bitcoin continues to plummet.

For years, on-chain privacy has been caught between two major challenges: cryptographic technology has not yet matured to the point of commercial application, while regulatory agencies regard all privacy tools as criminal infrastructure.

Visa has launched Intelligent Commerce Connect, a platform that lets AI agents browse, select, and pay for products on behalf of users across Visa and non-Visa cards.

Visa is accelerating its expansion into agentic AI commerce with the launch of Intelligent Commerce Connect, a platform designed to let autonomous AI agents discover products, make purchasing decisions, and execute payments on behalf of users.

On March 31, 2026, an ordinary Monday, the crypto community suddenly exploded.