Gate News Report: On March 21st, Bitcoin mining difficulty was adjusted downward to 133.79 T at block height 941472, representing a decrease of 7.76%. During this adjustment period, the average hash rate was 760.10 EH/s, and the average block time was 12 minutes 36 seconds. This downward adjustment marks the largest decline since the end of 2025.

Gate News, on March 20, a certain CEX announced major corporate governance adjustments, with founder Cha Myung-hoon taking on the role of sole CEO of the exchange. This leadership change marks an important strategic shift for the exchange.

Gate News Information: On March 20, Dogecoin (DOGE) touched its 52-week low in late February, with the price falling to $0.08833. This marks the bottom of DOGE's price range over the past year, which has fluctuated between $0.08 and $0.30.

Gate News: On March 19, Singapore-based ride-hailing platform Ryde announced that it will incorporate cryptocurrency into its corporate balance sheet, becoming one of the enterprises in the sector adopting digital asset allocation strategies. This move marks a bold attempt by Ryde in asset management. Currently, an increasing number of enterprises are beginning to allocate digital assets such as Bitcoin in their balance sheets, and corporate asset allocation strategies are showing a diversification trend.

4Heal Technology announced the completion of a million-dollar strategic round of financing led by AI MOXA Group. The funds will be used to build Web3 AI health intelligent agents, wearable devices, and a decentralized health data platform, while supporting the commercialization of de-identified health data and new product research and development. This marks 4Heal's successful validation of its business model and receipt of its first pre-sale orders.

Matrixdock launched the institutional-grade silver token XAGm on March 17, bringing physical silver into on-chain finance. The token is backed by silver bars that meet LBMA standards and utilizes Matrixdock's FRS issuance framework, ensuring verifiable relationships between on-chain tokens and underlying assets, with initial deployment on the Ethereum network. This marks a further expansion of the on-chain precious metals reserve asset system.

Gate News report: On March 17, NBA star Devin Booker announced on the X platform a partnership with prediction market platform Kalshi. This marks another prominent NBA player establishing a collaboration with the platform following Giannis Antetokounmpo (Giannis Antetokounmpo).

Gate News report: On March 13, on-chain data showed that a whale address beginning with 0xac0 deposited $3.26 million into Hyperliquid in the early morning hours today, subsequently opening 70,000 short positions in CL (WTI crude oil futures, US West Texas Intermediate crude oil futures contracts) with 20x leverage. This transaction marks the first operation for this address, with a position size of $6.6 million, an average opening price of $94.13, and a liquidation price of $137.29.

Solana's developer ecosystem-focused Accelerate program will make its official debut at Consensus Hong Kong in February 2026, with a full-day dedicated event scheduled during the conference. This arrangement marks a deepening of the collaboration between the Solana Foundation and Consensus Hong Kong, and underscores Hong Kong's pivotal role in digital assets and blockchain innovation across Asia. CoinDesk announced that it will partner with the Solana Foundation to host the Solana Accelerate event on February 11 during Consensus Hong Kong. This edition of Consensus Hong Kong is scheduled for February 10-12. Previously, Accelerate had been promoted as part of the conference's overall agenda, while this official announcement clarifies that it will serve as an independent networking platform for developers, entrepreneurs, investors, as well as regulators and policymakers.