PANews reported on March 22 that according to PRNewswire, Riot Platforms, Inc., a Nasdaq-listed Bitcoin mining company, announced that it has signed a non-binding list of terms and a settlement agreement, and its wholly-owned subsidiary Whinstone may acquire certain assets owned by Bitcoin mining company Rhodium Encore LLC in the Rockdale mine. According to the terms, Whinstone will provide Rhodium with a total consideration of US$185 million, including US$129.9 million in cash, the return of Rhodium's electricity deposit of US$6.1 million, and Riot shares worth US$49 million, and Rhodium will transfer all tangible property ownership at the Rockdale mine, including all ASIC mining machines.

PANews reported on March 22 that according to Cointelegraph, Caitlin Long, founder and CEO of Custodia Bank, said that it is too early to say that de-banking is over. The Federal Reserve is currently reviewing two cryptocurrency-friendly banks and has sent a large number of examiners to these banks, including examiners from Washington. This army is simply stifling these banks' services to crypto companies.

According to on-chain analyst @ai_9684xtpa, address 0x80F...8b932 withdrew 30 million BMT (about 5.23 million US dollars) from Binance 2 hours ago, with a position price of 0.1743 US dollars, becoming the top 1 address on the chain.

Crypto analyst Ali Martinez disclosed on the X platform that whales bought more than 120,000 ETH in three days, worth nearly $236 million.

The Binance Alpha page shows that Binance Alpha has newly launched Tell A Tale (TAT) and quq (quq).

According to the official announcement, South Korean cryptocurrency exchange Bithumb will launch the Across Protocol (ACX) Korean won trading pair, which is expected to open for trading at 5 pm (UTC+8) on March 22.

The Bitcoin spot ETF with the largest single-day net inflow yesterday was BlackRock Bitcoin ETF IBIT, with a single-day net inflow of US$105 million. Currently, IBIT's total historical net inflow has reached US$39.774 billion.

The Ethereum spot ETF with the largest daily net outflow yesterday was the BlackRock ETF ETHA, with a daily net outflow of US$11.9387 million. Currently, ETHA's historical total net inflow has reached US$4.073 billion.

According to the monitoring of on-chain analyst @ai_9684xtpa, the smart money (TOP6 whales) who built a position of 6 million LAYER at an average price of $0.9559 three weeks ago was suspected to have liquidated their positions and taken profits 5 hours ago. If they sold, they would make a profit of $1.704 million.

According to Aggr News, Fidelity will launch a tokenized fund that invests in U.S. Treasuries to compete with BlackRock’s BUIDL.

According to OKX market data, AUCTION broke through $68 this morning and approached its all-time high ($73), then fell by more than 35% and is now trading at $47.7. Coinglass data shows that in the past 12 hours, AUCTION's liquidation was $14.3335 million, second only to BTC's liquidation of $11.3797 million.

The U.S. House Financial Services Committee is expected to review draft stablecoin legislation on April 2. Arkansas Chairman French Hill said last week that a well-regulated stablecoin market would "strengthen the dominance of the dollar, modernize our payment infrastructure, and promote the spread of financial services without excessive government intervention." But critics such as Maxine Waters, the Democratic leader of the House committee, and Elizabeth Warren of the Senate Banking Committee believe that the bill does not go far enough to protect consumers and advocate a ban on technology companies issuing stablecoins and other reforms. Critics also worry that if stablecoins fail, there will be a lack of insurance backing like the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation (FDIC); while bankers warn that stablecoins could siphon off deposits and reduce credit channels.

Tether CEO Paolo Ardoino said it is "working with one of the Big Four accounting firms" to push for an audit of its reserves. Tether has issued more than $140 billion worth of U.S. dollar-pegged cryptocurrencies, and currently only publishes quarterly reports on its reserves and has not yet completed a full audit. Ardoino did not disclose which of the Big Four accounting firms, PricewaterhouseCoopers, Ernst & Young, Deloitte and KPMG, Tether is in talks with, and declined to say when the audit will be conducted.