The Dubai Financial Services Authority (DFSA) has announced that it is inviting companies to apply to join its tokenized regulatory sandbox, with a deadline of April 24, 2025. The DFSA is an independent agency responsible for regulating the Dubai International Financial Center (DIFC). In a March 17 announcement, the DFSA stated that the sandbox program is designed to attract companies that want to offer tokenized investment products and services. The sandbox provides a controlled environment for companies to test tokenized financial solutions under the supervision of regulators.

Solana Ecosystem decentralized exchange Raydium plans to launch a Meme coin issuance platform "LaunchLab" to compete with Pump.fun. Raydium's "LaunchLab" is essentially a fork of Pump.fun, but with some selective differences. It will use a similar logarithmic bonding curve, but also allow third-party user interfaces to set fees and directly access Raydium's liquidity pool. The project has reportedly been in development for several months.

Ark Invest CEO Cathie Wood hopes to put some of the company's funds on the blockchain once the U.S. regulatory environment allows. "We think tokenization is going to be very important, and we want to be able to tokenize our Venture Fund (ARKVX) or our Digital Asset Revolution Fund," Wood said at the New York Digital Asset Summit on Tuesday. "I think regulation is gradually opening up, which will allow us to do that. So we want to seize this opportunity."

The public chain EOS will be renamed Vaulta and transformed into a "web3 bank". If the proposal is approved, EOS tokens will be exchanged for new vaulta tokens starting in May.

According to The Block, Filecoin's largest DeFi protocol GLIF released GLF governance tokens and airdropped 94 million tokens, accounting for 9.4% of the total supply. GLF will expand to new features such as loyalty rewards in the future. GLIF is expanding to the decentralized physical infrastructure network (DePIN), beyond the Filecoin ecosystem. At present, GLIF has locked more than $102 million on Filecoin and will support more DePIN networks in the future. The specific list has not yet been announced.

Crossmint provides API tools to help developers easily integrate encryption functions without having to deeply understand blockchain technology. Its current customers include 40,000 companies and developers such as Adidas, Red Bull, and Coinbase.

Halliday is committed to simplifying the process of creating smart contracts. Its infrastructure allows developers to delegate workflows to automated systems to shorten development time.

Despite market challenges, the event demonstrated a resilient Web3 ecosystem with builders focused on sustainable, real-world applications in the areas of AI, interoperability, and next-generation dApps.

From BTC's consensus layer to the execution layer of smart contracts, and then to today's AI-driven application layer, the crypto industry is likely to usher in a paradigm innovation of AI + Pay Fi + BTC Infra, and force Web2 to innovate itself to Web3 - the future of large-scale adoption is becoming a reality step by step.

Almost 100% of the monthly trading volume and fees of multiple "decentralized" protocols recently come from the DPRK, a North Korean hacker group. CEXs are slow to respond, and it only takes a few minutes for hackers to launder money, while some CEXs take hours to take action. ZachXBT also criticized the KYT (transaction monitoring) system for its serious flaws and easy circumvention, while the KYC (identity verification) mechanism is more like a data leakage risk for ordinary users due to account leaks and internal personnel problems, but it is almost ineffective in preventing the flow of illegal funds.

Binance will launch BMT/USDT, BMT/USDC, BMT/BNB, BMT/FDUSD, BMT/TRY trading pairs and mark them with Seed Tag at 23:00 (UTC+8) on March 18, 2025. The initial and maximum supply of BMT is 1 billion, of which 3% (30 million) is used for HODLer airdrops. The circulating supply at the time of listing is about 261.5 million (26.15%).