Important information from last night and this morning (March 23-March 24)

SHELL repurchase progress reached 81.2%, and the token price has risen by more than 4% since the repurchase

According to Ai Yi, an on-chain analyst, the SHELL repurchase address withdrew 1 million tokens from Binance two minutes ago, bringing the total repurchased to 21.95 million tokens, and the completion rate has increased to 81.2%. Since the repurchase started on March 14, the price of SHELL tokens has risen by 4.56%, from $0.2565 to $0.2682.

White House official: US could potentially use its gold reserves to buy more Bitcoin

Bo Hines, executive director of President Trump's Digital Asset Advisory Council, said in an interview that the United States could use the proceeds from its gold reserves to buy more Bitcoin. According to Hines, this move could be a budget-neutral way to increase the country's Bitcoin reserves. Hines cited the Bitcoin Act of 2025 proposed by Senator Cynthia Lummis, which advocates that the United States obtain 1 million Bitcoins within five years, which is about 5% of the total Bitcoin supply. The purchase of Bitcoin will be funded by selling gold certificates from the Federal Reserve.

Metaplanet purchased another 150 bitcoins, bringing its total holdings to 3,350 bitcoins

According to Metaplanet's announcement, as part of its Bitcoin treasury strategy, the company purchased another 150 Bitcoins at an average price of 12,570,173 yen per Bitcoin, totaling approximately 1.886 billion yen. As of now, the company holds a total of 3,350 Bitcoins, with a total purchase amount of approximately 42.216 billion yen.

WLFI purchased another $3 million of MNT, and the portfolio has lost more than $100 million

According to the monitoring of on-chain analyst Yu Jin, WLFI, a DeFi project supported by the Trump family, purchased 3.539 million MNT for $3 million 15 minutes ago, with an average transaction price of about $0.84. So far, WLFI has invested about $343 million in 11 tokens including ETH, WBTC, TRX, LINK, AAVE, ENA, MOVE, ONDO, SEI, AVAX, and MNT, with an overall book loss of about $109 million, a loss rate of one-third. Some tokens and WLFI have "carried" each other.

The difficulty of Bitcoin mining increased by 1.43% to 113.76 T last night, close to the historical high

Cloverpool data shows that the difficulty of Bitcoin mining has been adjusted at block height 889,056 (Beijing time 03-23 19:15:42), with the difficulty increased by 1.43% to 113.76 T, close to the historical high (114.17).

USDC Treasury mints 250 million new USDC on Solana chain

According to Whale Alert monitoring, at 04:00 Beijing time on March 24, USDC issuer USDC Treasury minted 250 million USDC (approximately US$249,973,750) on the Solana chain.

Trump: I love $TRUMP, very cool

Trump posted on social media Truth Social: I love $TRUMP, very cool, they are all great.

Data: ALT, VENOM, YGG and other tokens will be unlocked in large amounts next week, of which ALT unlocks about $9.8 million

According to Token Unlocks data, ALT, VENOM, YGG and other tokens will be unlocked in large amounts next week, including: AltLayer (ALT) will unlock about 240 million tokens at 6 pm Beijing time on March 25, accounting for 8.6% of the current circulation and worth about 9.8 million US dollars; Venom (VENOM) will unlock about 59.26 million tokens at 4 pm Beijing time on March 25, accounting for 2.9% of the current circulation and worth about 7 million US dollars; Yield Guild Games (YGG) will unlock about 14.08 million tokens at 10 pm Beijing time on March 27, accounting for 3.28% of the current circulation and worth about 3 million US dollars; Ethena (ENA) will unlock about 7.93 million tokens at 3 pm Beijing time on March 26, accounting for 0.15% of the current circulation and worth about 2.9 million US dollars; Velo (VELO) will unlock approximately 182 million tokens at 8:00 a.m. Beijing time on March 28, which is 2.47% of the current circulation and worth approximately US$2.4 million; Undeads Games (UDS) will unlock approximately 2.15 million tokens at 8:00 a.m. Beijing time on March 28, which is 3.00% of the current circulation and worth approximately US$2.1 million; Artificial Superintelligence Alliance (FET) will unlock approximately 3.24 million tokens at 8:00 a.m. Beijing time on March 28, which is 0.12% of the current circulation and worth approximately US$1.7 million; SingularityNET (AGIX) will unlock approximately 7.48 million tokens at 8:00 a.m. Beijing time on March 28, which is 2.40% of the current circulation and worth approximately US$1.7 million; Eigenlayer (EIGEN) will unlock approximately 1.29 million tokens at 3:00 a.m. Beijing time on March 26, which is 0.53% of the current circulation and worth approximately US$1.5 million; MMX (MMX) will unlock approximately 1.67 million tokens at 8:00 a.m. Beijing time on March 24, accounting for 1.07% of the current circulation and worth approximately US$1.1 million; Tornado Cash (TORN) will unlock approximately 91,700 tokens at 11:30 a.m. Beijing time on March 27, accounting for 2.41% of the current circulation and worth approximately US$1.1 million.

Two Bounce Finance multi-signature addresses deposited 1.55 million AUCTION into Team Finance and locked it

According to @ai_9684xtpa's monitoring, four hours ago, two Bounce Finance multi-signature addresses deposited a total of 1.55 million AUCTION into Team Finance and locked it (accounting for 23.5% of the circulating tokens), equivalent to approximately US$37.73 million, locked until 2025.09.01.

Michael Saylor releases Bitcoin Tracker information again, and may disclose holdings data next week

Michael Saylor, founder of MicroStrategy, once again released information about Bitcoin Tracker on the X platform, saying: “We need more orange.” According to previous rules, MicroStrategy always discloses information about its increased Bitcoin holdings the day after the relevant news is released.

Analyst: BUSD was once the third largest stablecoin by market value, and its current market value on Ethereum is only about $50 million

Tom Wan, data director at Entropy Advisors, posted on the X platform that BUSD was once the third largest stablecoin by market value, reaching $23 billion, and its current market value on the Ethereum chain is only about $50 million. Today, CZ posted: "BUSD is an excellent US dollar stablecoin, but it was strangled in the US Operation Chokepoint 2.0, but on the bright side, there are many new stablecoins being launched on BSC now."

Wintermute may have become a market maker for the Meme coin mubarak

According to @ai_9684xtpa's monitoring, Wintermute may be the market maker of the BSC ecosystem Meme coin mubarak. Wintermute first traded mubarak five days ago (03.19) and focused on interacting with PancakeSwap. In the past four days, a total of 6.04 million tokens have been withdrawn from Gate, and currently the chain holds a total of US$740,000 worth of mubarak.

Next week's macro outlook: The market expects the Fed to be more dovish, and the stagflation mystery remains to be solved

The impact of the Federal Reserve meeting this past week was mixed, with the inclusion of stagflation risks in its latest economic forecasts appearing to contradict Fed Chairman Powell's assurances that the economy is healthy. At the same time, with the deadline (April 2) for Trump to impose broad reciprocal tariffs looming, these factors have caused turmoil in global financial markets. Here are the key points that the market will focus on in the new week: Monday 21:45, the final values of the US S&P Global Manufacturing and Services PMI for February; Tuesday 21:05, FOMC permanent voting member and New York Fed President Williams delivered an opening speech at an event; Tuesday 22:00, US Conference Board Consumer Confidence Index for March, US Richmond Fed Manufacturing Index for March; Thursday 1:10, 2025 FOMC voting member and St. Louis Fed President Moussalem delivered a speech; Thursday 20:30, the number of initial jobless claims in the United States for the week ending March 22; Thursday 20:30, the final values of the US fourth quarter real GDP annualized quarterly rate, the final values of the real personal consumption expenditure quarterly rate, and the final values of the core PCE price index annualized quarterly rate; At 20:30 on Friday, the annual rate of the US core PCE price index, the monthly rate of personal spending, and the monthly rate of the core PCE price index in February. Although the Fed said it was not in a hurry to cut interest rates, market expectations were more dovish. Investors believe that the Fed is likely to cut interest rates three times this year because it is betting that the US economy will slow more than the Fed expects, which means that economic growth data may become the focus in the coming months.