Financial giant Vanguard Group may soon gain indirect exposure to Bitcoin through its GameStop stake, marking an unexpected turn in the company’s traditionally cautious approach to cryptocurrencies. The development follows a series of moves by GameStop, of which Vanguard Group is one of the largest shareholders.

PANews reported on March 30 that Token Unlocks data showed that SUI, W, ENA and other tokens will be unlocked in large amounts next week, including: Sui (SUI) will unlock about 64.19 million tokens at 8:00 am Beijing time on April 1, accounting for 2.03% of the current circulation and worth about 152 million US dollars; Wormhole (W) will unlock about 1.39 billion tokens at 7:30 pm Beijing time on April 3, accounting for 47.4% of the current circulation and worth about 117 million US dollars; Ethena (ENA) will unlock about 40.63 million tokens at 3:00 pm Beijing time on April 2, accounting for 0.77% of the current circulation and worth about 15 million US dollars; Optimism (OP) will unlock about 31.34 million tokens at 8:00 am Beijing time on March 31, accounting for 1.93% of the current circulation and worth about 23.8 million US dollars; Time (BIGTIME) will unlock approximately 333 million tokens at 8:00 a.m. Beijing time on April 3, accounting for 18.44% of the current circulation and worth approximately US$16.7 million; ZetaChain (ZETA) will unlock approximately 44.26 million tokens at 8:00 a.m. Beijing time on April 1, accounting for 6.05% of the current circulation and worth approximately US$13.2 million; dydx (DYDX) will unlock approximately 8.33 million tokens at 8:00 a.m. Beijing time on April 1, accounting for 1.09% of the current circulation and worth approximately US$5.4 million.

PANews reported on March 30 that according to Jinshi, the Japanese Financial Services Agency (FSA) is considering regulating internal transactions of encrypted digital currency assets. Japanese regulators are considering classifying encrypted assets as financial instruments under Japanese law. It is expected that the Japanese FSA will submit a draft to revise the Financial Transactions Act to the parliament as early as next year.

PANews reported on March 30 that according to Cointelegraph, ETH has fallen by more than 8% in the past seven days and is now nearly 55% lower than its high of $4,000 in December 2024. However, the recent video of Ethereum co-founder Vitalik Buterin "meowing" at a robot that has been circulating on social media seems to have caused dissatisfaction in the crypto community. Many industry insiders have posted articles accusing Vitalik Buterin, such as: Cork Protocol co-founder Phil Fogel posted on the X platform that "my professional salary and net worth are largely in the hands of this meower"; Crypto KOL Wendy O posted that "the future of Ethereum is in the hands of this meower"; Crypto trader Scott Crypto Warrior said more fiercely, "Pray for ETH, Vitalik, what are you doing? Stop looking for rims for robots, cheer for ETH."

According to SlowMist monitoring, the DeFi protocol SIR.trading was suspected to have been hacked, with an estimated loss of US$350,000.

According to Onchain Lens monitoring, after a whale lost $15.72 million in the previous TRUMP transaction, it spent another 3.41 million USDC to buy 333,664 TRUMPs at $10.22.

According to on-chain analyst @ai_9684xtpa, as the market fell further, the 10x PEPE long order opened by the whale 0x507...BeDb6 on Hyperliquid has now suffered a floating loss of $3.238 million. The whale started to go long during the rebound on March 24 and currently holds a PEPE long position of $27.53 million, with an opening price of $0.00814 and a liquidation price of $0.005219 (with 1,000 PEPE as the price unit). In the past 21 hours, the whale has added 3.818 million USDC margin to Hyperliquid to avoid liquidation.

According to South Korean media SBS, as of the end of February this year, the total number of users of South Korean virtual asset exchanges has exceeded 16 million, reaching 16.29 million, accounting for about 32% of the country's total population (about 51.68 million people). With last year's US presidential election as a turning point, the number of new investors has steadily increased by hundreds of thousands each month, and has now exceeded the number of stock investors (about 14.1 million). This data is the sum of account holders of South Korea's five major exchanges: Upbit, Bithumb, Coinone, Korbit, and Gopax. If the same person opens an account in multiple exchanges, it will be counted repeatedly.

CryptoSlam data shows that NFT transaction volume rebounded 4.5% to $102.8 million this week from last week. The number of NFT buyers increased by 28.9% to 451,436, and the number of NFT sellers increased by 26.5% to 285,272. However, the number of NFT transactions fell by 2.8% to 1,614,680.

According to on-chain analyst Ember, a "whale with 60,800 ETH on the verge of liquidation" sold some altcoins in the address 5 hours ago in exchange for 980,000 DAI to repay the loan, reducing the liquidation price from $1,805 to $1,781. Currently, the liquidation prices of the two whale addresses on the verge of liquidation are $1,786 and $1,781 respectively.

Former cryptocurrency company FTX will begin paying its major creditors in late May, using $11.4 billion in cash reserves the company has gathered since shutting down, according to Bloomberg. Bankruptcy attorney Andrew Dietderich told the judge who recently took over the management of the Chapter 11 case that while secondary creditors holding what FTX categorizes as “convenience claims” have already begun to receive payments, the company will make its first payment to the major creditor group on May 30. The company’s major creditors include investors owed millions of dollars and institutions that own cryptocurrencies on the FTX platform.

After the US election on November 5, cryptocurrency daily trading volume soared to $126 billion amid high market enthusiasm and active speculation. It has now fallen to $35 billion, down about 70% from its peak and back to pre-election levels. Recent tariff announcements against major US trading partners have created uncertainty, weakening trading enthusiasm in both traditional and cryptocurrency markets. In addition, trading volume has maintained a historical correlation with total market capitalization, with the two moving in similar directions in recent months. The total cryptocurrency market capitalization peaked at about $3.9 trillion and has since fallen back to its current level of about $2.9 trillion, a 25% drop.

Prediction market Kalshi sued gaming regulators in Nevada and New Jersey after receiving cease-and-desist orders prohibiting it from offering sports-related contracts in those states. Kalshi argued that as an exchange regulated by the Commodity Futures Trading Commission, it is subject to exclusive regulation by the federal government and that the Commodity Exchange Act preempts state laws.