Hurun Research Institute released the "2025 Hurun Global Rich List", showing that the number of billionaires in the world has increased to 3,442, a record high, 163 more than last year. The United States ranks first with 870 billionaires, and China ranks second with 823. 53-year-old Elon Musk retained the title of the world's richest man with a fortune of 3.07 trillion yuan, an increase of 82%, mainly due to the surge in Tesla's stock price. Amazon's Jeff Bezos ranked second with 1.94 trillion yuan, and Meta's Mark Zuckerberg ranked among the top three for the first time with 1.77 trillion yuan. Nvidia's Huang Renxun's wealth nearly tripled to 935 billion yuan, ranking 11th. In the field of cryptocurrency, Binance founder Zhao Changpeng continued to rank as the richest man in the cryptocurrency field with a wealth of 160 billion yuan. Coinbase's Brian Armstrong's wealth increased by 72% to 80 billion yuan, and MicroStrategy's Michael Saylor's wealth nearly tripled to 65 billion yuan. The list also shows that entrepreneurs in the fields of AI, asset management, entertainment and cryptocurrency performed strongly, while luxury goods, telecommunications and Chinese real estate performed poorly. In the field of AI, Liang Wenfeng of Hangzhou DeepSeek and Sam Altman of OpenAI made their first appearance on the list with RMB 33 billion and RMB 13 billion respectively. In addition, Zhang Yiming of ByteDance became China's richest man with RMB 435 billion, surpassing "bottled water king" Zhong Shanshan.

South Korean crypto exchange Upbit will list WAL in the KRW, BTC, and USDT markets. The trading start time will be announced later.

Harpie, an on-chain firewall provider, said that due to the failure to establish a sustainable business model, although it was committed to creating a "zero theft" encryption ecosystem, it was ultimately unable to continue operating.

The adjustments made by the SEC in the past three months mark its attempt to transform from "adversarial supervision" to "dialogic governance."

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Coinbase, Kraken, Uniswap Labs and other 34 crypto companies and foundations jointly wrote a letter to the U.S. Congress on March 27, requesting clarification of the Department of Justice’s broad interpretation of the definition of “money transmitter” in Section 1960 of the Criminal Code, claiming that it threatens the development of non-custodial software in the United States.

The U.S. Senate passed the resolution by 70 votes to 28 on March 27. The bill will be submitted to President Trump for signature and is expected to become the first crypto legislation signed by Trump during his tenure. The IRS DeFi broker rule requires some DeFi platforms to report user transaction information and issue 1099 forms as securities brokers, which has caused controversy over privacy and compliance.

According to Bloomberg, the round of financing was led by SoftBank Group, with participation from Magnetar Capital, Coatue Management, Founders Fund and Altimeter Capital. SoftBank will invest a total of approximately US$30 billion in two phases, with US$7.5 billion in the first phase.

The 10,000-word report details the sovereign cross-chain token standard "ERC-7281". How does this solution make cross-chain tokens interchangeable again?