Federal Reserve Chair Jerome Powell spoke at Harvard University, emphasizing economic uncertainty and unclear policy direction, causing markets to hold off. Bitcoin has been trading sideways around $67,400, showing some resilience. Powell mentioned inflation and the state of the job market, suggesting that policy room is limited. Market expectations for future policy changes have been muted, and both traditional markets and crypto assets are waiting for key catalysts.

Gate News, March 31, Andrew Chapello, Product Manager at Ramp, a business spend management platform, announced that Ramp’s stablecoin account feature has officially entered the public testing phase. This feature allows users to hold stablecoins within the Ramp platform and earn balance rewards, while also enabling them to use USDC to pay global vendors and employees, repay Ramp card bills, and manage fiat and stablecoin assets under a unified approval and accounting system.

The River abstract stablecoin protocol has expanded to the Base network, after previously being available on Ethereum and BNB Chain. Base is the leading L2 network on Ethereum by activity, with DeFi TVL exceeding $4 billion, a stablecoin market cap of $4.7 billion, and nearly 500,000 daily active addresses. Users can hold and use River within its ecosystem.

As of March 30, algorithm-driven commodity trading advisor funds sold $85 billion worth of U.S. stocks over the past 30 days, the largest scale since the pandemic. They currently hold a $37 billion short position. Goldman Sachs expects CTA to take buy positions over the next month.

River, an on-chain abstracted stablecoin system, announced on March 30 that it will expand to the Base network. Previously, it had been deployed on Ethereum and BNB Chain. River said Base is the Ethereum L2 platform with the strongest liquidity, and that data shows its total value locked in DeFi exceeds $4 billion, with a stablecoin market cap of $4.7 billion and nearly 500,000 daily active addresses. This expansion will allow Base users to natively hold and use River.

The prospects of the "Clarity Act" are unclear, which may lead the SEC to reconsider cryptocurrencies as securities, increasing legal risks. Industry insiders warn that short-termism and conflicting interests may delay the passage of the bill, impacting the legal status of mainstream assets. Cryptocurrency lobbying groups are prepared to address regulatory risks, calling for unity to ensure the long-term safety of the industry.

Gate News bot message, the whale address "pension-usdt.eth" has closed its $BTC short position, securing $1.7M in profit. The whale continues to hold its $ETH short position with a floating profit of $1.16M. The total profit for "pension-usdt.eth" has now exceeded $30M.

Anchorage Digital announced new support for the Tron blockchain, launching an institutional custody service for TRX, enabling U.S. institutions to securely hold TRX and participate in network validation. The project will be rolled out in phases, with the goal of enhancing institutional liquidity for crypto assets and the potential for returns, while also promoting the convergence of traditional finance and blockchain.

Gate News bot news, according to the official announcement from Gate Gate will launch the spot trading and swap trading of WorldLand (WL) for the first time. The WL/USDT trading pair will open for spot trading on March 31, 2026, at 18:00 (UTC+8) and for swap trading at 19:00. Withdrawals are expected to open on April 1 at 18:00. Gate is also launching the 338th HODLer Airdrop, where users holding more than 1 GT can participate in sharing 133,334 WL tokens. The airdrop event will end on March 31, 2026, at 16:00 (UTC+8), with 100% unlocking. VIP 10 users and above can enjoy an unlimited participation quota. WorldLand is a computation verification project based on PoW, achieving transparent verification of GPU computational execution through proof of computation. The WL token adheres to the BEP-20 standard, with a total supply of 1 billion tokens, of which 50.46% is allocated for mining, halving every 4 years; 15% is allocated to core builders, with 10% unlocking every 3 months after a 12-month cliff; 20% is for ecosystem development, also with a 12-month cliff; and 14.54% is allocated for liquidity, airdrops, and the community.

Eigen Labs released the first Beta version of AgentKit on March 27, which is a developer toolkit focused on building autonomous AI agents capable of holding assets, making payments, and managing identities. The initial applications are centered around media agents for automatically generating content, with plans to add integrations with social platforms and improvements to the user interface in the future.