- NEAR ecosystem NFT marketplace Few and Far completes $10.5 million financing, led by Pantera Capital.
- Crypto-friendly bank Silvergate’s stock closed at $5.72, plummeting nearly 60% in a single day, a decrease of about 97.61% from its historical intraday high near $240.
- Ethereum developers will conduct a Shanghai upgrade on the Goerli testnet on March 14 and will stop accepting Seaport v1.1 orders through APIs within 7 days.
- OpenSea Seaport has been upgraded to version 1.4, supporting multiple NFTs on single-signature listings.
- HSBC and Nationwide have strengthened their restrictions on cryptocurrencies, banning users from purchasing cryptocurrencies with credit cards since last month.
- Some oil and gas drillers operating on U.S. public lands are diverting natural gas to power cryptocurrency mining operations without paying federal royalties
- US senators are urging Meta to stop its plans to release metaverse virtual world social applications to teenagers, and a spokesman for Meta’s parent company Facebook has not responded.
- Crypto-friendly bank Signature Bank’s deposits decreased by $826 million in the first quarter, with an average quarterly deposit of $88.79 billion. Signature Bank stated that it will not trade, custody, issue, or lend loans collateralized by cryptocurrencies.
- The bankruptcy judge for Voyager has not made a final ruling on the restructuring agreement, and the hearing will continue on Friday local time in the US.
- DeFi yield protocol Pendle Finance has expanded to Arbitrum, with Pendle currently only available on Ethereum and Ethereum-compatible blockchain Avalanche.
- Windows11 has directly integrated ChatGPT version Bing, allowing users to use Bing search directly in the front end of the search box on the taskbar without opening the browser.