Gate News Report: On March 26, according to Gate's market data, as of press time, MON (Monad) is trading at 0.02658 USD, up 13.53% in the past 24 hours, reaching a high of 0.02732 USD and a low of 0.02278 USD, with 24-hour trading volume of 5.3128 million USD. Current market cap is approximately 288 million USD, ranking 156th globally. Monad is building a high-performance Layer 1 blockchain for the next generation of decentralized applications. As an Ethereum-compatible high-performance chain, Monad offers 10,000 TPS, sub-second finality, low fees, and scalable decentralization. Monad's mission is to construct blockchains that are 100x to 1,000x faster than its closest competitors.

BlockBeats News: On March 26, X platform product manager Nikita Bier announced that they are testing new settings for the post reply function: expanding the "Accounts You Follow" option to include their followers, which means your second-degree connections. This allows more users to engage in interactions while maintaining privacy. Premium members can experience this feature early.

Hyperinsight數據顯示，一位空頭巨鯨在過去一小時內增持了約150枚BTC空單，總持倉規模達4660萬美元，當前浮虧52萬美元。該巨鯨設置了止損與止盈掛單，以應對市場波動。

Morgan Stanley's Head of Digital Asset Strategy Amy Oldenburg stated that Wall Street's development of crypto businesses stems from years of infrastructure modernization work, not FOMO. The firm has expanded into trading, asset management, and other areas, and plans to support tokenized equity trading in the second half of 2026, but faces challenges with core system upgrades.

Gate News reported that on March 24, Solana Mobile announced that Solana's second-generation phone Seeker has launched the Sanctum application, a Solana ecosystem LST protocol. Users can now download it from the Solana app store.

Gate News reported that on March 24, Hyperliquid crude oil contracts had a total 24-hour trading volume exceeding $2.2 billion, ranking third among all trading varieties, second only to BTC's $3.78 billion and ETH's $1.54 billion. Among these, the CL contract (mapping WTI crude oil, i.e., U.S. West Texas Light Sweet Crude Oil) had trading volume exceeding $1.25 billion, and the BRENTOIL contract (mapping Brent crude oil, i.e., European North Sea crude oil) had trading volume exceeding $960 million.

On March 22, UnRektCapital became the second-largest short holder on Hyperliquid BTC, holding 616 BTC in 40x leveraged short positions, with a total position value of $58.588 million and unrealized gains exceeding $6.6 million.

Gate News 消息，3 月 22 日，据 Cloverpool 數據顯示，北京時間 3 月 21 日 05:54:19，比特幣挖礦難度在區塊高度 941,472 處完成調整，挖礦難度下調 7.76% 至 133.79 T。這是近 4 年半以來的第二大跌幅，僅次於今年 2 月初 11.16% 的下調幅度。

As of March 15, China's AI large model weekly call volume reached 4.69 trillion tokens, surpassing the United States for the second consecutive week, with all three top global rankings held by Chinese models. JPMorgan Chase predicts that AI inference token consumption will increase significantly.

Bitcoin mining difficulty decreased by 7.76% on March 21 to 133.79 T, marking the second-largest decline this year. JPMorgan analysts predict that Bitcoin mining costs have fallen to $77,000, still higher than spot prices. More and more mining companies are pivoting their infrastructure toward AI computing power. Core Scientific plans to sell Bitcoin holdings in 2026 to fund AI expansion, while Bitdeer has liquidated its Bitcoin positions. Multiple companies are formulating diversification strategies.