News Preview:
- Binance Launchpool will launch Nillion (NIL) and the NIL spot trading pairs will go live on March 24;
- The Berachain Foundation announced that PoL will launch on March 24, entering the first phase of governance;
- The Celo mainnet will upgrade to Ethereum L2 on March 26;
- The Ethereum Foundation announced that the testnet Hoodi will activate the Pectra upgrade on March 26;
- The U.S. Senate is scheduled to hold a qualification hearing for Paul Atkins to serve as SEC Chairman on March 27;
- The Walrus Foundation has raised $140 million from sources including a16z and plans to launch the Walrus mainnet on March 27.
March 24
Exchanges:
Binance Launchpool will launch Nillion (NIL) and the NIL spot trading pairs will go live on March 24
According to Binance's announcement, Nillion (NIL) will be the 65th project on Binance Launchpool. Nillion is a decentralized network that utilizes blind computing to achieve secure data processing and storage while ensuring privacy. Users can participate in the NIL airdrop by locking BNB, FDUSD, and USDC. The airdrop event will start on March 21, 2025, at 08:00 UTC+8 and will last for three days. Nillion (NIL) will go live on Binance on March 24, 2025, at 21:00 UTC+8, with trading pairs NIL/USDT, NIL/BNB, NIL/FDUSD, NIL/USDC, and NIL/TRY. This launch will bring 35 million NIL as Launchpool rewards, accounting for 3.5% of the total supply. The initial circulating supply will be 195 million NIL (19.52% of the total supply).
Additionally, Huobi HTX will jointly launch NIL (Nillion) on March 24 at 21:00 (GMT+8).
Bithumb announced plans to suspend KRW deposits and withdrawals on March 24 due to bank transfer system maintenance, with the planned suspension time: March 24, 2025 (Monday) 00:30 KST to March 24, 2025 (Monday) 11:00 KST.
Bithumb: Plans to terminate trading support for Bitcoin Gold (BTG) and VALOR tokens on March 24
The South Korean cryptocurrency exchange Bithumb announced plans to terminate trading support for Bitcoin Gold (BTG), with the trading (buy/sell) termination time planned for March 24, 2025, at 15:00, and withdrawal support termination time planned for April 23, 2025, at 15:00. After the withdrawal support ends, related technical support (mainnet, hard forks, airdrops, exchanges, etc.) may cease, and withdrawals may be restricted. Additionally, Bithumb announced plans to terminate trading support for VALOR tokens, with the trading (buy/sell) termination time planned for March 24, 2025, at 15:00, and withdrawal support termination time planned for April 23, 2025, at 15:00.
Project Updates:
Sky Governance has approved a reduction of the Sky savings rate to 4.5%, planned for March 24
Sky Governance has approved a reduction of the Sky savings rate to 4.5%, planned to take effect on March 24 at 22:00 (UTC+8).
The confidential computing network Arcium will launch its community round on CoinList on March 24, with a total token supply of 1 billion (SPL standard), 100% unlocked at TGE, and only unlocked tokens eligible for staking. The token's uses include node activation, computation payments, and governance, featuring a dynamic supply mechanism to respond to network load changes. The allocation ratio includes: 20% for the community (with a CoinList target of 2%), 20.8% for core contributors, 20.4% for VC, 28% for ecosystem and treasury, 5.8% for angel investors, and 5% for validators.
Berachain Foundation: PoL will launch on March 24, governance enters the first phase
The Berachain Foundation announced that PoL (Proof of Liquidity) will officially launch on March 24, entering the first phase of governance, and the incentive mechanism will begin to take effect, with a new rewards pool being emitted. This change means that BGT holders will have more control and profit opportunities, determining the flow of incentives and supporting the distribution of incentives for users, applications, and validators.
Token Unlocking:
MMX (MMX) will unlock approximately 1.67 million tokens at 08:00 on March 24 (Beijing time), accounting for 1.07% of the current circulating supply, valued at approximately $1.1 million.
March 25
Project Updates:
Taproot Wizards plans to auction 2,121 NFTs to raise $34 million, starting March 25
The Bitcoin Ordinals project Taproot Wizards plans to auction 2,121 NFTs to raise $34 million. The project sold 3,000 "Quantum Cats" last year to support the Bitcoin Improvement Proposal (BIP) OP_CAT. Despite technical issues, the series quickly sold out, raising 300 BTC in the process. Starting March 25, Wizards will sell to whitelisted buyers at 0.2 BTC ($16,000), with unsold items being sold in a Dutch auction.
Token Unlocking:
AltLayer (ALT) will unlock approximately 240 million tokens at 18:00 on March 25 (Beijing time), accounting for 8.6% of the current circulating supply, valued at approximately $9.8 million.
Venom (VENOM) will unlock approximately 59.26 million tokens at 16:00 on March 25 (Beijing time), accounting for 2.9% of the current circulating supply, valued at approximately $7 million.
March 26
Project Updates:
Pump.fun plans to expand to Binance Smart Chain (BSC) on March 26
Pump.fun previously integrated a link button to trade on the MEXC DEX in its trading panel. Users can directly jump to the DEX Plus launched by MEXC for trading. On March 19, MEXC launched a mixed product DEXPlus, currently supporting the Solana ecosystem, allowing users to trade on-chain tokens from Raydium and pump.fun directly on the MEXC exchange client and website. According to the official announcement, plans are in place to expand to Binance Smart Chain (BSC) on March 26.
Celo mainnet will upgrade to Ethereum L2 on March 26
Celo will officially activate the Ethereum L2 mainnet on March 26, 2025, at 11:00 (Beijing time), with a hard fork block height of 31,057,000. After the upgrade, the block time will be reduced from 5 seconds to 1 second while retaining the complete on-chain history to ensure network transparency. Additionally, this upgrade reduces 365,000 lines of code, lowering the technical burden and supporting trustless upgrades, making node operations more efficient.
The Ethereum Foundation stated in an official blog that during the activation of the Pectra testnet, issues were exposed regarding changes in deposit contract configurations on the Ethereum testnet in the client. While the recovery process for the Sepolia network was relatively straightforward and has now fully recovered, the Holesky network experienced significant inactive leakage during the recovery mechanism. The Holesky network has since completed final confirmation, but validators exiting will take about a year to be completely removed from the validator set. While stakers can test deposits, merges, and all other Pectra features, the scale of the exit queue makes it impractical for Holesky to be used for testing the complete validator lifecycle within a reasonable timeframe. To address this issue, a new testnet has been launched: Hoodi. It will activate the Pectra network upgrade at epoch 2048 (March 26, 2025, Wednesday, 15:37:12 Beijing time). In the future, staking operators and infrastructure providers should use Hoodi for validator testing. To allow time for migration, the Holesky testnet will be supported until September 2025. All other Pectra features can be tested on Holesky, aside from validator exits.
Token Unlocking:
Ethena (ENA) will unlock approximately 7.93 million tokens at 15:00 on March 26 (Beijing time), accounting for 0.15% of the current circulating supply, valued at approximately $2.9 million.
Eigenlayer (EIGEN) will unlock approximately 1.29 million tokens at 03:00 on March 26 (Beijing time), accounting for 0.53% of the current circulating supply, valued at approximately $1.5 million.
March 27
Regulatory Policies:
The U.S. Senate committee hearing will take place on March 27, bringing Paul Atkins one step closer to becoming the new cryptocurrency-friendly chairman of the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC). President Trump nominated Atkins to lead the SEC on December 4, but his marriage to a billionaire family reportedly raised issues regarding financial disclosures, delaying his potential start date. While it is unclear whether the White House has submitted the relevant documents to the Senate, Semafor's Eleanor Mueller stated in a post on March 17 that Senate Banking, Housing, and Urban Affairs Committee Chairman Tim Scott plans to hold a hearing on March 27 to review Atkins' qualifications. Mueller also mentioned that the Senate Banking Committee plans to hold a bipartisan meeting on March 21 regarding Atkins' nomination.
Additionally, attending the same event will be the nominee for the Office of the Comptroller of the Currency (OCC), Jonathan Gould, and the nominee for Assistant Secretary of the Treasury, Luke Pettit. Atkins previously served as an SEC commissioner and has long supported digital asset policies. If confirmed, he would continue the pro-crypto regulatory shift initiated by the Trump administration. The OCC, as a key regulator of banks across the U.S., may also play a role in regulating stablecoin issuance in the future, and the relevant nominations will directly impact the compliance path and banking access prospects for the crypto industry.
Exchanges:
Binance is inviting users to vote on the first batch of token listing projects through the official post on Binance Square. The first voting pool only includes BNB Smart Chain tokens from Binance Alpha. Future voting rounds will expand to include all tokens in Binance Alpha. Various factors will be considered to determine the voting pool, including project fundamentals and performance metrics, token economics, secondary market performance, technical risk assessment, team background, and compliance review.
This round of voting will be open for the following projects: BANANAS31 (Banana For Scale), BID (CreatorBid), Broccoli (Broccoli), Broccoli (CZ'S Dog), KOMA (Koma Inu), SIREN (SIREN), mubarak (mubarak), TUT (Tutorial), WHY (why). Binance will select two tokens for listing after completing official due diligence and procedures.
Voting will take place from March 19, 2025, at 17:00 (UTC) to March 26, 2025, at 16:59 (UTC). Voting method: ① Each user can vote for up to 5 projects and can choose to vote for fewer projects; each verified account can only allocate one vote to one project. ② Users must log in to their verified Binance account and hold at least 0.01 BNB in their main account throughout the voting period for their vote to be valid.
Project Updates:
Grass Foundation: The claim period for GRASS Airdrop One is expected to be extended until March 27
The Grass Foundation announced on the X platform that the claim period for GRASS Airdrop One has been extended, with the extended claim period expected to end at block 329341917, anticipated to conclude on March 27, 2025. To qualify for Airdrop One, users need to obtain 500+ Grass Points and link their wallets on the Grass dashboard before 20:00 UTC on October 14, 2024.
The Walrus Foundation announced the successful raising of $140 million, with major investors including Standard Crypto, and other investors such as a16z crypto, Electric Capital, Creditcoin, Lvna Capital, Protagonist, Franklin Templeton Digital Assets, Karatage, RW3 Ventures, Comma3 Ventures, and The Raptor Group. This fundraising was completed through the sale of the Walrus protocol's cryptocurrency $WAL, which is expected to have a total supply valued at $2 billion. The Walrus protocol was developed by Mysten Labs, a company founded by former Meta employees, known for its high-speed blockchain Sui. Walrus aims to address the shortcomings of existing storage protocols in scalability, security, and flexibility by providing faster and cheaper decentralized storage. Although Walrus is still in the testing phase, Mysten Labs has already built a website hosting service on the protocol and plans to launch on March 27.
Token Unlocking:
Yield Guild Games (YGG) will unlock approximately 14.08 million tokens at 22:00 on March 27 (Beijing time), accounting for 3.28% of the current circulating supply, valued at approximately $3 million.
Tornado Cash (TORN) will unlock approximately 91,700 tokens at 11:30 on March 27 (Beijing time), accounting for 2.41% of the current circulating supply, valued at approximately $1.1 million.
March 28
Exchanges:
Indian crypto exchange WazirX will complete voting on the proposed restructuring plan on March 28
Indian crypto exchange WazirX announced on the X platform that its next key step is to vote on the proposed restructuring plan, with the voting period scheduled from March 19 to March 28, 2025. After asset rebalancing, if the majority of creditors vote in favor, approximately 85% of the account balances will be distributed to the scheme creditors within 10 working days after the restructuring plan takes effect (valued as of 13:00 Indian Standard Time on July 18, 2024).
21Shares plans to liquidate two Bitcoin futures and Ethereum futures ETFs around March 28
21Shares US LLC announced plans to liquidate two Bitcoin futures and Ethereum futures ETFs, namely the ARK 21Shares Active Bitcoin Ethereum Strategy ETF (Cboe BZX: ARKY) and the ARK 21Shares Active On-Chain Bitcoin Strategy ETF (Cboe BZX: ARKC). Shareholders can sell their holdings in the funds before the end of the trading day on Thursday, March 27, 2025, and such transactions may incur regular brokerage fees. The last trading day for both funds is March 27, 2025. The funds will be liquidated around March 28, 2025. Shareholders who continue to hold fund shares on the liquidation date will receive a liquidation distribution equal to their proportionate share of equity in the fund on that date. Shareholders receiving liquidation distributions typically realize capital gains or losses equivalent to the net asset value of their shares.
Binance has launched its first voting event for listing new tokens, allowing each user to vote for up to 5 projects in the "vote to delist" pool, with each verified account allowed to cast one vote per project. Users must log in to their verified Binance account and hold at least 0.01 BNB in their main account throughout the voting period for their vote to be valid. Voting will take place from March 21, 2025, at 06:30 (UTC) to March 27, 2025, at 23:59 (UTC). The voting results are not the sole factor in the final delisting decision. Project monitoring is still under evaluation, and the final decision will be made by Binance based on its official review process and standards. Additionally, the delisting timeline will depend on Binance's procedures. The voting options include JASMY, ZEC, FTT, ELF, SNT, STPT, BAL, ARK, GPS, MBL, PROS, CTXC, HARD, BETA, CREAM, FIRO, VIDT, NULS, TROY, ALPACA, UFT.
Developer Activities:
BoostVC, Draper Associates, and Thesis have launched the second phase of the BitcoinFi accelerator, where participants can receive $150,000 in initial funding in exchange for 5% equity, along with mentorship and technical support, as well as access to market expansion (GTM) and venture capital (VC) networking. Applications will close on March 28.
Token Unlocking:
Velo (VELO) will unlock approximately 182 million tokens at 08:00 on March 28 (Beijing time), accounting for 2.47% of the current circulating supply, valued at approximately $2.4 million.
Undeads Games (UDS) will unlock approximately 2.15 million tokens at 08:00 on March 28 (Beijing time), accounting for 3.00% of the current circulating supply, valued at approximately $2.1 million.
Artificial Superintelligence Alliance (FET) will unlock approximately 3.24 million tokens at 08:00 on March 28 (Beijing time), accounting for 0.12% of the current circulating supply, valued at approximately $1.7 million.
SingularityNET (AGIX) will unlock approximately 7.48 million tokens at 08:00 on March 28 (Beijing time), accounting for 2.40% of the current circulating supply, valued at approximately $1.7 million.
March 29
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March 30
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