Gate News reported that on March 21, Hong Kong Securities and Futures Professionals Union Chairman Chen Zhihua commented on the controversy surrounding brokers' "pre-registration of designated bank accounts" for customers. He stated that although the regulatory circular proposes establishing a bank account registration mechanism with caps, the related practices may stem from inappropriately applying virtual asset regulatory concepts (such as pre-approval of wallet addresses) to the traditional securities industry.

Venus Protocol's $THE market suffered an attack, resulting in approximately $2.15 million in bad debt. The attacker bypassed supply caps by borrowing to purchase $THE, causing exchange rate inflation. Following the incident, Justin Sun and other holders made substantial XVS deposits.

Gate News reports that on March 19, ClawVault, a non-custodial control layer for agent economics, announced that AI agents can now automatically pay for x402 API fees using USDC. The feature will execute automatically but requires user authorization. Each payment will be reviewed through over 30 configurable rules, including spending caps, whitelists, rate limits, approvals, and other security mechanisms.