Gate News reports that on March 27, the stablecoin issuer Tether has chosen KPMG as its auditing firm and has hired PwC to assist in improving internal systems. This move is the clearest signal that Tether is moving towards a comprehensive audit of its financial statements. The audit scope will go beyond the monthly reserve attestations currently issued by BDO Italia, conducting a thorough review of assets, liabilities, control measures, and reporting processes.

Anthropic is testing a new model called "Claude Mythos," which shows significant improvements in areas such as programming, reasoning, and cybersecurity. Leaked drafts indicate that Mythos is a completely new model tier that surpasses the existing Opus series and possesses leading cybersecurity capabilities. The leak originated from a misconfiguration in the content management system, which led to the exposure of unpublished assets. Anthropic stated that it will adopt a more cautious release strategy.

Cryptocurrency incubator Obex announces deployment of $1 billion to connect Sky ecosystem's USDS stablecoin with real-world assets, focusing on investments in credit, energy, and AI assets to enhance USDS holder yields and drive the Sky ecosystem beyond pure crypto returns. Sky is the world's third-largest stablecoin issuer and plans to increase USDS supply to $20 billion.

Franklin Templeton partners with Ondo Finance to launch a 24/7 tradable ETF, initially targeting markets in Europe, Asia-Pacific, and beyond. The ETF encompasses stocks, gold, and high-yield bonds, with liquidity support provided by Ondo. Token holders enjoy yield rights and the ETF is compatible with DeFi collateralization.

Meta recently launched a new stock option incentive plan that requires executives to drive the company's market value beyond $9 trillion by 2031 to fully cash out their options. The plan covers six core executives, with CEO Zuckerberg excluded from the list. The initiative aims to incentivize executives to achieve tremendous company success, thereby benefiting all shareholders. As competition for AI talent intensifies, Meta's equity compensation costs have risen significantly.

On a quiet Sunday morning, someone turned $100,000 into $25 million in approximately 17 minutes. The target was the yield-bearing stablecoin protocol Resolv. Before Resolv paused its contracts, its dollar-pegged stablecoin USR had fallen to just a few cents. As of this writing, USR remains severely depegged, trading at around $0.25 and experiencing a decline of over 70% this week. The shockwaves extended far beyond Resolv.

Gate News reported that on March 19, RippleX shared insights from Rayhaneh Sharif-Askary, an executive at an asset management institution, on ETF-driven expansion of cryptocurrency access. Sharif-Askary stated that the cryptocurrency market has matured and has moved beyond a single Bitcoin-dominated phase, with ETF products now providing investors with broader access channels to crypto assets.

Gate News reported that on March 19th, Grayscale ETF Senior Vice President of Capital Markets Krista Lynch recently delivered a speech to a large audience of financial advisors at the Exchange ETF event. Lynch discussed the evolving trends in portfolio allocation, emphasizing that clients are increasingly considering a broader range of crypto assets beyond Bitcoin. This event was hosted by Nate

Gate News reported that on March 18, Bitcoin mining company HIVE launched its first AI GPU cluster in Paraguay, expanding its business scope beyond Bitcoin mining.

Vitalik Buterin recently pointed out that the concept of zero-knowledge proofs has misled many people, and he believes that running nodes remains critically important. Users need to read the blockchain in a privacy-preserving and censorship-resistant manner, and existing remote procedure calls cannot meet this requirement. He emphasized that Ethereum's future lies in going beyond the processing capacity of individual nodes to truly achieve a permissionless and bottleneck-free network.