Gate News 消息，3 月 18 日，根據市場數據，美股盤前加密概念股普漲。MSTR 上漲 0.59%；SBET 上漲 0.12%；SBET 上漲 0.24%；BMNR 上漲 1.08%；CRCL 上漲 1.5%；某 CEX 相關概念股上漲 2.09%。

Mastercard has announced the acquisition of blockchain payments company BVNK for up to $1.8 billion, aiming to connect traditional finance and blockchain systems to support digital asset payments. This move reflects Mastercard's strategic transformation in the stablecoin and digital asset sectors, and despite short-term stock price declines, the long-term development prospects are promising.

Nado decentralized exchange launched silver commodity perpetual futures (XAG-PERP) on March 18, supporting up to 20x leverage with an isolated margin mode to ensure that liquidation of a single position does not affect other holdings. Trading hours are synchronized with CME Globex, with position reduction only permitted during non-trading sessions.

March 18th, Alibaba Cloud announced price increases for its AI computing power and storage products of up to 34% due to a global surge in AI demand and supply chain cost increases. Computing cards and file storage products also saw significant price hikes. This round of price increases is primarily driven by a surge in Token invocation volumes, with Alibaba Cloud prioritizing the fulfillment of AI computing power demand for Token services.

Hong Kong stablecoin payment company RedotPay is in talks with multiple institutions for up to $150 million in funding, with a valuation exceeding $1 billion, targeting a $4 billion IPO. However, it faces challenges including frequent executive turnover. Last year, annualized total payment volume exceeded $10 billion, with revenue reaching $158 million and over 6 million users. Some connections with mainland China have attracted attention.

Bitcoin Layer 2 network Stacks implemented SIP-034 upgrade on March 17, enhancing the network processing capacity of certain DeFi applications by 30 times. By optimizing transaction processing limits, the upgrade has significant impact on complex DeFi applications and is expected to indirectly increase transactions and fees.

Gate News report: On March 17, Amazon (AMZN.O, US tech giant) rose 1% in pre-market trading. According to previous reports, OpenAI and AWS (Amazon Web Services) signed an agreement to sell artificial intelligence services to US government employees.

Gate TradFi announced on March 17 that it completed a product upgrade and launched a multi-leverage trading system with leverage up to 500x, covering gold, silver, and multiple stock indices and forex pairs to meet different risk preferences and trading strategy needs.

March 17, DefiLlama data shows that decentralized perpetual contract trading platform trading volume rebounded, with Hyperliquid open interest up 27.8% since the beginning of this month. Both trading volume and open interest of major Perp DEXs have increased.

Vietnam plans to launch a pilot program for licensed cryptocurrency exchanges in March, restricting domestic users from trading on overseas platforms. Five enterprises have already passed the review. The pilot will run for 5 years with limits on the number of exchanges and foreign shareholdings. Violations in trading will result in fines of up to 100 million Vietnamese dong.