BNY Mellon CEO Robin Vince stated at the Digital Asset Summit that the next phase of the crypto industry will depend on large financial institutions, emphasizing the importance of tokenization and digital asset custody. He pointed out that trust and regulation are key to development and mentioned progress on relevant regulations. Morgan Stanley's Amy Oldenburg believes that banks' entry into the crypto space stems from mature infrastructure development, rather than hype.

Strive's Chief Risk Officer Jeff Walton stated that if rating agencies adjust their Bitcoin valuations, Strategy could potentially jump from junk status to investment grade, thereby gaining access to broader capital markets. He pointed out that current mainstream rating systems have significant gaps in their recognition of Bitcoin, which affects corporate financing costs and risk pricing in the credit market.

Gate News report: On March 23, Onchain Lens monitoring showed that Sky co-founder Rune opened a new 20x leverage long position in $GOLD (gold) during a $GOLD price downturn. Meanwhile, Rune is closing out a previously held $SP500 position.

On March 20, the Federal Reserve maintained interest rates unchanged, and Bitcoin price quickly fell back to around $70,000, with a decline close to 5%. Market risk appetite cooled, and Ethereum, Dogecoin, and others also came under pressure, showing the impact of macroeconomic factors on the crypto market. Analysts pointed out that Bitcoin trading will rely on selective fund flows, and high interest rates and geopolitical risks may cause it to maintain a volatile and weak pattern in the short term.

Y Combinator co-founder Paul Graham shared a conversation with OpenAI employees on X platform, mentioning that purchasing rare items can hedge against AI risk, and pointing out that items from before 2028 will be more valuable, suggesting that AI in the future will be able to replicate most human-created items.

Pi Network's Pi Coin is gradually transitioning into a real-circulating Layer 1 token, with prices currently fluctuating between $0.17 and $0.18. The market is focused on user adoption and ecosystem implementation. As the mainnet opening approaches, token supply-demand imbalances are affecting prices, making it difficult to break out of the consolidation range in the short term. Long-term prospects depend on factors such as ecosystem expansion and user activity levels.

According to Hyperinsight monitoring, on March 19th, the "Strategy Counterparty" address closed out all CL and NATGAS long positions and instead increased BTC and ETH short positions. The current position size has reached $105 million, but still retains $4.32 million in Brent crude oil long positions.

On March 18, Garrett Jin posted a warning on X platform about incorrect focus on oil price direction, pointing out that although Brent crude and WTI appear manageable, actual market pressure is mainly in Dubai and Oman, with oil prices approaching $155, reflecting supply tightness globally, especially in Asia.

Vitalik Buterin recently pointed out that the concept of zero-knowledge proofs has misled many people, and he believes that running nodes remains crucial. 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 and truly achieving a permissionless and bottleneck-free network.