On March 16, the precious metals market strengthened, with gold rising to $5,019.61 per ounce and silver at $80.860 per ounce; the US dollar declined slightly against the Chinese yuan and Japanese yen. Major European stock indices rose, while WTI and Brent crude oil fell. The Gate platform supports trading in multiple asset types, enabling the integration of cryptocurrency and traditional finance.

Gate News reported that on March 16, 360's recently released security product "Security Lobster" was found to have packaged the wildcard domain certificate for .myclaw.360.cn and its corresponding private key directly in the local installation directory. The Security Lobster interface is based on a customized 360 browser, accessed through https://myclaw.360.cn:19798/local address. To implement this local HTTPS connection, engineers placed both the wildcard certificate and private key in the client. The wildcard certificate covers all subdomains under myclaw.360.cn. After private key leakage, third parties can forge HTTPS encrypted connections under that domain. The certificate has not been revoked at this time.

Gate News: On March 16, WTI crude oil (West Texas Intermediate crude oil futures) fell 5.00% intraday and is now trading at $94.26 per barrel.

A smart money address deposited 330 cbBTC to a CEX on March 16, incurring a loss of approximately $54,000. Since February, the address has accumulated 53,392 ETH and 4,000 cbBTC, with a total value of $420 million. At one point, the assets shrank by over $73.65 million.

Gate News bot message, according to Gate's official announcement Gate has launched CFG contract trading features, including CFG perpetual contracts live trading (USDT settlement), supporting 1-20x leverage. Meanwhile, in margin lending, Gate has added CFG unified account lending, isolated margin trading pairs, and launched CFG savings products, active collateralized loans, and fixed-term collateralized loans. Additionally, Gate has introduced a flash conversion feature for CFG, allowing users to convert CFG to USDT or other tokens supported by flash conversion. For dollar-cost averaging, the platform has opened CFG DCA functionality, supporting multiple DCA cycles such as hourly and daily. The aforementioned perpetual contracts have opened copy trading and trading bot services.

French police arrested two minors and a 35-year-old man on March 16th for their alleged involvement in an armed robbery targeting cryptocurrency holders on March 10th. The case involves two robbery and theft incidents. Police deployed approximately 100 armed officers in pursuit and recovered stolen goods. All three individuals have been charged.

Gate News: On March 16, OpenAI is in deep negotiations with TPG, Bain Capital, Advent, and Brookfield regarding the establishment of a joint venture to distribute artificial intelligence products. Private equity firms may commit $4 billion in equity investment to the joint venture, valued at $10 billion. OpenAI plans to provide preferred shares in the joint venture, while Anthropic has proposed providing common shares.

Gate News reported that on March 16, Nasdaq-listed bitcoin treasury company Empery Digital disclosed that it reduced holdings of 60 bitcoins last week at an average price of $70,534, bringing its total bitcoin holdings down to 3,502 bitcoins. Additionally, the company disclosed that it has spent approximately $127 million to repurchase over 212,900 shares of common stock to date. Empery Digital stated that it will continue to sell bitcoins as needed in the future to fund additional share repurchases and may repay some outstanding debt.

BlackRock's iShares Staked Ethereum Trust ETF (ETHB) launched on Nasdaq on March 16, offering staking rewards. Figment is responsible for validator node infrastructure, supporting Ethereum network security and transaction validation. ETHB's launch stems from policy support and regulatory clarity, attracting more investors to participate in Ethereum staking, promoting network security and on-chain economic development.

Gate News reports that on March 16, crypto researcher Stacy Muur disclosed on the X platform that among the top 20 profitable traders on Polymarket, 14 are bot accounts, accounting for 70%. Stacy Muur believes that building dedicated prediction market platform infrastructure for AI Agents could likely become a project direction worth billions of dollars.