137Labs On-chain News Report Issue 058

🔥 Hot Events

1️⃣ White House Officials: The U.S. may use its gold reserves to purchase more Bitcoin

2️⃣ Strategy increased its holdings by 6,911 Bitcoins between March 17 and 23, with an average purchase price of $84,529

3️⃣ Bitcoin mining difficulty increased by 1.43% last night to 113.76T, approaching historical highs.

4️⃣ USDC Treasury minted an additional 250 million USDC on the Solana chain

📖 Project Updates

1️⃣ Nilion Alpha mainnet has been launched

2️⃣ Aptos liquidity staking protocol AmnisFinance launched governance token AMI, with an airdrop allocation of 8%.

3️⃣ dYdx community launched DYDX token buyback plan, with 25% of protocol revenue used for buybacks

4️⃣ Rain, a debit card issuer allowing stablecoin settlements, completed a $24.5 million funding round

⌚️ Upcoming Events

1️⃣ March 27: U.S. Q4 real GDP annualized quarter-on-quarter final value.

2️⃣ April 4: U.S. March non-farm payrolls and unemployment rate (8:30)