Gianni Infantino, President of FIFA, announced the "FIFA Coin" plan at a White House summit, hoping to launch their own cryptocurrency. The aim is to leverage the $170 billion football industry and the 5 billion global football fans. They will invite cryptocurrency experts to collaborate and help realize this project.

Argo Blockchain, a bitcoin mining company listed on Nasdaq, has announced that it has signed a $40 million senior secured convertible loan agreement, with an initial financing amount of $15 million and the remaining $25 million to be completed in the next 18 months. Three multinational institutions have invested (specific institution names have not been disclosed) and will join the Argo board. The new funds will be used to expand its mining facility in Baie Comeau, strengthen the balance sheet, and conduct a series of potential merger and acquisition transactions.

According to the official announcement of Binance, Binance will update the collateral ratios of various assets under the investment portfolio margin mode on March 7, 2025 at 06:00 (UTC). The update process is expected to last about an hour. The specific adjustments are as follows: The collateral ratios of BCH, XTZ, and MANA will be reduced from 85% to 75%; The collateral ratio of ONE will be reduced from 80% to 70%; The collateral ratios of BAT and DENT will be reduced from 80% to 65%. Please note that the collateral ratio adjustments will affect the unified maintenance margin rate (uniMMR), and users need to pay close attention to avoid potential liquidation risks.

On the fifth day of Open Source Week, its Fire-Flyer file system (3FS) was officially open sourced. As a high-performance parallel file system, 3FS can fully utilize modern SSDs and RDMA networks to achieve high-speed data access, improving the efficiency of AI model training and inference.

There has been growing discussion around the possibility of increasing Ethereum’s gas throughput, either by raising the gas limit or reducing slot time. The key argument in favor of this is that the hardware requirements for running a validator have steadily decreased over the past four years.

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According to Etherscan data, the current Ethereum network gas fee has fallen below 1 gwei, currently at 0.937 gwei.

1. The U.S. Internal Revenue Service has released a new draft of the crypto tax form, which no longer requires filling in wallet addresses and transaction IDs

Christine Kim, Vice President of Galaxy Research, summarized the main content of the 139th ACDC conference call. The debugging of Pectra's upgraded Devnet 2 is currently underway, and the release date of Devnet 3 is yet to be determined. Developers will hold weekly testing update meetings starting from Monday to better coordinate the release of Pectra's Devnet. The decision to include EIP-7688 in Pectra's upgrade has been postponed again.

According to Ether­scan data, the current gas fee on the Ethereum network has dropped to 1 gwei.