according to Decrypt, Pedro Giocondo Guerra, senior advisor to the Vice President of Brazil, stated in a recent speech on behalf of the government: "The strategic reserve of Bitcoin is crucial for the prosperity of the country. Discussions about establishing a BTC reserve may be a key factor in deciding the prosperity of Brazil, in line with the interests of the country and the public." Brazilian congressman Eros Biondini (PL-MG) previously proposed legislation to establish a "strategic sovereign Bitcoin reserve" (RESBit). Holding 5% of foreign exchange reserves (international reserves) in Bitcoin, the Central Bank of Brazil will use advanced monitoring systems, blockchain technology, and artificial intelligence to monitor transactions and be responsible for custody.

Bitpanda, headquartered in Vienna, has obtained a broker-dealer license from the Dubai Virtual Asset Regulatory Authority (VARA).

Clearstream, the post-trade division of Deutsche Boerse, announced that it will start providing cryptocurrency settlement and custody services for institutional clients in April this year.

Citigroup's strategist has downgraded the rating of the U.S. stock market from overweight to neutral, while upgrading the rating of the Chinese stock market to overweight, citing that "the U.S. exceptionalism has at least been suspended."

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.