Liquid Capital founder Yi Lihua stated that he is preparing a new fund and adopting a full-position strategy to capitalize on rebounds, believing that BTC rebounding to $85,000 and $90,000 is reasonable. He shared his experience of over a decade in the crypto industry, emphasizing the importance of maintaining a positive mindset and conducting oneself with integrity.

Gate News reported that on March 17, Strategy founder Michael Saylor stated that if AI compresses terminal value and makes all moats ephemeral, capital will flow toward assets that are not subject to disruption risk. He pointed out that Bitcoin is digital capital with scarce and neutral characteristics, unaffected by AI disruption. In this shift, BTC should be a major beneficiary.

On March 17, U.S. stock market close: Dow Jones up 0.8%, S&P 500 up 1%, Nasdaq up 1.2%. Crypto sector broadly gained, Bitmine up 13.88%, Circle up 9.06%, SharpLink Gaming up 8.9%, Bullish up 8.19%, Strategy up 5.62%, a certain CEX up 3.98%.

Gate News reports that on March 17, stablecoin project USD.AI announced on the X platform that CHIP token allocations from the ICO and airdrop are now available for inquiry. Users can view their specific allocations in the USD.AI application. Additionally, USD.AI stated that users wishing to apply for ICO refunds can submit applications through the CoinList platform. It is important to note that once a refund is requested, users will forfeit all allocated CHIP tokens, and this action is irreversible.

A certain NFT trading platform announced a delay in its SEA token issuance plan. CEO Devin Finzer stated that the token generation event originally scheduled for Q1 2026 will be postponed, with specific dates to be announced later. The delay is due to challenging cryptocurrency market conditions, with the team aiming to ensure all preparations are fully in place before launching the issuance.

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 reported that on March 16, Onchain Lens monitoring showed that a certain whale address withdrew 413.7 Bitcoin from a certain CEX 6 minutes ago, valued at approximately $30.44 million. Data shows that the whale currently holds a total of 2417 Bitcoin, with a total value of approximately $177.97 million. These Bitcoin were all accumulated within the past 41 days.

Bittensor subnet Templar completed pretraining of Covenant-72B, a decentralized language model with 72 billion parameters, on March 10th. The model demonstrated excellent performance on MMLU tests, surpassing multiple centralized baseline models. The project attracted collaboration from over 70 nodes, with all weights and checkpoints released under the Apache License. Following this news, Bittensor and its token experienced broad gains.

Gate News, on March 16, according to Dune data, prediction market platform Polymarket's trading volume exceeded $2.1 billion in the first week of March, breaking its historical record once again.

Gate News reported that on March 16, Hyperinsight monitoring showed that as the market rallied, a certain cryptocurrency trader (codename "Maji") saw unrealized gains on their 25x long ETH position exceed 110%. The trader has changed their operating style from recent months of "continuous rallies with rolling positions all the way down," and has begun taking profits and reducing positions. As of press time, their 25x long ETH holdings have decreased to 7575 coins, with weekly profits reaching $1.26 million.