Gate News: On March 18, Gate data showed that spot gold fell to $4,980 per ounce intraday, down 0.52%.

On March 18, US natural gas prices fell 3.6% briefly, leading all liquidations across the network, with a cumulative decline of 11.6%. The largest long position address was liquidated as prices fell below $2.91, with liquidation size reaching 638,364 contracts and losses of $200,000. Meanwhile, the address held BTC short positions and crude oil and gold long positions as hedges, but suffered losses on both sides.

On March 18, gold and silver prices rose slightly, reaching $5,012.28/oz and $79.833/oz respectively. Bitcoin and Ethereum volatility indices showed mixed performance, with the US dollar rising modestly in the forex market. Global stock indices rose broadly, while WTI and Brent crude oil prices declined.

Gate News reports that on March 17, according to OnchainLens monitoring, Antalpha, a publicly listed U.S. crypto fintech company, transferred 1,700 XAUT to Cobo's deposit wallet address, valued at approximately 8.46 million USD at current prices. Tether Gold (XAUT) is a tokenized gold asset issued by Tether and backed by physical gold.

On March 17, data from Gate showed that the prices of gold and silver increased slightly, while the volatility index of the cryptocurrency market remained largely unchanged. In the foreign exchange market, the US dollar slightly depreciated against the Chinese yuan and the Japanese yen. Global stock indices generally rose, and crude oil prices also increased. The Gate platform supports users in conveniently trading multiple asset classes, enabling the integration of crypto assets with traditional financial assets.

Gate News: On March 17, tokenization platform Theo announced the launch of thUSD, a yield-bearing stablecoin backed by gold, and opened a liquidity pool with a maximum capacity of $100 million. The stablecoin is backed by thGOLD, its issued gold token, and generates yield through a cash and carry arbitrage strategy that holds spot gold exposure while shorting gold futures. Previously, Theo raised $15.5 million in funding led by Hack VC and Anthos Capital.

Gate TradFi released an announcement on March 17, completing a product upgrade and launching a multi-leverage trading system with maximum leverage up to 500x, covering gold, silver, and multiple stock indices and forex pairs to meet diverse risk preferences and trading strategy needs.

On March 17, affected by spot gold price breaking below $5,000 per ounce, the GOLD contract price on a certain decentralized derivatives platform declined, with the largest short address achieving unrealized gains of $620,000. Another address simultaneously opened short positions in both GOLD and SILVER contracts, with cumulative position size of $6.3 million, both of which have recorded unrealized gains.

Bitcoin surged during Asian early trading, breaking through $75,000 and reaching new highs, with gains extending to an eighth consecutive trading day, signaling recovery in market sentiment. Declining exchange inflows and heightened whale trading activity reinforce the upward momentum. Capital is shifting from gold to Bitcoin, though macro uncertainty remains. $75,000 has become key support, and future trends face testing.

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