Gate News Announcement, March 10 — Hefei High-tech Zone officially released the "Hefei High-tech Zone Action Plan for Building an Artificial Intelligence OPC Entrepreneurship Ecosystem Demonstration Zone (Draft for Comments)," introducing 15 support measures to comprehensively promote the development of open-source AI projects like OpenClaw. The initiative aims to establish a new industry benchmark for "AI + super individuals/one-person companies (OPC)." The policy offers support across five key dimensions: "space + talent + computing power + scenarios + capital," with funding support of up to 10 million yuan.

During the interview, Trump issued a tough statement on Iran's new Supreme Leader, saying that without U.S. approval, the leader "won't stay in power for long," and emphasized the need to prevent another crisis, especially avoiding Iran acquiring nuclear weapons.

Gate News Report, March 8 — Circle Global Market Head Peter Schroeder cited Enterprise Onchain data showing that over the past nine months, AI agents have completed 140 million payments with a total transaction volume of $43 million. Among these, 98.6% of transactions were settled in USDC, with an average transaction amount of $0.31. Currently, the number of AI agents with purchasing power has exceeded 400,000.

Gate News Report, March 8 — On Saturday, U.S. President Trump told reporters aboard Air Force One that he is not interested in negotiations with Iran and proposed a possible end to the Iran war: only when Tehran no longer has operational military forces or any remaining leadership in power. Trump said, "At some point, there may be no one left in Iran to say 'surrender'."

Gate News bot message, the Pentagon designated Anthropic as a national security risk, with OpenAI replacing it within hours. As AI power consolidates among a narrowing group of corporations, an alternative stack is being constructed on-chain to counter corporate consolidation.

Rumble disclosed in its latest financial report that it holds 210.82 Bitcoin and $237.9 million in cash, with total liquidity of approximately $256.4 million. The company will collaborate with Tether to secure $100 million in advertising spending and $150 million in GPU service procurement commitments to enhance AI infrastructure and computing power.

Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang praised the open-source AI software OpenClaw at the conference, considering it a potentially important software release with a record-breaking number of downloads. He summarized three turning points in AI development, pointing out that the surge in computing power demand is directly related to revenue, and that countries should not reject intelligence in the future.

CleanSpark produced 568 Bitcoins in February, sold 553, setting a new sales ratio high, and generated approximately $36.65 million in cash to support expansion into AI and high-performance computing data centers. Currently holds 13,363 Bitcoins, with operational computing power reaching 50 EH/s, accounting for 7% of the global total computing power.

ChainCatcher reports that, according to market sources, Bitcoin mining company DMG Blockchain Solutions announced it has been approved to increase its total available electricity capacity to 75 megawatts. The company plans to explore electricity financial hedging contracts to mitigate the impact of power outages on Bitcoin mining and artificial intelligence data center operations. Additionally, according to its 2026 operational performance report, last month the mining output was 23 BTC. However, due to the sale of some of its Bitcoin holdings, the current total holdings have decreased to 410 BTC, and the platform's total hash rate has increased to 1.78 EH/s.

Pi Network is currently undergoing mainnet upgrades and AI computing capability testing, exploring the integration of blockchain and distributed AI. Nodes need to upgrade to version 20.2 by March 12. Testing shows that nodes can participate in AI tasks, and in the future, they may earn token rewards by providing AI computing power. Despite challenges such as KYC verification delays, Pi Network is expected to become a decentralized AI computing network.