Billionaire Marc Lasry: Economic Downturn Could Be Inevitable Under the Impact of Trump's Policy Uncertainty

On March 17th, Solana futures officially launched on CME today. At present, CME provides two new contract sizes: a micro contract covering 25 SOL and a full-size contract covering 500 SOL. Giovanni Vicioso, the Global Head of Cryptocurrency Products at CME Group, stated that as Solana continues to emerge as the platform of choice for developers and investors, these new futures contracts will provide a capital-efficient tool to support their investment and hedging strategies.

March 17th — Based on Farside data, the fund flow data of ARKB was released just 10 minutes ago on March 14th. It showed an inflow of $100.5 million. This led to March 14, 2025, being a day of overall net inflows, with a net inflow of $32.1 million.

On March 17th, based on Coinglass data, within the past 24 hours, the total net inflow of BTC on CEXs was 597.53 BTC. The top three CEXs in terms of inflow volume are as follows: Coinbase Pro, with an inflow of 470.77 BTC; Kraken, with an inflow of 284.95 BTC; Binance, with an inflow of 254.21 BTC. In addition, Bybit had an outflow of 140.27 BTC, ranking first in the outflow list.

On March 17th, Hashdex Nasdaq Crypto Index US ETF submitted Amendment No. 1 to the effective S-1 filing with the US SEC. The filing, dated March 14, 2025, and having a file number of 333 - 280990, indicates that as of the index rebalancing date, Bitcoin and Ethereum were among the index constituents. After the index rebalancing date, it is anticipated that Bitcoin, Ethereum, SOL, XRP, ADA, LINK, AVAX, LTC, and UNI will be included in the index constituents. Each index constituent functions on its respective network.

On March 17th, Lazard's Chief Market Strategist Temple expressed that due to inflation risks, Lazard still anticipates that the Fed will not cut interest rates until 2025. He pointed out that Lazard's perspective is notably different from the market consensus as the market generally assumes that there could be three rate cuts this year. Temple stated, "My viewpoint is in conflict with the consensus because I expect that by 2025, U.S. tariffs will widen in scope and scale, thereby pushing up inflation." He further explained that a re-acceleration of inflation does not necessarily result in interest rate hikes. However, increasing price pressures may prevent the Fed from loosening policy in the face of rising unemployment. (FXStreet)

On March 17th, as per the monitoring of OnchainDataNerd, a whale address beginning with 0x02a amassed 500,000 AUCTION tokens during the previous week at an average price of $18.57. Currently, it is indicating an unrealized gain of approximately $6.2 million.