Bitfarms has completed the acquisition of Stronghold Digital Mining

On March 18th, the final voting result regarding "Crypto.com to Reissue 70 Billion Burned CRO Tokens" was as follows: 61.18% in favor, 17.61% against, 20.11% abstained, and 0.11% vetoed. The participation rate of the vote ultimately reached 70.18%. After the vote was passed, the Cronos blockchain will undergo an upgrade tomorrow. At that time, 70 billion new CRO tokens will be minted. These upcoming tokens will be gradually unlocked over a period of five years for various purposes, including providing funding for a potential CRO ETF. However, this is not the only action by the Crypto.com team. Just one day after the end of the vote, the team proposed another action to burn 50 million CRO, following the previous three rounds of token burns of the same amount. The vote for this new proposal will take place over the next two weeks. (unchained)

On March 18th, based on the monitoring of @ai_9684xtpa, the address that had previously accumulated SHELL was actually the buyback address of a liquidity provider. The Myshell project team had previously announced a plan to use 8 million USDT to buy back SHELL and complete the buyback within 90 days. Since March 13th, this address has withdrawn a total of 18.45 million SHELL from a centralized exchange (CEX), approximately 5.43 million USDT, achieving 68% of the buyback progress.

On March 18th, the Japanese listed company Metaplanet announced that it will issue a ￥2 billion (approximately $13.38 million) interest-free straight bond in order to increase its holdings of Bitcoin.

On March 18th, based on alternative data, the cryptocurrency fear and greed index for today is 34 (yesterday it was 32), suggesting a slight alleviation of market fear. Note: The threshold of the fear index is 0-100 and encompasses the following indicators: Volatility (25%) + Market Volume (25%) + Social Media Hype (15%) + Market Surveys (15%) + Bitcoin Dominance (10%) + Google Trends Analysis (10%).

On March 18th, according to the monitoring data of Trader T, there was a net inflow of $274.59 million in the US Bitcoin spot ETF yesterday.

On March 18th, as per official channels, the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) declared that the SEC Cryptocurrency Working Group is set to host a series of roundtable discussions with the aim of delving into the key domains of cryptocurrency regulation. The initial roundtable discussion is scheduled to be held on March 21, commencing at 1:00 PM and concluding at 5:00 PM local time.