The popular AI framework Virtuals Protocol will host an in-person meet-up in Hong Kong on Friday, January 17.

On March 27, Israeli Defense Minister Benny Gantz stated that the Israeli Defense Forces (IDF) will further escalate strikes against Iran, expanding their scope to cover more targets and regions. He made the comments during a situation assessment meeting with senior IDF officials, emphasizing that Israel had previously warned Iran to stop launching missiles at Israeli civilians—but Iran persisted in the attacks. Consequently, the IDF will intensify its strikes against Iran. (CCTV)

March 27 — Per monitoring by HyperInsight (https://t.me/HyperInsight), the Ethereum address "pension-usdt.eth" (0x0ddf...) has consecutively closed out 126.13 BTC in short positions, totaling approximately $9.2259 million in value. Following this take-profit round, the total value of its BTC short positions has fallen from roughly $30.21 million to $24.8386 million. The position currently holds a floating profit of around $915,000, with a return rate of 11.05% and an average entry price of $68,884.20.

March 27 — BeatSwap has rolled out a community-led initiative to support the expansion of its global trading platform, with Bybit poised to be a critical piece of the project’s next growth phase. Users can join Bybit via the official tracking link; post-registration trading activity will count toward community metrics used in the platform’s evaluation process. BeatSwap emphasizes the link is solely for tracking and community verification—not a referral mechanism. The initiative is framed as a way to boost ecosystem engagement and lay groundwork for future development involving additional trading platforms.

March 27th — Per HyperInsight monitoring, a temporary BTC price dip forced the whale behind the wallet address starting with 0x965 to liquidate all long positions in BTC, HYPE, and SOL after BTC fell below $66,830. The total liquidation value hit $13.53 million, marking the largest single liquidation across the network in the past 24 hours. Specifically, 74.2 BTC (≈$4.96 million), 48,600 SOL (≈$4.06 million), and 118,000 HYPE (≈$4.51 million) were liquidated. Going back to yesterday, when BTC dropped to around $69,500, this address already faced successive liquidations: its full long positions in S&P 500 and ETH were closed out simultaneously, totaling over $25 million in liquidations. After re-entering the market with additional positions today, it couldn’t avoid liquidation again, pushing the two-day total liquidation to more than $38 million.

March 27: Coinbase to List Katana (KAT) Perpetual Contracts The KAT-PERP market will launch immediately if liquidity requirements are met and the trading zone is supported.