Ethereum Gas Fee Continues to Drop, Now at 0.352 Gwei

March 3 — Lido announced in a tweet that Stage 3 of its V3 upgrade is now live. All stVaults can now mint stETH permissionlessly, and minting limits for identified node operators have been raised. Lido V3’s initial deployment is fully complete.

Per 1M AI News, Ollama has announced support for one-click Pi launches via the `ollama launch pi` command. Pi is a minimalist AI programming agent toolkit developed by Mario Zechner, featuring a built-in plugin extension system—even allowing users to have Pi draft extensions for themselves. It’s globally available via npm, with its configuration file located in the ~/.pi/agent/ directory, and supports integration with Ollama local models (like qwen3-coder) and multiple cloud service providers. Ollama founder Jeffrey Morgan praised Pi for its elegant design and high customizability, noting it performs well even with small-parameter models (including local Qwen 3.5 series models). The `ollama launch` command was introduced on January 23 this year, supporting zero-configuration startup of programming tools such as Claude Code, OpenCode, Codex, and Droid. With Pi’s addition, the available agent ecosystem has expanded further.

March 3rd Per Arkham monitoring, a crypto whale address previously contributed $8,000 worth of PUNCH tokens (10% of its holdings) — peaking at an unrealized gain of over $3 million. During the token’s uptrend, the whale cashed out $550,000 and transferred the funds to Binance. The address still holds $1 million in PUNCH tokens as of now. At press time, PUNCH’s market cap is reported at $14.31 million, with a 22.7% 24-hour gain.

March 3, Peter Thiel filed a Form 144 with the SEC outlining a plan to sell up to 2 million shares of Palantir Technologies Inc. (PLTR) Class A stock, valued at roughly $280 million. Analysis suggests Thiel will retain approximately 229 million shares—the bulk of his total Palantir holdings—even with this large-scale sale. PLTR’s stock has surged recently on defense contract wins and AI demand, and the news could spark short-term volatility. Per Bitget market data, as of press time, PLTR is trading down 0.99% in pre-market sessions at $143.74.

March 3 — Binance, in partnership with INTERPOL, AFripol and 16 African law enforcement agencies, has launched “Operation Red Card 2.0” to target high-yield investment fraud, mobile payment scams, fraudulent loan apps and other scam infrastructure. Over the roughly 8-week operation, law enforcement arrested 651 suspects, seized 1,442 malicious IPs, domains, servers and related equipment, and recovered more than $4.3 million in funds. Total losses linked to the investigation exceed $45 million, with 1,247 confirmed victims.

On March 3rd, 1M AI News reported that a research team from Singapore Management University, Heidelberg University, Bamberg University, and King’s College London published a paper on arXiv—the first quantitative assessment of how repository-level AGENTS.md files impact AI programming agent efficiency. Stored in a code repository’s root directory, AGENTS.md is an instruction file that explains a project’s architecture, build commands, coding standards, and operational constraints to AI agents. It mirrors Anthropic Claude Code’s CLAUDE.md and GitHub Copilot’s copilot-instructions.md, and is currently used by over 60,000 GitHub repositories. The team ran paired experiments on 124 merged pull requests (each with ≤100 lines of code changes) across 10 repositories, using OpenAI Codex (gpt-5.2-codex) under two conditions: with and without AGENTS.md. Key findings: - Median runtime dropped from 98.57 seconds to 70.34 seconds (a 28.64% decrease) - Median output tokens fell from 2,92