Balance (EPT) will be listed on Binance Alpha and Binance Futures

March 12 – Per HyperInsight monitoring and data from Hyperliquid, gains for WTI crude (CL) and Brent crude (BRENTOIL) have simultaneously narrowed. WTI crude briefly dipped below $90 earlier, down 4.2% from its 12:00 PM ET high today, and was last trading at $90.1. Official sources note: Less than two weeks after the Iran conflict outbreak, the Trump administration plans to release 172 million barrels of oil from the U.S. Strategic Petroleum Reserve (SPR). This is part of a 400-million-barrel global release plan by International Energy Agency (IEA) member nations. Crude oil pre-market gains quickly retraced after the news broke at 12:00 PM ET today.

On March 12, HTX market data shows Bitcoin has rebounded past $70,000, currently trading at $70,070.

March 12 — LookOnChain monitoring data reveals a wallet (37ije2) that’s been dormant for two years has withdrawn 343 BTC (valued at roughly $23.85 million) from Binance and Cobo over the past two hours.

On March 12, energy reporter Anthony Di Paola noted that Oman’s Mina Al Fahal crude export terminal resumed normal operations Thursday after a several-hour suspension earlier that day, per the Gulf Commodities Exchange. The exchange overseeing Oman crude futures trading confirmed loading operations are now proceeding normally. Earlier, the terminal had evacuated all vessels as a precaution. Data intelligence firm Kpler notes the port exports roughly 1 million barrels of Oman crude daily.

March 12 — Per an official announcement from Hyperliquid, the trading volume of Real World Assets (RWAs) on the platform has set consecutive new records over the past two weeks. Open interest for RWAs has topped $1.3 billion, while a single weekend day saw trading volume surpass $1.4 billion. While traditional markets are closed, Hyperliquid has emerged as a 24/7 price discovery venue for key assets like crude oil, metals, and indices. DefiLlama data shows the platform’s 24-hour trading volume hit $6.48 billion in the latest period, with open interest at roughly $6.41 billion.

March 12th — OKX Ventures shared data on social media showing that escalating geopolitical tensions in the Middle East have fueled a surge in on-chain crude oil trading activity. On the Hyperliquid platform, the 24-hour trading volume of the CL-USDC perpetual contract (which tracks WTI crude oil prices) skyrocketed from a pre-conflict daily average of $21 million to between $1.2 billion and $1.99 billion. At its peak, this crude oil trading volume even outpaced Ethereum (ETH), making it the second-largest asset by volume on the network. Trading volume on centralized exchanges (CEXs) also jumped sharply. Per data from Gate.io, the 24-hour volume of its Brent crude oil (XBR) contract surged 951%, while WTI crude oil (XTI) contract volume rose nearly 397%. Capital inflows and open interest (OI) metrics indicate a massive influx of both institutional and retail funds into the market. Crude oil OI on Hyperliquid currently remains stable between $183 million and $290 million — a sig