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

**Market Focus: Iran Uncertainty, Fed Stagflation Risks, Key US/UK Data This Week** (Updated March 7) Iran’s worsening situation and lingering uncertainty over its future have fueled intense market volatility this week. Recent data signals the Federal Reserve will need to address rising inflation and weakening employment to curb stagflation risks. Below are key market-moving events (all times in Beijing Time): - **Monday 23:00**: US February New York Fed 1-Year Inflation Expectation - **Wednesday 20:30**: US February non-seasonally adjusted (NSA) CPI YoY, NSA Core CPI YoY; Seasonally adjusted (SA) CPI MoM, SA Core CPI MoM - **Friday 15:00**: UK January 3-month GDP MoM, Jan Manufacturing/Industrial Production MoM, Jan SA Goods Trade Balance - **Friday 20:30**: US January Core PCE Price Index YoY/MoM; US Jan Personal Spending MoM; US Q4 Real GDP Annualized QoQ (revised); US Jan Durable Goods Orders MoM - **Friday 22:00**: US January JOLTs Job Openings; US March 1-Year I

March 7 – Per Ashes Monitor, lending platform Spark has approved an SPK token buyback proposal. The project team transferred 570,000 USDS to a new multisig wallet two days prior, then launched small, incremental SPK purchases via decentralized exchange CoW Swap’s TWAP (Time-Weighted Average Price) function. To date, 1.84 million SPK (valued at approximately $36,000) have been repurchased. Spark’s buyback framework earmarks $35 million from its treasury as operational reserves; any surplus funds will be used to repurchase SPK at a 10% monthly rate, with the program set to run for 12 months.

March 7: OKX Founder & CEO Star Took to Social Media to Answer "Why OKX Wallet Stands Out" OKX Founder and CEO Star took to social media on March 7 to address the question, “Why does OKX Wallet stand out?” “A good wallet doesn’t just execute transactions—it also helps users understand potential risks before confirming a transaction,” Star stated.

March 7 (Herald Economy) — South Korea’s financial regulator is drafting guidelines to let listed companies invest in digital assets. Previously, the digital asset market focused mostly on individual investors, but stablecoins are set to be excluded from allowed investment targets. The regulator plans to release a trading guideline (with this provision) after the “Digital Asset Basic Law” takes effect, allowing listed firms to trade digital assets for investment or financial purposes. In the “Corporate Cryptocurrency Transaction Guidelines” being developed by South Korea’s Financial Services Commission (FSC), stablecoins will not be included in permitted investment targets. The guidelines will outline standards for listed companies and registered professional investors to trade digital assets for investment or financial use. To prevent disorderly investment in the market’s early stages, the regulator has decided to exclude U.S. dollar stablecoins like USDT and USDC from the allow

March 7 Per official sources, OpenAI today announced the launch of Codex Security—an AI-powered application security agent capable of detecting vulnerabilities, validating them, and suggesting fixes. Codex Security traces its roots to Aardvark: a security research agent OpenAI tested with a small group of customers last year. The platform analyzes code repositories, stress-tests suspicious vulnerabilities in sandboxed environments, validates their impact by generating Proof-of-Concept (PoC) exploit code, and suggests fixes. Starting today, OpenAI is rolling out a research preview of Codex Security to Enterprise, Commercial, and Education customers, with free access for the first month.

Bloomberg reported Tuesday, citing people familiar with the matter, that AI chip-focused firm Cerebras Systems has tapped Morgan Stanley as lead underwriter for its initial public offering (IPO) as the company again aims to go public. Some insiders said the listing could raise around $2 billion, potentially as early as April. Another source noted Cerebras has resubmitted its IPO application and plans to meet with analysts and potential investors later this month. The sources requested anonymity because the information remains unpublicized. Discussions are still ongoing, and specific IPO details could still shift, the sources added.