ACID Labs has announced the completion of an $8 million financing round, with a16z Speedrun and NFX leading the investment.

On March 1st, according to Farside Investors, $193.7 million in net inflow was noted for ARK's Bitcoin Spot ETF, ARKB, yesterday.

On March 1st, according to Crowdfund Insider, the blockchain data analytics company Nansen announced that it has become a validator of the Bifrost Network. The Bifrost Network, as a multi-chain L1 network that supports both EVM and non-EVM environments, provides BTCFi services. It enables users to stake Bitcoin while maintaining liquidity and issues the Bitcoin stablecoin BTCUSD to enhance capital efficiency.

On March 1st, the yield on the 3-year U.S. Treasury note dipped below 4% for the first time since October of the previous year. Furthermore, the yield on the 10-year U.S. Treasury note reached an 18-day low, decreasing by 6.5 basis points to 4.222%; the yield on the 2-year Treasury note fell below 4% to its lowest point since October 21st of the previous year, declining by 8.5 basis points to 3.995%. (Jinshi)

On March 1st, Hester Peirce, a crypto-friendly commissioner of the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission, stated that the SEC approached the Coinbase case with a bias. She is not in support of the action against Coinbase and is concerned that using enforcement tools to regulate the crypto industry will become a part of the SEC's larger strategy. Currently, the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission has engaged with the public by establishing a cryptocurrency working group to develop a regulatory framework to serve the American public. This new approach led to the dismissal of the charges against Coinbase, but it does not mean that the SEC will stop taking enforcement actions when appropriate.

On March 1st, as reported by FOX Business reporter Eleanor Terrett, U.S. Congressman French Hill is going to invite Binance executive Tigran Gambaryan as a guest to the State of the Union address on Tuesday. Hill is making great efforts to secure Gambaryan's release from a Nigerian prison where he was wrongly accused and had served eight months on charges of tax evasion and money laundering. Gambaryan was released in October and came back to the United States.

On March 1st, according to official channels, the decentralized high-performance memory infrastructure Optimum announced the completion of its angel round of financing. This round of financing was led by Abhijeet Mahagaonkar (the Chief Technology Officer of Polychain), Arthur Cheong (the Founder, CEO, and CIO of DeFiance Capital), Gracy Chen (the CEO of Bitget), Robinson Burkey (the Co-Founder and Chief Business Officer of Wormhole), Sandeep Nailwal (the Co-Founder of Polygon), Sankha Banerjee (the Chief Economist of Babylon), Saurabh Sharma (a partner at Jump Crypto), Tal Tchwella (the Head of Product at Solana), and Zaki Manian (the Co-Founder of Sommelier), as well as the joint founders of Aethir, Aztec, Espresso, Magna, Pyth, Taiko, Zama, and ZkCloud, etc. It is reported that Optimum has improved the scalability and efficiency of the blockchain through RLNC, which is a patented invention by Professor Muriel Médard of MIT.