📢 Markets are pricing in a 99.2% probability that the Fed will keep rates unchanged at the March 18 meeting.

📢 Economists are starting to revise inflation forecasts higher.

New projections show rising inflation expectations across major economies:

🇺🇸 U.S.: 2.7% expected (up from 2.6%)
🇬🇧 U.K.: 2.6% expected (up from 2.5%)
🇪🇺 Eurozone: 2.1% expected (up from 2.0%)

📢 Standard Chartered Teams Up for New Crypto Push 🤝

Standard Chartered has partnered with Hana Financial Group to expand into digital assets.

• The partnership will explore stablecoins and other digital asset services.
• Both banks plan to combine their global networks to build blockchain infrastructure.
• The deal could lead to new FX services and next-generation financial products

📢 Digital asset investment products recorded $1.06B in inflows, marking the third consecutive week of positive flows.

📢 $302.5M in short positions were liquidated over the past 24 hours.

📢 Australia Moves to Regulate Crypto 🇦🇺

Australia’s Senate has backed a new licensing framework for crypto platforms.

• New rules incoming: A licensing system is being introduced for crypto exchanges and custodians.
• Stronger oversight: The framework aims to improve regulation and user protection in the crypto space.
• Growing adoption: Australia continues to move toward clearer rules for the digital asset industry.

📢 Strategy purchased 22,337 $BTC worth about $1.6B, bringing its total Bitcoin holdings to 761,068 $BTC.

📢 Solana produced its first block six years ago, on March 16, 2020.

📢 Onchain Lens reports that BlackRock moved 1,701 BTC, valued at about $124.9M, to Coinbase within the last two hours.

📢 BitMine Adds More $ETH to Its Treasury

BitMine has continued stacking Ethereum over the past week.

• 60,999 $ETH bought, added to its holdings in the last 7 days.
• Total stash now sits at 4.596M $ETH.
• That’s about 3.81% of Ethereum’s circulating supply, with a goal to reach

📢 xAI Eyes Wall Street Talent

xAI is reportedly bringing in finance professionals to strengthen its AI models.

• Wall Street hires, Bankers, traders, and portfolio managers are being recruited.
• The goal is to help Grok better understand financial modeling and markets.
• The move could push xAI deeper into financial data and trading insights.

📢 T. Rowe Price has updated its Active Crypto ETF filing, adding $SUI to a list of 15 eligible assets alongside $BTC, $ETH, $SOL, $XRP, and $AVAX.

📢 Alibaba ran a 233-day test on 18 AI coding agents, and found that 75% of them broke code that was already working during maintenance tasks.

📢 NVIDIA Targets $1T Revenue as AI Demand Surges

NVIDIA CEO Jensen Huang says AI demand is set to explode.

• Massive demand for AI computing could exceed $1T by 2027.
• NVIDIA is targeting at least $1T in revenue long term.
• Shows how fast the AI market is scaling globally.

📢 About $40B in software and services debt is set to mature in 2028, marking the largest single-year total, with most of it rated B- or below.

📢 Bhutan’s Royal Government moved 21.5 $BTC into a newly created wallet.

📢 The US Treasury is expected to repurchase $15B worth of debt today.

📢 Metaplanet Moves Big After Months of Silence

• Moved 4,986 $BTC (~$368M) to new wallets
• First activity in over 90 days
• Could be internal reshuffling or prep for something bigger