The Bank of Japan maintains the benchmark interest rate at 0.75% unchanged, while warning that the Iran conflict could push up energy prices and create inflationary pressure. In the short term, inflation may fall below 2%, but the Middle East situation and rising oil prices may continue to impact prices. Markets are focused on wage negotiation progress, as wage growth will affect future rate hike decisions.
Gate News reported that on March 19, the Bank of Japan stated that if economic and price trends align with forecasts, it will continue to raise its policy interest rate (central bank benchmark rate) based on improvements in the economy and prices.
Gate News reports that on March 19, according to monitoring by on-chain analyst @ai_9684xtpa, a certain whale address 0x65B...5Ce93 has purchased 10811.34 ETH on-chain through Cowswap since March 6, valued at $22.58 million, with an average cost of $2088.79. Notably, in the past 13 hours alone, it purchased 4583 ETH. It's worth noting that this address had not traded ETH for 5 months prior to this.
Gate News report shows that on March 19, Trader T monitoring data indicates that yesterday (March 18) BlackRock Staking ETH ETF ($ETHB) had net inflows of 515 ETH, equivalent to approximately $1.07 million. As of now, the ETF's total holdings are 116,793 ETH, of which 69,111 ETH are staked and 47,682 ETH are unstaked.
Gate News reported that on March 19, Polymarket announced the launch of an offline space called "The Situation Room" in Washington, D.C., positioning it as the world's first themed bar focused on "situation monitoring." The venue operates like an "intelligence-version sports bar," integrating real-time X information feeds, flight radar, Bloomberg terminals, and Polymarket data screens to continuously track global hotspot events and dynamics.
Gate News Report: On March 19, the custodial agent economic control layer ClawVault announced that AI agents can now automatically pay x402 API fees using USDC. This feature will execute automatically but requires user authorization. Each payment will be reviewed through more than 30 configurable rules, including spending caps, whitelists, rate limits, approvals, and other security mechanisms.
