Gate News: On March 19, according to market data, spot silver (precious metals spot market) fell more than 10%, approaching the $67/ounce level. Spot gold broke below $4550/ounce, falling more than 5.5% intraday.

Hyperliquid founder Jeff announced that the fiat deposit feature has launched in testing, supporting credit cards and bank transfers, powered by swapped.com. Currently in early testing phase, with plans to add fiat withdrawal and more payment methods in the future.

Y Combinator co-founder Paul Graham shared a conversation with OpenAI employees on the X platform, mentioning that purchasing rare items can hedge against AI risk, and pointing out that items from before 2028 will be more valuable, suggesting that AI will be able to replicate most items created by humans in the future.

Maelstrom's Chief Investment Officer Arthur Hayes purchased the token hours before ETHFI went live, drawing market attention. This transaction demonstrates his active DeFi strategy, with ETHFI's price surging over 20% shortly after launch. The trade enhanced ETHFI's market liquidity and attracted more investors.

Bitcoin recently briefly broke through $74,000 but pulled back to around $70,800 due to selling pressure from short-term holders. While the price shows an upward trend, it faces structural resistance, and the current movement appears more like a bear market rally rather than the start of a bull market. Without effectively resisting selling pressure, it could break below the $70,000 support level. The market is still waiting for clearer signals.

Swisscanto/ZKB head Roger Lüög stated that the Federal Reserve may cut rates more than expected this year due to weakness in the labor market. He expects rate cuts in September and December, while current money markets are pricing in less than one cut.

On March 19, Alliance announced 16 projects for the ALL16 Demo Day, including Allod, a stablecoin banking service for enterprises, Predexon, a unified API for prediction markets, Givance, an AI law firm, and other diversified fintech solutions.

On March 19, 2026, from 04:00 to 04:15 (UTC), the BTC price declined by 0.50% within the short-term window, with an amplitude of 0.68%, and a price range of 70,729.6 to 71,214.1 USDT. Market attention significantly increased, with spot and derivatives trading volumes expanding simultaneously. Short-term activity became more active, and market sentiment turned slightly cautious. The main driver of this movement was the transfer of approximately 2,800 BTC from large on-chain holdings to exchange hot wallets between 04:05 and 04:10, which triggered large sell-offs in the spot market. Liquidity pressure rose, directly pushing the price down.

Gate News reports that on March 19, Hong Kong-listed OpenClaw concept stocks experienced a collective pullback. Xunce (03317.HK) fell over 6%, MINIMAX-W (00100.HK) fell over 5%, and Zhipu (02513.HK) fell over 4%. Additionally, Tencent Holdings (00700.HK), Alibaba (09988.HK), Kingsoft Cloud (03896.HK), NetEase-S (09999.HK), Baidu (09888.HK), and others also showed correlated declines.

Gate News: On March 19, Bedrock announced that its token BR will celebrate its one-year anniversary on March 20, while also triggering the unlock of seed round tokens. According to disclosures, 12.5% of the tokens allocated to seed investors will begin to be released, with an initial unlock of 3.125%, followed by a monthly unlock of 0.52% over the next 17 months. Bedrock stated that more detailed tokenomics data will be released on the day of the unlock.