Project Progress

Bitcoin infrastructure provider Maestro launches Mezzamine, a credit market denominated in bitcoin, targeting institutional investors with new yield opportunities and expanding miner financing. In collaboration with Sazmining, the project offers an annualized yield rate of 8%-9%, aiming to address risks in traditional mining finance.

Decentralized GPU computing infrastructure platform Aethir officially launched its managed Kubernetes service on March 17, aiming to expand into enterprise-grade AI infrastructure. The service supports rapid cluster deployment, is compatible with the latest GPUs, and starts at $1.45/hour with enterprise-grade security. Through cost optimization, Aethir has been providing computing power services across 95 countries globally, serving 150 enterprise customers.

Gate News bot message, Aster has launched its mainnet. A block explorer is now live on its website. The largest $ASTER long position on Hyperliquid holds 25.93M $ASTER valued at $20.4M, currently up $3.9M.

Arbitrum Foundation has released the 2025 Transparency Report, showing that traditional finance is accelerating its on-chain business deployment. The ecosystem now includes 189 collaborative projects, with a transaction volume exceeding 2.1 billion transactions and a total value locked of approximately $20 billion. The on-chain RWA scale has surpassed $800 million. At the same time, the foundation is promoting infrastructure upgrades and revenue growth.

Gate News: On March 17, tokenization platform Theo announced the launch of thUSD, a yield-bearing stablecoin backed by gold, and opened a liquidity pool with a maximum capacity of $100 million. The stablecoin is backed by thGOLD, its issued gold token, and generates yield through a cash and carry arbitrage strategy that holds spot gold exposure while shorting gold futures. Previously, Theo raised $15.5 million in funding led by Hack VC and Anthos Capital.

Gate News reported that on March 17, Sharplink announced that since launching its Ethereum vault, it has accumulated 15,464 ETH in staking rewards through staking, valued at approximately $36 million at current prices. Sharplink stated that it earned over 493 ETH through staking last week, generating approximately $1.1 million in returns. The project stated that its held ETH will continue to generate more ETH through staking.

Ripple announced plans to expand digital asset services in Brazil, with plans to apply for a virtual asset service provider license, and has already connected with multiple local institutions to its network, including Banco Genial and Braza Bank, to promote dollar transfers and stablecoin issuance.

Gate News report: On March 17, Tether's QVAC Fabric launched the world's first cross-platform LoRA fine-tuning framework for Microsoft BitNet (1-bit LLM), significantly lowering the VRAM and computational thresholds for large model training. The framework supports LoRA fine-tuning and inference acceleration on Intel, AMD, Apple Silicon M series, and mobile GPUs (including Adreno, Mali, and Apple Bionic).

CoinSwitch launched Digivault to provide secure crypto custody solutions as demand from investors continues rising. The move reflects increasing institutional interest in safeguarding digital assets through regulated custody infrastructure. CoinSwitch launched Digivault to meet the rising need

Gate News report: On March 17, according to sources within Tencent, Tencent's QClaw will launch a public beta in the near future, and a new version will be released on March 18.

Pi Network has begun its second mainnet migration phase, allowing users to transfer more mined Pi coins to the blockchain. This updates users on KYC verification requirements, enhances security with two-factor authentication, and has elicited mixed reactions from the community as it progresses toward a fully active ecosystem.

In 2025, China's DeepSeek-R1 model launched and quickly attracted global attention, driving a decline in AI stocks. In 2026, Bittensor successfully released Covenant-72B, becoming the largest decentralized large language model. The model broke through the bottlenecks of decentralized training, demonstrated commercial competitiveness, and garnered widespread market attention, marking a new future for decentralized AI.

Gate News, on March 17, PayPal announced that it will expand the wallet holding scope of its stablecoin PYUSD to 68 additional countries and regions, bringing the total number of eligible markets to 70, a significant expansion from the previous limitation to only the United States and United Kingdom. The newly added markets include Uganda, Colombia, Peru, and others, covering more regions across South America, Africa, and Asia.

Canada-based tokenized real estate platform RealT faces a legal and compliance crisis after a civil lawsuit was filed by the Detroit municipal government. The lawsuit alleges multiple regulatory violations, including properties lacking compliance certificates and delinquent tax payments. RealT plans to sell properties and suspend rental distributions while pivoting to new projects.

Ripple CTP David Schwartz defends Ripple and XRP amid criticism. The criticism is currently over the way Ripple makes XRP sales.  The CTO explains how retail will benefit from this framework. The crypto community is warmed by how Ripple CTO David Schwartz defends Ripple and XRP amid crit

xAI is recruiting financial domain experts from Wall Street to expand its data annotation team for Grok, aiming to improve training data for credit markets. The team, led by Diego Pasini, targets enhancing AI programming capabilities and business customer development, currently facing competitive pressure.

Stripe and Paradigm's newly developed public chain Tempo is expected to launch its mainnet at the end of March, adopting a dual-track model focusing on payments and DeFi. The mainnet will not issue tokens, and the team will wait for a better market environment to design the token economic model.

Custodia Bank suffered another setback in its lawsuit seeking a master account from the Federal Reserve, with the court ruling that the Fed possesses authorization discretion and that the bank's crypto business model carries risks. In contrast, crypto enterprise Kraken successfully obtained a master account, becoming the first pure cryptocurrency company to gain this privilege. Custodia may next file an application with the U.S. Supreme Court and continue developing its business.