Gate Crypto Flash News and Market Updates

Gate News: According to the latest Gate TradFi data, VIX (VIX) has dropped by 3% in a short period. Current volatility is significantly higher than recent averages, indicating increased market activity.

On March 31, the overall crypto market saw a modest rise, with the RWA sector performing especially well, up 2.16%. Keeta rose 33.75%, major coins like Bitcoin rose 1.87%, and Ethereum rose 3.15%. Other sectors such as DeFi and Layer2 also saw slight gains.

Gate News reports that on March 31, Anthropic’s AI programming tool Claude Code announced the addition of the “Computer Use” feature. This feature supports users in opening applications directly from the command line, operating graphical interfaces, and testing their built-developed content. Currently, it is available in a research preview to users on the Pro and Max plans.

Gate News update: On March 31, according to on-chain analyst Ai姨 (@ai_9684xtpa) monitoring, a new address accumulated a purchase of 6,400 ETH about 8 hours ago, worth approximately $13.08 million, with an average withdrawal price of $2,043.89.

Gate News message, March 31, according to Gate market data, as of the time of writing, RIVER (River) is trading at $17.22. In the past 24 hours, it is up 24.82%, with a highest of $17.20 and a low of $12.86. The 24-hour trading volume reached $33.3901 million. The current market cap is approximately $338 million. River is building a chain-abstract stablecoin system that connects assets, liquidity, and yields across different ecosystems. The system is supported by the full-chain CDP stablecoin satUSD, allowing users to earn, use leverage, and expand across multiple ecosystems. Through innovative PrimeVault and SmartVault products, which combine collateral flexibility with automation and liquidation-free yield strategies, it achieves seamless

Gate News bot message, Vitalik Buterin spent 197,944 USDC to buy 157,869 ZCHF at an average price of $1.25 over the past 6 hours. The transaction was completed through the address vitalik.eth.

A CEX CEO, Brian Armstrong, announced the launch of a venture capital program called "Next Bets," which allows employees to submit innovative projects and pitch them, with the goal of reducing creative talent drain. The program opens twice each year, is typically executed by small teams, and focuses on high-potential directions. The Base blockchain project originated from this, and more progress will be announced in the future.

Steakhouse Financial releases the latest updates on the security incident. The official website is still offline, but the Steakhouse Vaults site is operating normally, and there are no issues with the deposit and withdrawal functions. The attack originated from a phone-based social engineering assault, which resulted in the theft of domain management permissions, and the website’s DNS now points to a malicious IP. The official team has rolled back all changes, and users’ assets are safe.

Gate News message, March 31, according to Gate market data, as of the time of writing, GOAT (Gospel of Goatse) is trading at $0.01815. Over the past 24 hours, it is up 13.08%, with a high of $0.01949 and a low of $0.01582. The 24-hour trading volume is $3.803 million. The current market cap is about $18.1497 million. Goatseus Maximus is a Solana-based memecoin supported by an AI bot called Truth Terminal. Truth Terminal was created by @andyayrey, and it later evolved into a powerful autonomous AI entity. In the infinite background, an unexpected meme

Gate News message. On March 31, according to Ember monitoring, 8 hours ago, 4.126 million ZRO tokens (worth about $8.17 million) were transferred from an FTX/Alameda wallet to Wintermute. After that, the ZRO price fell 6% over the next few hours, dropping from $1.98 to $1.85. The wallet currently still holds 30.75 million ZRO tokens (worth about $58.12 million), or about 10% of ZRO’s current circulating supply.

Gauntlet said that after the vulnerability incident, Resolv Labs did not publish a remediation plan, and it plans to pursue funds and perform removal operations across multiple vault markets. The markets that have already been removed involve approximately $11.9 million in liquidity, and a claims contract will be set up for liquidity providers going forward.

Gate News: According to the latest Gate TradFi data, XAUUSD (Gold) has surged by 2% in a short period. Current volatility is significantly higher than recent averages, indicating increased market activity.

Peken Global has agreed to pay $500,000 to the CFTC to resolve a civil lawsuit, because as an unregistered platform it illegally allowed U.S. residents to trade. The company did not admit the allegations, but agreed to avoid providing services to U.S. customers. The CFTC said that U.S. customers generated approximately $110 million in trading fees for it.

Cuba’s central bank has for the first time approved 10 companies to use cryptocurrencies for international payments, including 9 small and micro enterprises and 1 joint venture, with a license validity period of 1 year. This marks the first time that Cuban companies have been granted permission to directly operate international payments, which must be handled through approved virtual asset service providers and with transaction information reported on a regular basis.

Microsoft announced new features for Copilot Researcher called Critique and Council, combining OpenAI's GPT and Anthropic's Claude to improve the quality of research tasks. Out of 100 complex tasks, the Critique mode scored 57.4, significantly ahead of other models.

Gate News message, on March 31, according to Gate market data, BTC/USDT is currently trading at $68,016.1, with a 24-hour gain of 2.14%.

As of March 31, Centrifuge (CFG) is trading at $0.1747, up 8.49% over the past 24 hours, with a market cap of about $101 million. Centrifuge connects real-world assets with DeFi, helping businesses lower financing costs. The project has locked over $1.3 billion in assets, with 1,768 tokenized assets. Investing involves risk.

Gate News bot message, Gate market shows, BTC breaks through 68000 USDT, current price is 68016.1 USDT.

From 2026-03-31 01:15 to 2026-03-31 01:30 (UTC), ETH recorded a +1.04% return within 15 minutes. The price range was 2039.77 to 2062.77 USDT, with a swing of 1.13%. During this period, market volatility intensified, trading activity surged, and attention to short-term moves increased. The main drivers behind this unusual move are continued inflows of institutional capital via spot ETFs, with buy-side dominance in the Ethereum spot market. On-chain large transfers increased, whale addresses boosted their holdings within a short time, and funds flowed from multiple major exchanges into centralized and decentralized platforms.

From 2026-03-31 01:15 to 2026-03-31 01:30 (UTC), BTC showed a clear breakout move. The candlestick data indicates a return rate of +0.80%, with the price ranging between 67,241.1 and 67,884.3 USDT, and a recorded amplitude of 0.96%. During this period, trading activity in the market was active, risk appetite rebounded, and short-term bullish sentiment dominated, driving the price to break through local resistance. The main driving forces behind this breakout were the synchronized rise in trading volume across the spot and derivatives (futures/perpetual) markets, along with a significant net inflow of funds into exchanges. The spot trading volume surged sharply compared with the average value of the previous hour.