According to data from Allium, stablecoin transactions reached 1.8 trillion in February, setting a new monthly record. USDC transactions accounted for 70% of the total, approximately 1.26 trillion, roughly twice the number of USDT transactions, which totaled approximately 514 billion.

Huoxun Finance reported on March 8th that Ethereum co-founder Vitalik Buterin stated that with the increasing prevalence of AI agents, cryptographic privacy technology is crucial for protecting users' API call patterns and behavioral data. He pointed out that even with local AI agents, if external services can see all search or API call records, they can still infer the user's ongoing activities. Vitalik believes that an initial solution is to forward requests through a mixnet to hide the source of access, but service providers may require anti-abuse mechanisms and pay-per-call models due to DoS attacks, and in reality, these payment methods often rely on credit cards or stablecoin systems lacking privacy protection. Therefore, he emphasized the need for cryptographic payment solutions with privacy attributes. He further pointed out that privacy protection needs to be considered at the **full stack** level, with the local AI agent layer being particularly critical. Vitalik likened it to the issue of healthy lifespan: if there are multiple detrimental factors, addressing them one by one will bring cumulative benefits; similarly, measures to reduce the risk of data breaches will produce similar compounding effects.

According to Odaily Planet Daily, the Ministry of Industry and Information Technology's Cybersecurity Threat and Vulnerability Information Sharing Platform recently detected that some instances of the OpenClaw (commonly known as "Lobster") open-source AI agent pose a high security risk under default or improper configuration, easily leading to cyberattacks, information leaks, and other security issues. It is recommended that relevant organizations and users thoroughly verify public network exposure, permission configurations, and credential management when deploying and applying OpenClaw, disable unnecessary public network access, improve security mechanisms such as identity authentication, access control, data encryption, and security auditing, and continuously pay attention to official security announcements and hardening recommendations to prevent potential cybersecurity risks. (The Paper)

According to Iran's Mehr News Agency, Mirbagheri, a member of the Iranian Council of Experts, stated that a majority consensus has been reached regarding the successor to Iran's Supreme Leader Khamenei, but some procedural obstacles still need to be resolved. (Jinshi)

According to Odaily Planet Daily, KalshiData announced on the X platform that Kalshi's cumulative notional trading volume has surpassed $48 billion, reaching $48.229 billion. Notably, this figure comes approximately 14 days after Kalshi's notional trading volume surpassed $43 billion.