Gate News reports that on March 19, Trade.xyz deployed the S&P500/USDC (S&P 500, U.S. stock market benchmark index) trading pair on the Hyperliquid platform through the HIP-3 protocol, supporting up to 50x leverage. The contract officially launched last night (March 18), and as of press time, cumulative trading volume has reached 31.5 million USD, with open interest rapidly climbing to 19.6 million USD.

Gate News reported that on March 19, Polymarket announced the launch of an offline space called "The Situation Room" in Washington, D.C., USA, positioned as the world's first themed bar focused on "situation monitoring." The venue functions like an "intelligence version of a sports bar," integrating real-time X information feeds, flight radar, Bloomberg terminals, and Polymarket data screens to continuously track global trending events and developments.

Gate News has reported that on March 19, Monad co-founder Keone Hon posted on social media that the Monad mainnet will undergo a hard fork at 22:30 Beijing Time today to upgrade to the MONAD_NINE version. This upgrade introduces three improvement proposals: MIP-3, MIP-4, and MIP-5. Prior to the hard fork, node operators need to upgrade to at least

Gate News has reported that on March 19th, U.S. Republican Senator Cynthia Lummis tweeted: "Clear rules, regulations, and jurisdiction—this is what the CLARITY Act is all about. It's time to finalize the framework for digital asset markets."

Gate News – On March 19, in Polymarket's "NBA Regular Season Lakers vs. Rockets" prediction event, an account with profits exceeding $1.1 million placed a $150,000 bet on the Rockets defeating the Lakers at an opening price of 53.9¢. The NBA regular season Lakers vs. Rockets game will begin at 9:30 AM Beijing time this morning. The NBA regular season is currently in its final stage, with the Lakers posting a 43-25 record and ranking 3rd in the Western Conference; the Rockets have a 41-26 record and rank 4th in the Western Conference.

Gate News report: On March 18, according to Lookonchain monitoring, as of press time, today's US Bitcoin ETF net inflows were 2,492 BTC (valued at $179.33 million), Ethereum ETF net inflows were 13,478 ETH (valued at $29.99 million), and SOL ETF net inflows were 189,025 SOL (valued at $17.01 million).

A certain CEX responded to users stating that Bitcoin is not on the TON network. The tokens users transferred were tokens marked as "BTC," which are actually fraudulent tokens. The exchange is assisting in asset recovery, but the process is complex and time-consuming. They remind users to be vigilant against misoperations and fraud risks.

Gate News bot Message: According to Gate's official announcement dated March 18, 2026 Gate's Contract Stocks section will launch BMNR (BitMine) perpetual contract real trading on March 18, 2026 at 18:00 (UTC+8), settled in USDT, supporting 1-20x long and short operations. Users can select their preferred leverage ratio when placing orders. BMNR is the stock ticker for BitMine Immersion Technologies, Inc., a company that primarily holds cryptocurrency assets such as Ethereum (ETH).

Gate News Report: On March 18, Baidu Intelligent Cloud released a price adjustment announcement for AI computing power, storage, and other products. Among these, prices for AI computing power-related product services will increase by approximately 5%-30%; parallel file storage prices will increase by approximately 30%. The above price adjustments will take effect on April 18, 2026 at 00:00 (Beijing Time).

Gate News report: On March 18, MiniMax released its next-generation Agent flagship large model M2.7, showcasing for the first time a "model self-evolution" pathway. M2.7 is capable of independently constructing complex Agent Harness and building on Agent Teams, complex Skills, Tool Search