Gate News reported that on March 18, Mohammad Baqer Qalibaf, Speaker of Iran's Parliament, stated in an interview on March 17 that Iran had no intention of blocking the Strait of Hormuz or attacking neighboring countries, but as enemies are firing on Iran, Iran needs to respond, which is an inalienable right of self-defense. Qalibaf also stated that the United States and Israel believe they can intercept Iranian missiles and destroy Iranian institutions with bombers, but this is not the case. Iran is fully prepared and can rely entirely on its own capabilities and technology to counter enemy attacks.
Gate News Reports that on March 18, Tencent Cloud AI Agent Security Center launched the Credential Sandbox product, implementing a security mechanism of "Agents Never Hold Keys". Through this product, Agents can complete all cloud API calls without holding any keys. Every operation is fully auditable, administrators can adjust Agent capability boundaries at any time, and it adopts an authorization mode of "granting permissions, not keys".
Gate News Report: On March 18th, Samsung Electronics is considering shifting its memory chip contract model towards multi-year agreements, extending contract periods from the current quarterly or annual terms to 3-5 years to stabilize supply and alleviate market concerns about critical component shortages. Samsung Electronics Co-CEO Jun Young-hyun stated at the annual shareholders' meeting that Samsung is considering extending existing contract terms to a maximum of 3-5 years. He pointed out that this adjustment is significant as AI memory chip demand is expected to continue surging through 2026.
Gate News reports that on March 18, Helen Liu, former co-CEO of a certain CEX, will launch a new platform called ABFinance. The platform will build its business under U.S. regulatory frameworks, integrating deposit, earn, trading, and consumption features in one, while connecting fiat and cryptocurrency. According to previous reports, the CEX announced that co-CEO Helen Liu will step down on April 30, 2026, and start her own venture.
Stablecoin cross-border payment platform TransFi completed a $19.2 million financing on March 18, consisting of $14.2 million in Series A equity financing and $5 million in liquidity financing. The funds will be used to expand into multiple emerging markets and strengthen regulatory and liquidity networks.
March 17, Ethereum spot ETF total net inflows reached @138.28@ million USD, with BlackRock's ETHA and ETHB recording net inflows of @81.72@ million USD and @67.18@ million USD respectively, while Grayscale's certain products also saw slight inflows, and Fidelity's FETH recorded net outflows of @35.46@ million USD. Other brand products had zero inflows.
Gate News Alert: On March 18, according to Trader T's monitoring, Bitcoin spot ETFs recorded total net inflows of $198 million yesterday. Among them, BlackRock's IBIT had net inflows of $168 million, accounting for more than 80% of the day's total inflows; Fidelity's FBTC had net inflows of $24.39 million; VanEck's HODL had net inflows of $3.17 million; Ark's ARKB had net inflows of $2.48 million; all other ETFs had zero inflows for the day.
