Gate News Announcement: On March 9, the Chicago Board Options Exchange (CBOE, the world's largest options exchange) launched an innovative prediction market framework that offers investment options beyond simple binary outcomes, providing investors with more diversified ways to participate in the market.

BlockBeats News, March 2 — German Foreign Minister Baerbock stated on March 2 local time that Germany will not participate in military actions against Iran. Additionally, Baerbock added that if German Bundeswehr forces in the Middle East are attacked, they are entitled to self-defense. However, beyond that, Germany will not take any other measures. Currently, some German Bundeswehr units are stationed in Jordan and Iraq.

Odaily Planet Daily: U.S. President Trump: Iran's actions are "far beyond expectations." (Jin10)

On February 11, U.S. cryptocurrency and banking industry executives held a meeting at the White House to discuss the stablecoin yield and related market structure legislation. Both parties described the talks as "productive," but no agreement was reached on key issues. Participants included Ripple, the Cryptocurrency Innovation Committee, the Blockchain Association, as well as major banks such as Goldman Sachs, Citigroup, JPMorgan Chase, and representatives from the American Bankers Association. During the meeting, banks took a hard stance on stablecoin yields. According to leaked documents, the banks proposed a set of "prohibition principles," advocating for a complete ban on any financial or non-financial benefits related to holding or using payment stablecoins, and strict enforcement of anti-avoidance measures to prevent any form of yield or interest promotion beyond the limits. This position goes beyond the latest draft of the Market Structure Bill, which only prohibits passive holding of stablecoin-generated yields but allows limited active reward activities. The banks emphasized that any yield exemptions should be strictly restricted.

Odaily Planet Daily reported that, according to the latest report by analysts at Bayern State Bank, inflation factors may keep the yields on U.S. long-term bonds high through 2026. The report pointed out that the situation in 2025 is clearly favorable beyond expectations: because the boost to inflation from U.S. tariff policies is milder than anticipated, positive surprises have overshadowed negative factors. However, analysts believe this lagging effect will manifest in 2026, when the surprises in inflation data may no longer be as strong. (Jin10)

According to Fortune magazine, blockchain analytics company TRM Labs announced the completion of a $70 million Series C funding round, valuing the company at $1 billion, officially joining the ranks of crypto "unicorns." This round was led by Blockchain Capital, with participation from traditional financial institutions such as Goldman Sachs, Bessemer, Brevan Howard, Thoma Bravo, and Citigroup Venture Capital, demonstrating mainstream capital's continued optimism for the blockchain compliance and risk management sector. TRM Labs was founded in 2018 by Esteban Castaño and Rahul Raina in San Francisco, USA. The two founders foresaw that digital assets would become an important tool for global capital flow, and that unprecedented data risks and criminal challenges would follow. They chose to start with multi-chain tracking, covering blockchain networks beyond Bitcoin early on, and recruited many former government investigators, enabling TRM to quickly establish a differentiated advantage in competition with rivals like Chainalysis.

Experts warn that the US Crypto Structure Act could lead investors to shift towards offshore and synthetic dollar products to circumvent stablecoin yield restrictions. While banning compliant stablecoins from paying interest aims to protect the financial system, it may accelerate capital outflows beyond regulatory boundaries, weakening the US's global competitiveness.

January 22 News, Ethereum is set to undergo a significant shift in 2026. Co-founder Vitalik Buterin recently stated that this phase's significance goes far beyond price fluctuations, marking a crucial year for Ethereum to return to its core values of technological sovereignty and decentralization. As market sentiment weakens, adjustments at the conceptual and architectural levels for ETH become even clearer. For years, Ethereum has been caught between "high decentralization" and "usability." In 2026, this balance is beginning to shift. The introduction of ZK-EVM and the Block Access List (BAL) greatly lowers the hardware requirements for running nodes. Zero-knowledge proofs compress complex validations into small proofs that can be quickly verified, enabling ordinary users to independently verify blockchain data on personal computers, thereby reducing reliance on large-scale infrastructure.

PANews January 21 News, according to CoinDesk, Ondo Finance announced that it is expanding its tokenized stock and ETF business to the Solana blockchain, bringing over 200 tokenized US stocks and ETFs to the network for the first time. This will enable its platform Ondo Global Markets to extend beyond the original Ethereum and BNB

Gate News Bot Message, January 21st. According to CoinMarketCap data, at the time of press, SSV (ssv.network) is trading at $4.54, up 17.44% in the past 24 hours. The highest price reached $4.57, and the lowest dropped to $3.61. The 24-hour trading volume is $37.2 million. The current market capitalization is approximately $73.2 million, an increase of $10.9 million from yesterday. ## Important recent news about SSV: 1️⃣ **SSV 2.0 Framework Launch, Ecosystem Applications Expanding Soon** The SSV DAO announced that the SSV 2.0 framework will introduce application layer functions (bApps) to Ethereum, marking a new phase of protocol development. This upgrade aims to expand SSV's application scenarios within the Ethereum ecosystem, going beyond the current validator operation framework to enhance the ecosystem