South Korea's People Power Party has proposed canceling the 22% cryptocurrency capital gains tax set to take effect in 2027, arguing that the current tax system is immature and may create unfairness, particularly affecting young investors. The party is concerned that strict taxation could lead to capital outflows, with 110 billion dollars already having fled, impacting market activity. The bill is still under review, and its passage remains uncertain. If approved, it could boost market confidence and attract more investors.

Gate News Report: On March 18th, Kenya's National Treasury released a draft of the "2026 Virtual Asset Service Provider Regulations" on Wednesday, March 15th, and opened a public comment period with a deadline of April 10th. The draft was developed based on the "Virtual Asset Service Provider Act" which came into effect on November 4th, 2025, and was drafted by a multi-agency working group involving joint participation from Kenya's central bank and the Capital Markets Authority.

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 reports that on March 15, Claude announced a doubled usage quota promotion for Free, Pro, Max, and Team plan users from March 13 to 27. The promotion automatically takes effect during off-peak hours, defined as periods outside 5 AM to 11 AM Pacific Time on weekdays (12 PM to 6 PM GMT), as well as all day on weekends. Claude stated that this initiative aims to reward users and optimize system load.

PANews January 8 Reports: PANews recently analyzed 295,000 historical market data from the Polymarket platform, showing: 1. Over 60% of short-term markets become "zombie" markets: Among active markets with cycles less than 1 day, 63.16% of contracts have 0 trading volume in 24 hours. 2. Crypto short-term liquidity shortage: The average trading volume of short-term sports markets (1.32 million USD) is 30 times that of crypto markets (440,000 USD), with crypto short-term predictions lacking capital support. 3. Extreme head effect: Only 505 super-contracts with trading volume exceeding 10 million USD (extremely low proportion in quantity) monopolize 47% of the platform's total trading volume. 4. Large capital prefers long-term: The average liquidity of long-term predictions (>30 days) is 45 times that of single-day markets, with US politics leading at 28.17 million USD average volume. 5. Geopolitical emergence: This sector's active share reaches 29.7

ビットコイン（BTC）は、Vanguardが突然ビットコインETF取引の禁止を解除した後、24時間以内に約10%の力強い反発を見せ、価格は93,000ドルを突破し、今四半期で最も急激な上昇の一つを記録しました。この動きは市場で「Vanguard Degen Effect」と呼ばれ、保守的な資本が規制解除後に急速に暗号市場へ流入したことを反映しています。 ビットコインの上昇は火曜日の米国市場オープン時に始まり、価格が91,000ドルに向かう中、大量のレバレッジ空売りが清算され、市場の更なる上昇を後押ししました。こうした背景の中、Vanguardはビットコイン、イーサリアム、XRP、Solanaなどの暗号ETFの取引を許可すると発表し、長年の暗号禁止措置を終了しました。