Gate News reported that on March 18, Polymarket prediction market data shows that the probability of Federal Reserve Chair Powell mentioning "Inflation" more than 40 times during the March press conference (at 2:30 AM) is currently 80%. Additionally, the probability of mentioning "Gold/Oil" is 93%; the probability of mentioning "Iran" is 62%.

Bitcoin Layer 2 network Stacks implemented the SIP-034 upgrade on March 17, enhancing the network processing capacity for certain DeFi applications by up to 30 times. By optimizing transaction processing limits, this upgrade has a significant impact on complex DeFi applications and is expected to indirectly increase transactions and fees.

Gate News Information: On March 16th, the Solana network improvement proposal SIMD-0266 has been approved. The proposal was submitted by Anza last year, with its core content being the introduction of p-token (a token model with higher computational efficiency). This can increase the computational efficiency of Solana transactions and payments by up to 19 times, significantly reduce token transfer costs, and thereby improve network capacity. The upgrade is expected to be deployed to mainnet in April of this year.

Gate News bulletin, on March 12, FHE infrastructure project Mind Network stated that Apple has been running fully homomorphic encryption (FHE) as core infrastructure since iOS 18. Features such as real-time caller ID can directly process user queries while data remains strictly encrypted at all times. The technology is currently supporting millions of iPhones.