SoftBank has initiated a soft launch for a $40 billion bridge loan to finance its OpenAI investment, inviting other lenders to participate. This follows SoftBank's previous $30 billion investment in OpenAI and anticipated revenues of $11.6 billion by 2025.

The Quantum-Safe Bitcoin (QSB) proposal put forward by StarkWare researcher Avihu Levy uses existing Bitcoin scripts to provide post-quantum security, avoiding a soft fork. QSB uses a Binohash-based construction and a “hash-to-signature” puzzle to defend against quantum computers’ attacks on elliptic curve cryptography. The scheme relies on RIPEMD-160’s preimage resistance, effectively strengthening the security of Bitcoin transactions.

April 9, U.S. March CPI data will be released on April 11. The market expects the year-over-year rate to rise from 2.4% to 3.4%. The Bitcoin market has responded calmly, with the options market’s volatility range only at 2.5%. Attention has been drawn by the rise in gasoline prices. Analysts believe that CPI data coming in either too soft or too hot will have different impacts on the crypto market.

Chainlink (LINK) whale activity has increased, but the price has fallen for seven consecutive months, drawing market attention. Despite a rise in whale outflow volume and soft institutional demand, the price remains under pressure. Future performance may be influenced by broader market sentiment, so investors should watch changes in whale behavior and ETF fund inflows.

Fantasy.top faces accusations from angel investors, claiming the team went silent and refused to refund $50,000, sparking "soft Rug Pull" allegations. Founder Travis Bickle countered that the company operates based on product revenue and has not used investors' funds. Several well-known investors also reported experiencing similar situations.

Gate News reports that on March 10, the crypto community announced that Aethir's marketing director Masha Prusso was accused of having sourced women for Epstein. Meanwhile, community insiders revealed that Aethir has recently undergone large-scale layoffs, with several co-founders and executives leaving one after another, suspected of soft Rug pulling. It is also reported that Masha Prusso's personal website has been taken down recently.

The BIP-110 proposal has sparked controversy within the Bitcoin community, with several well-known figures such as Wang Chun, Jameson Lopp, and Adam Back publicly opposing it, arguing that the proposal could threaten Bitcoin's core features and value. The proposal aims to address the issue of block space being occupied by limiting the size of non-monetary data in transactions through a soft fork.

February 14 News, the Bitcoin community has recently engaged in intense discussions about post-quantum security upgrades. With the exposure of the BIP-360 proposal, core developers plan to implement a soft fork to introduce stronger resistance to quantum attacks for Taproot-based addresses. This proposal is seen as an important step for Bitcoin to address future quantum computing threats and has become a focal point of current market attention. The core goal of BIP-360 is to reduce the risk of exposing public keys in Pay-to-Taproot (P2TR) addresses during transactions. The scheme will remove the "key-to-spend" path and introduce a Pay-to-Merkle-Root (P2MR) structure, enabling verification without exposing the public key. Since Taproot was widely adopted after its launch in 2021, related risks were initially overlooked but are now recognized as potential systemic vulnerabilities.

On February 13, news reports indicate that Bitcoin's recent price has been under continuous pressure, failing to stay above $72,000. Meanwhile, the total open interest in Bitcoin futures has fallen to $34 billion, hitting a new low since November 2024, down approximately 28% from 30 days ago. Although the number of open contracts measured in Bitcoin remains around 502,450, indicating that overall leverage demand has not significantly decreased, forced liquidations have accumulated to $5.2 billion, intensifying market concerns that Bitcoin may fall back to the $60,000 support level. The weak bullish leverage demand in the market highlights a decoupling of Bitcoin from traditional financial markets. Over the past month, Bitcoin has declined by 28%, with investors lacking clear catalysts. At the same time, gold prices have returned to the psychological level of $5,000, and the S&P 500 index is approaching its all-time high. Some analysts believe that the risk-averse sentiment is driven by a soft U.S. labor market. Data from the U.S. Department of Labor shows that only 181,000 new jobs are expected to be added in 2025, below expectations, but the White House emphasizes that slowing population growth is leading to decreased job demand.

ChainCatcher message, according to related page information, Bitcoin Improvement Proposal 360 (BIP-360) has been added to the official code repository. This proposal introduces the Pay-to-Merkle-Root (P2MR) output type, aimed at enhancing Bitcoin's defense against quantum computing threats through a soft fork.