According to an official announcement, Binance will mandate the Self-Transaction Prevention (STP) feature for all Binance Options users starting at 14:00 (UTC+8) on March 19, 2026. This update will cover spot, leveraged, futures, and options trading on the Binance platform. Please note that the system update will begin at 14:00 (UTC+8) on March 19, 2026, and is expected to last for one hour to allow for a smooth transition. The STP feature aims to prevent API users from unintentionally engaging in self-trades, ensuring compliance and the integrity of market data, and saving users unnecessary transaction fees. The STP feature will automatically prevent the execution of orders that lead to self-trades. Three STP modes are available, with "EXPIRE_MAKER" being the default STP mode for all Binance Options orders.

Huoxun Finance News, March 13th - According to Cointelegraph, crypto asset treasury company Eightco Holdings announced the completion of a $125 million funding round to support its investments in blockchain and artificial intelligence. The round was led by Bitcoin treasury company Bitmine with a $75 million investment, with ArkInvest and Kraken's parent company Payward each contributing $25 million. Bitmine Chairman Tom Lee will join the Eightco board, and ArkInvest's Chief Futurist Brett Winton will serve as a board advisor. Eightco also announced a $50 million strategic investment in OpenAI and a $25 million investment in Beast Industries, a subsidiary of YouTuber MrBeast. Following this news, Eightco's stock price rose 12% on Thursday.

According to Etherscan research, address poisoning attacks on the Ethereum network have shown a significant upward trend recently. Attackers send transactions with forged addresses, inserting wallet addresses with characters highly similar to the real addresses into users' transaction records, thus inducing users to mistakenly copy the wrong addresses in subsequent transfers. The research shows that between July 2022 and June 2024, approximately 17 million address poisoning attempts occurred on the Ethereum network, targeting approximately 1.3 million user addresses, with confirmed losses of at least $79.3 million. The attacks are typically carried out through zero-amount transfers, fake token transfers, or dust transfers, and are automatically initiated within minutes of a user completing a real transaction. Although the success rate of a single attack is only about 0.01% (approximately 1 in 10,000), attackers use automated systems to send poisoned transactions on a large scale, thus gaining profits through sheer numbers. The research also found that different attack groups often compete for the same target address, attempting to be the first to write the forged address into the transaction history. Furthermore, the Fusaka upgrade, activated on December 3, 2025, reduced Ethereum transaction costs, enabling attackers to send large numbers of poisoned transactions at a lower cost. In the 90 days following the upgrade, Ethereum's average daily transaction volume increased by approximately 30% compared to the previous 90 days, and the number of new addresses added daily also increased by approximately 78%, while small-amount dust transfers increased significantly. Etherscan reminds users to carefully verify the target address before transferring funds. This can be done by using address tags, ENS domains, wallet address books, or address highlighting features to distinguish legitimate addresses and reduce the risk of accidental transfers. Because blockchain transactions are irreversible, once funds are sent to the wrong address, they are usually difficult to recover.

Odaily Planet Daily reports that recent reports suggest HSBC, Standard Chartered, and local virtual asset trading platform OSL will be among the first batch of stablecoin licenses issued in Hong Kong. Inquiries have been made through HSBC and Standard Chartered's subsidiaries in China, but neither has provided a direct response. However, an insider at one of the foreign banks revealed, "We are still awaiting official news from regulators." (Cailian Press)

Odaily Planet Daily reports that MetaComp, a Singapore-based licensed stablecoin cross-border payment and fund management service provider, has announced the completion of its Pre-A+ round of financing. The round was led by venture capital firms including Alibaba and Spark Venture, with participation from existing shareholders. 100Summit Partners served as the exclusive financial advisor. This brings the company's total funding to $35 million in two rounds within three months (including a $22 million Pre-A round in December last year). The new funds will accelerate the expansion of its StableX network in high-growth regions such as Asia, the Middle East, Africa, and Latin America, and expand its AI strategy by developing an Agent-Skills-MCP (Model Context Protocol) architecture to support agent-based Web 2.5 payments and wealth management services. (PRNewswire)