Huoxun Finance News, March 14th – Polkadot announced on its X platform that its token issuance model upgrade officially took effect on March 14th (Pi Day). This protocol update introduces several key adjustments, including setting the maximum supply of the native token DOT at 2.1 billion. Currently, approximately 80% of the tokens have already been issued. The issuance rate of DOT will also be reduced by approximately 53% on March 14th, with plans to continue gradually decreasing in the future. It is understood that these adjustments were proposed by the community and approved through the OpenGov governance mechanism, aiming to limit the long-term issuance scale while maintaining network incentives and providing the market with a more transparent and predictable token issuance path.

Huoxun Finance reported on March 14th that, according to a report by Jinshi citing British media, David Sachs, Trump's head of artificial intelligence and cryptocurrency affairs, called on the US to "find a way out" of the conflict with Iran, marking the first public signal of dissatisfaction among senior Trump administration officials regarding the Middle East war. Sachs stated, "Now is a good time to declare victory and walk away." He added that such a move is "clearly what the market wants to see." Trump previously claimed that the US military bombed military facilities on Kharg Island, Iran's oil export hub. Sachs raised specific concerns about the consequences of further US attacks on such infrastructure, mentioning the possibility of nuclear war. He said that if more of Iran's energy infrastructure is attacked, "Iran could continue targeting the oil and gas infrastructure of the Gulf states…that would be a much worse outcome. If this war lasts for weeks or months, then Israel could be destroyed. Their air defense systems could be exhausted…and then there would be concerns that Israel might consider using nuclear weapons to escalate the war."

According to Huoxun Finance on March 14, on-chain data monitoring shows that Huang Licheng, nicknamed "Brother Machi," added to his 25x leveraged Ethereum long position this morning, bringing his total position to 8,500 ETH. He currently has a floating profit of approximately $70,000 and a liquidation price of approximately $2,038. In addition, he has placed 31 limit sell orders in the $2,117-$2,300 range.

Huoxun Finance reported on March 14th that, according to CoinDesk, a study released by the Cambridge Centre for Alternative Finance (CCAF) shows that the Bitcoin network's resilience to physical infrastructure disruptions is far greater than previously expected. The study, based on 11 years of network data and an analysis of 68 verified submarine cable failures, found that for random failures, 72% to 92% of transnational submarine cables would need to be simultaneously disrupted to significantly impact Bitcoin node connectivity. The study indicates that in over 87% of the 68 real-world submarine cable failures analyzed, the impact on nodes was less than 5%. For example, in March 2024, underwater disturbances off the coast of Côte d'Ivoire damaged 7 to 8 cables simultaneously, affecting approximately 43% of nodes in the local area, but globally only about 5 to 7 Bitcoin nodes were affected, representing approximately 0.03% of the network. The Bitcoin network is significantly more vulnerable to targeted attacks than to random failures. If attackers were to disrupt fiber optic cables at critical communication hubs, affecting only about 20% of the critical lines could cause a similar impact; a coordinated disruption targeting the hosting providers with the largest number of nodes (such as Hetzner, OVH, Comcast, Amazon, and Google Cloud) could have a significant impact with a reduction in routing capacity of about 5%. Furthermore, research found that Tor network nodes now comprise approximately 64% (by 2025), primarily concentrated in highly connected countries such as Germany, France, and the Netherlands, which actually enhances the network's overall resilience. The research suggests that the Bitcoin community is gradually shifting towards more censorship-resistant infrastructure in the face of internet censorship and geopolitical events, giving the network an "adaptive reinforcement" characteristic.

According to Odaily Planet Daily, Iraqi security sources reported that the US embassy in Baghdad, the Iraqi capital, was attacked by a drone. (CCTV News)