Gate News Report: On March 19, according to the Washington Post, U.S. officials discovered an unidentified flying object above a Washington Army base. The base is where U.S. Secretary of State Rubio and Defense Secretary Hegseth reside. Three people familiar with the matter revealed that these officials have not yet determined the source of the flying object.
The Bank of Japan maintains the benchmark interest rate at 0.75% unchanged, while warning that the Iran conflict could push up energy prices and create inflationary pressure. In the short term, inflation may fall below 2%, but the Middle East situation and rising oil prices may continue to impact prices. Markets are focused on wage negotiation progress, as wage growth will affect future rate hike decisions.
Gate News reported that on March 19, the Bank of Japan stated that if economic and price trends align with forecasts, it will continue to raise its policy interest rate (central bank benchmark rate) based on improvements in the economy and prices.
Gate News reports that on March 19, according to monitoring by on-chain analyst @ai_9684xtpa, a certain whale address 0x65B...5Ce93 has purchased 10811.34 ETH on-chain through Cowswap since March 6, valued at $22.58 million, with an average cost of $2088.79. Notably, in the past 13 hours alone, it purchased 4583 ETH. It's worth noting that this address had not traded ETH for 5 months prior to this.
Gate News report shows that on March 19, Trader T monitoring data indicates that yesterday (March 18) BlackRock Staking ETH ETF ($ETHB) had net inflows of 515 ETH, equivalent to approximately $1.07 million. As of now, the ETF's total holdings are 116,793 ETH, of which 69,111 ETH are staked and 47,682 ETH are unstaked.
