--- title: "Golden Web3.0 Daily Report | Tether's Head of Investments to Step Down" type: "News" locale: "en" url: "https://longbridge.com/en/news/279056182.md" description: "Tether's Chief Investment Officer, Richard Heathcote, will step down on March 13, transitioning to a non-executive advisory role. His deputy, Zachary Lyons, will succeed him. In DeFi, the total market value of tokens is $53.898 billion, with $966.14 billion locked in assets. NFT market value stands at $7.897 billion. Additionally, Shanghai Telecom is offering computing power support for SMEs to enhance AI applications, while a16z reports that AI proxy payment volumes are lower than previously reported, with actual transactions around $1.6 million." datetime: "2026-03-13T13:51:14.000Z" locales: - [zh-CN](https://longbridge.com/zh-CN/news/279056182.md) - [en](https://longbridge.com/en/news/279056182.md) - [zh-HK](https://longbridge.com/zh-HK/news/279056182.md) --- > Supported Languages: [简体中文](https://longbridge.com/zh-CN/news/279056182.md) | [繁體中文](https://longbridge.com/zh-HK/news/279056182.md) # Golden Web3.0 Daily Report | Tether's Head of Investments to Step Down ## **DeFi data** **1\. Total market value of DeFi tokens: US$53.898 billion** **** DeFi Total Market Cap Data Source: coingecko **2\. Trading volume of decentralized exchanges in the past 24 hours: $40.08** **** **** Trading volume of decentralized exchanges in the past 24 hours. Data source: coingecko **3\. Assets locked in DeFi: $966.14 billion****$100 million** Top 10 DeFi Projects by Locked Assets and Total Value Locked. Data Source: defillama ## **NFT Data** **1\. Total Market Value of NFTs: $7.897 billion** ****2.24 hours NFT transaction volume 1.785 billion USD**** **** **** Toutiao **Tether's Chief Investment Officer to Step Down After Leading Large-Scale Investment Deals** On March 13, Richard Heathcote, Chief Investment Officer of Tether Holdings, will step down from his current position. Heathcote was previously responsible for managing the assets underpinning its main stablecoin reserves and led a series of investment deals spanning multiple sectors, from football clubs to humanoid robots. In response to inquiries from Bloomberg News, the company stated that Heathcote will transition to a non-executive advisory role and will no longer assume day-to-day management responsibilities. His deputy, Zachary Lyons, will succeed him. ... AI Hot Topics 1. NetEase Smart Enterprise Releases Security Skill to Provide Pre-emptive Security Protection for "Lobster" (a term referring to a specific type of AI application) On March 13th, NetEase Smart Enterprise's YiDun Security Team released a security skill (yidun-skill-sec), which combines static behavioral analysis with cloud-based threat intelligence to generate a quantitative security score. This skill can accurately identify risks such as malware, data theft, privilege abuse, prompt injection, and code obfuscation before code execution, providing pre-emptive security protection for the ClawHub ecosystem and helping AI intelligent agent applications operate more securely and stably. It is understood that a more comprehensive Agent version will be released in the middle to late part of this month. **2\. National Cybersecurity Information Center Issues OpenClaw Security Risk Warning** March 13th news: Monitoring data from the National Cybersecurity Information Center shows that there are currently over 200,000 active OpenClaw internet assets globally, of which approximately 23,000 are active within China, showing explosive growth. These assets are mainly concentrated in internet-rich regions such as Beijing, Shanghai, Guangdong, Zhejiang, Sichuan, and Jiangsu. The large number of OpenClaw assets exposed to the internet poses significant security risks and makes them highly vulnerable to cyberattacks. In particular, the behavior of OpenClaw agents is uncontrollable, making management difficult. OpenClaw agents are prone to losing control of permissions during instruction execution, leading to unauthorized task execution and disregard for user instructions. This could result in the deletion of user data, the theft of user information, and takeover of user terminal devices, causing significant economic losses. ... **3\. OpenClaw Free Deployment: Shanghai Telecom Provides Computing Power Support for SMEs** March 13th news: Since the beginning of this year, AI intelligent agents such as OpenClaw have sparked a craze in China. With the popularization of AI applications, the demand for computing power has increased exponentially. To meet the AI ​​computing power needs of more SMEs and startups, Shanghai Telecom has launched computing power benefits, further lowering the threshold for AI applications. From now until December 31st, Shanghai enterprise customers can be among the first to experience the OpenClaw intelligent service pre-installed on the Tianyi AI Cloud PC, achieving "out-of-the-box use" without any configuration. Before June 30th, Shanghai Telecom will also provide enterprise customers with 100 hours of free dedicated computing power experience. ... **4.a16z: AI Proxy Payment Volume Lower Than Reported Data, But Adoption Is Growing** On March 12, Noah Levine, a partner at a16z, posted on the X platform that a previous Bloomberg article cited data from x402.org claiming that AI proxies completed $24 million in payments in 30 days. However, Allium Labs data shows that the transaction volume of AI proxies during the same period was approximately $3 million, and after excluding inflated transactions, the actual figure was approximately $1.6 million. Levine stated that current AI payment activity is mainly concentrated in the developer tools field, including web crawling platform Firecrawl, AI browser Browserbase, and AI image platform Freepik. Companies such as Stripe, Cloudflare, and Vercel have integrated the x402 payment standard developed by Coinbase, and Google has also embedded the system into its proxy payment protocol. Levine stated that the transaction volume of $1.6 million is not large, but the infrastructure built around it is considerable, and these companies are betting on the market prospects of AI proxies becoming the default buyer. In addition, Coinbase announced that its x402 Facilitator now supports Polygon, allowing developers to accept USDC payments on Polygon, Base, and Solana. Coinbase CEO Brian Armstrong stated that AI-assisted transaction volume will soon surpass that of humans. ## DeFi Hot Topics **1\. On-chain Automated Market Maker Platform Space LP to Launch Soon** According to official reports, the on-chain automated market maker and smart wealth management platform Space LP will officially launch within 48 hours after the node recruitment ends. As the only lead generation wealth management product of DBAEX Digital Asset Bank, the launch of the Space-LP automated market maker system marks the ecosystem's official transition from the node construction phase to the wealth management product operation phase. It is understood that Space LP constructs a 24-hour automated market making and automatic compound interest rollover intelligent wealth management closed loop through the interaction of four protocols: staking, minting, secondary market, and treasury. Users participate in market making with USDT, and the smart contract automatically completes liquidity allocation and profit reinvestment, achieving a minimalist "allocation equals profit" experience. Space node recruitment will officially close at 12:00 on March 15th, and the LP automated market maker system is expected to launch before 12:00 on March 17th. **2\. Vitalik: FLI cashed out approximately $500 million of its donated SHIB tokens** On March 13th, Vitalik Buterin posted on the X platform that he received a large amount of SHIB and other tokens, and at the peak of the price, he donated half to CryptoRelief and the other half to FLI. He originally thought FLI could cash out at most $10 million to $25 million, but FLI ultimately cashed out approximately $500 million. ... **3\. BNB Chain's AI Agent Count Surpasses Ethereum, Becoming the Network with the Most On-Chain AI Agents** March 13th news: According to data from Agentscan and 8004scan, BNB SmartChain currently has over 34,000 registered AI agents using the ERC-8004 standard, surpassing Ethereum's 14,000 on the mainnet and Base's 16,500, becoming the network with the most on-chain AI agents. Since the beginning of this year, the total number of ERC-8004 agents across all chains has increased from 337 to nearly 130,000, an increase of over 39,000%. On-chain activity has also surged. On March 10th, the daily transaction volume of agents on BSC reached a record high of nearly 523,000; on March 11th, the daily trading volume of agent-driven DEXs also exceeded $18.1 million. 4\. Decentralized Seal Key Server Launched on Sui Testnet On March 13th, Sui Network announced on the X platform that its MPC-driven decentralized Seal Key Server is now online on the Sui testnet. 5. Ethena Adjusts sUSDe Unstaking Mechanism: Cooldown Period Changed to Dynamic Mode, Shortest to 1 Day On March 13th, Ethena announced that the sUSDe unstaking cooldown period will be changed to a dynamic mechanism, linked to the amount of liquid stablecoins in the USDe reserve. This means that the current sUSDe unstaking period will be reduced from a fixed 7 days since the project's launch to just 1 day. In the future, the cooling-off period will dynamically vary between 1 and 7 days, depending on the composition of liquid assets in the USDe reserves. 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