Bitcoin News Roundup for March 24, 2020
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Today's Stories:
Bitcoin Marches on $7K as Traditional Markets Cheer Fed's QE 'Bazooka'
‘Digital Dollar’ Stripped From Latest US Coronavirus Relief Bill
Kinsa's fever map could show just how crucial it is to stay home to stop COVID-19 spread
Long-Festering DeFi Dapp Bug Still Not Fixed by Industry
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Protocol Research: GoPlus Security

What to know:
- As of October 2025, GoPlus has generated $4.7M in total revenue across its product lines. The GoPlus App is the primary revenue driver, contributing $2.5M (approx. 53%), followed by the SafeToken Protocol at $1.7M.
- GoPlus Intelligence's Token Security API averaged 717 million monthly calls year-to-date in 2025 , with a peak of nearly 1 billion calls in February 2025. Total blockchain-level requests, including transaction simulations, averaged an additional 350 million per month.
- Since its January 2025 launch , the $GPS token has registered over $5B in total spot volume and $10B in derivatives volume in 2025. Monthly spot volume peaked in March 2025 at over $1.1B , while derivatives volume peaked the same month at over $4B.
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Fed’s Hammack tilts hawkish on rates, questions CPI drop as distorted

"My base case is that we can stay here for some period of time," Cleveland Fed President Beth Hammack told the WSJ.
What to know:
- Cleveland Fed President Beth Hammack, who will be a voter on the central bank's policy-making FOMC in 2026, says interest rates need to remain on hold for several months.
- She threw shade on last week's surprisingly soft CPI report, noting data-collection distortions created by the government shutdown.
- Other things being equal, bitcoin would typically benefit from easier Fed monetary policy, but that hasn't at all been the case in 2025.











