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Golden Ten Data reported on March 14 that Venezuela's acting president, Delcy Rodríguez, stated on the 13th that Venezuela has exported liquefied petroleum gas to neighboring Colombia for the first time. Rodríguez said during a meeting with the visiting Colombian delegation at the Venezuelan presidential palace that a transport vehicle carrying liquefied petroleum gas (butane) from the Venezuelan oil company had crossed the Simón Bolívar Bridge at the Venezuela-Colombia border for the first time. The Venezuelan side expects to begin exporting natural gas to Colombia via pipeline in the coming months.

Odaily reported that Robert Mitchnick, Head of Digital Assets at BlackRock, stated on CNBC that although the market may see more structurally complex crypto ETF products, BlackRock will continue to take a cautious approach in this field and will not launch overly complex ETF structures. He noted that current investor interest remains primarily focused on Bitcoin and Ethereum, but there is also some attention on other assets in the market. Previously, BlackRock launched the Ethereum staking ETF—iShares Staked Ethereum Trust (ETHB), which recorded approximately $15.5 million in trading volume and about $43.5 million in capital inflows on its first day of trading. Meanwhile, BlackRock is also considering launching a Bitcoin Premium Income ETF, which would generate option premium income by selling covered call options on Bitcoin futures. (Cointelegraph)

ChainCatcher news, according to CoinDesk, the Cambridge Centre for Alternative Finance has released a longitudinal study on the physical infrastructure resilience of the bitcoin network, covering 11 years of peer-to-peer network data and 68 verified submarine cable failure incidents. The research shows that 72%~92% of global cross-border submarine cables would need to fail simultaneously for the bitcoin network to experience significant node disconnection. Based on 1,000 Monte Carlo simulations for each scenario, over 87% of actual failure events had less than 5% impact on nodes, and the correlation coefficient between cable failures and bitcoin price was nearly zero (-0.02). The study also reveals a significant asymmetry between random failures and targeted attacks: if attackers target key hub cables, the disruption threshold drops sharply to 20%; if targeted attacks are directed at the five largest custodial service providers by node count—Hetzner, OVH, Comcast, Amazon, and Google Cloud—removing just 5% of routing capacity can cause an equivalent impact.