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Foresight News reported that The Sandbox co-founder and Chief Operating Officer Sebastien Borget stated at the EthCC[9] conference that the first round of stress testing for the mobile native game The Sandbox NEXT officially began on March 26. NEXT has abandoned the previously used Unity engine of the main platform and switched to Unreal Engine for development, aiming to provide higher graphics quality and enhanced physics engine performance for mobile devices. NEXT is a multiplayer survival combat game supporting up to 20 players competing simultaneously, with optimized auto-aim and shooting mechanisms for mobile devices. The initial release features two maps: "Desert" and "City." Players can carry over their identities, game progress, and NFT assets from The Sandbox main platform directly to the mobile version. Sebastien stated that NEXT complements SANDchain, the ZKsync-based Layer 2 network launching in September 2025, as L2’s low-cost transactions will support the asset minting and market trading needs of mobile users.

According to ChainCatcher, citing data from Coinglass, a total of 340 million USD was liquidated across the network in the past 24 hours, with long positions accounting for 126 million USD and short positions 214 million USD. Among them, Bitcoin long positions were liquidated for 19.9116 million USD and Bitcoin short positions for 89.8545 million USD; Ethereum long positions were liquidated for 33.1551 million USD and Ethereum short positions for 61.3085 million USD.

The effective federal funds rate for the previous trading day was reported at 3.64%, unchanged from 3.64% the day before.