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According to Coinglass data, the current 8-hour average funding rate for BTC across the network is -0.0029%. Among the current mainstream exchanges, the rate on Binance is -0.0029%, OKX is -0.006%, Bybit is -0.0046%, and Gate is -0.0054%.

The Solana-based yield trading platform Exponent Finance announced the completion of a $5 million seed round financing, led by Multicoin Capital, with participation from Solana Ventures, RockawayX, L1D, Prelude, and Theia Blockchain, as well as several key figures from the Solana ecosystem as angel investors.It is reported that this round of financing started in May last year and was completed in August, bringing Exponent's total financing to $7.1 million. Exponent stated that the funds will be used to expand its yield trading platform and upgrade to a more complete on-chain yield infrastructure, covering the active yield management needs of the Solana ecosystem.

According to The Block, Gemini's Olympus division has officially obtained a Derivatives Clearing Organization (DCO) license issued by the Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC), allowing it to act as an internal clearinghouse for settlement, risk management, and collateral management without relying on third-party clearing, which is expected to reduce operational costs.Combined with the previously obtained Designated Contract Market (DCM) license, Gemini is now capable of conducting full-stack compliant operations in the fields of futures, options, perpetual contracts, and prediction markets. Currently, Gemini is further applying for a Futures Commission Merchant (FCM) license to complete its full suite of CFTC qualifications and compete directly with Kraken and Coinbase.

According to Coinglass data, the current holdings of whales on the Hyperliquid platform amount to $3.644 billion, with long positions of $1.839 billion, accounting for 50.46% of the holdings, and short positions of $1.805 billion, accounting for 49.54%. The profit and loss for long positions is -$45.8218 million, while for short positions it is $16.2327 million.Among them, the whale address 0xa5b0..41 has taken a 15x leveraged long position on ETH at a price of $2265.48, currently showing an unrealized profit and loss of -$39.6 thousand.

The South Korean prosecution has formally requested the court to sentence the former CEO of the cryptocurrency platform Delio, Jeong Sang-ho, to 20 years in prison, accusing him of committing large-scale economic fraud. In the closing statement at the Southern District Court of Seoul, the prosecution cited the local economic crime aggravated punishment law, directly pointing out that the suspect had long deliberately deceived and falsely advertised, causing approximately 2,800 investors' funds to be trapped and difficult to redeem.The prosecution pointed out that the defendant had a clear subjective intent to defraud, the losses involved were enormous, and he subsequently refused to cooperate with the investigation and deliberately shirked responsibility, continuously exacerbating the losses and difficulties faced by the victims. Therefore, they are seeking a strict sentence according to the law.

According to Fortune magazine, the publicly traded cryptocurrency company AI Financial (formerly Alt5 Sigma), linked to U.S. President Donald Trump's family, reached a $43 million deal last week to acquire the cryptocurrency infrastructure company Block Street.Company records show that Block Street was registered in Nevada only in late October. Matthew Morgan, an advisor to AI Financial and also the CEO and largest shareholder of Block Street, stated that he founded the company about 16 months ago. Morgan indicated that the acquisition of Block Street was not a self-dealing transaction.

According to Jinshi reports, the annualized quarterly PCE price index for the first quarter in the United States is 4.5%, higher than the market expectation of 3.8% and the previous value of 2.9%.

The Hyperliquid Policy Center (HPC) announced that it has formally submitted a comment letter regarding the U.S. Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC) Advance Notice of Proposed Rulemaking (ANPRM) on prediction markets, advocating for the establishment of a clear compliance path for decentralized prediction markets based on public, permissionless blockchains while improving the regulatory framework for centralized prediction markets.In the comment letter, HPC calls on the CFTC to develop more flexible, function-oriented rules to accommodate decentralized market structures; to establish clear legal channels for U.S. market participants to access decentralized prediction markets; and to promote the U.S. leading position in decentralized financial innovation. HPC stated that prediction markets are a natural extension of the federal derivatives framework, helping participants directly manage their economic risk exposure to real-world events and aggregating dispersed information through continuously updated market prices, whose price discovery capabilities have been widely validated, even outperforming traditional polls and expert forecasts.It pointed out that decentralized prediction markets based on public blockchains have advantages such as transparency, non-custodial nature, and high resilience, not relying on centralized operators to hold user funds, and there is no single point of failure risk; all transactions are recorded in real-time on a public ledger, facilitating regulation and market oversight, while market access standards are more transparent and uniform.HPC emphasized that current rulemaking should not solidify reliance on a single exchange operator, custodial intermediaries, and traditional settlement monitoring mechanisms, as this would hinder U.S. users' legitimate participation in decentralized prediction markets. It stated that it will continue to promote compliance access for U.S. market participants to Hyperliquid and HIP-4 outcome markets and will maintain communication with the CFTC.

Special Purpose Acquisition Company Forefront Tech announced the completion of its initial public offering (IPO) pricing, with a total size of $100 million, and will be listed on Nasdaq under the ticker symbol "FTHAU." It is reported that the funds raised will be used to explore merger and acquisition opportunities in the fields of blockchain, fintech, artificial intelligence, and other emerging technologies.

According to CryptoRank, Gate is accelerating its efforts in the multi-asset track and forming differentiated advantages through a native construction path. Data shows that Gate has launched over 430 types of TradFi CFD assets, covering multiple categories such as stocks, foreign exchange, indices, metals, and commodities, and is continuously expanding at a rate of 10 to 20 new assets daily, with peak single-day trading volume exceeding $25 billion.In terms of product structure, Gate has simultaneously connected five core forms, including TradFi CFD, traditional asset perpetual contracts, tokenized stocks, RWA yield products, and Pre-IPO, all operating under the same account system. Through a collateral and settlement mechanism centered on USDT, the platform has achieved efficient connectivity between crypto assets and traditional assets, significantly enhancing cross-market capital utilization efficiency and trading flexibility.Moreover, in terms of transparency and infrastructure, Gate continues to strengthen the foundation of market trust. The platform's latest reserve coverage exceeds 122%, and it enhances asset transparency through verifiable mechanisms. As the industry accelerates towards multi-asset and institutional evolution, Gate further consolidates its leading position in the new competitive landscape through product depth, asset breadth, and infrastructure synergy capabilities.

Bitcoin mining company MARA Holdings will acquire natural gas plant operator Long Ridge Energy & Power from FTAI Infrastructure for $1.5 billion, marking an important step for the bitcoin miner in its efforts to transform into a digital infrastructure and energy company.The acquisition is expected to be completed later in 2026, pending approval from regulators including the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission. The company stated that the $1.5 billion deal includes assuming approximately $785 million in existing debt, while Long Ridge's power assets can generate approximately $144 million in adjusted earnings annually.

Web3 asset data platform RootData released the eighth issue of the "Cryptocurrency Exchange Transparency Rankings (Stock Category)," continuing to focus on the growth trend of stock assets in cryptocurrency exchanges. In this ranking, Binance, OKX, Bybit, Gate, and Bitget continue to occupy the top five positions.In terms of ranking changes, BingX entered the list for the first time at ninth place due to a significant increase in traffic, while XT.com fell out of the top ten this issue due to a decline in trading volume and insufficient compliance transparency.In terms of traffic, leading platforms showed a moderate decline. Newly ranked BingX had a weekly traffic of 7.6 million, placing it second, just behind Binance. Meanwhile, Ourbit's traffic plummeted from 1.33 million to below 310,000, a drop of over 76%, making it the exchange with the largest decline in traffic this issue.Additionally, according to the ranking data, almost all exchanges experienced a significant decline in daily average trading volume, with decreases generally between 10% and 25%.It is reported that RootData adheres to the principle of "transparency first" and has taken the lead in establishing a dual evaluation system of "transparency + liquidity" in the field of stock cryptocurrency exchanges, thereby providing investors with more effective data references. The platform will continue to enhance and publish this ranking in the future.

According to the official announcement from MegaETH, the MEGA tokens will be distributed to users before 19:00 (UTC+8) today.

According to Onchain Lens monitoring, a certain whale deposited the last 220 BTC (worth $16.72 million) into Binance, and this whale made a profit of $28 million after holding for 3 years.This whale initially withdrew 370 BTC (worth $6.23 million) from Binance, and has now deposited all of it back into Binance, with a total value of $34.24 million.

Binance Alpha's Box airdrop has begun, and the airdrop pool includes tokens from three projects: TAC Protocol (TAC), Recall (RECALL), and CARV (CARV). Users holding at least 240 Alpha points can claim a one-time token airdrop.After claiming, users will be assigned to different reward tiers and receive one of the following rewards: 1870, 2340, or 6670 TAC tokens; 575, 715, or 2045 RECALL tokens; 510, 640, or 1820 CARV tokens. Rewards are distributed on a first-come, first-served basis.If the rewards are not fully distributed, the point threshold will automatically decrease by 5 points every 5 minutes.Please note that claiming the airdrop will consume 15 Alpha points. Users must confirm their claim on the Alpha Events page within 24 hours; otherwise, it will be considered that the user has forfeited the airdrop.

According to Gate market data, the three major U.S. stock indices rose before the market opened, with the Nasdaq up 0.87%, the Dow up 0.35%, and the S&P 500 up 0.48%.Most of the seven major tech stocks rose before the market opened, with Apple (AAPL) up 0.55%, Microsoft (MSFT) up 0.79%, Alphabet (GOOGL) up 0.53%, Amazon (AMZN) up 6.36%, Nvidia (NVDA) up 1.03%, Tesla (TSLA) up 0.09%, and Meta (META) down 2.33%.

Binance has now completed the integration of Kyrgyz Som Stablecoin (KGST) on the Tron (TRC20) network and has opened the deposit service. Users can obtain their exclusive token deposit address through this page. Please note that the withdrawal service will be opened after confirming sufficient deposits and will not be announced separately.

According to the latest weekly report released by Gate, in the past week (from April 20 to April 26), driven by the easing of geopolitical tensions and rising expectations for interest rate cuts, BTC rose from $68,000 to above $77,000, with market sentiment remaining "cautiously optimistic." ETF funds continued to see net inflows, indicating that institutions are steadily increasing their positions amid fluctuations, with capital accelerating towards high liquidity assets and deep trading platforms.There was a noticeable rotation of on-chain funds: PancakeSwap's trading volume approached $36 billion, the supply of USDT was nearly $200 billion, while USDe saw a net outflow of about $2 billion; in the DeFi sector, Aave's lending balance decreased, with liquidity shifting towards Spark. In terms of derivatives, the funding rate for BTC remains negative, while the activity and volatility of options have increased. The market will pay attention to the FOMC interest rate meeting and the volatility effects brought by the unlocking of OP, SUI, and ENA.Against this backdrop, Gate continues to strengthen its institutional service capabilities, providing high-performance matching, deep liquidity, and multi-exchange strategy support to meet high-frequency and arbitrage demands. At the same time, through a comprehensive asset security and custody system, combined with a one-stop solution for spot, contract, and multi-asset trading, it helps institutions execute efficiently and lay out robust strategies in a volatile market.

According to news from the official WeChat account of Yunfeng Financial, Yunfeng Financial Group (00376.HK) has completed a strategic investment in the global financial infrastructure and cross-border payment service provider WooshPay, with the specific investment amount undisclosed.It is reported that WooshPay is a global payment platform strictly regulated by the UK's Financial Conduct Authority (FCA) and Hong Kong Customs, providing cross-border fund transfer services for numerous benchmark clients, including Xiaomi, large education groups, and IoT listed companies. Its business covers 170 countries and regions, supporting 155 fiat currencies and mainstream digital assets.Yunfeng Financial stated that this investment aims to deeply integrate WooshPay's leading global payment settlement capabilities with the group's digital asset infrastructure AlphaToken, constructing a dual-channel system encompassing "asset side, client side, infrastructure side, and payment side," creating a full-link ecological closed loop that includes "asset tokenization" and "compliant settlement."

According to the official announcement, Binance will launch MegaETH (MEGA) on April 30, 2026, at 19:00, opening the MEGA/USDT, MEGA/USDC, and MEGA/TRY spot trading pairs. The listing fee is 0 BNB, and withdrawals will open on May 1, 2026, at 11:00 (UTC).