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According to monitoring by BitcoinTreasuries.NET, the Bitcoin mining company American Bitcoin, supported by the Trump family, has increased its holdings by 300 bitcoins, raising the total holdings to 7,300 bitcoins.

According to the official page, the Gate WCTC S8 global trading competition continues to gain popularity. Currently, the number of registered participants has reached 56,000, with over 8,000 teams participating, and the total unlocked prize pool has reached 880,000 USDT.As one of the key events for Gate's 13th anniversary, WCTC S8 officially started on April 23 and has now entered the second half of the team competition phase. The event features a parallel mechanism of team competitions, individual competitions, and 1v1 PK matches, covering different types of trading users. Among them, the team competition ranks based on yield and trading volume, while the individual competition covers the entire trading cycle, and the PK matches further enhance the event's real-time interactivity.Compared to previous editions, this year's event has further expanded in trading dimensions, integrating spot, contract, and some TradFi assets into a unified statistical system. Meanwhile, the prize pool adopts a dynamic unlocking mechanism, continuously releasing rewards as the number of effective participants increases.Currently, WCTC S8 has become one of Gate's key annual global trading events. As the event progresses, the scale of participation, prize pool data, and platform trading activity are all showing growth, further demonstrating the driving effect of large trading competitions on user participation and multi-asset trading scenarios.

According to CoinDesk, the world's largest custodian bank, BNY Mellon, is expanding its digital asset custody business in the Abu Dhabi Global Market through local partners Finstreet and ADI Foundation.The initial phase of the plan will focus on custody services for Bitcoin and Ethereum, with future expansion to stablecoins and tokenized assets. Hani Kablawi, Executive Vice President of BNY Mellon, stated that the UAE is entering a new phase of financial development, and the bank is committed to connecting traditional and digital financial ecosystems.

Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei stated on Wednesday at the Code With Claude developer conference in San Francisco that the company's revenue in the first quarter saw an 80-fold increase alongside customer AI usage, which took the company by surprise. He mentioned that the company had originally planned for a 10-fold annual growth, but the actual growth rate far exceeded expectations, leading to a tight supply of computing power.Anthropic's annualized revenue increased from nearly $1 billion at the end of 2024 to $9 billion by the end of the year, and by early April this year, it had surged to $30 billion. The strong demand for Claude Code and work agents allowed it to nearly meet its annual forecast ahead of schedule last month. To alleviate the pressure on computing power, Anthropic signed contracts for a total of 10 gigawatts of computing power supply with Amazon and Google over the past month, and announced on Thursday that it will utilize all the computing power of xAI's first data center, Colossus 1, located in Memphis, within the next month. Amodei stated that the company will continue to acquire more computing power as much as possible.

Elon Musk tweeted that xAI will no longer operate as an independent company and will be integrated into SpaceX in the future, becoming SpaceXAI, which is the AI product department of SpaceX.

According to Bloomberg, American Bitcoin Corp., a Bitcoin mining company supported by the Trump family, announced its financial report for the first quarter of 2026, showing a net loss of $82 million, which is an increase from a loss of $59 million in the previous quarter (Q4 2025), marking two consecutive quarters of losses.Meanwhile, the company's revenue for the first quarter was approximately $62 million, a year-on-year decrease of about 20%, mainly due to the decline in average mining revenue per Bitcoin. The company is headquartered in Miami and was established just before the price of Bitcoin fell from its historical high.

The U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) announced that it has filed lawsuits against 21 individuals, accusing them of participating in a nearly decade-long cross-border insider trading scheme, allegedly profiting millions of dollars illegally by using undisclosed material information leaked by several international law firms.The SEC pointed out that Los Angeles mergers and acquisitions lawyer Nicolo Nourafchan and his partner Robert Yadgarov organized and operated this insider trading network. Nourafchan is accused of stealing significant non-public information related to more than 12 corporate merger transactions from his law firm clients and leaking it to other participants, who then profited from the trades and returned a portion of the earnings. The SEC also stated that the two recruited another corporate lawyer to continue obtaining and disseminating more merger insider information for trading.The SEC stated that this enforcement action reflects its determination to "combat large-scale insider trading networks and hold the entire leak chain accountable." Meanwhile, the Massachusetts Attorney General's Office has filed criminal charges against all individuals involved. Regulatory agencies from multiple countries, including the FBI, the UK's FCA, and Switzerland's FINMA, are also assisting in the investigation.

According to Gate market data, the Nasdaq's late-session gains expanded to 2%.

According to The Block, Core Scientific has agreed to acquire Oklahoma-based Bitcoin mining company Polaris DS LLC for $421 million, with the transaction expected to be completed in the third quarter of 2026, pending regulatory approval.This acquisition will add 440 megawatts of contracted power to Core Scientific, aimed at accelerating its expansion in artificial intelligence and high-density computing businesses. The 40-acre campus of Polaris in Muskogee is powered and operational, adjacent to Core Scientific's existing facilities. Core Scientific is transforming and expanding its original Bitcoin mining facilities into a colocation data center focused on artificial intelligence and high-performance computing.

According to official news, Jito Foundation is collaborating with Solana Company (NASDAQ: HSDT) to provide institutional-grade Solana infrastructure in the Asia-Pacific region. The two parties will operate BAM validators using Pacific Backbone in Hong Kong, Singapore, Japan, and South Korea, a low-latency infrastructure network that supports staking, validation, and trading services in the Asia-Pacific region.In addition, the two parties will jointly develop institutional-grade JitoSOL staking products, delivered through Solana Company's consulting service model, to meet the compliance requirements of large capital allocators.The head of Jito Foundation's Asia-Pacific region stated that this collaboration aims to combine Jito's market layer technology with Solana Company's regional expertise and institutional network, laying the foundation for scalable and compliant participation within the Solana ecosystem.

According to The Block, Consensys CEO and Ethereum co-founder Joseph Lubin stated at Consensus 2026 that projects like Strategy, SharpLink, and BitMine, which are part of the Ethereum Digital Asset Treasury (DAT), are positive examples of building "long-term permanent capital" for the Ethereum ecosystem without leverage, and warned that weak assets and copycat DATs could harm the ecosystem.Lubin mentioned that Consensys and he himself have contributed 30,000 ETH to the DeFi United initiative to promote multi-party collaboration in recovering funds after the Kelp DAO vulnerability incident. He also pointed out that Ethereum has embedded a path to quantum safety in its scaling roadmap, while Bitcoin will face more complex property issues in migrating quantum-vulnerable addresses.

According to Jinshi reports, the panic index VIX has fallen to a three-month low, down 0.71 points to 16.67.

Strategy CEO Phong Le stated that if they are still the largest BTC holder in the next 10 to 20 years, Strategy will become the largest company in the world.

According to Jinshi reports, the US dollar against the Japanese yen (USD/JPY) has fallen more than 1.5% during the day, with the current exchange rate at 155.49.

According to Jinshi reports, the USD/JPY short-term plummeted 60 points, with an intraday decline of over 0.5%, currently reported at 157.06.

According to Cointelegraph, Tether CEO Paolo Ardoino stated that Tether's AI research team will release another breakthrough in the field of local AI this week.

According to Benchmark Studio, after the China Securities Regulatory Commission issued inquiries to multiple companies regarding overseas shareholding structures, Chinese tech startups such as Moonshot AI and DeepRoute.ai are evaluating the feasibility of relocating their company registration from overseas back to China. They are currently discussing related plans with lawyers and have not yet made a final decision. Shanghai AI model developer StepFun has taken the lead in initiating the process of dismantling its overseas shareholding structure to expedite the regulatory approval process for its Hong Kong IPO.The direct trigger for this tightening of regulations was Meta's acquisition of the AI agency Manus, founded by Chinese individuals, for $2 billion—relevant authorities have ordered the cancellation of this acquisition, leading to a systematic review by regulators of the "domestic operation, overseas registration" company model.Dismantling the red-chip structure is complex, typically taking six months to a year, involving multiple steps such as repurchasing offshore equity, establishing joint ventures, and investors re-entering shares. Additionally, the lock-up period for joint ventures listed in Hong Kong lasts up to 12 months, which is twice as long as that for ordinary red-chip stocks. Analysts point out that if the red-chip structure faces comprehensive restrictions, it will significantly weaken the ability of Chinese startups to obtain dollar financing from overseas.

TD Cowen pointed out that the disagreements surrounding the stablecoin yield mechanism remain difficult to bridge, which may delay the advancement of the U.S. crypto market structure bill and even affect its chances of passing within the year.Several banking organizations, including the American Bankers Association, have formally opposed the relevant compromise proposals, arguing that allowing crypto platforms to offer stablecoin yields to users would impact traditional banks. Analysts state that the positions of banks and crypto platforms on this issue are opposed, and in the short term, "there is unlikely to be a middle ground," which has become a key obstacle in the current legislative process.

According to information from the Hyperliquid testnet, the platform is testing new event contracts, including a 15-minute cryptocurrency rise and fall market.

According to SolanaFloor, the on-chain reinsurance company OnRe Finance has completed a $5 million financing round, led by Forward and Rockaway. The funds will be used to accelerate the development of on-chain reinsurance business on the Solana network.Forward plans to deploy up to $25 million in OnRe's ONyc token to gain exposure to tokenized reinsurance returns.