ChainCatcher news, according to sources, the broker Hidden Road, which focuses on both crypto and traditional assets, is in talks with a crypto company regarding an acquisition, with investment bank FT Partners providing advisory services. It is still unclear whether the deal will be finalized, and Hidden Road has not responded to this.Hidden Road has raised approximately $50 million in the past year, with investors including Dragonfly Capital. There are reports that one of the investors has expressed interest in acquiring the company. Previous reports indicated that the company is considering a sale or financing, with a valuation potentially exceeding $1 billion.

ChainCatcher news, Justin Sun stated in his live broadcast, "TrueCoin is suspected of colluding with institutions such as FDT to transfer $456 million in TUSD legal reserves to a private company in Dubai wholly owned by the wife of the aforementioned Cayman fund investment manager through false documents and unauthorized transfers. FDT and Legacy Trust CEO and Director Vincent Chok directly approved these illegal transactions, which seriously violate fiduciary duties."

ChainCatcher news, according to Bloomberg, the South African Revenue Service is strengthening its regulation of participants in cryptocurrency transactions. South African Revenue Service Commissioner Edward Kieswetter stated that the agency requires all taxpayers, exchanges, and other intermediaries engaged in cryptocurrency transactions to register with the tax authorities, or they will be considered illegal. Once registered, the tax authorities will be able to track their business activities.

ChainCatcher News, U.S. President Trump stated that he will impose a 20% retaliatory tariff on each EU country and a 24% tariff on goods imported from Japan (Jin Ten)

ChainCatcher news, the token issuance platform CoinList announced that it will hold a token sale event for DoubleZero. The DoubleZero token, named 2Z, will be offered to qualified investors in the United States. This is also the first time in over five years that CoinList has offered tokens to participants in the U.S. (the last time was the Kadena token sale in 2019).

ChainCatcher message, Binance co-founder He Yi posted: "No one knows that Sun Yuchen will tweet in the middle of the night, but Binance pushed the stablecoin for Launchpool and will regularly check the funds. Binance has its own risk control. Binance post-listing is also looking for FDUSD, trying to understand the situation; we are just making judgments based on logic. There is no large holder group, nor insider group. Many people are asking if the FDUSD in Binance Launchpool will have issues. Sisi (Binance market personnel) casually replied to my judgment in a certain group; my judgment does not represent the FDUSD company."

ChainCatcher message, Binance co-founder He Yi stated: "No one knows that Sun Yuchen will tweet in the middle of the night, but Binance pushed the stablecoin for Launchpool and will regularly check the funds. Binance has its own risk control. Binance post-listing is also looking for fdusd, trying to understand the situation; we are just making judgments based on logic. There is no large holder group, nor insider group. Many people are asking whether Binance Launchpool's FDUSD will have issues. Sisi (Binance customer service) casually replied to my judgment in a certain group; my judgment does not represent the FDUSD company."

ChainCatcher news, according to the post-mortem report released by ACT officials, the ACT token experienced a significant drop in the past 24 hours, stemming from Binance's sudden adjustment of multi-currency leverage and margin rules, including ACT, between March 31 and April 1, which forced a large number of high-leverage positions to be liquidated, creating selling pressure.According to Binance's preliminary investigation, 4 users (including 3 VIPs) collectively sold over 1 million USD worth of ACT, triggering a chain liquidation. The team emphasized that there are no technical or internal control issues with the ACT project itself and will continue to focus on building AI and decentralized infrastructure, with progress to be announced at Token2049 at the end of the month.

ChainCatcher news, according to CoinDesk, Aave's parent company Avara announced that its Family self-custody wallet now supports registration via email or SMS, eliminating the need for a mnemonic phrase, enhancing user experience. The wallet supports asset management across EVM chains and strengthens security by combining device keys such as fingerprint and facial recognition. Avara also launched the development tool ConnectKit to facilitate third-party integration with the Family Wallet.

ChainCatcher news, according to the official announcement, the Japanese listed game developer enish has announced the incorporation of Bitcoin into its financial strategy, planning to purchase Bitcoin worth 100 million yen (approximately 670,000 USD) between April 1 and April 4.It is reported that the company's Bitcoin purchases are positioned as an important component of its overall financial strategy.

ChainCatcher news, according to Bitcoin Magazine, the board of the Indian listed company Jerking has approved raising funds to purchase Bitcoin.

ChainCatcher news, according to Nikkei, Sumitomo Mitsui Financial Group will jointly develop a stablecoin pegged to fiat currency with American companies. The group will collaborate with two companies: one is the Avalanche development team Ava Labs, and the other is Fireblocks, which develops digital asset management systems.In addition, the infrastructure for the stablecoin will also be developed in conjunction with the local IT company TIS, with plans to conduct empirical experiments in the second half of the fiscal year 2025. The demand in areas such as inter-company payments will be a key focus of exploration, with further advancements expected around the fiscal year 2026.

ChainCatcher message, due to the high uncertainty surrounding U.S. tariff policy direction and potential market reactions, the panic index VIX rose to a two-week high of 24.80 on Monday and closed at 22.77 on Tuesday.Mark Spindel, Chief Investment Officer of Potomac River Capital LLC, stated: "I think the market is indeed holding its breath." He expects this "fear gauge" could rise towards the 30 mark. This level typically indicates that the market has entered a high-risk aversion mode.

ChainCatcher news, according to the Hong Kong Stock Exchange announcement, the Hong Kong listed company Zhongze Feng has released its annual performance announcement for 2024, disclosing that its subsidiary Atlantic Asset Management Limited has been approved by the Hong Kong Securities and Futures Commission to allow Zhongze Feng's managed funds to invest no more than 10% of the assets under management (AUM) in virtual assets.

ChainCatcher news, TensorOpera AI, another company co-founded by ChainOpera co-founder Salman and Aiden, has reached a strategic partnership with Samsung Electronics, showcasing groundbreaking innovations in multimodal generative AI applications on mobile devices.At CES 2025, TensorOpera AI announced its strategic collaboration with Samsung Electronics to achieve breakthrough applications of multimodal AI on mobile devices based on the Exynos processor. This technology enables low-latency, high-performance AI Agent operations on smartphones by optimizing Android applications and C++ inference pipelines, while ensuring privacy and personalized services.As a company within the ChainOpera ecosystem, TensorOpera shares its founding team and technical architecture, utilizing edge-cloud collaborative technology to reduce AI service costs to 10% of the industry standard. Currently, ChainOpera's AI Terminal has served over a million users, achieving cloud-edge-device three-tier linkage driven by LLM."We are pushing the potential of edge-cloud collaboration to the extreme," said co-founder Salman. The two companies are leveraging a hybrid edge-cloud architecture, combining blockchain and decentralized AI technologies to continuously expand the boundaries of edge intelligence. This collaboration marks a new phase in the large-scale application of mobile AI Agent technology.

ChainCatcher news, according to Decrypt, JPMorgan stated in a report on Tuesday that Bitcoin miners continue to face challenges, with 14 listed mining companies in the sector collectively experiencing the worst month on record in March. The Bitcoin miners tracked, including companies like MARA and Core Scientific, saw their total market capitalization shrink by 25% last month, amounting to approximately $6 billion.Additionally, the report indicated that companies with high-performance computing businesses "underperformed pure Bitcoin miners for the second consecutive month." JPMorgan's data shows that these 14 listed mining companies also performed poorly in February, when their total market capitalization lost over 20%, also approximately $6 billion.

ChainCatcher news, according to Bloomberg, the cryptocurrency mining company American Bitcoin, announced this week by Hut 8 and an investor team that includes U.S. President Trump's son, plans to seek a public listing.Hut 8 CEO Asher Genoot stated in a Bloomberg television interview on Tuesday that the company will also seek additional private funding. He mentioned that in the long term, this will form two publicly listed companies: one focused on energy, infrastructure, and data centers, and the other focused on Bitcoin, mining machines, and reserves. These two companies will together form a vertically integrated enterprise with excellent economic benefits.

ChainCatcher news, BlackRock has obtained approval from the UK's Financial Conduct Authority (FCA) to register as a cryptocurrency company, which means this investment giant can offer crypto services in the UK.According to the regulator's website, on April 1, BlackRock became the 51st cryptocurrency asset company registered with the agency, joining the ranks of companies like Coinbase, PayPal, and Revolut. The agency has faced criticism from the crypto industry in the past for approving only about 14% of registration applications, and the FCA stated on its website: "We rejected submissions that did not contain the key components required for assessment, or submissions that were invalid due to poor quality of key components."

ChainCatcher news, according to CoinDesk, Clear Street pointed out in its latest research report that Bitcoin mining company Hut 8 may divest its subsidiary American Bitcoin Corp, established in collaboration with the Trump family, to focus on high-margin data center hosting business and is considering acquiring a hyperscaler.The agency has given Hut 8 a "buy" rating with a target price of $23.