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Aave announced that its ecosystem partners and service providers will establish a recovery fund to promote the full asset backing of rsETH. This plan has comprehensively considered the pending Aave DAO governance votes (including the Arbitrum governance vote), indicative protocols, and subsequent successful execution. Aave stated that it has reached an agreement with KelpDAO and LayerZero on the technical steps required to execute the recovery plan, and related work is progressing. Addressing the issues of affected users and maintaining the stability of the broader DeFi ecosystem are the current top priorities. The final recovery plan, user action steps, and further updates will be announced in the near future.
Odaily, an Iranian diplomatic official stated that delegations from Iran and the United States may hold a second round of negotiations in the coming days. It is understood that Iran has conveyed a message to the US side, urging US President Trump to reduce threatening rhetoric, and indicating that if the US stance softens, hardliners within Iran are more likely to support participation in the talks. (CCTV News)
Odaily Seer monitoring shows that in the Polymarket "NBA Playoffs Western Conference First Round G4 Timberwolves vs. Nuggets" prediction event, an account with a 63% win rate (address: 0x9495425feeb0c250accb89275c97587011b19a27) purchased $310,000 on Timberwolves beating Nuggets, with an average entry price of 48¢.NBA Playoffs Western Conference First Round G4 Timberwolves vs. Nuggets will tip off at 8:30 AM Beijing time today. The series currently stands at 2-1, with the Timberwolves leading. According to the Nuggets' official injury report, Aaron Gordon (calf injury) has been upgraded to questionable. In the previous game, Gordon was sidelined due to injury, and the Nuggets lost 96-113 to the Timberwolves.Odaily Seer keeps a close watch on prediction markets, seeing the change before the price is set.
According to official announcements, the 17th round of USDD 2.0 supply mining is now live on the JustLend DAO platform. This round runs from 20:00 (Singapore Time) on April 25, 2026, to 19:59:59 (Singapore Time) on May 23, offering a dynamically adjusted annualized yield of approximately 4.25%. Rewards are distributed weekly in USDD. Users can participate in mining by depositing USDD—everyone is welcome to join and continuously earn returns for effortless asset appreciation.
the CFTC has filed a lawsuit in the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of New York, aiming to prevent New York state from enforcing its gambling laws on federally regulated prediction market platforms. The CFTC argues that federal law grants it exclusive regulatory authority over such markets and is seeking a permanent injunction against New York's enforcement actions. CFTC Chairman Michael Selig stated that registered exchanges face multiple state-level lawsuits, which undermine the CFTC's sole regulatory authority over prediction markets. Previously, New York state had sued Binance and Gemini, alleging their products violated state gambling rules, and had also requested Kalshi to cease certain sports-related contracts. Currently, 37 states and Washington D.C. have submitted amicus briefs supporting Massachusetts' enforcement against Kalshi, arguing that federal law has not legalized sports betting and has not abolished the states' historical regulatory powers.
According to SolanaFloor, Minhdonz, Product Lead of Drift, announced on the project’s official Discord that Drift has recently updated its relaunch timeline and plans to reintroduce its forked exchange in May or June this year. Previously, Drift suffered a severe hack involving approximately $285 million—reportedly linked to a social engineering attack by a North Korean hacker group.
According to Cointelegraph, Brazilian authorities have announced the blocking of 27 prediction market platforms, including Kalshi, Polymarket, PredictIt, Robinhood’s prediction feature, and Fanatics Markets. The ban is led by the Ministry of Finance and enforced by the National Telecommunications Agency (Anatel), based on Resolution No. 5,298 issued by Brazil’s National Monetary Council (CMN) on April 25, and will officially take effect in early May. The new regulation explicitly prohibits prediction contracts tied to sports, politics, entertainment, or social events, deeming them closer in nature to gambling than financial investment; only contracts linked to economic indicators—such as inflation, interest rates, exchange rates, and commodity prices—are permitted. Dario Durigan, Executive Secretary of the Ministry of Finance, stated that prediction markets could exacerbate debt burdens for households and small- and medium-sized enterprises, posing financial risks. Similar restrictions have already been adopted by several countries, including France, Belgium, and the Netherlands.
According to CoinDesk, while quantum computers cannot break Bitcoin’s mining mechanism or blockchain ledger, they could potentially crack the elliptic curve cryptography (ECC) that secures wallet ownership—using Shor’s algorithm. Currently, approximately 6.9 million BTC—roughly one-third of the total supply—are at potential risk because their public keys are already visible on-chain; this includes Satoshi Nakamoto’s estimated early holdings of about 1 million BTC. Transactions generated after Ethereum’s 2021 Taproot upgrade are similarly exposed due to public key disclosure. Ethereum has maintained an official post-quantum migration plan since 2018, with four full-time teams and over ten independent development groups, and operates a dedicated progress website at pq.ethereum.org. In contrast, Bitcoin currently lacks a unified roadmap for quantum resistance: existing proposals such as BIP-360 and BitMEX Research’s detection framework have not gained broad support among core developers. Prominent Bitcoin advocate Nic Carter has bluntly labeled Bitcoin’s quantum response “the worst,” while Blockstream CEO Adam Back acknowledges that current quantum systems remain confined to laboratory settings—but still endorses deploying optional upgrade paths in advance. Analysts note that Bitcoin’s decentralized governance culture makes coordinating large-scale security upgrades extremely difficult, and resolving historical issues—such as how to handle Satoshi’s holdings—presents a particularly thorny dilemma. A related Google paper warns that once quantum attacks become feasible, the window for effective response may already have closed.
According to an official announcement, SEALCOIN has officially launched its early access campaign, “Spacedrop,” designed to provide users with an opportunity to engage with the SEALCOIN ecosystem before its full launch. Users can participate by completing tasks, earning points, minting Soulbound Tokens (SBTs), and gaining hands-on experience with the protocol’s mechanics.It is reported that SEALCOIN is an infrastructure-focused project that integrates satellite communications with blockchain technology, aiming to enable secure and autonomous interactions between devices and digital services. By combining hardware-level identity authentication with a global connectivity layer, the project seeks to support real-world M2M (Machine-to-Machine) applications across multiple industries.
According to Odaily, independent researcher Giancarlo Lelli was awarded the Q-Day Prize and 1 Bitcoin by quantum security startup Project Eleven for successfully cracking the encryption keys protecting Bitcoin. Giancarlo Lelli utilized publicly available quantum hardware and a variant of Shor's algorithm to crack a 15-bit encryption key among 32,767 possibilities. The difficulty of this quantum attack is 512 times greater than the 6-bit key record set in September 2025. Project Eleven CEO Alex Pruden stated that the resource requirements for such attacks continue to decline, with approximately 6.9 million Bitcoins currently held in vulnerable static addresses, including 1 million Bitcoins owned by Satoshi Nakamoto. The Bitcoin network has proposed BIP-360 to introduce quantum-resistant address types, while platforms such as Ethereum, Ripple, and Tron have also begun releasing plans for transitioning to post-quantum defenses.
According to a report released by a16z crypto researchers Robert Hackett and Jeremy Zhang, stablecoins are evolving from early-stage tools for trading and savings into core financial infrastructure. On the regulatory front, the U.S. GENIUS Act has established the first federal framework for stablecoin issuance. Although the European Union’s MiCA regulation—after coming into effect—led to the delisting of USDT from several exchanges, it has instead spurred sustained demand for non-U.S. dollar stablecoins, with monthly trading volume remaining steady in the $15–25 billion range. In terms of usage, consumer-to-business (C2B) stablecoin transaction volume grew 128% year-on-year in 2025, reaching 284.6 million transactions. Stablecoin velocity rose from 2.6x in early 2024 to 6x, indicating that existing supply is now being used more frequently for payments rather than held as savings. After excluding transactional and financial flow activity, an estimated $350–550 billion in stablecoin value in 2025 was attributable to genuine payment use cases. Geographically, nearly two-thirds of stablecoin payment volume originates from Asia (primarily Singapore, Hong Kong, and Japan), roughly one-quarter comes from North America, and approximately 13% from Europe. Notably, cross-border transaction share has actually declined, while domestic transactions have risen from ~50% in early 2024 to nearly 75% by early 2026. The BRL-pegged stablecoin BRLA, for example, now sees monthly transfers totaling approximately $400 million—evidence of the growing adoption of localized stablecoin payments.
Bitcoin developer Paul Sztorc has announced the official launch of the Bitcoin hard fork network eCash in August this year. BTC holders will be able to exchange BTC for eCash at a 1:1 ratio after the hard fork goes live. It is reported that the Layer1 node software of the network will be a "near copy" of the Bitcoin Core client, continuing to use the SHA-256 hashing algorithm, with a reduced initial mining difficulty to attract more miners to participate. Additionally, eCash will be equipped with seven Layer2 scaling networks called "drivechains" to increase transaction throughput and support optional on-chain privacy features.Paul Sztorc stated that eCash differs from Bitcoin Cash in 2017, as it will no longer use the "Bitcoin" branding, positioning it as a long-term solution to Bitcoin's scalability and privacy issues. However, his proposal to manually redistribute a portion of Satoshi Nakamoto's approximately 1.1 million BTC to early investors has sparked strong controversy within the community. Some Bitcoin supporters criticize the move as potentially constituting "theft" and undermining Bitcoin's principles. (Cointelegraph)
Bitdeer, a Nasdaq-listed Bitcoin mining company, posted its latest Bitcoin holdings data on X. For the week ending April 24, its Bitcoin mining output totaled 185.7 BTC, while it sold 185.7 BTC during the same period—resulting in a net addition of 0 BTC. It continues to hold zero Bitcoin.
X’s chat app, XChat, is now available for download and installation on the App Store. XChat allows users to log in directly using their X account—no phone number or email required. It employs end-to-end encryption, ensuring messages are visible only to the two participants; the platform cannot read them. XChat also supports self-destructing messages and transmission of any file type.
: US Commerce Secretary Howard Lutnick stated during a congressional hearing that President Trump's "Gold Card" visa program has only approved one applicant to date. The program is seen as a replacement for the traditional EB-5 immigrant investor program. It allows foreigners to legally live and work in the US by paying at least $1 million, with a path to citizenship. Additionally, companies can pay $2 million per foreign employee, along with a 1% annual maintenance fee.Howard Lutnick previously claimed that the program had sold $1.3 billion worth of slots within days of its launch and anticipated it could generate $1 trillion in revenue to help alleviate the US fiscal deficit. Although only one person has been officially approved so far, Lutnick stated that hundreds of other applicants are still under review. (Fortune)
as of the close of US stocks on April 24, Nvidia's stock price rose over 4%, pushing its market cap above $5 trillion. This marks the first time in nearly six months, since late October last year, that Nvidia's market cap has surpassed $5 trillion again.A report released by Stanford University last week mentioned the rapid adoption of AI. The report stated that AI is being adopted at an unprecedented rate, with the adoption rate of generative AI reaching 53%, faster than the adoption speed of personal computers and the internet. However, DeepSeek released its new model, DeepSeek-V4, which features a million-character ultra-long context and achieves leading performance in China and the open-source field in terms of agent capabilities, world knowledge, and reasoning ability. This model was developed in collaboration with Huawei Ascend. The cooperation and adaptation of cutting-edge models with domestic computing power providers are expected to promote the use of domestic computing power, which objectively also poses a challenge to Nvidia. (Yicai Global)
According to Russian crypto media Bits.media, Central Bank of Russia Governor Elvira Nabiullina stated at a press conference that the core use case of the digital ruble is to automate monitoring of state contract expenditures, replacing the current manual review process. She emphasized that the digital ruble offers no greater transparency than existing non-cash rubles, and that monitoring individual payments constitutes a “misunderstanding.” Nabiullina also pledged that the central bank would neither mandate citizens to open digital ruble accounts nor compel their usage, and plans to open public self-service access starting in September, promoting voluntary adoption by highlighting its advantages. Previously, the Central Bank of Russia had updated the rules governing the opening of digital ruble accounts for both enterprises and individuals.
Musk's X Chat messaging app has officially launched on Apple iOS and is now available for use. The app supports X account login, end-to-end encrypted chat, screen recording blocking, and cross-device voice or video calls. It also allows users to delete messages for everyone, enable chat self-destruction after reading, or set messages to auto-disappear. (TechCrunch)
Aave posted on platform X, stating that its service provider has published an Aave DAO governance proposal. The proposal suggests allocating 25,000 ETH to participate in the ongoing "DeFi United" initiative. This ETH allocation will be used to support the asset backing of rsETH, helping it restore its peg as soon as possible and promoting the normalization of market conditions. This proposal aims to accelerate the risk management process for rsETH and stabilize the related DeFi market ecosystem through financial support at the Aave DAO level.
Josh (@devjoshstevens), Engineering Vice President at Polymarket, publicly acknowledged that the platform’s business growth has significantly outpaced its current infrastructure capacity and announced a series of technical improvement initiatives. These include: rebuilding the CLOB (centralized limit order book) to enhance performance and stability; migrating to a new blockchain to secure additional block space, reduce gas fees, and shorten block times; fixing transaction cancellation issues; launching a unified TypeScript SDK and unified API; developing a new version of the Polymarket smart contracts with expanded functionality; and building a new perpetuals (Perps) backend entirely in Rust. Additionally, the team is hiring new leads for QA automation, developer tools, internal tools, and data engineering. It will also continue collaborating with four security teams to safeguard user funds.