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Odaily News According to an official announcement, BitMart Futures will list IWNONUSDT, WFCONUSDT, IWFONUSDT, and ITAONUSDT perpetual contracts at 16:00 (UTC+8) on April 16, 2026, respectively, supporting up to 20x leverage.
BitMEX Research published an article proposing an alternative soft fork to BIP-361, suggesting that dormant bitcoins vulnerable to quantum attacks be frozen only upon confirmed existence of a quantum computer capable of stealing bitcoins. The proposal introduces a “canary fund” mechanism: a special bitcoin address whose private key is unknown but theoretically crackable by a sufficiently powerful quantum computer; users may donate BTC to this address as a bounty. If funds are spent from this address, it signals confirmed quantum threat and automatically triggers the freezing mechanism. BitMEX Research states that this proposal serves as a less contentious alternative to the more controversial BIP-361.
On-chain lending platform Votre has raised $3.75 million in seed funding, led by a16z Crypto Startup Accelerator, with participation from MaC Venture Capital, Druid Ventures, and angel investors from Goldman Sachs, Harvard University, and OrangeDAO. Founded in 2025, Votre operates a non-custodial crypto lending platform on Coinbase’s Base Layer 2 network, enabling users to borrow USD—settled the same day—using Bitcoin as collateral, with loan sizes ranging from approximately $25,000 to $5 million. The funds will be used to scale technical infrastructure, increase platform capacity, enhance liquidity management tools, and strengthen risk and compliance systems.
CoW Swap announced on X that it has regained control of the cow.fi domain and has been operating normally on cow.finance for some time, with a gradual transition back to the original domain now underway. The official statement explained that on April 14, attackers deceived the DNS registrar with forged documents to seize control of the cow.fi domain. They then deployed a highly realistic phishing site in two stages: first, luring users into signing malicious transactions via a wallet drainer; second, stealing seed phrases and passwords through fake wallet pop-ups. This attack targeted the domain registrar—not CoW Swap’s own infrastructure or private key security. Affected users should revoke all approvals using tools such as Revoke.cash and consider transferring funds to a new wallet.
The token permission checker Revoke.cash has launched a portal to identify addresses affected by CoW Swap. Users can enter an address in the portal to check whether it is impacted by unrevoked approvals. Earlier, CoW Swap’s Technical Lead Felix Leupold tweeted that CoW Swap’s frontend has been restored and is now accessible at swap.cow.finance. He reminded users that approvals were only granted to the original GPv2VaultRelayer contract address.
According to the official announcement, to meet market demand for trading U.S. equities in AI-related sectors, Bitget Stock Contracts have launched six popular underlying assets: AMD (Advanced Micro Devices), AMAT (Applied Materials), SNDK (SanDisk), STX (Seagate Technology), LITE (Lumentum), and FLY (Firefly Aerospace)—covering areas including chips, semiconductor equipment, and memory storage. These contracts support up to 20x leverage. For more details, please visit the official Bitget platform.
Odaily News Anthropic has decided to restrict the public release of its Mythos model due to its highly automated cyber attack capabilities. Reports indicate that during internal testing, the model was already capable of independently completing vulnerability discovery and exploitation processes, and generating multi-step attack plans.Informed sources stated that in early testing, Mythos could autonomously build intrusion tools targeting Linux systems and, with guidance, execute complex vulnerability chain attacks. These capabilities were assessed as potentially posing risks to global infrastructure.Anthropic's management ultimately positioned Mythos as a cyber defense tool and opened it for testing to select institutions in a restricted manner. Industry insiders pointed out that similar models could significantly enhance the efficiency of cyber offense and defense, while also potentially introducing new security challenges. (Bloomberg)
Circle CEO Jeremy Allaire stated that Circle has expanded its collaboration with Dunamu—the operator of Upbit—to support the compliant adoption of digital assets, and broadened its partnership with Bithumb to strengthen stablecoin infrastructure and raise market awareness of stablecoins. Allaire noted that South Korea is rapidly advancing regulation for stablecoins and digital assets, and that local cryptocurrency adoption rates are high. During his time in Seoul, he also met with representatives from KakaoGroup, Coinone, Hashed, Shinhan Bank, KB Financial Group, and Woori Bank.
Trent.eth, a member of the Ethereum Foundation, posted on X stating that he is no longer affiliated with the EF as of last Friday. He expressed respect for his collaborators across the team over the past five years on network upgrades and funding support efforts. Trent Van Epps also noted that, subject to available funding, he will continue participating in the Protocol Guild and work related to Ethereum’s political economy.
According to the official announcement, Binance Futures will launch the GENIUS/USDT perpetual contract (USDⓈ-margined) on April 16, 2026, at 11:30 AM (UTC+8), offering up to 20x leverage. Copy trading will be supported for this contract within 24 hours of its launch.
Odaily News According to an official announcement, Binance Futures will launch the GENIUSUSDT U-based perpetual contract at 11:30 (UTC+8) on April 16, 2026. This contract supports up to 20x leverage. Copy trading for this contract will be available within 24 hours of its launch.
ether.fi announced that its migration to the OP mainnet is complete. Currently, more than 70,000 active cards, over 300,000 accounts, and a total value locked (TVL) exceeding $220 million are live on Optimism.
Odaily News As the U.S. midterm elections approach, the White House is accelerating efforts to promote a crypto market structure bill to ease the long-standing disputes between the banking industry and the crypto sector.Reports indicate that multiple parties, including Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent, White House crypto advisor Patrick Witt, and related policy figures, have recently publicly called for advancing this bill. The U.S. Council of Economic Advisers has also released a report addressing the banking industry's concerns about the crypto sector.Analysts suggest that, based on the timing, the current period may be a critical window for promoting relevant legislation, but uncertainty remains regarding whether the bill can be smoothly passed. (The Hill)
Odaily News Stanford University's "2026 AI Index Report" reveals that the overall electricity demand of current AI systems is already close to half the scale of Bitcoin mining and approaches the national electricity consumption levels of Switzerland or Austria.The report points out that the gap in AI model capabilities between China and the United States is narrowing. In 2025, the U.S. launched approximately 50 representative models, while China launched about 30. Models from institutions such as Anthropic, xAI, Google, OpenAI, Alibaba, and DeepSeek are within the same capability tier.Furthermore, China leads in terms of AI paper citation share (20.6%) and patent quantity (74.2%), while private AI investment in the United States reached $285.9 billion, significantly higher than China's $12.4 billion.
According to Cointelegraph, Fireblocks, an enterprise-grade digital asset infrastructure platform, has launched a new feature called Earn, enabling institutional clients to allocate stablecoin balances into on-chain lending strategies supported by Aave and Morpho to improve the efficiency of idle capital utilization. The product’s initial integrations include the Morpho vaults curated by Sentora and the Aave stablecoin lending markets, and it is now available to Fireblocks customers via Early Access. Fireblocks notes that yields are generated by the underlying protocols and are variable—not guaranteed—and may be zero. Data shows that Aave and Morpho are currently the two largest decentralized lending protocols by total value locked (TVL).
Odaily News Arweave's computing platform AO has announced the launch of the Alpha phase of its Network Availability Staking Program (NASA). Node operators can earn AO rewards by running HyperBEAM nodes to provide data services for AO and Arweave gateways.It is reported that the rewards are related to the volume of gateway requests processed by the nodes. This program aims to enhance the decentralization and network stability of the permaweb infrastructure.
Odaily News Kalshi has launched a 24/7 commodity market, providing price prediction services for commodities including crude oil, diesel, gold, silver, copper, lithium, natural gas, sugar, soybeans, wheat, corn, coffee, cocoa, live cattle, and more.
According to Cointelegraph, Denmark’s central bank, Danmarks Nationalbank, published a staff paper stating that only 4% of Danish citizens hold cryptocurrency—a figure unchanged since 2023 and lower than that of other European countries such as Norway, Finland, and the UK, where ownership exceeds 10%. The survey found that most holders own less than 10,000 Danish kroner (DKK) in crypto assets, with total holdings estimated between $317 million and $847 million. The report attributes the limited adoption of cryptocurrency in Denmark to the central bank’s long-standing cautious stance, tax-related considerations, and concerns about risk. Crypto holders are predominantly young and high-income individuals, and the primary use case remains investment rather than payments.
According to GlobeNewswire, Solv Protocol announced a strategic integration with Utexo to launch a native Bitcoin yield solution built on the RGB protocol and the Lightning Network. This solution enables atomic swaps between native BTC and USDT—without wrapping, cross-chain bridges, or custodians. It emphasizes self-custody, privacy protection, and final settlement, aligning with Tether’s prior announcement of natively issuing USDT on an RGB-compatible Lightning Network. Additionally, Solv participated as a strategic angel investor in Utexo’s $7.5 million seed funding round, led by Tether.
According to Crowdfund Insider, Circle has launched a new solution for high-frequency cross-chain USDC payments. Developers can leverage the Cross-Chain Transfer Protocol (CCTP) to enable local fulfillment providers to front-pay on the recipient’s designated chain, with the platform subsequently performing batch cross-chain settlement. This model reduces operational overhead associated with individual cross-chain transfers and is suitable for platforms processing large volumes of payments daily. Compared to the traditional CCTP process—which requires individual USDC burn-and-mint operations per transfer—the new solution supports batch settlement, reducing the number of burns on the source chain and eliminating the need for signature infrastructure on the destination chain. Circle also demonstrated the workflow using the Arc Testnet and Ethereum Sepolia.