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According to an official announcement, Robinhood has received in-principle approval (IPA) from the Monetary Authority of Singapore (MAS) to launch brokerage services in Singapore, covering securities trading, exchange-traded derivatives, custody, product financing, and collective investment schemes. Robinhood stated that Singapore will serve as its Asia-Pacific headquarters to support its international expansion. Its subsidiary, Bitstamp Asia Pte. Ltd., already holds a Major Payment Institution (MPI) license issued by the MAS. Note that in-principle approval is not equivalent to a formal license; Robinhood Singapore Pte. Ltd. must still meet relevant conditions before receiving final approval to commence operations.
OKX has announced it will officially list the OPGUSDT perpetual swap on its web platform, App, and API at 17:00 (UTC+8) on April 23, 2026.According to available information, OpenGradient is a decentralized AI infrastructure designed to host, execute, and verify models.
According to the official announcement, HTX (formerly Huobi) has launched the OPG/USDT perpetual contract on April 23, with a maximum leverage of 20x. Meanwhile, HTX is hosting an OPG Contract Trading Party from 15:00 on April 23 to 15:00 on April 30 (UTC+8), with a total prize pool of up to $10,000. During the event, users who register and trade the OPG/USDT contract—achieving a cumulative effective trading volume of ≥$5,000—will share the prize pool based on their trading volume ranking. Additionally, new contract users who trade the OPG/USDT contract will receive exclusive benefits.
The report provides a comprehensive and in-depth analysis of USDD across multiple dimensions—including core competitive advantages, the full spectrum of its yield ecosystem, security architecture, and competitive landscape—and highly commends its sustainable yield ecosystem and differentiated advantages.
According to Bloomberg, SoftBank Group is seeking a $10 billion margin loan secured by its stake in OpenAI, with a two-year term and an option to extend for one additional year. This move aims to fund SoftBank’s continued expansion in the artificial intelligence sector.
According to CoinDesk, Input Output, the core development company behind Cardano, has submitted nine funding proposals totaling $46.8 million to the community treasury for fiscal year 2026—a sharp reduction of approximately 52% compared to last year’s $97.5 million—marking its first step toward gradually reducing reliance on community funds. The nine proposals center on two key initiatives: First, the Leios consensus upgrade, expected to boost Cardano’s transaction throughput by 10x to 65x and target over 1,000 transactions per second (TPS); testing is scheduled for June, with full deployment planned by year-end. Second, Pogun—a Bitcoin DeFi system enabling Bitcoin holders to borrow and earn yield via Cardano without entrusting assets to centralized custodians; its lending functionality is slated for public release in Q2. Voting is being conducted by roughly 1,000 democratically elected representatives (DReps), with ballots closing on May 24. The outcome will test whether the Cardano community now views Input Output as just another ordinary funding applicant. Meanwhile, Cardano’s newly launched stablecoin USDCx has achieved a circulating supply of 14.6 million tokens within weeks of launch, and the network’s total value locked (TVL) has risen from $137.5 million to $142.7 million.
Odaily News X Product Lead Nikita Bier announced in a post, "Today, we are announcing two product changes for Communities on X:1. XChat now supports joinable links for group chats. Create a public link and share it directly to the timeline. Each chat supports 350 members (and growing), and group chat links are the fastest way to bring people together on X.2. Due to declining usage, we will be deprecating X Communities on May 6th. To migrate your community members, pin your group chat link so people can join over the next 2 weeks. This is part of our broader effort to simplify the X experience. Please don't get it wrong: we are heavily investing in niche communities, through the launch of custom timelines—and more features to come."Subsequently, he added that based on user feedback, to give users ample migration time, the transition period will be extended until May 30th. Additionally, the group chat member limit will be increased to 500 tomorrow, with the goal of reaching 1000 members in the coming weeks. This should cover all communities on X except for a very few.
According to the official announcement, Bitget has launched U-quoted OPG perpetual contracts with leverage ranging from 1x to 20x. BOT contract trading will also be available simultaneously.
Odaily News According to an official announcement, BitMart will list Genius Terminal (GENIUS) at 12:00 (UTC+8) on April 23. The listing will open the GENIUS/USDT trading pair.Genius Terminal is the first privacy-focused ultimate on-chain trading terminal, representing the next-generation product following aggregators, cross-chain bridges, and wallet extensions. It is specifically designed for professional users who wish to enjoy DeFi functionalities without enduring cumbersome experiences. The platform eliminates the need for multiple authorization bridges or asset wrapping, features no signature pop-ups, and supports programmable trading strategies. It unifies spot trading, perpetual contracts, pre-launch tokens, and yield management within a single account. Orders are routed for execution across 150+ DEXs on 9 blockchains via the Genius Bridge Protocol. The Ghost Orders function can split a transaction across up to 500 wallets to achieve on-chain privacy protection. The project is backed by YZi Labs (formerly Binance Labs), with CZ serving as an advisor.
Odaily News Aurise Foundation announced the launch of the yield-bearing gold token XAUE on Ethereum, designed to serve as a yield-bearing treasury for Tether Gold (XAU₮). XAUE targets compliant institutional participants, introducing crypto-native yield to traditional non-yielding gold through quantitative strategies and institutional lending, transforming it into a programmable and capital-efficient on-chain asset.Current ecosystem partners Aurelion and Antalpha have jointly contributed 16,052 XAU₮ (approximately $76 million) to XAUE. The protocol employs an exchange rate growth model, where the gold value pegged to each XAUE increases as yields accumulate, and it will integrate with more decentralized finance protocols such as DEXs in the future.
According to CoinPost, at the “9th BCCC Collaborative Day” held on April 21, 2026, Mr. Shigeharu Shimizu, Chief of the Risk Analysis Division, General Policy Bureau of Japan’s Financial Services Agency (FSA), delivered a special keynote speech revealing significant progress in cryptocurrency regulation. The FSA has submitted a bill to the extraordinary Diet session proposing to transfer cryptocurrency assets from the Payment Services Act to the Financial Instruments and Exchange Act. The bill centers on four key regulatory enhancements: strengthened disclosure requirements, establishment of a new category for independent operators, stricter penalties for unregistered operators, and comprehensive insider trading regulations. Meanwhile, the FSA is advancing three “Payment Innovation Projects (PIPs)” pilot experiments: 1) A cross-border yen stablecoin payment trial involving Japan’s three major banks; 2) On-chain settlement of government bonds, social bonds, and equities using blockchain technology, aiming to enable 24/7 continuous trading; and 3) A bank-to-bank tokenized deposit transfer experiment, which received official support on April 3 this month and will be coordinated with the Bank of Japan’s central bank reserve tokenization sandbox initiative. Mr. Shimizu stated that blockchain holds tremendous potential to enhance the convenience and diversification of financial services, and the FSA will continue advancing institutional development and practical implementation support.
According to official news, BitMart has recently launched a TradFi aggregation page, consolidating various traditional financial assets such as stocks, indices, precious metals, forex, and commodities onto a single page. Users can now view market data, filter targets, and execute trades all within one interface, eliminating the need to switch between different sections.The page has undergone structural adjustments centered around multi-asset trading scenarios, unifying previously dispersed asset entry points and simplifying the trading path. By optimizing the page layout and operational logic, asset switching and order placement processes have become smoother, thereby enhancing overall trading efficiency to a certain extent.
Odaily News According to a post by the U.S. Department of State's Bureau of Consular Affairs on social media on the 22nd, American citizens in Iran should depart immediately, given that Iran has announced the partial reopening of its airspace. The post stated that the Bureau of Consular Affairs advises U.S. citizens to stay informed about the latest developments through local media and to consult commercial airlines for information on flights departing Iran. Additionally, American citizens can travel by land to Armenia, Azerbaijan, Turkey, and Turkmenistan but should avoid areas bordering Iran in Afghanistan, Iraq, or Pakistan. (Xinhua News Agency)
According to the official announcement, Upbit will list the SPK (Spark)/KRW trading pair.
According to The Wall Street Journal, Google plans to launch its eighth-generation TPU this week. According to insiders, Google has been developing chips dedicated to inference for years and has recently invited a small group of AI companies to test the chip’s performance.
According to Nikita Bier, Head of Product at X, the platform announced two community feature updates: First, it launched a “joinable link” feature for XChat group chats, enabling users to create public links and share them directly on their timelines; each group chat currently supports up to 350 members, with this cap set to increase continuously. Second, due to persistently declining usage, the X Communities feature will be officially discontinued on May 6. X recommends that current community admins pin their group chat links within the next two weeks to facilitate member migration. Nikita Bier stated that these changes are part of X’s broader initiative to streamline the product experience, and that the platform will continue investing in vertical communities through features such as Custom Timelines.
According to the Aave Governance Forum, Gordon Liao, a Circle team member, has submitted an ARFC proposal recommending a two-step adjustment to the USDC interest rate model parameters on Aave v3 Ethereum Core to address the current liquidity shortage in the USDC pool. Current context: Following the rsETH incident on April 18, the USDC pool utilization has remained persistently near 100%, with available liquidity falling below $3 million. The borrowing rate has been stuck at the 14% cap for an extended period, and the pool’s total supply has contracted by approximately $60 million over the past 24 hours. As a result, the market is unable to clear via price mechanisms. The proposal’s core measures are as follows: Step 1 (to be executed immediately by Risk Administrators): Increase Slope 2 from 10% to 40%, decrease the optimal utilization rate from 92% to 87%, and temporarily suspend the Slope 2 risk oracle for USDC. Step 2 (to be completed within 5–7 days via governance vote): Further increase Slope 2 to 50% and reduce the optimal utilization rate to 85%. The proposal argues that many current borrowers are insensitive to interest rates and primarily borrow to bypass withdrawal queues and exit positions. Active leverage, meanwhile, is key to attracting new suppliers. Raising the maximum supply rate to the 40%–50% range is expected to draw in USDC liquidity within hours, driving utilization below the kink point and restoring the market’s normal clearing functionality.
Dan Finlay, co-founder of MetaMask, announced today (April 23) that he has officially left ConsenSys, concluding over a decade of building MetaMask. He cited professional burnout and the need to spend more time with his family as reasons for his departure, and extended his best wishes for the team’s future development. Finlay also expressed satisfaction with MetaMask’s recent official launch of its advanced permissions feature (ERC-7715), noting that it fills a long-standing critical gap in the product—and said he looks forward to experiencing it as an ordinary user.
According to Protos, adult website Pornhub has stopped using Tether (USDT) for creator payout settlements and has switched to Circle-issued USDC. In an email sent to creators, Pornhub stated that this switch aims to make payout disbursements “more reliable” and emphasized that USDC is a fully reserved, compliant stablecoin adhering to the EU’s MiCA regulatory framework. Pornhub initially adopted USDT in 2020 after PayPal announced it would sever ties with the platform, leveraging TronLink—the crypto wallet owned by Justin Sun—to build its payment infrastructure. Following this latest switch, the aforementioned partnership has also been removed from Pornhub’s creator page.
According to Bloomberg, cryptocurrency venture capital firm Blockchain Capital is concurrently raising two new funds, with a combined target size of $700 million—its seventh early-stage fund and its second growth fund. Sources familiar with the matter revealed that the firm has already begun deploying part of the newly raised capital, and the entire fundraising round is expected to be completed within five to six months.