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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.
According to The Block, Jaret Seiberg, Managing Director of the Washington Research Group at investment bank TD Cowen, stated that stablecoin yield issues are not the sole obstacle to the passage of the Clarity Act—and cited the following five additional hurdles: 1. A severe shortage of Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC) commissioners: only Chairman Michael Selig remains in office, and the process to appoint new commissioners could take several months, while the bill must complete its review by the end of July; 2. Complex regulatory questions surrounding prediction markets—including concerns about insider trading and potential conflicts of interest involving the Trump family—which may prompt Democratic lawmakers to withdraw their support via related amendments; 3. Ongoing controversy surrounding World Liberty Financial, a cryptocurrency project affiliated with the Trump family, increasing political resistance from Democrats toward supporting the bill; 4. Reports indicating Iran is discussing requiring vessels transiting the Strait of Hormuz to pay tolls in cryptocurrency—a development that could trigger contentious anti-money laundering (AML) amendments, potentially serving as a “poison pill” for the bill; 5. Risk that the Credit Card Competition Act could be attached to the Clarity Act, jeopardizing the entire bill’s progress. Regarding stablecoin yield issues, Senator Thom Tillis indicated that the Senate Banking Committee will not vote on the bill until as early as May. TD Cowen maintains its assessment that the bill has approximately a one-in-three chance of passing this year, while Galaxy Digital estimates the probability at roughly 50%.
Coinbase announced support for Fluent (BLEND); deposit addresses are now available on its platform (in supported regions), but deposits cannot be made until the asset issuer enables transfers.
Odaily News: New York State Governor Kathy Hochul signed an executive order on Wednesday prohibiting state government employees from using non-public information to trade in prediction markets or assisting others in profiting from it. This move aims to address growing concerns over "insider betting" in prediction markets.According to the executive order, all government officials appointed by the governor or under her jurisdiction, as well as members of public agencies, are prohibited from using any non-public information obtained in the course of their duties to seek profits or avoid losses in prediction markets or similar services. They are also barred from assisting others in such activities. The governor mentioned in the document that the current "rapid expansion of prediction markets" has drawn regulatory attention.The day before, Illinois Governor JB Pritzker also issued a similar executive order, banning state government personnel from using non-public information to participate in prediction market betting.Meanwhile, prediction market platform Kalshi disclosed that it has launched investigations into three insider trading cases involving candidates and has imposed fines and trading suspensions on the relevant individuals. One of those penalized is Mark Moran, a candidate in the Virginia State Senate Democratic primary, who was penalized for betting on his own campaign and stated he "hoped to be caught."
Odaily Seer Channel monitoring shows that in the Polymarket prediction event "Trump will continue blocking the Strait of Hormuz before April 30," an account with an 81% win rate (@Pajamapants) purchased $40,000 in "Trump will not stop blocking the Strait of Hormuz before April 30," with an average opening price of 68.5¢.The specific rules are: If President Trump, the U.S. government, or the military publicly and formally announces the end of the blockade of the Strait of Hormuz by the specified date (11:59 PM Eastern Time), the market will resolve to "Yes." Otherwise, the market will ultimately resolve to "No." The qualifying statement must be clear and explicitly indicate that the U.S. has lifted, ended, will lift, or will end the blockade of the Strait of Hormuz by the specified date, or use equivalent clear language explicitly stating that the blockade has stopped or will stop by the specified date (e.g., a statement explicitly indicating that U.S. Navy activities in the relevant area have ceased qualifies). Statements merely describing actions inconsistent with the blockade (e.g., "Iran resumes shipping through the Strait of Hormuz") without explicitly stating the blockade is lifted are insufficient. Informal announcements, statements from anonymous sources, or leaks do not qualify. Written public statements by Donald Trump (e.g., posts on his personal Truth Social account) will qualify. Videos posted on his social media will also qualify for a "Yes" resolution. The primary resolution source for this market will be official statements from the U.S. government and/or its official representatives; however, credible consensus reporting may also be used. Note: This market will be resolved solely based on whether a qualifying announcement is made within the specified timeframe. Whether the blockade is effectively enforced or maritime traffic resumes, in the absence of a qualifying announcement, will not be considered.Odaily Seer Channel continues to monitor prediction markets, seeing changes before they are priced in.
Odaily News Binance announced the launch of an Alpha page, designed to showcase the Alpha points mechanism, historical Alpha event return performance, and relevant data on the subsequent listing progress of related tokens on Binance.This page will serve as a centralized portal for Alpha-related information, allowing users to view historical performance and participation details.
Odaily News: Zixuan Li, Product Lead at Zhipu, posted on the X platform stating that OpenClaw, Hermes, and SillyTavern have been explicitly marked as projects supported by the GLM Coding Plan. Other general-purpose tools will be analyzed on a case-by-case basis. Furthermore, Zixuan Li reminded users not to share accounts or use subscriptions as APIs. If users encounter error 1313 while complying with the rules, they can contact the official team for feedback.
According to an official announcement, OpenAI has released the open-source weight model Privacy Filter, designed to detect and redact personally identifiable information (PII) in text. The model supports local execution and can identify and anonymize long texts in a single forward pass, handling contexts of up to 128,000 tokens. Privacy Filter has a total parameter count of 1.5 billion, with 50 million active parameters, and can identify sensitive information including private names, addresses, email addresses, phone numbers, URLs, dates, account numbers, passwords, and API keys. OpenAI states that the model is released under the Apache 2.0 license on Hugging Face and GitHub, and is suitable for privacy-preserving workflows such as training, indexing, logging, and auditing.
Binance Futures will launch the OPG/USDT perpetual contract on April 22, 2026, at 23:30 (UTC+8), with up to 20x leverage. The contract supports the multi-asset margin mode and will enable copy trading within 24 hours of listing.
Odaily News According to an official announcement, Binance Futures will launch the OPGUSDT perpetual contract at 15:30 (UTC) on April 22, 2026, with support for up to 20x leverage. The contract will support the Multi-Assets Mode and will open Copy Trading for the contract within 24 hours of its launch.
According to Decrypt, American Bitcoin, a mining company affiliated with the Trump family, has deployed 11,298 Bitcoin miners at its Drumheller facility in Alberta, Canada, adding 3.05 EH/s of hash rate and bringing its total in-house hash rate to 28.1 EH/s across 89,242 devices. Following the announcement, ABTC’s stock rose over 13% during Wednesday’s pre-market trading. American Bitcoin stated that this deployment completes its previously announced expansion plan and that the average energy efficiency of its current in-house miners is 16.0 J/TH.
According to an official announcement, Kalshi—a prediction market regulated by the U.S. Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC)—has integrated Pyth as the settlement data source for its newly launched Commodities Hub, covering markets including gold, silver, Brent crude oil, natural gas, copper, corn, soybeans, and wheat. Meanwhile, Pyth Pro will provide Kalshi’s market makers with direct access to market data. Kalshi stated that this move aims to support continuous trading and reliable settlement of commodity-related event contracts; Pyth Pro will subsequently expand to additional asset classes, including indices, equities, and foreign exchange.
Odaily News: The UK Financial Conduct Authority (FCA), in collaboration with HM Revenue & Customs and the South West Regional Organised Crime Unit, recently conducted raids on eight locations across the UK suspected of engaging in illegal P2P cryptocurrency trading. Officials issued prohibition orders on-site, requiring the operators to cease activities immediately and gathered relevant evidence. The UK FCA pointed out that currently, no P2P cryptocurrency traders or platforms are registered with the regulator in the UK. Furthermore, in the recent multi-agency Operation Atlantic, law enforcement agencies froze $12 million in assets linked to cryptocurrency scams and traced over $45 million in stolen cryptocurrency. The UK FCA has now launched a consultation on its guidelines for the cryptocurrency regulatory framework set to take effect in 2027.