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According to threat intelligence released by the SlowMist security team (@SlowMist_Team), its threat intelligence system MistEye has received community reports identifying an active social engineering attack targeting cryptocurrency users. Attackers contact victims under the pretext of project collaboration and lure them into using a counterfeit “Harmony Voice” application (domain: harmony-voice[.]app) for so-called real-time translation—when in fact it is malicious software. SlowMist has already synchronized the relevant threat intelligence (IOCs) to its enterprise customers.
According to Cointelegraph, Tempo—a payment-focused Layer-1 public blockchain backed by Stripe and Paradigm—recently launched its new “Zones” feature, enabling enterprises to conduct stablecoin transactions within permissioned environments while maintaining interoperability with public-chain liquidity. This functionality is primarily targeted at use cases such as payroll distribution, fund management, and B2B settlements. However, the feature has drawn criticism from industry observers due to its operator-centric design. Each Zone is controlled by a single operator who can view all transaction data and has the authority to suspend users’ transfer or withdrawal privileges in accordance with compliance requirements. Critics argue that this introduces a trust assumption akin to that of centralized exchanges, thereby deviating from blockchain’s core trustless principle.
Xie Jiayin, Bitget’s Head of Chinese-speaking Markets, revealed significant progress across multiple core business areas. In terms of liquidity, Bitget ranked first globally among centralized exchanges (CEXs) in net fund inflows over the past seven days. Its BTC reserves grew 86% year-on-year to 36,700 BTC. According to TokenInsight’s report, Bitget’s derivatives and spot liquidity both ranked among the top two globally. Strategically, the platform continues advancing its transformation into UEX, a comprehensive exchange. This quarter, Bitget completed a full app redesign, fully launched CFD trading—supporting 79 assets with up to 500x leverage—and expanded its U.S. stock token offering to 263 tickers. Per CoinGlass data, Bitget leads the industry in U.S. stock futures open interest, and its CFD daily trading volume exceeded $6 billion. On the product front, Bitget launched IPO Prime, an innovative token sale platform. Its inaugural offering is preSPAX—a digital token mirroring the listing gains of SpaceX. Additionally, Bitget completed a three-layer reconstruction of its AI trading engine and introduced GetClaw, a cloud-based AI trading assistant enabling users to execute automated live trades via natural-language commands. For its VIP ecosystem, Bitget established a $5 million Protection Fund and distributed nearly 1,000 preSPAX tokens to VIP users in two free airdrops: the first round (760 tokens) was distributed on April 16, and the second round (190 tokens) will be distributed on April 20.
Odaily News According to official information, the Binance Wallet plugin now supports mnemonic phrase derived accounts. Users only need to back up one set of mnemonic phrases to derive up to 99 independent accounts.This feature helps protect the security of mnemonic phrases and efficiently manage accounts; it also supports multiple chains, allowing one set of accounts to be used across chains. The plugin version supporting this feature is 1.12.0 and above.
According to an official announcement, Singapore Gulf Bank (SGB) launched stablecoin minting and redemption services on April 17. Enterprises and high-net-worth individuals can now directly convert between fiat currency and stablecoins via their SGB accounts, enabling 24/7 instant settlement without relying on traditional correspondent banking processes. This service is integrated into SGB’s proprietary clearing network, SGB Net, supporting seamless on-chain and off-chain fund flows. USDC is the first stablecoin supported, with a minimum transaction amount of USD 100,000; support for USDT, USDe (Ethena), and Global Dollar (USDG) will be rolled out subsequently.
Odaily News According to an official announcement, Binance has decided to stop trading and delist the following tokens at 03:00 (UTC) on April 28, 2026: DegoFinance (DEGO), DENT (DENT), and TrueFi (TRU). Binance will not support the token swap of TRU to BRLA; users must complete the swap through the project's official channels before 23:59 (UTC) on May 10, 2026. Related spot, margin, futures, and wealth management products will also be removed or have their services terminated simultaneously.
According to the official Tokyo Metropolitan Government (TMG) guidelines, the “Subsidy Program for Promoting Societal Implementation of Stablecoins” will officially take effect on April 15, 2026. This program provides subsidies to businesses developing use cases for Japanese yen–denominated stablecoins (SC) within Tokyo Metropolis. The maximum subsidy amount is ¥40 million, and the subsidy covers up to two-thirds of the eligible expenses incurred by the recipient. Applicants must meet the following criteria: - Maintain a registered head office or branch office within Tokyo Metropolis; - Hold the legally required licenses or have completed mandatory registration; - Not have received commissions or financial support from the national government or other local governments in the same fiscal year; - Have no affiliation with anti-social forces; - Have no outstanding tax arrears or similar violations. Eligible expenses include external platform usage fees, professional consulting and auditing fees, and system development costs—but exclude consumption tax and funds allocated for backing assets of the stablecoin. Recipients are selected by the Governor through an open recruitment process and subsequent review by a screening committee. Review criteria remain confidential, and review outcomes are not subject to appeal or objection. Furthermore, should a recipient fail to deliver tangible stablecoin use cases or obtain the subsidy through fraudulent or improper means, the Governor reserves the right to rescind the subsidy decision and demand full repayment. Late repayments incur default surcharges and late-payment penalties at an annual interest rate of 10.95%.
According to the official announcement by OneBullEx, the platform will officially launch the targeted beta testing of its AI strategy tool, OneAlpha, on April 20, 2026, to optimize the product experience and collect authentic user feedback. Reportedly, OneAlpha is designed for futures trading scenarios and enables users to generate trading strategies via natural language, completing the entire workflow—including strategy generation, validation, optimization, and deployment—within the platform. During the testing period, users will gain priority access to features such as natural language input, strategy logic generation, code generation, strategy validation, strategy optimization, deployment and execution, and performance tracking. The closed beta will run from April 20 to May 3, 2026—a duration of two weeks. Participation will be by invitation only, with users invited through BD teams and official OneBullEx channels. The registration deadline is April 26. Users may contact customer service via official channels to learn about registration methods and participation details.
According to the official announcement, Binance Wallet stated that the Binance Alpha airdrop claim will open today at 17:00 (UTC). This campaign adopts the updated Binance Alpha Box model, with the airdrop prize pool comprising tokens from multiple projects. Users holding at least 242 Binance Alpha Points can claim one token reward on a first-come, first-served basis. Claiming the airdrop will consume 15 Binance Alpha Points. Additionally, this airdrop features three reward tiers: Common (80% of the reward pool), Rare (15%), and Ultra-Rare (5%), each corresponding to different Alpha Box values. Upon claiming, users will be assigned to one of these tiers. Rewards will be distributed proportionally across these tiers. If all rewards are not fully claimed, the point threshold will automatically decrease by 5 points every 5 minutes.
According to official news, Gate has now launched CHIP perpetual contract pre-market trading (USDT-settled), supporting 1-10x leverage.
According to an official incident post-mortem report on the CoW Swap attack, its domain cow.fi was compromised via a supply-chain attack on April 14, 2026. Attackers exploited social engineering tactics to infiltrate the .fi domain registration process and hijack DNS resolution, causing users attempting to access swap.cow.fi to be redirected to a phishing site for several hours. During this period, attackers deployed a counterfeit trading interface and attempted to trick users into connecting their wallets and signing malicious transactions. The report states that this incident did not impact CoW Protocol’s on-chain smart contracts, backend systems, or user fund security; core infrastructure—including services hosted on AWS and Vercel—remained uncompromised. The attack occurred exclusively during the domain registration and transfer process: attackers gained control by forging identity documents and exploiting vulnerabilities in the registration workflow, briefly modifying the domain’s DNS records. The team detected the anomaly within 19 minutes and initiated emergency response procedures, subsequently migrating to cow.finance and fully restoring the cow.fi domain within approximately 26 hours. CoW’s team noted that affected users were primarily those who visited the official website during the domain hijacking window. Preliminary estimates place losses at around $1.2 million. The cow.fi domain has since been reactivated with enhanced security measures—including RegistryLock—and the team has launched external security audits, legal proceedings against the perpetrators, and is developing a potential user compensation plan. The official statement emphasizes that the vulnerability has been patched and outlines plans to improve domain infrastructure security through governance initiatives and industry collaboration.
According to an official announcement, crypto-financial technology company Superstate has launched FundOS—a next-generation fund operating system—opening its fund-on-chain infrastructure to asset management firms to support the tokenization of private funds, mutual funds, and ETFs. Superstate states that FundOS enables fund managers to select fund types, underlying blockchains, supported DeFi use cases, and whether to enable stablecoin-based subscriptions and redemptions. It integrates with existing fund managers, custodians, and service providers via its portal, APIs, and workflows. The system is already deployed for USTB and USCC, collectively managing over $1 billion in assets, and has also been adopted by Invesco US.
According to The Block, the latest draft language of the Clarity Act concerning stablecoin yield will be delayed until next week or later. Sources familiar with the matter say the current text retains prior wording—namely, prohibiting yield generation on idle stablecoin balances held in accounts, while permitting yield from activities such as trading. Senator Thom Tillis stated that the draft text will not be made public until the Senate Banking Committee’s review timeline is confirmed. The report notes that the legislative team remains engaged in discussions with the American Bankers Association and crypto firms, and that making substantive revisions to the text at this stage would be difficult.
According to the official announcement, OKX will list USDS spot trading. The USDS/USDT spot trading pair will go live on April 17, 2026, at 17:00 (UTC+8).
According to an official announcement, Mint Blockchain officially ceased operations on April 17, 2026, and urged users to withdraw four assets from Mint Chain to the Ethereum mainnet: ETH, WBTC, USDC, and USDT. The announcement states that the asset withdrawal deadline is October 20, 2026, and users may complete the process via the official withdrawal channel. Assets not withdrawn by the deadline will no longer be processable.
Bitget Launches AIA Simple Earn with Up to 25% APR. Users Can Subscribe via the Dedicated Section. The Campaign Ends on May 16 at 18:00 (UTC+8). For More Product Details, Visit the Official Bitget Platform.
Odaily News ZetaChain has announced the integration of Anthropic's Claude Opus 4.7 model, which is now live within its ecosystem applications.According to the introduction, this model possesses agentic coding capabilities, long-term task stability, and higher-resolution visual processing capabilities. ZetaChain stated that it is building an access layer for AI models, while emphasizing user data privacy and portability.
Odaily News According to Thibault Sottiaux, Head of Engineering for OpenAI Codex, on platform X, to celebrate the one-year anniversary of Codex's launch, the company has reset the usage quota limits for all plans.He stated that this announcement was completed using the newly launched Computer Use feature of Codex, with the model clicking the "RESET" button in the browser to demonstrate the operation.
According to The Defiant, the NFT marketplace Foundation has permanently shut down following the failed sale to digital art display company BlackDove. Its platform infrastructure has been taken offline, and there are currently no plans to relaunch it. Foundation’s founder, Kayvon Tehranian, stated that the company had originally hoped to extend its operations through the sale, but the deal fell through—and the team concluded there was no need to continue seeking a buyer. Foundation previously facilitated approximately $230 million in primary sales. The report notes that BlackDove, after conducting comprehensive due diligence following operational handover, decided instead to build its own proprietary marketplace. Foundation also announced it will continue providing a fixed one-year service for media and metadata hosted on IPFS; users must manually cancel their listings and withdraw their NFT assets.
According to official announcements, Pumpcade—a live-stream prediction market and meme coin issuance platform—has secured $5 million in seed funding. Investors include Jump Crypto and Foundation Capital. Pumpcade is a Solana-based platform for instant meme coin creation and trading, integrated into the Pump.fun chat system and enabling one-click prediction market creation during live streams. Earlier, on April 2, Pump.fun led a $1 million pre-seed round for Pumpcade.