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According to an official announcement, the fifth installment of the Strategy campaign—collaborating between the decentralized stablecoin USDD and Binance Wallet—officially launched on April 10 at 08:00 (Singapore Time) and will run until May 30, 2026, at 07:59. This edition features a total reward pool valued at $1 million in USDD. Users who deposit at least 100 USDT into the USDD-USDT Strategy via the Binance Wallet Strategy section automatically qualify to share in the rewards. Notably, participants currently engaged in the campaign do not need to take any additional action—they are automatically enrolled in the fifth installment. Access the campaign via the Binance Wallet Strategy page; for more details, please visit the official website.
According to an official announcement, Binance Alpha Box is now live, powered by the latest Alpha Box model. The airdrop pool consists of tokens from three projects: Ark of Panda (AOP), Rekt (REKT), and Yei Finance (CLO). Users holding at least 240 Binance Alpha Points can claim the token airdrop once via the Alpha Events page. Upon claiming, users will be assigned to one of three reward tiers, receiving either 715, 860, or 2,860 AOP tokens; 192,307,700, 230,769,230, or 769,230,770 REKT tokens; or 335, 400, or 1,335 CLO tokens. Rewards are distributed on a first-come, first-served basis. If all rewards are not fully claimed, the point threshold automatically decreases by 5 points every 5 minutes. Claiming the airdrop consumes 15 Binance Alpha Points, and users must confirm their claim within 24 hours—otherwise, the claim will be forfeited.
Coinbase CEO Brian Armstrong responded to U.S. Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent’s call for the passage of the “Clarity for Digital Assets Markets Act” (CLARITY Act), expressing agreement and gratitude for his advocacy. Armstrong emphasized that bipartisan collaboration between senators and staff over the past several months has significantly strengthened the bill. Earlier, the U.S. Treasury Secretary urged Congress to swiftly pass the CLARITY Act.
According to Yonhap News Agency, SK Telecom announced the signing of a trilateral memorandum of understanding (MOU) with UK-based chip design company Arm and Korean AI chip startup Rebellions to jointly develop AI data center inference server solutions. Under the agreement, the three parties will integrate Arm’s newly launched AGI CPU with Rebellions’ AI acceleration chip—RebelCard, scheduled for launch in Q3 this year—to jointly develop AI inference servers, which will be tested and validated at SK Telecom’s AI data centers. The Arm AGI CPU is optimized for high-density inference environments and large-scale AI deployments, while the RebelCard is specifically designed for large-scale AI inference.
According to the South China Morning Post, Interconnects AI, a U.S.-based AI tracking firm, released a report stating that as of March 2026, Alibaba Cloud’s Qwen series models accounted for over 50% of global open-source model downloads, with a cumulative total of 942.1 million downloads—far surpassing competitors such as Meta’s Llama and DeepSeek. In February alone, Qwen downloads reached 153.6 million—exceeding the combined total downloads of the next eight major vendors. The report notes that Qwen’s dominant position stems from the exceptional popularity of its smaller-parameter variants (under 10 billion parameters), which enable developers to customize and deploy models freely at low cost. Since the launch of Qwen 2.5 in September 2024, Chinese models have begun outpacing mainstream U.S. open-source models like Llama; the release of Qwen 3.5 in February this year further solidified its lead. Meanwhile, open-source strategy has become a critical battleground in the U.S.-China AI competition. Meta has abandoned its open-source approach this year, instead launching the closed-source flagship model Muse Spark. Similarly, Chinese vendors including Alibaba Cloud and Zhipu AI have shifted some of their latest models to closed-source to expand direct commercialization channels.
According to on-chain analyst Ai Aunt (@ai_9684xtpa), renowned trader “Set 10 Big Goals First” (@Jason60704294) has updated his latest positions: his BTC short position has not only avoided triggering its stop-loss but has been increased to 2,567.49 BTC, with an average entry price of $71,554.61—currently showing a floating loss of $1.374 million. His ETH short position stands at 38,465.22 ETH, with an average entry price of $2,248.74, currently generating a floating profit of $2.018 million. The net floating profit across both positions is approximately $644,000.
Bitget Wallet has announced a new AI subscription cashback campaign, covering mainstream AI tools such as ChatGPT, Cursor, Gemini, and Grok. The campaign aims to address long-standing issues faced by Chinese-speaking users in everyday AI subscription scenarios—including payment failures, unstable card binding, and subscription renewals being interrupted. The campaign runs from April 9 to April 30. During this period, new users who activate the Bitget Wallet Card and complete their first eligible AI subscription will receive 50% cashback—up to $10 per transaction. If they successfully invite one new user to activate the card and complete their first AI subscription purchase, the cashback rate for the inviter’s first transaction increases to 100%, with a maximum total cashback of $20. Additionally, existing users who participated in the March AI subscription cashback campaign will be eligible for 50% cashback—up to $10 per transaction—upon completing their first AI subscription purchase during this campaign and successfully inviting one new user to make their first purchase; if they invite two new users, the cashback rate rises to 100%, with a maximum total cashback of $20.
According to The Block, Galaxy Digital released its full-year 2025 financial results. Although the company reported a net loss of $241 million for the year, its core business achieved profitability on a non-GAAP basis. Specifically, its digital asset business segment—which includes trading, lending, asset management, and staking services—generated adjusted gross profit of $505 million. Boosted by this performance, GLXY’s stock closed up 11.3% that day at $21.15. CEO Mike Novogratz stated that the company’s Helios data center has received ERCOT approval to expand capacity to 1.6 gigawatts, and CoreWeave has signed a long-term lease for 800 megawatts of that capacity, securing a stable, long-term revenue stream. He emphasized that the industry is shifting from “narrative-driven” to “infrastructure-driven,” and Galaxy will continue to focus on core areas including the institutional market, asset management, onchain infrastructure, and AI data centers.
According to The Block, AlphaTON Capital has announced plans to raise $43 million through a strategic partnership with Vertical Data Inc. to expand its AI compute infrastructure; the transaction is expected to close in Q2 2026. AlphaTON CEO Brittany Kaiser stated that the funding will be used to deploy additional NVIDIA B300 GPUs, with the core objective of advancing the convergence of AI, digital assets, and confidential computing—and scaling up the platform’s overall compute capacity. On the business front, AlphaTON not only holds a substantial amount of TON tokens as corporate treasury assets but also actively participates in building infrastructure for the Telegram and TON ecosystems, with key investment focus areas including Cocoon, Telegram’s decentralized AI platform. Background-wise, AlphaTON was formed through the restructuring and transformation of former biotech public company Portage Biotech Inc., which had previously focused on cancer therapy research; the company completed the spin-off of its cancer therapy subsidiary in February this year.
According to CoinDesk, the U.S. Department of the Treasury announced it will extend its cybersecurity threat information-sharing service—which was previously available only to traditional financial institutions—to cryptocurrency firms. Eligible crypto companies may apply to join the program through the Treasury’s Office of Cybersecurity and Critical Infrastructure Protection and receive timely, actionable cybersecurity threat intelligence at no cost. Luke Pettit, Assistant Secretary for Financial Institutions at the Treasury Department, stated that this move aims to foster a safer and more responsible digital asset ecosystem. The policy responds to related recommendations outlined in a prior report issued by the President’s Working Group on Digital Asset Markets.
According to Decrypt, Enhanced Labs Inc., an on-chain structured yield protocol, has announced the completion of a $1 million strategic pre-seed funding round, led by Maximum Frequency Ventures, with participation from GSR, Selini, Flowdesk, and several angel investors. The funds raised will be used for product development and operational infrastructure. Enhanced’s product strategy centers on three key directions: optimizing auction mechanisms to enhance yield competitiveness; extending options-based yield strategies to a broader range of on-chain assets—including tokenized real-world assets (RWAs); and simplifying complex strategies into goal-oriented user experiences that allow users to directly define desired outcomes such as yield targets, hedging objectives, or structured exposures. Enhanced positions itself at the intersection of the on-chain yield and options narratives—a sector currently experiencing an unusually active cycle in DeFi options since 2024.
According to Decrypt, stablecoin issuer Tether has announced the launch of its open-source software development kit (SDK), the QVAC SDK, enabling AI applications to run directly on-device without relying on cloud servers. The SDK supports iOS, Android, Windows, macOS, and Linux platforms. Built on the llama.cpp fork QVAC Fabric, it enables text generation, speech processing, visual recognition, and translation. It leverages the Holepunch protocol stack to facilitate peer-to-peer model distribution and delegated inference. Tether plans to integrate decentralized training and fine-tuning capabilities in future updates, and will release specialized toolkits for robotics and brain-computer interfaces.
According to Cointelegraph, the joint U.S., U.K., and Canadian law enforcement operation “Operation Atlantic” concluded in March this year, led by the U.K.’s National Crime Agency (NCA). The operation froze over $12 million in assets suspected to be proceeds of fraud, identified more than 20,000 victims, and involved total fraud losses exceeding $45 million. The operation focused on authorized phishing attacks—a scam technique that tricks users into signing malicious authorizations, thereby granting attackers permission to transfer tokens from their wallets. Binance participated in the operation, providing account screening and fraud intelligence support; however, no funds were frozen from its platform.
During a Space livestream today themed “The Underlying Financial Infrastructure of the AI Agent Era: B.AI Officially Launches,” Justin Sun stated: In the future, national strength will no longer be measured by traditional GDP but by annual token consumption. Blockchain empowers AI with independent accounts and payment capabilities—transforming AI from a mere “tool” into a “digital lifeform” endowed with economic rights. In the imminent Agent era, individuals can drive countless “digital lobsters” to close the loop—from code to results—achieving geometric growth in productivity. This means B.AI is dedicated to building the foundational economic engine for the AGI era. It not only grants AI economic sovereignty through independent settlement but also lowers the barrier to innovation via an open-source ecosystem—making the emergence of “companies” possible. When AI can deliver instant feedback to provide individuals with a sense of security—and global settlement becomes instantaneous—humanity will truly achieve comprehensive liberation of productivity.
AlphaTON Capital (NASDAQ: ATON) announced a strategic AI hardware and financing agreement with Vertical Data Inc., with a total transaction value of approximately $43 million, expected to close in Q2 2026. The agreement centers on deploying high-performance GPU clusters powered by NVIDIA’s B300 architecture. Financing will be provided through Vertical Data’s GPUfinancing.com platform via an asset-backed, non-recourse structure and includes managed infrastructure services. This expansion will support AlphaTON’s business initiatives with partners including Telegram, Gamee, Animoca Brands, and Midnight Blockchain.
Securitize announced the appointment of Brett Redfearn as President and a member of its Board of Directors. Redfearn previously served as Chair of Securitize’s Advisory Board and has now been elevated to this senior leadership role. He brings extensive experience in regulatory and market structure matters from his prior roles at the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC), JPMorgan, and Coinbase. Securitize stated that Redfearn will lead the expansion of its regulated platform businesses—including compliant token issuance, trading, and fund management—and will focus on strengthening collaboration with regulators and institutional investors to support the development of a next-generation, tokenization-based financial infrastructure.
Crypto analyst Ali published a detailed analysis on X, arguing that rather than debating whether Bitcoin has hit its bottom, market participants should focus on whether the current volatility represents a “generation-defining entry opportunity.” Based on long-term trend lines, on-chain liquidity, and cost distribution metrics, Ali delineates the core “value range” for this cycle. On the support side, the UTXO Realized Price Distribution (URPD) shows a significant concentration of coins in the $63,111–$70,685 range, forming the current primary support zone; if price breaks below $63,111, the market may enter a liquidity vacuum. From a long-term perspective, Bitcoin is approaching the key upward trend line from the past decade (approximately $56,000–$60,000), a level historically associated with accumulation phases preceding major rallies.
U.S. law firm Gibbs Mura has launched a class-action litigation investigation into the April 1, 2026, hack of Drift Protocol, reviewing potential investor claims against Circle Internet Financial. The attack resulted in the theft of approximately $280–285 million in assets. The attacker subsequently used Circle’s Cross-Chain Transfer Protocol (CCTP) to bridge over $230 million worth of USDC to Ethereum—Circle took no action to freeze the funds throughout the incident. Notably, just nine days prior, Circle had voluntarily frozen 16 business wallets in a separate civil dispute. Blockchain analytics firm Elliptic suspects the attack was carried out by a North Korea–backed hacking group. As a result of the breach, Drift Protocol’s total value locked (TVL) plummeted from $550 million to below $250 million, the DRIFT token price dropped more than 40%, and at least 20 DeFi protocols suffered indirect losses.
According to Bitmine’s disclosure, Bitmine Immersion Technologies (NYSE: BMNR) officially upgraded to the NYSE Main Board on April 9, 2026, retaining its ticker symbol. Concurrently, the Board approved expanding the share repurchase authorization from $1 billion to $4 billion, placing it among the top ten announced buyback programs of 2026. As of April 6, the company held approximately 4.803 million ETH—representing 3.98% of Ethereum’s total supply—and had completed over 79% of its “5% Alchemy” target. The company’s total crypto assets, cash, and other assets amounted to approximately $11.4 billion.
According to CoinDesk, S&P Global Market Intelligence released a report stating that although the stablecoin market has surpassed $31.6 billion, banks’ strategic planning around stablecoins remains largely in the early exploratory phase. S&P Global’s Q1 2026 survey found that among 100 surveyed banks, only 7% are developing related frameworks, and none have launched live pilots. Key concerns for banks include risks of deposit outflows, intensifying competition from non-bank institutions, and uncertain impacts on revenue. Regarding strategic divergence, the report forecasts that large banks will explore issuing tokenized deposits, while mid- and small-sized institutions are more likely to participate via fiat on-ramp and off-ramp services. Regardless of the chosen strategy, banks must undertake extensive upgrades to their existing systems to support real-time digital asset operations.