News Heat Trend
Project Overview
Company is a self-sustaining flywheel for autonomous fantasy product creation, curation, and tokenization. Anyone can participate in this ecosystem, from creators to investors to traders.
Forbes Criticizes Eric Trump’s Bitcoin Company as an Arbitrage Tool Exploiting MAGA Investor Sentiment
According to Forbes, Eric Trump, the second son of Donald Trump, promoted his Bitcoin company American Bitcoin as a “money-printing machine,” but it is in fact an arbitrage tool exploiting MAGA investors’ sentiment. The company attracted investors through exaggerated marketing, leveraged the premium associated with the Trump brand to issue shares at inflated valuations, raised cash, and then used the proceeds to purchase Bitcoin—while ordinary investors suffered heavy losses. Since its listing in September, the company has sold approximately 158 million shares, raising roughly $351 million, and used those funds to buy approximately $390 million worth of Bitcoin. The company claims its mining cost is around $58,000 per Bitcoin, but when equipment depreciation and other expenses are included, its total cost per Bitcoin reaches approximately $90,000—higher than Bitcoin’s current market price. The company faces risks from its mining-rig financing agreements: if Bitcoin’s price does not rebound, all the Bitcoin it mines may be used to repay equipment vendors. The company employs only two full-time staff members; its stock price has plunged 92% from its peak, and investor losses are estimated at around $500 million. Eric Trump’s personal wealth increased from approximately $190 million to $280 million. In response, Eric Trump posted on X, calling Forbes “a political weapon and a disgrace to journalism.” He stated that American Bitcoin was founded just over a year ago and has been publicly listed for 7 months and 25 days. It currently holds over 7,000 Bitcoins, ranks as the world’s 16th-largest publicly traded Bitcoin company, and operates nearly 90,000 mining rigs.
Solana Company completes ~$8 million private placement, led by Mirae Asset
Solana Company, a SOL treasury firm, completed a private placement, issuing 3,076,922 Class A common shares at $2.60 per share, raising approximately $8 million (approximately $7.9 million net). Mirae Asset led the round, with HashKey Capital participating. The company plans to use the proceeds to increase its SOL holdings and for general corporate purposes.
The Smarter Web Company completes private placement fundraising of approximately $2 million
The UK-based Bitcoin treasury company The Smarter Web Company announced the completion of a private placement of 4,286,410 ordinary shares pursuant to a previously signed subscription agreement. The total gross proceeds raised from this placement amount to approximately £1.5374 million (about $2 million, before deducting expenses), at a price of approximately £0.36 per share. The company expects to retain approximately 98.25% of the net proceeds. As of now, the remaining balance of ordinary shares yet to be placed under the current subscription agreement stands at 52,377,540 shares.
Citadel Securities President States: Company May Enter Prediction Markets, Focusing on Geopolitical Hedging Rather Than Sports Events
According to The Block, Jim Esposito, President of Citadel Securities, stated on Thursday at the Semafor World Economic Forum in Washington, D.C., that the firm is “fully capable” of providing liquidity to prediction markets—but explicitly expressed no interest in sports-event contracts. Instead, he emphasized the value of prediction markets for hedging geopolitical risks, citing the U.S. midterm elections this November as “one of the greatest risks facing investors’ portfolios.” Esposito noted that as platforms like Kalshi and Polymarket continue to grow rapidly, the prediction market is poised for sustained expansion—naturally drawing Citadel Securities into the space. Notably, Zhao Peng, CEO of Citadel Securities, participated last year in Kalshi’s $185 million funding round.
Footwear Retailer Allbirds Raises $50 Million to Transform into AI Computing Company
Odaily News: Footwear retailer Allbirds has announced the sale of its sneaker business and a transformation into an AI computing infrastructure company named "NewBird AI." This news drove the company's stock price to surge by approximately 300% at one point.According to the announcement, Allbirds has agreed to sell its footwear brand to the American Exchange Group. The company will use a $50 million convertible note financing round to deploy GPU computing power and build AI infrastructure. This financing amount is roughly double the company's market capitalization of $22 million prior to the announcement.This move reflects the strong market demand for AI computing resources and the current supply shortage. Following Bitcoin mining companies pivoting to High-Performance Computing (HPC), small-cap companies are also beginning to attempt to enter the AI infrastructure sector. However, the convertible note financing may be converted into equity in the future, potentially creating dilution pressure for existing shareholders. (CoinDesk)
Thailand’s SEC Proposes to Open Applications for Digital Asset Derivatives Business Licenses—No Need to Establish a New Company
According to an official announcement by the Securities and Exchange Commission of Thailand (SEC), the Thai SEC is soliciting public comments on proposed amendments to the regulations governing futures contract business licenses. The key proposals include permitting existing digital asset service providers to directly apply for futures contract business licenses without having to establish new entities, and formally including digital assets within the scope of underlying assets eligible for futures contracts.
NYSE Submits Rule Amendment Proposal to Allow Tokenized Securities to Be Listed and Traded
According to filings with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC), the New York Stock Exchange (NYSE) submitted a proposed rule change (File No. SR-NYSE-2026-17) to the SEC on April 9, 2026, seeking to introduce Rule 7.50 and amend related provisions to permit the trading of eligible securities in tokenized form on the exchange. The proposal builds upon the Depository Trust Company’s (DTC) three-year tokenization pilot program and follows the framework of Nasdaq’s similar rules, which have already received SEC approval. Under the proposal, tokenized securities must share the same CUSIP number, ticker symbol, and shareholder rights as their traditional counterparts to be traded on equal footing and at the same priority level within the same order book. Initially, the rule will apply only to constituents of the Russell 1000 Index and ETFs tracking major indices; the settlement cycle will remain T+1, and existing regulatory requirements will apply equally to tokenized securities.
Polish Prime Minister Claims Crypto Company Involved with Russian Mafia and Intelligence Networks, Funding Political Opponents, Sparking Regulatory Controversy
Odaily News: Polish Prime Minister Donald Tusk stated that a cryptocurrency company linked to "Russian mafia and intelligence agencies" is funding political opponents and influencing domestic crypto regulatory legislation. During a parliamentary vote on Friday, Tusk pointed out that some Polish politicians are obstructing crypto regulatory legislation to serve a company named Zondacrypto, which is alleged to provide "financial support" to political figures and has ties to Russia.Tusk further claimed that the company sponsored the CPAC (Conservative Political Action Conference) event held in Poland last year, during which former U.S. Secretary of Homeland Security Kristi Noem publicly supported President Karol Nawrocki's campaign.Tusk bluntly stated that the company's funding sources not only involve "funds related to the Russian mafia (Bratva)" but may also be connected to Russian intelligence agencies.Meanwhile, President Nawrocki won the election last June, with his camp receiving support from former U.S. President Donald Trump. The President's Office responded that it is not opposed to crypto regulation itself but opposes the "flawed regulatory model" proposed by the government.This controversy arises amidst the political tug-of-war in Poland over the crypto regulatory bill. The bill aims to align with the EU's MiCA (Markets in Crypto-Assets Regulation) framework. However, the President previously vetoed the relevant bill and blocked parliament from overriding the veto in December, stalling the regulatory process. (The Block)
Circle Signs Memorandum of Understanding with Dunamu, Parent Company of Upbit
According to News1, Circle, the issuer of the stablecoin USDC, has signed a comprehensive Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) with Dunamu, the operator of Upbit—the largest virtual asset exchange in South Korea. The two parties will jointly advance digital asset education initiatives—including stablecoins—to enhance market participants’ access to information and bolster the credibility of South Korea’s digital asset ecosystem. Oh Kyung-seok, Dunamu’s representative, stated, “Collaborating with Circle—experienced in compliant operations—is highly significant.” Jeremy Allaire, Circle’s representative, emphasized, “South Korea is an exceptionally important market for digital asset innovation.”
NVIDIA Launches Nemotron 3 Nano Omni Model, Boosting Multimodal Inference Efficiency by 9x
NVIDIA announced on X platform that it has launched the open-source multimodal model Nemotron 3 Nano Omni today. The model adopts a 30B-A3B mixture-of-experts (MoE) architecture, supports a 256K context window, and can uniformly process video, audio, image, and text inputs. Compared to open-source omnimodal models at a similar interaction level, this model achieves up to a 9x increase in throughput, significantly reducing inference costs and improving scalability. Nemotron 3 Nano Omni is now available on Hugging Face, OpenRouter, and NVIDIA NIM, and has been adopted by enterprises including Aible, Applied Scientific Intelligence, and H Company.
Gate Prediction Market: Market Expectations Highly Concentrated for Second-Largest Company by End of April, Alphabet Probability Reaches 99%
in the Gate Prediction Market event concerning the "Second-Largest Company by the End of April," Alphabet's current probability has reached 99%, significantly领先 over other options such as Apple, NVIDIA, Microsoft, Amazon, Tesla, and Saudi Aramco, indicating a highly concentrated market expectation. In terms of related asset trading, Gate's Perpetual Contract Stock Section has listed several popular tech stock perpetual contracts, including GOOGLXUSDT, NVDAXUSDT, and TSLAXUSDT, providing users with diverse participation pathways from event assessment to asset trading.Meanwhile, the Gate Prediction Market has completed multiple functional upgrades: added a one-stop search and intelligent recommendation mechanism, supporting keyword quick retrieval and category browsing; enhanced historical billing and filtering functions, making fund flows clearer and more traceable; added a multi-level category and breaking news section on the homepage to help users efficiently capture hot opportunities; and expanded the sports market to include more derivative gameplay, enhancing strategic flexibility while lowering participation barriers.Currently, Gate's performance within the Polymarket partnership channel continues to improve, with its market share ranking among the top two in the industry. Users can access the prediction market directly through the Gate App, enter the Polymarket page via the Alpha feature on the platform's homepage, and use USDT in their exchange account to participate in event predictions. This integration marks a key step for Gate in merging the crypto trading ecosystem with the prediction market, offering users a diversified market experience from expectation assessment to trading participation.
Aethir Infrastructure Announces $260 Million Enterprise Contract with Publicly Listed Company Axe Compute
Nasdaq-listed Axe Compute Inc. (NASDAQ: AGPU) announced today that it has signed a 36-month AI infrastructure contract valued at approximately $260 million with an enterprise client. The deployment includes a dedicated cluster of 2,304 NVIDIA B300 GPUs and a high-speed AI storage system, scheduled to go live in Q3 2026 at a Tier 3 data center in the United States. This is Axe Compute’s largest single enterprise contract since its founding. Axe Compute’s underlying compute infrastructure is powered by Aethir’s decentralized GPU cloud. Daniel Wang, Co-Founder and CEO of Aethir, stated: “Enterprise workloads supported by 2,304 NVIDIA B300 GPUs represent precisely the scale we targeted when designing Aethir’s compute infrastructure. Today’s announcement demonstrates that decentralized GPU infrastructure is now capable of supporting the world’s top-tier enterprise AI workloads. I am proud of the dedication shown by both the Aethir and Axe Compute teams.” The contract includes dedicated 4.8-megawatt N+1 redundant power, with the client specifying the deployment location and service standards, and features a structured payment schedule. Following the announcement, A
Hong Kong Crypto Payment Company Adds Support for Sui and Native USDC
Odaily News: Hong Kong-based crypto payment company RedotPay announced the addition of support for SUI and USDC-Sui within its application. Users can now spend and transfer funds in over 100 countries globally using its card and payment services. This integration, built on the Sui network developed by Mysten Labs, enables support for native USDC, marking an expansion from cross-chain assets to native assets.RedotPay stated that it currently has over 7 million users, with an annualized payment volume exceeding $10 billion. (TechinAsia)
Polish Prime Minister Claims Crypto Company Involved with Russian Mafia and Intelligence Networks, Funding Political Opponents, Sparking Regulatory Controversy
Odaily News: Polish Prime Minister Donald Tusk stated that a cryptocurrency company linked to "Russian mafia and intelligence agencies" is funding political opponents and influencing domestic crypto regulatory legislation. During a parliamentary vote on Friday, Tusk pointed out that some Polish politicians are obstructing crypto regulatory legislation to serve a company named Zondacrypto, which is alleged to provide "financial support" to political figures and has ties to Russia.Tusk further claimed that the company sponsored the CPAC (Conservative Political Action Conference) event held in Poland last year, during which former U.S. Secretary of Homeland Security Kristi Noem publicly supported President Karol Nawrocki's campaign.Tusk bluntly stated that the company's funding sources not only involve "funds related to the Russian mafia (Bratva)" but may also be connected to Russian intelligence agencies.Meanwhile, President Nawrocki won the election last June, with his camp receiving support from former U.S. President Donald Trump. The President's Office responded that it is not opposed to crypto regulation itself but opposes the "flawed regulatory model" proposed by the government.This controversy arises amidst the political tug-of-war in Poland over the crypto regulatory bill. The bill aims to align with the EU's MiCA (Markets in Crypto-Assets Regulation) framework. However, the President previously vetoed the relevant bill and blocked parliament from overriding the veto in December, stalling the regulatory process. (The Block)
BERA Treasury Company Greenlane Approves $2 Million Share Repurchase Program, Increasing Holdings to 77.9 Million Tokens
According to GlobeNewswire, Greenlane Holdings, a Nasdaq-listed BERA treasury company, announced that its Board of Directors has approved a $2 million share repurchase program. The company also released its full-year financial report, which disclosed that, following the acquisition of 7.5 million BERA tokens, its holdings had increased to 77.9 million BERA tokens as of April 7, 2026—approximately 32% of the current BERA circulating supply.
Related news
Forbes Criticizes Eric Trump’s Bitcoin Company as an Arbitrage Tool Exploiting MAGA Investor Sentiment
According to Forbes, Eric Trump, the second son of Donald Trump, promoted his Bitcoin company American Bitcoin as a “money-printing machine,” but it is in fact an arbitrage tool exploiting MAGA investors’ sentiment. The company attracted investors through exaggerated marketing, leveraged the premium associated with the Trump brand to issue shares at inflated valuations, raised cash, and then used the proceeds to purchase Bitcoin—while ordinary investors suffered heavy losses. Since its listing in September, the company has sold approximately 158 million shares, raising roughly $351 million, and used those funds to buy approximately $390 million worth of Bitcoin. The company claims its mining cost is around $58,000 per Bitcoin, but when equipment depreciation and other expenses are included, its total cost per Bitcoin reaches approximately $90,000—higher than Bitcoin’s current market price. The company faces risks from its mining-rig financing agreements: if Bitcoin’s price does not rebound, all the Bitcoin it mines may be used to repay equipment vendors. The company employs only two full-time staff members; its stock price has plunged 92% from its peak, and investor losses are estimated at around $500 million. Eric Trump’s personal wealth increased from approximately $190 million to $280 million. In response, Eric Trump posted on X, calling Forbes “a political weapon and a disgrace to journalism.” He stated that American Bitcoin was founded just over a year ago and has been publicly listed for 7 months and 25 days. It currently holds over 7,000 Bitcoins, ranks as the world’s 16th-largest publicly traded Bitcoin company, and operates nearly 90,000 mining rigs.
NVIDIA Launches Nemotron 3 Nano Omni Model, Boosting Multimodal Inference Efficiency by 9x
NVIDIA announced on X platform that it has launched the open-source multimodal model Nemotron 3 Nano Omni today. The model adopts a 30B-A3B mixture-of-experts (MoE) architecture, supports a 256K context window, and can uniformly process video, audio, image, and text inputs. Compared to open-source omnimodal models at a similar interaction level, this model achieves up to a 9x increase in throughput, significantly reducing inference costs and improving scalability. Nemotron 3 Nano Omni is now available on Hugging Face, OpenRouter, and NVIDIA NIM, and has been adopted by enterprises including Aible, Applied Scientific Intelligence, and H Company.
Gate Prediction Market: Market Expectations Highly Concentrated for Second-Largest Company by End of April, Alphabet Probability Reaches 99%
in the Gate Prediction Market event concerning the "Second-Largest Company by the End of April," Alphabet's current probability has reached 99%, significantly领先 over other options such as Apple, NVIDIA, Microsoft, Amazon, Tesla, and Saudi Aramco, indicating a highly concentrated market expectation. In terms of related asset trading, Gate's Perpetual Contract Stock Section has listed several popular tech stock perpetual contracts, including GOOGLXUSDT, NVDAXUSDT, and TSLAXUSDT, providing users with diverse participation pathways from event assessment to asset trading.Meanwhile, the Gate Prediction Market has completed multiple functional upgrades: added a one-stop search and intelligent recommendation mechanism, supporting keyword quick retrieval and category browsing; enhanced historical billing and filtering functions, making fund flows clearer and more traceable; added a multi-level category and breaking news section on the homepage to help users efficiently capture hot opportunities; and expanded the sports market to include more derivative gameplay, enhancing strategic flexibility while lowering participation barriers.Currently, Gate's performance within the Polymarket partnership channel continues to improve, with its market share ranking among the top two in the industry. Users can access the prediction market directly through the Gate App, enter the Polymarket page via the Alpha feature on the platform's homepage, and use USDT in their exchange account to participate in event predictions. This integration marks a key step for Gate in merging the crypto trading ecosystem with the prediction market, offering users a diversified market experience from expectation assessment to trading participation.
TD Cowen reiterates its Buy rating; Smarter Web Company remains the only scaled Bitcoin treasury company in the UK.
According to The Block, TD Cowen analysts Lance Vitanza and Jonnathan Navarrete reiterated their “Buy” rating on UK-listed Smarter Web Company, maintaining their price target at £1 (approximately $1.36). The analysts noted that the company recently acquired additional bitcoin for approximately £57,000 (about $77,000), effectively lowering its marginal holding cost. Its leverage ratio of roughly 8% is considered relatively conservative compared to peers. Smarter Web currently holds 2,750 BTC, making it the largest corporate bitcoin holder in the UK and the 27th-largest publicly disclosed bitcoin treasury globally. However, with bitcoin’s current price hovering around $77,600—significantly below the company’s average acquisition price of $110,800—its holdings are sitting on an unrealized loss of approximately $91.1 million, representing a decline of roughly 30%.
Strategy Leads with $255M, but Momentum Drops Sharply: Purchases Plunge 90%, Several Global Reserve Companies Make Small Follow-Up Buys
according to SoSoValue data, as of 8:00 AM Eastern Time on April 27, 2026, the total net weekly purchase of Bitcoin by global listed companies (excluding mining companies) last week was $260 million, a decrease of 89.8% compared to the previous week.Strategy (formerly MicroStrategy) announced an investment of $255 million (down 90% from the previous week) to purchase 3,273 Bitcoins at a price of $77,906, bringing its total holdings to 818,334 Bitcoins.Japanese listed company Metaplanet did not purchase Bitcoin last week.Additionally, three other companies purchased Bitcoin last week. Japanese fashion apparel brand ANAP invested $770,000 on April 21 to increase its holdings by 9.1785 Bitcoins at a price of $84,239.7, bringing its total holdings to 1,431.9716 Bitcoins. UK Bitcoin company The Smarter Web Company announced on April 24 an investment of $3.39 million to purchase 44 Bitcoins at a price of $77,071, bringing its total holdings to 2,750 Bitcoins. A French Bitcoin company announced on April 27 an investment of $460,000 to purchase 6 Bitcoins at a price of $77,151, bringing its total holdings to 2,943 Bitcoins.Metaplanet has issued 8 billion Japanese Yen (approximately $50 million) in zero-interest bonds to purchase Bitcoin.As of press time, the global listed companies tracked in the statistics (excluding mining companies) collectively hold a total of 1,084,909 Bitcoins, an increase of 0.3% compared to the previous week, with a current market value of approximately $84.34 billion, representing 5.4% of Bitcoin's circulating market cap.
Solana Company completes ~$8 million private placement, led by Mirae Asset
Solana Company, a SOL treasury firm, completed a private placement, issuing 3,076,922 Class A common shares at $2.60 per share, raising approximately $8 million (approximately $7.9 million net). Mirae Asset led the round, with HashKey Capital participating. The company plans to use the proceeds to increase its SOL holdings and for general corporate purposes.