News linked to both this project and an event.
According to The Block, TON Tech—the infrastructure team under The Open Platform—has announced the launch of an AI-powered autonomous trading agent that supports independent on-chain actions on the TON blockchain, including transfers, token swaps, DeFi operations, automated trading, staking, and basic portfolio management—all without requiring users to surrender their private keys.
on Sunday that after the Department of Justice concluded its investigation into Powell, Republican Senator Thom Tillis dropped his opposition to Kevin Warsh's Federal Reserve Chair nomination confirmation process. The Senate Banking Committee ultimately voted 13 to 11 in favor of sending Kevin Warsh's nomination as Federal Reserve Chair to a full Senate vote. According to the official website of the U.S. Senate Banking Committee, the vote is scheduled for April 29th at 10:00 AM Eastern Time.On the same day, the Federal Open Market Committee will also announce its latest interest rate decision. Current Chair Jerome Powell will preside over his 63rd—and potentially final—press conference since taking the helm of the Federal Reserve eight years ago. Powell's term as Federal Reserve Chair expires on May 15th, but his term as a Board member runs until January 31, 2028. Whether Powell will also step down from the Federal Reserve Board of Governors has become a key focus for the market.
According to Tether’s official announcement, Tether officially launched the Mining Development Kit (MDK) on April 27—a fully open-source, full-stack development framework designed for Bitcoin miners and developers. MDK aims to provide a unified infrastructure control layer—from home miners to gigawatt-scale mining farms—and eliminate vendor lock-in caused by existing closed, proprietary systems. MDK adopts a modular architecture composed of two layers: MDK Core (an open-source SDK enabling real-time device control and customization) and the UI Development Kit (a standardized dashboard component library). It supports multi-platform deployment across Windows, macOS, and Linux, and is compatible with any hardware and vendor. The framework enables advanced use cases such as automated workflows, mining pool management, and AI-driven optimization.
according to official sources, OKX Agent Trade Kit has launched the "Smart Money Signal Suite," which integrates the real-time positions, win rates, and profit/loss data of over 1,000 popular traders from OKX Star and packages them as signal tools callable by AI Agents. This suite supports long/short market analysis and allows for multi-dimensional analysis including capital weighting, trader screening, and signal quality evaluation. Additionally, the system can track trend changes and sentiment shifts, providing auxiliary support for trading decisions. These features have been integrated into the Agent Trade Kit, and users can access them after upgrading to the latest version.It is reported that OKX Agent Trade Kit is an open-source exchange MCP toolset designed for AI Agents and professional traders. It previously launched suites such as "Skill Square," "Market Screening and Open Interest Analysis," and "Sentiment Radar."
Bitget Launches Labor Day “Slacking Off” Campaign, Open to Both New and Existing Users This campaign features two main components: “New User Quests” and “Invite Friends & Scratch to Win.” New users can earn up to 28 scratch-card chances by completing tasks such as KYC verification, depositing funds, and trading perpetual contracts. Both new and existing users can earn an additional 15 scratch-card chances by inviting friends to complete designated tasks. The scratch-card prize pool includes cash rewards ranging from 5 to 666 USDT, as well as Bitget-branded “Lure Fishing Kits” as exclusive merchandise. The campaign runs from 14:30 (UTC+8) on April 27 to 10:00 (UTC+8) on May 11. For more details, please visit the official Bitget platform.
The DeepSeek-V4, a new model series from DeepSeek, is officially launched today in preview form and simultaneously open-sourced. The series comprises two variants: - **DeepSeek-V4-Pro**, whose performance rivals top-tier closed-source models and leads the open-source domain in agent capabilities, world knowledge, and mathematical/coding reasoning; - **DeepSeek-V4-Flash**, which features a smaller parameter count and delivers faster, more cost-efficient API services. Both models support a 1M (million-token) ultra-long context window and operate in both non-thinking and thinking modes. Technically, DeepSeek-V4 introduces a novel attention mechanism—combining DSA (Dynamic Sparse Attention)—to achieve globally leading long-context capability while significantly reducing computational and GPU memory requirements. For API usage, the `model` parameter accepts `deepseek-v4-pro` and `deepseek-v4-flash`. The legacy model names `deepseek-chat` and `deepseek-reasoner` will be deprecated on July 24, 2026.
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.
Odaily News According to official news, Qwen has launched its latest open-source dense model, Qwen3.6-27B. This model features flagship-level programming capabilities, outperforming Qwen3.5-397B-A17B across all major programming benchmarks, and possesses strong reasoning abilities in text and multimodal tasks. Qwen3.6-27B supports both thinking and non-thinking modes and is fully open-sourced under the Apache 2.0 license.
According to CoinDesk, U.S. Representatives have introduced the “PACE Act,” aimed at modernizing the U.S. payment system. The bill would allow qualified companies direct access to the Federal Reserve’s payment rails to reduce payment delays, lower transaction fees, and accelerate fund transfers for consumers and businesses. The report notes that the proposal has garnered support from fintech and cryptocurrency groups, with the goal of making the payment system faster, lower-cost, and more competitive.
Odaily News The opening ceremony for the ETH HK Hub (Hong Kong Ethereum Community Hub), supported by the Ethereum Foundation, was held today in West Kowloon, Hong Kong. Ethereum co-founder Vitalik Buterin and Ethereum Foundation Chairperson Aya Miyaguchi attended the event and participated in a fireside chat with Hong Kong Legislative Council member Duncan Chiu.In his keynote speech, Vitalik suggested that Chinese builders return to Ethereum's core principles, fully leverage hardware advantages, open-source AI talent, and ZK technology to explore new cross-disciplinary ventures.Vitalik pointed out that the emergence of each new wave of technology presents an opportunity for a new generation of developers to return to the same starting line as global leaders. The Chinese-speaking community can maintain forward-thinking in an accelerating world and drive the development of the entire ecosystem through innovative solutions.The launch of the ETH HK Hub continues the Ethereum Foundation and the Ethereum ecosystem's emphasis on the Asia-Pacific community and also marks Hong Kong's crucial significance within Ethereum's global landscape.
Moonshot AI has released its new model, Kimi K2.6, which is now live on kimi.com in both chat and Agent modes. According to the official announcement, the model achieves top-tier performance across multiple open-source coding and tool-use benchmarks, including HLE with tools, SWE-Bench Pro, SWE-bench Multilingual, and BrowseComp. Meanwhile, Kimi K2.6 supports over 4,000 tool calls, continuous execution for more than 12 hours, and handles multi-language tasks—including Rust, Go, and Python. Its parallel Agent capability has been enhanced to support up to 300 concurrent sub-Agents and 4,000 steps per run, and is already deployed in autonomous operation scenarios such as OpenClaw and Hermes Agent.
According to The Block, the UK’s Financial Conduct Authority (FCA) has published a new consultation paper seeking feedback on how to bring digital asset activities—including stablecoin issuance, trading platforms, custody, and staking—under regulatory oversight. The consultation period ends on 3 June 2026. Crypto firms will be able to begin applying for FCA authorization as early as 30 September 2026, and the new regulatory regime is expected to officially take effect in 2027. The FCA stated that, prior to the new regime coming into force, crypto assets are largely unregulated in the UK—except for financial promotions and anti-financial crime oversight. Industry insiders note that the UK’s progress on crypto regulation clearly lags behind Europe, which has already established a comprehensive enforcement framework; however, some practitioners view the FCA’s systematic, phased implementation approach positively.
Cobo, a digital asset custody and wallet solutions provider, has launched the Adoption Clearing Layer (ACL), a payment incentive settlement layer open to public blockchains, stablecoin issuers, and payment institutions. Cobo aims to collaborate with more ecosystem partners to jointly build a stablecoin payment network grounded in real-world transactions. The ACL offers multi-chain payment routing and incentive settlement capabilities, directly linking ecosystem incentive budgets to genuine payment transactions—creating a transaction-centric growth loop. Initial ACL partners include Aptos and Morph; through ACL, participants can earn up to 15 basis points (bps) per transaction as commission—boosting authentic on-chain transaction volume for ecosystem participants while delivering sustainable revenue streams for payment institutions.
According to the official announcement, Bitget’s preSPAX VIP-exclusive airdrop registration is now officially open. The first round of the airdrop is available to users who were already Bitget VIPs before April 13 at 10:00 (UTC+8). The total airdrop pool for this round is 760 preSPAX tokens. Eligible users must complete registration via the “VIP Center” on the homepage and maintain their VIP status before April 15 at 23:59 (UTC+8). Airdrop rewards will be distributed based on users’ VIP tiers and will be issued on April 16. The second round of the airdrop is open to users who newly upgrade to VIP status between April 13 at 10:00 and April 19 at 23:59 (UTC+8). The total airdrop pool for this round is 190 preSPAX tokens, with allocation determined by users’ VIP tier at the end of the campaign period. Rewards for this round will be distributed on April 20. For more details, please refer to the official Bitget platform.
Circle Chief Strategy Officer Dante Disparte responded to the major security breach affecting Drift Protocol on April 1, which resulted in over $270 million in stolen funds. He stated that open financial systems must be built upon foundations of legal accountability, shared security, and rules that evolve in real time with emerging threats. Circle freezes USDC funds only when legally required—a measure reflecting its compliance obligations and safeguarding users’ assets and privacy rights. He emphasized that openness and accountability must be balanced, and all participants across the ecosystem—including protocols, wallets, infrastructure providers, exchanges, and stablecoin issuers—must jointly shoulder responsibility for security and accountability. Circle is collaborating with U.S. and international policymakers to advance stablecoin legislation, including the GENIUS Act, to establish a more modern legal framework enabling lawful, rapid intervention against illicit activities while protecting property rights and privacy—ensuring the continued resilience and robust growth of open financial systems.
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.