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WEEX Exchange has announced the launch of its Meme Ecosystem Week. Users can trade the following meme tokens—PEPE, PENGU, BONK, DOGS, NOT, WIF, FARTCOIN, and TURBO—to share in a $60,000 reward pool. Event Period: May 6, 18:00 – May 16, 18:00 (UTC+8). During the event: - New users who make a net deposit of ≥100 USDT and execute their first spot trade in any of the eligible tokens will receive a mystery box airdrop worth up to $18. - Both new and existing users whose cumulative spot trading volume in the eligible tokens reaches ≥1,000 USDT are eligible to share in a $30,000 prize pool.
According to monitoring by crypto analyst Ember (@EmberCN), SKYAI's price has risen from $0.073 to $0.8 over the past month, representing an increase of approximately 10 times. An address spent 49,000 USDT to purchase 1.032 million SKYAI in June last year, with an entry price of approximately $0.048.Following the recent surge in SKYAI, this address has sold 873,000 SKYAI in the past few days, with a transaction value of approximately $372,000 and an average selling price of about $0.426. Currently, it still holds 158,000 SKYAI, valued at approximately $125,000.
According to monitoring by on-chain analyst Specter, the Wasabi Protocol attacker has deposited all stolen funds into Tornado Cash, moving approximately $5.9 million into Tornado Cash. Additionally, North Korean hacking groups have also used Tornado Cash to launder stolen funds from KelpDAO and LayerZero. Their process involved first cross-chaining the assets to Bitcoin, then routing them through Wasabi Mixer, extracting and cross-chaining back to Ethereum, depositing into Tornado Cash, subsequently withdrawing to new wallets and dispersing across multiple addresses. The new wallets then deployed tokens, used the stolen funds to buy in, removed liquidity from the deployment wallet, cross-chained to Tron (USDT), held for several hours or days, and finally sent to OTC-related wallets.
Tether’s official data reveals that Tether Gold (XAUT) continued its expansion in Q1 2026, with its total market capitalization surpassing $3.3 billion—driven by record-high gold prices and heightened macroeconomic uncertainty, which significantly increased investor demand for safe-haven assets. Tether’s quarterly data shows that its underlying gold reserves grew 36% quarter-on-quarter, reaching approximately 707,747 troy ounces as of March 31, fully backing the circulating XAU₮ tokens on a 1:1 basis with physical gold and supporting a total market capitalization of approximately $3.303 billion. Compared to roughly 520,000 troy ounces of gold reserves at the end of 2025, this quarter’s substantial increase in gold holdings reflects sustained capital inflows into digitized physical gold products.
According to on-chain analytics platform Lookonchain (@lookonchain), Tether has again minted 1 billion USDT on Tron; over the past two weeks, Tether has minted a total of 5 billion new USDT.
According to on-chain analyst Ai Yi's monitoring, a suspected Justin Sun address has withdrawn another 3.2 million USDT from Spark. Since April 29, it has accumulated withdrawals of $96.62 million in stablecoins. The treasury address 0x939…6A1D1 still holds $1.15 billion in Spark, including 1.02 billion USDS and 131 million USDC.
AethirClaw has officially launched CARA (Pre-configured Crypto AI Agent), running on Aethir's decentralized GPU infrastructure. Equipped with over 50 skills, it covers core crypto scenarios such as real-time market monitoring, whale wallet tracking, on-chain analysis, social media sentiment monitoring, and project due diligence, and users can use it out-of-the-box without any technical configuration.The platform supports payments via credit card as well as USDT, USDC, and ATH tokens. Aethir also disclosed that it will soon launch a Model-as-a-Service (MaaS) layer, running mainstream open-source large models on Aethir's decentralized GPU infrastructure, and expand multimodal capabilities including text-to-image and video generation.
According to on-chain analyst Ai Aunt (@ai9684xtpa), Sun Yuchen has withdrawn all 93.41 million USDT from the Spack USDT deposit pool. This amount previously accounted for 9.89% of the USDT single-pool deposit TVL and was fully deposited into HTX within the past half hour. Notably, Sun Yuchen also withdrew 10,417 USDC.
Bitget Wallet has launched a Labor Day QR code payment campaign, running from April 28 to May 7, further driving the adoption of stablecoin payments in everyday consumption and travel scenarios across the Asia-Pacific (APAC) region. During the campaign, users who complete offline QR code payments using USDT or USDC will receive RLUSD cashback for each transaction. From May 1 to May 7, Bitget Wallet will randomly select one paying user per day to receive an additional 1,000 RLUSD cashback. To lower the barrier to first-time usage, Bitget Wallet will also airdrop XRP to eligible participants—serving as the account reserve required to activate RLUSD withdrawals. RLUSD is a compliant U.S. dollar-pegged stablecoin issued by Ripple and regulated by the New York State Department of Financial Services (NYDFS). This campaign marks Bitget Wallet’s first real-world consumer application following its integration of the XRP Ledger (XRPL) mainnet and onboarding of the RLUSD payment ecosystem at the end of March—and represents a key milestone in advancing Bitget Wallet’s Everyday Finance strategy.
WEEX Exchange has announced a zero-fee campaign for Intel stock token INTCON. Users trading INTCON can share in a $30,000 USDT reward pool. Campaign Period: April 27, 19:00 – May 4, 19:00 (UTC+8). During the campaign: - New users who make a net deposit of ≥100 USDT are eligible to share in a $5,000 USDT reward pool. - New users who also execute their first spot trade in INTCON are additionally eligible to share in another $5,000 USDT reward pool. - Both new and existing users whose cumulative spot trading volume in INTCON reaches ≥100 USDT will receive a random trial bonus of 1–10 USDT; the maximum trial bonus available is $50 USDT.
WEEX Exchange has announced a zero-fee campaign for HNOCoin (HNO). Users trading HNO during the campaign can share in an airdrop of 66,666,666 HNO tokens. Campaign Period: April 25, 18:00 – May 2, 18:00 (UTC+8). HNO is a U.S.-based, energy-backed digital asset supported by real-world power generation and mining infrastructure. During the campaign: - New users who make a net deposit ≥ 100 USDT and execute their first spot trade in HNO will receive a reward of 66,666 HNO. - Both new and existing users whose cumulative HNO spot trading volume reaches ≥ 100 USDT will be eligible to share in an airdrop of 33,333,333 HNO tokens based on their trading volume ranking. The top three ranked users will receive 5,333,333 HNO, 4,000,000 HNO, and 2,666,666 HNO respectively.
Odaily Odaily: U.S. President Trump stated at a private event for TRUMP Meme coin holders held at his Mar-a-Lago estate in Florida that the White House will not allow banking lobbying groups to hinder the progress of the crypto market structure bill, the Digital Asset Market Clarity Act. He said the crypto industry has entered the mainstream, declaring "America is the leader in crypto," and that banks should not obstruct the establishment of stablecoin and crypto regulatory frameworks.Dubbed the "most exclusive meeting in the world," the event invited hundreds of large TRUMP coin holders. Guests included Tether CEO Paolo Ardoino, Ark Invest founder Cathie Wood, Anchorage Digital CEO Nathan McCauley, and boxing champion Mike Tyson. Previously, the U.S. banking industry had expressed concerns that stablecoin reward mechanisms could impact traditional deposit businesses, which had slowed the legislative process. (CoinDesk)
According to Hong Kong 01, Chen Bailiang, then a senior manager at Huobi Group, is alleged to have registered a personal account on the company’s platform under the name “Chen Feng,” bypassing the dark pool trading privileges reserved exclusively for corporate clients. This allowed him to conduct over-the-counter (OTC) bulk trades without price or quantity restrictions, and he transferred approximately 4.999 million USDT (worth roughly HK$39.18 million) in five separate transactions to his personal accounts on OKX and Binance. Chen Bailiang faced six charges of unauthorized access to a computer and one charge of money laundering. On April 24, 2026, the jury of the Hong Kong High Court returned verdicts of not guilty on all counts, and the court also granted the defendant’s application for costs.
According to the official announcement, Binance Futures will automatically liquidate VINEUSDT and AIUSDT USDⓈ-Margined Perpetual Contracts on April 28, 2026, at 18:00 (UTC). These perpetual contract trading pairs will be delisted upon completion of the liquidation. Starting from 17:30 (UTC) on April 28, 2026, users will no longer be able to place non-reducing orders for the above perpetual contracts.
Odaily news, according to official sources, the 8th edition of OKX's Play-to-Earn Strategy Trading "AI Special" is now officially open. The event runs from now until April 30, 23:59 (GMT+8). During the event, new users who deposit 10 USDT can claim a 100 U airdrop position, and those with spot trading volumes of 100 U can receive an additional 20 U as a reward.Additionally, both new and existing users who trade 10,000 USDT or complete 5,000 USDT in trading volume using the Agent Trade Kit have the chance to win rewards such as 2,000 USDT, 5 million large model Tokens, and Claude Pro memberships.
According to The Block, JPMorgan analysts noted in their latest report that ongoing DeFi security vulnerabilities and stagnant growth in total value locked (TVL) continue to constrain institutional enthusiasm for the DeFi sector. Recently, Kelp DAO’s cross-chain bridge suffered a major attack, during which the attacker minted $292 million worth of uncollateralized rsETH tokens and borrowed real ETH on Aave, resulting in approximately $230 million in bad debt. This caused DeFi TVL to evaporate by roughly $20 billion within several days. LayerZero and blockchain security researchers have attributed this attack to the North Korean hacker group Lazarus Group; some of the stolen funds have been frozen, while the rest remain in circulation. Analysts also pointed out that DeFi TVL denominated in ETH has remained range-bound for an extended period, raising market concerns about whether DeFi can achieve organic growth sufficient to support institutional adoption. Furthermore, following each security incident, users tend to shift funds into USDT as a safe-haven asset—yet this trend has not yet significantly driven USDT’s market capitalization growth.
According to on-chain analyst Onchain Lens (@OnchainLens), Tether has minted another 1 billion USDT on the Ethereum network; the total amount minted over the past five days has reached $3 billion.
According to on-chain analyst Ai Aunt (@ai9684xtpa), Sun Yuchen’s address 0x939…6a1d1 withdrew $300 million worth of USDS from Sky and deposited it into Spark within the past three hours. This address has now deposited approximately $1.3 billion in assets into Spark, with USDS farming rewards totaling $5.38 million. Specifically, USDS deposits amount to $436 million, representing 18.72% of the deposit pool; USDC deposits total $135 million, accounting for 28.17%; and USDT deposits stand at $93.39 million, making up 9.89%.
According to on-chain analyst PeckShield (@PeckShieldAlert), the KelpDAO attacker has transferred ETH from Ethereum to Arbitrum via the Across Protocol, swapped it for USDT, and then routed the funds to TRON DAO via LayerZero.
It is reported that Bybit Spot officially launched OpenGradient (OPG) on April 21. To celebrate the listing, the platform has simultaneously launched two promotional activities: the “OPG Token Splash” trading competition offering 4,000,000 OPG in rewards, and a dedicated OPG token savings campaign—both delivering up to 555% APY. OPG Token Splash: Users can participate by depositing funds or trading to win generous rewards. OPG Token Savings Campaign: From now until May 20, 2026, both new and existing users may choose between two savings plans offered by Bybit Earn. Participants can deposit either USDT or OPG, and all returns will be distributed in OPG tokens: New users depositing over 100 USDT are eligible for up to 555% APY; all users depositing over 2,000 OPG are eligible for up to 100% APY.