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At the "Crypto 2026: From Cryptocurrency to Smart Economy" themed forum held in Hong Kong, Dr. Daxue Wang, CFO of Lotus Technology Inc., delivered a keynote speech titled "Crypto Links to the Physical Industry, Smart Mobility Running on the Chain."Dr. Daxue Wang stated that smart mobility is the pioneering carrier of the smart economy. Lotus, a luxury electric vehicle brand with a 78-year history, has been listed on NASDAQ and is actively exploring the deep integration of crypto technology with the physical industry. He proposed three major integration directions:First, safeguarding data value by utilizing the immutable nature of blockchain and privacy computing, allowing users to have absolute control over their personal data, achieving credible data circulation and value flow. Second, releasing asset value by exploring efficient circulation and fair trading of assets such as vehicle sales, brand value, autonomous driving technology patents, and global sales networks through RWA, while promoting credible traceability of carbon assets in green mobility. Third, co-creating ecological value by recording data on driving, charging, and maintenance through on-chain smart nodes, allowing users to upgrade from "car owners" to "participants in the brand ecosystem" through on-chain rights confirmation.Dr. Daxue Wang pointed out that the current challenges include compliance implementation, technology adaptation, and ecological co-construction, but the opportunities lie in open cooperation, promoting smart mobility as a practical landing scenario of the smart economy. Lotus hopes to work hand in hand with the crypto ecosystem to realize the vision of "from buying a Lotus car to sharing the growth value of Lotus technology."

The bond tokenization platform BlockInvest announced the completion of a €4 million strategic round of financing, with Italy's UniCredit participating and acquiring a 16% stake in the company.It is reported that BlockInvest will assist UniCredit in issuing Italy's first native digital mini-bond, as well as the first blockchain-based tokenized structured notes aimed at wealth management clients, and will build a system that combines digital ledger programmability with finance.

According to Bloomberg, Flow Capital Partners plans to launch its $150 million private credit fund on a blockchain platform based in Singapore by the end of this month, becoming one of the first asset management firms in Asia to leverage the growing liquidity of stablecoins.The alternative asset management company headquartered in Hong Kong will provide its master fund through DigiFT Tech Pte. and plans to raise an additional $30 million through tokenized shares by the end of this year. The company's Chief Investment Officer Jacky Tian stated that the goal is to expand the fund, which was launched in June, to $250 million by the end of the year.

According to Jinshi reports, former U.S. Treasury Secretary Yellen stated that Federal Reserve Chair nominee Kevin Warsh lacks "credibility" in advocating for interest rate cuts.

According to Bloomberg, Carlyle Group raised $1.5 billion in the first round of fundraising for its newly established asset-backed investment fund, as the private equity giant continues to expand its credit business.Pension funds, sovereign wealth funds, and other institutional investors participated in the fund—Carlyle Asset-Backed Income Fund. Unlike most fixed-term credit funds, this fund will adopt a "perpetual" structure with no set expiration date. The individual requested anonymity due to the sensitive nature of the information.

According to Bloomberg, the Federal Reserve is inquiring in detail with major banks about their risk exposure in the private credit sector, due to a surge in fund redemptions and a continuous rise in non-performing loans. The Treasury is also simultaneously questioning the insurance industry to comprehensively assess the overall pressure on the $1.8 trillion private credit industry and the risks of its spillover into the financial system.BitMEX founder Arthur Hayes commented, "I hope the scale is large enough so that we can welcome money printing to save the market." Implicitly, if this regulatory assessment reveals systemic risks, it may force the Federal Reserve to restart easing and implement large-scale monetary expansion, which could benefit the cryptocurrency market.

OKX will open OneFootball Credits (OFC) deposits on April 9, 2026, at 10:00, with a collective auction from 17:00 to 18:00. Spot trading for OFC/USDT will start at 18:00, and withdrawals will open at 20:00. Users can prepare for trading by depositing USDT.

According to The Block, based on the 8-K document submitted by Strategy to the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission, the company reported an unrealized loss of approximately $14.46 billion in Bitcoin for the first quarter of 2026. However, the related tax implications resulted in approximately $2.42 billion in deferred tax assets, partially offsetting the book losses.Despite the holdings being in a state of unrealized loss, Strategy chose to continue increasing its Bitcoin holdings in early April. The related funds mainly came from its ATM (at-the-money) equity financing plan, which is also part of its "42/42" financing strategy, aiming to raise $84 billion by 2027 for continued Bitcoin accumulation.

Bitcoin fell back after reaching $69,000 on Wednesday, following U.S. President Trump's speech that failed to assure an end to the Iran war, while WTI crude oil prices rose above $110, triggering market risk aversion. Meanwhile,the U.S. Treasury expressed concerns about the $2 trillion private credit market, and Blue Owl, which manages $30.7 billion in assets, announced that two of its private credit funds experienced "unconventional redemption requests," setting a withdrawal request limit of 5%. The number of people continuously applying for unemployment benefits in the U.S. rose to 1.84 million.Bitcoin has maintained a support level of $66,000 this week but faces multiple selling pressures. The U.S.-listed spot Bitcoin ETF has seen a net outflow of $450 million since March 24, with the industry holding $88 billion in Bitcoin assets, of which BlackRock's IBIT leads with $53.9 billion. MARA Holdings sold 15,133 BTC in March, Riot Platforms transferred out 500 BTC for sale, and Nakamoto Holdings sold 284 BTC.The U.S. federal deficit is expected to reach $1.9 trillion by 2026, and the market believes that economic stimulus measures may provide support for Bitcoin prices in the medium term. Companies like Strategy and Metaplanet continue to buy Bitcoin, partially offsetting the aforementioned selling pressure.

According to Jin Shi reports, Fed's Logan stated that some weakness and vulnerabilities have been observed in the private credit sector.

According to The Block, South Korea's major credit card company KB Kookmin Card announced that it will collaborate with Avalanche to build a hybrid stablecoin payment model based on a public chain, and jointly develop a complete stablecoin system covering recharge, payment, and settlement with digital asset infrastructure company OpenAsset.This system will retain the user experience and reward points of traditional credit cards to lower the threshold for users to use stablecoins and digital assets. It is reported that the system will prioritize deducting the stablecoin balance in the digital wallet linked to the credit card, and when the balance is insufficient, the difference will be automatically paid by the credit card. Previously, KB Card disclosed in January this year that it had applied for relevant patents involving a hybrid payment system that connects existing credit cards with digital wallets.

According to CoinDesk, Aave has officially launched the v4 upgrade version on Ethereum after about two years of development, introducing a new architecture that separates the lending markets while sharing liquidity, aiming to expand DeFi from crypto-native lending to real-world assets and institutional use cases.The v4 version changes the way Aave organizes its markets, allowing different types of lending markets to operate independently while sharing the same liquidity pool, enabling users to conduct lending operations on assets beyond crypto tokens in the future. Aave Labs founder Stani Kulechov stated that lending is based on trust and needs to reflect market conditions. He also pointed out that this upgrade facilitates other teams to develop and expand on top of the protocol.In terms of capital efficiency, the v4 version can also reinvest idle funds within the system. The upgrade launched with a limited set of markets and conservative parameter settings, with more features to be added gradually following governance resolutions. This launch coincides with governance disputes within the Aave ecosystem regarding decentralization and revenue distribution issues.

Bloomberg analyst Eric Balchunas posted on social media that the T-Strive Digital Credit ETF, jointly launched by Tuttle and Strive, has submitted new application documents. This ETF will hold preferred securities of DAT company.The T-Strive Digital Credit ETF is a basket of holding-type products, with underlying assets being the preferred securities of multiple Digital Asset Trusts (DATs). It can be understood as a "DAT preferred securities portfolio ETF," rather than just betting on a single issuer.

According to Fortune, Valinor, a blockchain private credit startup co-founded by former Blackstone employees, announced the completion of a $25 million seed round financing. This round was led by Castle Island Ventures, with participation from the crypto division of Susquehanna, Maven11, and the founder of TeraWulf, a Bitcoin mining company transitioning to artificial intelligence.Valinor's core business is to put the private credit process on-chain. Traditional private credit institutions rely on manual verification and spreadsheet collaboration when handling revolving credit lines and other businesses. Valinor plans to replace these processes with smart contracts to achieve automated routing of funds and condition-triggered execution.Both co-founders have traditional finance backgrounds, having worked in banks and the private credit division of Blackstone before transitioning to the crypto industry in 2022. Initially, Valinor focuses on providing loans to crypto companies, and later plans to introduce blockchain technology into the loan process to enhance efficiency. Currently, the company has completed lending for several fintech and crypto companies through blockchain technology.The funds raised in this round will be used to expand the loan scale, broaden the customer base, and increase team personnel, with the current number of employees at 6.

According to Forbes, Michael Saylor has transformed Strategy (formerly MicroStrategy) from a little-known enterprise software company into the world's largest corporate holder of Bitcoin over the past six years, accumulating over 762,000 BTC, worth billions of dollars.At the digital asset summit held in New York yesterday, Saylor discussed "digital credit" and views it as a core opportunity. The STRC (nicknamed "Stretch") he introduced is a preferred stock product positioned by Strategy as a unique tool in the crypto space: a low-volatility, high-yield asset designed to be included in fixed-income portfolios. Saylor mentioned that the product has a yield of 11.5%, a volatility of about 2%, and a Sharpe ratio close to 4. The nominal size of the product reaches $5 billion, with an average daily liquidity of $224 million, already achieving institutional-level trading scale.After the meeting, he stated, "Digital credit is the most attractive credit tool in the world. If you can create a product with a Sharpe ratio of 4, it should be in every portfolio."Meanwhile, institutional funds are flowing back into Bitcoin through regulated channels, with the U.S. spot ETF recording the longest net inflow period this year. However, the proportion of crypto assets in U.S. managed wealth is still below 0.5%—and Saylor is trying to bridge this gap. For yield-seeking investors, a tool that uses Bitcoin as collateral, has bond-like volatility, and offers double-digit returns opens up a whole new investment narrative.

According to Slow Fog monitoring, the Apifox desktop client has encountered a supply chain attack, with front-end script files hosted on its official CDN being injected with highly obfuscated malicious JavaScript code.Affected users may face risks such as credential theft, sensitive data leakage, and remote command execution, with the malicious code executing automatically and being highly concealed. Slow Fog recommends that users immediately revoke all Tokens, reset passwords, log out and log back in to invalidate sessions, block the *.apifox.it.com domain, clear local storage, and review API logs and abnormal activities.

Metaplanet, a Japanese Bitcoin cryptocurrency vault (DAT) company, announced the launch of the shareholder limited edition credit card "Metaplanet Card," which will be put into use this summer.Shareholder cardholders will automatically receive 1.6% of the amount spent during daily purchases back in the form of equivalent Bitcoin, allowing each card payment to be directly converted into a Bitcoin investment.

The Chief Information Security Officer of Slow Fog, 23pds (Shan Ge), posted on the X platform stating that there are reports that the LiteLLM vulnerability attackers have stolen approximately 300GB of data and compromised about 500,000 credentials. He advises all cryptocurrency developers to immediately verify and quickly rotate relevant keys and credentials, check logs, access records, and the exposure of sensitive data to avoid losses similar to the Trust Wallet incident.Previously, it was reported that LiteLLM, which has a monthly download volume of 97 million, suffered a supply chain attack, allowing the simple installation to steal all sensitive credentials, including SSH keys.

Andrej Karpathy posted on the X platform that litellm has encountered a PyPI supply chain attack, where executing pip install litellm can steal SSH keys, AWS/GCP/Azure credentials, Kubernetes configurations, git credentials, environment variables, encrypted wallets, SSL private keys, CI/CD keys, and database passwords.litellm has a monthly download volume of 97 million, and the risk can spread to all projects that depend on litellm, such as dspy. The version with the malicious code was online for less than about 1 hour, and it was discovered due to a flaw in the attack code that caused Callum McMahon's machine to run out of memory and crash. Andrej Karpathy stated that supply chain attacks are the most threatening issue in modern software, as each installation of dependencies can introduce tampered packages deep within the dependency tree, leading him to increasingly prefer reducing dependencies and using LLM to directly implement simple functions.