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At the "Crypto 2026: From Cryptocurrency to Smart Economy" themed forum held in Hong Kong, Arda Senoz, the head of the Alchemy Pay ecosystem, delivered a keynote speech titled "Bridging the Fiat and Crypto Global Economies."Arda Senoz highlighted the recently launched Alchemy Chain, whose core value lies in connecting the settlement links between wallets, merchants, and payment partners. The ACH token serves three main functions on the chain: covering Gas fees, incentives, and governance. According to the technical roadmap, the core payment and ACH fee settlement will be implemented in Q4 2025, liquidity and interoperability will be advanced in Q1 2026, and the issuance of Alchemy Chain stablecoins and the establishment of payment channels are planned for Q2 2026.Arda emphasized that Alchemy Pay always adheres to a compliant and secure product route, promoting the mainstream adoption of digital assets through innovative solutions such as RWA integration, truly achieving a seamless connection between fiat currency and the crypto economy.

Artificial intelligence company DeepSeek seeks to raise funds for the first time, with a valuation exceeding 10 billion dollars.

According to official news, on April 18 at 20:00, AINFT under Bai B.AI will jointly hold a special cooperation seminar on "Payment Systems under the AI Economy" with the PKUBlockchain Association of Peking University. This seminar is based on the emerging context of Web 4.0 and aims to explore in depth how payment, as a key infrastructure, drives the paradigm shift of AI from "content generation" to "transaction decision-making." Both parties will collaboratively delve into the innovative practices in the AI economic ecosystem and financial transaction system through a deep dissection of the intersectional narrative of AI and PayFi, reshaping the boundaries of future intelligent finance.

Yili Hua posted on platform X, acknowledging that he is very ordinary yet important. Whether in the classical industry or entering the cryptocurrency space, we have always focused on primary investment Liquid Capital & investment bank Liquid Digital and secondary trading Trend Research (crypto) & Trend Investment (classical). Although operating projects and exchanges are very profitable, our energy and capabilities are indeed limited, leaving us only to envy and be jealous.In 2018, we incubated a market maker, but because the team kept the profits for themselves and left the losses to us, we were left battered and bruised. After exiting in 2019, we have not deeply participated in market making again; at most, we have seen some good trading teams and made some investments. Conspiracy theories are always the most popular, but I am not a hexagonal warrior; where would I have the ability and energy to manage projects? The exchanges are very clear about this.

According to official social media news, Huobi HTX will hold a live broadcast themed "HTX Q1 Quarterly Burn is Coming: Will It Enter a Value Reversion Cycle?" today at 20:00 (UTC+8). At that time, HTX DAO core builders Molly, Helium, HTX DAO governance committee member Mao Mao Jie, ppp, HTX DAO listing observer Da Biao Ge, HTX research team leader Cloud, and HTX DAO Volunteer Association president Lan Yang Yang will all attend to engage in an in-depth discussion on the execution of the Q1 burn mechanism, the evolution path of the deflation model, and the subsequent HTX empowerment and ecological construction direction.

Binance founder Zhao Changpeng (CZ) reflected on the origins of BNB Chain in his new book, stating that the launch of BNB Chain coincided with the DeFi boom, which was not the result of his long-term planning. When the development team proposed to create this new public chain, he simply said yes and thereafter hardly participated deeply.CZ candidly stated, "In fact, I rarely make long-term plans. My principle is simple: when someone comes to me with a good idea, I give them ample resources and freedom to try."

According to Jinshi reports, Federal Reserve's Goolsbee stated that the longer high inflation persists, the more deeply it will become entrenched in the economy.

According to reports from the official public account, Alibaba's Qianwen App has completed an upgrade of its "in-depth research" feature, adding a financial analysis module. In collaboration with Tonghuashun, it integrates real-time minute-level market data for over 13,000 stocks and consolidates approximately 1 million financial reports, announcements, and authoritative research reports from listed companies. Users can generate a complete in-depth research report with one click using pre-set analysis instruction templates. The report supports automatic generation of visual charts and can be exported in Word/PDF format.The core technological support for this upgrade is the Qianwen Agentic architecture, which has autonomous planning and execution capabilities. It can interpret user intent, automatically call real-time data, and integrate multi-source information to output conclusions, with all key data clearly indicating the original source.

Cryptocurrency exchange Deepcoin announced today a partnership with Polymarket to officially launch the "Event Contracts" feature. This move marks Deepcoin as the first centralized exchange (CEX) to establish a formal collaboration with Polymarket, providing users with real quotes and liquidity support synchronized with global top event markets.Both parties achieve deep integration of underlying logic and clearing synchronization, allowing users to directly participate in popular contracts on Polymarket through their Deepcoin accounts, enjoying CEX trading speed, aligning with professional trading habits, and opening up trading channels for real-world events.Deepcoin stated that it will continue to refine its products in the future to create a more pure and professional trading experience.

The cryptocurrency data platform Nonce announced a strategic investment and deep incubation of the on-chain sports prediction platform S315, aiming to promote its realization from on-chain products to global capital docking in a full-chain landing.It is reported that S315 is positioned at the decentralized SportFi application layer and infrastructure, supporting users to make on-chain predictions and settlements for "Yes/No" binary contracts or specific match results for major global leagues such as football, basketball, and tennis.

Last night and this morning, many netizens on social media posted that "DeepSeek is down," with issues occurring on both the web and the app. Users encountered a "server busy" message, unable to start new conversations, and some even experienced lost conversation content.Upon checking, it was found that the DeepSeek server has now been restored, and users can chat normally. According to its official website's product service status log, at 2:16 AM on the 30th, it showed that DeepSeek's web/app performance was abnormal, and the issue was under investigation; by 9:13 AM, monitoring indicated that a fix had been implemented and results were being monitored.

According to a report by Fortune magazine, documents leaked from Anthropic show that its next-generation super robot "Claude Mythos" is currently being tested, and the company believes that this robot "poses an unprecedented cybersecurity risk." Musk stated, "This is deeply concerning."

According to BBX data, yesterday global listed companies showed a significant trend of shifting from "early adopters" to "traditional industry pillars" in their allocation of crypto treasuries. The core data is as follows:$100 million financing: HIVE Digital (TSX-V: $HIVE) announced yesterday that it raised $100 million through a private placement. The company clearly stated that, in addition to supporting the green energy upgrade of its Swedish data center, most of the funds will be used to purchase Bitcoin spot to maintain its "full retention" reserve discipline.500 strategic purchases: Mercari (TSE: 4385), Japan's largest second-hand trading platform, confirmed yesterday that it has completed its first batch purchase of 500 BTC. Mercari plans to use this as a liquidity asset for cross-border settlement on its platform, marking the official entry of Japan's retail e-commerce giant into the era of crypto treasuries.$50 million initial purchase: Viking Holdings (NYSE: $VIK) board approved a $50 million Bitcoin purchase plan yesterday. This cruise giant stated that this move aims to leverage the global liquidity of BTC to hedge against the exchange rate risks brought by multi-national fiat currency settlements.$100 million direct investment: Interactive Brokers (NASDAQ: $IBKR) disclosed in its latest financial report update that the company has directly converted $100 million in cash from its own treasury into Bitcoin. This is distinct from the brokerage services it provides to clients, demonstrating mainstream brokers' confidence in BTC as a "corporate-level asset."

According to Jinshi reports, Guosheng Securities' research report states that the Federal Reserve can only strengthen its wait-and-see stance in the context of rising uncertainty, paying attention to changes in the oil price center and the duration of high oil prices.The report points out that the situation in Iran has lasted for three weeks without signs of easing, indicating that energy prices such as crude oil and natural gas will remain high, which may lead to a gradual tightening of global liquidity. It is advised to be cautious of the possibility of a deep adjustment in the stock market.