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According to Jinshi reports, Fed's Daly stated that productivity growth helps inflation to decline, but this is not something we can rely on.

The Ministry of Economy and Finance of South Korea announced that it will launch a pilot program for blockchain deposit tokens in Sejong City in the fourth quarter of 2026, to replace traditional government procurement card payments.The project has been approved under the 2026 regulatory sandbox program, allowing institutions to pay business promotion expenses in the form of tokenized deposits. Token payments can preset spending limits and available industry ranges, helping to reduce the need for manual audits and lowering transaction fees for small businesses by removing intermediaries such as card networks.This is the second application of deposit tokens in fiscal operations, following the completion of the first pilot in the electric vehicle charging infrastructure subsidy program. If the pilot proves effective, the Ministry of Finance of South Korea plans to further promote the program.

According to Arkham monitoring, Dragonfly received 55.8 million LIT from Lighter. Analysis indicates that this may be the investor token share of Dragonfly, which will be locked for 1 year and will be unlocked in phases after the TGE. It is expected that these tokens will not be liquid again before December 30, 2026.

Due to the migration of the top decentralized application Ether.fi to Optimism, the Ethereum Layer-2 network Scroll has experienced a significant loss of funds, resulting in a total value locked (TVL) decrease of approximately $160 million and an annual fee loss of about $13 million.Scroll stated that it will propose a plan to dissolve the decentralized security committee and reduce DAO members to lower operational costs, with network control being handed over to the internal team. Additionally, Scroll briefly raised network gas fees by 1,280 times after the protocol migration, causing users to pay over $50,000 in extra fees, but it has since returned to normal. After this adjustment, Scroll's TVL has dropped to approximately $23 million. The official statement claims that all contract changes will remain transparent and verifiable on-chain.

According to Punchbowl, the hearing for Federal Reserve Chair nominee Waller is scheduled for April 21.

Aptos released an update on its token economics. The main adjustments include: the annualized staking reward rate decreased from 5.19% to 2.6%; Gas fees increased tenfold (the cost of stablecoin transfers remains as low as approximately $0.00014); after the launch of Decibel DEX, on-chain trading volume and Gas fee burning will significantly increase, with an expected annual burn of over 32 million APT; setting a hard cap total supply of 2.1 billion APT at the protocol layer; the Aptos Foundation will permanently lock and stake 210 million APT; future incentives will be converted to milestone triggers; exploring a programmatic buyback plan.

According to a report by businesswire, Nasdaq-listed Bitcoin treasury company Empery Digital disclosed that it sold 55 Bitcoins at an average price of $70,560 last week, generating total proceeds of approximately $3.9 million, and its total Bitcoin holdings have decreased to 2,934 coins.In addition, the company also disclosed that it has spent approximately $147 million to repurchase 25,805,396 shares of common stock, and will continue to sell Bitcoins as needed to fund future stock repurchases and possibly repay some outstanding debt.

According to Tencent News' "Periscope," the Vice President of the Hong Kong Monetary Authority, Chen Weimin, stated that the timeline for issuing the second batch of licenses has not yet been determined, as it needs to be "based on the operational situation of the first two companies," and the total number of licenses in the future will be very limited.In addition, sources revealed that Chinese institutions that participated in the application submission have received "window guidance" from relevant departments, requesting them to postpone their participation in the stablecoin license application. However, some Chinese institutions have continued to communicate with the Hong Kong Monetary Authority over the past few months. After excluding Chinese institutions, the vast majority of the proposed applicants have limited capabilities, and there are not many qualified institutions that can fully meet the requirements of the "Stablecoin Regulation."Lee Kuan-hong, the head of HSBC Payme, told reporters that any Payme user can open a stablecoin account. In the stablecoin account, users can directly transfer money to friends and family, transfer to merchants, or invest in products linked to stablecoins. Users in the HSBC app cannot directly open an account; they must wait for HSBC to screen eligible users before applying for a stablecoin account.Payme account opening has required users to be local residents of Hong Kong, while users of the HSBC app also include mainland users. Under the existing management framework in Hong Kong, only local residents can participate in virtual asset trading, and mainland customers, even if they are mobile payment users of HSBC Hong Kong, cannot apply for a stablecoin account.

The audit report of NXC, the parent company of South Korean gaming giant Nexon, shows that by the end of 2025, the scale of cryptocurrency assets held by NXC is 147.6 billion won, including 2,356 bitcoins and 22,400 ethers, a decrease of 15.2% from the previous year's 174 billion won. NXC has sold its shares in Bitstamp and excluded it from its subsidiaries.In addition, NXC decided to dispose of all its shares in Korbit through a board resolution in February this year. Meanwhile, NXC, through its subsidiary NXMH, acquired shares in the European industrial solutions company CLI Group in February this year to promote business diversification.

X product head and Solana advisor Nikita Bier stated that during this round of creator revenue sharing, the revenue share for all aggregated accounts has been reduced to 60%. In the next cycle, it will be further reduced by 20%. Nikita Bier pointed out that the large amount of plagiarized reposts and clickbait content published daily on the timeline not only squeezes the living space of real creators but also hinders the growth of new authors. The next step will be to permanently deduct earnings from users who habitually post clickbait content and use the "BREAKING" label in every post. X will not restrict speech or the scope of dissemination but will not provide revenue compensation for manipulating distribution mechanisms or misleading user behavior.

The World official blog announced that the unlocking rate of the WLD token will be automatically reduced by approximately 43% starting from July 24, 2026. Currently, 4.9 billion WLD (49% of the total supply) has been unlocked, of which about 3.3 billion is in circulation.Specifically, the unlocking rate for the World community will decrease from 3.2 million per day to 1.6 million, a reduction of 50%; the unlocking rate for the team and investors will decrease from 1.9 million per day to 1.3 million, a reduction of 32%. The overall unlocking amount will decrease from approximately 5.1 million per day to about 2.9 million.WLD adopts a continuous linear unlocking mechanism, with no one-time large unlocks (cliff). This rate adjustment is due to established on-chain contract arrangements and aims to gradually reduce selling pressure.

According to CoinDesk, Flare has announced a governance proposal to capture Maximum Extractable Value (MEV) at the protocol layer, with a newly established entity, FIRE, responsible for revenue reinvestment and the buyback and burn of FLR tokens.The plan includes a three-phase block construction overhaul: first, block builders will be designated by the Flare Entity, then Flare Confidential Compute will be introduced for public auditing, and finally, builders will be merged with proposers, with original validators transitioning to a verification role. The proposal also reduces the annual inflation rate of FLR from 5% to 3%, lowers the annual hard cap from 5 billion to 3 billion tokens, increases the base gas fee to 1,200 gwei, and is expected to raise the annual burn amount to 300 million tokens. These measures aim to optimize the network's economic model and enhance the transparency and security of the protocol.

According to Bloomberg, informed sources revealed that Anthropic employees have sold a portion of their equity to investors, completing a secondary equity sale that began earlier this year. However, due to the limited number of shares employees were willing to sell, some investors were unable to acquire as many shares as planned. Informed sources stated that the offer price for this acquisition is the same as the company's most recent financing valuation from February of this year. According to its latest transaction, the company's valuation is $350 billion.The total amount of the share sale has not been disclosed, but some individuals indicated that its scale is below the $6 billion raised by investors. Anthropic employees hope to retain more shares before the company's upcoming initial public offering (IPO), which is expected to take place as early as this year.One individual stated that this lower-than-expected transaction indicates that employees are optimistic about the company's prospects as its annual revenue rises. Last month, the company's annual revenue exceeded $19 billion. By April, Anthropic announced that its annual run rate revenue had surpassed $30 billion.

CZ stated in his new book "Binance Life" that he proactively went to the United States in 2023 and admitted to violating relevant provisions of the U.S. Bank Secrecy Act, mainly involving Binance providing services to U.S. users without completing registration in the early stages.CZ mentioned that under the backdrop of a tightening regulatory environment at that time, failing to make that decision could have brought greater uncertainty and potential impacts on Binance's operations, BNB holders, and the development of the industry. CZ indicated that he chose to personally bear legal responsibility to mitigate the impact on platform users and the overall crypto industry, ensuring the continuous operation of the business.

According to monitoring by Hyperinsight, the "Silver Iron Head Air Force" whale today reduced its position by approximately $11.4484 million in ETH short positions (6,100 units), realizing a small profit. Currently, it still holds about 5,126 ETH short positions, valued at approximately $11 million, with an entry average price of $2,237.4 and a liquidation price of $3,079.42. It is reported that this whale has been continuously increasing its short position since opening an ETH short with 20x leverage on April 1, and has set up short limit orders, with the position size once exceeding 10,000 ETH, valued at over $20 million.This whale does not hold a single-direction position but is engaging in swing trading: currently, it has set up 5,126.93 ETH long positions in the $2,180--$2,200 range, while also setting up 10,869.56 ETH short positions in the $2,260--$2,340 range.

According to official news, the Rayls public chain mainnet will go live on April 30, along with the launch of the staking program and the Rayls native USD stablecoin USDr, marking the official implementation of the $RLS token economics.After the mainnet activation, transaction fees (paid in USDr on the public chain, RLS can be used on the private chain) will be converted, accumulated, burned, and redistributed through an automated mechanism: 50% of the transaction fees will be permanently burned, creating deflationary pressure; 50% will be injected into the network security pool to reward validators. The total supply of Rayls token RLS is fixed at 10 billion, with most tokens locked until 2028 to ensure long-term incentives and stable development, with a TGE circulation ratio of less than 15%; the majority of shares held by investors and the team will have a 12-month cliff period followed by a 36-month unlocking period, and additionally, 10% of the tokens unlocked by the foundation each month will be burned, further accelerating deflation.

According to statistics from DeFi analysts, affected by the bear market, 21 cryptocurrency projects have recently announced closures or significant reductions in services, covering the fields of DeFi, NFT, wallets, and gaming.Among them, Leap Wallet will completely shut down all products on May 28, and users need to migrate their assets to Keplr or MetaMask as soon as possible. Magic Eden has decided to close ME Wallet and focus on the NFT market and infrastructure on Solana, with the wallet ceasing operations on May 1. Fantasy Top plans to take non-core functions offline in mid-June to concentrate resources on prediction market games.In the DeFi sector, Angle Protocol has stopped its stablecoin business due to reduced activity and increased competition, while ZeroLend and Polynomial Finance have scaled back services due to insufficient liquidity and low trading volume. The NFT platforms Nifty Gateway and Sound.xyz have closed some operations due to market changes and strategic adjustments.In addition, gaming projects like Runiverse and Pixiland Social have paused blockchain-related operations due to high development costs and regulatory uncertainties, while projects like Dmail, Yupp AI, and DataHaven have been forced to exit due to funding issues or market changes.Analysts believe that this industry reshuffle is a necessary reconfiguration of the market, and Web3 projects that prioritize actual utility and sustainable economic models will be more competitive in the future.

Simon Gerovich, CEO of the Japanese Bitcoin listed company Metaplanet, posted on the X platform in response to the Japan Exchange Group (JPX) announcing the postponement of including companies with major assets in cryptocurrency into the index, stating that he respects the relevant procedures and will actively participate, which will not affect the advancement of Bitcoin strategy and ecological layout.He added that Metaplanet was established to provide Japanese investors with a compliant channel to access Bitcoin through companies listed on the Tokyo Stock Exchange, but the company's strategy goes beyond asset allocation and will promote the development of the Japanese Bitcoin ecosystem through "Project Nova," including the layout of operational businesses and investment in industry partners. So far, more than 216,000 Japanese shareholders have participated in this strategy, and Metaplanet will continue to maintain constructive communication with all parties, including JPX, to enhance the market's understanding of Bitcoin and the company's role in the Japanese financial system.

According to Jin Shi reports, a source told CNBC that the U.S. Senate Banking Committee will hold a hearing on April 16 to review the nomination of Kevin Warsh as Chairman of the Federal Reserve.Another criminal investigation surrounding the Federal Reserve is still ongoing, examining whether current Chairman Powell made false statements to Congress regarding the expensive renovations of the Federal Reserve's office building. Meanwhile, Warsh's nomination process is still moving forward, which could lead to a conflict between the two parallel processes pushed by the Trump administration.Banking Committee member Thom Tillis has already stated that he will not vote to confirm Warsh until the investigation is concluded, meaning Trump cannot advance both processes simultaneously. However, by continuing to push for the hearing, Trump is clearly still trying to achieve this goal. The Senate Banking Committee has not yet listed the hearing on the public agenda.