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According to the threat intelligence released by the SlowMist security team, its threat intelligence system MistEye has received community feedback regarding an active social engineering attack targeting cryptocurrency users.The attackers contact target users under the pretext of project collaboration, luring them to use a counterfeit "Harmony Voice" software (domain: harmony-voice[.]app) for so-called real-time translation, which is actually malware. SlowMist has synchronized the relevant threat intelligence (IOC) to its corporate clients.

According to Fortune, U.S. Senator Richard Blumenthal (Democrat, Connecticut) has sent a letter to the Department of Justice (DOJ) and the Financial Crimes Enforcement Network (FinCEN) requesting clarification on the status of two compliance supervisors at the world's largest cryptocurrency exchange, Binance.Previous reports indicated that internal investigators at Binance had warned executives that over $1 billion in funds were flowing to wallets associated with Iran, but were subsequently fired. Binance denies that the firings were related to the investigation results and claims that its compliance system is strict. Notably, the DOJ had previously terminated independent oversight requirements for Glencore and Boeing, raising concerns about whether the oversight mechanism has also been suspended for Binance. In 2023, Binance was fined $4.3 billion for deficiencies in anti-money laundering and sanctions compliance, and the two supervisors were part of the agreement at that time.

According to monitoring by Hyperinsight, Huang Licheng has slightly increased his holdings in ETH, BTC, and HYPE over the past half hour, and then simultaneously placed sell orders to take partial profits. Among them, the sell order for ETH is the largest, with plans to take profits when the price rises to $2365, with the profit-taking range reaching up to $2425, totaling approximately $4.25 million in sell orders.Currently, this address mainly holds a 25x leveraged long position in ETH, with a position size of $32.8 million, an average price of $2253, and a liquidation price of $2148, making it the largest long position in ETH on the Hyperliquid platform.

Singapore Gulf Bank (SGB) announced the launch of stablecoin minting and redemption services, allowing businesses and high-net-worth clients to directly convert between fiat currency and stablecoins through SGB accounts, achieving real-time settlement around the clock without relying on traditional intermediary banking processes.This service is integrated into SGB's proprietary clearing network SGB Net, supporting seamless flow of funds both on-chain and off-chain. The first supported stablecoin is USD Coin (USDC), with a minimum transaction amount of $100,000, and it will subsequently support USDT, USDe (Ethena), and Global Dollar (USDG).

According to the official announcement, Binance will adjust the minimum price movement unit (TickSize) for multiple U-based perpetual contracts on April 21 and 22, 2026. The contracts involved include LABUSDT, RAVEUSDT, ESPORTSUSDT, SNXUSDT, C98USDT, ONEUSDT, CELRUSDT, and XTZUSDT. Among them, trading for SNXUSDT, C98USDT, ONEUSDT, CELRUSDT, and XTZUSDT contracts will be suspended during the adjustment period.

The DoubleZero Foundation has announced that its Edge platform has officially entered the public testing phase. Edge is a permissionless platform running on DoubleZero's DePIN infrastructure, designed to provide ultra-low latency real-time data delivery services for on-chain markets.DoubleZero is committed to building a decentralized global fiber network to optimize low-latency distributed systems for blockchain. DoubleZero co-founder Andrew McConnell stated, "Traditional finance has gained a competitive advantage through decades of building infrastructure for speed and certainty, while on-chain markets have previously lacked a similar foundation. Edge aims to provide on-chain traders with a comparable level of certainty infrastructure, enabling tighter spreads and better execution."It is reported that Edge currently has about 350 data providers, with major Solana infrastructure providers such as Jito, Temporal, Staking Facilities, and Triton also joining.

According to Gate market data, U.S. stocks closed higher on Thursday, with the Dow Jones Industrial Average initially rising by 0.2%, the S&P 500 index up 0.26%, and the Nasdaq Composite index up 0.36%, marking the latter two achieving a consecutive rise for 12 trading days. Nuvoton Technology (NVTS.O) rose by 20%, Dell (DELL.N) rose by 9%, AMD rose nearly 8%, and Intel (INTC.O) rose over 5%. The Nasdaq China Golden Dragon Index closed up 1.75%, with NIO (NIO.N) rising nearly 7% and Alibaba (BABA.N) rising by 4%.

According to CoinMarketCap data, the performance of the top 100 cryptocurrencies by market capitalization is as follows:Top five gainers: RaveDAO (RAVE) up 39.53%, current price $17.06; siren (SIREN) up 37.75%, current price $1.11; MemeCore (M) up 27.84%, current price $3.68; Celestia (TIA) up 25.37%, current price $0.3997; edgeX (EDGE) up 16.31%, current price $1.2.Top five losers: JUST (JST) down 15.44%, current price $0.0597; DeXe (DEXE) down 8.6%, current price $11.16; Venice Token (VVV) down 4.67%, current price $8.48; Dash (DASH) down 4.19%, current price $36.52; Zcash (ZEC) down 3.96%, current price $337.2.

According to Cointelegraph, during the US-Iran conflict, UAE investors chose to buy the dip in AI and digital assets rather than reducing their overall positions.eToro data shows that in the first quarter, UAE users increased their holdings in several software and AI infrastructure stocks that had significantly pulled back in price. eToro market analyst Josh Gilbert stated that the behavior of UAE investors is driven by long-term themes rather than risk aversion, with the most obvious signals appearing in the AI infrastructure and software sector—ServiceNow (+125%), Super Micro Computer (+65%), Adobe (+54%), and Oracle (+38%) all saw significant increases in holdings against a backdrop of market pressure.In terms of crypto assets, Strategy Inc. remains the eighth highest held stock by UAE investors, indicating a continued allocation to crypto-related assets. Deutsche Bank's report on April 13 indicated that this conflict is more likely to strengthen rather than weaken the region's demand for AI, cybersecurity, and sovereign digital infrastructure; however, it also cited reports that the Amazon Web Services data centers in the UAE and Bahrain have been attacked, and the planned 1GW Stargate park in Abu Dhabi is also under threat.The report also noted that sovereign wealth funds in the Gulf region manage approximately $5 trillion in assets by 2025, with Abu Dhabi-related institutions being one of the most active sources of funding in the global AI sector. Local crypto businesses in Dubai are operating normally. HashKey MENA Managing Director Ben El-Baz told Cointelegraph that business remains normal, relying on cloud trading and custody systems; Binance also confirmed that the vast majority of employees chose to stay, but the Token2049 Dubai event has been postponed to 2027.The Dubai Virtual Assets Regulatory Authority (VARA) continues to advance its activity-type regulatory framework. VARA Market Assurance Director Sean McHugh stated that during times of pressure, serious market participants seek the clearest regulatory environment rather than the most lenient jurisdictions.

Charles Schwab officially announced the launch of Schwab Crypto™ spot cryptocurrency trading services, which will be gradually opened to retail customers in the coming weeks.The service supports direct trading of Bitcoin and Ethereum, and provides educational content and professional customer support, while integrating Charles Schwab's existing investment, trading, wealth management, and banking service systems.

According to Gate market data, the three major U.S. stock indices rose before the market opened, with the Nasdaq up 0.31%, the Dow up 0.02%, and the S&P 500 up 0.14%.Most of the seven major tech stocks rose before the market opened, with Apple (AAPL) down 0.15%, Microsoft (MSFT) up 1.54%, Alphabet (GOOGL) up 0.27%, Amazon (AMZN) up 0.12%, Nvidia (NVDA) up 0.41%, Tesla (TSLA) up 0.71%, and Meta (META) up 0.42%.

According to Arkham monitoring, the BlackRock Bitcoin ETF has held Bitcoin worth $59.31 billion, with an average holding price of $89,000. Following the recent rebound of Bitcoin, the holdings of the BlackRock Bitcoin ETF bottomed out on February 25 and have since rebounded by over $11 billion.

According to crypto analyst Yu Jin @EmberCN, the Bless project-related addresses have transferred out approximately 300 million BLESS in the past 9 hours, worth about 3.83 million USD.Of this, about 200 million BLESS (approximately 2.15 million USD) was transferred to the Bitget exchange, and another approximately 50 million (about 500,000 USD) was cross-chained to BSC and sold off, with about 10 million sold for approximately 125,000 USDT. As a result, the price of BLESS temporarily dropped over 55%.

According to Cointelegraph, the publicly listed AI cloud infrastructure company CoreWeave announced a $6 billion agreement with quantitative trading firm Jane Street to provide AI cloud computing services through multiple data centers to support its trading and research operations.According to the announcement, Jane Street also purchased $1 billion worth of CoreWeave Class A common stock at a price of $109 per share. CoreWeave transitioned from a cryptocurrency mining business to an AI cloud computing infrastructure company back in 2019 and has since taken a leading position in the "new cloud computing" sector.

According to official news, the scalable blockchain network AO based on Arweave has announced the launch of the "Network Availability Staking Alpha (NASA)" testing program, which is a key step in its AO ecosystem aimed at enhancing the availability and reliability of decentralized data networks through a staking mechanism. The program is currently in the Alpha stage, and users can participate in network availability verification and earn rewards by providing data services for Arweave gateways and staking AO tokens.In the first pilot phase, AO introduces the "availability staking" mechanism, requiring node operators to stake 25 AO to participate in the network and compete for the speed and stability of responding to user requests. The system will allocate rewards from a monthly reward pool of 1000 AO based on the performance of nodes in data services. This mechanism relies on the next-generation HyperBEAM architecture, enabling higher levels of verifiability and trustlessness for gateway and routing services while significantly reducing operational costs.The project team stated that NASA aims to establish a stronger decentralized economic model for the entire permanent network infrastructure, paving the way for future expansion into areas such as computing scheduling, data indexing, and network services. Although the current reward scale is small and still in the testing phase, the program is seen as an important starting point for the AO-Core economic system and will gradually expand to more network infrastructure services in the future.

According to Jinshi reports, Federal Reserve's Musalem stated that the oil price shock may be driving core inflation upward, and it is expected that core inflation will approach 3% by the end of the year.

According to Gate market data, Tesla's stock price rose by 7.9%, expected to set the largest single-day increase in over nine months.

According to Gate market data, Tesla (TSLA.O) stock price increase once expanded to 5%.