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According to the official website of SOL Strategies, SOL Strategies Inc. has signed a final agreement to acquire the assets of Darklake Labs, a native zero-knowledge technology company on Solana, for $1.2 million. The transaction price consists of $200,000 in cash and $1 million in equivalent common stock.Darklake's core product, Zyga, is a dynamic zero-knowledge proof system native to Solana that provides privacy protection at the transaction execution level and eliminates front-running and sandwich attacks.After the completion of the transaction, the core team of Darklake will join SOL Strategies, including CEO Vitor Py Braga (formerly with Meta and IBM), COO Amber Hales (formerly with Coinbase, with nearly a decade of compliance experience), and zero-knowledge research lead Tiago Alves.

SOL Strategies Inc. has signed a final agreement to acquire the assets of Solana native zero-knowledge technology company Darklake Labs for $1.2 million, with the transaction price consisting of $200,000 in cash and $1 million in equivalent common stock of the company.Darklake's core product Zyga is a dynamic zero-knowledge proof system native to Solana, which can achieve privacy protection at the transaction execution level and eliminate front-running and sandwich attacks. After the closing, Darklake's core team will join SOL Strategies, including CEO Vitor Py Braga (formerly of Meta and IBM), COO Amber Hales (formerly of Coinbase, with nearly a decade of compliance experience), and zero-knowledge research lead Tiago Alves.

Wintermute released its latest weekly report, stating that the current macro situation was entirely driven by geopolitical news last week: On Tuesday, the Iranian president signaled a ceasefire, causing the S&P 500 to surge about 2.9%, and Brent crude oil fell to $105; however, on Wednesday, Trump made a tough speech, promising "extremely severe" strikes against Iran for 2-3 weeks and showing no intention of reopening the Strait of Hormuz, leading WTI crude oil to soar 11% to over $111 on Thursday, while Asian markets plummeted.On Sunday, Trump threatened to bomb Iranian bridges and power plants on Tuesday, while also stating that it was "very likely" an agreement would be reached before Monday. Reports indicate that a 45-day ceasefire framework is under discussion. The current 10-year U.S. Treasury yield has risen to 4.36% (up 40bp since the conflict began), and swap market pricing shows a zero probability of a rate cut at the Federal Reserve meeting on April 28-29. PCE data will be released on Thursday, with the market watching whether the impact of oil prices will transmit to the Fed's preferred inflation indicators.In terms of digital assets, Bitcoin only rose 2% last week, with the fear and greed index at 9 (extreme fear), and social sentiment reaching the most bearish level since the conflict began. Institutional buying remains a key support, with net inflows into ETFs in March at $1.32 billion (the strongest since October 2025), Strategy increasing its holdings by 44,000 Bitcoins, and Morgan Stanley approved to list a spot ETF at a 14bp fee rate.However, in the last week of March, ETFs turned to outflows of $414 million, and the ratio of exchange whales rose from 0.34 in January to 0.79, while over-the-counter trading data also showed institutions shifting from buying to neutral to net selling. Ethereum performed well (+4.2%), with staking yields becoming a differentiated advantage in a "higher for longer" interest rate environment.Solana dropped below $80 due to a hack of the Drift protocol (resulting in a loss of $285 million, marking the second-largest hack in Solana's history). Wintermute stated that the Tuesday deadline for the Strait of Hormuz is a critical juncture. The 45-day ceasefire framework is the most concrete de-escalation effort since the conflict began, but damage to Iranian energy facilities, Gulf refineries, and port logistics has already occurred, and even a full ceasefire cannot restore pre-war shipping capacity overnight. If the "power plant day" threat materializes on Tuesday and Iran retaliates, the risk premium for oil prices will be immediately rebuilt.

The trading platform Bybit announced that its partnership with the Tomorrowland Brasil music festival will officially be renewed until 2027.It is reported that the 2027 Tomorrowland Brasil music festival will be held from April 30 to May 2, with the theme "Consciencia." As part of the partnership, Bybit cardholders will receive several exclusive benefits, including early ticket purchase rights, limited edition merchandise, discounts on official merchandise, and on-site drink perks.Bybit officials stated that the platform previously served as the exclusive payment partner for the festival in 2025, and future collaborations will focus on further integrating crypto finance with real-life lifestyles through seamless payment solutions. In addition, the pre-registration activities for the 2027 music festival will officially start on April 30, 2026.

The decentralized zero-knowledge proof verification layer Aligned updates the ALIGN token economics, with a total supply of 10 billion tokens and an initial circulation of approximately 16%.Of this, 23.5% will be allocated to the team (40% cliff unlock after 12 months, with the remaining portion unlocking linearly over 18 months), 19.71% will be allocated to investors, 18% will be allocated for the ecosystem (3.23% unlock at TGE, 6 months cliff unlock, with the remaining portion unlocking linearly over 24 months), 16.61% will be used for future reserves (40.24% unlock at TGE, 6 months cliff unlock, with the remaining portion unlocking linearly over 24 months), 11.4% will be allocated to the foundation (37.83% unlock at TGE, with the remaining portion unlocking linearly over 30 months), 8.74% will be used for airdrops (44.36% unlock at TGE), and 2.04% will be used for community sales (32.72% unlock at TGE).

Last night, the US and Iran simultaneously released signals of reconciliation, and the market reacted noticeably. Bitcoin quickly rebounded above $68,000, which also allowed it to narrowly escape a six consecutive monthly decline, ultimately closing March up 1.62%. Looking ahead to April, Bitcoin has historically experienced 8 increases and 5 decreases, with an average return of 13.06% and a median increase of 7.27%.

a16z partner Andrew Chen pointed out that AI code generation will fundamentally replace spreadsheets—spreadsheets are essentially "business logic trapped in a grid," lacking version control, testing, and modularity.AI code generation will compress the marginal cost from "spreadsheets" to "software" to nearly zero, and approximately 1 billion spreadsheet users worldwide are expected to migrate to real software applications.

The U.S. Treasury submitted a 32-page report to Congress stating that cryptocurrency mixers can be used for legitimate financial privacy purposes, allowing users to protect sensitive information such as personal wealth, business payments, or charitable donations. This stance marks a shift from its attitude when sanctioning Tornado Cash in 2022.The report reveals that North Korean cybercriminals stole at least $2.8 billion in digital assets between January 2024 and September 2025, including $1.5 billion stolen from Bybit, and regularly used mixers for multi-step money laundering. Since May 2020, over $1.6 billion in mixer deposits have flowed into cross-chain bridges, with more than $900 million concentrated in a bridging protocol related to North Korean money laundering activities.The report distinguishes between custodial and non-custodial mixers, noting that compliant custodial mixers can provide customer identity and off-chain transaction data, but it did not recommend imposing new restrictions on non-custodial mixers. In terms of legislative recommendations, the report urges Congress to create a digital asset-specific "freezing law" to provide safe harbor protection for financial institutions to temporarily freeze suspicious assets during short-term investigations, and suggests that Congress clarify which DeFi participants should bear anti-money laundering obligations.The report also proposes adding a "sixth special measure" to Section 311 of the USA PATRIOT Act, authorizing the Treasury to impose bans or restrictions on specific digital asset transfers that do not involve agency banking relationships. This report was prepared based on Section 9 of the GENIUS Act signed in July 2025.

A bill has been proposed in New York State, USA, aiming to prohibit AI from answering questions in professional fields such as medicine, law, dentistry, nursing, psychology, and engineering.According to relevant interpretations, this action is essentially not about protecting the public, but rather "an industry that charges $500/hour is using politicians to protect its knowledge monopoly." Lawyers do not want users to know that AI can draft contracts in 30 seconds, doctors do not want users to know that AI can interpret blood reports better than residents, and engineers do not want users to know that AI can review your design sketches overnight. The intention behind New York State's proposed ban on AI answering professional questions is not to protect users, but to protect their businesses.

According to The Block, a16z Crypto criticized the colloquial use of the term "ZK" in certain developer environments in a blog post about its Jolt zkVM. The article pointed out that most zkVMs do not actually possess zero-knowledge properties unless expensive "wrapping" programs are applied. The author also mentioned that "zk" often becomes synonymous with "conciseness," meaning "short proofs that verify quickly," rather than true zero-knowledge privacy.As the community's focus on privacy grows, the misuse of this terminology is becoming a real issue. a16z's open-source Jolt zkVM launched a major upgrade on Tuesday, natively supporting zero-knowledge proofs. Jolt employs the NovaBlindFold folding scheme to create blinded proofs to prevent information leakage, making it suitable for privacy applications, with the zero-knowledge proofs generated after the upgrade only increasing by about 3 KB compared to the original non-ZK proofs.

According to Jinshi News, Kevin Walsh's plan to reduce the Federal Reserve's balance sheet will only progress slowly. Walsh pointed out that the Federal Reserve's nearly $7 trillion balance sheet has overstepped into the realm of congressional authority and believes that large-scale bond purchases have distorted financial markets.Informed sources revealed that Walsh will only begin to adjust the balance sheet after consulting with banks and the public, and it is unlikely that the scale will be restored to pre-2008 financial crisis levels.

A theft occurred at a cryptocurrency trading platform in Tsim Sha Tsui, Hong Kong, where a 34-year-old network engineer is suspected of stealing approximately 20 customers' USDT (Tether), totaling about 2.67 million USDT, equivalent to around 20.87 million HKD. The police have arrested him.

According to CoinDesk, American private credit giant Blue Owl Capital announced the sale of approximately $1.4 billion in loan assets to meet redemption demands from investors in its retail-focused private credit fund.The fund will return about 30% of its net asset value (NAV) to qualified investors, with the asset sale price equivalent to 99.7% of face value. As a result, Blue Owl's stock (OWL) fell nearly 15% this week, with a cumulative decline of over 50% compared to the same period last year; shares of other private equity firms such as Blackstone, Apollo Global, and Ares Management also saw significant declines.Experts liken this to the "canary in the coal mine" signal before the 2007 financial crisis, warning that excessive expansion in the private credit market (especially related to AI investments) could trigger systemic risks, credit tightening, and banking contagion.If pressure intensifies, forcing central banks to cut interest rates and inject liquidity, it could recreate the post-pandemic scenario of 2020, providing momentum for Bitcoin and the crypto market, and driving the next bull market.

According to official news, Owlto Finance has now launched the Privacy Mode (Beta) privacy cross-chain feature. This mode is aimed at cross-chain transfer scenarios, supporting one-to-many address batch sending, and provides parameter configurations such as random amount ranges and random sending intervals to reduce on-chain transaction correlation and enhance privacy protection experience.Previously, Ethereum co-founder Vitalik Buterin recently stated that on-chain privacy is a key component. The launch of Privacy Mode by Owlto is to fill the basic capability of privacy protection in cross-chain usage scenarios.

StarkWare posted on the X platform that the zero-knowledge privacy protocol Nightfall developed by Ernst & Young has been deployed on Starknet.

According to Lookonchain monitoring, a Polymarket trader spent $2.34 million yesterday betting on the Seahawks to win the 2026 Super Bowl. Two hours ago, he redeemed $3.41 million, making a profit of $1.07 million.

According to Decrypt, during the 60th Super Bowl (Super Bowl LX) held on Sunday, Coinbase was the only cryptocurrency company to run a major advertisement. Compared to the "Crypto Bowl" in 2022, where multiple crypto companies participated collectively, this year's industry marketing scale has significantly reduced. Coinbase's advertisement lasted one minute and featured the karaoke lyrics of the Backstreet Boys' 1997 single "Everybody (Backstreet's Back)."Coinbase CEO Brian Armstrong stated that the advertisement aims to promote economic freedom and alleviate polarized sentiments through a choral format. Analysts pointed out that this advertising strategy reflects the cautious attitude of the cryptocurrency industry after market reshuffling, with marketing focus shifting from early celebrity endorsements and high cashbacks to compliance and trust-building.

According to monitoring by Lookonchain, Polymarket trader kch123 (0x6a7...33ee) has accumulated profits exceeding 11 million dollars. During the Super Bowl LX in 2026, this trader made 5 bets and won all of them, earning 1.8 million dollars in a single day.The composition of their profits includes: profit of 986,792 dollars from Seahawks (-4.5) spread, profit of 298,946 dollars from the Seahawks vs. Patriots game, profit of 235,343 dollars from the prediction "Seattle Seahawks will win the Super Bowl 2026," profit of 220,760 dollars from Seahawks (-5.5) spread, and profit of 62,507 dollars from the prediction "New England Patriots will win the Super Bowl 2026."

Bithumb exchange announced today that it acknowledged an error in the distribution of activity rewards, which led to some users receiving an abnormal amount of Bitcoin. These users subsequently sold off their holdings, causing a sharp fluctuation in Bitcoin prices in a short period. The exchange's internal control system quickly identified and restricted the trading of the relevant accounts, and the market price returned to normal levels within 5 minutes. Bithumb emphasized that this incident is unrelated to external hacking attacks, and customer asset security has not been affected, with trading and deposit/withdrawal functions operating normally. The exchange has committed to handling subsequent matters transparently to ensure that customer rights are not compromised.