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The UK-listed company Quantum Blockchain announced a placement of 142,857,142 new shares at a price of 0.35 pence per share to raise £500,000. In addition, the company announced the establishment of a new Bitcoin mining subsidiary, BlocKeeper, and the new funds will be used to accelerate its AI-driven Bitcoin mining research and development.

According to Coinglass data, the current holdings of whales on the Hyperliquid platform amount to $3.711 billion, with long positions of $1.856 billion, accounting for 50% of the holdings, and short positions of $1.855 billion, also accounting for 50%. The profit and loss for long positions is $45.0437 million, while the profit and loss for short positions is -$65.6596 million.Among them, the whale address 0x94d3..14 has shorted BTC with a 40x leverage at a price of $71,652.3, currently showing an unrealized profit and loss of -$4.6988 million.

The enterprise-focused digital banking platform Slash announced the completion of a $100 million Series C financing round, led by Ribbit Capital, with Goodwater Capital and Khosla Ventures co-leading. The post-money valuation is approximately $1.4 billion, with total financing reaching $160 million.Slash claims to serve over 5,000 corporate clients, offering features such as corporate accounts, virtual accounts, stablecoin payments, expense management, accounting automation, and real-time payments. The company stated it will use the new funds to accelerate product iteration and promote its strategy of "bank accounts as the financial command center for businesses."

Cryptocurrency exchange Kraken's parent company Payward announced that it will acquire 100% of the digital asset derivatives platform Bitnomial for up to $550 million (cash + stock). The transaction is expected to be completed in the first half of 2026, pending regulatory approval.Bitnomial is the first crypto-native platform to obtain all three U.S. derivatives licenses (designated contract market, derivatives clearing organization, and futures commission merchant). This acquisition will help Payward quickly gain a complete compliant derivatives infrastructure, significantly accelerating its expansion in the U.S. market. After the transaction is completed, Bitnomial's clearing and trading capabilities will be integrated with platforms such as Kraken and NinjaTrader, offering products like spot margin, perpetual contracts, and options to U.S. customers, and will be regulated by the CFTC.This acquisition will also expand Payward Services, allowing banks, fintech companies, and brokerages to access the U.S. compliant derivatives market through a single API. Industry insiders believe that with the market warming up and valuations recovering, merger and acquisition activities in the crypto industry are on the rise, as leading institutions are accelerating their transformation into comprehensive trading platforms for institutional clients by acquiring key capabilities such as compliance, custody, and derivatives.

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.

According to monitoring by Hyperinsight, a whale opened a BTC long position with 40x leverage, with a position size of 6.95 million USD and an average price of 75,320 USD. After gaining about 20% in floating profit, the address immediately placed a limit take-profit order, planning to close the entire position at 77,000 USD.It is worth noting that the address did not set any stop-loss orders. Considering that the liquidation price is at 74,287 USD, it may imply using the liquidation line as an implicit stop-loss level.

The 6th phase project BABABOOEY ended subscription at 16:00 on April 17 and will complete TGE at 20:00 on April 17. This phase had over 49,000 participants, with a total subscription amount of 91,056,188 USDT. After the settlement of the BABABOOEY subscription assets in this phase, there will be no lock-up period; the funds will be available as spot, and users can choose to sell or withdraw immediately.This phase continues the multi-currency participation mechanism, allowing users to participate in the subscription using JU / USDT / BTC / ETH, with the platform uniformly converting and allocating based on U. A dynamic lottery rate model is introduced in this round, where the lottery rate increases by 0.2% for every additional 5,000,000 USDT raised. Successfully inviting friends to participate can share up to 20% of the final issuance amount in Token rewards.

According to Coinglass data, the current whale holdings on the Hyperliquid platform amount to $3.618 billion, with long positions of $1.82 billion, accounting for 50.31% of the holdings, and short positions of $1.798 billion, accounting for 49.69%. The profit and loss for long positions is $18.0247 million, while for short positions it is -$37.9736 million.Among them, the whale address 0x94d3..14 has shorted BTC with a 40x leverage at a price of $71,652.3, currently showing an unrealized profit and loss of -$3.3692 million.

As the first centralized exchange (CEX) to connect with Polymarket, Gate's data shows that in the prediction event "How will the Federal Reserve's April interest rate decision change?", the market estimates the probability of interest rates remaining unchanged at a high of 99%. Currently, the overall sentiment in the macro market is cautious, with most participants expecting to maintain a wait-and-see stance in this month's meeting, awaiting more economic data guidance. Keeping interest rates unchanged helps stabilize market liquidity and risk appetite, and various assets, including stock indices and commodities, are expected to attract investor interest. Gate has a comprehensive layout of traditional asset categories, covering the widest range in the network.In addition, users can directly access the prediction market through the Gate App, entering the Polymarket page from the platform's homepage Alpha and using USDT in their exchange account to participate in event predictions. This integration marks a key step for Gate in the fusion of the crypto trading ecosystem and prediction markets, also bringing users a more open and diverse market participation experience.

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.

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.

Web3 asset data platform RootData released the sixth issue of the "Cryptocurrency Exchange Transparency Ranking (Stock Category)," continuing to focus on the growth trend of stock assets in cryptocurrency exchanges. In this issue, Binance, OKX, Gate, Bitget, and Bybit ranked in the top five.According to the ranking, most cryptocurrency exchanges saw an increase of around 10% in trading volume over the past week, reversing a downward trend that had persisted for several weeks, but the traffic remained mostly flat compared to last week, with no significant signs of rebound.In terms of ranking changes, Gate and Bitget both moved up one position, while Bybit dropped two positions. Bitget launched the first Pre-IPO project SpaceX (SPCX) in this issue, connecting the Pre-IPO product framework with traditional capital markets, enhancing the richness and institutional attributes of its "tradable stock assets," which is an important reason for the score increase this time.It is reported that RootData adheres to the "transparency first" principle and has taken the lead in establishing a dual evaluation system of "transparency + liquidity" in the field of stock cryptocurrency exchanges, thereby providing investors with more effective data references. The ranking will continue to be improved and published in the future.

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 Cointelegraph, former U.S. Treasury Secretary Henry Paulson warned that U.S. authorities should prepare short-term, targeted emergency plans in advance for the potential collapse of future U.S. Treasury demand. He stated that once a crisis occurs, the impact will be severe. The U.S. Treasury market is seen as the cornerstone of the global financial system, and if it becomes unstable, it could affect the pricing of corporate bonds, mortgages, and stocks.The report pointed out that if a crisis weakens confidence in the dollar, it could drive funds toward alternative value storage assets like Bitcoin and gold; however, Tether, which uses U.S. Treasuries as its main reserve asset, may also face redemption and de-pegging risks.

According to DefiLlama data, the total locked value (TVL) of Plasma, a Layer 1 blockchain designed for global stablecoin payments, has reached $2 billion, with a weekly increase of 27% and a monthly increase of over 80%, rising to become the seventh largest blockchain. One of the key driving factors for this growth is that Plasma was selected as one of the first supported networks for Tether's self-custody wallet launched on April 14, alongside Ethereum and Arbitrum.This wallet supports USD₮, XAU₮, USA₮, and Bitcoin, allowing users to trade without holding a separate Gas token. According to CoinDesk, the driving factors behind the expansion of Plasma's TVL are not yet clear, but may be related to optimistic expectations regarding the potential approval of the U.S. CLARITY Act.

The Ethereum NFT marketplace Foundation has officially announced its permanent closure. Founder Kayvon Tehranian posted on X stating that the original plan was to sell the platform to a buyer interested in continuing operations, but the deal ultimately fell through, and the company deemed it not worth searching for other buyers. The platform's infrastructure has been shut down, with no plans for relaunch.In January of this year, Tehranian transferred ownership of Foundation to the digital art display company BlackDove, at the time calling this move a step for the platform's long-term development. However, BlackDove only conducted a full due diligence after completing the operational handover and ultimately determined that building a proprietary marketplace was more feasible, leading to the termination of the collaboration.Since its launch, Foundation has facilitated approximately $230 million in primary sales and has hosted iconic auctions featuring artists such as Jen Stark, James Jean, and Edward Snowden. This closure has once again raised questions about the permanence of NFTs hosted on centralized infrastructure.

According to Coinglass data, the current holdings of whales on the Hyperliquid platform amount to $3.634 billion, with long positions at $1.827 billion, accounting for 50.27% of the holdings, and short positions at $1.807 billion, accounting for 49.73%. The profit and loss for long positions is $19.9612 million, while for short positions it is -$40.1251 million.Among them, the whale address 0x94d3..14 has shorted BTC with a 40x leverage at a price of $71,652.3, currently showing an unrealized profit and loss of -$3.1682 million.

According to BBX data, yesterday the innovative structure of cryptocurrency ETF products was launched simultaneously with the reserve actions of Asian companies, with the core dynamics as follows:Bitwise Asset Management announced on April 15 via PR Newswire that the Bitwise Avalanche ETF (NYSE: $BAVA) officially landed on the New York Stock Exchange, becoming the first onshore ETP in the U.S. that integrates self-operated on-chain staking of Avalanche; the fund stakes approximately 70% of its holdings, targeting an annualized staking yield of 5.4%, with a management fee rate of 0.34% (waived for the first month on the first $500 million in assets).Metaplanet Inc. (TSE: 3350) reported by media analysis that the 27th batch of warrants officially became exercisable for the EVO FUND starting yesterday (April 16), which is part of the company's ongoing capital operations to expand its BTC reserves. Previously, the company disclosed on April 2 that it purchased 5,075 BTC in Q1 (costing approximately $398 million), raising its total holdings to 40,177 BTC, surpassing MARA Holdings to become the third largest BTC holder among publicly listed companies globally; the company's long-term goal is to hold 100,000 BTC by the end of 2026.

According to the U.S. Department of Justice, Robert Dunlap, a man from Texas, was sentenced to 23 years in prison by Federal Judge LaShonda A. Hunt for orchestrating a cryptocurrency scam that defrauded nearly 1,000 investors of over $20 million.Between 2018 and 2023, Dunlap claimed to operate a cryptocurrency business and sold a fraudulent digital asset called "Meta-1 Coin" through the "Meta-1 Coin Trust." He spread multiple false statements to potential and actual investors, claiming that the token was backed by artwork valued at up to $1 billion and $44 billion in gold, and falsely stated that an accounting firm had audited the gold and certified its value. The so-called art collection allegedly included works by renowned artists such as Picasso, Dali, and Van Gogh. To cover up the fact that he did not actually hold the aforementioned gold or artwork, Dunlap forged a batch of legal documents.