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According to official news, the NFT public chain Mint Blockchain announced that the blockchain network officially ceased operations on April 17, 2026. To ensure the safety of user assets, the project team reminds all users to transfer their on-chain assets to the Ethereum mainnet as soon as possible, including assets such as ETH, WBTC, USDC, and USDT.The announcement states that users need to complete the asset migration through the extraction channel provided by the official team, with a deadline of October 20, 2026. Before this deadline, users can still perform asset extraction operations normally to ensure the safe transfer of funds to external networks. If users do not complete the extraction before the deadline, the related assets will no longer be processed or recoverable.

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.

NVIDIA CEO Jensen Huang recently stated on the Dwarkesh podcast that the company chooses to invest broadly in a large number of tech companies rather than picking a few winners for two reasons: first, picking winners is not NVIDIA's responsibility; second, the company's own history serves as a lesson.Jensen Huang pointed out that when NVIDIA was founded, there were 60 3D graphics companies in the industry, and if one were to predict who would succeed at that time, NVIDIA would likely have been at the top of the least favored list. Currently, NVIDIA, as the world's most valuable company, has made extensive investments in AI ecosystems, biotechnology, robotics, and autonomous driving, holding shares in publicly traded companies such as CoreWeave, Intel, Synopsys, and Nokia.In the field of large language models, NVIDIA committed to investing up to $10 billion in Anthropic last November and announced a $30 billion investment in OpenAI this February. Jensen Huang stated at a March meeting that since both companies are about to go public, these might be NVIDIA's last rounds of investment in them.

XRP Ledger announced the integration of zero-knowledge infrastructure provider Boundless to support banks and asset management institutions in executing transactions on the public chain that balance privacy protection and compliance.According to reports, this solution can hide sensitive information such as transaction size, frequency, and counterparties, while still allowing regulatory agencies to conduct audits through selective disclosure and role-based access control, thus achieving a balance between privacy and compliance. This integration will support institutional scenarios such as cross-border B2B payments, fund and capital management, over-the-counter (OTC) trading, tokenized asset issuance, and on-chain trading and lending.Industry insiders believe that the contradiction between the transparency of public chains and the demand for privacy has always been a significant barrier to institutional adoption, and this solution aims to reduce the so-called "transparency tax." Meanwhile, competition in the privacy track continues to heat up. Technologies such as zero-knowledge proofs (ZK) and fully homomorphic encryption (FHE) are accelerating implementation, pushing privacy capabilities from optional features to underlying infrastructure. Data shows that the market size of tokenized assets has reached approximately $29.25 billion, with a monthly increase of about 7.9%.

As the infiltration and attacks targeting the cryptocurrency industry continue to escalate, security experts point out that the core difference from hackers with backgrounds in other countries is that cryptocurrency assets have become an important direct source of financing for military expenses in that country. Reports indicate that during a recent months-long infiltration operation against Drift Protocol, North Korean hackers once again caused a stir in the industry.Experts state that this model is not merely a "fund transfer tool," but rather a direct "predatory profit" mechanism used to bypass international sanctions and obtain immediately usable hard currency. Security researchers note that, unlike countries such as Russia and Iran, North Korea almost entirely lacks sustainable foreign economic and commodity export capabilities, making it more reliant on cryptocurrency theft as a core source of income to support its nuclear weapons and ballistic missile programs.Experts also emphasize that North Korean hacker attack targets have expanded from simple phishing to exchanges, wallet services, and key holders of DeFi protocols, commonly employing long-term social engineering and identity disguise infiltration methods. Due to the characteristic of blockchain transactions being "irreversible once confirmed," the cryptocurrency industry is far weaker than the traditional financial system in terms of freezing and recovering funds, making such attacks more destructive in speed and scale. Security personnel warn that this type of "long-term infiltration + precise power seizure" attack model has yet to be effectively addressed by the industry.

Binance co-founder He Yi (@heyibinance) published a lengthy article on the X platform on April 10, directly responding to a series of accusations made by OKX founder Xu Mingxing (@star_okx) against CZ and Binance. He Yi refuted each point in the article, stating that Xu deliberately blamed Binance for the market crash on March 11, defined the BNB chain meme as market manipulation by Binance, hired online trolls to suppress competitors, and engaged in "six tactics" such as creating controversies to drive traffic to himself. He bluntly stated, "You know too well how to attack a professional woman," emphasizing that his position is earned through independent effort and is unrelated to anyone else.At the end of the article, He Yi also responded strongly to personal attacks against him, stating, "You know too well how to attack a professional woman, just by stigmatizing 'she is where she is today because of a man,' deliberately creating scandalous rumors, and belittling me as 'a trophy'," and emphasized, "My identity is not given by anyone; I built my own empire. I came, I saw, I conquered; this applies to both my career and my relationships."Previously, CZ (@cz_binance) had posted about Xu Mingxing's public $1 billion bet, demanding that he "apologize like a man." Xu Mingxing responded by stating that CZ's public initiation of a huge bet contradicts the professional ethics expected of executives at regulated exchanges. The debate between the two parties is still ongoing.

According to Business Insider, SpaceX executive Michael Nicolls pointed out in a memo sent to xAI employees that the company's training performance is "embarrassingly low" and clearly stated that xAI is "significantly behind" its competitors. Previous reports indicated that xAI is experiencing staff turnover and team adjustments.The memo announced an immediate reorganization of the engineering team, appointing several new leaders responsible for pre-training, post-training, infrastructure, and other modules. This move is part of a comprehensive reconstruction pushed by Elon Musk after SpaceX acquired xAI in February 2026, aimed at quickly catching up with competitors like OpenAI, Anthropic, and Google.

OKX founder and CEO Star responded on Twitter regarding the "12 years ago OKCoin employee forged contract" incident, stating that the evidence of the richest man (suspected to refer to CZ) forging contracts during his tenure at OKCoin was already publicly available on the internet 12 years ago. Star also attached a YouTube video disclosed at that time, which contains QQ chat records between "CZ" and an accountant.According to CZ's new book "Binance Life," in the early years, CZ worked at the exchange OKCoin founded by Xu Mingxing. In January 2015, Xu Mingxing attempted to renegotiate his 10% stake in OKXCoin. CZ stated in the book that after his departure, Xu Mingxing continued to accuse him of forging the cooperation contract between Roger Ver and OKCoin during his tenure.

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 SoSoValue data, as of 8 AM Eastern Time on April 6, 2026, the total net purchase of Bitcoin by publicly listed companies worldwide (excluding mining companies) for the week was $735 million, an increase of 1,050,543% compared to last week.Strategy (formerly MicroStrategy) announced an investment of approximately $330 million to purchase 4,871 Bitcoins at a price of $67,718, bringing its total holdings to 766,970 Bitcoins.The Japanese listed company Metaplanet announced last week an investment of $405 million to purchase 5,075 Bitcoins at a price of $79,898, bringing its total holdings to 40,177 Bitcoins.In addition, another company purchased Bitcoin last week. The UK Bitcoin company BHODL announced on April 2 an investment of $68,000 to purchase 1 Bitcoin.As of the time of writing, the total amount of Bitcoin held by the publicly listed companies in the statistics (excluding mining companies) is 1,033,280 Bitcoins, an increase of 0.97% compared to last week, with a current market value of approximately $7.178 billion, accounting for 5.2% of Bitcoin's circulating market value.

According to the official blog, Circle's institutional-grade blockchain Arc has released a phased upgrade roadmap for post-quantum cryptography (PQ), planning to introduce post-quantum signature schemes at the launch of the mainnet, gradually covering full-stack layers such as private state protection, infrastructure hardening, and validator authentication.The Arc mainnet will support post-quantum signatures from the outset, using an opt-in mechanism that does not require mandatory migration or a full network reset, allowing users to independently create wallets with long-term security. The recent goal is to extend quantum resistance to the private virtual machine (VM) layer, protecting private balances, private transactions, and private payees, with public keys additionally encapsulated in a symmetric encryption layer under privacy mode.The mid-term plan is to advance the upgrade of the infrastructure layer, aligning with industry standards such as TLS 1.3, covering access control, cloud environments, and hardware security modules (HSM). The long-term goal is to complete the hardening of validator signatures. Given that Arc's block finalization time is less than 1 second, the current assessment considers the risk of quantum attacks in this phase to be relatively limited, and it will be steadily advanced after the post-quantum consensus toolchain matures.Circle also warns that attackers may adopt a "collect now, decrypt later" strategy, and institutions should plan their cryptographic migration paths as early as possible.

According to Money Today, the Financial Supervisory Service (FSS) of South Korea issued a corrective order to Dunamu, the operator of Upbit, on April 3 regarding the "comprehensive stock exchange and transfer decision" main matters report. The FSS pointed out that there were significant omissions or false records in the report submitted by Dunamu on March 30, concerning the "future company restructuring plan" and "other important matters related to investment judgment."Dunamu clearly stated in the report that due to the need to obtain approval from the Fair Trade Commission, as well as the need to complete the major shareholder change declaration in accordance with the Credit Information Act and the Specific Financial Information Act, this stock exchange may face risks of delay or cancellation. In addition, the legislative process of the "Basic Law on Digital Assets," which is currently under review in South Korea, may also have a significant impact on the transaction.

According to PR Newswire, Nasdaq-listed company Eightco Holdings announced its asset holdings, which include 277,222,975 Worldcoin (WLD), 11,068 ETH, an indirect investment of $90 million in OpenAI, an investment of $25 million in Beast Industries, and a total of $109 million in cash and stablecoins, bringing the total holdings to approximately $326 million.Eightco stated that it is currently the publicly listed company with the largest holdings in the Worldcoin ecosystem.

The enterprise-level modular L1 public chain ENI has announced a strategic partnership with the globally leading on-chain investment ecosystem Republic Crypto. Republic Crypto is backed by top institutions such as Hamilton Lane and Hashed, with an ecosystem covering over 2,500 enterprises.The two parties will combine Republic Crypto's expertise in token economics and top Western capital markets with the advantages of ENI's enterprise-level modular L1 architecture to open up liquidity channels for real-world assets (RWA) between the East and West, facilitating seamless global settlement for institutional assets and promoting the scaling of Web3 business.

European crypto asset management company CoinShares has completed its merger with SPAC company Vine Hill Capital and will begin trading on Nasdaq today under the ticker symbol CSHR.The transaction values the company at approximately $1.2 billion and includes a $50 million investment from institutional investors.