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Bitget released its transparency report for April 2026, detailing its latest progress in core businesses such as tokenized stocks, AI trading infrastructure, and IPO Prime. Data shows that during April, Bitget's daily trading volume remained stable at over $10 billion; according to DefiLlama statistics, its net inflow for the month reached $359.37 million, ranking second among centralized exchanges. Additionally, Bitget ranked second globally in the market share of stock perpetual contracts in the first quarter.In terms of product ecosystem, the adoption rate of AI trading tools such as GetAgent, GetClaw, Agent Hub, and Gracy AI continues to rise, empowering users with an intelligent trading experience based on the UEX system. In terms of innovative products, Bitget launched the US stock IPO purchasing service IPO Prime, extending UEX's product boundaries to the primary market. According to rwa.xyz data, its first project ranked third globally in tokenized private equity and VC assets.

According to ChainCatcher, Binance has rolled out a major update in its latest app version, integrating RootData’s team data for all 400+ Binance Alpha tokens. The added information includes team members’ roles, social media links, X follower counts, and X influence scores, enabling users to gain a comprehensive understanding of each project’s team background and industry influence for more informed investment decisions. Previously, Binance Wallet had already integrated RootData’s project overviews, funding history, and event calendars into its Earn page. RootData now serves over 260 API clients, including the Ethereum Foundation, OKX Wallet, Gate, CertiK, Blockworks, Amber Group, CMT Digital, Coinglass, BlockBeats, Everstake, and Token Pocket.  Through strategic partnerships with Binance and others, RootData continues to strengthen its position as a trusted data infrastructure provider, driving greater transparency across the crypto industry and delivering more reliable, efficient data support to projects, investors, and institutions.

The Japan Crypto Asset Business Association (JCBA) officially released the "Best Practices for Crypto Asset Staking Operations" guidelines, covering various aspects such as operational requirements, emergency response, information disclosure, compliance management, external auditing, and tax accounting, aiming to enhance the security and transparency of domestic staking services.

According to The Bitcoin Historian, billionaire Jack Dorsey's cryptocurrency financial application platform Cash App officially launched its Bitcoin reserve proof feature this week, verifying that over 60 million users' Bitcoin holdings on its platform are fully backed 1:1.The market views this move as an important step for the cryptocurrency industry in terms of transparency, user trust, and self-custody standards, and it is also seen as a positive signal for promoting the long-term healthy development of the industry.

Web3 asset data platform RootData released the eighth issue of the "Cryptocurrency Exchange Transparency Rankings (Stock Category)," continuing to focus on the growth trend of stock assets in cryptocurrency exchanges. In this ranking, Binance, OKX, Bybit, Gate, and Bitget continue to occupy the top five positions.In terms of ranking changes, BingX entered the list for the first time at ninth place due to a significant increase in traffic, while XT.com fell out of the top ten this issue due to a decline in trading volume and insufficient compliance transparency.In terms of traffic, leading platforms showed a moderate decline. Newly ranked BingX had a weekly traffic of 7.6 million, placing it second, just behind Binance. Meanwhile, Ourbit's traffic plummeted from 1.33 million to below 310,000, a drop of over 76%, making it the exchange with the largest decline in traffic this issue.Additionally, according to the ranking data, almost all exchanges experienced a significant decline in daily average trading volume, with decreases generally between 10% and 25%.It is reported that RootData adheres to the principle of "transparency first" 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 platform will continue to enhance and publish this ranking in the future.

CertiK and RootData announced a strategic partnership to jointly launch a dual benchmark brand program focused on security and transparency, aiming to make "security + transparency" a dual hard indicator of the trust system in the Web3 industry.It is reported that CertiK is a global leader in Web3 security services, and its Skynet platform conducts multidimensional security assessments of projects through a security scoring system; RootData is an industry-leading Web3 asset data platform that has innovatively constructed a transparency scoring model covering dimensions such as token economics, team background, and compliance audits.In this collaboration, CertiK will leverage RootData's standardized data interface to enrich the data dimensions and coverage of security ratings; RootData will rely on CertiK's professional security assessment capabilities to inject authoritative calibration basis into its transparency scoring. Both parties will jointly promote the "CertiK Skynet Score + RootData Transparency Score" dual assessment standard, providing a reliable reference benchmark that combines security and transparency for project parties, exchanges, investment institutions, and users.

In response to external doubts about its data being "leaked," Polymarket issued a statement clarifying that the relevant data has never been leaked, and all data can be publicly accessed through its public endpoints and on-chain data, which is an inherent feature of on-chain data transparency, not a security vulnerability.Polymarket stated that one of the core advantages of on-chain data is that it is fully publicly auditable, and anyone can freely access the relevant data through its API without having to pay for it.According to previous news from ChainCatcher, the prediction market platform Polymarket is suspected of experiencing a data leak, with over 300,000 records and an exploit toolkit leaked.

Web3 asset data platform RootData released the seventh 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, Bybit, Bitget, and Gate ranked in the top five.Among them, Bybit's ranking improved by 2 places, re-entering the top three, mainly due to Bybit listing 49 new stock contracts during the statistical period, making it the exchange with the most supported stocks currently. Bitget's ranking dropped by 2 places, with traffic decreasing by over 40%, which may be related to the rapid decline in traffic following the end of the SPAX subscription activity.As the market prices of cryptocurrencies like Bitcoin rise, the trading volume of exchanges generally increased by over 10% in this issue, with Kraken rising by over 20%, boosting its ranking to 6th place. Hotcoin, on the other hand, fell to 10th place due to a decrease in its transparency score.It is reported that RootData adheres to the principle of "transparency first" and has taken the lead in establishing a dual evaluation system of "transparency + liquidity" in the field of stock cryptocurrency exchanges, providing investors with more effective data references, and will continue to enhance and publish this ranking in the future.

Web3 asset data platform RootData issued a daily transparency alert on Twitter (X), highlighting the lack of information such as team details, key calendar events, and token data for projects like Mars Protocol, Anvil, Lynex, AstridDAO, and Hatom Labs. It calls on project teams to submit/update their information on RootData to improve their transparency scores. Additionally, RootData stated that it will continue to monitor and expose "black box" projects that lack core information.It is reported that RootData's transparency score is used to measure a project's integrity and timeliness, aiming to reflect the project's information disclosure status, urging project teams to immediately claim their projects. The transparency score is categorized from A to F, with a total of 5 levels from high to low; the lower the score, the more incomplete the project's information disclosure, and the higher the risk of wrongdoing, requiring investors to be highly vigilant.

At the "Crypto 2026: From Cryptocurrency to Smart Economy" themed forum held in Hong Kong, Max Zhou, the business leader of RootData, delivered a keynote speech titled "Trust as Infrastructure: How Data Transparency Reshapes the New Cycle of Web3."Max Zhou pointed out that transparency is no longer an "added bonus," but rather a threshold for institutions, regulators, and users. RootData positions itself as a leading Web3 enterprise data platform, quantifying project information completeness and credibility through financing data, relationship graphs, and the industry's unique "transparency scoring" system.He introduced that RootData has recorded over 9,600 financing events, more than 18,000 key industry figures, and has rated over 19,000 projects on a scale from A to F, becoming an important reference for institutional due diligence and exchange listing assessments. The platform has established ecological cooperation with over 220 institutions, including Binance Wallet, OKX, and ByBit.In addition, RootData has launched a three-dimensional exchange assessment model (liquidity + asset value + transparency), abandoning the "volume-only theory." Max Zhou emphasized that transparency is becoming a new axis for Web3, just as essential as security audits.

In response to recent allegations and rumors regarding the manipulation of RAVE token prices, RaveDAO posted on the X platform: "We have noticed the rumors and allegations surrounding RAVE and the RaveDAO team.We want to make it clear that the RaveDAO team is not involved in the high volatility of the RAVE token price and is not responsible for the recent price fluctuations. RaveDAO places great importance on transparency and is currently focused on promoting the mass adoption of Web3 through offline events."

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.