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According to Coinglass data, on April 19 at 19:22, 40 million USDT was detected being transferred from an unknown wallet to Binance.

Alcoa, the American aluminum company, is about to reach a deal with the Bitcoin mining company NYDIG to sell its idle Massena East aluminum smelter located in New York State, expected to be completed by mid-year.The plant has been idle since 2014 and is equipped with a substation, transmission lines, and high-capacity grid access, making it attractive to Bitcoin mining and data center operators due to the hydroelectric resources provided by the New York Power Authority. Reports indicate that some retired industrial sites in the U.S. are being transformed into Bitcoin mining, artificial intelligence, and high-performance computing facilities.

According to on-chain analyst Yu Jin (@EmberCN), the LayerZero token ZRO, which was exploited by hackers in today's rsETH vulnerability incident, dropped 18% on the day, with the price falling from $1.9 to $1.5.Twenty minutes ago, a Polymarket user with the username "greenrooibos" transferred 978,000 ZRO to Binance, worth approximately $1.57 million. This batch of ZRO was withdrawn from Binance two weeks ago, when it was worth about $2.04 million, resulting in a loss of approximately $470,000 for this transfer.

According to on-chain analyst Yu Jin's monitoring, 8.253 million TRUMP were transferred from a BitGo custody wallet to OKX 10 minutes ago, worth 23.44 million USD. By tracing back, it can be seen that these TRUMP originated from a team wallet two months ago.

The strategic director of Spark, monetsupply.eth, posted on platform X that as the stablecoin market begins to lack liquidity, the situation is entering a more dangerous phase. I believe that the ETH market is about 16.5% supported by rsETH, and if the loans supported by rsETH experience losses shared between the mainnet and external chains, there may be a 10% to 15% reduction in emode, leaving a remaining 2% to 3% reduction for ETH suppliers to smooth out the umbrella structure.ETH suppliers naturally tend to exit as soon as possible to avoid this risk, so the utilization rate is locked at 100%, and the borrowing rates are insufficient to incentivize the repayment of unrelated LST cycles (wstETH, weETH) to release liquidity. Since users cannot withdraw ETH, those who borrow stablecoins like USDT and use ETH as collateral cannot close their positions even when stablecoin borrowing rates rise, cutting off the typical incentive mechanism to maintain market health.Currently, two unhealthy incentives are causing the market utilization rate to be locked at 100%: 1) ETH holders cannot close their positions to maintain a healthy LTV, and liquidators cannot atomically withdraw or sell collateral, which may lead to bad debts if the ETHUSD price falls. 2) Users supplying USDT, in order to exit their holdings, tend to maximize borrowing of other stablecoins, which is currently generating positive returns (temporarily), thus the exit cost is low; if conditions worsen, they can at least recover 75% of the position value.The bottom line is that these pooled/re-staked lending markets must maintain liquidity at all costs to operate normally. The recent weakening of slope2 against Aave's maximum borrowing rate is having a negative impact and significantly increasing the risk of failure in the yield market.

According to Coinglass data, on April 19 at 15:24, 35.5 million USDT was monitored being transferred from Binance to an unknown wallet.

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.

According to Onchain Lens monitoring, the TRUMP token team transferred 7.59 million TRUMP to the BitGo custody address, worth approximately 21.81 million USD, and these funds were subsequently transferred to a centralized exchange.

According to The Block, Strategy proposed to update its STRC preferred stock dividend payment plan from once a month to twice a month.According to the statement, Strategy will hold its annual shareholder meeting on June 8, at which time the voting on the Stretch update proposal will conclude. If approved, the first record date for the new semi-monthly payment plan will be June 30, with the first payment expected to be made on July 15.The company stated that this change could "reduce reinvestment lag, improve liquidity, enhance market efficiency, and strengthen price stability."

According to crypto analyst Yu Jin @EmberCN, an address that previously lost about $14.61 million in the MELANIA trade and acquired 2.22 million TRUMP to participate in the related leaderboard transferred all of its 2.22 million TRUMP to Binance one hour ago, worth approximately $6.82 million.

AI programming tool company Cursor is nearing completion of a new round of financing, aiming to raise at least $2 billion, with a pre-money valuation of $50 billion. This round of financing is expected to be led by Thrive Capital and Andreessen Horowitz, with strategic investors like Nvidia participating, and Battery Ventures potentially joining as a new investor.If successful, the company's valuation will significantly increase from approximately $29.3 billion six months ago. In terms of revenue, Cursor's annualized revenue was about $2 billion in February this year, and it is expected to exceed $6 billion by the end of 2026. At the same time, the company has achieved positive gross margins in some business areas through self-developed models and optimized cost structures.

According to Coinglass data, on April 18 at 07:15, 38.1196 million USDT was detected being transferred from an unknown wallet to Binance.

According to Coinglass data, on April 18 at 00:13, 50 million USDT was detected being transferred from an unknown wallet to Binance.

X product leader Nikita Bier posted on the X platform stating that, according to the aggregated data from the trading pilot, since the launch of Cashtags on Tuesday evening, the social platform X has driven approximately $1 billion in transaction volume globally. This data comes from the platform's early pilot phase and shows a significant pull effect on market liquidity and user engagement after the integration of social platform and trading functions.

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.

Nasdaq-listed company Intchains Group Limited announced its latest business developments, disclosing its Ethereum (ETH) staking scale and AI-driven operational transformation plan. The company stated that as of now, it has staked a total of 8,040 ETH, of which 1,000 ETH were completed through the FalconX platform, and 7,040 ETH were deployed on its own Goldshell Stake platform; additionally, third parties have staked 1,363 ETH on this platform. The company claims to achieve maximized returns and risk diversification through a multi-platform strategy.On a strategic level, Intchains is advancing its AI-enabled operational model transformation, focusing on chip and product research and development, market sales, and overall business operations, restructuring processes and enhancing decision-making efficiency through automation and intelligent tools. In terms of cost control, the company has reduced its workforce by about 20% based on early 2026 levels and plans to further compress it to a total of about 35%, which is expected to bring annual savings of approximately 20 million RMB in labor costs. This adjustment mainly stems from organizational streamlining and replacing repetitive manual processes with technology. The company's management stated that it will focus on core mining machine technology and Ethereum asset strategy, combining AI to enhance research and development and operational efficiency, and plans to launch a new generation of mining machine products in the second half of 2026 (depending on market conditions).

According to Coinglass data, on April 17 at 16:47, 43.6886 million USDT was monitored being transferred from Binance to an unknown wallet.

According to CoinDesk, Ethereum processed 200.4 million base layer transactions in the first quarter of 2026, setting a new historical high and becoming the first quarter to surpass 200 million transactions.Data shows that this metric has continued to recover since its low of about 90 million transactions in 2023, with Q1 2026 growing 43% compared to 145 million transactions in Q4 2025. The report points out that this round of growth is mainly driven by Layer 2 network settlements and bridging activities, as well as an increase in stablecoin usage; currently, the supply of stablecoins on the Ethereum chain has reached $180 billion, accounting for about 60% of the global stablecoin market. However, the price of ETH has still fallen over 50% from its high of nearly $5,000 in August 2025.

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.