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The head of the Spark Protocol strategy, monetsupply.eth, posted on platform X stating that in January of this year, low-usage assets like rsETH were removed and collateral and functionality were continuously tightened. This move sparked strong dissatisfaction among "ETH leveraged" users at the time.Additionally, Spark has long set a high upper limit on interest rates in the ETH lending market, transferring some business and revenue to Aave over the past year (where its ETH borrowing rate once dropped to 10% or below). However, in the current market crisis environment, this strategy has proven to be more prudent. Currently, SparkLend still maintains sufficient ETH withdrawal liquidity, while Aave has experienced liquidity tightness and even "lock-up" situations in the Ethereum mainnet and multi-chain markets like Arbitrum and Base.monetsupply.eth further warned that since ETH is the core collateral asset, when market utilization reaches 100%, collateral liquidation will not be able to execute normally. The depletion of liquidity not only affects the depositor experience but may also pose systemic risks. In the current situation of insufficient liquidity in Aave, a 15%-20% drop in ETH prices could lead to significant bad debt accumulation (in addition to the potential impact of the rsETH incident).

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 on-chain analyst Yu Jin's monitoring, a whale borrowed 28,000,000 USDT from Aave in February, purchasing 12,802 ETH at an average price of $2,187. Recently, after the rise in ETH, the whale sold 12,402 ETH at an average price of $2,271, exchanging it for 28,160,000 USDT to repay the loan, netting a profit of 400 ETH.

The Zcash Foundation tweeted that it has released version 4.3.1 of Zebra. This version includes several critical security fixes, and all node operators are advised to upgrade immediately. Additionally, this version introduces a Dockerized mining environment, automated checkpoint management, and several CI enhancement improvements.

Trump told NewsNation that Iran agreed to "everything," agreeing to stop enriching uranium and agreeing not to close the Strait of Hormuz, which will no longer be used as a weapon against the world.According to Axios reporters, the U.S. and Iran have made progress in the three-page memorandum of understanding negotiations to end the war.

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.

According to The Block, Josh Stark, a key figure at the Ethereum Foundation (EF), announced his resignation after five years and will officially step down at the end of the month. Stark joined the Ethereum Foundation in 2019, initially working in the special projects team, and later rose to leadership, collaborating with EF Chair Aya Miyaguchi, Ethereum founder Vitalik Buterin, and co-executive directors Hsiao-Wei Wang and Bastian Aue.He is one of the most prominent members of the foundation's external image and has led several significant advancements in Ethereum, including the "The Merge" upgrade that transitioned from proof of work to proof of stake, as well as subsequent upgrades like Dencun, Fusaka, and Pectra. During last year's leadership adjustments at the foundation, he was appointed as the "co-manager" of the EF board and recently took on the role of co-chair of the "trillion-dollar security" initiative.Last month, Stark co-authored a strategic blog post on Ethereum with Josh Rudolf and Julian Ma, outlining Ethereum's latest scaling direction and its relationship with the Layer 2 ecosystem. Stark stated, "I haven't planned for the future yet; I just want to take a good rest and spend time with family and friends." This resignation occurs against the backdrop of ongoing changes at the Ethereum Foundation.Last year, the foundation underwent significant leadership adjustments, refocusing its strategic priorities on scaling the Ethereum mainnet and core cypherpunk values; Tomasz K. Stańczak also resigned from his co-executive director position at the end of February this year, having served for less than a year. On the same day, Trent Van Epps also announced his departure from EF to fully dedicate himself to Protocol Guild, the independent funding organization for Ethereum core developers that he founded.

According to the official announcement, Bitget has launched the U-based GENIUS perpetual contract, with a leverage range of 1-20 times. The contract trading BOT will also be opened simultaneously.

According to The Block, the Washington think tank Cato Institute published an article criticizing the current Bitcoin tax policy in the United States. Researcher Nick Anthony pointed out that the current tax framework treats Bitcoin as "property" rather than "currency," requiring users to calculate capital gains or losses for each transaction individually, even for everyday small purchases. This makes tax reporting extremely cumbersome and effectively hinders the adoption of Bitcoin as a payment tool.In response, the Cato Institute proposed several reform suggestions, including completely eliminating the capital gains tax on cryptocurrency payments and introducing a tax-free threshold for small transactions. The report also mentioned the existing "Virtual Currency Tax Fairness Act," which aims to exempt cryptocurrency transactions under $200, but Anthony believes this threshold is too low to cover the actual spending levels of consumers. Currently, the Trump administration has expressed support for establishing a small tax exemption for cryptocurrency transactions and will continue to evaluate related legislative options.

Web3 asset data platform RootData issued a daily transparency alert on Twitter (X), noting that information such as teams, key calendar events, and token data for projects like LeverUp, Flash.Trade, PRDT, f(x) Protocol, and Tectonic is missing. 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 the RootData transparency score is used to measure the integrity and timeliness of projects, aiming to reflect the information disclosure status of projects and urging project teams to immediately claim their projects. The transparency score is divided into five levels from A to F, with lower scores indicating less complete information disclosure and higher risks of wrongdoing, requiring investors to exercise high caution.

The dominance of the US dollar has always been a topic of concern, but Franklin Templeton believes that the dollar will remain the preferred currency. The Chief Investment Officer of the company's fixed income department, Sonal Desai, wrote in a report that the dollar's status is supported by three main pillars: the size of the world's largest economy, the depth of the market, and its institutional credibility.Sonal Desai pointed out that there are currently no reliable alternative assets, and it will take decades to establish the institutional infrastructure needed to support such a currency. The debate over the dollar's dominance has intensified, as Trump's erratic trade, geopolitical, and fiscal policies have weakened the appeal of US assets. Some analysts believe that the euro and gold are likely to become preferred reserve assets.

According to the official announcement, in order to meet the market demand for trading in the AI-related sector of US stocks, Bitget stock contracts have now launched six popular underlying assets: AMD, AMAT, SNDK, STX, LITE, and FLY, covering areas such as chips, semiconductor equipment, and storage. The aforementioned contracts support a maximum leverage of 20 times. For more details, please refer to the Bitget official platform.

Liquid Capital (formerly LD Capital) founder Yi Lihua tweeted that there is no 100% correct investment and trading; otherwise, one would quickly become the richest person in the world. Over the past year, starting from calling the bottom of ETH at $1450, holding on through the black swan to over $2000, then escaping the top at $4500 before 1011, failing to buy the bottom at $3000, and now insisting on buying the bottom below $2000, even if one is right 4 times, being wrong once can lead to problems. The core of trading is not about being right every time, but rather being prepared for risk control and having strategies to respond to various possible situations.

According to Jinshi reports, JPMorgan Chase (JPM.N) reversed its previous upward trend, falling 2.9% in pre-market trading.

Binance will stop leveraged trading and delist FC Barcelona Fan Token (BAR), PIVX (PIVX), and Verge (XVG) on April 17, 2026, at 14:00. At the same time, Binance's staking loan will remove the above tokens from the list of borrowable and collateralizable tokens, and automatic liquidation will take place. Users should actively repay outstanding loan orders to avoid potential losses.

According to Onchain Lens monitoring, a giant whale opened a 20x leveraged long position of 13,000 ETH through two different wallets, worth approximately 28.67 million USD, while also holding a 20x leveraged long position of 286,153 SOL and a small amount of 5x leveraged long positions in DYDX.

According to an article in the American Bankers Association (ABA) Journal, experts including the ABA's chief economist point out that the recent research report by the White House Council of Economic Advisers (CEA) on the issuance of yield from payment stablecoins raises the wrong questions and may mislead policymakers.The CEA report mainly explores "how prohibiting the issuance of yield from payment stablecoins will affect bank lending," concluding that banning yields would only increase bank lending by about $1.2 billion, with minimal impact.However, the ABA believes that the real policy concern is not the consequences of "prohibition," but the risks that may arise from "allowing" the issuance of yield from payment stablecoins: accelerating deposit outflows, allowing yields to stimulate households and businesses to move funds from bank deposits (especially community banks) to stablecoins, which would have a significant impact when the market size expands to $1-2 trillion. ABA analysis shows that loans in Iowa alone could decrease by $4.4 billion to $8.7 billion as a result.Impact on community banks: Deposit outflows will force community banks to replace funding with higher-cost wholesale financing (such as Federal Home Loan Bank advances), raising their funding costs and thereby reducing loans to local households and small businesses. It is not a harmless "reshuffling": The CEA believes that deposits are merely "reshuffled" within the banking system, with overall impact being minimal.However, the ABA points out that deposits flowing from community banks to a few large institutions or stablecoin reserve accounts will harm sectors that rely on relationship-based bank lending. The ABA believes that prohibiting the issuance of yield from payment stablecoins is a prudent protective measure that allows stablecoins to mature as a tool for payment innovation rather than becoming a source of economic risk that substitutes for insured deposits.

According to Jinshi reports, Goldman Sachs' pre-market stock price has retraced, with earlier gains turning into losses.

According to monitoring by Hyperinsight, in the past half hour, a whale starting with 0x004 opened a BTC short position with 33 times leverage, at an average price of $70,745, with a size of 200 BTC, amounting to approximately $14.15 million, and the unrealized loss has reached 10%. This address just closed its previous BTC short position at breakeven this morning and immediately re-entered the market to short again, marking its fifth short position opened this month.Address: 0x004edcd40360e293e4cf260d2ebdf8c7076c1bb8

According to monitoring by lookonchain, the address starting with 0x3386 opened a 25x short position, shorting 6,700 ETH (approximately 14.71 million USD), with an opening price of 2,209.38 USD and a liquidation price of 2,218.7 USD. This means that if the ETH price only rises by about 9 USD, his position will be forcibly liquidated. As of the time of this writing, his position has an unrealized profit of 115,100 USD.