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According to the official announcement, Bitget has now launched a total of 49 US stocks and popular ETF spot tokens including rFUTU (Futu Holdings), rBILI (Bilibili), rJD (JD.com), rBB (BlackBerry), and rNBIS (Nebius).

According to official news, Gate stocks have now fully integrated into the VIP tier system. Users only need to hold $2,000 to easily upgrade to VIP status, enjoying a minimum exclusive trading fee of 0.023% and 1V1 customer manager service, further reducing global asset allocation costs.Gate stocks support users in trading over 10,000 mainstream U.S. market stocks and ETFs using USDT, covering major U.S. securities trading markets and liquidity networks such as NYSE, Nasdaq, NYSE Arca, NYSE American, and BATS. It also supports fractional share trading starting from a minimum of 0.01 shares, providing users with a more comprehensive global securities asset allocation option. With the official launch of stock trading services, Gate further connects digital assets with traditional financial markets on a unified trading platform.In addition, Gate continues to improve the VIP exclusive rights ecosystem, creating a high-end service system around multiple dimensions such as trading, wealth management, and lifestyle. Recently, the platform has successively launched VIP exclusive airdrop activities featuring Cartier jewelry, whiskey, gold, and more, as well as offering exclusive financial products, higher-level income rights, and diversified benefits such as sports event viewing and invitations to offline activities. Gate continues to organize VIP users to watch matches at Inter Milan's home ground and F1 racing venues, experiencing exclusive hospitality and the atmosphere of top-tier events, creating a richer premium experience for high-level users.

According to official disclosures from Binance, Alpaca is not only the clearing broker for its U.S. stock business, but Binance also holds a minority stake in Alpaca. According to the agreement, Binance will receive 50% of Alpaca's payment for order flow (PFOF) and 65% of the remaining profits from user stock lending, after deducting user interest.Binance's recently launched U.S. stock business adopts a "introducing broker + clearing broker" model, with Nest Trading responsible for order referrals and Alpaca responsible for trade execution, clearing, settlement, and asset custody. Alpaca Securities LLC is a registered broker-dealer with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) and is also a member of the Financial Industry Regulatory Authority (FINRA) and the Securities Investor Protection Corporation (SIPC), holding approximately 94% of the tokenized U.S. stocks and ETFs market share.

Grayscale submitted its S-1 amendment for the Hyperliquid Staking ETF, proposing to set the fund management fee at 0.29%, with the code HYPG. This rate is lower than similar products already launched by Bitwise and 21Shares. Among them, Bitwise's BHYP has a first-month fee rate of 0%, followed by 0.34%; 21Shares' THYP fee is 0.3%. Bloomberg ETF analyst James Seyffart stated that Grayscale's fund is expected to launch as soon as this week. If successfully launched, HYPG will become the third Hyperliquid-related ETF.

According to Token Terminal data, Ethereum's monthly transaction count has reached a historic high, exceeding 70 million transactions, while the median transaction fee is approximately $0.00554, marking a historic low.

Uniswap's governance proposal aims to extend the protocol fee collection and burning infrastructure to BNB Chain and Polygon, and to complete the fee activation process on Celo that was not executed due to a configuration error.The proposal includes: setting the fee receiving address for the V2 protocol on BNB Chain, Polygon, and Celo to TokenJar, and designating the V3 Factory owner on the relevant chains as V3OpenFeeAdapter; additionally, Celo will transfer the feeToSetter role and V4 PoolManager ownership to CrossChainAccount.The proposal states that fees from each chain will be aggregated into the corresponding TokenJar, and then UNI will be bridged back to the Ethereum mainnet and sent to the burn address.

Bitwise tweeted that it will use 10% of the management fees from its Hyperliquid ETF ($BHYP) to hold HYPE on the company's balance sheet, taking concrete action to support the development of the Hyperliquid ecosystem.Bitwise emphasized that Hyperliquid adopts a community-first model, with 99% of the blockchain's revenue used for the buyback and destruction of HYPE, stating, "If the protocol succeeds, the community should succeed." Bitwise's decision to hold HYPE is based on this principle.

Crypto.com announced that its UAE entity Foris DAX Middle East FZE has obtained a Stored Value Facility (SVF) license issued by the Central Bank of the UAE, becoming the first virtual asset service provider (VASP) in the region to receive this license. With the acquisition of this license, Crypto.com will officially launch its collaboration with the Dubai Ministry of Finance, allowing UAE residents to use crypto assets to pay for government service fees.Related fund settlements will be conducted in UAE Dirhams or in Dirham stablecoins approved by the Central Bank of the UAE. Additionally, after obtaining regulatory approval, Crypto.com also plans to advance the integration of crypto payments with Emirates Airlines and Dubai Duty Free based on this license.

The silly dragon king responded to "weekly interest income of $500,000," and the Binance screenshot he released shows that the account earned a total of $125,000 in funding fees over the past 6 days.

According to Bloomberg, Morgan Stanley is piloting cryptocurrency trading services on its E*Trade platform, charging a fee of 50 basis points on each crypto transaction based on the transaction amount, which is lower than major competitors like Coinbase, Robinhood, and Charles Schwab.Approximately 8.6 million E*Trade customers are expected to have access to this feature by the end of the year. The report noted that Morgan Stanley has been continuously expanding in the crypto space over the past year, having launched the lowest-fee Bitcoin ETF, plans to launch Ether and Solana ETFs, and applied for a national trust bank license to provide digital asset custody, with future support for institutional clients trading tokenized stocks.

Telegram founder Pavel Durov posted on the X platform that the TON network transaction fees have been reduced by 6 times.He also revealed that Telegram will replace the TON Foundation as the largest validator of the network and plans to launch new development tools and performance upgrades in the next 2 to 3 weeks.

A class action lawsuit accuses Believe founder Ben Pasternak of extracting $54 million in fees through the migration of Launchcoin. The lawsuit claims that the migration process had a two-week window, which led to the dilution of holders' tokens, and tokens that missed the deadline were permanently destroyed. Additionally, the related operations are alleged to involve insider-associated wallets.

According to Artemis data, Ethereum generated $2.7 million in fees in 24 hours, leading Hyperliquid's $1.7 million.

Telegram founder Pavel Durov announced that the transaction fees on the TON network will be reduced by six times within a week, dropping to 0.00039 TON (approximately 0.0005 USD) per transaction, and will remain fixed regardless of network load. Subsequently, most transactions will be completely free, achieving zero fees.

ChainCatcher reported live that Adeniyi Abiodun, co-founder and Chief Product Officer of Mysten Labs, delivered a keynote speech at the 2026 Hong Kong Web3 Carnival. He stated that the core team members come from Facebook and were responsible for launching the global payment network Libra, aiming to make fund transfers as simple as sending messages. He announced that Sui will be the first high-speed public blockchain to achieve zero transaction fees for transfers across the network, regardless of the transfer amount ranging from $0.0005 to $1 billion, covering all stablecoins such as USDC, USDT, and Sui Dollar.In terms of privacy, Sui will provide bank-grade on-chain privacy, utilizing advanced cryptography to ensure that transaction history and balances are not visible to third parties, while fully compliant with regulatory requirements. Regarding yields, he introduced the Sui Dollar launched in collaboration with Stripe, which generates approximately 3.5% returns that will be directly reinvested into the network ecosystem and users, rather than flowing to intermediaries.He also announced the launch of the Bitcoin DeFi protocol Hashi aimed at institutions, allowing sovereign wealth funds, hedge funds, and ETF holders to deploy Bitcoin into DeFi for yields without triggering taxable events, supported by legal opinions from top U.S. law firm Fenwick & West. Additionally, Sui's on-chain deep order book DeepBook supports large transactions with extremely low slippage for instant on-chain exchanges between assets such as BTC, gold, USD, and EUR.In the AI agent economy, he pointed out that Stripe estimates a need for processing capacity of 1 billion transactions per second in the future, while Sui employs a horizontally scalable architecture similar to that of Google Search and Facebook infrastructure, capable of scaling on demand to millions or even tens of millions of TPS. The full-stack atomic composability provided by Sui is its core differentiated advantage, allowing agents to execute multiple cross-application transactions simultaneously and settle them in one go, which cannot be achieved on AWS, Google, or any existing Web3 platform. He also announced a partnership with RedotPay, enabling users to spend Sui Dollars at over 130 million merchants worldwide and positioning Sui as an alternative to SWIFT.

The Ministry of Economy and Finance of South Korea announced that it will launch a pilot program for blockchain deposit tokens in Sejong City in the fourth quarter of 2026, to replace traditional government procurement card payments.The project has been approved under the 2026 regulatory sandbox program, allowing institutions to pay business promotion expenses in the form of tokenized deposits. Token payments can preset spending limits and available industry ranges, helping to reduce the need for manual audits and lowering transaction fees for small businesses by removing intermediaries such as card networks.This is the second application of deposit tokens in fiscal operations, following the completion of the first pilot in the electric vehicle charging infrastructure subsidy program. If the pilot proves effective, the Ministry of Finance of South Korea plans to further promote the program.

The stablecoin USD1 (code: $U) has reached a peak 24-hour trading volume of $1.75 billion since its launch on Binance three months ago, and the BTC/U trading volume has surpassed that of BTC/USDT, currently ranking among the Top 10 tokens by trading volume in the entire market.According to an official announcement from Binance, zero-fee trading for BTC/U will officially start at 8:00 AM (Beijing time) on April 17, 2026.

Aptos released an update on its token economics. The main adjustments include: the annualized staking reward rate decreased from 5.19% to 2.6%; Gas fees increased tenfold (the cost of stablecoin transfers remains as low as approximately $0.00014); after the launch of Decibel DEX, on-chain trading volume and Gas fee burning will significantly increase, with an expected annual burn of over 32 million APT; setting a hard cap total supply of 2.1 billion APT at the protocol layer; the Aptos Foundation will permanently lock and stake 210 million APT; future incentives will be converted to milestone triggers; exploring a programmatic buyback plan.

According to L2BEAT analysis, users of the Ethereum Layer 2 network Scroll were overcharged more than $50,000 in transaction fees within about four days last week. The reason is that the Scroll team manually adjusted two rate multipliers in their Gas price oracle six times within six days, increasing each by 2 to 10 times, cumulatively raising the L1 data cost parameter to 1,280 times the original benchmark.Approximately 139,000 affected transactions originally had a total cost of only about $280, but were actually charged over $50,000, with automated bots accounting for the vast majority. L2BEAT pointed out that the overcharging was not an issue with the sequencer, but rather stemmed from the team's multiplier adjustments executed through a multi-signature wallet. This incident has raised questions about whether Scroll had previously subsidized users with rates below cost to maintain activity. According to DeFiLlama data, Scroll currently has a TVL of only $24 million, down 96% from its peak of $585 million in October 2024. As of the time of publication, Scroll has not publicly responded.

Morgan Stanley's spot Bitcoin ETF (MSBT) saw active trading on its first day, with over 1.6 million shares traded and approximately $34 million in capital inflow.The fund tracks the CoinDesk Bitcoin reference price, with a fee rate of only 0.14%, the lowest among similar products, focusing on price advantages to enter market competition. In addition to the low fee rate, MSBT also relies on Morgan Stanley's vast wealth management channels, which are expected to attract traditional investors to allocate Bitcoin assets through the financial advisor system. However, the market is still dominated by leading products, such as BlackRock's IBIT, which has exceeded $53 billion in size. Industry insiders expect that MSBT may divert some existing funds in the short term, but its long-term performance will still depend on its ability to attract continuous capital inflow.