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The Hong Kong police disclosed a fraud case that lured investors into cryptocurrency with the gimmick of "AI quantitative trading," in which a woman was scammed out of approximately 7.7 million Hong Kong dollars. The fraudster impersonated an "investment expert" and proactively contacted the victim through Telegram, claiming to use "quantitative trading" and "AI algorithms" to achieve stable high returns. The victim transferred USDT and ETH worth about 7.7 million Hong Kong dollars from her electronic wallet to a designated address 17 times, only to realize she had been scammed when her withdrawal attempts were rejected.The Hong Kong police remind the public that while cryptocurrencies have high return potential, they also come with high volatility and high risks. The so-called "AI trading" and "quantitative guaranteed profits" are often bait for scams. The public should be wary of the "impossible triangle" trap of high returns, low risks, and low thresholds.

Gate's outdoor crossover exhibition "Racing the Future" officially opened at the K11 MUSEA waterfront promenade in Victoria Harbour, Hong Kong. On the opening day, the event attracted a large number of citizens and tourists, with attendance exceeding ten thousand, and the waterfront area remained crowded, creating a lively atmosphere.As the official sponsor of the F1 Red Bull Racing team, Gate showcased the team's brand new 2026 racing car and related equipment at this exhibition, and set up an interactive experience area to attract visitors to closely experience the combination of racing engineering and speed culture. Many visitors stopped to take photos and engage with the interactive content. The racing suits, equipment, and gloves of champion driver Max Verstappen and driver Isack Hadjar were also on display, along with a giant driver helmet installation of Max Verstappen, drawing many fans to the event.In addition, Gate will hold the "Gate 13 Blue Carpet Ceremony" on April 20, where the unveiling of the F1 Red Bull Racing team's display car and brand collaboration will take place; that evening, Gate will also host a high-end anniversary dinner at the Rosewood Hong Kong, with platform founder and CEO Dr. Han in attendance, and over 300 representatives from top industry institutions and partners expected to participate in the exchange.

Circle announced on the X platform that the USDC Bridge service has officially launched. It is reported that this is a way to directly transfer USDC across chains, built and operated by Circle, supporting native burn-to-mint transfers, without the need to select a route, and automatically handling gas fees on the target chain.

Singapore Gulf Bank (SGB) announced the launch of stablecoin minting and redemption services, allowing businesses and high-net-worth clients to directly convert between fiat currency and stablecoins through SGB accounts, achieving real-time settlement around the clock without relying on traditional intermediary banking processes.This service is integrated into SGB's proprietary clearing network SGB Net, supporting seamless flow of funds both on-chain and off-chain. The first supported stablecoin is USD Coin (USDC), with a minimum transaction amount of $100,000, and it will subsequently support USDT, USDe (Ethena), and Global Dollar (USDG).

The DoubleZero Foundation has announced that its Edge platform has officially entered the public testing phase. Edge is a permissionless platform running on DoubleZero's DePIN infrastructure, designed to provide ultra-low latency real-time data delivery services for on-chain markets.DoubleZero is committed to building a decentralized global fiber network to optimize low-latency distributed systems for blockchain. DoubleZero co-founder Andrew McConnell stated, "Traditional finance has gained a competitive advantage through decades of building infrastructure for speed and certainty, while on-chain markets have previously lacked a similar foundation. Edge aims to provide on-chain traders with a comparable level of certainty infrastructure, enabling tighter spreads and better execution."It is reported that Edge currently has about 350 data providers, with major Solana infrastructure providers such as Jito, Temporal, Staking Facilities, and Triton also joining.

Charles Schwab officially announced the launch of Schwab Crypto™ spot cryptocurrency trading services, which will be gradually opened to retail customers in the coming weeks.The service supports direct trading of Bitcoin and Ethereum, and provides educational content and professional customer support, while integrating Charles Schwab's existing investment, trading, wealth management, and banking service systems.

According to Cointelegraph, the publicly listed AI cloud infrastructure company CoreWeave announced a $6 billion agreement with quantitative trading firm Jane Street to provide AI cloud computing services through multiple data centers to support its trading and research operations.According to the announcement, Jane Street also purchased $1 billion worth of CoreWeave Class A common stock at a price of $109 per share. CoreWeave transitioned from a cryptocurrency mining business to an AI cloud computing infrastructure company back in 2019 and has since taken a leading position in the "new cloud computing" sector.

According to official news, the scalable blockchain network AO based on Arweave has announced the launch of the "Network Availability Staking Alpha (NASA)" testing program, which is a key step in its AO ecosystem aimed at enhancing the availability and reliability of decentralized data networks through a staking mechanism. The program is currently in the Alpha stage, and users can participate in network availability verification and earn rewards by providing data services for Arweave gateways and staking AO tokens.In the first pilot phase, AO introduces the "availability staking" mechanism, requiring node operators to stake 25 AO to participate in the network and compete for the speed and stability of responding to user requests. The system will allocate rewards from a monthly reward pool of 1000 AO based on the performance of nodes in data services. This mechanism relies on the next-generation HyperBEAM architecture, enabling higher levels of verifiability and trustlessness for gateway and routing services while significantly reducing operational costs.The project team stated that NASA aims to establish a stronger decentralized economic model for the entire permanent network infrastructure, paving the way for future expansion into areas such as computing scheduling, data indexing, and network services. Although the current reward scale is small and still in the testing phase, the program is seen as an important starting point for the AO-Core economic system and will gradually expand to more network infrastructure services in the future.

According to official news, the AI infrastructure platform B.AI LLM Services today announced that its user base has officially surpassed 1 million. This milestone not only signifies that its "privacy-first" routing architecture can handle large-scale and sustained high throughput, but B.AI has also gone beyond a single chat interface development, focusing on deploying the key underlying infrastructure that supports the "autonomous agent economy." Through deep optimization of the technology stack, it lays a robust track for the future highly automated AI collaborative network.

According to on-chain analyst ZachXBT, a counterfeit Ledger Live application was launched on the Apple App Store, resulting in over 50 users' assets being stolen, with total losses amounting to approximately $9.5 million, involving various assets such as Bitcoin, EVM chain assets, TRON, Solana, and XRP.The stolen funds were subsequently transferred through more than 150 KuCoin deposit addresses and laundered using a centralized mixing service called AudiA6. Data shows that the largest single loss reached $3.23 million. The application has recently been removed by Apple.

The U.S. Department of Justice has announced that it has initiated a compensation program for victims of the OneCoin cryptocurrency fraud case, with over $40 million in forfeited assets available for payout.The program is aimed at investors who purchased OneCoin and incurred net losses between 2014 and 2019. U.S. prosecutors stated that this move is intended to return some of the illicit proceeds to the victims. OneCoin was initiated by Ruja Ignatova and Karl Greenwood, with the related fraud exceeding $4 billion. Ignatova has been missing since 2017, and Greenwood was sentenced to 20 years in prison in 2023.

According to the "News" report, the Federal Security Service of the Russian Federation (FSB) recently arrested three Telegram investment channel owners, accusing them of manipulating stock prices through a "Pump&Dump" strategy, involving over 55,000 illegal transactions related to 19 large companies on the Moscow Exchange.Research from Moscow State University shows that 11% of Telegram investment signals can have a substantial impact on stock returns, with over 60% of private investors relying on such signals to make decisions. The Central Bank of Russia stated that it will continue to monitor abnormal trading and warned that "punishment is inevitable" for illegal bloggers. Experts remind that manipulative signals are often presented in emotional language, promise quick profits, and do not disclose risks; investors should prioritize consulting licensed advisors.

Tom Duff Gordon, Vice President of International Policy at Coinbase, has left the company to join AI giant OpenAI as the head of policy for Europe, the Middle East, and Africa.Tom Duff Gordon worked at Coinbase for nearly 4 years and previously served as a banker at Credit Suisse for 8.5 years. A Coinbase spokesperson confirmed this change via email.

According to official news, the user count of the B.AI LLM service platform has officially surpassed 750,000, continuing to lead the intelligent access track.The platform relies on intelligent routing technology, a wallet-driven anonymous privacy protection mechanism, and a unified multi-model management interface, gradually becoming the default gateway connecting mainstream AI models worldwide. With three core advantages of efficient scheduling, privacy-first, and frictionless access, B.AI is redefining the new standards for efficient, secure, and barrier-free intelligent access, promoting the capabilities of large models to a broader group of developers and users.

According to official news, the decentralized oracle platform WINkLink has announced the official addition of price services for the stablecoin $U, with the first batch including the core trading pairs $U/TRX and $U/USD now online. This move will provide reliable and dependable data support for $U in the TRON DeFi ecosystem, further strengthening its usability and security, and laying a solid foundation for the implementation of more innovative financial scenarios in the future.

According to Benzinga, digital asset financial services company Tok-Edge announced the launch of a crypto hedge fund aimed at institutional investors, with a goal of raising $100 million in its first round by 2026.It is reported that Tok-Edge had previously been in "stealth mode." The long-term goal of the new fund is to build a compliant crypto asset allocation infrastructure for institutions, with an initial size of $21 million. Traditional finance veteran investor Marcus Meijer and his investment alliance are the fund's investors, with the latter planning to provide $10 million as a cornerstone investor.

According to Caixin, U.S. Vice President Vance stated at a press conference that negotiations between the U.S. and Iran have not reached an agreement, and the U.S. negotiating delegation he leads will return home. Vance mentioned that the U.S. side has shown "considerable flexibility and sincerity" during the negotiations and has clearly outlined "acceptable and unacceptable conditions," but the Iranian side "chose not to accept." Vance also revealed that during approximately 21 hours of negotiations, the U.S. delegation maintained communication with President Trump and the national security team, and has presented Iran with a "final proposal," awaiting a response from the other side.

According to Jin Shi reports, the White House stated that U.S. Vice President Vance held talks with the Prime Minister of Pakistan.

According to a report by Jinshi citing Xinhua News Agency, Iran's First Vice President Arif posted on social media on the 11th that if Iran negotiates with U.S. representatives in Islamabad, Pakistan, under the "America First" policy, it is very likely to reach an agreement that is beneficial for both parties and even the world.However, if faced with U.S. representatives under the "Israel First" policy, then no agreement will be reached, and "we will inevitably continue to defend ourselves more resolutely than ever, and the world will pay a greater price."