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According to the official announcement, HTX (formerly Huobi) has launched the CHIP/USDT perpetual contract on April 22, offering up to 10x leverage. Concurrently, HTX is hosting a CHIP Contract Trading Party from 14:00 on April 22 to 14:00 on April 29 (UTC+8), with a total prize pool of $10,000. During the event, users who register and trade the CHIP/USDT perpetual contract—achieving a cumulative effective trading volume of ≥$5,000—will share the prize pool based on their trading volume ranking. Additionally, new users trading the CHIP/USDT perpetual contract will receive exclusive rewards.
Odaily News According to official announcement, MGBX will launch spot trading for USD.AI (CHIP) and Genius (GENIUS) on April 22, 2026, at 18:00 (SGT).Deposit Opening Time: April 22, 2026, 16:00 (SGT)Trading Opening Time: April 22, 2026, 18:00 (SGT)Withdrawal Opening Time: April 22, 2026, 19:00 (SGT)
According to the Financial Times, UK-based startup Stratiphy will offer both cryptocurrency exchange-traded notes (ETNs) and innovative finance ISAs (IF ISAs), enabling investors to hold crypto assets within capital gains tax-free accounts. Stratiphy provides three ETNs issued by 21Shares—the largest European crypto ETP issuer—which track Bitcoin, Ethereum, and a Bitcoin-and-gold composite product. The platform currently manages approximately £4 million in assets and serves around 2,000 clients. In October last year, the UK’s Financial Conduct Authority lifted its four-year ban on retail investors purchasing exchange-traded notes (ETNs).
Odaily News According to Shanghai Internet Information Office, Shanghai has added one more registered generative artificial intelligence service, which is Tesla's in-car voice large model service. In response, a Tesla representative stated on April 22nd: "Stay tuned." (Yicai)
Odaily News X product lead Nikita Bier announced the platform's launch of Snooze Topics. Premium subscribers can hide selected topics from their For You homepage for 24 hours. Optional topics include politics, video, sports, business & finance, science & technology, entertainment & art, artificial intelligence, etc. Users can reset and remove the snooze at any time. The feature is available on iOS and web, launching alongside the Custom Timelines feature introduced on the same day.
Sun Yuchen has recently filed a lawsuit against World Liberty Financial in the U.S. District Court for the Central District of California to protect his legitimate rights and interests as a $WLFI token holder. Sun stated that the World Liberty project team unilaterally froze all his tokens, stripped him of his voting rights on governance proposals, and threatened to permanently “burn” his tokens—without providing any reasonable explanation. He emphasized that he had repeatedly attempted to resolve the dispute through non-litigious means, but the project team refused to unfreeze his tokens or restore his rights as a token holder, leaving him with no choice but to pursue legal action. Additionally, Sun explicitly opposes World Liberty’s new governance proposal released on April 15. Under this proposal, token holders who do not actively accept its terms will have their tokens locked indefinitely; early purchasers’ tokens are subject to a two-year lock-up period followed by a two-year vesting schedule. As Sun’s tokens remain frozen, he is currently unable to vote on this proposal.
Base has announced that its first independent network upgrade, Base Azul, is now live on the testnet, with a target mainnet activation date of May 13, 2026. This upgrade marks Base’s first network-level upgrade conducted independently of the OP Stack. Officially, Azul will deliver improvements across three dimensions: security, performance, and developer experience. Specifically, Base will implement a multi-proof mechanism via Azul; base-reth-node will become its sole execution client; and Base will adopt the latest execution-layer specification (Osaka) to maintain full alignment with Ethereum. Users do not need to take any action for this upgrade.
Odaily News SuiLend posted on the X platform stating that all platform functions are currently operating normally, including deposits, lending, withdrawals, and repayments, and user funds remain unaffected. Simultaneously, the team is closely monitoring the progress of the previous Volo Protocol security incident and will continue to provide subsequent updates.
Ethena officially announced that the LayerZero cross-chain bridge functionality for sUSDe and USDe has been fully restored across all chains. To enhance security, Ethena has upgraded the Decentralized Verification Network (DVN) configuration on each chain from 2/2 to 4/4, while maintaining the existing rate limit of $10 million per hour. The official team stated that further updates will be provided as needed.
According to OpenAI’s official announcement, ChatGPT Images 2.0 has officially launched and is now available to all ChatGPT and Codex users starting today. This new version is the first image model with reasoning capabilities: it can perform real-time web searches when a reasoning model is selected, generate multiple distinct images from a single prompt, self-verify its outputs, and support generating functional QR codes. Additionally, the update delivers significant improvements in multilingual text rendering, visual style fidelity—including photorealism, cinematic aesthetics, pixel art, and comics—and flexible aspect ratios (ranging from 3:1 to 1:3). Its knowledge cutoff date has been updated to December 2025. The image reasoning feature is currently available only to Plus, Pro, and Business users; Enterprise access is forthcoming. The underlying model, gpt-image-2, is now also available to developers.
According to Decrypt, Mozilla recently revealed that Anthropic’s latest AI model, Claude Mythos, identified 271 security vulnerabilities during internal testing of the Firefox browser; all related vulnerabilities were patched this week. For comparison, a previous Anthropic model had detected only 22 security-sensitive vulnerabilities. Mozilla stated that all discovered vulnerabilities fell within the scope of what top human researchers could identify. Claude Mythos was officially launched in March 2026 and is Anthropic’s most powerful model to date for reasoning, coding, and cybersecurity. It is currently available exclusively to vetted partners—including Amazon, Apple, and Microsoft—under Anthropic’s “Project Glasswing” initiative.
According to data released by Binance Research, the stablecoin market’s total market capitalization has reached a new all-time high of approximately $32 billion—up significantly from less than $5 billion in 2020—and has continued to rise steadily since the beginning of 2024.
Odaily News: HIVE Digital Technologies, a technology company specializing in crypto mining and high-performance computing hosting, announced that its subsidiary has completed a private placement of $115 million in 0% interest exchangeable senior notes (maturing in 2031). The offering included an over-allotment option of $15 million, indicating strong institutional demand.HIVE Digital stated that the net proceeds from this financing are approximately $109.5 million. The funds will be primarily used for capital expenditures (including GPU procurement), data center construction, general corporate purposes, and to support its AI infrastructure expansion strategy. The initial conversion price for the notes is approximately $2.57 per share, representing a premium of about 17.5% over the pre-issuance stock price, with a capped hedge price premium reaching 125%. This zero-interest financing introduces a new group of institutional investors while helping achieve its 2026 growth targets under reduced capital costs.
According to Caixin, the Monetary Authority of Singapore (MAS) released a consultation paper on April 17, 2026, proposing more accommodating regulatory capital guidelines for crypto assets on permissionless blockchains (i.e., public blockchains) ahead of implementing the Basel Committee’s new capital requirements for crypto assets. The current Basel framework is viewed as overly stringent in its classification of public blockchain-based assets, potentially stifling banking-sector innovation. MAS plans to abandon a “one-size-fits-all” classification approach and instead allow public blockchain-based crypto assets that meet a set of principle-based criteria to be classified as Group 1 crypto assets—carrying lower risk weights and less stringent prudential requirements—to achieve regulatory technology neutrality.
Odaily News Wall Street investment bank Jefferies' analysis indicates that the approximately $293 million attack on Kelp DAO on April 18 exposed critical infrastructure risks, which may prompt traditional financial institutions to reassess the pace of blockchain and tokenization advancement.Jefferies believes the attacker triggered market sell-offs and liquidity stress by minting unbacked tokens and borrowing across platforms. The incident is suspected to be potentially linked to the Lazarus Group and also highlights the single point of failure in the validation mechanisms of cross-chain bridges. As institutions accelerate the tokenization of assets (such as funds, bonds, and deposits), related risks may cause some banks and asset management firms to temporarily pause deployments, prioritizing a review of system security. Especially in scenarios reliant on cross-chain infrastructure, security vulnerabilities could lead to market fragmentation, undermining the practical utility of tokenized assets.Despite short-term confidence being shaken, Jefferies still emphasizes that the long-term trend remains unchanged. Against the backdrop of regulatory progress and continuous infrastructure improvement, use cases like stablecoins still hold growth potential. However, the industry as a whole is still in its early development stage and requires time to enhance system robustness. (CoinDesk)
According to an official announcement by Volo, a security vulnerability occurred today on the Sui network involving Volo—a BTCFi and LST protocol—resulting in the theft of approximately $3.5 million in assets (including WBTC, XAUm, and USDC) from three specific vaults. Immediately after the incident, the team notified the Sui Foundation and ecosystem partners and froze all vaults to prevent further losses. Volo stated that the vulnerability affected only these three vaults; the remaining vaults are not exposed to the same attack vector, and the other ~$28 million in TVL remains secure. The official announcement emphasized that Volo will bear the loss entirely and will not pass it on to users. A comprehensive post-mortem report and remediation plan will be released upon completion of the investigation.
Odaily News Blockchain.com announced the launch of a perpetual contract trading feature in its non-custodial DeFi wallet, powered by Hyperliquid's underlying infrastructure. This allows users to conduct leveraged trading directly within their own wallets without transferring assets to third-party exchanges, enabling full self-custody throughout the process. (PRNewswire)
Coinbase announced that Diem (DIEM) spot trading will go live on April 22, 2026. The DIEM-USD trading pair is expected to launch at or after 9:00 a.m. Pacific Time (subject to liquidity conditions) and will be available in supported regions.
Odaily News Listed US company DDC Enterprise has released its fiscal year 2025 performance report. Full-year revenue reached $39.2 million, a year-on-year increase of 4.6%, setting a new historical high. As of April 21, 2026, the company holds approximately 2,383 Bitcoins, valued at around $182 million, placing it among the top 30 publicly listed companies globally in terms of Bitcoin holdings. DDC also announced the launch of an AI-driven treasury intelligence platform, the "DDC Treasury Intelligence Platform," designed to optimize Bitcoin fund management and capital allocation. (Businesswire)
ether.fi announced on X that the weETH cross-chain bridge powered by LayerZero is now fully restored across all chains, with liquidity minting and redemption functionalities re-enabled. For security, the ether team has increased the number of DVNs (Decentralized Verification Nodes) from two to four and implemented stricter rate-limiting mechanisms to further enhance system security. Additionally, related services will be gradually restored under the guidance of security partners, with more updates to follow.