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The People’s Bank of China Shaoguan Branch, in collaboration with the General Office of the Shaoguan Municipal People’s Government, issued a risk alert on virtual currencies ahead of the “4·15” National Security Education Day for All Citizens. It also disclosed four typical cases: money laundering through “high-paying U.S. dollar-pegged stablecoin (USDT) part-time jobs,” illegal fundraising under the guise of “capital-guaranteed, high-yield cryptocurrency trading,” pyramid scheme fraud involving the “RWA Digital Culture & Tourism Fund,” and offline “currency swapping” activities constituting de facto foreign exchange transactions. Regulators clarified that virtual currency exchange, trading, and RWA tokenization activities are all illegal financial activities. Projects promising “high returns, low risk, and guaranteed profits” are mostly scams. The public should abandon fantasies of getting rich overnight, steer clear of virtual currency-related investments, opt for legitimate financial channels, and promptly report any suspicious activity to the police to minimize losses.
U Chinese posted on the X platform, stating that U has been listed on Binance for three months, with its 24-hour trading volume peak reaching $1.75 billion. On April 13, the BTC/U trading volume surpassed that of BTC/USDT, and it has now entered the top ten tokens by market-wide trading volume. BTC/U zero-fee trading will officially launch at 8:00 AM (UTC+8) on April 17, 2026.
Lattice, a blockchain gaming infrastructure team, announced it will gradually shut down after five years of operation, with its Redstone network officially ceasing operations on May 15, 2026, at 23:59 UTC. Lattice urges users to withdraw their funds from Redstone as soon as possible—especially assets held in smart contracts such as Uniswap—since, after shutdown, the Layer-1 withdrawal contract will only support withdrawals for externally owned accounts (EOAs); funds held within smart contracts cannot be retrieved via this method. Founded in 2021, Lattice focused on building on-chain autonomous virtual worlds and developed several projects during its tenure, including MUD, Redstone, Quarry, and Dozer. The team stated that the DUST project has migrated to DUST Chain and will continue to be supported by 0xPARC. Meanwhile, MUD, Quarry, and Dozer have all been open-sourced, enabling users to freely migrate and utilize them.
CZ announced on X that he will host a live AMA (Ask Me Anything) session at Binance Square on April 15 at 21:00 (GMT+8). CZ invited community members to join and interact, and will give away 10 signed copies of his new book during the event. He noted that since the book’s release, community engagement has been vibrant, generating numerous memes and short videos, along with discussions about his personal ranking—which he stated are inaccurate. Additionally, CZ said he is prepared to handle one hour of tough questions.
Binance will perform wallet maintenance on the BNB Smart Chain (BEP20) on April 15, 2026, at 14:00 (UTC+8). To support this maintenance, Binance will suspend deposits and withdrawals for the BNB Smart Chain (BEP20) starting at 13:55 (UTC+8) on April 15, 2026. The maintenance is expected to last approximately one hour, after which deposits and withdrawals will be automatically restored.
Rakuten Wallet, the cryptocurrency trading and management platform operated by Japan’s renowned e-commerce group Rakuten, will officially list XRP as both a tradable asset and a payment method on April 15, 2026. At that time, users will be able to directly purchase XRP using Rakuten Points and deposit XRP into Rakuten Cash for spending at over 5 million merchants across Japan. With 44 million users, Rakuten Pay—Japan’s leading e-commerce payment platform—will expose XRP to a massive non-crypto user base. Users can also directly exchange over 3 trillion Rakuten Points (approximately USD $23 billion) for XRP. Rakuten boasts over 100 million members and achieves annual e-commerce gross merchandise value (GMV) of JPY 5.6 trillion; XRP will thus become a spendable, interoperable digital asset within the Rakuten ecosystem.
Polygon has officially launched its native liquid staking token, sPOL, designed to enhance returns for POL token stakers. As Polygon’s native liquid staking token, sPOL unlocks approximately 3.6 billion staked POL tokens and grants stakers priority access to transaction fee revenue sharing. Currently, only about 4%–5% of POL is liquid; sPOL addresses the issue of idle capital being unable to participate in DeFi yield opportunities. Users can migrate existing stakes to sPOL via the Polygon Staking Portal—without waiting periods and with uninterrupted rewards—while new stakes will automatically receive sPOL. The initial sPOL redemption ratio is 1:1, increasing as staking rewards accrue. sPOL supports liquidity provision, collateralization, and yield-boosting DeFi strategies, and can be redeemed at any time for POL plus accumulated rewards. The token was initially launched by Polygon Labs and audited by ChainSecurity and Certora; official liquidity will be seeded through an on-chain liquidity pool. Polygon cautions that sPOL carries smart contract risk, validator misbehavior penalty risk, and market volatility risk.
According to Bloomberg ETF analyst James Seyffart’s disclosure on X, 21Shares US has updated its Hyperliquid ETF filing, with the ETF ticker symbol THYP. The filing does not yet disclose management fee information. This filing update is believed to be in response to comments and feedback from the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC).
Nikita Bier, Head of Product at X, announced that the social platform X (formerly Twitter) has launched Cashtags on its iPhone app in the U.S. and Canada, aiming to deliver real-time asset data to finance and cryptocurrency communities. When users search for or post a Cashtag—such as a stock ticker or smart contract address—the platform automatically recommends matching stocks or cryptocurrencies, enabling precise selection of relevant assets. Upon tapping a Cashtag, users can view related posts and price charts directly within X, without needing to navigate away to other platforms. The company stated that Cashtags represent the first step toward establishing X as the premier platform for finance and cryptocurrency communities.
Odaily News OpenAI announced the launch of the GPT-5.4-Cyber model. This model is fine-tuned based on GPT-5.4 for cybersecurity scenarios, reducing refusal restrictions on security-related requests under specific conditions to support professional operations such as binary reverse analysis.According to the introduction, the model is only available to vetted security vendors, enterprise security teams, and researchers through the "Trusted Access for Cybersecurity" (TAC) program. OpenAI stated that a layered mechanism will restrict the model's usage scope and impose additional constraints on access in low-visibility scenarios.
According to Cointelegraph, Crypto.com has reached a definitive agreement with online casino company High Roller Technologies to officially enter the prediction markets sector. This partnership will enable Crypto.com to offer event-based prediction market services to U.S. users via the CFTC-registered CDNA exchange. High Roller stated that the collaboration establishes a strong foundation for both parties in the prediction markets space. Analysts project that the prediction markets sector could reach $1 trillion by 2030, driven by growing demand for contracts tied to economic, business, and political events. Following the announcement, High Roller’s stock (ROLR) on the New York Stock Exchange doubled to $10.77. Prediction markets continue to face legal challenges in multiple jurisdictions, while relevant authorities are actively advancing regulatory compliance efforts.
According to Cointelegraph, blockchain lending platform Figure Technology and its on-chain credit platform Hastra have officially integrated auto loans into their tokenized credit market, further expanding the range of real-world assets (RWAs) accessible to decentralized finance (DeFi) investors. Democratized Prime—the decentralized lending marketplace operated by Figure Markets—has launched auto finance as a new asset class for the first time. Hastra has also announced its expansion to Ethereum Virtual Machine (EVM)-compatible chains, with plans to roll out auto loan products first on Solana and then on Ethereum in June. According to Michael Tannenbaum, CEO of Figure, the platform has generated over $22 billion in on-chain loans to date. Analysts view Figure’s tokenized lending business as experiencing significant growth and have assigned it an “outperform” rating with a $67 price target.
Odaily News: Nikita Bier, Product Lead at X, announced that X has launched the Cashtags feature for iPhone users in the United States and Canada. When users search for or post content containing a Cashtag or a contract address, they can directly view real-time data and price charts for the corresponding stock or cryptocurrency asset.Furthermore, X is conducting a pilot partnership with the Canadian brokerage firm Wealthsimple. Canadian users can use Cashtags to directly access the trading interface and complete transactions. This feature will later be expanded to web browsers, Android devices, and more regions.
Felix Leupold, Technical Lead of CoWSwap, posted an update on X stating that the CoWSwap frontend has been restored and users can now access it at swap.cow.finance. The official notice reminds users to authorize only the address 0xc92e8bdf79f0507f65a392b0ab4667716bfe0110 (i.e., the original GPv2VaultRelayer contract). Earlier, Blockaid reported that its system had detected an attack on the frontend of the decentralized exchange CowSwap; CoW Swap subsequently issued an announcement confirming a frontend outage and advising users not to transact on the platform temporarily.
Odaily News Aave posted on the X platform stating that it has taken note of the attack on the CowSwap frontend, but this incident has not affected the security of the Aave interface or the underlying protocol. As a precautionary measure, the CowSwap team has temporarily disabled the swap endpoints for integrators. Within the Aave interface, transactions have been switched to the ParaSwap routing where available to ensure continuity of user transactions.
Odaily News Google DeepMind has released Gemini Robotics-ER 1.6, positioned as a high-level reasoning model for robots. Compared to its predecessor ER 1.5 and Gemini 3.0 Flash, it shows significant improvements in spatial reasoning and multi-view understanding. The model is now available to developers via the Gemini API and Google AI Studio. The core upgrades include three key capabilities:1. Enhanced pointing accuracy: Can be used for precise object detection, counting, spatial relationship reasoning (e.g., "point to all objects that can fit into the blue cup"), and motion trajectory planning. It can also correctly refuse to point to objects that do not exist in the scene.2. Multi-view success detection: Robots can now integrate views from multiple camera feeds to determine if a task is completed, maintaining accuracy even in occluded or dynamic environments.3. New instrument reading capability: Can interpret various industrial instruments such as circular pressure gauges, vertical level indicators, and digital displays. It achieves step-by-step reasoning through agentic vision (visual reasoning + code execution): first zooming in on detail areas, then calculating proportions and intervals via pointing and code, and finally combining world knowledge to derive the reading.
The Ethereum Foundation has partnered with Nethermind (an Ethereum infrastructure developer), Chainlink Labs (an on-chain data services provider), Areta.io (a smart contract auditing firm), and several top-tier auditing firms to launch the Trillion Dollar Security Initiative, introducing the Ethereum Security Subsidy Program—a $1 million fund offering security audit subsidies for Ethereum developers. This program aims to reduce the cost of security audits and improve developers’ access to audit services, thereby further strengthening the security of the Ethereum ecosystem. Audit applications will be jointly reviewed by the aforementioned organizations and will support CROPS (Chain-on Resource Optimization Project) and novel use-case projects. While security audits are considered an industry best practice, their high cost has limited adoption; this initiative seeks to encourage broader uptake of audit services across projects.
Odaily News The Ethereum Foundation announced on platform X the launch of the "Ethereum Audit Subsidy Program," collaborating with multiple auditing and infrastructure organizations to provide developers with subsidies for security audit costs, aiming to enhance the overall security of the ecosystem. The program is led by the EF's "Trillion Dollar Security Initiative" and is being advanced in collaboration with partners such as Nethermind, Chainlink Labs, and Areta, which will evaluate and review applicant projects. The Ethereum Foundation stated that while security audits are considered industry best practice, their costs are high. This initiative aims to lower the barrier to development and support the implementation of more innovative use cases and projects within the Ethereum ecosystem.
According to an official announcement, AI infrastructure platform B.AI LLM Services today announced that its user base has officially surpassed one million. This milestone not only signifies that its “privacy-first” routing architecture can handle large-scale, sustained high-throughput workloads, but also reflects B.AI’s evolution beyond developing a single chat interface—toward deploying critical underlying infrastructure for the “autonomous agent economy.” Through deep optimization of its technology stack, B.AI is laying a robust foundation for the future highly automated AI collaboration network.
According to Bloomberg, citing informed sources, cloud computing startup Fluidstack is in funding negotiations with investors, aiming to raise approximately $1 billion at a target valuation of $18 billion. The sources indicated that this round of financing is intended to accelerate Fluidstack’s business expansion and further solidify its market position in the distributed cloud computing and Web3 infrastructure sectors. Fluidstack centers on decentralized cloud computing services, dedicated to delivering efficient, low-cost computational power to blockchain projects and the broader cryptocurrency ecosystem. If successfully completed, this funding round will help strengthen Fluidstack’s R&D capabilities and expand its global business footprint.