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Bitget officially launched its CFD copy trading feature today, extending its copy trading services to the forex, gold, crude oil, and stock index markets. Amid escalating global macroeconomic volatility and growing cross-asset allocation demand among crypto users, Bitget’s CFD business has recently achieved a single-day trading volume exceeding $6 billion. This new feature leverages Bitget’s mature copy trading infrastructure: users can follow professional traders’ strategies with a minimum investment of just $50 USDT—further lowering the barrier to entry for retail users accessing traditional financial markets. At the product level, CFD copy trading is deeply integrated with the MT5 infrastructure. Account onboarding and withdrawal processes are fully automated, completing in under three seconds. In terms of mechanics, Bitget employs a High-Water Mark (HWM) profit-sharing model, distributing commissions only on newly generated profits from copied trades—ensuring fair and transparent profit allocation. Eligible traders can earn up to 30% commission. Core metrics are updated hourly, and profits are settled daily—enhancing overall transparency and traceability. Gracy Chen, CEO of Bitget, stated: “Copy trading lowers execution barriers, enabling more users to participate in global macro asset allocation. CFD copy trading forms a core component of Bitget’s UEX strategy, which—powered by a unified account and USDT margin system—allows users to seamlessly trade cryptocurrencies, forex, commodities, and stock indices within a single platform.”
According to The Block, U.S. Republican Senator Thom Tillis stated that a draft bill aimed at resolving the long-standing dispute between banks and crypto firms over stablecoin yield—under the “Clarity for Payment Stablecoins Act” (the “Clarity Act”)—will be publicly released this week. Tillis co-drafted the provisions with Democratic Senator Angela Alsobrooks. The draft has already undergone review by both banking and crypto industry stakeholders, though banks remain opposed. Tillis indicated he is open to further revisions of the text. The issue of stablecoin yield represents the central point of contention in the Clarity Act: banks fear that permitting crypto firms to pay interest on idle stablecoins would trigger massive deposit outflows, while crypto enterprises such as Coinbase argue that banning such interest payments would stifle innovation. Additionally, Tillis proposed hosting a “Crypto Summit” to bring all stakeholders to Capitol Hill for negotiations toward a resolution. The Clarity Act has not yet advanced through the Senate Banking Committee and remains far from final enactment.
Bitget has launched Genius (GENIUS). Trading is now live, and withdrawals will open on April 15 at 00:00 (UTC+8).
Aptos released an update to its tokenomics. Key adjustments include: reducing the annual staking reward rate from 5.19% to 2.6%; increasing gas fees by 10x (stablecoin transfer costs remain low at approximately $0.00014); the launch of the Decibel DEX is expected to significantly boost on-chain transaction volume and gas fee burning, with over 32 million APT projected to be burned annually; setting a protocol-layer hard cap on total supply at 2.1 billion APT; permanently locking and staking 210 million APT by the Aptos Foundation; shifting future incentives to milestone-triggered releases; and exploring a programmable buyback program.
Twin3 introduces a digital identity “soul” infrastructure designed for the Agent economy. Its core concept is to grant every individual a “digital body”—crystallizing human identity, personality, and experience on-chain via 256-dimensional soulbound tokens (SBTs). Users can deploy personal AI agents based on this digital identity and join the agentic ecosystem to participate in automated economic collaboration, transforming authentic human experience into RWA assets that are verifiably owned and tradable.
The People’s Daily published an article titled “Disrupting the Capital Market: Beware of These Irregularities by Financial Self-Media Accounts,” which named certain accounts for disseminating false return information—such as “100x coins” and “earning millions per month from crypto trading”—to drive traffic to virtual currency trading. The article reiterated a prior notice issued by the People’s Bank of China and seven other departments, emphasizing that activities related to virtual currencies constitute illegal financial activities. It further pointed out that accounts and platforms providing traffic-driving or technical services for illegal virtual currency trading are suspected of violating laws and regulations, potentially jeopardizing financial security and anti-money laundering efforts.
According to The Block, renowned startup accelerator Y Combinator has completed its first fully stablecoin investment, paying $500,000 in USDC to prediction market startup Totalis via three on-chain transactions on Solana. The funds are held in custody by Ramp, a financial operations platform. Y Combinator CEO Garry Tan stated that the accelerator will make stablecoin payments available to all YC-backed startups—not limited to crypto-related companies. Totalis plans to use Ramp to execute both stablecoin and fiat transactions simultaneously and to pay credit card bills from its stablecoin account.
As AI advances into the era of autonomous, collaborative agents, the B.AI platform has officially launched, delivering the critical “financial infrastructure” capabilities needed to enable deep participation of AI agents in value exchange—and overcoming the industry’s bottleneck in shifting from model-level capabilities to foundational support. As core infrastructure linking agents to economic systems, B.AI will host a dedicated Twitter Space on April 14 at 8 PM to deeply unpack how it is reshaping agents’ economic roles. By establishing seamless financial integration and collaboration standards, B.AI is accelerating the realization of the AGI vision through forward-looking technical architecture—unlocking new opportunities in intelligent productivity for users worldwide. Follow the official accounts @sunpumpmeme and @Agent_SunGenX, retweet the post, and tag three friends. Five lucky participants will be randomly selected to receive 10 USDT each.
According to Yicai News, five departments—including China’s Ministry of Education—jointly issued the “AI + Education” Action Plan. The plan emphasizes enhancing teachers’ AI literacy and competencies. It calls for developing national standards for teachers’ AI literacy, clearly defining the AI-related competencies teachers should possess. AI literacy training will be conducted in a tiered and categorized manner according to the specific needs of different teaching roles, ensuring full coverage through diverse delivery methods. A contextualized assessment system will be established, with intelligent and progressively structured evaluation tools developed. Local education authorities and schools are encouraged to conduct large-scale teacher literacy assessments, and targeted interventions will be implemented based on assessment results to enhance teachers’ competencies. The plan also promotes reforming the training of prospective teachers by integrating cutting-edge technologies—including AI—into teacher education curricula and updating existing knowledge frameworks. AI-related content will be incorporated into teacher qualification examinations and certification processes. Additionally, AI-powered education initiatives will be included as a dedicated category in both national and provincial-level teaching achievement awards, thereby stimulating endogenous innovation in AI-driven education.
According to an official announcement, Aster has launched the eighth round of its Rocket Launch program—Genius (GENIUS). Concurrently, the platform has introduced a trading campaign with a total prize pool of $200,000. The campaign runs from 15:30 UTC on April 13, 2026, to 14:00 UTC on April 20, 2026. Users are eligible for rewards if their total trading fees incurred during the campaign exceed $5 and their reward amount is equal to or greater than 1 $ASTER. Each participant’s maximum reward is capped at 3% of the total prize pool. Additionally, trading the GENIUSUSDT perpetual contract grants a 1.5x bonus multiplier. Rewards will be distributed within 14 business days after the campaign ends. Notably, Genius—partnered with the Aster Code ecosystem—is the first Aster Code partner to debut under the Rocket Launch program. Aster has also become the first DEX to list the $GENIUS perpetual contract.
According to The Asia Business Daily, DS Investment & Securities issued a research report lowering NAVER’s target price from its previous level to 300,000 KRW, while maintaining a “Buy” rating. Analyst Choi Seung-ho noted that the downward revision is primarily driven by two factors: first, NAVER’s operating profit margin for this year is projected to decline from 18.3% to 17.6%, due to rising advertising and e-commerce marketing expenses as well as depreciation costs; second, delayed legislative progress on cryptocurrency-related regulations is directly affecting the proposed merger between NAVER Financial and Dunamu, raising the possibility of further postponement beyond the originally scheduled completion in September. Previously, DS Securities had assigned a valuation of 15 trillion KRW to NAVER’s cryptocurrency business within its Sum-of-the-Parts (SOTP) valuation; this portion has now been removed from the updated report. Choi Seung-ho added that the e-commerce business remains NAVER’s core growth engine going forward, with annual e-commerce sales expected to reach approximately 2.7 trillion KRW.
According to The Block, Korean payment service provider NHN KCP has signed a memorandum of understanding with Ava Labs to jointly build a Layer 1 network for payment use cases on Ava Cloud. The initiative will focus on three key areas: sub-second payment confirmation, on-chain transaction data encryption, and customizable merchant payment infrastructure. The two parties will also explore business opportunities including tokenized deposit models, multi-stablecoin settlement architectures, and cross-border payments. Justin Kim, Head of Asia at Ava Labs, stated that the mainnet launch timeline for this L1 will depend significantly on the progress of South Korea’s cryptocurrency regulatory framework.
According to DL News, several “revenge intermediaries” in South Korea that accept cryptocurrency as payment have recently remained highly active. These organizations receive orders via Telegram and offer services including intimidation, assault, and even murder disguised as accidents. They require clients to pay a 50% deposit in USDT and promise to send footage of the operation—recorded using body-worn cameras—via Telegram. Although the alleged ringleader was arrested on April 3, related online advertisements continued to appear as recently as April 13. This year, South Korean police have launched investigations into more than 50 such cases and arrested approximately 30 individuals; all cases were confirmed to involve cryptocurrency payments.
According to Ondo Finance’s official blog, Ondo Finance recently submitted a “no-action” request to the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC), seeking confirmation from the SEC that it will not take enforcement action against Ondo’s model for recording and managing certain security interests in tokenized form on the Ethereum mainnet. The request concerns its Ondo Global Markets (OGM) product, which currently offers non-U.S. investors tokenized notes providing exposure to U.S. equities and ETFs. Under this model, the underlying securities remain within the existing legal, custodial, and recordkeeping frameworks; official books and records remain unchanged. Only in limited circumstances are the relevant security interests mapped onto the Ethereum mainnet in tokenized form, held by custodian BitGo to support recordkeeping and operational processes.
According to reporter Eleanor Terrett, the American Bankers Association (ABA) has publicly criticized the recent stablecoin report issued by the White House Council of Economic Advisers (CEA), arguing that the report’s analytical direction is flawed and overlooks more fundamental policy risks. The ABA warns that permitting stablecoins to pay interest could trigger massive outflows of deposits from community banks, raise funding costs, and thereby tighten local credit supply. The ABA stated: “The CEA report focuses on the implications of banning interest payments, thereby creating a false sense of security while sidestepping the far more disruptive scenario—rapid, large-scale expansion of interest-bearing payment stablecoins.”
According to Fortune, Foundry, a leading Bitcoin mining pool, officially launched a new mining pool for the privacy coin Zcash on April 13. Mike Colyer, CEO of Foundry, stated that this move aims to address growing institutional demand for privacy coins. The pool has already attracted several institutional miners, and its output now accounts for nearly one-third of all newly minted Zcash globally. Zcash implements transaction privacy via zero-knowledge proof technology while supporting selective disclosure to meet regulatory compliance requirements—making it more appealing to institutions than its competitor Monero. Fueled by this news, Zcash’s price has surged over 75% in the past 30 days, with its current market capitalization standing at approximately $6.3 billion. Foundry currently controls about 31% of the global Bitcoin hash rate, making it the world’s largest Bitcoin mining pool operator.
Bitget’s Q1 2026 Transparency Report, released today, shows that user trading behavior is rapidly shifting from single crypto assets to multi-asset portfolios. By the end of Q1, non-crypto assets—such as commodities—accounted for 20%–40% of total trading volume, while crypto assets’ share declined from a dominant position at the start of the year to 60%–80%. This fluctuation signals that holistic asset portfolios have become the core strategy for high-net-worth investors. At the product and ecosystem level, Bitget released the whitepaper for its Holistic Exchange (UEX) in Q1, further clarifying the integration path for crypto assets, tokenized assets, and AI-driven trading within a unified architecture. Simultaneously, the platform has continued strengthening its AI trading infrastructure, launching Agent Hub and GetClaw—advancing AI from an assistive tool to an execution system that enables agents to ingest real-time market data, identify trading signals, and execute operations autonomously within predefined parameters. Gracy Chen, CEO of Bitget, stated: “The boundary between crypto markets and traditional finance is rapidly dissolving; the explosive growth of CFDs heralds the arrival of a unified market. Users are no longer making binary asset choices—they are engaging in efficiency-based competition across diverse assets under a single logical framework.”
According to CoinDesk, researchers from the University of California, Santa Barbara; the University of California, San Diego; blockchain security firm Fuzzland; and World Liberty Financial jointly published a paper warning that “LLM routers”—intermediary services positioned between users and AI models—have become a major threat to cryptocurrency asset security. The researchers discovered that 26 LLM routers are secretly injecting malicious tool calls and stealing user credentials, with one incident resulting in the complete draining of a customer’s cryptocurrency wallet worth $500,000. Additionally, by “poisoning” the router ecosystem, the researchers were able to gain control of approximately 400 downstream hosts within hours. Since sensitive data—including private keys and API credentials—is frequently transmitted in plaintext through these routers, users unknowingly expose their assets to risk. The researchers note that as McKinsey forecasts AI agents will mediate $3–5 trillion in global consumer commerce by 2030—and Binance founder Changpeng Zhao predicts AI agents’ payment volume will be one million times greater than that of humans—the current infrastructure’s security lags far behind the pace of industry development. The “weakest link” risk could thus trigger systemic, cascading crises.
According to The Block, Circle CEO Jeremy Allaire responded at a press conference in Seoul, South Korea, to criticism over Circle’s decision not to freeze the stolen USDC involved in the Drift incident. He stated that Circle fulfills its legal obligations and freezes wallets only upon instruction from law enforcement agencies or courts; unilaterally freezing assets would constitute a “major ethical dilemma.” He also revealed that Circle is engaging with U.S. legislative bodies regarding the Clarity Act, seeking to establish a “safe harbor” mechanism for stablecoin issuers in extreme circumstances—but emphasized that any such authority must be explicitly granted through legislation, not exercised unilaterally by the company.
Reportedly, RealClaw is built on the OpenClaw framework and supports installing third-party skill extensions, enabling cross-platform invocation of protocols such as Kamino and Jupiter. Users can freely combine trading strategies according to their needs—such as LP farming, dollar-cost averaging (DCA), derivatives trading, and lending. Currently, RealClaw is in the Alpha testing phase and is accessible only to invited users.