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Odaily News The ETH/BTC exchange rate has risen to a 10-week high, with Ethereum outperforming Bitcoin recently. The ratio broke through the resistance of the downtrend line since August 2025 and has risen above the 50-day and 100-day exponential moving averages. XWIN Research pointed out that the staff statement issued by the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission on April 13 explained that DeFi frontends and wallet interfaces do not need to register as broker-dealers if they meet conditions such as non-custody and a neutral fee structure, which has driven Ethereum's strength.On-chain data shows an upward trend in active addresses, and the Coinbase premium gap is also improving, indicating a recovery in institutional demand in the United States. Enterprise-level accumulation is accelerating; Bitmine accumulated 279,000 ETH in the past 30 days and currently holds 4.87 million ETH, accounting for over 4% of the circulating supply. In the futures market, the global ETH open interest reached $16.37 billion, and the funding rate remains negative, indicating that shorts dominate. However, the open interest on Binance increased by 10.47% to $6.04 billion, and the funding rate turned positive, creating an extreme imbalance between global shorts and longs on Binance.
BitMEX Research published an article proposing an alternative soft fork to BIP-361, suggesting that dormant bitcoins vulnerable to quantum attacks be frozen only upon confirmed existence of a quantum computer capable of stealing bitcoins. The proposal introduces a “canary fund” mechanism: a special bitcoin address whose private key is unknown but theoretically crackable by a sufficiently powerful quantum computer; users may donate BTC to this address as a bounty. If funds are spent from this address, it signals confirmed quantum threat and automatically triggers the freezing mechanism. BitMEX Research states that this proposal serves as a less contentious alternative to the more controversial BIP-361.
On-chain lending platform Votre has raised $3.75 million in seed funding, led by a16z Crypto Startup Accelerator, with participation from MaC Venture Capital, Druid Ventures, and angel investors from Goldman Sachs, Harvard University, and OrangeDAO. Founded in 2025, Votre operates a non-custodial crypto lending platform on Coinbase’s Base Layer 2 network, enabling users to borrow USD—settled the same day—using Bitcoin as collateral, with loan sizes ranging from approximately $25,000 to $5 million. The funds will be used to scale technical infrastructure, increase platform capacity, enhance liquidity management tools, and strengthen risk and compliance systems.
Odaily News Stanford University's "2026 AI Index Report" reveals that the overall electricity demand of current AI systems is already close to half the scale of Bitcoin mining and approaches the national electricity consumption levels of Switzerland or Austria.The report points out that the gap in AI model capabilities between China and the United States is narrowing. In 2025, the U.S. launched approximately 50 representative models, while China launched about 30. Models from institutions such as Anthropic, xAI, Google, OpenAI, Alibaba, and DeepSeek are within the same capability tier.Furthermore, China leads in terms of AI paper citation share (20.6%) and patent quantity (74.2%), while private AI investment in the United States reached $285.9 billion, significantly higher than China's $12.4 billion.
According to GlobeNewswire, Solv Protocol announced a strategic integration with Utexo to launch a native Bitcoin yield solution built on the RGB protocol and the Lightning Network. This solution enables atomic swaps between native BTC and USDT—without wrapping, cross-chain bridges, or custodians. It emphasizes self-custody, privacy protection, and final settlement, aligning with Tether’s prior announcement of natively issuing USDT on an RGB-compatible Lightning Network. Additionally, Solv participated as a strategic angel investor in Utexo’s $7.5 million seed funding round, led by Tether.
Odaily News: Sharon Yeshaya, Chief Financial Officer of Morgan Stanley, stated that tokenization and on-chain finance will become key evolutionary directions for its wealth management business.The company envisions a "tokenized world," where client assets and liabilities can flow as efficiently as capital through blockchain infrastructure, thereby reshaping asset allocation, lending, and cash management methods.Unlike viewing crypto as an independent business, Morgan Stanley plans to embed on-chain capabilities into its core service system, including investment advisory, financing, and liquidity management, to drive an upgrade of the overall financial architecture.This strategy is being gradually implemented through initiatives such as the digital asset pilot with ZeroHash and products like Bitcoin ETFs. Although the crypto business currently accounts for a small portion of the overall system, its position within the future wealth management framework is rapidly rising.
Odaily News Riot Platforms' data center head, Jonathan Gibbs, has left the company after less than a year in the role, dealing a setback to the company's transformation towards AI and high-performance computing (HPC). The company's stock price fell approximately 6% on the day of the announcement.Gibbs joined in 2025, tasked with leading Riot's shift from traditional Bitcoin mining to AI and hyperscale data center operations. The reasons for his departure have not been disclosed, and his unvested stock awards (worth approximately $18.7 million) have been forfeited.Despite the short-term uncertainty brought by this personnel change, Riot had previously initiated its transformation. This includes partnering with AMD to build data centers and beginning to leverage its power resources to undertake AI computing business, generating some revenue conversion.To support infrastructure investments, the company has concurrently reduced its Bitcoin holdings. In Q1 2026, it sold approximately 3,778 BTC, raising about $290 million.Market observers believe Riot is at a critical stage of its dual-track transformation of "mining + AI computing power." While executive changes may affect the execution pace, the long-term direction will ultimately depend on its ability to successfully implement its data center business.
Odaily News TeraWulf announced the issuance of 47.4 million shares at $19 per share, raising approximately $9 billion to fund the construction of a large-scale data center campus in Hawesville, Kentucky, repay bridge financing, and support future expansion. Affected by the equity dilution from the financing, the company's stock price fell by about 5.8% during the trading session. The company also disclosed preliminary performance for the first quarter of 2026, expecting revenue to be between $30 million and $35 million, with approximately $3.1 billion in cash on hand and total debt of about $5.8 billion.TeraWulf's management pointed out that high-performance computing (HPC) hosting revenue now accounts for over half of its income, surpassing Bitcoin mining revenue for the first time, driving a shift in its revenue structure towards more stable, long-term cash flows. Analysts believe that while this financing round brings equity dilution, it helps support the expansion of AI infrastructure and enhances visibility for future growth. Overall, this move reflects the industry trend of mining companies accelerating their shift towards AI and high-performance computing to reduce reliance on Bitcoin price volatility and improve profitability stability. (CoinDesk)
Canaan Inc. released its Bitcoin mining update report as of March 31, disclosing that it mined 89 BTC in March, holding a total of 1,808 BTC. The company also holds 3,952 ETH. In March, its network added over 10 MW of new installed capacity, bringing its global installed capacity to 266.3 MW.
According to GlobeNewswire, Strive, a Nasdaq-listed Bitcoin treasury company, announced it will increase the dividend rate on its Variable-Rate Series A Perpetual Preferred Stock (SATA) by 25 basis points to 13.00%, effective for interest periods beginning on and after April 15, 2026. Additionally, Strive will distribute a dividend of $1.0833 per share on May 15, 2026, to shareholders of record as of May 1, 2026. Strive disclosed it has acquired an additional ~27 bitcoins, bringing its total bitcoin holdings to approximately 13,768. Under the assumptions that the SATA yield is 13.00% and the average purchase price of bitcoin is $74,750, Strive’s current balance sheet structure can support such dividend payments for approximately 19.6 years.
Odaily News Nasdaq-listed Bitcoin mining company Bitdeer has announced its unaudited production and operational update data for March 2026. The data reveals that self-operated mining output in March was 661 Bitcoin, representing a year-on-year increase of approximately 480%. The self-operated Bitcoin hashrate increased to about 70 EH/s, a year-on-year growth of roughly 504%. It is reported that seasonal factors in Norway and Bhutan had some impact on production for the month, but mining performance is expected to continue strengthening in the coming months. Furthermore, driven by accelerating demand from AI clients, the annualized recurring revenue (ARR) for Bitdeer's AI cloud business reached approximately $43 million, a quarter-on-quarter increase of 105%. (Globenewswire)
WEEX Exchange has announced the launch of its first Staking campaign—“Diamond Hands Program”—from 18:00 on April 15 to 18:00 on May 4 (UTC+8). Users can access the Wealth Management page and select the 20-day fixed-term products for BTC or WXT to earn staking returns of 3% for BTC and 2% for WXT.
Odaily News Bitcoin contributor Jameson Loop and other cryptographers have proposed an initiative that could force Bitcoin holders to migrate their tokens to new quantum-resistant addresses, otherwise their tokens would be permanently frozen by the network itself. In this scenario, holders would technically still "own" the coins but would lose the ability to transfer them. This is known as Bitcoin Improvement Proposal BIP-361, which was updated in Bitcoin's official proposal repository on Tuesday under the title "Post-Quantum Migration and Legacy Signature Deprecation".BIP-361 builds upon the BIP-360 proposal introduced in February. BIP-360 introduced a soft fork (a network upgrade) designed to enable a new transaction type called "Pay-to-Merkle-Root" (P2MR). This method draws from Bitcoin's Taproot (P2TR) framework but removes the key-based spending path, thereby eliminating an element widely considered to be at risk in the quantum era.The BIP-361 proposal divides the migration into three phases. Phase A begins three years after activation, prohibiting anyone from sending new Bitcoin to legacy, quantum-vulnerable addresses. You can still spend from these addresses but cannot receive any coins.Phase B begins five years after activation, rendering legacy signatures (ECDSA and Schnorr) completely invalid. The network will reject any attempts to spend coins from quantum-vulnerable wallets. Essentially, your coins will be frozen.Finally, there is Phase C, a still-under-research rescue plan: holders of frozen wallets may be able to prove ownership via zero-knowledge proofs (a method of proving knowledge of a secret without revealing the secret itself). If successful, coins frozen in Phase B could be recovered. (CoinDesk)
Binance has announced support for users to make payments at all merchants in Bolivia using Binance QR codes. Over 100 cryptocurrencies—including USDT and BTC—are supported. Users simply confirm transactions via the app, and Binance automatically converts their funds into the local currency at the time of payment. Binance stated that the QR code payment service is available exclusively to Binance users whose identity verification location is in Bolivia, and users must hold cryptocurrency in their Binance account (Binance Spot, Deposit, or Earn).
According to an official announcement from UStables, the stablecoin USD1 (ticker: $U) has achieved a 24-hour trading volume peak of $1.75 billion since its listing on Binance three months ago. On April 13, BTC/U trading volume surpassed BTC/USDT trading volume, and USD1 has now entered the Top 10 tokens by trading volume across all markets. According to an official Binance announcement, zero-fee BTC/U trading will officially commence on April 17, 2026, at 8:00 a.m. Beijing Time.
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.
According to Cointelegraph, Nikita Bier, X’s Head of Product, previously posted a hint suggesting the platform may launch a product aimed at “fixing the crypto industry,” sparking widespread market attention and speculation. The market generally believes this crypto-related product will tie into X’s broader financial ecosystem strategy and is expected to involve the upcoming payment and digital wallet product, X Money—potentially incorporating Bitcoin payments, collaboration with the Solana ecosystem, stablecoin applications, and prediction markets, among other integrations. As of now, X has not issued an official statement regarding these plans. Elon Musk previously stated that the early public version of X Money will launch in April.
Aster, a high-performance on-chain trading platform, has announced an enhanced partnership with Binance Wallet, integrating native perpetual contract trading directly into the app. This enables users to trade crypto assets, U.S. equities, ETFs, and commodities seamlessly in one place—anytime, anywhere—while retaining full self-custody of their assets. As part of this upgrade, Aster has launched a USD1-denominated perpetual contract market, supporting BTC, ETH, and SOL trading with USD1 as margin. This new market offers lower fees and WLFI incentives. To celebrate the app integration launch, users who accumulate $1,000 USDT in perpetual contract trading volume on Binance Wallet between April 14, 2026, 20:00 and April 28, 2026, 20:00 (UTC+8) will receive an additional 3 Binance Alpha Points. As a high-performance on-chain trading platform, Aster continues to deepen integrations with top-tier wallets to deliver a secure, ultra-smooth trading experience for users worldwide—truly enabling the migration of derivatives trading from centralized platforms to wallet-native entry points.
According to Businesswire, Bitcoin treasury company Strategy announced that it will release its first-quarter 2026 financial results after the U.S. market close on May 5, 2026, and hold a video webcast conference at 5:00 p.m. Eastern Time on the same day to discuss the results.
According to an official announcement, Tether launched its self-custodial digital wallet, tether.wallet, on April 14, directly opening its global financial infrastructure to end users. The wallet supports digital assets including USD₮, USA₮, XAU₮, and Bitcoin, and operates across blockchain networks such as Ethereum, Polygon, Plasma, and Arbitrum. Users can transfer funds using simple, human-readable identifiers—eliminating the need for traditional long addresses or additional network tokens—and pay transaction fees directly in the asset being transferred. tether.wallet employs local signing, with private keys and recovery phrases held exclusively by the user, emphasizing openness, neutrality, and user sovereignty. Tether stated that this product aims to simplify the use of digital assets and enhance financial inclusion, with plans to support additional blockchain networks in the future.