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Gate Direct IPO's first project officially launches SpaceX, providing users with a new option to participate in globally popular IPO investment opportunities. Through the Gate platform, users submit intention applications and receive corresponding spot stocks after the company officially lists, achieving a seamless connection from IPO application to stock trading. Compared to traditional IPO processes, Gate Direct IPO significantly lowers the participation threshold, eliminating the need for complex cross-border account openings and multi-platform operations. After the company completes its IPO, the platform will distribute stocks directly to users' spot stock accounts after the company officially goes public, realizing an investment experience of "immediate allocation upon listing, stocks delivered directly to accounts."As one of the most watched commercial space companies globally, SpaceX has long attracted attention from the capital market due to its reusable rockets, Starlink satellite internet, and future space economy layout. After the IPO allocation ends, stocks will be directly distributed to Gate stock accounts on June 12, allowing users to hold and trade real U.S. stocks without needing to open additional accounts. This launch also marks Gate's further integration of the complete investment chain from Pre-IPO, IPO to stock trading, providing users with more efficient and convenient global asset allocation services.

Deep Tide TechFlow published an in-depth article titled "From 'Fragmented Entry' to 'One Account': Gate TradFi Makes Global Asset Allocation Within Reach." The article points out that as traditional financial assets and the crypto market accelerate their integration, traders' demand for unified, multi-asset trading platforms is increasing, and TradFi has become an important strategic direction for leading crypto trading platforms.The article emphasizes Gate TradFi's product layout and development, including support for users to trade over 10,000 real stocks and ETFs, covering more than 440 CFD products such as foreign exchange, metals, indices, and commodities, as well as diversified asset categories like Pre-IPO, tokenized stocks, and ETFs. Data shows that Gate TradFi's CFD business has reached a daily trading volume of over $30 billion, demonstrating the platform's activity and market demand in the global traditional financial asset trading field. The article believes that Gate is bridging crypto assets and traditional financial markets through a unified account system, providing users with a one-stop global asset allocation experience.In addition, the article also points out that against the backdrop of most trading platforms laying out TradFi business, Gate is forming a differentiated competitive advantage through asset coverage speed, product innovation capabilities, and the construction of a multi-asset trading ecosystem, continuously lowering the threshold for global asset allocation and gradually promoting the concept of "one account trading global assets."

In the past week, global crypto ETFs recorded net outflows for two consecutive weeks, with a cumulative outflow of $2.54 billion. Against the backdrop of adjustments in macro interest rate expectations, institutional risk appetite has contracted, but traditional financial assets such as stocks still maintain strong attractiveness.Data shows that the Gate TradFi Perp market exhibits significant asset rotation characteristics, with metals remaining the main trading sector, and daily trading volume once approaching $550 million to $600 million; meanwhile, the trading volume share of stock contracts continues to rise, indicating that the market's demand for allocation in U.S. stock-related assets is increasing. In the context of continued activity in AI tech stocks and U.S. stock indices nearing historical highs, TradFi Perp is gradually evolving from a single gold trading market to a dual-core structure of "gold + U.S. stocks."As institutional funds accelerate their allocation to stocks, ETFs, and other TradFi assets, Gate continues to promote the integration of TradFi assets and the construction of a multi-asset trading ecosystem, continuously strengthening its capability to provide institutional-level global asset allocation services, offering professional investors a more efficient one-stop cross-market trading solution.

Bit Digital, a Nasdaq-listed company, CEO Sam Tabar posted on X that he has bought more ETH.Sam Tabar explained, "Many people, after seeing ETH's price performance over the past two years, concluded that it is finished. But I believe they have identified the wrong catalyst. The repricing of ETH should never have been based on retail narratives. For an asset supported by such a vast infrastructure, that narrative is inherently too fragile. The real catalyst is institutional demand. And the rhythm of institutional demand never operates according to the emotions on social media. It only occurs when conditions are ripe, such as when the compliance framework is ready, the custody system is established, and the regulatory environment is stable enough for CFOs to sign off. That moment is actually closer than what the market price reflects."He added, "I hold ETH because I have a fiduciary obligation to make smart capital allocation decisions. And based on the price at which I bought, ETH meets that standard."

Italy's largest bank Intesa Sanpaolo will increase its holdings related to crypto assets from approximately $100 million at the end of 2025 to about $235 million in the first quarter of 2026. Among these, the bank has increased its holdings in the ARK 21Shares Bitcoin ETF and BlackRock's IBIT, and for the first time allocated Ethereum assets through BlackRock's iShares Staked Ethereum Trust, while also adding approximately $26 million in Grayscale XRP Trust ETF holdings.In addition, Intesa has established a bullish options position in IBIT for the first time and added 165,600 shares of BitGo stock, while completely liquidating its positions related to Bitmine. Its related holdings in Solana have been significantly reduced, with Bitwise Solana Staking ETF holdings decreasing from 266,300 shares to 2,817 shares. Reports indicate that Intesa has previously confirmed that the related crypto assets are primarily used for proprietary trading. Last month, Ripple also announced that it would provide digital asset custody services for the bank.

According to the official announcement, the Bitget IPO Prime Phase 2 project preOPAI has now completed allocation, and spot trading will begin today at 22:00 (UTC+8). For more details, please refer to the Bitget official platform.

CITIC International Auction in Hong Kong kicked off the "Spring Art Treasures Auction (Part Two)", with the core lot Lot 61 "Five Dynasties Chai Kiln Celadon Tombstone Base" achieving a record sale of HKD 660 million. This move not only refreshes the market height of the Chai Kiln system but also marks the official start of a new asset cycle in the art RWA ecosystem centered around $CHAI.Previously, the Chai Kiln system had a transaction record of approximately HKD 380 million, forming the initial price anchor for this system. The hammer price of HKD 660 million is an orderly upward exploration based on the existing anchor point, demonstrating the market's continued recognition of this asset class. Chairman Huang pointed out that continuously establishing a reference system through market mechanisms will further solidify the foundational role of $CHAI in on-chain value mapping and pricing.

Sky announced that it is building Laniakea, a standardized infrastructure framework for institutional-level capital deployment, for its Sky Agent Network.Currently, Sky Protocol manages over $11 billion in USDS circulation and generates returns through strategies such as DeFi lending, private credit, and compliant real-world assets. Laniakea will serve as the underlying infrastructure to enhance the scalability and efficiency of capital allocation, further advancing on-chain finance towards institutional levels. The project aims to address the current issue of over $300 billion in idle stablecoins and the lack of unified infrastructure.Laniakea will achieve standardization from four dimensions: smart contracts, risk and governance, data infrastructure, and legal compliance, allowing new capital products to avoid redundant construction of underlying frameworks, thus enabling modular expansion and scalable deployment. At the same time, through unified risk measurement and loss layering mechanisms, it ensures that risks are transparent and responsibilities are clear.Under this framework, Sky Agents (Primes) will develop investment strategies and compete for capital allocation based on unified standards, while specific products (Halos) will quickly land based on shared infrastructure. Laniakea will also encode the entire protocol's operational status in a machine-readable manner, providing a foundation for AI-driven real-time risk control and capital scheduling.As the capital scale expands and returns increase, Sky expects to strengthen the value capture capability of the SKY token through buyback and staking mechanisms.

According to CoinDesk, Paul Sztorc, a developer who has long focused on Bitcoin scaling solutions, proposed a Bitcoin hard fork named eCash to be initiated in August 2026 at block height 964,000, distributing eCash to users holding BTC at a 1:1 ratio at the time of the fork, and introducing a Drivechains sidechain architecture in the new chain.The controversy mainly revolves around the plan to pre-allocate a portion of eCash corresponding to Satoshi Nakamoto's address on the new chain to early investors, a move that has drawn criticism from the community, with some individuals claiming it involves "stealing" tokens. Paul Sztorc stated that this move aims to provide incentives for development and collaboration before the project's launch.

According to The Block, JPMorgan analysts stated that the frequent security incidents in DeFi and the stagnation of total locked value (TVL) in ETH terms continue to limit institutional interest in DeFi. The report mentioned that a recent cross-chain bridge attack related to Kelp DAO led to a loss of approximately $20 billion in DeFi TVL within a few days. The attackers minted about $292 million in unsecured rsETH and borrowed real ETH on Aave using it as collateral, resulting in approximately $230 million in bad debt. JPMorgan also pointed out that after security incidents, users tend to turn to Tether's USDT for safety.

According to the official announcement, the first phase of the Bitget IPO Prime project preSPAX has now completed allocation, and spot trading will begin today at 20:00 (UTC+8). For more details, please refer to the Bitget official platform.

According to on-chain detective ZachXBT, the multi-signature address 0x53d7 associated with the initial distribution of RAVE sent approximately 23 million RAVE to two Bitget deposit addresses, worth up to 23 million dollars, after which the price of RAVE dropped 40% from 1 dollar to 0.6 dollars.

Bitget's transparency report for the first quarter of 2026 released today shows that user trading behavior is accelerating its shift from single cryptocurrency assets to multi-asset portfolios. By the end of the first quarter, the trading volume of non-cryptocurrency assets such as commodities accounted for 20%-40%, while the proportion of cryptocurrency assets fell from its dominant position at the beginning of the year to 60%-80%. The fluctuation of this data marks that a panoramic asset portfolio has become a core strategy for high-net-worth investors.On the product and ecosystem level, Bitget released the white paper for the panoramic exchange UEX in the first quarter, further clarifying the direction of integration of cryptocurrency assets, tokenized assets, and AI-driven trading under a unified framework. At the same time, the platform continues to strengthen its AI trading infrastructure, successively launching Agent Hub and GetClaw, promoting the evolution of AI from an auxiliary tool to an execution system, allowing agents to access real-time market data, identify trading signals, and execute operations autonomously under established parameters.Bitget CEO Gracy Chen pointed out: "The boundaries between the cryptocurrency market and traditional finance are rapidly dissolving, and the explosive growth of CFD business indicates the arrival of a unified market. Users are no longer making binary asset choices but are engaging in efficiency games with diverse assets under the same logical system."

According to CoinDesk, Paul Atkins, the chairman of the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC), announced the termination of "enforcement-style regulation" and stated that the seven cases related to cryptocurrency registration initiated by the previous administration were a "misallocation of resources" that did not provide direct benefits to investors.

Bloomberg ETF analyst James Seyffart stated that as market demand continues to expand, the future assets under management (AUM) of Bitcoin spot ETFs are expected to surpass those of gold ETFs.Seyffart pointed out that Bitcoin has a more diverse role in investment portfolios, being viewed as "digital gold," a store of value, and possessing attributes such as asset allocation diversification, liquidity trading, and growth-oriented risk assets, while the investment logic for gold is relatively singular. In terms of capital flows, there has been a noticeable outflow from U.S. gold ETFs recently, with a net outflow of approximately $2.92 billion in March; during the same period, Bitcoin spot ETFs achieved a net inflow of about $1.32 billion, indicating a shift in capital preferences. Despite the divergence in capital flows, Bitcoin and gold prices have shown similar trends recently. Over the past 30 days, Bitcoin prices have dropped by about 8.07%, while gold prices have decreased by about 8.25%. Market views suggest that as investors' demand for digital asset allocation increases, Bitcoin ETFs are gradually shifting from "alternative assets" to mainstream asset allocation tools, and their long-term growth potential is being reassessed.

According to a report by CryptoSlate, the latest report from the Cardano Foundation shows that its asset structure is shifting from a heavy reliance on ADA to a diversified allocation. By the end of 2025, the proportion of ADA is expected to decrease from 76.7% to 51.6%, while the proportion of Bitcoin will significantly increase to 25.5%, and cash and financial assets will rise to 22.9%.It is reported that the total assets of the Cardano Foundation amount to 287.5 million Swiss francs (approximately 361 million USD), a decrease of about 45% compared to 659 million USD at the end of 2024. Notably, the increase in the proportion of Bitcoin held by the Cardano Foundation is not due to additional purchases; its BTC holdings have decreased from 1,054 to 656 (a decline of 37%). The increase in proportion is mainly attributed to Bitcoin's relative resilience and an overall adjustment of the reserve structure. Currently, its reserve system is transitioning from being driven by a single token to a more diversified and actively managed allocation model.

The Polygon community has released the PIP-85 proposal, which will adjust the priority fee of PIP-65. The specific changes are as follows:First, 50% will be extracted from the validator pool and distributed to stakers through a periodic Merkle token receiver deployed on Ethereum.Second, the distribution method of the remaining validator pool will be adjusted, where 75% will be distributed equally based on performance, and 25% will be distributed according to the existing staking weight formula.

According to BBX data, yesterday global listed companies made breakthrough progress in the fields of "financial diversification" and "compliance custody," with the core data as follows:$10 million cryptocurrency purchase plan: Acurx Pharmaceuticals (NASDAQ: $ACXP) board officially approved the allocation of $10 million for the purchase of Bitcoin yesterday. As a biopharmaceutical company, ACXP clearly stated that this move aims to leverage the anti-inflation properties of BTC to hedge against the depreciation risk of long-term R&D funding.10% cash asset allocation: Enfusion (NYSE: $ENFN) announced an update to its financial guidelines, planning to allocate 10% of redundant cash on its balance sheet in batches to BTC and ETH. This financial software giant plans to use crypto assets to enhance the overall risk-adjusted return of its treasury.$5 million increase: Nature's Miracle (NASDAQ: $NMHI) confirmed the launch of its first $5 million Bitcoin strategic treasury plan yesterday, marking the formal acceptance of crypto assets as reserve currency by companies in the agricultural technology sector.40% custody growth: Bakkt (NYSE: $BKKT) Q4 forecast data shows that its enterprise-level crypto asset custody scale has increased by 40% year-on-year. This reflects a significant increase in the reliance of non-native crypto companies on compliant third-party custody institutions when entering the market to purchase cryptocurrencies.

According to official news, FTX announced that it will launch the fourth round of distribution on April 30, with an amount of approximately $2.2 billion, aimed at holders of convenience and non-convenience claims who have completed the relevant requirements.Eligible creditors will receive funds from their chosen distribution service provider within 1 to 3 business days after the distribution starts. FTX also set April 30 as the record date for preferred stockholders, with corresponding payments to be made on May 29. FTX reminds customers to be vigilant against phishing emails and fraudulent websites impersonating official portals.