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The European Central Bank (ECB) has signed agreements with European Card Payment Cooperation, Nexo Standards, and Berlin Group to reuse existing open payment standards for digital euro transactions, aiming to reduce the system access costs for banks, merchants, and payment service providers.The relevant standards cover contactless payments, connections between merchants and payment service providers, as well as alias payments based on mobile phone numbers. The European Central Bank stated that this move helps to reduce market adoption costs and promotes a unified digital euro user experience in the euro area. Previously, the European Central Bank analyzed that the digital euro could bring about 4 billion to 6 billion euros in costs to EU banks within 4 years.

According to on-chain analyst Murphy (@Murphychen888), the BTC price has risen to around $79,000, and the current open interest (OI) in the futures market has returned to a recent high of 472,000 BTC, with market leverage continuing to accumulate.During yesterday's peak, short sellers paid an average funding fee of up to $604,000 per hour to long positions, which, although lower than the peak, still far exceeds the 7-day average ($197,000). Murphy pointed out that the high OI combined with negative premiums intensifies the situation; once the price rebounds, short sellers forced to close their positions or facing liquidation will create buying pressure, triggering a short squeeze. Historically, rebounds have occurred under similar conditions on March 9 and April 13, and the current short ratio is not ideal.

According to CoinDesk, monitoring by CertiK reveals that the Lazarus Group is conducting an attack operation named Mach-O Man targeting executives in the fintech and cryptocurrency industries. This operation utilizes ClickFix social engineering techniques, sending fake online meeting invitations to lure victims into pasting repair commands on their Mac terminals, thereby gaining access to company and financial systems.CertiK researcher Natalie Newson stated that the Lazarus Group has stolen over $500 million through attacks on Drift and KelpDAO in the past two weeks. Mach-O Man is a modular macOS malware toolkit developed by the Chollima division of the Lazarus Group, capable of automatically deleting itself after use to evade detection.Additionally, attackers have implemented this attack by hijacking DeFi project domain names and replacing them with fake Cloudflare messages.

According to monitoring by Shield, the KelpDAO attackers have begun to transfer the stolen assets: they transferred some of the stolen ETH from the Ethereum mainnet across to Arbitrum via the Across Protocol, then exchanged it for USDT, and routed it to the TRON DAO ecosystem through LayerZero.This path shows that the attackers are diversifying and laundering funds through multi-chain bridges and stablecoin conversion methods, and the subsequent flow of funds still needs to be continuously tracked.

According to monitoring by the blockchain security firm SlowMist, MistEye has received threat intelligence from the community indicating that a malware named "MacSync Stealer" (v1.1.2) is active and highly destructive. This malware targets macOS users, stealing sensitive data including cryptocurrency wallets, browser credentials, system keychains, and infrastructure keys (SSH/AWS/K8s).The malware uses a spoofed AppleScript system dialog for phishing and displays fake error messages stating "unsupported" after data leakage. It has immediately synchronized this IOC (Indicator of Compromise) to clients. Do not execute unverified macOS scripts and remain highly vigilant against unexpected system password prompts. If an attack is suspected, immediate remediation is required: change all infrastructure credentials (SSH/AWS/K8s), invalidate any exposed keychains, and quickly migrate cryptocurrency assets to a secure wallet.

According to Cointelegraph, Admiral Samuel Paparo of the U.S. Navy stated at a Senate Armed Services Committee hearing that Bitcoin is a "valuable computer science tool," and its proof-of-work technology has significant applications in cybersecurity, increasing the cost of attacks for adversaries and can be used to protect data, information, and command signals, helping to support U.S. national security interests.Paparo noted, "Beyond the economic aspect, it has very important computer science application value in cybersecurity." Previously, Jason Lowery, a member of the U.S. Space Force, also made similar points in 2023.

Grayscale analyst Zach Pandl disclosed data showing that Bitcoin has rebounded over 20% from its low of about $63,000 in early February, with the current price around $76,000, slightly above the average cost (realized price) of about $74,000 for buyers in the past 1 to 3 months, indicating that most short-term investors have returned to the breakeven zone.Analysis suggests that if the price continues to rise, more recent buyers will enter a profitable state, which is often seen as one of the important signals at the beginning of a bull market. However, Bitcoin is still below the peak from last October. Market views indicate that this round of recovery may have formed a relatively solid phase bottom in the range of $65,000 to $70,000.

According to the official announcement from Volo, a security vulnerability incident occurred with the BTCFi and LST protocols on the Sui network, resulting in approximately $3.5 million in assets (including WBTC, XAUm, and USDC) being stolen from three specific Vaults.After the incident, the team immediately notified the Sui Foundation and ecological partners, and froze all Vaults to prevent further losses. Volo stated that this vulnerability only involved three Vaults, and the remaining Vaults do not have the same attack vector, with approximately $28 million in TVL assets remaining safe. The official emphasized that they will bear the loss themselves and will not pass the loss onto users, and will release a complete post-incident report and remediation plan after the investigation is completed.

During tonight's Bitget "Obsidian Night," the head of Bitget AI products provided an in-depth analysis of the AI trading assistant, Agent Hub, and GetClaw product matrix, and officially announced the launch of the Bitget AI ecosystem co-creation plan. He pointed out that AI should not just be a pile of functions within the exchange, nor should it be an exclusive tool for institutions, but rather a key lever for ordinary users to achieve trading equality. Relying on the UEX unified architecture, these AI tools can now seamlessly integrate into cross-asset trading scenarios, providing users with professional-level strategy assistance 24/7.In the second quarter of 2026, Bitget will focus on advancing three AI ecosystem initiatives: hosting the world's first AI trading hackathon to provide developers with technical resources and a showcase platform; collaborating with creators to produce practical tutorials; and opening up B-end cooperation to co-build a developer ecosystem with project parties and tool vendors. The head of Bitget AI products stated that this plan aims to aggregate industry strength and accelerate the deep application of AI technology in Web3 trading scenarios.

Bybit's Security Operations Center has discovered a multi-stage malware attack targeting macOS users of the search AI development tool Claude Code.Attackers used search engine optimization poisoning to push malicious domains to the top of Google search results, luring users into a counterfeit installation page, thereby stealing browser credentials, macOS keychain, Telegram sessions, VPN configurations, and cryptocurrency wallet information. Bybit stated that the malware can also establish persistent access through backdoor programs and attempts to target over 250 browser wallet extensions and multiple desktop wallet applications. This malicious infrastructure was identified on March 12, and relevant analysis, mitigation, and detection measures were completed on the same day.

Market news: Security personnel disclosed a critical vulnerability in Cosmos CometBFT 0-day, which may cause block synchronization phase stagnation affecting over $8 billion in assets.

The latest weekly report shows that the JUST protocol continues to play a core foundational role in the Tron DeFi ecosystem, with a total locked value (TVL) reaching $11.4 billion, occupying an important position in the ecosystem with a market share of 41.83%.The platform's core business operates steadily, with deposits exceeding $3.75 billion, and liquidity depth and capacity further solidified. In addition, JUST's value capture engine operates efficiently, with a normalized buyback and burn mechanism, resulting in a cumulative burn rate of JST reaching 13.70%.This dynamic deflationary strategy not only effectively optimizes the asset supply and demand pattern but also demonstrates the firm operational consensus of JUST as a core DeFi protocol in Tron through long-term stable value returns.

Helius CEO mert posted on platform X, stating that decentralization is essentially "coordination without a central authority." If the cost of coordination is close to zero, then it is effectively centralized; if the cost of coordination is infinitely high, then it technically cannot be called decentralized, as the system would not function properly.mert illustrated this point through a thought experiment: suppose there currently exists a highly decentralized blockchain with hundreds of thousands of nodes running from home, distributed mining power, and token supply. He then proposed another extreme hypothesis—if North Korea could transfer funds from wallet A to wallet B within time T, then this would be equivalent to that chain being able to simultaneously detonate nuclear weapons in most countries around the world.Finally, assuming that the blockchain could successfully freeze the funds in wallet A through a fork without causing mass casualties, would this blockchain still be considered decentralized? mert believes that although humanity can achieve coordination due to the shared incentive of "not dying," this does not mean that the chain is "unorganized." Decentralization is still fundamentally "coordination without a central authority."

The "AI × RWA: The Action Economy" themed side event hosted by the Hong Kong AI one-stop family health management platform XKONG has concluded. At the event, XKONG revealed its "decentralized health network" strategy: plans to deploy over 3,500 health service terminals in Hong Kong, creating a triadic health ecosystem consisting of AI diagnostic devices, the XKONG APP, and the AI health assistant KoKo. Each health behavior and interaction by users will be converted into Token rights for the use of platform AI services, forming a closed loop from "user behavior" to "AI consumption." XKONG stated that it will use Hong Kong as a model and enter more than 10 countries and regions globally by 2026.

ChainCatcher reported live that Justin Sun, the founder of TRON, shared a keynote speech titled "From TRON to B.AI: Infrastructure as the Game-Changer in the AI Era" at this year's 2026 Hong Kong Web3 Carnival.He introduced that TRON currently supports about 86.4 billion USDT, with other stablecoins bringing the total close to 90 billion dollars, and the global account number has reached 376 million, making it one of the largest stablecoin settlement networks in the world. He emphasized that the most important aspects of financial services are stability and security, rather than being cheap.He pointed out that the existing payment systems are not compatible with AI, as bank accounts require human identity for opening, and each payment needs manual authorization, which cannot support high-frequency decision-making by AI. B.AI is building the underlying financial infrastructure for AI agents, allowing each AI to operate without becoming human, managing keys and on-chain wallets through cryptography to complete payments, and can anonymously call the world's most

ChainCatcher reported live that Du Yu, head of the Wanxiang Blockchain Lab, and He Yi, co-CEO of Binance, attended the 2026 Hong Kong Web3 Carnival, engaging in a roundtable discussion titled "Reshaping Boundaries: The Next Decade of Web3, AI, and the Intelligent Economy."Regarding the three major areas of personal focus, He Yi stated that she is currently dividing her time among three sectors: first, the world changes brought about by the approaching AI singularity, contemplating the product and service forms of Binance in the next decade; second, organizational and talent development, as companies need self-sustaining growth capabilities to support development once they reach a certain scale; third, the further integration of crypto and traditional finance, which is actively promoted in both the U.S. and Hong Kong, with the possibility that global foreign exchange may occur on blockchain rather than the SWIFT system in the future, and asset trading will achieve 24/7 uninterrupted global operations like in the crypto space.Regarding the impact of AI on Binance, He Yi clearly stated that Binance does not intend to lay off employees on a large scale to cut costs and improve efficiency like most tech companies. She believes AI makes the strong even stronger, as a programmer using AI to write code can enhance efficiency tenfold. She also shared that an employee was discovered and fired for "taking on multiple jobs" after their efficiency improved due to AI. She stated that Binance's overall approach is to further enhance the organization's output and innovation capabilities rather than reduce costs at the current scale.Regarding the goal of reaching three billion users, He Yi revealed that this year they have upgraded their target from pursuing one billion users to pursuing three billion users. She believes that becoming a company with three billion users means Binance is not just an exchange but a global financial infrastructure, with services aimed at everyday payments and wealth management for ordinary people.On the essence of AI, He Yi stated that there should be no "technological arrogance." No matter how advanced AI is, the most important thing for individuals is how technology serves life. She gave an example of when a bean bag can tell a rural elderly woman that a certain health product is fake and not to buy it, or when a lonely elderly person can chat with someone through AI; this is the value and significance that technology brings to humanity.Regarding the integration of crypto and traditional finance, He Yi pointed out that the internet has already gone through this path. Initially, Silicon Valley's internet had a strong hippie culture, which later diverged into two paths: those who went left pursued absolute freedom in the dark web, while those who went right created Google and Amazon, becoming commercial companies serving the public. Binance will steadfastly move towards serving the public. She also revealed that Binance has launched trading in commodities such as crude oil, gold, and silver, with the platform's commodity trading volume already accounting for a very high proportion of traditional scales. She believes that when labeling oneself to distinguish between Crypto and TradFi, that label is "drawing a line," and one should return to first principles: contributing to financial freedom and equality in the world.Regarding industry maturity and original intentions, He Yi stated that when Wall Street and traditional finance make a 180-degree turn to embrace crypto, it precisely indicates that the industry is becoming increasingly mature, with early-stage dividends diminishing. Entering a mature phase means crossing a chasm, and products must truly have value and be grounded. She quoted a phrase she has been saying since 2017: "We are not starting a business; we are creating history." Binance's slogan has also remained unchanged—"Exchange the World." She emphasized that the impact and transformation of Web3 on finance are real, and even if it only improves financial efficiency a little, it is an incredible innovation. There is no need to pursue perfection in one step; "just make a little progress every day."

ChainCatcher reported live that Li Guoquan, Dean of the Global Fintech Academy, Hong Kong Legislative Council member (Technology and Innovation Sector) Kenneth Lau, Chief Public Mission Officer of Hong Kong Cyberport, Chan Sze Yuen, and Executive Director of the Japan Virtual Currency Exchange Association (JVCEA) & Japan Crypto Asset Business Association, Koji Takeda, attended the HK Web3 Feastival roundtable discussion, focusing on "Balancing Regulation and Innovation to Co-build a Sustainable Asian Digital Financial Ecosystem."Kenneth Lau stated that the legislative process has been significantly advanced, and he hopes to see innovation-driven developments next, exploring how to leave space for new products and business models while improving the regulatory framework. He cited the startup exemption mechanism in U.S. legislation as an example, emphasizing the importance of a nurturing environment for innovation. He also pointed out that the Hong Kong stock market currently does not allow for a market maker system, and the liquidity provision rules in virtual asset trading will be addressed in legislative discussions within the year. Regarding prediction markets, he personally believes that Hong Kong currently does not have the conditions to open them.Chan Sze Yuen introduced that Cyberport launched a pilot subsidy program for blockchain and digital assets last year, with nine projects participating, more than half of which involve RWA tokenization, aiming to promote projects from proof of concept to commercialization. He stated that Cyberport has gathered over 300 Web3 companies from 19 countries and regions, emphasizing that trusted digital identity (KYC/AML compliance) is the foundation for scaling RWA and payment projects, while secondary market liquidity determines whether tokenized assets can become real market products.Koji Takeda revealed that the Financial Services Agency (FSA) of Japan submitted a new bill to the Diet on April 10, proposing to move the regulation of crypto assets from the Financial Services Act to the Financial Instruments and Exchange Act, which means the government officially recognizes the investment attributes of crypto assets, marking a significant shift. He also pointed out that Japan had previously seen over 200 companies relocate to places like Singapore due to strict regulations, but recently, through adjustments to corporate tax systems and discussions on personal crypto tax reforms, companies are gradually returning.Host Li Guoquan summarized that the various jurisdictions in Asia are not in competition but are part of the same ecosystem. Excessive compliance costs may push quality institutions into gray areas, and how to lower compliance thresholds in regulatory dialogues and promote responsible innovation is a common challenge facing the Asian digital financial ecosystem.

Polygon officials stated that they have been actively monitoring the rsETH vulnerability: Polygon Chain, Agglayer, and the entire ecosystem including Katana and Vaultbridge have not been affected by this incident. Polygon has safely transferred over $20 trillion in funds to date and will continue to closely monitor the situation.