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According to the "News" report, the Federal Security Service of the Russian Federation (FSB) recently arrested three Telegram investment channel owners, accusing them of manipulating stock prices through a "Pump&Dump" strategy, involving over 55,000 illegal transactions related to 19 large companies on the Moscow Exchange.Research from Moscow State University shows that 11% of Telegram investment signals can have a substantial impact on stock returns, with over 60% of private investors relying on such signals to make decisions. The Central Bank of Russia stated that it will continue to monitor abnormal trading and warned that "punishment is inevitable" for illegal bloggers. Experts remind that manipulative signals are often presented in emotional language, promise quick profits, and do not disclose risks; investors should prioritize consulting licensed advisors.

According to the official announcement, the Bitget preSPAX VIP exclusive airdrop registration has officially begun. The first round of airdrops is open to users who became Bitget VIPs before April 13 at 10:00 (UTC+8), with a total prize pool of 760 preSPAX. Eligible users must complete the registration through the "VIP Center" on the homepage by April 15 at 23:59 (UTC+8) and maintain their VIP status. The related airdrop rewards will be distributed according to user levels and will be issued on April 16.The second round of airdrops is open to users who newly upgraded to VIP status between April 13 at 10:00 and April 19 at 23:59 (UTC+8), with a total prize pool of 190 preSPAX. The specific amounts will be allocated based on the VIP level at the end of the event. The related airdrop rewards will be issued on April 20. For more details, please refer to the Bitget official platform.

The President of the Hong Kong Monetary Authority, Eddie Yue, stated that the first batch of stablecoin issuers has been granted licenses today. Based on the business plans of the licensees, they intend to commence operations in the coming months once the relevant preparations are completed.Eddie Yue expressed hope that the issuers will carry out their business as planned, actively explore development opportunities while managing risks, promote the application of compliant stablecoins, and address pain points in financial and economic activities. At the same time, the public should remain vigilant against any fraudulent activities or scams claiming to be related to the licensees or the stablecoins they issue. When purchasing or using stablecoins, regulated channels should be used, and if there are any doubts, they should refer to the records of the Monetary Authority to verify the identity of the licensees or contact the licensees for further inquiries.

The decentralized stablecoin USDD announced the launch of two WBTC Vaults on the TRON network, allowing users to use WBTC as collateral to mint USDD. This adds a high-quality collateral option to the existing TRX, sTRX, and USDT Vaults, marking further diversification of the protocol's collateral assets.As the largest and most recognized Bitcoin tokenized asset by market capitalization, the addition of WBTC significantly enhances the diversity and robustness of the USDD collateral pool. It is reported that the newly launched WBTC-A and WBTC-B Vaults have minimum collateralization rates set at 150% and 130%, with minimum loan amounts of $1,000 and $2,500, respectively. Users can also amplify their returns through two efficient strategies: first, leveraging long cycles by using WBTC as collateral to borrow USDD, then exchanging for more WBTC on a DEX to re-collateralize; second, cross-platform interest rate arbitrage by borrowing USDD and depositing it into high-yield mining pools to earn net interest differentials.The USDD team stated that the launch of WBTC Vaults is an important step in diversifying collateral assets, enhancing security, and improving user experience for the protocol, further strengthening USDD's market positioning as the "interest-bearing version of USDT."

According to official news, the Cosmos ecosystem lending protocol Mars Protocol has announced that it has completed all withdrawal processes according to governance proposal MRC-165: all liquidation LTVs have been adjusted to 0, and all remaining loan positions have been liquidated. Funds in users' credit accounts and Mars v1 have been directly returned to their wallets.The project team stated that the funds held by Amber will be notified separately through Amber's official channels in the coming days. The Mars official Discord and Telegram will be closed soon, and no further support or updates will be provided. The Mars team stated that this operation marks the formal and orderly end of the protocol.

OpenClaw founder Peter Steinberger posted on the X platform that the next version of OpenClaw will also adopt MCP (Model Context Protocol), allowing users to replace Anthropic's message channel model context protocol, thereby connecting to a wider range of message providers. Peter Steinberger also admitted that this adjustment is "a bit awkward," but it will significantly expand OpenClaw's message access capabilities and ecological compatibility.In response to community concerns that OpenClaw is "biased" towards OpenAI, Peter Steinberger also stated that OpenClaw supports various software from Microsoft's Teams, Matrix to WhatsApp.

The cross-chain protocol LayerZero announced the integration with the institutional-focused blockchain Canton, becoming the first interoperability protocol for Canton. Traditional financial institutions can now use LayerZero to route tokenized assets on Canton—including securities, digital bonds, and stocks—to over 165 public chains while maintaining compliance and confidentiality requirements.In addition, investors can directly subscribe to tokenized real-world assets (RWA) on Canton using stablecoins from external public chains, and Canton’s native tokenization tools can also be transferred to other ecosystems for secondary market trading. Canton processes over $350 billion in U.S. Treasury repurchase transactions daily. LayerZero has previously partnered with DTCC and Centrifuge, the latter covering nearly $861 million in tokenized U.S. Treasuries.

Backpack officials posted on platform X stating that regarding the witch determination issue for Backpack, the team has had in-depth communication with the anti-witch leader. Due to the enforcement level's insistence on the compliance bottom line of "one person, one account," some Chinese-speaking users have been affected.Armani and the core team are ready to immediately open an appeal channel and establish "Guideline No. 3": Any user who has operated 3 or fewer accounts on one device and has been determined to be a witch will have more than 50% of their points returned after manual appeal verification. In addition, the Backpack team will launch a special program in the coming days to compensate eligible users by repurchasing tokens in the secondary market.

Analysts say that the IoTeX private key may have been leaked, resulting in asset losses of approximately 4.3 million dollars; IoTeX officials reported on-chain attack losses of about 2 million dollars.

Recently, a first-instance verdict was announced in a case of concealing and hiding criminal proceeds, which was prosecuted by the People's Procuratorate of Yuetang District, Xiangtan City, Hunan Province, China. A new type of money laundering chain, disguised as a Maotai liquor transaction and using virtual currency as a channel, was completely dismantled, involving an amount of over 6.84 million yuan, with all 8 defendants sentenced. The gang had clear divisions of labor and strong concealment.Chen connected with upstream sources through overseas encrypted communication software, received telecom fraud proceeds, and contacted "U merchants" to complete the exchange and circulation of virtual currency; Xie was responsible for providing tools for the crime and keeping track of financial details; Huang used Maotai liquor trading as a cover to disguise the trajectory of the transfer of criminal proceeds with real transaction shells; the remaining members assisted with fund settlement and information transmission. The gang used fake Maotai liquor transactions as the "cleaning" stage, disguising overseas fraud proceeds as legitimate business income, converting them into virtual currency to return to upstream, and taking an illegal commission of 8% for each "cleaning."In December 2023, with a report from a victim, this black and gray industrial chain hidden under the guise of liquor trading surfaced. After the incident, the People's Procuratorate of Yuetang District intervened in the investigation early, guiding the public security organs to sort through nearly 20 million yuan in fund flows and massive electronic data, achieving a full-chain crackdown and comprehensive evidence collection. The court ultimately sentenced Xie and 7 other principal and accomplice offenders to fixed-term imprisonment ranging from 2 to 6 years for the crime of concealing and hiding criminal proceeds; the relatively minor offender Liang was sentenced to 1 year in prison with 1 year of probation.

According to a post by Delphi Digital, stablecoins are becoming an alternative to traditional foreign exchange trading channels. The costs of traditional foreign exchange channels are high, with comprehensive fees for remittances to Argentina or Nigeria potentially reaching up to 8%, and 81% of these costs come from maintaining the underlying banking infrastructure.However, current exit mechanisms such as access to bank accounts or interbank channels remain a significant bottleneck. Delphi Digital states that most of the "friction" exists outside of the blockchain. While the minting and burning of stablecoins can be completed in just a few seconds, significant delays occur due to the batch processing mechanisms of bank wire transfers into these systems.

According to independent analyst Markus Thielen, Ethereum has accumulated a decline of about 63% in this cycle, reaching a low of $1837, and the current price is testing the technical resistance level at the upper edge of the downward channel.The recent price recovery has been primarily driven by options capital flow and the Gamma hedging mechanism, with no significant changes in the fundamentals. Although ETF demand has shown some signs of recovery, derivative positions remain the core factor affecting recent trends. Analysts point out that the financial asset attributes of Ethereum are becoming increasingly apparent, and its price movement has begun to decouple from traditional major asset classes. The traditional risk-on/risk-off framework has limited explanatory power, and the crypto market may be forming a more independent pricing logic, with the position structure and capital flow worthy of continuous tracking.

In the past week, global markets have been dominated by energy price shocks and geopolitical risks. The escalation of the situation in the Middle East has pushed international oil prices upward, with WTI crude oil seeing a weekly increase of over 25%.Affected by macro risk sentiment, BTC, ETH, and U.S. stocks have all retreated. On-chain data shows that DEX trading volumes remain high overall, with the total market cap of stablecoins rising to approximately $330 billion, and USDC becoming the main source of growth. In the derivatives market, the perpetual funding rate for BTC continues to be negative, and implied volatility for options has risen above 60%, indicating that the market remains cautious about tail risks.On the institutional side, as the linkage between traditional finance and the crypto market strengthens, institutional infrastructure continues to improve. Gate has recently launched a TradFi API, providing a more efficient execution environment for quantitative teams, institutional traders, and professional investors. Additionally, Gate has reached a strategic partnership with Bank Frick to integrate its xPULSE payment infrastructure, offering multi-currency fiat deposit and withdrawal channels for institutional clients. With the ongoing enhancement of trading and funding channel infrastructure, Gate is accelerating the construction of a comprehensive service system aimed at institutional clients.

The Hunan Financial Office's official account has issued a reminder to the public to be wary of Ponzi scheme scams. In the analysis of the virtual currency investment platform "Yuzhi Financial" case, it pointed out that Yuzhi Financial has completely "run away," with offline stores empty, and customer service and "team leaders" either missing or promoting new Ponzi schemes. As of now, police in various regions have opened channels for rights protection registration, guiding investors to orderly register their information, and the case is still under further investigation.The Hunan Provincial Financial Office reminds that such scams often use high-tech and difficult-to-understand concepts like AI, digital currency, and NFTs as a guise. There is no myth of "zero risk, high returns" in the financial market, and one should remain highly vigilant against claims of "earning 1% daily" and "high dividends."

Aave founder Stani.eth posted on the X platform, stating, "The private credit market is facing pressure in a high-interest-rate environment. Since the Federal Reserve began its rate hike cycle in 2022, interest rates have rapidly risen above 5% and remained high, leading to a significant increase in capital costs for borrowing businesses and consumers.Recent data shows that several funds have experienced stock price declines and redemption pressures, such as Blue Owl Capital, which has dropped about 50% over the past year, and Blackstone's BCRED, which is facing approximately $3.7 billion in redemption requests in Q1 2026. The average BDC is trading at about a 20% discount, with yields of 10-11%, and some funds have seen default rates rise to 9%.Stani.eth proposed three risk scenarios: a single fund default can be absorbed by the system, multiple fund defaults may trigger a downturn in the credit cycle, and a complete collapse could lead to systemic risk. However, the overall private credit market has a total size of about $1.8-2 trillion, making a single fund default unlikely to cause a systemic crisis.For DeFi investors, the biggest risk is that many retail users do not understand the risks involved before putting funds into high-yield RWA. I believe RWA is the biggest opportunity for DeFi in the near term. However, my biggest concern is that institutional speculators may view DeFi as a channel to offload illiquid and distressed products that Wall Street has lost confidence in, effectively using DeFi participants as an exit liquidity.However, well-functioning on-chain private credit can provide advantages that traditional finance cannot reach. DeFi can enforce redemption windows, withdrawal limits, collateral ratios, and profit distribution rules through smart contracts, achieving transparent and immutable execution, avoiding arbitrary tightening of redemption policies by traditional fund managers. Through carefully structured RWA projects, transparent and secure investment channels can be provided between traditional finance and on-chain markets. DeFi should not become a source of exit liquidity for Wall Street."

According to the official announcement, Binance has officially launched five brand new official WhatsApp channels, including Mandarin Chinese, Africa, Arabic, Argentina, and Brazil channels.The announcement states that these WhatsApp-verified channels will only support one-way communication and are the only channel for Binance to enter WhatsApp in the Chinese-speaking community in Africa, the Middle East and North Africa (MENA), and Latin America, as well as non-continental regions.

According to FinanceFeeds, crypto bank Anchorage Digital has announced the launch of "Stablecoin Solutions" aimed at international banks, designed to provide non-U.S. financial institutions with a U.S.-regulated digital dollar infrastructure as an alternative to traditional correspondent banking systems.The solution integrates stablecoin issuance, compliant custody, fiat fund management, and blockchain-native settlement functions, allowing banks to achieve cross-border circulation of dollar assets without relying on traditional correspondent banking networks.Anchorage stated that institutions can hold and settle tokenized dollar assets under its federal banking license framework. Anchorage is the first crypto-native institution to obtain a U.S. federal banking license, regulated by the Office of the Comptroller of the Currency (OCC).Company CEO Nathan McCauley stated that stablecoins are gradually becoming core financial infrastructure, and this solution provides banks with a pathway to achieve global dollar flows through blockchain rails while ensuring custody, compliance, and operational control. Anchorage's move is seen as an attempt to replace the traditional correspondent banking cross-border clearing system with a regulated stablecoin framework.If adopted by international banks, dollar stablecoins may further embed themselves into mainstream cross-border payment and fund management processes. However, the ultimate implementation still depends on the clarity of regulatory details and the global banking sector's acceptance of tokenized liability structures.

At the recent "Build and Scale in 2026" themed forum held in Hong Kong, Eric Chong, Deputy Director of the Chief Trade Research Department, delivered a speech on the topic "Connecting Finance and Web3: Building the Next Era of Investor Confidence." He stated that based on Chief Trade's 46 years of experience in financial services, there is a strong demand from high-net-worth investors for secure and compliant channels for cryptocurrency, which is the core driving force for traditional financial institutions to enter the Web3 space.Eric Chong pointed out that Hong Kong's comprehensive regulatory framework provides a safe environment for institutional participation in the crypto market, but investors are more concerned about how to engage in this emerging asset class through regulated and compliant means. To this end, Chief Trade will focus on three main directions: providing regulated crypto trading services, expanding the digital asset product line, and enhancing investor education.He believes that the advantages of traditional financial institutions in financial credibility, compliance frameworks, and ecological connections will help guide investors to enter the digital asset space steadily, while the integration of Web3 and traditional finance has become an irreversible structural trend.

Germany's major retail bank ING Deutschland has opened up investment channels for cryptocurrency-related exchange-traded notes (ETN/ETP) to retail customers, allowing investments in crypto assets such as Bitcoin, Ethereum, and Solana through its Direct Depot platform.ING stated that the aforementioned products are physically-backed instruments issued by institutions such as 21Shares, Bitwise, and VanEck, traded on regulated exchanges, allowing customers to gain exposure to crypto assets without having to manage wallets or private keys themselves. ING also cautioned that these products still face factors such as price volatility, issuer risk, liquidity, and regulatory uncertainty. The bank pointed out that in Germany, the tax treatment of these ETNs is similar to that of directly holding crypto assets, with potential capital gains tax exemptions after holding for more than a year.

The Byvote voting channel on Bybit opened for just 10 minutes, and the total number of votes has quickly surpassed 128 million, with over 4,000 participants.It is reported that this round of the Byvote prize pool is as high as 1,500,000 PENGUIN, and users only need to hold USDT and other designated assets to qualify for voting. After the project successfully lists, all users who participated in the voting will share the huge PENGUIN prize pool. Voting is still in full swing, and community participation is high.According to previous news from ChainCatcher, a new round of ByVotes on Bybit has begun, and users can gain voting rights by holding eligible assets on Bybit, with voting determining the listing of PENGUIN on the Bybit spot trading platform.