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HTX global advisor Sun Yuchen stated that HTX has officially upgraded its security architecture in response to the community's demand for stronger security guarantees, claiming to keep user assets 100% SAFU. The upgrade includes enabling a multi-address withdrawal system, with hot wallet assets distributed across multiple addresses; withdrawal addresses are automatically rotated regularly, with old addresses immediately deactivated and no longer controlled after new addresses are activated; single address risk exposure has been minimized.Sun Yuchen mentioned that even in the event of extreme security incidents, the potential loss limit is below $1 million, fully covered by an insurance fund, and users will not lose any funds. He also reminded that withdrawal addresses will be changed regularly as part of normal security mechanisms, and users must verify the actual on-chain receipt situation. HTX stated that it will take every user feedback and every bit of user assets seriously.

Cronos Labs CEO Ryan Wyatt posted that the token economics of CRO need to be re-evaluated. In the coming months, the team has a lot to discuss and plan. In particular, the buyback and burn mechanism corresponding to Cronos App revenue, community burns, and other related arrangements.These topics have been included in the project's Q4 roadmap, and the complete plan will be gradually announced at that time.

AI chip startup Etched recently completed a $700 million financing round at a valuation of $21 billion, but its technology claims are facing industry skepticism. The well-known hacker George Hotz's AI computing team, the tiny corp, publicly criticized Etched's marketing approach: there are many investors, orders, and hardware photos, but there is too little third-party data to truly verify performance.Etched's core selling point is LVI (Low Voltage Inference) technology, claiming it allows trillion-parameter sparse MoE chips to run at over 80% of theoretical peak computing power (MFU). Chip design professional Wesley Yue raised technical doubts about this: high MFU does not necessarily represent absolute performance—if the chip's peak computing power is low, even with an 80% utilization rate, actual performance may still lag behind competitors. Yue believes that Etched's design "does not make sense from first principles" and may be a result of repackaging after its early Transformer ASIC faced power consumption issues.Etched has not yet disclosed complete computing power, power consumption, and third-party benchmark data; the official website only states that "early customer tests have reached leading levels," and detailed performance data will be "released later." There is currently no evidence to prove that Etched is fraudulent. Etched has not publicly responded to this matter.

Artificial intelligence chip startup Etched raised $700 million in a funding round led by Jane Street, bringing the company's valuation to $21 billion.Etched has signed Jane Street as its first customer and has begun shipping chips.

According to Reuters, citing three informed sources, Samsung Electronics and SK Hynix are testing the etching equipment from Chinese semiconductor equipment manufacturer AMEC to assess its potential application in their factories in China, aiming to hedge against the risk of the U.S. potentially tightening export controls in the future. The testing began about two years ago, coinciding with rising uncertainty over whether the U.S. would allow Korean companies to import U.S.-made chip equipment to China.The report noted that although no decision has yet been made on large-scale deployment, verification from Samsung or SK Hynix would be an important commercial endorsement for AMEC. The gap in etching, deposition, cleaning, and other areas for Chinese equipment has gradually narrowed, with prices typically 20%-30% lower than similar overseas products. Samsung officially denied having tested AMEC equipment for its factories in China, while SK Hynix declined to comment. Deutsche Bank expects Northern Huachuang, AMEC, Tuojing Technology, and Shengmei Semiconductor to each exceed $1 billion in revenue by 2026, collectively expected to capture 25%-30% of China's approximately $28 billion wafer fabrication equipment market this year.

According to Goldman Sachs, it will include Applied Materials (AMAT.O), Delta Air Lines (DAL.N), Microsoft (MSFT.O), and United Parcel Service (UPS.N) in the list of stocks to buy with confidence. It will remove Broadcom (AVGO.O), Dick's Sporting Goods (DKS.N), Johnson & Johnson (JNJ.N), and ServiceNow from that list.

According to Jinshi reports, multiple important economic data and events will be released this week. On Monday, China's July Manufacturing PMI and the U.S. June Construction Spending Month-on-Month will be announced; on Tuesday, attention will be on the U.S. June Trade Balance and JOLTs Job Openings; on Wednesday, the U.S. ADP Employment Change and ISM Non-Manufacturing PMI will be released; on Thursday, Switzerland's unemployment rate and the U.S. Initial Jobless Claims will attract attention; on Friday, key data including the U.S. July Unemployment Rate and Non-Farm Payrolls will be announced. In addition, SpaceX's financial report will be released after the U.S. stock market closes on Tuesday.

Bitcoin Treasuries.NET posted on platform X that VanEck's Preferred Securities ex-Financials ETF PFXF, managing $237 billion in assets, has increased its holdings in Strategy Stretch STRC to 2.42 million shares, valued at $209 million, accounting for over 8.75% of the ETF's net assets, which belong to digital credit assets.

BNB Agent Studio now supports one-click connection to CoinMarketCap market data through the B402 merchant pool of Binance Pay. Agents can instantly access market quotes and pay on demand from their own wallets via the x402 protocol, without the need for a separate API key, completing settlements directly on BSC.

According to the official announcement, Bitget has launched a total of 90 stock spot products including rMS (Morgan Stanley), rNKE (Nike), rPFE (Pfizer), rXOM (ExxonMobil), rOXY (Occidental Petroleum), covering multiple sectors such as energy, healthcare, financial services, and technology communications.

The General Office of the State Council has released guiding opinions on strengthening regulation, preventing risks, and promoting the high-quality development of private equity investment funds. The opinions mention adhering to goal-oriented and problem-oriented approaches, addressing issues such as the need to improve the access mechanism for the private equity fund industry, inadequate regulation, incomplete systems, insufficient coordination and cooperation among ministries, central and local governments, the failure to implement the responsibilities of some government investment funds and state-owned enterprise investment fund contributors, and the use of some private equity funds as tools for illegal activities, new forms of corruption, and hidden corruption. A system and long-term mechanism for strengthening regulation and preventing risks will be established to promote the development of the industry in a standardized manner and enhance it during development.Uphold functional positioning, coordinate the overall layout, optimize increments, revitalize existing resources, support the excellent and limit the inferior, improve quality and efficiency, and strictly prohibit private equity funds from engaging in illegal activities such as lending and disguised debt. Adhere to classified regulation, implementing "one policy for one category" regulation based on different dimensions such as contributor entities and product types. Insist on regulating both legal and illegal entities, with strict regulation for legal institutions, resolute prohibition of illegal institutions, and severe crackdowns on illegal activities.Promote the revision of the Securities Investment Fund Law. Push for the issuance of judicial documents related to criminal cases involving private equity funds. Formulate regulations for the supervision of private equity fund managers, information disclosure, fundraising, and mandatory custody rules. Introduce standardized arrangements for private equity fund betting agreements. Fully establish a regulatory system for private equity funds that is primarily based on administrative regulation and supplemented by self-regulation.

BNB Chain announced that it will hold the BNB Hack: AI Trading Agent themed hackathon season from June 3 to 21. This event is in collaboration with CoinMarketCap and Trust Wallet, aiming to enable developers to build intelligent agents that can automatically formulate strategies and trade 24/7 based on their tech stack.The hackathon features 2 main tracks, with a sprint period of 3 weeks and a total prize pool of $36,000. Additional rewards include API credits, one-on-one mentorship, and ecosystem resource support.

According to CoinDesk, global payment networks Stripe, Visa, and Mastercard are preparing to launch a new stablecoin platform. Sources reveal that cryptocurrency exchange Binance is also exploring the possibility of participating in this stablecoin platform.Currently, Coinbase, Stripe, and Visa have all declined to comment, and Mastercard did not respond to comment requests before publication. In addition, the revenue-sharing agreement between Coinbase and Circle Internet is set to renew in August this year, with the current market capitalization of USDC reaching 76 billion dollars.

According to Onchain Lens monitoring, the whale Loracle has closed its short positions in BTC, LIT, TON, and VVV. The HYPE short position is still being closed, with a remaining 1.518 million HYPE short positions (approximately 10.5 million USD), resulting in a loss of over 36 million USD. New long positions have been opened in ZEC (10x), ASTER, and TON (5x), and the holdings are still increasing.

According to OnchainLens monitoring, the whale trader Evaded (@ICanPlug) has closed his long positions in HYPE, ZEC, and ETH, making a profit of 4.56 million dollars, and has opened a new short position of 990 BTC with 15x leverage, worth approximately 74.5 million dollars, with current unrealized profits exceeding 1 million dollars.

Binance will launch the AVNT/U, BIO/U, CHIP/U, CHIP/USD1, KAT/U, USD1/TRY, and XAUT/USD1 spot trading pairs on April 28, 2026, at 16:00, and will open trading bot services for these trading pairs. Users can enjoy zero Maker fees for the AVNT/U, BIO/U, CHIP/U, and KAT/U spot and leveraged trading pairs during the event period starting from April 28, 2026, at 16:00 until further notice.

Crypto journalist Eleanor Terrett reported that the financial disclosures of Federal Reserve Chair nominee Waller show that he holds early-stage investments through employment-related investment vehicles, covering a wide range of areas, including some crypto infrastructure projects. The projects involved include: Compound (decentralized lending protocol), Optimism and Blast (Ethereum Layer 2 network), as well as Solana, in addition to trading infrastructure, crypto investment firms, and platforms in various fields such as artificial intelligence and biotechnology. These holdings appear to be relatively small, with poor liquidity, and have not generated reportable income, indicating a preference for indirect venture capital-style exposure rather than direct, tradable liquid assets.

According to the official announcement, Binance Futures will automatically close and settle the perpetual contracts for OLUSDT, HIPPOUSDT, RLSUSDT, and PUFFERUSDT on April 8, 2026, at 09:00 (UTC), and for WIFUSD and WLDUSD on April 9, 2026, at 09:00 (UTC), and will subsequently delist them. Users need to close their positions on their own before the respective times.