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According to the official announcement, the Gate Idle Money Treasure × Yu Bi Bao second phase interest rate increase activity is ongoing. This phase of the activity covers USDT current financial products, and users who meet the specified net recharge conditions can receive additional interest rate rewards.In the Idle Money Treasure activity, users who accumulate net recharges of BTC, ETH, and USDT to reach the specified threshold during the activity period and activate Idle Money Treasure can receive additional interest on top of the basic earnings. Specifically, if the cumulative net recharge reaches 10,000 USDT, users can enjoy an additional 1% interest rate, resulting in a comprehensive annualized yield of 4%; if it reaches 50,000 USDT, users can enjoy an additional 2% interest rate, resulting in a comprehensive annualized yield of 5%. The upper limit for the principal eligible for interest rate increases in both tiers is 50,000 USDT.The Yu Bi Bao activity is open to VIP 2 to VIP 14 users. If the cumulative net recharge of USDT reaches 100,000 USDT and users subscribe to a 7-day fixed-term financial product in USDT, they can enjoy an additional 7.3% interest rate on top of the 3.7% basic annualized yield, resulting in a comprehensive annualized yield of 11%. The upper limit for the principal eligible for interest rate increases is 100,000 USDT. Users must continuously meet the net recharge requirements during the subscription and the order's duration to receive the additional interest rate rewards.

DeepSeek supplements the API peak and valley billing rules. During weekends with adjusted work hours and China's statutory holidays, the entire day is charged at off-peak rates. Although September 20 is a workday due to the National Day holiday adjustment, the API still applies the off-peak price.DeepSeek implemented peak and valley pricing starting August 17, with off-peak prices set at half of peak prices. Less than a week later, all Saturdays and Sundays were changed to off-peak prices. This further clarifies the billing criteria for adjusted workdays and statutory holidays.Taking deepseek-flash as an example, for every million tokens of cache misses, the off-peak rate is 1 yuan, and the peak rate is 2 yuan; the output rates are 4 yuan and 8 yuan respectively. Another adjusted workday for the National Day holiday on October 10 is a Saturday, which will also be calculated at the off-peak price.

The Frontier Data Research Laboratory idler announced the completion of a $9 million seed round financing, led by Alpo and Frankie from Paradigm, with participation from Y Combinator, Long Journey VC, as well as angel investors including marrc, catheryn_li, dcposch, Janine Leger, Lynett Capital, feross, and nur_daulet_.idler is positioned as a frontier data research laboratory, and this round of funding will be used to build evaluation systems, benchmark testing, and reinforcement learning environments for leading frontier laboratories worldwide to train and measure their model performance.

Former NVIDIA research scientist Sanja Fidler announced the co-founding of VeedaAI with long-time collaborators ZGojcic and HuanLing6. The company is dedicated to building simulated realities for Physical AI, serving as a key infrastructure layer for robotic interactive learning and evaluation, allowing robotic intelligence to learn at scale through trial and error in virtual worlds.Fidler stated that real-world trial and error training for robots is unsafe, costly, and time-consuming, necessitating the use of simulated realities to achieve scalable interactive learning. The team believes that world models are the core technology, capable of learning from vast amounts of sensor and physical world data to generate simulated environments with quality, diversity, and physical realism. VeedaAI has received support from Khosla Ventures and Radical Ventures, and team members have years of experience in simulation, generative AI, 3D, robotics, and embodied intelligence.

Uniswap announces the official launch of DualPool Hook. DualPool is an open-source Uniswap v4 Hook, jointly designed and developed by Spark and Uniswap Labs, allowing market makers to earn yields by depositing idle assets into lending protocols during the waiting period for liquidity funds to be executed, and to withdraw funds back to the liquidity pool when a transaction occurs.From an external perspective, DualPool is indistinguishable from a regular Uniswap v4 liquidity pool, and traders, aggregators, and solvers still complete transactions through the Pool Manager. Its internal mechanism is that liquidity funds are stored in an ERC-4626 yield vault and are automatically withdrawn when a transaction needs to be executed, deployed to concentrated liquidity positions, thereby ensuring transaction execution while allowing idle funds to continuously generate lending yields.

According to a report by The Block, a study commissioned by 1inch and conducted by Dune found that approximately 85% of concentrated liquidity in decentralized exchanges such as Uniswap v3, Uniswap v4, PancakeSwap v3, and Aerodrome Slipstream is not effectively utilized. The research analyzed the performance of nearly 200 active liquidity pools across 7 chains in 26 weekly snapshots, tracking an average liquidity of about $1.84 billion per week, of which approximately $1.6 billion is in an inefficient state.Specifically, on the Uniswap v3 platform, among the liquidity that has deviated from the market-making price range, 44.5% has not been adjusted for more than 90 days, making it the platform with the highest proportion in this study; in contrast, Aerodrome has a ratio of about 20%, with 58% of idle funds having been adjusted within the last 30 days.Additionally, only about 35% of idle funds are located within 5% of the market price, approximately 43% deviate from the market price by more than 25%, and another 17% deviate by more than 100%. In terms of fund size, positions exceeding $1 million hold about 47% of idle funds, amounting to approximately $260 million.

Kraken Institutional announced a partnership with the on-chain yield platform Upshift, allowing qualified institutional clients to earn yields directly on idle Bitcoin, Ethereum, stablecoins, and other crypto assets within Kraken's compliant custody framework.Unlike traditional pooled vaults, Upshift will build a dedicated customized vault for each client, tailored entirely to the client's investment strategy, risk parameters, liquidity needs, and asset portfolio. Assets will be allocated to these non-custodial vaults and subsequently deployed to selected on-chain contracts, with the client's isolated Kraken custody account receiving a receipt token.

According to Bits.media, the Italian energy company Alps Blockchain has partnered with the Bolivian company Qurubiqa to launch Bitcoin mining at a dormant 127-megawatt natural gas power plant in the Cochabamba region of Bolivia. The mining site currently consumes about 27 megawatts of power, with a hash rate of 1.23 EH/s, and plans to increase power consumption to 45 megawatts by the end of the year. The mining equipment directly uses the electricity generated by the power plant and is not connected to the public grid. Due to Bolivia facing a currency crisis and a shortage of US dollars, project participants settle in US dollars.

According to Jinshi reports, Federal Reserve's Goolsbee stated that although the labor market is stable, it is not ideal. Currently, the growth of non-farm payrolls is not a good indicator of the economy's idle capacity.

According to official news, Huobi HTX's latest "Hotspot Live" event will be broadcast today (April 29) at 20:00 (UTC+8). The theme of this event is "Super Central Bank Week is Coming, Where to Put Your Idle Money?" It will focus on the dual macro event window of Super Central Bank Week and the Bitcoin Conference, concentrating on ways to increase wealth.Huobi's earning consultant Rain will join several industry veteran KOLs, including Niu Mo Wang, Amber, Sniper, and Sister Mao, to engage in a dialogue about macro trends interpretation, stablecoin earning strategies, and the core logic behind Huobi's continuous and secure operation.

Alcoa, the American aluminum company, is about to reach a deal with the Bitcoin mining company NYDIG to sell its idle Massena East aluminum smelter located in New York State, expected to be completed by mid-year.The plant has been idle since 2014 and is equipped with a substation, transmission lines, and high-capacity grid access, making it attractive to Bitcoin mining and data center operators due to the hydroelectric resources provided by the New York Power Authority. Reports indicate that some retired industrial sites in the U.S. are being transformed into Bitcoin mining, artificial intelligence, and high-performance computing facilities.

According to a report by Jinshi Data, the General Office of the Ministry of Industry and Information Technology has issued a notice on launching a special action to empower the development of small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) through inclusive computing power, mentioning the innovative service model of computing power.Improve the SME section of the China Computing Power Platform, the computing resource docking section of the China SME Service Network, and the national computing internet service node section (hereinafter collectively referred to as the SME platform section), to promote the precise matching of SME demand and computing resource supply, and implement flexible payment models such as "card time," "calculated time," and Token billing.Explore innovative businesses such as "computing power banks" and "computing power supermarkets," supporting SMEs to deposit idle computing resources and achieve flexible use through cross-regional and cross-cycle scheduling. Implement an artificial intelligence SME entrepreneurship support plan, encouraging local relevant departments to subsidize "computing power vouchers," "storage vouchers," and "transportation vouchers" to SMEs that meet industrial orientation through the SME platform section, simplifying the acquisition and usage process.

Decentralized AI Intelligent Network DGrid AI officially announces the launch of Arena for Agent, allowing users to create their own AI Agent on the BNB Chain based on the ERC-8004 standard with one click, enabling it to automatically participate in AI Arena model battles and earn USDT rewards for you 24/7.Arena for Agent supports users in quickly creating their own AI Agent with one click and authorizing their idle AI API Key to their Agent, supporting multiple platforms such as OpenAI, Anthropic, Google Gemini, OpenRouter, and HodlAI. The Agent will automatically vote for model responses in the DGrid AI Arena, with each vote bringing real USDT earnings to the users.DGrid AI is a leading decentralized AI intelligent network that provides low-cost, highly available, and verifiable decentralized AI capabilities to developers and AI applications through a unified API connecting over 200 mainstream models.

According to Lookonchain monitoring, a certain whale has shifted from shorting ETH to going long on ETH, currently holding 32,802 ETH (worth approximately $119.6 million), with unrealized profits exceeding $15 million.Its short positions in ASTER and PEPE remain profitable.

ChainCatcher news, UK oil and gas companies Union Jack Oil and Reabold Resources plan to utilize stranded gas at West Newton for Bitcoin mining through 360 Energy.Union Jack Oil sees this as an important avenue for its future Bitcoin funding strategy, aiming to optimize asset value. Reabold Resources focuses on achieving higher investment returns through Bitcoin mining rather than directly purchasing Bitcoin, in order to enhance the economic benefits of its PEDL183 license project.

According to ChainCatcher news and the official announcement from Huobi HTX, the automatic earning feature of Huobi Earn has completed a new upgrade, supporting one-click automatic subscription and redemption, allowing idle assets to automatically compound every hour, seamlessly connecting earning and trading. Once the automatic earning is enabled, the user's spot account balance will automatically purchase the flexible earning products every hour, calculating earnings on an hourly basis to enhance fund utilization; at the same time, the flexible earning balance can be automatically redeemed for spot trading when placing orders, eliminating the need for manual operations and enhancing flexibility.The automatic earning feature of Huobi Earn supports flexible earning products for over 200 popular cryptocurrencies, allowing users to enable automatic subscription and redemption for all cryptocurrencies with one click, or set them individually.

ChainCatcher news, according to Cointelegraph, the clean energy electric vehicle charging technology company Nuvve, which is listed on Nasdaq, stated that it plans to use up to 30% of its remaining cash to purchase Bitcoin "based on its expected six months of operating expenses."Nuvve indicated that increasing its Bitcoin holdings would diversify its treasury assets, aligning with its goal of offering Bitcoin payment options.However, according to Google Finance data, on January 28, Nuvve (NVVE) closed up 1.81% at $2.81, down from an intraday high of over $4, but rose 1.42% in after-hours trading to $2.85.

ChainCatcher news, according to Onchain Lens monitoring, Tether's Bitcoin reserves received 7,629 BTC after being idle for 9 months, worth $705.25 million.Currently, Tether's Bitcoin reserve is 82,983 BTC, worth $7.68 billion.

ChainCatcher message, Titan Network breaks through technical and financial channels through innovative resource aggregation and business models. It addresses industry pain points in the DePIN field, such as difficulties in resource monetization, scaling, and poor commercial sustainability.Titan will launch the fourth round of the testnet on January 6, 2025, focusing entirely on the large-scale commercialization of idle bandwidth, aiming to achieve a monthly revenue of $300,000 and create a new paradigm for the commercialization of DePIN projects.The testnet is now open for resource access applications, and bandwidth resource holders and commercial clients can now join.