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The Vietnamese government plans to launch a 5-year pilot project for crypto assets in the second quarter of 2026, transitioning from previously offshore unregulated crypto trading to a domestically regulated market. Currently, Vietnamese traders have an annual cryptocurrency trading volume of $220-230 billion, exceeding $600 million daily. The new pilot will only allow locally registered institutions that meet strict capital and compliance requirements to participate, and the trading targets must be backed by real-world assets and settled in Vietnamese dong.

According to The Block, Ciarán Fitzpatrick, the global head of ETF products at JPMorgan Securities Services, stated: "We believe that tokenization will definitely drive changes in the market, not only for ETFs but for the entire fund industry as well."Ciarán Fitzpatrick pointed out that given the many benefits that tokenization may bring, such as more convenient subscription and redemption, "almost instant settlement," and uninterrupted access, experiments with ETF tokenization are still ongoing. He added: "I think tokenization will become part of the ETF ecosystem, but it will be a few years before we see some really good use cases."

According to Coinglass data, if ETH falls below $2,217, the cumulative long liquidation intensity on major CEXs will reach $635 million. Conversely, if ETH breaks above $2,430, the cumulative short liquidation intensity on major CEXs will reach $504 million.

According to Jinshi reports, after the shooting incident at the White House Correspondents' Dinner, when asked if he was worried about facing a threat to his life, U.S. President Trump said, "This (presidency) is a dangerous profession." However, he stated that he did not want to live in fear.He also joked that if his Secretary of State Rubio had told him in advance about the risk of violence, he might not have run for president.

According to on-chain analyst Yu Jin's monitoring, the Bless project team continued to cross-chain 100 million BLESS (worth approximately $660,000) from the Solana chain to the BSC chain today and sold it.Since BLESS surged more than ten days ago, the Bless project team's address has sold a total of 500 million BLESS, worth approximately $5.09 million, of which 200 million were transferred to Bitget for sale, and 300 million were dumped on the BSC chain.

According to Coinglass data, if ETH falls below $2,210, the cumulative long liquidation intensity on mainstream CEX will reach $632 million. Conversely, if ETH breaks above $2,422, the cumulative short liquidation intensity on mainstream CEX will reach $620 million.

According to Coinglass data, if BTC breaks through $81,187, the cumulative short liquidation intensity on mainstream CEX will reach $1.011 billion. Conversely, if BTC falls below $74,235, the cumulative long liquidation intensity on mainstream CEX will reach $1.011 billion.

Minh Don, the product lead of Drift, stated on its official Discord that it will take a few weeks to optimize the codebase, remove and add some small but impactful features, and plans to relaunch its forked exchange in May or June this year.Previously, Drift Protocol suffered losses exceeding $285 million in an attack incident.

According to official news, after discussions with multiple stakeholders, Aave service providers, ether.fi, KelpDAO, and other projects have submitted a governance proposal to the Arbitrum DAO, requesting the release of ETH that was frozen by the Arbitrum security committee after the rsETH incident on April 18.The announcement stated that if these ETH are released, the funds will be directed to DeFi United. Aave firmly believes that this contribution will significantly advance the path to a solution.

According to Coinglass data, if BTC breaks through $81,596, the cumulative short liquidation intensity on mainstream CEX will reach $1.315 billion. Conversely, if BTC falls below $74,236, the cumulative long liquidation intensity on mainstream CEX will reach $1.168 billion.

According to market news, Colombia and U.S. law enforcement agencies have jointly acted to successfully dismantle a transnational cryptocurrency money laundering network associated with the Mexican "Jalisco New Generation Cartel" (CJNG). Since 2023, this network has transferred over $190 million in illegal funds through cryptocurrency channels, seizing multiple crypto wallets and cash on site.Investigations show that the network commonly employs tactics such as fund splitting, decentralized transfers across multiple wallets, circulation across jurisdictions, and token swaps to evade tracking. Currently, authorities have not disclosed specific details regarding the cryptocurrencies involved, trading platforms, or the number of arrests, and the investigation is still ongoing.

According to Coinglass data, if ETH falls below $2,208, the cumulative long liquidation intensity on mainstream CEXs will reach $880 million. Conversely, if ETH breaks above $2,424, the cumulative short liquidation intensity on mainstream CEXs will reach $866 million.

According to Coinglass data, if BTC breaks through $81,453, the cumulative short liquidation intensity on mainstream CEX will reach $1.436 billion. Conversely, if BTC falls below $74,185, the cumulative long liquidation intensity on mainstream CEX will reach $1.363 billion.

According to Coinglass data, if BTC breaks through $81,151, the cumulative short liquidation intensity on mainstream CEX will reach $1.645 billion. Conversely, if BTC falls below $74,199, the cumulative long liquidation intensity on mainstream CEX will reach $1.446 billion.

According to Gate market data, U.S. stocks closed on Friday with the Dow initially down 0.16%, the S&P 500 index up 0.8%, and the Nasdaq Composite index up 1.63%. Intel (INTC.O) rose 23.6%, leading the Philadelphia Semiconductor Index components, Arm (ARM.O) rose 14.76%, and AMD (AMD.O) rose 13.91%. The new stock X-Energy (XE.O) closed up 26.96% on its first day of trading. The Nasdaq China Golden Dragon Index rose 1.59%.

According to Coinglass data, if BTC breaks through $81,265, the cumulative short liquidation intensity on mainstream CEX will reach $1.742 billion. Conversely, if BTC falls below $74,299, the cumulative long liquidation intensity on mainstream CEX will reach $1.588 billion.

The DeFi Education Fund, along with Aave Labs, Uniswap Labs, Paradigm, Andreessen Horowitz, and other organizations, has sent a letter to the U.S. SEC in response to the recent statement released by the trading and markets division regarding the registration of "non-custodial user interface" brokers for crypto asset securities.The signatories support the statement that the "non-custodial user interface," which only provides a technical entry point and allows users to manage their assets independently, should be excluded from broker registration. They also urge the SEC to establish clearer and more sustainable definitions of "broker" through formal rulemaking, to avoid incorrectly categorizing neutral software tool providers, validators, RPC/API, oracles, cloud services, and other infrastructure under broker regulations. This would provide long-term legal certainty for blockchain infrastructure innovation while ensuring investor protection.Previously, the SEC's trading and markets division indicated that some DeFi trading interfaces do not need to register as brokers, allowing for policy space for related applications. Supporters believe that the new regulations could cover infrastructure participants such as validators, APIs, and oracles. Currently, the U.S. crypto market legislation, the CLARITY Act, is stalled in the Senate.

The Humanity Foundation has recently made significant adjustments to the $H token allocation plan, requiring investors to make a final choice between two options by April 26 at 09:00 UTC: one, extend the distribution, pushing the Cliff to September 25, 2026, and changing to equal distribution over 12 quarters; two, a 3:10 discounted immediate unlock, replacing the original 16,666,666 tokens with 5,000,000 $H (a 70% reduction), to be fully distributed on June 25, 2026.It is understood that the Humanity Foundation has sent adjustment notifications to over 100 investors. Early investment firm Trix Ventures has publicly disclosed its choice of the discounted immediate unlock.It is reported that this firm invested during the project's valuation phase of approximately $60 million, and even after the 3:10 discounted replacement, it can still achieve about 7 times return. Notably, the Humanity Protocol previously reached an in-depth cooperation with payment giant Mastercard, and the project's fundamentals have received endorsement from traditional financial institutions. The on-chain identity verification sector it belongs to is currently in its early market stage, but with the continuous expansion of AI-generated content and automated accounts, the demand for on-chain real identity verification is widely believed to grow exponentially, giving this sector long-term potential to become a leading project in the Web3 infrastructure field.The project is about to face a test of significant selling pressure from a one-time massive unlock, and whether it can grow explosively alongside the AI sector is crucial. Analysts point out that choosing the one-time unlock on June 25 is a safer decision. In the current market cycle, "certain liquidity" far outweighs paper numbers. The deferred plan extends the cycle to 3 years, with huge uncertainties regarding the protocol's survival and team stability.From a market structure perspective, June 25 faces obvious concentrated selling pressure risks: the Sablier contract release node is transparent on-chain, and quantitative and short-selling funds will precisely target this node; institutions may lock in profits by hedging in advance during the two-month window; market makers may withdraw buy depth in advance, causing the actual realization value to be less than 10% of the nominal value. Historically, large-scale concentrated unlocks of Starknet (STRK) and ApeCoin (APE) have triggered severe selling pressure, with the former dropping over 95% from its peak and the latter declining 77% within 7 months.

The DeFi Education Fund, along with several other crypto advocacy organizations, has officially sent a joint letter to the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC), requesting the initiation of a formal DeFi rule-making process based on recent statements.Previously, the SEC's Division of Trading and Markets had clearly stated that certain software user interfaces used for trading cryptocurrencies do not need to register as broker-dealers, giving a green light to such activities. The joint letter calls on the SEC to solidify the above principles into an objective and clear framework through announcements or comment-based rule-making, clarifying which activities fall under the definition of "broker," while excluding infrastructure service providers such as validators, API and RPC providers, oracles, and cloud services. This would provide developers with long-term legal certainty and avoid reliance on temporary guidance. Under the leadership of current Chairman Paul Atkins, the SEC has taken a positive and open attitude towards digital asset innovation, contrasting sharply with the repressive stance of the previous administration, and the industry has also played an important role in the rule-making process.