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According to official news, Syndicate Labs disclosed that its cross-chain bridge contract was maliciously upgraded on two chains due to a private key leak. The attacker transferred and sold approximately 18.5 million SYND (about $330,000) and around $50,000 worth of user tokens. The incident only affected specific chains, while others were not impacted.Syndicate Labs stated that this attack involved multi-stage reconnaissance, infrastructure mapping, and careful execution, demonstrating a high level of technical complexity, and ruled out the involvement of internal personnel. The root cause was that the private key was stored in a password management tool without an additional layer of encryption, and the upgrade process did not utilize multi-signature or hardware signature mechanisms, nor did it have early warning and circuit breaker measures for contract upgrades.Syndicate Labs announced that it will fully compensate all affected users, including returning 18.5 million SYND and providing additional compensation, while also fully compensating affected application chain clients. The company has initiated security upgrade measures, including strengthening private key encryption, tightening access permissions, and plans to introduce hardware or multi-signature mechanisms and upgrade path monitoring to prevent similar incidents from occurring again.

The latest report from blockchain intelligence agency TRM Labs shows that approximately 76% of global cryptocurrency hacking losses are related to organizations associated with North Korea, with a total stolen amount of about $577 million.North Korea's share of global crypto theft continues to rise: 22% in 2022, 37% in 2023, 39% in 2024, rising to 64% in 2025, and further increasing to 76% in 2026. Since 2017, the total illegal profits have exceeded $6 billion. The report points out that these losses mainly stem from two major incidents in April: a $292 million attack on KelpDAO and a $285 million theft from Drift Protocol, with the two attacks accounting for about 3% of all hacking incidents during the same period.

Binance will expand the monitoring tags to NFP, NOM, POND, QUICK, and VIC on April 30, 2026.

Category Labs today announced that it is expanding its potential public market purchase authorization limit to $80 million and extending the repurchase period until the end of 2026.Category Labs stated that any repurchase actions will be carried out opportunistically based on market conditions and may be initiated, suspended, or terminated at the company's discretion, while strictly adhering to relevant laws and regulations. This update does not constitute a commitment to repurchase any specific number of tokens but reflects the company's intention to consider opportunistic purchases under favorable market conditions.

According to Fox News, the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) has collaborated with law enforcement agencies in Dubai, China, and Thailand to conduct a large-scale multinational joint law enforcement operation, successfully dismantling at least 9 overseas cryptocurrency scam centers, resulting in the arrest of 276 suspects, with the amount involved reaching millions of dollars.In this operation, the U.S. District Court in San Diego has filed federal telecommunications fraud and money laundering charges against 6 suspects, including individuals from Myanmar and Indonesia, whose scam organizations operated under names such as "Sanduo Group" and "Giant Company." Dubai police arrested 275 suspects, while the Royal Thai Police separately apprehended 1 fugitive.The aforementioned scam network employed a "pig butchering" technique, gaining the trust of victims through fabricated friendships or romantic relationships, luring them to transfer funds to fake cryptocurrency investment platforms, and then laundering the money and transferring it to criminal accounts.This operation aligns with the executive order signed by Trump on March 6, 2026, aimed at combating overseas criminal networks that exploit U.S. citizens. The FBI's "Operation Level Up" has notified approximately 9,000 victims, recovering about $562 million in losses for U.S. citizens. The FBI urges victims to report through the Internet Crime Complaint Center (IC3).

According to Jinshi reports, Federal Reserve Chairman Powell stated that the labor market may still be slightly cooling.

According to Jinshi reports, Federal Reserve Chairman Powell stated that he does not believe the labor market is the source of inflation.

According to Jinshi reports, Federal Reserve Chairman Powell stated that labor demand has weakened.

According to official news, B.AI has officially announced a strategic partnership with HTX DAO, and both parties will jointly create a new paradigm covering the entire field of AI and Web3. B.AI is committed to becoming the foundational financial infrastructure of the AI Agent era. This cooperation will rely on HTX DAO's decentralized governance ecosystem to accelerate the arrival of Artificial General Intelligence (AGI) through a more open and composable on-chain architecture. In the future, both parties will explore directions such as autonomous intelligent agent networks and on-chain intelligent services, promoting the on-chain implementation of the intelligent economy layer.

According to official disclosure from 0G Labs, 0G Private Computer has officially launched, providing privacy inference services based on TEE (Trusted Execution Environment) for AI agents and developers. Users can access the service through pc.0g.ai.The official statement indicates that the product utilizes a hardware isolation environment composed of Intel TDX CPU and NVIDIA H100/H200 GPU, with all inference requests completed within the TEE. Input content is transmitted in an encrypted manner, and output results will undergo signature verification, ensuring that service providers cannot directly view user data.Currently, the platform supports models such as DeepSeek DeepSeek Chat V3, Alibaba Qwen3.6 Plus, Zhipu AI GLM-5-FP8, Qwen3-VL-30B, OpenAI Whisper-large-v3, and z-image, and provides an interface compatible with the OpenAI API, allowing developers to complete migration by modifying the base URL.

Binance Wallet announced that it will open the Alpha airdrop claim at 17:00 today. Users holding at least 227 Binance Alpha points can claim the token airdrop. Claim 715 AIGENSYN tokens airdrop on the Alpha event page, first come, first served.If the event has not ended, the score threshold will automatically decrease by 5 points every five minutes.

Bitget officially launched the "Blockchain4Youth Learning Center" with its first course, aimed at providing a systematic blockchain learning path for young people and further connecting knowledge learning with career development. After completing the course and passing the assessment, students will receive a certificate of completion issued by Bitget's Chief Marketing Officer Ignacio Aguirre Franco, serving as an official certification of their Web3 capabilities. Certificate holders can gain more industry exposure and priority employment opportunities among the partner employers of the Blockchain4Youth Talent Alliance.To bridge the gap from learning to employment, Bitget has partnered with the Web3 recruitment platform Bondex to provide students with a transparent job-seeking channel and a talent pool connection mechanism. Bondex co-founder Ignacio Palomera stated that the project aims to address the real issues faced by learners, such as "lack of industry connections after completing the course, insufficient effective certification, and unclear job-seeking paths," building a more direct bridge between young talent and recruiting companies.So far, the Bitget Blockchain4Youth series of projects has attracted over 15,000 young participants. Bitget CMO Ignacio Aguirre Franco pointed out that the goal of the learning center is to transform young people's interest in Web3 into a tangible entry path. As the program continues to advance, Blockchain4Youth is gradually evolving from a single event project into a long-term infrastructure focused on Web3 education, career guidance, and talent development.

According to Tencent News' "Periscope," during the 2026 Hong Kong Web3 Carnival, He Yi revealed in a small KOL meeting that her family office YZi Labs, in partnership with Zhao Changpeng, has invested in a Chinese AI large model company, but did not disclose the specific name of the invested company.

According to Insight Korea, South Korea's digital bank K Bank has established a strategic partnership with blockchain company Ripple to advance the verification of next-generation cross-border remittance technology based on blockchain.Both parties will focus on assessing the optimization potential in remittance speed, cost structure, and transaction transparency through Ripple's global payment network and infrastructure. The current collaboration includes proof of concept based on digital wallets, joint development of cross-border remittance models, and expansion in the digital asset field. The ongoing second phase of testing has simulated the connection between the bank's internal systems and customer accounts, testing on-chain fund transfers aimed at the UAE and Thailand. K Bank is also evaluating the adoption of Ripple's SaaS digital wallet Palisade to enhance compliance and deployment efficiency.

According to the official announcement, Binance Wallet stated that it will open the Binance Alpha airdrop for collection today at 17:00.This event uses the updated Binance Alpha blind box (Alpha Box) model, and the airdrop pool includes tokens from multiple projects. Users with at least 228 Binance Alpha points can claim a token reward on a first-come, first-served basis. Claiming the airdrop will consume 15 Binance Alpha points.In addition, this airdrop has three reward tiers: Common (80% of the reward pool), Rare (15%), and Ultra Rare (5%), with each tier corresponding to different values of the Alpha blind boxes. Users will be assigned to one of the tiers when claiming, and rewards will be distributed according to the proportion of each tier. If the rewards are not fully distributed, the points threshold will automatically decrease by 5 points every 5 minutes.

DogPay announced a strategic partnership with DeCard to jointly launch the DogPay physical payment card, aimed at further bridging stablecoin assets with the global traditional payment network.It is reported that this payment card combines DeCard's regulated card issuance and settlement infrastructure with DogPay's modular digital financial platform. Eligible users can transact at over 150 million Visa-supported merchants worldwide, supporting real-world application scenarios such as offline POS machine consumption, retail shopping, and ATM withdrawals, thereby directly converting stablecoin balances into everyday purchasing power.DogPay officials stated that the launch of the physical payment card aims to meet the growing market demand for compliant and globally accepted digital asset payment tools, further promoting the deep integration of digital assets with regulated financial infrastructure.

AI laboratory Sooth Labs, founded by former Meta employees, is raising approximately $50 million in funding, led by Felicis Ventures, with a post-money valuation of about $335 million.The company plans to develop AI models to predict the likelihood of specific geopolitical events and market events, providing related capabilities to enterprises. Sooth Labs has also received support from Yann LeCun and Google Chief Scientist Jeff Dean, with Meta Chief Technology Officer Andrew Bosworth serving as an advisor.

According to CoinDesk, Cardano's core development company Input Output submitted nine funding proposals for the 2026 community treasury, totaling $46.8 million, a significant reduction of about 52% from last year's $97.5 million, marking the first step towards gradually reducing reliance on community funds.The nine proposals focus on two main directions: first, the consensus upgrade plan Leios, which is expected to increase Cardano's transaction processing capacity by 10 to 65 times, aiming to exceed 1,000 transactions per second, with testing planned for June and full launch by the end of the year; second, the Bitcoin DeFi system Pogun, which allows Bitcoin holders to lend and earn through Cardano without having to trust centralized institutions, with lending features expected to be publicly released in the second quarter.This voting involves about 1,000 elected representatives (DReps), with the voting deadline set for May 24. The results will test whether the Cardano community views Input Output as a regular funding applicant.Meanwhile, the new stablecoin USDCx in the Cardano ecosystem has reached a circulation of 14.6 million coins within weeks of its launch, and the total locked assets on the network have increased from $137.5 million to $142.7 million.

The cryptocurrency trading platform Bybit has officially launched a USD1 trading series event in collaboration with WLFI, and has listed USD1 spot trading pairs for BTC, ETH, and USDC. The total prize pool for this event reaches 10 million WLFI.It is reported that the event is divided into several sections: from April 22 to May 6, users trading designated USD1 spot trading pairs on the Bybit main site can share a reward of 6 million WLFI; during the same period, users who complete at least 500 USD1 transactions on the Mantle chain via Bybit Alpha can share 1 million WLFI. Additionally, starting from May 6, the USDC/USD1 and USD1/USDT trading pairs will have zero trading fees, and the platform will also launch the Puzzle Hunt event, allowing users to share the remaining 3 million WLFI prize pool through check-ins, trading, and inviting friends.

AI research lab NeoCognition announced the completion of a $40 million seed round financing, led jointly by Cambium Capital and Walden Catalyst Ventures, with participation from Vista Equity Partners. Angel investors include Intel CEO Lip-Bu Tan and Databricks co-founder Ion Stoica, among others.The company is headquartered in Palo Alto, California, and was co-founded by Ohio State University associate professor Yu Su, along with Xiang Deng and Yu Gu, focusing on enhancing the reliability of AI agents. Their solution is to enable agents to build domain "world models" in real-world use to adapt to specific business environments, rather than relying on generic pre-trained models. The company is currently targeting enterprise clients and plans to embed sustainably optimized AI agents into SaaS products, with no public products released yet.