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According to Artemis data, Ethereum generated $2.7 million in fees in 24 hours, leading Hyperliquid's $1.7 million.

Telegram founder Pavel Durov announced that the transaction fees on the TON network will be reduced by six times within a week, dropping to 0.00039 TON (approximately 0.0005 USD) per transaction, and will remain fixed regardless of network load. Subsequently, most transactions will be completely free, achieving zero fees.

New Fire Technology (1611.HK) announced that it will acquire the investment team and trading system of the Li Lin family office Avenir Group for $1.6 million.After the acquisition is completed, New Fire Technology plans to launch a Bitcoin-denominated asset management service called Alpha BTC, aiming to attract investments of over 10,000 Bitcoins within a year, valued at approximately $760 million. This strategy will generate returns through trading derivatives such as options, with Bitcoin or IBIT ETF as the underlying assets, targeting clients including crypto-native investors and local businesses in Hong Kong. Avenir Group holds 18.3 million shares of BlackRock iShares Bitcoin Trust, valued at $908 million, as of the end of 2025.

According to on-chain analyst Yu Jin's monitoring, within a day and a half, the KelpDAO hacker has exchanged nearly all of the 75,700 ETH (175 million USD) for BTC.The hacker mainly used the THORChain protocol for cross-chain exchanges, contributing 800 million USD in trading volume and 910,000 USD in platform fee revenue to THORChain.

The State Duma of Russia (the lower house of parliament) has passed the "Digital Currency and Digital Rights Bill" in the first reading, marking a key step towards the legalization of cryptocurrency assets in the country.According to the bill, the Bank of Russia will become the core regulatory body for the cryptocurrency market, responsible for issuing licenses, approving or prohibiting related transactions, and defining the legality of transactions. The bill proposes to classify cryptocurrencies as "property," but explicitly prohibits their use as a means of payment domestically, with the ruble remaining the only legal tender. However, in the context of Western sanctions, cryptocurrency assets can be used for cross-border trade settlements, including service payments, intellectual property transfers, and other scenarios.In addition, the bill allows Russian residents to legally invest in cryptocurrency assets through licensed institutions, but will implement a tiered investor system, setting testing and annual investment limits for ordinary investors (with a suggested cap of 300,000 rubles). Initially, only high-market-cap mainstream assets like Bitcoin and Ethereum will be allowed for trading, with a whitelist established by the central bank. The bill is expected to be formally passed and come into effect by July 2026 at the latest. However, some lawmakers and banking industry figures have criticized the overly strict regulations, which may affect market activity and even lead to funds remaining in the gray market. At the same time, accompanying legislation is also proposed to introduce criminal penalties, with a maximum sentence of 7 years in prison for illegal cryptocurrency trading.

ChainCatcher reported live that Adeniyi Abiodun, co-founder and Chief Product Officer of Mysten Labs, delivered a keynote speech at the 2026 Hong Kong Web3 Carnival. He stated that the core team members come from Facebook and were responsible for launching the global payment network Libra, aiming to make fund transfers as simple as sending messages. He announced that Sui will be the first high-speed public blockchain to achieve zero transaction fees for transfers across the network, regardless of the transfer amount ranging from $0.0005 to $1 billion, covering all stablecoins such as USDC, USDT, and Sui Dollar.In terms of privacy, Sui will provide bank-grade on-chain privacy, utilizing advanced cryptography to ensure that transaction history and balances are not visible to third parties, while fully compliant with regulatory requirements. Regarding yields, he introduced the Sui Dollar launched in collaboration with Stripe, which generates approximately 3.5% returns that will be directly reinvested into the network ecosystem and users, rather than flowing to intermediaries.He also announced the launch of the Bitcoin DeFi protocol Hashi aimed at institutions, allowing sovereign wealth funds, hedge funds, and ETF holders to deploy Bitcoin into DeFi for yields without triggering taxable events, supported by legal opinions from top U.S. law firm Fenwick & West. Additionally, Sui's on-chain deep order book DeepBook supports large transactions with extremely low slippage for instant on-chain exchanges between assets such as BTC, gold, USD, and EUR.In the AI agent economy, he pointed out that Stripe estimates a need for processing capacity of 1 billion transactions per second in the future, while Sui employs a horizontally scalable architecture similar to that of Google Search and Facebook infrastructure, capable of scaling on demand to millions or even tens of millions of TPS. The full-stack atomic composability provided by Sui is its core differentiated advantage, allowing agents to execute multiple cross-application transactions simultaneously and settle them in one go, which cannot be achieved on AWS, Google, or any existing Web3 platform. He also announced a partnership with RedotPay, enabling users to spend Sui Dollars at over 130 million merchants worldwide and positioning Sui as an alternative to SWIFT.

According to GMGN data, the top 5 trending sector tokens in the past 24 hours are as follows:UNCEROID (BiBM....ump): Currently priced at $0.0001, market cap of $37,000, 24h change -99.3%, 24h trading volume $22.78 million, number of trades 101,798;DUMBMONEY (CAjt....ump): Currently priced at $0.0024, market cap of $2.35 million, 24h change -50.2%, 24h trading volume $3.84 million, number of trades 85,520;assface (BnXW....ump): Currently priced at $0.0009, market cap of $830,000, 24h change +133.4%, 24h trading volume $3.97 million, number of trades 65,293;ADHD (nHtK....ump): Currently priced at $0.0002, market cap of $190,000, 24h change +7.28K%, 24h trading volume $3.55 million, number of trades 62,134;ASTEROID (F1pp....CP2): Currently priced at $0.001, market cap of $930,000, 24h change -54%, 24h trading volume $2.53 million, number of trades 31,865;

X product leader Nikita Bier posted on the X platform stating that, according to the aggregated data from the trading pilot, since the launch of Cashtags on Tuesday evening, the social platform X has driven approximately $1 billion in transaction volume globally. This data comes from the platform's early pilot phase and shows a significant pull effect on market liquidity and user engagement after the integration of social platform and trading functions.

According to CoinDesk, Ethereum processed 200.4 million base layer transactions in the first quarter of 2026, setting a new historical high and becoming the first quarter to surpass 200 million transactions.Data shows that this metric has continued to recover since its low of about 90 million transactions in 2023, with Q1 2026 growing 43% compared to 145 million transactions in Q4 2025. The report points out that this round of growth is mainly driven by Layer 2 network settlements and bridging activities, as well as an increase in stablecoin usage; currently, the supply of stablecoins on the Ethereum chain has reached $180 billion, accounting for about 60% of the global stablecoin market. However, the price of ETH has still fallen over 50% from its high of nearly $5,000 in August 2025.

According to official news, the BTTC Bridge transaction record page has completed its functional upgrade and is officially online, aiming to provide cross-chain users with a more efficient and transparent asset tracking experience. This update introduces a dual-view independent display mode for "All Records" and "In Progress," and launches a multi-dimensional filtering tool that supports flexible combination retrieval by transaction status, type, and custom date range. At the same time, the page has strengthened the exclusive identification marks for incoming, outgoing, and cross-chain activities, helping users quickly locate the flow of funds. Users can now access the platform to experience a clearer cross-chain transaction management view, and the team will continue to refine product details to serve a broader range of on-chain interaction scenarios.

Cuy Sheffield, the head of Visa's crypto business, stated that two American banks, Lead Bank and Cross River, have settled transactions using USDC on Solana.

The Ministry of Economy and Finance of South Korea announced that it will launch a pilot program for blockchain deposit tokens in Sejong City in the fourth quarter of 2026, to replace traditional government procurement card payments.The project has been approved under the 2026 regulatory sandbox program, allowing institutions to pay business promotion expenses in the form of tokenized deposits. Token payments can preset spending limits and available industry ranges, helping to reduce the need for manual audits and lowering transaction fees for small businesses by removing intermediaries such as card networks.This is the second application of deposit tokens in fiscal operations, following the completion of the first pilot in the electric vehicle charging infrastructure subsidy program. If the pilot proves effective, the Ministry of Finance of South Korea plans to further promote the program.

The CV VC annual report shows that the Swiss Crypto Valley raised $728 million through 31 transactions, a year-on-year increase of 37%, accounting for 47% of the total European blockchain venture capital. The report states that global blockchain venture capital grew by 30% to $15.5 billion, with 986 transactions. One transaction played a key role, with The Open Network leading with $400 million in funding, followed by Sygnum Bank ($58 million), M0 ($40 million), Impossible Cloud Network ($34 million), and CratD2C ($30 million).Blockchain networks attracted 62% of the funding, infrastructure accounted for 14%, and centralized financial services and DeFi applications each accounted for 10%. The Crypto Valley currently has 1,766 active blockchain companies, a growth of 134% since 2020. Despite the increase in funding, the valuation of the top 50 in the Crypto Valley has dropped to $467 billion, and the number of unicorns has decreased from 17 to 10, mainly due to the market weakness at the end of the year causing six token projects to see their valuations fall below the $1 billion threshold, and 21Shares leaving the ecosystem after being acquired by FalconX.

The stablecoin USD1 (code: $U) has reached a peak 24-hour trading volume of $1.75 billion since its launch on Binance three months ago, and the BTC/U trading volume has surpassed that of BTC/USDT, currently ranking among the Top 10 tokens by trading volume in the entire market.According to an official announcement from Binance, zero-fee trading for BTC/U will officially start at 8:00 AM (Beijing time) on April 17, 2026.

Castle Labs' latest research report points out that the infrastructure for "Onchain Banks" in cryptocurrency is maturing rapidly. Data shows that by November 2025, the monthly transaction volume of crypto cards has risen to a historic high of $406 million, with Visa's stablecoin-linked cards reaching an annual transaction scale of $3.5 billion.The stablecoin payment platform RedotPay has exceeded an annual payment scale of $10 billion. In addition, etherfi's non-custodial crypto card product Cash has contributed about 50% of the protocol's revenue, with approximately 300,000 accounts and nearly 70,000 active cards. The report believes that onchain banks are gradually moving from scenarios such as payments, savings, and lending towards a traditional neobank model.

According to disclosures from the GoPlus Chinese community, a user lost approximately $316,000 in USDC from their wallet due to signing a malicious Permit2 transaction, which was exploited by a phishing attacker.GoPlus advises users to adhere to the "four no" principles for phishing prevention: do not click on unfamiliar links, do not install unknown software, do not sign transactions with unclear content, and do not transfer funds to unverified addresses. They also recommend installing the GoPlus security plugin to intercept phishing risks in real-time.

XRP Ledger announced the integration of zero-knowledge infrastructure provider Boundless to support banks and asset management institutions in executing transactions on the public chain that balance privacy protection and compliance.According to reports, this solution can hide sensitive information such as transaction size, frequency, and counterparties, while still allowing regulatory agencies to conduct audits through selective disclosure and role-based access control, thus achieving a balance between privacy and compliance. This integration will support institutional scenarios such as cross-border B2B payments, fund and capital management, over-the-counter (OTC) trading, tokenized asset issuance, and on-chain trading and lending.Industry insiders believe that the contradiction between the transparency of public chains and the demand for privacy has always been a significant barrier to institutional adoption, and this solution aims to reduce the so-called "transparency tax." Meanwhile, competition in the privacy track continues to heat up. Technologies such as zero-knowledge proofs (ZK) and fully homomorphic encryption (FHE) are accelerating implementation, pushing privacy capabilities from optional features to underlying infrastructure. Data shows that the market size of tokenized assets has reached approximately $29.25 billion, with a monthly increase of about 7.9%.

According to Cointelegraph, the Financial Supervisory Service (FSS) of South Korea stated that API-based cryptocurrency trading currently accounts for about 30% of the market's trading volume.The FSS pointed out that some traders are using automated tools to inflate trading volume and manipulate prices, with methods including repeatedly submitting small orders to create a false sense of activity and artificially raising prices through high-limit orders.The regulatory agency stated that it will conduct special investigations on accounts suspected of abnormal API trading and remind investors to be cautious of assets that experience sudden spikes in price and trading volume without obvious reasons. Previously, South Korea had required exchanges to verify asset balances every five minutes and continued to tighten anti-fraud rules, but some regulatory measures still face constraints due to an incomplete legal framework.

According to monitoring by Lookonchain, a certain address withdrew 3.6 million ETHFI from Binance and sold it in a single transaction for 1.587 million USDC.