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According to BBX data, yesterday the innovative structure of cryptocurrency ETF products was launched simultaneously with the reserve actions of Asian companies, with the core dynamics as follows:Bitwise Asset Management announced on April 15 via PR Newswire that the Bitwise Avalanche ETF (NYSE: $BAVA) officially landed on the New York Stock Exchange, becoming the first onshore ETP in the U.S. that integrates self-operated on-chain staking of Avalanche; the fund stakes approximately 70% of its holdings, targeting an annualized staking yield of 5.4%, with a management fee rate of 0.34% (waived for the first month on the first $500 million in assets).Metaplanet Inc. (TSE: 3350) reported by media analysis that the 27th batch of warrants officially became exercisable for the EVO FUND starting yesterday (April 16), which is part of the company's ongoing capital operations to expand its BTC reserves. Previously, the company disclosed on April 2 that it purchased 5,075 BTC in Q1 (costing approximately $398 million), raising its total holdings to 40,177 BTC, surpassing MARA Holdings to become the third largest BTC holder among publicly listed companies globally; the company's long-term goal is to hold 100,000 BTC by the end of 2026.

According to a Caixin article titled "Financial Innovation or Insider Trading: The Rise and Controversy of Polymarket," it points out that when insider information can be openly monetized, the boundaries of prediction markets have become blurred. Is this "gambling" disguised in financial clothing, or even suspected insider trading? However, regardless of the legal debate over whether it is gambling, the fact that Polymarket uses USDC stablecoin for settlement and delivery poses a significant legal risk for participants within China.Previously, U.S. Senators Merkley and Klobuchar proposed the "End Prediction Market Corruption Act," which prohibits the President, Vice President, and members of Congress from trading on prediction markets, and requires the prediction market trading activities of their spouses and dependent children to be included in annual financial disclosures.

WeChat Pay officially launched the AI native access toolbox, providing low-threshold payment integration solutions for merchants and developers, supporting the rapid generation of payment function code through natural language commands.The toolbox consists of Skill packages, AI-friendly documentation, and APIs, supporting one-click calls in mainstream AI development environments. Among them, the "verbal code generation" feature can compress a development process that originally took days into minutes, enabling quick access to more than 20 functions such as mini-program payments, H5 payments, refunds, and revenue sharing.At the same time, the toolbox has built-in AI diagnostic capabilities that can automatically identify code logic issues and provide repair suggestions, reducing financial and system risks during the integration process. For developers with existing systems, it also supports interface debugging and old code upgrades. This upgrade further promotes the standardization and AI integration of payment capabilities, lowering the digital operation threshold for small and medium-sized merchants.

According to Jinshi reports, the Federal Reserve meeting minutes show that most participants are concerned that the prolonged conflict may lead to further weakening of the labor market, which may require further interest rate cuts.

The Ethereum Foundation stated on the X platform that today it will exchange 5,000 ETH for stablecoins through CoWSwap's TWAP feature, as part of ongoing funding for research and development, grants, and donations.

Ant Group announced that its professional lobster product DTClaw has begun internal testing. Unlike the "ordinary shrimp" currently on the market that can only perform skills such as document organization, meeting minutes, and data collection, DTClaw is positioned as a "professional shrimp" that provides 24/7 online exclusive AI intelligent body services for professionals such as financial experts, marketing experts, and data experts.DTClaw supports hundreds of professional skills, covering high-value scenarios such as wealth management, investment, data analysis, research and development, and testing, and deeply integrates with enterprise office, finance, sales, and marketing systems to achieve workflow automation. Users can deploy it with one click, eliminating the need to start from scratch, which can save 50% of token consumption.

According to BBX data, yesterday, as the last day of the first quarter, multiple companies executed the quarter-end "automatic treasury conversion" and hard asset settlement. The core data is as follows:$120 million swept in at quarter-end: Block Inc. (NYSE: $XYZ) strictly implemented its algorithm-driven treasury strategy yesterday, automatically sweeping approximately $120 million of idle fiat profits into its Bitcoin pool at the end of the first quarter. This "no human intervention" investment mechanism ensures it is insulated from emotional disturbances caused by short-term price fluctuations."Physical isolation" of computing power: Riot Platforms (NASDAQ: $RIOT) announced yesterday that the first batch of 2 EH/s computing power from its new factory on Corsica has successfully connected to the grid. Notably, this portion of computing power is designated as a "treasury dedicated line," with all BTC produced being physically cold-stored, 100% retained, completely independent of the funds pool used for daily operational sales.150 mining machines settled in cryptocurrency: Canaan Inc. (NASDAQ: $CAN) disclosed its financial update for the first quarter yesterday, confirming that it has settled part of the sales balance for mining machines from major clients directly in Bitcoin, totaling 150 BTC, officially closing the loop from "selling shovels" to "hoarding gold."$40 million regional hedge: MercadoLibre (NASDAQ: $MELI) disclosed yesterday in its quarter-end asset revaluation that it added a mixed position of $40 million in BTC/ETH in late March. This move aims to hedge against the sharp depreciation of several Latin American currencies against the US dollar in the first quarter.$85 million staking snowball: DeFi Technologies (CBOE: $DEFTF) announced yesterday that its treasury size has surpassed $85 million. In addition to asset appreciation, the SOL it holds has generated staking interest in the first quarter, which has all been reinvested, achieving absolute quantity compound growth of its crypto assets.

According to CoinDesk, Square, led by Jack Dorsey, has begun automatically enabling Bitcoin payment features for millions of U.S. merchants, with transactions instantly converted to dollars at checkout. Merchants can receive Bitcoin without additional setup and do not bear the risks of price volatility and custody.This feature includes near-instant settlement and waives processing fees until 2026. Square stated that this is an important step in integrating Bitcoin into everyday business, with merchants defaulting to receive dollars without needing to change their accounting practices or hold crypto assets. It is reported that 78% of Square's users are from the U.S., while 22% are from international markets. Previously, PayPal launched the dollar-pegged stablecoin PYUSD to tens of thousands of users across its 70 global markets, promoting digital payment applications.

Pendle co-founder @tn_pendle met with the Deputy Prime Minister of Vietnam last week in New York along with Deutsche Bank, Morgan Stanley, BlackRock, Franklin Templeton, and Anchorage Digital to advocate for the construction of Vietnam's international financial center.During the talks, Pendle co-founder @tn_pendle discussed Vietnam's potential as a market for tokenized bonds, ETFs, and private credit, and strongly promoted the deep talent pool that Vietnam possesses.

According to the Financial Times, U.S. President Trump stated that he hopes to "seize Iran's oil resources," and may even occupy the important export hub of Khark Island. Meanwhile, the U.S. has deployed thousands of soldiers to the Middle East. Trump also compared this possible action to the situation in Venezuela.Trump said, "To be honest with you, the thing I want to do most is to get oil from Iran, but some fools in the U.S. say, 'Why would you do that?' But they are just a bunch of fools." Trump stated, "Maybe we will occupy Khark Island, maybe we won't. We have a lot of options." "This also means we have to stay on Khark Island for a while."

According to crypto analyst Ai Yi @ai_9684xtpa's monitoring, an address previously acquired 38,800 ETH through 1CO, and after being dormant for a year, began transferring assets 45 minutes ago, moving 18,500 ETH to another address. It has also sold 9,628.54 ETH on-chain at a price of approximately $2,049, with a transaction amount of about $19.72 million.Currently, the address still holds some ETH and may continue to transfer or sell in the future.

According to the official announcement, the Huobi HTX "全民龙虾交易赛" will officially start on March 26 from 20:00 to 22:00. Special invited AI trading experts will compete with their exclusive AI players in a 2-hour racing showdown to validate their strategies in real trading.This competition has three major awards for the champion, runner-up, and third place. The champion will receive a reward of 1000U equivalent in $HTX, the runner-up 500U, and the third place 200U. The competition results will be evaluated based on a combination of profit amount ranking (weight 60%) and return rate ranking (weight 40%). At the same time, Huobi HTX will provide each participant with a loss reimbursement of up to 200U equivalent in $HTX and a subsidy for large model calls of up to 50U equivalent in $HTX, helping AI players to compete at full strength.Regular users can also win prizes! Log in to the Huobi HTX App and enter the event page to participate in the champion prediction. If you guess correctly, you can share a prize pool of 100U equivalent in $HTX. The entire event will be live-streamed, with real-time analysis of AI orders and opening and closing strategies. During the breaks, users can easily copy strategies by one-click following excellent traders and share in the trading benefits of experts.Follow the official Huobi HTX live broadcast room and lock in on March 26 at 8 PM to witness the peak showdown of AI competition.

According to Cointelegraph, M1X Global, behind the Marshall Islands UBI program, has completed a $3 million angel round of financing, with investors including former Coinbase CTO Balaji Srinivasan and Cumberland Labs CEO Tama Churchouse, among other figures in the crypto industry. The funds will be used to promote the expansion of USDM1 digital sovereign bonds into the institutional market.USDM1 was launched on the Stellar blockchain last December, but the IMF has warned that the project carries financial risks and cybersecurity vulnerabilities, believing that its returns are not proportional to its risks.

According to a report by WSJ cited by Jinshi, U.S. President Trump plans to appoint several business giants to a technology committee, including Meta Platforms CEO Mark Zuckerberg, Oracle founder Larry Ellison, and NVIDIA CEO Jensen Huang. These members will provide opinions on artificial intelligence policies and other topics.According to White House officials, the President's Council of Advisors on Science and Technology (PCAST) will be co-chaired by the White House's AI and cryptocurrency advisor Sax and technology advisor Michael Kratsios.Officials stated that Trump plans to appoint the first 13 members from the industry on Wednesday, including Google co-founder Sergey Brin. According to an executive order, the committee could ultimately include 24 members.

According to Cointelegraph, the Thane District Court in India ruled on March 23 that there was no preliminary evidence of a crime involving CoinDCX co-founder Sumit Gupta and Niraj Khandelwal in a fraud case involving 7.1 million rupees (approximately $75,000), and granted bail to the two.The court investigation revealed that the fraudulent activity actually occurred on the counterfeit website coindcx.pro, which has no connection to the official CoinDCX platform. The main suspect, Rana, has fully refunded the victims, who also confirmed in court that the two founders were not the parties they met at the café.CoinDCX subsequently issued a statement characterizing the incident as "third-party impersonation" and reminded users to verify domain names and interact only through official channels to guard against the increasingly rampant impersonation and phishing scams in India's cryptocurrency industry.

Binance Co-CEO Richard Teng posted on the X platform that over 21 million merchants now accept Binance Pay, and cryptocurrency is becoming a global business standard.