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According to official news, the Gate WCTC S8 Global Trading Competition officially started on April 23 at 16:00:00 (UTC+8) and will last until May 20 at 15:59:59 (UTC+8). The pre-heating phase had already attracted over 5,500 teams, and with the official launch of the competition, global traders have fully entered the practical phase to compete for annual trading honors.It is reported that the total prize pool for this event reaches 8,000,000 USDT, covering various trading categories including spot, ETF, flash exchange, contracts, and TradFi, and has set up three core competition tracks: team competition, individual competition, and 1v1 king PK. Among them, the first half of the team competition has already started, focusing on a dual-dimensional competition based on trading volume and profit, unlocking a prize pool of 1,800,000 USDT; the individual competition and PK competition are also ongoing, sharing rewards of 2,000,000 USDT and 1,600,000 USDT respectively, with an overall upgrade in the competition system that balances competitiveness and participation.In addition, during the competition period, blind box treasure chests, live draw events, and multiple bonus activities will be launched simultaneously, continuously releasing incentive benefits. As the competition enters the official competitive phase, the trading feast aiming for a prize pool of tens of millions has fully kicked off.It is reported that Gate Live will start the official live broadcast on April 22 at 20:00 (UTC+8), hosted by the official host Jesse, along with guest Eden and several KOLs, focusing on the team mechanism, gameplay rules, and competition strategies of this WCTC, while discussing the current market situation. This live broadcast will also include an interactive lottery segment, with prizes including an iPhone 17 Pro and $1000 contract position experience vouchers. Users can participate in the interaction in the live broadcast room and have the opportunity to join a team or participate in the competition through the host's channel.

According to official social media news, Huobi HTX will hold a live broadcast themed "HTX Q1 Quarterly Burn is Coming: Will It Enter a Value Reversion Cycle?" today at 20:00 (UTC+8). At that time, HTX DAO core builders Molly, Helium, HTX DAO governance committee member Mao Mao Jie, ppp, HTX DAO listing observer Da Biao Ge, HTX research team leader Cloud, and HTX DAO Volunteer Association president Lan Yang Yang will all attend to engage in an in-depth discussion on the execution of the Q1 burn mechanism, the evolution path of the deflation model, and the subsequent HTX empowerment and ecological construction direction.

According to CCTV News, on the evening of April 10, Pakistan time, the U.S. delegation participating in the U.S.-Iran negotiations set off for Islamabad, Pakistan, and Vice President Pence has boarded the plane.Before departing, Pence expressed his anticipation for negotiations on the Iran issue and stated that President Trump has provided "quite clear guidelines" for the negotiations.

The Web3 security platform Immunefi announced on the X platform that the DeFi protocol Alchemix has relaunched its bug bounty program based on its latest v3 contract, with a maximum reward of $300,000.This program aims to encourage security researchers to review the new version of the contract code and identify potential vulnerabilities in advance to enhance the overall security of the protocol. Immunefi stated that this is currently a critical window for auditing the relevant code and participating in the bounty program.

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 CoinDesk, the French Lightning Securities Exchange (Lise) plans to list aerospace parts supplier ST Group on its platform, which is expected to become Europe's first fully on-chain initial public offering (IPO).Lise was authorized last year under the EU's Distributed Ledger Technology (DLT) Pilot Regime and is the first institution in Europe approved to operate a fully tokenized equity exchange. Headquartered in Paris, it has the support of French financial institutions such as BNP Paribas, CACEIS (a subsidiary of the Agricultural Credit Group), and Bpifrance. ST Group primarily produces composite material components for aerospace, defense, and space projects, with potential project revenues estimated at around €59 million (approximately $68 million) over the next decade.Lise aims to provide a lower-cost and more efficient listing path for small and medium-sized enterprises, replacing the lengthy and expensive IPO process in traditional capital markets. Tokenization technology enables faster trade settlement and more efficient ownership tracking, and Nasdaq and NYSE have previously disclosed plans for tokenized securities trading.

According to the official Twitter announcement, the TRON ecosystem Easter Creator Challenge officially starts today, with a total prize pool of 500 USDT inviting all users to participate. The event runs from now until April 6. Participants need to create poster works themed around Easter, incorporating elements from any TRON ecosystem project (JUST / SUN / AINFT / BitTorrent / WINkLink), publish them on the X platform, and tag the involved project parties and 3 friends, adding the topic #TRONEasterFun to successfully participate. This event offers a first prize of 200 USDT, a second prize of 100 USDT, and a third prize of 50 USDT, along with a 150 USDT lucky prize shared among 10 creators. We sincerely invite all community members to actively participate, empowering the ecosystem with creativity and conveying value through their works. The TRON ecosystem will continue to promote diversified community building, and we look forward to your wonderful presentations.

The latest research from blockchain data firm Glassnode shows that Hyperliquid's 24 validation nodes are concentrated in the Amazon Web Services (AWS) Tokyo region, giving traders near Tokyo a significant latency advantage.Tokyo users can reach the validation nodes in just 2 to 3 milliseconds, while European users experience delays of over 200 milliseconds. Using AWS Tokyo as a benchmark, the median round-trip time for orders is about 884 milliseconds; from Virginia, USA, it takes about 1,079 milliseconds, a difference of about 200 milliseconds.In a time-sequenced matching mechanism, geographic location directly determines queue priority, affecting price spreads and transaction probabilities. Major exchanges like Binance and KuCoin also deploy their core infrastructure in the same AWS region, making Tokyo the de facto hub for crypto trading in Asia. The research points out that, unlike traditional financial markets, decentralized finance currently lacks corresponding mechanisms to balance geographic advantages, and a latency arms race is quietly taking shape.

Musk stated that Grok has begun to automatically translate and recommend posts in other languages. Compared to the previous method that required manually clicking the translate button, the new feature can actively identify foreign language content and translate it before directly pushing it to the user's feed. Some users have reported seeing a large number of translated foreign language posts in their timelines.

On March 24th at 8 PM, a Space live broadcast focusing on "AI Agent Value Distribution Rights" will be held. As major companies deepen their model capabilities and leading public chains execute and settle, AI is transitioning from a "tool" to "self-generating revenue," sparking in-depth discussions about human roles, investment opportunities, and asset risks. This Space will invite industry guests to engage in dialogue around core topics such as how ordinary people can face the "AI profit-making" wave, the irreplaceability of transactions and operations executed by Agents, and the efficiency and risks of AI managing assets.Users are encouraged to follow the official accounts @sunpumpmeme and @Agent_SunGenX, retweet the post, and @ three friends. The official account will randomly select 5 lucky users from participants to receive a reward of 10 USDT each.

According to Hyperinsight monitoring, the contract whale pension-usdt.eth started shorting Bitcoin with 3x leverage on Hyperliquid about 10 minutes ago, currently holding a position of 170 Bitcoin shorts, approximately worth 12.2 million USD, and is still continuing to add to the position.

According to Cointelegraph, PsiQuantum has launched the construction of a fault-tolerant quantum computing facility in Chicago, aiming for 1 million quantum bits, using a photonic quantum computing approach that leverages mature semiconductor, fiber optic, and cooling technologies for scalability. The construction is progressing rapidly, with 500 tons of steel structure erected in just a few days. The first phase is expected to be partially completed around 2027, with the ultimate goal of becoming operational around 2028.The facility's computing power is equivalent to hundreds of billions of traditional computers, primarily serving the next generation of AI supercomputing. The crypto community is currently focused on its potential ability to crack Bitcoin. PsiQuantum co-founder Terry Rudolph has explicitly stated that there is no intention to use quantum computing to attack Bitcoin, and the company's scale makes it impossible to conduct such activities secretly. Recently, discussions about quantum threats have intensified, and the Bitcoin community is already discussing a hard fork as a response. Currently, the world's largest quantum computer has only 6,100 qubits, far from reaching the practical threshold, posing limited short-term threats to Bitcoin.

After the Trump administration in the United States discontinued the use of Anthropic AI technology products, OpenAI quickly reached an agreement with the U.S. Department of Defense to deploy OpenAI models within the Department's secure networks. This event triggered a backlash from OpenAI users, leading to a boycott movement, with 700,000 people canceling their subscriptions and even uninstalling ChatGPT, turning instead to Anthropic's Claude.With significant user support, Anthropic's Claude topped the free download charts in the U.S. app store, while OpenAI's ChatGPT and Google's Gemini ranked second and third, respectively. Claude had previously experienced an increase in failure rates, which may be related to the significant rise in traffic.

According to Lookonchain monitoring, the Mixin hacker has started selling 59,854 ETH, worth $117 million, after being silent for two years.15 hours ago, the hacker sent 2,005 ETH to TornadoCash. Shortly after, 3 new wallets received 2,087 ETH (4.03M) from TornadoCash and sold it at a price of $1,933. The Mixin hacker still holds 57,849 ETH ($113.4 million) and 891 BTC ($59.7 million).

At Consensus Hong Kong 2026, where institutional-grade RWA tokenization took center stage, Ongreen emerged with dual validation: strategic investment from Dubai-based BlueRock Capital Limited and high-level discussions between CEO Eric Ng and industry leaders. BlueRock Capital Limited, a DFSA-regulated venture capital firm, will provide potential staged funding with the first tranche of up to US$1 million, as well as strategic advisory support, regional market access, and partner networks for the launch of Ongreen's Oasis Journey ecosystem across MENA. OnGreen combines green tech and Web3 infrastructure to deliver: • Desertification control & green construction – Income-generating RWAs • AI-optimised carbon verification – Proprietary AI BIM turns recurring carbon credits into liquid, yield-bearing digital assets • Unified carbon credit registry – Immutable, institution-grade, setting a new global standard • Green asset exchange – Deep liquidity for tokenised environmental assets “Oasis Journey is production-ready infrastructure—land restoration, AI-verified carbon, on-chain registry. We are turning desert into a verified asset class,” said Eric Ng, CEO of Ongreen. Sher Ali, CEO of BlueRock Capital, added: “The Middle East’s US$186 billion green transformation meets global RWA tokenization. This is impact backed by code and capital.” With pilot projects accelerating in Saudi Arabia and the UAE, Ongreen is positioned as the bridge protocol between Asia's regulatory clarity and MENA's capital deployment.

According to official news, the TRON ECO "AI Model Battle Royale" will officially launch tomorrow. This event is presented by the AINFT platform in collaboration with SUN, BitTorrent, JUST DAO, and WINkLink, with special support from the SUN ecosystem for the first season. Users can freely use top AI models such as Claude Opus 4.6, Gemini 3.0 Pro, and GPT 5.2. The four seasons will last until March 10, with a total prize pool of 2000 USDT distributed in the form of NFTs. Participants only need to use the TronLink wallet to access the AINFT platform, ask different AI models questions based on the seasonal theme, and share screenshots of quality answers to participate in the prize pool distribution and win NFT rewards, immersing themselves in the innovative practice of the integration of the TRON ecosystem and AI.

The founder of crypto market maker Wintermute, Evgeny Gaevoy, analyzed the unusual fluctuations in the 1-minute charts of Bitcoin and ETH spot markets on February 8th. He indicated that it is likely due to a market-making bot experiencing a liquidation, with losses potentially reaching tens of millions of dollars. The unusual fluctuations were caused by the bot's losses rather than any malicious intent from market makers, and Wintermute was clearly not involved.Evgeny Gaevoy further expressed skepticism regarding rumors of "large institutions facing liquidation" in the market, and even if such cases do exist, they would not have a medium to long-term impact. In contrast to the past collapses of Three Arrows Capital and FTX, where liquidation news spread quickly and there were clear signs indicating the validity of the liquidations, such as institutions seeking rescue, the current market rumors mainly come from anonymous accounts and have not been confirmed by reliable sources.The leverage in this cycle primarily comes from perpetual contracts. Trading platforms no longer take risks with user assets to invest in low-liquidity assets or extend special credit as they did in the past. The tightening of credit has resulted in institutional credit sizes being less than $2 billion, which limits the impact and makes it difficult to trigger a chain liquidation like in 2022.Previous reports indicated that on February 8th, there were unusual fluctuations in the 1-minute charts of Bitcoin and ETH spot markets, with single-minute amplitudes exceeding 1% and even 3% from 00:05 to 00:17.

Huobi HTX "New Year's First Lesson" series course fifth lecture (advanced course) will officially start tonight at 7 PM, featuring special guest Chloe Zheng, Senior Researcher at HTX Research, with the course theme "Surge! Seizing the Hundredfold Track in Advance".The core focus of the course revolves around three major highlights:Understanding new regulatory rules: clarifying compliance boundaries and seizing the bonus window brought by institutional entry;Identifying potential tracks: breaking down the logic of stablecoins and RWA explosions to pinpoint hundredfold targets;Mastering practical paths: teaching you to use ETF/ETP + RWA tokenization tools to low-risk ambush high-certainty opportunities.This advanced course requires completing one public class's study and answering questions to earn credits; after completing the questions, you can secure your course seat.

According to HyperInsight monitoring, the largest PEPE long position today once again went long on 6,776.62 ETH with 5x leverage, at an average entry price of $3,006.63, with an unrealized profit of $47,000.This address was previously the largest holder of kPEPE long positions on Hyperliquid, ultimately realizing a profit of $963,600, and closed an ETH long position yesterday with a loss of $223,900.