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According to on-chain analyst @ai_9684xtpa, whales "set 10 major targets first," and the short positions in Bitcoin and Ethereum have a floating profit of 3.21 million dollars:BTC short position: 2567.49 coins, opening price 71554.61 dollars, floating profit 1.185 million dollars;ETH short position: 38465.22 coins, opening price 2248.74 dollars, floating profit 2.028 million dollars.

According to on-chain analyst Ai Yi (@ai_9684xtpa), the contract whale "Set 10 Big Goals First" (@Jason60704294) has turned a loss into a profit, currently with an unrealized profit of 1.968 million USD.BTC short position: 2201.507 coins, opening price 71671.5 USD, worth 157 million USDETH short position: 7093 coins, opening price 2251.23 USD, worth 15.96 million USDBased on the calculations from the tweet image, the total scale of this short position reaches 173 million USD, with the stop-loss range for BTC set between 73000 and 73500 USD.

Contract whale "Set 10 Big Goals First" (@Jason60704294) posted a long limit order on X at 1 AM this morning. The screenshot shows a limit price of $69,574.7, adding 270.37 Bitcoin long positions. Bitcoin fell below this purchase price this morning, so it is expected that this order has been executed.Yesterday afternoon, Bitcoin briefly broke through the $70,000 mark, and the BTC long position of whale "Set 10 Big Goals First" once had an unrealized profit of $5.52 million.

According to on-chain analysts, the whale "first set 10 big targets" currently has 2,250.15 BTC long positions, worth 156 million dollars, with an average opening price of 67,193.72 dollars, a liquidation price of 55,423 dollars, and has an unrealized profit of 5.52 million dollars.

The "contract whale" "set 10 big goals first" (@Jason60704294) posted on X showing a long position with a limit price of $67023.8, going long on Bitcoin.

According to DL News citing DefiLlama data, cryptocurrency startups raised nearly $5 billion in the first quarter of 2026, a year-on-year decrease of 16%. However, the investment ecosystem continues to evolve, with funding shifting significantly from speculative tokens to practical sectors such as payments and trading infrastructure. Among them, the prediction market sector leads with over $1.7 billion, while payments and trading infrastructure attracted $735 million and $423 million, respectively. Top non-crypto institutions such as Sequoia Capital, Founders Fund, Bain Capital, and Alibaba are also accelerating their entry.The top ten financing projects in Q1 are as follows: • Kalshi: $1 billion, valuation of $22 billion, led by Coatue Management, CFTC-regulated prediction market leader • Polymarket: $600 million, investment from Intercontinental Exchange (ICE), leading decentralized prediction market platform • Rain: $250 million Series C, valuation of nearly $2 billion, led by Iconiq Capital, stablecoin payment infrastructure • BitGo: $213 million, NYSE IPO, valuation of over $2 billion, crypto custody institution • Flying Tulip: $206 million, public token sale, led by DeFi architect Andre Cronje, integrating trading/lending/insurance • Whop: $200 million, Tether.

According to Tether's official announcement, Tether has officially signed an agreement with one of the Big Four accounting firms to initiate its first complete independent financial statement audit in history. This audit is considered the largest initial audit in the history of financial markets, covering complex asset structures such as digital assets, traditional reserves, and tokenized liabilities. Currently, the market capitalization of USD₮ has exceeded 184 billion dollars, with over 550 million global users.Tether stated that this audit aims to go beyond the "Attestation" standard commonly adopted in the industry, moving towards a complete audit to demonstrate that USD₮ is fully backed, has sufficient liquidity, and that risk management meets international top-tier standards. Tether CEO Paolo Ardoino stated, "Trust is built on actions, not promises, and this audit represents the results of years of systematic strengthening efforts."

The "contract whale" "set 10 big goals first" (@jasonleo) posted a screenshot of a contract order on X, with the caption "retreat." The screenshot shows that he went long on BTC and ETH at $67,900 and $1,935, respectively, and also went long on BNB. The total profit from the three orders is $14.66 million.

Aave founder Stani.eth posted on the X platform, stating, "The private credit market is facing pressure in a high-interest-rate environment. Since the Federal Reserve began its rate hike cycle in 2022, interest rates have rapidly risen above 5% and remained high, leading to a significant increase in capital costs for borrowing businesses and consumers.Recent data shows that several funds have experienced stock price declines and redemption pressures, such as Blue Owl Capital, which has dropped about 50% over the past year, and Blackstone's BCRED, which is facing approximately $3.7 billion in redemption requests in Q1 2026. The average BDC is trading at about a 20% discount, with yields of 10-11%, and some funds have seen default rates rise to 9%.Stani.eth proposed three risk scenarios: a single fund default can be absorbed by the system, multiple fund defaults may trigger a downturn in the credit cycle, and a complete collapse could lead to systemic risk. However, the overall private credit market has a total size of about $1.8-2 trillion, making a single fund default unlikely to cause a systemic crisis.For DeFi investors, the biggest risk is that many retail users do not understand the risks involved before putting funds into high-yield RWA. I believe RWA is the biggest opportunity for DeFi in the near term. However, my biggest concern is that institutional speculators may view DeFi as a channel to offload illiquid and distressed products that Wall Street has lost confidence in, effectively using DeFi participants as an exit liquidity.However, well-functioning on-chain private credit can provide advantages that traditional finance cannot reach. DeFi can enforce redemption windows, withdrawal limits, collateral ratios, and profit distribution rules through smart contracts, achieving transparent and immutable execution, avoiding arbitrary tightening of redemption policies by traditional fund managers. Through carefully structured RWA projects, transparent and secure investment channels can be provided between traditional finance and on-chain markets. DeFi should not become a source of exit liquidity for Wall Street."

Eric Trump, the second son of Donald Trump, stated on social media, "Those so-called 'big banks'—institutions that have long monopolized the market and exploited customers, paying almost no interest on retail money market accounts for years while charging high fees on low-balance accounts—are now doing everything they can to obstruct the crypto industry from providing real benefits, privileges, and rewards on their platforms.They are in a state of collective panic because they know they are losing the competition in digital finance."

Ethereum co-founder Vitalik Buterin recently published a series of technical articles discussing the future roadmap of Ethereum. In the latest article, he focused on analyzing the potential centralization risks in the block building pipeline and proposed solutions such as expanding the FOCIL mechanism and introducing encrypted mempools to enhance the network's censorship resistance.According to the plan, Ethereum will launch the Glamsterdam upgrade in the first half of 2026, which will introduce the enshrined Proposer-Builder Separation (ePBS) mechanism. This mechanism allows block proposers to outsource block construction to a permissionless open market, reducing the centralization risk at the staking level. However, Buterin pointed out that while ePBS can prevent the concentration of block building rights among a few staking pools, the block construction itself may still become concentrated among a few high-tier participants due to specialization and maximizing MEV, leading to a new trend of centralization.To address this issue, Ethereum developers plan to simultaneously launch the FOCIL (Forward Obligatory Commitment to Inclusion Lists) mechanism in the Glamsterdam upgrade. The initial version will randomly select 16 witnesses and mandate that specific transactions must be included in the block; otherwise, the block will be rejected. Buterin stated that even if block construction is controlled by a single malicious entity, FOCIL can still ensure that transactions cannot be completely censored.Additionally, Buterin explored the possibility of expanding the scale of FOCIL ("big FOCIL") and introducing encrypted mempools to further mitigate the issues of information asymmetry and power concentration in the block building process. Recently, Buterin has been vocal about topics such as the quantum resistance roadmap, execution layer improvements, and block building mechanisms, indicating that the core Ethereum development team is conducting systematic design and risk assessment for the next phase of protocol upgrades.

Binance CEO He Yi retweeted JPMorgan CEO Jamie Dimon's view that "the market may have short-term corrections, but the trend is positive," and stated, "The future and the storm have arrived. The bigger the waves, the more valuable the fish?"According to his retweeted post, JPMorgan CEO Jamie Dimon stated in a television interview: Blockchain is real and becoming increasingly effective, and cryptocurrencies are better than the existing financial system! The "experimental" phase in the crypto space is over, and while the market may have short-term corrections, the trend is positive.

According to GlobeNewswire, the social-native prediction market platform Kash announced the completion of a $2 million Pre-Seed funding round, with participation from Big Brain Holdings, Spartan Group, Coinbase Ventures, Kosmos Ventures, Halo Capital, MoonRock Capital, Polaris Fund, and Fabric VC.The new funding will support its development of financial tools embedded in social media platforms like X, enabling users to make prediction trades directly from their feeds and create prediction events. A simulated testnet has already been launched on the X platform.