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Gate announced that it will hold the Gate 13th Anniversary Blue Carpet Ceremony on April 20 from 17:00 to 19:30 (UTC+8) at K11 MUSEA in Tsim Sha Tsui, Hong Kong. The ceremony will officially start at 17:30, with dozens of industry guests and media friends invited to attend.This ceremony will replace the traditional red carpet with the brand's iconic blue color. There will be entry displays, media photography, and interview segments on site, and the F1 Red Bull Racing Team's display car will also be unveiled, showcasing the progress of the collaboration between the two parties.In addition, from April 18 to 24, Gate will launch the "Racing the Future" outdoor cross-border exhibition at the waterfront promenade of K11 MUSEA in Victoria Harbour, Hong Kong. On the evening of April 20, Gate will also hold a high-end anniversary dinner event at the Rosewood Hotel in Hong Kong, where platform founder and CEO Dr. Han will be present, along with over 300 representatives from top industry institutions and partners invited to participate in on-site exchanges.Overall, the Gate 13th Anniversary series of events will use offline scenarios as a carrier, integrating brand displays and cross-border collaborations, and will continue to strengthen connections and communication with users and partners.

According to BBX data, during the weekend yesterday, several mid-sized listed companies globally took frequent actions in their anti-inflation and anti-censorship treasury strategies:$20 million positioning plan: Rumble (NASDAQ: $RUM) board approved a $20 million Bitcoin strategic allocation budget yesterday. As a streaming platform that emphasizes "freedom of speech," the company stated it will convert part of its idle cash into BTC, aiming to build a hard asset reserve pool for the creator economy that is not subject to interference from the traditional banking system.$150 million milestone: Exodus Movement (NYSE: $EXOD) updated its quarterly account data yesterday, confirming that the total amount of digital assets on its balance sheet (mainly BTC and its own stablecoin positions) has officially surpassed $150 million.$5 million allocation: Lan Kwai Fong Interactive (8267.HK) announced yesterday that it has utilized $5 million in cash reserves to continuously purchase Bitcoin and Ethereum over the past week (including the weekend), further solidifying its digital financial moat as a Hong Kong stock Web3 concept stock.50% crypto payment retention: Equinix (NASDAQ: $EQIX), a global data center giant, announced yesterday in an internal test that its European division's pilot of "B2B cryptocurrency payments" will retain 50% of the BTC and USDC received directly on the books, rather than converting the entire amount into fiat currency as it did in the past.100% retention rate over the weekend: Argo Blockchain (LSE: $ARB) disclosed that its mining facility in Texas achieved a 100% retention rate for hash power output throughout the entire weekend (including yesterday). Through power scheduling optimization, the company did not need to sell any new mining output during the low liquidity weekend period.

According to Jinshi News, Blue Cat Capital's pre-market decline in US stocks once expanded to 10%.

According to TechCrunch, the decentralized social network Bluesky announced the completion of a $100 million Series B funding round, led by Bain Capital Crypto, with participation from existing investors Alumni Ventures, True Ventures, as well as Anthos Capital, Bloomberg Beta, and the Knight Foundation. This funding round was completed in April 2025 but had not been disclosed earlier. Bluesky did not announce its latest valuation; previously, it raised $15 million in Series A funding, led by Blockchain Capital.At the time of the funding announcement, Bluesky CEO Jay Graber announced her resignation, transitioning to the role of Chief Innovation Officer. Graber had previously stated that although Bluesky does not involve cryptocurrency, its decentralized design is inspired by her early work at Zcash, aiming to evolve centralized social media into an open and distributed network.

Gate announces the official launch of the open AI Agent platform "Blue Lobster," built on the OpenClaw framework. It is now available for free, allowing users to enable it with one click, without the need for deployment or complex configuration. Through the intelligent Agent, users can gain market insights, platform product usage guidance, and industry information analysis, enabling them to understand market dynamics and carry out related operations more efficiently.Blue Lobster integrates market data, industry news, and platform service capabilities to provide users with multi-dimensional intelligent assistance, and supports continuous expansion of capability boundaries through a skill store, expert assistants, and third-party skill extensions. Users can also create and optimize automated trading strategies within the platform.Gate stated that it will continue to promote the integration of AI technology with digital asset services in the future, further optimizing product capabilities and ecosystem development to provide global users with a more intelligent and efficient digital asset service experience.

The Blue Sky Ge Rui case will hold a hearing on "Legal Application Issues" in July. Chinese victims who intend to pursue the UK recovery process need to supplement detailed financial information after completing the preliminary registration, including total investment, amount of loss, and the amount of compensation received along with evidence, by June 18, 2026.It is reported that this hearing will be crucial for the disposal of 60,000 bitcoins. If Chinese law applies, there is a creditor-debtor relationship between the victims and Blue Sky Ge Rui, and the victims can only recover the principal at most; if UK law applies, victims have proprietary rights to the bitcoins, and the appreciated portion of the loss may also be recoverable.

According to Caixin, on February 16 and 17, 2026, the High Court of England held a two-day hearing on the asset disposal of the money laundering case involving Qian Zhimin and 60,000 bitcoins. Over 11,300 Chinese victims are expected to submit compensation claims to the High Court of England, but this only accounts for 8.8% of the 128,409 victims. The deadline for compensation claims in the UK will be May 22.According to Section 281 of the Proceeds of Crime Act (POCA) in the UK, if someone claims that the assets frozen or intended for confiscation by the government originally belonged to them, they can submit a compensation claim to the High Court of England. On October 22, 2024, the UK allowed victims of Blue Sky Greys to proactively claim compensation, providing evidence to the High Court of England to prove that they are victims of the Blue Sky Greys case and have a relationship with the assets involved.

According to CoinDesk, American private credit giant Blue Owl Capital announced the sale of approximately $1.4 billion in loan assets to meet redemption demands from investors in its retail-focused private credit fund.The fund will return about 30% of its net asset value (NAV) to qualified investors, with the asset sale price equivalent to 99.7% of face value. As a result, Blue Owl's stock (OWL) fell nearly 15% this week, with a cumulative decline of over 50% compared to the same period last year; shares of other private equity firms such as Blackstone, Apollo Global, and Ares Management also saw significant declines.Experts liken this to the "canary in the coal mine" signal before the 2007 financial crisis, warning that excessive expansion in the private credit market (especially related to AI investments) could trigger systemic risks, credit tightening, and banking contagion.If pressure intensifies, forcing central banks to cut interest rates and inject liquidity, it could recreate the post-pandemic scenario of 2020, providing momentum for Bitcoin and the crypto market, and driving the next bull market.

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 Decrypt, the Democratic Party in the United States hopes to re-attract voters and donors who support the cryptocurrency industry after a potential defeat in the 2024 presidential election, thus launching a new digital asset fundraising platform called BlueVault.The BlueVault cryptocurrency fundraising service went live on Monday, targeting Democratic political committees, allowing campaigns to accept donations in the form of Bitcoin and stablecoins.

Solid Intel posted on platform X that Blue Origin, owned by Jeff Bezos, now accepts ETH for space travel payments.

Framework Ventures co-founder Vance Spencer stated, "2025 is not the year the crypto industry is looking forward to, but it is likely to be a necessary year for the industry's continued progress. As an industry, we have essentially bid farewell to meme coins, NFTs, low liquidity high FDV projects, and the entire narrative that is generally consumer-oriented.My prediction for 2026 is that the number of token issuances will significantly decrease, and the market focus will shift more towards mainstream assets (ETH, BTC). Meanwhile, institutional funds will continue to flow into DeFi blue-chip projects that have reasonable value capture mechanisms.This buying pressure could be strong enough to exceed many people's expectations, especially against the backdrop of ongoing buybacks and a high level of financial discipline at the protocol level. The future of this industry is already very clear; stablecoins, real-world assets (RWA), lending and capital markets, as well as asset management, will become the dominant directions.We will address many issues in the cryptocurrency space by reducing blind expansion, focusing on refinement, and pursuing a path of compliance. This is a bullish pattern, but the opportunities for rebounds, rallies, and exits will present a highly concentrated situation."

Bybit Alpha and Byreal have supported direct trading of on-chain tokens $BlackWhale and $BlueWhale. Users can quickly trade by simply logging into Bybit Alpha, without the need to set up a separate wallet, and can track the market trends of popular tokens in real-time. Byreal is a DEX (decentralized exchange) built on Solana, which achieves stable trading execution and efficient liquidity provision experience through refined liquidity distribution and fast on-chain confirmation mechanisms.

According to CoinTelegraph, CoinEx Research's chief analyst Jeff Ko stated that the typical altcoin rally may weaken next year, with only "blue-chip" cryptocurrencies able to capture the majority of liquidity, leaving retail investors hoping for all altcoins to benefit disappointed.Ko expects a moderate positive outlook for global liquidity in 2026, but the divergence in central bank policies will suppress this optimism. Since the launch of ETFs in 2024, Bitcoin's historical sensitivity to the growth of the M2 money supply "has weakened, and the correlation is decreasing."