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According to The Block, London-based crypto startup OpenTrade has completed a $17 million strategic financing round, led by Mercury Fund and Notion Capital, with participation from a16z crypto, AlbionVC, CMCC Global, and others, bringing its total funding to over $30 million.OpenTrade offers on-chain and real-world asset collateralized lending and stablecoin yield products aimed at institutions, planning to use this round of funding to expand its infrastructure in both regulated and unregulated scenarios. Its products include a permissionless protocol layer and a yield vault composition framework called Curation+, which can design yield strategies across RWA and on-chain assets for fintech companies, digital banks, vaults, and asset issuers. OpenTrade claims its total locked value has surpassed $200 million, with a projected transaction volume exceeding $250 million in 2025, and is expected to accumulate over $1 billion by the end of 2026.

According to Bloomberg, Morgan Stanley is piloting cryptocurrency trading services on its E*Trade platform, charging a fee of 50 basis points on each crypto transaction based on the transaction amount, which is lower than major competitors like Coinbase, Robinhood, and Charles Schwab.Approximately 8.6 million E*Trade customers are expected to have access to this feature by the end of the year. The report noted that Morgan Stanley has been continuously expanding in the crypto space over the past year, having launched the lowest-fee Bitcoin ETF, plans to launch Ether and Solana ETFs, and applied for a national trust bank license to provide digital asset custody, with future support for institutional clients trading tokenized stocks.

According to official news, Gate will launch the Crazy Wednesday Enjoy Life special event from May 6 at 14:00 to May 10 at 16:00 (UTC+8). During the event, users can sign up to receive a 50 USDT dual currency experience fund (limited to 10,000 copies). By completing multiple tasks such as flash exchanges, spot trading, contracts, deposits, invitations, residual coin treasure, and on-chain earning, users can get a chance to open blind boxes and win luxurious gifts such as FOGO, lucky bags, Louis Vuitton adventure game hard cases, chess hard cases, and playing card boxes, with a 100% winning rate.In addition, this period will temporarily launch a 14-day fixed-term financial product for USDT, with an annualized return of 6%. Both new and existing users can also participate in residual coin treasure financial products for ETH, USDD, ES, AIA, SWCH, 0G, APT, enjoying up to 200% annualized returns. At the same time, users who sign up to participate in on-chain earning BTC, ETH, and SOL mining can enjoy increased annualized interest rates during the event, with staking annualized returns of up to 16%.

10x Research stated that although Bitcoin trading volume remains low and funding rates are negative, some early traders have already positioned themselves and achieved about a 10% return. They believe that many traders are still waiting for macro catalysts or think that the bear market has not yet ended, but this misunderstands how the Bitcoin market operates. "The end of a bear market is often not triggered by a single piece of news, but rather by improvements in indicators, changes in risk-reward, and the fact that most participants have not yet entered."10x Research indicated that they turned bullish a month ago. Although market sentiment has improved somewhat, position follow-up is still insufficient. They also remind that there are still risks in the current market, and reasonable hedging and position management remain important.

According to Lookonchain monitoring, a trader created a new wallet 2 hours ago and again went long on 307.7 BTC (approximately 25.04 million USD) with 5x leverage. The trader currently has a total position of 629.16 BTC (approximately 51.18 million USD).

The decentralized trading platform Hyperliquid has officially launched the HIP-4 event contracts. On the first trading day, the nominal trading volume of this product reached 6.05 million contracts, accounting for about 0.7% of the total predicted market volume for that day. In comparison, mainstream prediction market platforms had significantly larger trading volumes on that day: Kalshi approximately 546 million contracts, Polymarket approximately 190 million, Limitless approximately 68.26 million, Crypto.com approximately 28.2 million, Opinion approximately 25.72 million, and Predict.fun approximately 11.8 million.Data shows that although Hyperliquid's initial scale in the event contract sector is relatively small, it has achieved cold start trading volume, marking its official entry into the prediction market competitive landscape. In the short term, leading platforms still hold an absolute liquidity advantage, and future growth will depend on product design and user migration capabilities.

Lin Chen, the Head of Asia-Pacific Business at Deribit, posted on platform X that a certain options trader bought 800 BTC in a bull spread, purchasing $80,000 in call options and selling $85,000 in put options, as the trader is optimistic about BTC prices rising at the beginning of this month.

The U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) has passed a plan allowing publicly traded companies to reduce the frequency of financial report disclosures from quarterly to semi-annually, which has further moved closer to implementation after passing White House review. According to information from the U.S. government website, this review was completed earlier this week, allowing the SEC to officially announce the plan and seek public opinion.After receiving feedback, the commissioners will need to vote on the final version for it to take effect. Voting typically occurs several months later. Since President Trump called for changing quarterly reports to semi-annual reports last year, the SEC has been advancing this reform of corporate information disclosure requirements. Since 1970, publicly traded companies in the U.S. have been required to disclose financial information quarterly.

The blockchain infrastructure company Paxos, regulated by multiple countries, announced that its Crypto Brokerage platform officially supports BONK. With Paxos' compliance licenses in the US OCC, Finland FIN-FSA, Singapore MAS, and other regions, its partners (including traditional financial institutions) will be able to provide users with secure and compliant BONK trading and custody services.Paxos pointed out that BONK has nearly 1 million holders and over 400 integrations in the Solana ecosystem, with an active community base. This move marks BONK's transition from a community-based meme coin to mainstream financial channels. Currently, over 500 million users worldwide can purchase BONK through major retail trading platforms and exchanges, relying on the same compliant regulatory platform trusted by institutions like PayPal, Mastercard, and Venmo.

According to official news, legend.trade announced the completion of a $3.5 million seed round financing, led by Electric Capital, with participation from Amber Group and GSR Markets LTD. Its total financing amount has exceeded $5 million.According to RootData, legend.trade is a trading and competition platform based on Telegram, aimed at providing users with a seamless, fair, and efficient trading and competitive experience.

According to the official announcement, Gate DEX BountyDrop has launched the Catapult Trade airdrop event today. Users can enter the BountyDrop module to participate in tasks through the "Events" page of the Gate DEX App. Among all participants who complete the tasks, 238 participants will be randomly selected to share a $15,000 creator package.Gate Wallet is an industry-leading multi-chain crypto wallet that connects over 100 public chains, millions of assets, and tens of thousands of DApps in one place, providing a professional-level DEX experience and the best solutions for every DEX need. BountyDrop is a dedicated earning activity area in the discovery page of Gate DEX, where users have the chance to win rewards or participate in a lottery to obtain airdrop tokens by completing simple tasks.

According to market news, U.S. Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent stated that the Treasury has taken action against Iran's shadow banking network, channels for acquiring crypto assets, and oil trade infrastructure.

According to monitoring by Hyperinsight, the price of HYPE fell in the afternoon, briefly touching the $40 mark. The trader "Loracle" on Hyperliquid, holding a 5x leveraged short position in HYPE, was subsequently liquidated, with the current position size reaching $23.8 million and an average entry price of $40.871, making it the largest short address for HYPE on-chain.It is reported that this address is one of the early contributors to the Hyperliquid ecosystem and is the founder of Hypurrfun. Previously, during the main upward wave starting from $20, this address had heavily gone long and at one point became the second-largest long position for HYPE on-chain, but has now flipped to short on April 20. Address: 0x8def9f50456c6c4e37fa5d3d57f108ed23992dae.

Kalshi CEO Tarek Mansour cited a Bloomberg report on X stating that Kalshi has completed its first customized block trade, with Jump Trading providing liquidity support for the transaction. This trade was facilitated by Greenlight Commodities this month, representing an environmentally-focused hedge fund based in Houston that seeks exposure to a contract tracking whether a specific price will be realized in the carbon emissions allowance auction taking place in California in May.Mansour stated that the institutional application of prediction markets could be a $10-15 trillion market, with even greater growth potential depending on how widely they are adopted compared to products currently exclusive to Wall Street.

According to Cointelegraph, a survey of 1,100 active users of CEX.IO in the U.S. shows that the current downturn in the crypto market has forced 36% of American crypto traders to reduce their daily expenses. Among them, 10% stated that this is a significant sacrifice made to maintain their positions, and 37% of respondents have postponed or canceled major purchasing plans due to crypto losses.Additionally, 38% of traders reported experiencing some form of financial disruption since October 2025. A quarter of respondents indicated that they rely on savings to maintain financial stability, and 12% admitted to having missed or delayed payments.Despite the pressure, the majority of traders remain optimistic, with 79% of respondents planning to hold or increase their positions in the next six months.

According to Onchain Lens monitoring, as APE's price surged over 110% in a short period, a suspected insider trader profited over $2.27 million by simultaneously taking long and short positions.On-chain data shows that this address initially deposited 75 ETH (approximately $174,000) as margin, opening both long and short positions on APE, and then purchased 1,027 ETH (approximately $2.37 million) on the HyperLiquid platform and completed the withdrawal. Additionally, they bought another 26 ETH on-chain, totaling 1,053 ETH purchased, ultimately realizing a profit of 978 ETH, equivalent to about $2.27 million. This operation has raised widespread suspicion of insider trading in the community due to its precise timing and abnormal returns.

Ju.com disclosed the first-day data for its new product matrix Hyper Trade. Within just 24 hours of launch, the series has shown strong performance, with the total number of participants exceeding 10,000 and total orders surpassing 200,000.Among them, "Bounty Duel," "Finger Trading," and "Happy BTC" have become the most popular star products due to their high interaction frequency.Data shows that Hyper Trade's characteristics of "low threshold and high transparency" are attracting a large number of users to the lightweight market prediction track.

According to Jinshi reports, based on the latest data from the Society for Worldwide Interbank Financial Telecommunication (SWIFT), as conflicts continue in the Middle East, the share of the US dollar in international transactions rose to a record 51.1% in March, up from 49.2% the previous month, marking the highest share since 2023. The trading share of the euro is about 21%, followed by the British pound and the Japanese yen.