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According to BIT analysis, Circle's stock price surged 16% overnight and is currently approaching the March 2026 high. This week may become a key point for the advancement of the CLARITY Act. The market generally believes that Circle is the most direct beneficiary, and this increase also reflects that the market is pricing in expectations that regulatory uncertainties are likely to ease. It is worth noting that the overall market capitalization of USDC has maintained steady growth recently.This round of increase for Circle more reflects the market's early pricing of potential policy and regulatory benefits rather than a significant improvement in short-term fundamentals. If the regulatory rules for digital assets become clearer, it is expected to not only support Bitcoin but also encourage more institutions to participate in the market.

Trump Media & Technology Group (TMTG) announced its Q1 2026 financial report, with a net loss of $405.9 million, of which unrealized losses from digital assets and equity securities amounted to $368.7 million, accounting for the vast majority of the total loss. According to CoinGecko data, TMTG's cryptocurrency asset portfolio is currently valued at $821.9 million, with a cost basis of $1.24 billion, resulting in an overall unrealized loss of approximately $423 million.The asset portfolio holds 9,542 BTC (valued at $767 million, average price $118,529) and 756 million CRO (valued at $54 million). In Q1, Bitcoin fell by about 22%, marking the worst quarterly performance since 2018. On the operational side, Truth Social generated only $900,000 in revenue, but operating cash flow reached $17.9 million, marking the fourth consecutive quarter of positive cash flow. The company's total assets reached $2.2 billion, nearly tripling from $759 million in the same period last year.

SoftBank Group is scaling back a financing plan that used OpenAI equity as collateral, which was originally intended to raise about $10 billion in margin loans, and is now likely to be reduced to around $6 billion.It is reported that some lenders have expressed concerns about the transaction structure and the reliability of OpenAI's valuation as a private company, which has become one of the key factors hindering the progress of the financing. The loan was initially designed to use the OpenAI equity held by SoftBank as collateral, with a term of two years that could be extended by one year, aimed at further expanding its investment layout in the field of artificial intelligence.

Michael Saylor, the founder of Bitcoin Treasury Company Strategy, posted on the X platform that Strategy is converting digital capital Bitcoin into digital credit (STRC) and digital equity (MSTR), further emphasizing its Bitcoin-centric capital market strategy.

Solana's official tweet stated that Bullish has tokenized its entire cap table by putting 151 million shares on-chain to Solana after completing the acquisition of Equiniti.Bullish CEO Thomas Farley announced this news at the Consensus 2026 conference and demonstrated a real-time wallet-to-wallet share transfer live using the Phantom wallet.

According to official news, Coinbase announced a partnership with the crypto derivatives OEMS (Order and Execution Management System) and PMS (Portfolio Management System) provider Kemet.Through this collaboration, Coinbase Exchange, Coinbase Derivatives Exchange, Coinbase International Exchange, and Deribit will be integrated into the Kemet platform, allowing institutional clients to access Coinbase's trading venues through a single interface, routing order executions between spot, futures, and options.As part of the partnership, Coinbase Ventures will make a strategic investment in Kemet to support long-term collaboration aimed at achieving the goal of supporting large-scale advanced trading. Kemet's platform supports advanced multi-leg options strategies, smart order routing, automated Delta hedging, and spread trading algorithms, all of which are capabilities required for institutional trading desks to execute complex derivatives strategies at scale.Coinbase stated that its goal is to become the most trusted and comprehensive trading platform, continuously expanding the types of assets customers can trade and the ways to execute complex derivatives strategies. Kemet, as an open multi-broker platform, enables institutions trading across multiple venues to seamlessly access and prioritize Coinbase markets.

According to Jinshi News, OpenAI has finalized a $10 billion joint venture agreement with a private equity giant.

Japanese financial giant SBI Holdings has begun negotiations to acquire shares in the cryptocurrency exchange platform Bitbank, aiming to turn it into a consolidated subsidiary. SBI Chairman and President Yoshitaka Kitao stated that the company has submitted a letter of intent for the acquisition and has started discussions with Bitbank regarding capital and business cooperation. The specific timing and structure of the acquisition will be determined after due diligence and internal procedures are completed.Bitbank is one of Japan's major domestic cryptocurrency exchange platforms and has not experienced any hacking incidents since its establishment in 2014, with security as its core selling point. As cryptocurrency assets are gradually incorporated into Japan's Financial Instruments and Exchange Act, SBI believes that integrating Bitbank into the group will enhance its position in the Japanese cryptocurrency market. This move comes as SBI continues to consolidate its cryptocurrency exchange platform SBI VC Trade. Last month, SBI incorporated another exchange platform, Bitpoint Japan, into this department to streamline operations and improve profitability.Earlier this week, Bitbank also launched Japan's first credit card linked to cryptocurrency assets, allowing users to pay bills using assets like Bitcoin based on their exchange holdings, and offering a 0.5% cashback on cryptocurrency asset spending.

According to CoinDesk, Securitize, a tokenization platform supported by BlackRock, announced a partnership with global stock transfer agent giant Computershare, allowing U.S. listed companies to issue on-chain tokenized equity (Issuer-Sponsored Tokens, ISTs) outside of the existing stock system.Under the plan, investors will have the option to hold shares through traditional securities accounts or directly hold corresponding on-chain equity assets through digital wallets. Computershare will continue to act as the transfer agent, responsible for managing shareholder registries, dividend distributions, and handling corporate actions such as stock splits.Reports indicate that the core of this structure is to avoid the common "wrapped shares" model found in the traditional crypto market. Unlike derivative tokens that only represent a claim to shares, ISTs will directly represent real equity ownership, rather than a mapping certificate of off-chain stocks.Carlos Domingo stated that ISTs are not derivatives built on existing stocks, but rather allow U.S. issuers to create real equity directly in token form.Data shows that Computershare currently serves over 25,000 companies and acts as the transfer agent for about 58% of S&P 500 companies. The market believes that this collaboration signifies that blockchain infrastructure is gradually entering the backend system of the core U.S. securities market, which may further promote the on-chain settlement, equity registration, and asset circulation of U.S. stocks.

According to BBX data, yesterday the credit management of mining companies, the update of Ethereum treasury reserves, and the expansion of Bitcoin reserves were synchronized. The core dynamics are as follows:Riot Platforms, Inc. (NASDAQ: $RIOT) signed and publicly disclosed SEC Form 8-K reported by CoinDesk on April 28, stating that the company has completed the second amendment to its credit agreement with Coinbase Credit, Inc., switching the original floating rate $200 million secured term loan to a fixed rate and extending the maturity date by 364 days, while retaining the option for a further extension of 364 days; the loan scale and collateral structure remain unchanged, with the collateral still being Bitcoin, USDC, and cash held in Coinbase Custody. The company's Bitcoin holdings have decreased from 19,368 coins at the beginning of the year to 15,680 coins; if the BTC price continues to decline, the selling pressure under the loan-to-value ratio constraint will persist, which is an analytical judgment and not an official disclosure from the company.Bitmine Immersion Technologies, Inc. (NYSE: $BMNR) released its latest holdings update on April 27, stating that as of that day, it holds 5,078,386 ETH (valued at approximately $2,369 at the market price, with a market cap of about $12.04 billion), along with 200 BTC, $200 million in Beast Industries (under MrBeast) equity, and $91 million in cash, bringing the total of combined crypto assets and strategic investments to about $13.3 billion; the ETH holdings account for approximately 4.21% of the total circulating supply, which is the scale accumulated by the company since launching its Ethereum treasury strategy in June 2025.Strive, Inc. (NASDAQ: $ASST) disclosed through an official announcement on GlobeNewswire on April 27 that the company has purchased approximately 789 BTC (costing about $61.43 million, with an average price of about $77,890), bringing the total holdings to approximately 14,557 BTC as of April 24; during the same period, it held $90.5 million in cash and equivalents, and $50.3 million in Strategy preferred shares (STRC), with a total market value of BTC reserves of about $1.13 billion, surpassing Hut 8 to rank ninth among publicly listed companies in Bitcoin reserves globally.

SpaceX announced today that it has reached a cooperation intention with AI programming startup Cursor, which grants SpaceX the right to acquire it later this year for $60 billion, or to pay $10 billion to advance the cooperation between the two parties.It is reported that Cursor's developer Anysphere completed a $400,000 Pre-Seed round of financing in April 2022, jointly invested by Alameda Research and Heroic Ventures. Among them, Alameda invested $200,000 in Anysphere, acquiring about 5% of the shares.This equity was sold at the original price during the bankruptcy liquidation of FTX. Based on a $60 billion valuation, if the equity had not been sold, it would currently be worth about $3 billion.

The "AI × RWA: The Action Economy" themed side event hosted by the Hong Kong AI one-stop family health management platform XKONG has concluded. At the event, XKONG revealed its "decentralized health network" strategy: plans to deploy over 3,500 health service terminals in Hong Kong, creating a triadic health ecosystem consisting of AI diagnostic devices, the XKONG APP, and the AI health assistant KoKo. Each health behavior and interaction by users will be converted into Token rights for the use of platform AI services, forming a closed loop from "user behavior" to "AI consumption." XKONG stated that it will use Hong Kong as a model and enter more than 10 countries and regions globally by 2026.

According to Bloomberg, Dutch market maker Optiver has made an equity investment in the crypto and AI venture capital fund Eden Block to gain exposure to early-stage AI and digital asset companies.Optiver is currently not active in the crypto market but has previously made a strategic investment in the blockchain technology company Digital Asset Holdings. Optiver executives stated that digital assets are a direction the company is closely monitoring, and the intersection of AI and digital assets is particularly noteworthy. The founder of Eden Block stated that crypto and AI are two of the most transformative technologies in today's world, and their integration will impact the market at an unprecedented speed.

The Nasdaq-listed Bitcoin mining company TeraWulf announced that it has completed the previously announced public offering of 54,510,000 shares of common stock, with an offering price of $19 per share, raising a total of $1,035,690,000. Morgan Stanley acted as the lead underwriter for this offering, while Bank of America Securities, Citigroup, TD Cowen, and Wells Fargo Securities served as co-managers.Citizens Capital Markets and Santander Bank acted as sub-underwriters, and Cantor Fitzgerald served as the equity capital markets advisor. TeraWulf plans to use the net proceeds from this offering to pay for a portion of the construction costs of its planned data center campus in Horse Cave, Kentucky, including the full repayment of outstanding amounts under its transitional credit facility, as well as for future site acquisitions and general corporate purposes.

According to Edaily, Kim Sang-hoon, the chairman of the Digital Assets Special Committee of the People Power Party of Korea, expressed concerns about the restrictions on equity in cryptocurrency exchanges at an academic conference. He called for the prioritization of advancing the basic law on digital assets related to stablecoins (Phase Two legislation) to avoid getting caught in equity regulatory disputes and missing the golden legislative opportunity.He pointed out that the reality of the issuance and circulation of the Korean won stablecoin KRWQ has emerged overseas, posing a severe challenge to monetary sovereignty. Kim Sang-hoon emphasized that the law should provide market predictability, offer clear guidance for operators, and establish effective safety mechanisms for users.

According to The Information, OpenAI plans to invest over $20 billion in servers powered by Cerebras chips over the next three years. It is reported that as part of the agreement, OpenAI will also acquire equity in Cerebras.Cerebras is known to be an American company specializing in AI chips and computing systems, primarily providing hardware and infrastructure for AI training and AI inference scenarios.

According to Tech in Asia, South Korean internet giant Naver plans to promote the IPO of its fintech subsidiary Naver Financial within five years after completing a share swap with Dunamu, the operator of the cryptocurrency exchange Upbit in which it holds shares. The transaction has been delayed due to an extended antitrust review period, and the specific timetable and structure will depend on market conditions and the regulatory environment. The proposed "Digital Asset Basic Law" in South Korea may change the transaction structure or timetable.On the same day the share swap contract was signed, both parties entered into a shareholder agreement, requiring the establishment of an IPO committee for Naver Financial within one year after the share swap is completed. If the IPO is not achieved within five years, the timeframe can be extended by another two years. Regulators are also discussing a proposal to limit the shareholding ratio of the major shareholders of the exchange to within 20%, which may lead to adjustments in the transaction terms.

Cryptocurrency exchange Gemini has seen its market value shrink by over 50% this year and has laid off 30% of its staff. Internally, there are discussions about requesting founders Tyler Winklevoss and Cameron Winklevoss to waive the hundreds of millions of dollars in loans they provided to the company or convert the debt into equity. As of the end of December, Gemini's outstanding debt amounted to 4,619 bitcoins, valued at over $330 million at current prices.Securities filing documents show that Gemini lost $585 million last year. Additionally, the company plans to exit the UK, EU, and Australian markets, with several executives having already left. Currently, the Winklevoss brothers hold the majority voting rights and have not yet expressed whether they support this proposal.

Binance founder Zhao Changpeng (CZ) recalled in his new book that he was approached in early 2014 to become the CEO of Mt. Gox's China region. This position was facilitated by the head of Susquehanna International Group's China region, originally planned for Susquehanna to provide funding support, Mt. Gox to handle technology, and CZ to manage operations in China, with an approximate 10% equity stake.CZ stated that he subsequently met with Mt. Gox founder Mark Karpeles in Tokyo, but just as both parties were close to signing, Mt. Gox suddenly suspended withdrawals on February 7, 2014, leading to a crisis, and he ultimately decided not to join.