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According to on-chain analyst Yu Jin's monitoring, Spark completed its first month of token buyback half an hour ago, spending 571,957 USDS to purchase 26.66 million SPK, with an average price of $0.0215. The 26.66 million SPK bought back over the month is approximately 1% of the circulating supply of SPK, and their buyback plan is expected to last for 12 months. Roughly estimating based on this number, a year's buyback could acquire 12% of the circulating supply of SPK, which is about 320 million SPK (6.86 million USD).

Western Union announced the completion of its acquisition of the digital wallet Dash, which is owned by Singapore Telecommunications. This transaction gives Western Union its first digital wallet in the Asia-Pacific region and is an important part of its Beyond strategy.Founded in 2014, Dash has over 1.4 million users in Singapore and offers services such as bill payments, overseas remittances, savings, investments, and insurance. Western Union stated that integrating Dash will allow its customers in Singapore to connect more directly to its global network, which covers over 200 countries and regions. Vince Tallent, head of Western Union's Asia-Pacific region, stated that the combination of Dash's local customer base with Western Union's global network will help provide more seamless services. The specific amount of the transaction has not been disclosed.

According to on-chain analyst Yu Jin's monitoring, the quarterly Chainlink token unlock has been completed about 1 hour ago. A total of approximately 19 million LINK (about 165 million USD) has been unlocked and transferred from 3 non-circulating supply addresses.On-chain data shows that approximately 14.375 million LINK (about 125 million USD) has been transferred to Binance, while about 4.625 million LINK (about 40.1 million USD) has been transferred to the multi-signature address 0xD50...8Af.It is reported that Chainlink typically unlocks about 10 million to 20 million LINK from non-circulating supply each quarter, with most flowing into Binance and a small portion transferred to the aforementioned multi-signature address, which is further used for LINK staking reward distribution contracts to support staking user profit allocation.

According to Coinglass data, on April 04 at 02:41, 40 million USDT was detected being transferred from an unknown wallet to Binance.

According to Einnews, quantum-safe Layer-1 blockchain developer Diamante Financial announced the completion of a $1.5 million strategic funding round, with participation from Khofiz Shakhidi, founder of Jefferson Capital Ltd and co-founder of Minexx Ltd.The new funds will support its development of a production-grade L1 encryption network based on post-quantum cryptography technology (FIPS 204) to address the quantum security vulnerabilities faced by crypto assets.

According to Vestbee, the RWA tokenization platform Brickken, headquartered in Barcelona, Spain, announced the completion of a €3 million Pre-A financing round, with participation from Dedagroup and GRX.The new funds will be used to strengthen the compliance of its RWA tokenization infrastructure, support the tokenization of assets such as stocks, debt, bonds, funds, real estate, and commodities, and expand into the EU and UAE markets.

The Cosmos ecosystem wallet application Leap Wallet will cease operations on May 28, and users need to complete the migration as soon as possible. The discontinued products also include Compass Wallet (extension, iOS, Android), Leap WebApp, Swapfast, Leap Cosmos Hub validator nodes, and Leap Cosmos Snaps.

Web3 magical international chess platform Pixie Chess has completed a $5.2 million seed round of financing, led by Paradigm, with participation from SEED CLUB and some angel investors.

According to BBX data, yesterday global listed companies released strong fundamental signals in "traditional finance entry" and "small and mid-cap dollar-cost averaging":$20 million insurance capital entry: Corebridge Financial (NYSE: $CRBG) disclosed yesterday that the board has approved a $20 million Bitcoin allocation plan. As one of the largest retirement and life insurance providers in the U.S., this move marks the beginning of risk-averse "insurance capital" incorporating BTC into long-term reserves.100% monthly retention: Iris Energy (NASDAQ: $IREN) released its unaudited production report for March yesterday, confirming that its monthly output of 450 BTC has been fully transferred to cold wallets, officially joining the "zero-sale mining company" club.5% cash flow conversion: Beyond Inc. (NYSE: $BYON) (formerly Overstock) updated its corporate treasury guidelines yesterday, announcing that it will convert 5% of its free cash flow at the end of each quarter into Bitcoin, reviving its hard asset strategy as an early crypto payment evangelist in North America.Bond issuance to acquire 50 BTC: Cathedra Bitcoin (TSX-V: $CBIT) announced yesterday the completion of a $4 million priority secured bond issuance, with the raised funds fully used during the trading day to purchase 50 BTC at market price.Century-old institution launches custody: State Street (NYSE: $STT) officially opened its enterprise-level digital asset custody vault to Nasdaq and NYSE listed companies yesterday. The implementation of this compliant infrastructure directly removes the audit barriers for hundreds of conservative companies to purchase cryptocurrency.

The live prediction market platform Pumpcade announced the completion of a $1 million Pre-Seed round of financing, led by Pump.fun, with participation from Foundation Capital and angel investor RadioSolace. The company plans to use this funding to expand its engineering team and execute marketing strategies in preparation for the end of internal testing.

The live prediction market platform Pumpcade has completed a $1 million Pre-Seed round of financing, led by Pump.fun, with participation from Foundation Capital and angel investor RadioSolace. The company plans to use this funding to expand its engineering team and execute marketing strategies in preparation for ending internal testing.Pumpcade allows users to create prediction markets embedded in live streams with one click, supporting markets that can be resolved in minutes or seconds.

According to Gate's market data, STO plummeted 50% in the past 15 minutes, currently priced at $0.66, with a 24-hour increase of 166%. In the past hour, STO experienced a total liquidation of $19.77 million, with long positions liquidated at $2.32 million and short positions liquidated at $17.45 million.It is worth noting that STO briefly spiked to $2.56 on Aster, and a user's short position was liquidated at the peak price of $2.55 at 17:20 Beijing time, with a position value of $7.67 million.

The AI hardware operating system company, Boundless Ark, has recently completed two rounds of Pre-A financing, with investors including the globally renowned wearable device brand Shokz, Guoruiyuan Fund, Hengsong Capital, and Shanghai Angel Club, with ECA Capital serving as the exclusive financial advisor.In the past year, the company has completed a total of 4 rounds of financing, raising hundreds of millions. Boundless Ark's core product is the AI operating system EVA OS, positioned as the "hardware version of OpenClaw" — essentially a set of Agent frameworks running on the hardware side, supporting various terminal devices such as robots, headphones, and glasses. Developers only need to describe their requirements in natural language, and EVA OS can autonomously complete program writing, driver debugging, and application deployment, averaging about half an hour, significantly improving efficiency compared to traditional solutions (3 people, 2-3 months).EVA OS adopts a cloud and local collaborative architecture, with voice latency below 250ms and multimodal feedback below 350ms, outperforming the industry standard of about 600ms; the self-developed end-to-end model reduces voice costs to one-twentieth of the industry standard, and perception model costs can be reduced by 70%-92%. Currently, since the release of EVA OS 1 three months ago, over 2,500 enterprises and R&D units have connected, covering multiple categories such as AI headphones, AI glasses, desktop robots, and robotic arms.

According to data from @defioasis, Polymarket has entered a full charging era, with fees significantly rising in the past two days. The latest complete daily fee on April 1 was $927,000, and it is expected that the daily fee may exceed one million dollars in the coming days. Based on the daily fee on April 1, the annualized amount reaches $338 million.

According to The Block, stablecoin payment card infrastructure service provider Kulipa announced the completion of a $6.2 million seed round financing, led by Flourish Ventures and 1kx, with participation from White Star Capital and Fabric Ventures. The company helps fintech companies issue white-label stablecoin payment cards without having to manage card operations themselves.According to Kulipa founder and CEO Axel Cateland, this round of financing was actually completed last December, using a Simple Agreement for Future Equity (SAFE) financing model, but he declined to disclose details such as when the financing process began, the structure of the financing tranches, the company's valuation, and the allocation of board seats.

The Deputy Secretary for Financial Services and the Treasury of Hong Kong, Chan Ho Lam, stated at the 2026 Annual Tax Seminar of the Association of Chartered Certified Accountants (ACCA) Hong Kong Branch that the OECD has revised the Common Reporting Standard (CRS) to include new digital financial products such as central bank digital currencies and has optimized the reporting and due diligence requirements for financial institutions.In addition, the OECD has released the Crypto-Asset Reporting Framework (CARF) so that tax jurisdictions can automatically exchange crypto-asset transaction information to enhance transaction transparency. The Hong Kong Legislative Council has expressed support, with the goal of completing legislation by 2026.

The NFT market Magic Eden announced that its native wallet will enter export-only mode on April 1 and will completely cease operations on May 1. Users must export their private keys or mnemonic phrases before this date, or they will not be able to recover their assets. The wallet has been removed from major app stores, and new wallets cannot be downloaded or restored.Magic Eden had previously closed its Ethereum and Bitcoin markets, shifting its business focus to entertainment and the Dicey app. The ME token will still serve as the core of ecological incentives, with stakers able to earn USDC rewards, and the project team has established a ME buyback plan.