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According to on-chain analyst @ai_9684xtpa, address 0x2D2...C36FC spent a total of 1,063 ETH (approximately 2.53 million USD) to buy 8.4 billion ASTEROID through CowSwap from April 19 to April 25, with an average cost of about 0.0003013 USD.During this period, there was only one sell order on April 19, which only executed 22.07 million (sold for 4 ETH), and the rest of the time it remained in a holding state. Currently, these 8.38 billion tokens are at a floating loss of 57,000 USD.

According to Coinglass data, in the past 24 hours, the total liquidation across the network was $195 million, with long liquidations amounting to $114 million and short liquidations totaling $81.6006 million. Among them, Bitcoin long liquidations were $14.8651 million, Bitcoin short liquidations were $4.1273 million, Ethereum long liquidations were $10.232 million, and Ethereum short liquidations were $5.0909 million.In addition, in the last 24 hours, a total of 99,170 people were liquidated globally, with the largest single liquidation occurring on Binance - BTCUSDT worth $4.7486 million.

According to Coinglass data, the current whale holdings on the Hyperliquid platform amount to $3.525 billion, with long positions totaling $1.787 billion, accounting for 50.69% of the holdings, and short positions totaling $1.738 billion, accounting for 49.31%. The profit and loss for long positions is -$10.2708 million, and for short positions, it is -$19.8254 million.Among them, the whale address 0x0ddf..02 has shorted BTC with a 3x leverage at a price of $67,992.1, currently showing an unrealized profit and loss of -$9.5319 million.

According to The Street, the lending protocol Purrlend was attacked on the MegaETH and HyperEVM networks, resulting in a loss of approximately $1.52 million.The attacker extracted about $1.2 million in assets from the HyperEVM network, including 449,683 USDC, 214,125 USDT, 194,745 USDH, as well as some UBTC, wstHYPE, UETH, kHYPE, and WHYPE. The attacker also extracted about $324,000 in assets from the MegaETH network, including USDT, WETH, and USDm.Currently, Purrlend has suspended the protocol and launched an investigation, and the attacker's address has been identified in the block explorers of both networks.

According to Caijing magazine, the AI large model company DeepSeek is in talks with Tencent and Alibaba for financing, with the two investors expected to invest a total of $1.8 billion, valuing this round of financing at approximately $20 billion. The transaction plan has not yet been finalized, and DeepSeek, Tencent, and Alibaba have not publicly confirmed it.Sources in the transaction revealed that the main reason for DeepSeek's open financing is the recent serious talent loss. Several core researchers have left one after another to join ByteDance, Tencent, Xiaomi, and the autonomous driving company Yuanrong Qihang. Meanwhile, competitors Zhiyu Technology and MiniMax have listed on the Hong Kong Stock Exchange, and the Dark Side of the Moon has completed three rounds of financing in the first three months of this year, with a valuation more than quadrupling since the end of last year.Tencent and Alibaba's investment in DeepSeek will help diversify risks in the AI sector and deepen cooperation between the two parties at the model and product levels.

According to Arkham monitoring, the zkPass team's multi-signature address (0xEF1) transferred a total of 10,000,000 ZKP to Binance in the past 30 minutes, worth approximately $796,100.Currently, the circulating supply of ZKP is 268 million, and this distribution amount accounts for about 3.73% of its total circulating supply. ZKP is currently priced at $0.07964, with a 24-hour decline of 7.35%, and its circulating market capitalization is currently $21.37 million.

The newly appointed chief economist of New Fire Group, Fu Peng, stated on Twitter that the underlying business model of Bitcoin perpetual contracts is essentially the same as the "rollover fee/overnight fee" in traditional finance's gold and industrial commodity spot exchanges.Fu Peng pointed out that back in the day, gold exchanges settled through daily forced liquidation, with longs and shorts paying each other rollover fees. When retail investors held a large number of high-leverage long positions, the rollover fee became the most stable and hidden source of income for the platform. Nowadays, Bitcoin spot platforms mainly rely on perpetual contracts, with both sides settling the funding rate every 8 hours. When longs dominate, retail investors holding long positions continuously pay funding rates to shorts.Although the platform does not directly collect this fee, it significantly enhances trading activity, open interest, and liquidity, indirectly generating a large amount of fee income and forming a stable and substantial cash flow. Essentially, it is a business model where large players/institutions "collect rent" from long-term holdings, retail investors pay for leverage to go long, and the platform indirectly takes a cut.

Polymarket's latest data shows that the market probability for the bet "MegaETH's market capitalization (FDV) exceeds 1 billion dollars one day after launch" is currently 88%, the probability of exceeding 600 million dollars is 97%, the probability of exceeding 800 million dollars is 93%, the probability of exceeding 1.5 billion dollars is 56%, and the probability of exceeding 2 billion dollars is 31%.Previous news indicated that MegaETH may conduct its TGE on April 30.

According to official data, in the 7 days ending April 23, Circle issued approximately 5.1 billion USDC, redeemed about 5.8 billion USDC, and the circulation decreased by approximately 700 million. The total circulation of USDC is 78 billion, with reserves of about 78.2 billion USD, including overnight reverse repos of about 47.2 billion USD; Treasury bills with maturities of less than 3 months of about 19.4 billion USD; deposits from systemically important institutions of about 11 billion USD; and other bank deposits of about 600 million USD.

The DeFi United coordinated rescue operation led by Aave service providers after the rsETH incident on April 18 has raised a total of $161.53 million (approximately 69,618 ETH). The plan aims to help restore the collateral backing of rsETH that was damaged due to the Kelp DAO bridging attack and improve liquidity in multi-network markets.The main participants/committers currently include: Aave founder Stani Kulechov personally committing 5,000 ETH; EtherFi proposing to contribute 5,000 ETH; Lido Finance proposing to contribute up to 2,500 stETH; Golem Foundation contributing 1,000 ETH. In addition, several protocols such as Mantle, Ethena, Ink Foundation, LayerZero, Tydro, and BGD Labs have publicly participated or expressed support.

According to Cointelegraph, Brazilian authorities announced the ban of 27 prediction market platforms, including Kalshi, Polymarket, PredictIt, Robinhood (prediction feature), and Fanatics Markets.The ban is led by the Ministry of Finance and executed by the National Telecommunications Agency (Anatel), based on Resolution No. 5.298 issued by the Brazilian National Monetary Council (CMN), which will officially take effect in early May. The new regulations explicitly prohibit prediction contracts linked to sports, politics, entertainment, or social events, deeming their nature closer to gambling rather than financial investment; only contracts linked to economic indicators such as inflation, interest rates, exchange rates, and commodity prices will be retained. Dario Durigan, the executive secretary of the Ministry of Finance, stated that prediction markets could deepen the debt burden of households and small to medium-sized enterprises, posing financial risks. Currently, several countries, including France, Belgium, and the Netherlands, have implemented similar restrictions.

According to Coinglass data, if ETH breaks through $2,424, the cumulative short liquidation intensity on mainstream CEX will reach $761 million. Conversely, if ETH falls below $2,211, the cumulative long liquidation intensity on mainstream CEX will reach $689 million.

According to Coinglass data, if BTC breaks through $81,596, the cumulative short liquidation intensity on mainstream CEX will reach $1.315 billion. Conversely, if BTC falls below $74,236, the cumulative long liquidation intensity on mainstream CEX will reach $1.168 billion.

According to CoinDesk, while quantum computers cannot disrupt the Bitcoin mining mechanism or the blockchain ledger, they may potentially crack the elliptic curve encryption system that protects wallet ownership through Shor's algorithm. Currently, about 6.9 million BTC (approximately one-third of the total supply) face potential risks due to public keys being visible on-chain, including around 1 million early holdings by Satoshi Nakamoto; transactions generated after the Taproot upgrade in 2021 are also affected due to public key exposure.Ethereum has established a formal quantum resistance migration plan since 2018, with 4 full-time teams and over 10 independent development groups, and has launched a dedicated progress website at pq.ethereum.org. In contrast, Bitcoin currently lacks a unified response roadmap, and the existing BIP-360 proposal and BitMEX Research detection scheme have not received widespread support from core developers. Notable Bitcoin advocate Nic Carter pointed out that Bitcoin's response is "the worst," while Blockstream CEO Adam Back believes that current quantum systems are still in the laboratory stage, but he also agrees that optional upgrade solutions should be deployed in advance.Analysts point out that Bitcoin's anti-centralization governance culture makes coordinating large-scale security upgrades extremely difficult, and how to handle historical legacy issues such as Satoshi Nakamoto's holdings is particularly challenging. A related paper from Google warns that once quantum attacks become a reality, the window for response may have already closed.

Two whale wallets have recently withdrawn a large amount of $LINK from Binance. Wallet "0x527" withdrew 370,631 $LINK (approximately 3.48 million USD) and currently holds 565,612 $LINK (approximately 5.33 million USD); wallet "0x526" withdrew 125,999 $LINK (approximately 1.19 million USD).

Project Eleven today awarded the Q-Day prize to researcher Giancarlo Lelli, who successfully derived a 15-digit elliptic curve private key from a public key using publicly accessible quantum hardware, marking the largest scale demonstration of its kind to date, a 512-fold increase from the 6-digit demonstration in September 2025.Lelli used a variant of Shor's algorithm for the elliptic curve discrete logarithm problem, which is the mathematical foundation of the Bitcoin signature scheme, with the awarded hardware featuring approximately 70 qubits. Currently, no known quantum computer can crack real Bitcoin wallets, and the security of Bitcoin's 256-bit elliptic curve remains far beyond current quantum capabilities. Notably, Google lowered its resource estimates for ECDLP-256 on March 31 and set a target for the migration to quantum cryptography after 2029, followed by Cloudflare, and the UK's NCSC also set migration milestones from 2028 to 2035.On-chain data shows that approximately 6.93 million BTC are at potential quantum risk due to exposed public keys. The Bitcoin community has proposed BIP 360 and BIP 361 to promote the migration to quantum-resistant output types, but the coordination challenges of a decentralized network remain the biggest hurdle.

According to monitoring by onchainschool.pro, the FF team address (0xeF6...7071) transferred tokens worth $13 million to a new wallet, which will then distribute to other participants or fund wallets. This is the largest transfer record for the project to date.An hour ago, approximately $1,000,000 worth of tokens were further transferred from the aforementioned wallet and ultimately deposited into an exchange.

According to Coinglass data, in the past 24 hours, the total liquidation across the network was $208 million, with long positions liquidated at $109 million and short positions liquidated at $98.19 million. Among them, Bitcoin long positions were liquidated at $15.3077 million, Bitcoin short positions at $9.6134 million, Ethereum long positions at $10.6338 million, and Ethereum short positions at $6.9458 million.In addition, in the last 24 hours, a total of 97,155 people were liquidated globally, with the largest single liquidation occurring on Binance - BTCUSDT worth $4.7486 million.