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The DeFi Education Fund, along with Aave Labs, Uniswap Labs, Paradigm, Andreessen Horowitz, and other organizations, has sent a letter to the U.S. SEC in response to the recent statement released by the trading and markets division regarding the registration of "non-custodial user interface" brokers for crypto asset securities.The signatories support the statement that the "non-custodial user interface," which only provides a technical entry point and allows users to manage their assets independently, should be excluded from broker registration. They also urge the SEC to establish clearer and more sustainable definitions of "broker" through formal rulemaking, to avoid incorrectly categorizing neutral software tool providers, validators, RPC/API, oracles, cloud services, and other infrastructure under broker regulations. This would provide long-term legal certainty for blockchain infrastructure innovation while ensuring investor protection.Previously, the SEC's trading and markets division indicated that some DeFi trading interfaces do not need to register as brokers, allowing for policy space for related applications. Supporters believe that the new regulations could cover infrastructure participants such as validators, APIs, and oracles. Currently, the U.S. crypto market legislation, the CLARITY Act, is stalled in the Senate.

The DeFi Education Fund, along with several other crypto advocacy organizations, has officially sent a joint letter to the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC), requesting the initiation of a formal DeFi rule-making process based on recent statements.Previously, the SEC's Division of Trading and Markets had clearly stated that certain software user interfaces used for trading cryptocurrencies do not need to register as broker-dealers, giving a green light to such activities. The joint letter calls on the SEC to solidify the above principles into an objective and clear framework through announcements or comment-based rule-making, clarifying which activities fall under the definition of "broker," while excluding infrastructure service providers such as validators, API and RPC providers, oracles, and cloud services. This would provide developers with long-term legal certainty and avoid reliance on temporary guidance. Under the leadership of current Chairman Paul Atkins, the SEC has taken a positive and open attitude towards digital asset innovation, contrasting sharply with the repressive stance of the previous administration, and the industry has also played an important role in the rule-making process.

According to official news, Gate will launch a special celebration event for joint earnings from April 24 at 12:00 to May 13 at 12:00 (UTC+8), with a total prize pool of 1,000,000 USDT. During the event, users can open exclusive red envelopes and invite friends to register. After friends complete identity verification and designated tasks, both parties can share cash rewards, with a maximum of 100 USDT per instance. The more invitations sent, the more rewards earned, with no cap on individual earnings.In addition, Gate will launch the second phase of the weekend arena battle event from April 24 at 16:00 to April 27 at 16:00 (UTC+8), with a total prize pool of 3,348,000 PENGU. During the event, users who invite friends to register and complete a cumulative trading volume of ≥ 200 USDT will be considered valid invitations and unlock multiple rewards. The milestone rewards can be stacked up to a maximum of 7,800 PENGU, and there will also be a popularity ranking reward, with the top 3 able to share an additional 128,000 PENGU. Additionally, invited friends can receive a 260 PENGU newcomer reward after completing tasks.

The crypto lobbying organization Blockchain Association, along with CCI and more than 120 industry institutions including Coinbase, Ripple, Kraken, and Circle, jointly sent a letter to the U.S. Senate Banking Committee urging the acceleration of the review process for the CLARITY Act.Industry representatives stated that the U.S. needs to establish a unified regulatory framework for the digital asset market, clarify regulatory responsibilities, and strengthen investor protection. Relying solely on law enforcement and regulation cannot create a long-term stable environment. Institutions warned that prolonged policy ambiguity will lead to the outflow of capital, talent, and technology, weakening the strategic advantage of the U.S., while also calling for the development of appropriate federal unified regulatory rules for stablecoins, tokenized assets, and decentralized technologies.

According to BeInCrypto, Mastercard has joined the Blockchain Security Standards Committee (BSSC) as a charter-level member, collaborating with members such as Coinbase, Fireblocks, Anchorage Digital, and BitGo to develop a security framework for blockchain networks and tokenized assets.Mastercard will also join a working group focused on security and privacy guidelines, with Claire Le Gal from the security solutions department, responsible for fraud prevention, cyber resilience, disputes, and threat intelligence, representing Mastercard on the BSSC board. The executive director of BSSC stated that Mastercard's payment experience is of significant value in establishing robust blockchain security rules. Mastercard has launched multi-token networks and crypto credential products aimed at embedding trust in blockchain and tokenized infrastructure.

The Solana ecosystem perpetual contract trading platform Pacifica announced that the Vaults feature has officially launched on the testnet. Users can browse existing vaults and deposit funds to follow strategies for returns, or they can create their own vaults, set deposit limits, profit and loss distribution ratios, and manage trades.In addition, the official statement indicated that all Pacifica users included in the snapshot on April 18 can enjoy a 3x points loyalty bonus each week. Currently, the platform has issued approximately 333 million points, with a weekly trading volume of $2.455 billion.

According to official news, B.AI announced a strategic partnership with Biconomy, and both parties will work together to build a financial layer for AI, jointly promoting the development of the digital economy. By integrating Biconomy's high-performance trading infrastructure, validated by millions of users, B.AI will provide a more secure, transparent, and globally accessible financial trading environment for future autonomous agent AI, further solidifying the AI financial value chain in the digital economy era. Committed to providing users with fast and transparent trading infrastructure, both parties aim to create the next-generation financial ecosystem that prioritizes security and global access.

Fu Peng, the former chief economist of Northeast Securities, has officially joined the Hong Kong-listed company New Fire Group as the chief economist. New Fire Group has confirmed this news.

Base Marketing Director Sarah Wolf tweeted that she will officially leave Coinbase after nearly five years of work. She joined Coinbase in 2023 as the first Builder Marketer, participating in and promoting Base from its initial small pizza party to an active builder community covering 52 countries.Sarah Wolf stated that after leaving, she will join Anthropic to be responsible for startup marketing, expressing her anticipation to support the startup ecosystem built around Claude.

Bank of AI and the Peking University Blockchain Association PKUBlockchain have officially released their first research report titled "Web4.0: When AI Agents Become Economic Entities------Infrastructure, Track Patterns, and Investment Outlook." The report systematically outlines the three-layer infrastructure gaps of the x402 payment protocol, ERC-8004 identity standard, and MCP tool invocation protocol, and focuses on how Bank of AI can package five core components into a one-stop Agent financial operating system, becoming a typical case of a closed-loop from protocol to product. The research report points out that the daily average transaction volume on the TRON chain exceeds $22 billion, with a circulation of $86 billion USDT, providing a scalable foundation for high-frequency micro-settlement for Agents. Both parties will continue to promote the coordinated development of Web4.0 infrastructure and the agent economy.

Claw Wallet, a Web3 wallet infrastructure designed for AI Agents, announced a strategic partnership with TagAI and TagClaw. By deeply integrating Claw Wallet's secure AI-native infrastructure with TagAI's AI and socially predictive community layer, as well as TagClaw's on-chain social collaborative network, the three parties are jointly defining a new standard for the AI Agent ecosystem.The focus of this collaboration is to introduce TagClaw's Skill into Claw Wallet, empowering AI Agents with stronger intelligent coordination capabilities, making on-chain AI interactions more seamless, secure, and socially oriented. Currently, the three parties are fully committed to building a decentralized AI Agent infrastructure based on the BNB Chain, promoting the leap from independent tools to a collaborative social network for AI Agents.

The native companion asset of Bitcoin, DMT-NAT (abbreviated as NAT), has now landed on the Spider Mining Pool. Miners can simultaneously receive NAT rewards while mining BTC in the same block, achieving dual earnings and ushering in an era of dual-layer rewards in the industry.It is reported that NAT shares computing power, blocks, and addresses with BTC, allowing for simultaneous production without additional operations. This asset is produced every 10 minutes in sync with Bitcoin blocks, with approximately 386 million NAT (currently valued at about 38 USD) produced per block, corresponding to a total market value of about 38 million USD. The output will gradually decrease with block height and mining difficulty, and the code is fully open source.When the single block reward reaches 50,000 USD (market value of 50 billion USD), it can cover part of the miners' costs, thereby enhancing the overall network's computing power. Against the backdrop of Bitcoin halving, it injects new momentum for Bitcoin miners.

OKX Boost and RootData announced a partnership to engage in deep collaboration around the standards for high-quality industry projects, aiming to enhance the transparency and overall quality of crypto market projects.It is reported that OKX Boost is a premium project screening channel launched by OKX Wallet in September last year, designed to discover potential projects based on real DEX data and incentivize real trading users. RootData, as a leading Web3 asset data platform, has long been committed to building a highly credible Web3 database and has launched a series of products such as the "Transparency Ranking" to continuously promote information transparency in the industry.In this collaboration, RootData will work with ChainCatcher to provide transparency review and quality assessment support for OKX Boost and projects launched on OKX, helping to further enhance project screening standards and information disclosure levels; at the same time, RootData will also improve its database and data processing model through OKX Boost.

The crypto financial services company Nava, which prevents inappropriate behavior of AI agents, announced the completion of an $8.3 million seed round financing, co-led by Polychain and Archetype.It is reported that the company's method to prevent inappropriate behavior of AI agents is to create a custodial service that holds funds until the agent proposes a transaction. Once the agent proposes a transaction, Nava will use a validation framework to determine whether the transaction outcome aligns with the user's intent. If the transaction passes validation, it will be executed; otherwise, the funds will remain in the custodial account, and the reasons for accepting or rejecting any transaction will be recorded on the blockchain, thereby creating a public decision ledger that can be referenced.

Global leading digital asset trading platform Gate announced an upgrade to its strategic partnership with Serie A club Inter Milan, officially becoming the sleeve sponsor of the Inter Milan U23 youth team starting in April 2026.Gate has decided to make additional targeted investments in the spring of 2026, expanding its sponsorship scope to the newly established U23 team of the club. Gate founder and CEO Dr. Han stated, "Gate has always been committed to empowering global users through the power of technology and innovation. Since becoming a partner of Inter Milan in 2024, we have felt a deep sense of pride. This extension of our partnership to the U23 youth team is because we believe this team represents the future of football."Gate's collaboration with Inter Milan began in 2024, and this expansion to the youth team reflects Gate's emphasis on the new generation of talent and long-term value. Gate will support the growth of young players through brand and resource backing, continuously strengthening its forward-looking brand positioning, and expanding its global influence in the exploration of the integration of sports and Web3.

Tom Duff Gordon, Vice President of International Policy at Coinbase, has left the company to join AI giant OpenAI as the head of policy for Europe, the Middle East, and Africa.Tom Duff Gordon worked at Coinbase for nearly 4 years and previously served as a banker at Credit Suisse for 8.5 years. A Coinbase spokesperson confirmed this change via email.

According to a report by Kyodo News, a new company has been established for artificial intelligence (AI) development, led by SoftBank, NEC, Honda, and Sony Group. The report states that the company will utilize support from the Japanese government to create a domestic AI foundational model, with the intention of providing the developed AI to Japanese companies.The company is named "Japan AI Foundational Model Development" and plans to gather about 100 AI developers, with the president position held by an executive from SoftBank. In addition to these four companies, Nippon Steel, Kobe Steel, as well as three major banks—Mitsubishi UFJ Bank, Sumitomo Mitsui Banking Corporation, and Mizuho Bank—are also participating in the funding. SoftBank and NEC will handle the development, while Honda will apply the development results to autonomous driving. AI development company Preferred Networks (Tokyo) is also involved. The developed AI will also be widely available to Japanese companies outside of the funding companies, and in the future, it will venture into the AI field for controlling robots.

The National Internet Information Office, the National Development and Reform Commission, the Ministry of Industry and Information Technology, the Ministry of Public Security, and the State Administration for Market Regulation jointly announced the "Interim Measures for the Management of Humanized Interactive Services in Artificial Intelligence," which will take effect on July 15, 2026.The "Measures" implement the concept of people-oriented and benevolent intelligence, clarifying the principle that the country insists on balancing development and security, promoting innovation and legal governance, encouraging innovative development of humanized interactive services, and implementing inclusive, prudent, and classified regulatory measures for humanized interactive services; it proposes measures to promote humanized interactive services, clarifying support for technological research and development innovation, and encouraging orderly expansion of applications in related fields such as cultural dissemination and elderly companionship.It stipulates the basic requirements for providing humanized interactive services, clearly stating that activities that generate harm to national security, honor, and interests, incite subversion of state power, or overthrow the socialist system are prohibited, and specifies the safety management obligations of humanized interactive service providers; it improves the protection system for the rights and interests of internet users, stipulating the obligations of humanized interactive service providers regarding the protection of minors, the elderly, and personal information.In addition, the "Measures" also stipulate systems for safety assessments, algorithm filing, and guiding the promotion of the construction of safe service platforms for artificial intelligence sandboxes.

Binance announced its participation in the international law enforcement operation "Operation Atlantic," led by the UK's National Crime Agency (NCA), in collaboration with multiple countries' law enforcement agencies to combat cryptocurrency and investment fraud, focusing on "approval phishing" scams.The operation was jointly initiated by the NCA, the U.S. Secret Service, and relevant law enforcement and regulatory agencies in Ontario, Canada, aiming to identify victims who have been compromised or are at risk. Approval phishing typically disguises itself as an investment opportunity, luring users into granting wallet access permissions, thereby transferring assets. During the operation, Binance's special investigation team provided on-site support in London, including fraud identification processes, risk screening, and intelligence analysis, and assisted in identifying potential victims and related malicious websites.At the same time, Binance also provided law enforcement agencies with addresses and suspect intelligence related to the case, supporting asset tracking and enforcement actions. The NCA stated that this operation has successfully protected thousands of potential victims in the UK and overseas. Binance emphasized that it will continue to cooperate with global law enforcement agencies to strengthen the fight against cryptocurrency fraud.