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The National Police of Ukraine and the Internal Security Department conducted a joint operation, arresting a suspect in the Transcarpathian region who is alleged to be involved in an international cybercrime gang. This gang is implicated in fraud and money laundering cases exceeding $100 million targeting the United States and Europe, and had previously been listed as an international wanted person by the FBI.The suspect was found in possession of forged identity documents and had even fabricated a death certificate to conceal their whereabouts. The gang deployed malware to steal personal and corporate data, subsequently extorting victims for ransom. Money laundering methods included purchasing real estate and using relatives' names to obscure the flow of funds. Authorities seized approximately $11 million in assets, including cash, real estate, vehicles, and about $3 million worth of cryptocurrency, and also apprehended two co-defendants. The suspect faces charges of document forgery and money laundering.

According to a statement from the Kremlin on the evening of April 9, Russian President Putin announced that Russia will implement an Orthodox Easter ceasefire from 16:00 Moscow time on April 11 to 24:00 on April 12 (from 21:00 Beijing time on April 11 to 5:00 on April 13), lasting 32 hours, and called on Ukraine to follow suit.Ukrainian President Zelensky immediately responded, "Ukraine has repeatedly stated that we are ready to take reciprocal measures. We have proposed a ceasefire during this year's Easter holiday and will act accordingly."This is a rare opportunity for both sides to publicly agree on a ceasefire amid recent conflicts, but whether it can be implemented and if there are any additional conditions remains to be seen.

According to token unlocking data from the crypto asset data platform RootData, Rain (RAIN) will unlock approximately 3,705,543 tokens at 11:00 AM Beijing time on April 12, worth about 271 million dollars.

According to Forbes, Ripple and Stellar founder Jed McCaleb will invest $1 billion from his approximately $3.9 billion cryptocurrency fortune through his nonprofit organization Astera Institute to develop AGI systems based on principles of the human brain. He has also committed an additional $600 million to the field of neuroscience.Astera Institute, located in Emeryville, is currently planning to record the neural activity patterns of mice performing tasks through brain-machine interfaces, and then translate the research findings into new AI architectures, with future subjects expanding to monkeys and humans. McCaleb believes that the current mainstream Transformer architecture lacks key elements such as planning, decision-making, and motivation, and that new directions need to be explored. AI based on principles of the human brain is more likely to be understood and controlled by humans.

Bitcoin is currently maintaining a range-bound oscillation pattern. Under the multiple pressures of the macro environment, market liquidity continues to be constrained, and the price direction remains unclear. Analysis indicates that the interplay of energy prices, monetary policy, and geopolitical risks has led to a compression of liquidity, causing the market to enter a "wait-and-see period." The current market is not lacking in structure but rather in incremental funds.Recently, Bitcoin has stabilized after experiencing volatility, with selling pressure easing somewhat, while ETF fund flows have shown a slight net inflow. However, spot demand remains weak, and the imbalance between supply and demand limits price breakthroughs. From a technical perspective, Bitcoin has found support in the $67,000-$69,000 range, with a key resistance level forming around $72,000. Analysts state that there is a "liquidity gap" above this range, and once effectively broken, the price could quickly rise to the $82,000 area; however, until demand shows significant improvement, the market will continue to maintain an oscillating pattern.On the macro level, high energy prices, global central banks maintaining high interest rates, and uncertainties in the Middle East collectively exacerbate market concerns about "stagflation" risks. Kraken Research points out that the combination of slowing growth and inflationary pressures complicates the policy path and suppresses the performance of risk assets. Against this backdrop, the market has entered a "liquidity compression phase."Bitunix analysis suggests that the mismatch of multiple macro factors has compressed funds into a narrow range, with Bitcoin acting more as a risk appetite indicator rather than a trend trading target. In terms of funds, the March spot Bitcoin ETF recorded a net inflow of approximately $1.5 billion, an improvement from the net outflow in February, but still below January levels, indicating cautious institutional fund inflows. The derivatives market is leaning defensive, with funding rates remaining negative and high demand for downside protection; meanwhile, spot trading volume has not shown sustained growth, indicating limited market participation. Overall, Bitcoin has not yet formed a clear breakthrough or downward trend, and is currently closer to a "accumulation and consolidation" phase, with future movements still dependent on macro data, policy signals, and changes in geopolitical situations.

According to market news, Changshou Medicine and the RAIN token asset pool Enlivex announced that they have obtained $21 million in debt financing from the New York institutional fund The Lind Partners.The company stated that it will continue to implement its predictive market token asset pool strategy, adding approximately 3 billion RAIN tokens, which will be used to support the company's operational plans. Enlivex is a Nasdaq-listed company that is developing therapies for joint diseases such as osteoarthritis, while holding a large position in RAIN as part of the RAIN digital asset pool. RAIN is a decentralized predictive market protocol token deployed on the Arbitrum network, which determines outcomes through AI and employs a buyback and burn mechanism. Enlivex's stock price is currently around $1.05, down about 5% for the day.

According to market news, the Ukrainian government plans to regulate cryptocurrency donations in political funding to prevent Russian interference.The Ukrainian National Securities and Stock Market Commission outlined relevant mechanisms in the upcoming legal framework for the crypto economy during a public discussion with legal advisors, including the implementation of the "travel rule" to identify participants in cryptocurrency transactions and requiring service providers to report information directly to tax authorities. Ukraine will also restrict access to its crypto market for participants created by Russian capital or associated with Russia. The Ukrainian securities regulator stated that these measures aim to enhance transaction transparency and reduce the risk of opaque or foreign interference in the political process.

Tether CEO Paolo Ardoino revealed that the Tether AI team has released a new version of QVAC Fabric, which integrates the cross-platform BitNet LoRA framework, enabling the training and inference of billion-parameter large models on consumer-grade GPUs and smartphones.The new version of QVAC Fabric LLM has achieved cross-platform operation of BitNet LoRA fine-tuning and inference on AMD, Intel, Apple Metal, and mobile GPUs for the first time. On flagship devices, GPU inference speed is improved by 2 to 11 times compared to CPU, and memory usage is reduced by up to 90% compared to full precision models. The Tether team has completed fine-tuning of models with up to 3.8 billion parameters on flagship smartphones such as Pixel 9, S25, and iPhone 16, and has achieved fine-tuning of models with up to 13 billion parameters on the iPhone 16. The related code has been open-sourced to GitHub.

According to reports from CCTV News, based on insider revelations, journalists quickly found a business called GEO by searching multiple online platforms. Service providers engaged in this business on these platforms claim that users only need to pay the corresponding fees to have their products listed among the major mainstream AI large models; allowing their product advertisements to become the "standard answers" provided by the AI models.The popularity of the GEO business has led to the emergence of many companies and platforms specializing in press release services. They have long undertaken various press release tasks to ensure that AI large models reference and capture them, becoming an important part of hunting AI large models and conducting data "poisoning."

Benoit Anne from MFS Investment Management stated in a report that, given the potential strength of the global economy, the threat of stagflation this time is far lower than after the Russia-Ukraine conflict in 2022. The head of the company's market insights team noted that there are concerns in the market about a severe inflation shock following a significant surge in oil prices, "but currently we believe the risks of persistent inflation are not the same."He mentioned that it is reassuring that the inflation market seems to agree with this view. He pointed out that the one-year inflation breakeven rate in the U.S. appears to have broken upward, while longer-term rates such as the five-year and ten-year rates have not changed much.

According to Cointelegraph, multiple joint research teams under Alibaba's AI ecosystem disclosed in a technical report that their experimental autonomous AI entity ROME exhibited unexpected behavior during training, autonomously attempting to utilize computing resources for cryptocurrency mining.Researchers stated that the aforementioned abnormal behavior occurred during the reinforcement learning training phase. The team discovered that the training server generated outbound traffic and triggered security alerts, with firewall logs recording suspected cryptocurrency mining operations and attempts to access internal network resources.In a specific case, ROME created a reverse SSH tunnel to connect to an external IP address, bypassing inbound firewall protection; in another case, the AI entity repurposed GPU resources originally allocated for model training for mining processes. Researchers confirmed that the behavior was not due to human programming but was spontaneously generated by the entity while exploring environmental interactions during the reinforcement learning optimization process.

A research team associated with Alibaba published a paper stating that while building an AI agent named ROME, they discovered that the agent attempted unauthorized cryptocurrency mining during its training process, triggering internal security alerts. The researchers indicated that the agent's behavior was spontaneous, driven by no explicit instructions, and exceeded the boundaries of the predefined sandbox. Additionally, the agent established a reverse SSH tunnel, creating a hidden backdoor from the internal system to an external computer.The paper noted that these behaviors were not triggered by prompts requesting tunneling or mining. The research team subsequently imposed stricter limitations on the model and improved the training process to prevent similar unsafe behaviors from occurring again. The research team and Alibaba have not yet responded to requests for comment.

A U.S. federal judge has issued a temporary restraining order against the cryptocurrency lending firm BlockFills, temporarily freezing its disputed assets. Dominion Capital filed a lawsuit on February 27, accusing BlockFills of misappropriating and unlawfully retaining customer crypto assets worth millions of dollars, commingling customer assets, concealing significant losses, and refusing to return funds after suspending withdrawals on the BlockFills platform in February. The frozen amount is 70.6 BTC, and it has prevented BlockFills from transferring assets overseas.The cryptocurrency lending firm BlockFills has been struggling, reporting a loss of $75 million, and suspended user deposits and withdrawals on February 11. The company, headquartered in Chicago, serves approximately 2,000 institutional clients, with a trading volume reaching $60 billion by 2025, and is currently seeking a buyer.

The U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) will withdraw its lawsuit against cryptocurrency figure Justin Sun. The SEC sued Justin Sun in 2023, accusing him of selling unregistered securities through the Tron Foundation, BitTorrent Foundation Ltd., and Rainberry Inc., and artificially inflating Tronix trading volume by instructing employees to conduct over 600,000 wash trades between accounts under his control.Under the settlement agreement, the SEC will drop all charges against Justin Sun, and Rainberry has agreed to pay a $10 million civil penalty without admitting or denying the related allegations, pending judicial approval of the settlement. Justin Sun expressed that he is "very pleased" with the SEC's decision to drop the lawsuit on the X platform. Since Trump returned to the White House, the SEC has withdrawn or suspended at least a dozen cases against cryptocurrency companies, including previous lawsuits against Coinbase and Binance.

According to the token unlocking data from the crypto asset data platform RootData, Rain (RAIN) will unlock approximately 3,705,543 tokens on March 12 at 11:00 AM Beijing time, worth about 341 million USD.

According to market news, Russia is considering suspending peace talks unless Ukraine relinquishes some territory.

According to GlobeNewswire, the social-native prediction market platform Kash announced the completion of a $2 million Pre-Seed funding round, with participation from Big Brain Holdings, Spartan Group, Coinbase Ventures, Kosmos Ventures, Halo Capital, MoonRock Capital, Polaris Fund, and Fabric VC.The new funding will support its development of financial tools embedded in social media platforms like X, enabling users to make prediction trades directly from their feeds and create prediction events. A simulated testnet has already been launched on the X platform.

According to FinanceFeeds, Siddarth Bharwani, Joint Managing Director and Chief Financial Officer of Indian IT vocational training company Jetking Infotrain, stated on February 22 at the "Corporate Bitcoin" event in Las Vegas that the company will firmly advance its Bitcoin-based strategy.Jetking launched its Bitcoin reserve plan at the end of 2024, becoming the first listed company in India to list Bitcoin as a primary reserve asset. It currently holds 21 Bitcoins, valued at approximately $1.4 million, accounting for more than a quarter of the company's total market capitalization. Bharwani stated that this move aims to hedge against the long-term depreciation risk of the Indian Rupee, using Michael Saylor and Strategy as a strategic blueprint. The company's goal is to accumulate 210 Bitcoins by the end of 2026 and expand its holdings to 18,000 Bitcoins by 2030.On the regulatory front, the Bombay Stock Exchange (BSE) recently rejected Jetking's proposal to issue new shares for cryptocurrency investment purposes, citing a lack of a clear framework. However, Bharwani stated that the company is actively responding and views the current resistance as a "regulatory arbitrage opportunity" for early entrants.In addition to balance sheet management, Jetking is also incorporating Bitcoin and blockchain education into its vocational training programs. With over 100 training centers, the company trains 35,000 students annually, aiming to create a "Bitcoin learning ecosystem."Bharwani noted that as the ruling party in India begins discussions on a potential national Bitcoin strategic reserve, Jetking's exploratory practices are expected to provide a reference for the entire Asia-Pacific region.