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According to Decrypt, Admiral Samuel Paparo, the commander of the U.S. Pacific Command, stated during a hearing before the U.S. House Armed Services Committee that the U.S. government is currently running a Bitcoin node for cybersecurity-related testing, but is not engaged in mining.Paparo indicated that the U.S. military's interest in Bitcoin primarily focuses on its value as a computer science tool, including cryptography, blockchain, and reusable proof-of-work mechanisms, with the aim of using the Bitcoin protocol to strengthen cybersecurity and enhance military capabilities, which is still in the experimental stage. He also mentioned that maintaining the global dominance of the U.S. dollar aligns with U.S. military interests and gave a positive evaluation of the stablecoin legalization bill, the GENIUS Act, signed by Trump last summer, believing that the bill helps to solidify the global position of the dollar.

According to Decrypt, Coinbase is testing AI agents integrated with Slack and email to provide high-level feedback to employees as virtual colleagues. The first systems are designed based on the decision-making styles of co-founder Fred Ehrsam and former CTO Balaji Srinivasan, with the "Fred" agent assisting in refining documents, strategies, and concepts, while the "Balaji" agent focuses on inspiring innovation and new perspectives.Coinbase CEO Brian Armstrong stated that the next step will make it easier for employees to create more agent employees, and in the future, agents may not necessarily be digital avatars of real people, adding that the number of AI agents at the company may soon exceed that of human employees.

DefiLlama founder 0xngmi has outlined three possible courses of action that KelpDAO may take following the rsETH hacking incident. Each of the three paths has significant flaws, and the final decision will test KelpDAO's credibility and Aave's risk tolerance.Path One: All users share the losses. KelpDAO will uniformly deduct 18.5% of the losses from all rsETH holders proportionally. Currently, there are about 666,000 rsETH collateralized across the Aave network, primarily highly leveraged on the mainnet and L2 (assuming all are at a 95% liquidation LTV). Once socialized losses occur, the equity of all positions on the mainnet will be completely wiped out, resulting in approximately $216 million in bad debt. The Umbrella protocol can cover $55 million in bad debt, and the Aave treasury will additionally bear $85 million, leaving a gap of about $76 million. KelpDAO may fill this gap by borrowing or selling Aave tokens (currently valued at about $51 million), but this would still put significant pressure on Aave, and all users would need to share the losses.Path Two: Directly rug the rsETH holders on L2. KelpDAO will only guarantee the mainnet rsETH and consider the rsETH on L2 as worthless. Currently, Aave L2 has about $359 million in rsETH collateral (calculated at current oracle prices), and if all are calculated at maximum leverage, it would result in approximately $341 million in bad debt, which cannot be covered by the Umbrella protocol at all. Aave can only use the treasury or borrowing to save part of the market, most likely abandoning chains like Arbitrum, Mantle, and Base, which have the largest losses, leading to a collapse of these L2 markets. This option has a minor impact on the Aave mainnet but would severely damage the credibility of the L2 ecosystem and could trigger a chain reaction.Path Three: Attempt to refund only the holders based on a snapshot taken before the hack, which is extremely difficult to execute. KelpDAO tries to fully refund only the rsETH holders based on the snapshot taken before the hack, while subsequent buyers or transfer holders would bear the losses themselves. However, since funds have significantly flowed after the attack, and the nature of DeFi protocols is liquidity pools, it is impossible to truly distinguish between different batches of depositors, making technical execution very challenging. The hacker borrowed $124 million on the Aave mainnet and $18 million on Arbitrum, and after deducting the coverage from the Umbrella protocol, there remains about $91 million in losses. Although this plan theoretically minimizes the spread of impact, its practical implementation is nearly impossible and could easily lead to legal and community disputes.

The DeFi yield protocol Saturn has officially launched its mainnet. In addition, its private testing phase has ended, with companies such as Flowdesk and Galaxy depositing a total of $10 million. Its stablecoin USDat is built on M0, with Galaxy, Securitize, and Clear Street as operational partners.According to a previous report from ChainCatcher, the stablecoin protocol USDat developer Saturn has completed $800,000 in financing, with participation from YZi Labs and others.

Some banks in Argentina have begun testing JPM Coin, a deposit token designed by JPMorgan specifically for institutional users. Currently, Banco CMF is one of the confirmed participants, and this financial institution expects to use JPM Coin for backend settlement workflows to improve settlement speed and efficiency.

According to Bloomberg, the Irish government officially launched the testing phase of the digital wallet on April 3 local time, which includes an age verification feature.According to a statement from the Irish Department of Public Expenditure and Reform, this digital ID will support age verification on social media platforms, aiming to protect children and adolescents from online harm.

Ant Group announced that its professional lobster product DTClaw has begun internal testing. Unlike the "ordinary shrimp" currently on the market that can only perform skills such as document organization, meeting minutes, and data collection, DTClaw is positioned as a "professional shrimp" that provides 24/7 online exclusive AI intelligent body services for professionals such as financial experts, marketing experts, and data experts.DTClaw supports hundreds of professional skills, covering high-value scenarios such as wealth management, investment, data analysis, research and development, and testing, and deeply integrates with enterprise office, finance, sales, and marketing systems to achieve workflow automation. Users can deploy it with one click, eliminating the need to start from scratch, which can save 50% of token consumption.

According to a report by Fortune magazine, documents leaked from Anthropic show that its next-generation super robot "Claude Mythos" is currently being tested, and the company believes that this robot "poses an unprecedented cybersecurity risk." Musk stated, "This is deeply concerning."

According to Cointelegraph, the revenue from decentralized applications in the Solana ecosystem has dropped to an 18-month low, and the SOL price is at risk of testing $80 again. SOL has fallen 11% to $87 in the past three days, triggering the liquidation of $25 million in long positions.The perpetual contract funding rate is close to 0%, indicating weak demand from bulls, with bears dominating leverage demand over the past month. The delta skew in the options market has risen to 12%, with put option premiums trading, showing that professional traders lack confidence in the $87 support level. Solana DApps revenue has decreased from $36 million two months ago to $22 million, marking an 18-month low.Although Solana remains a leader in DEX trading volume, it faces fierce competition in the perpetual contract trading space from Hyperliquid, which holds over 80% market share.

According to Cointelegraph, the Ethereum client team is testing a mechanism called Fast Confirmation Rules (FCR), aimed at compressing the deposit confirmation time from L1 to L2 networks and exchanges to about 13 seconds, reducing it by up to 98% compared to existing solutions. This mechanism was proposed by Ethereum researcher Julian Ma.FCR determines whether a block can be considered confirmed by evaluating the validators' attestations, rather than relying on the traditional block depth counting method. Its operation is based on two premises: that network message propagation is fast enough, and that no single entity holds more than 25% of the staked ETH. Currently, most users rely on canonical bridges to complete asset transfers, which typically require waiting about 13 minutes; some exchanges and L2s have adopted "k-depth" confirmation rules to shorten the wait, but this method lacks formal security guarantees.FCR can be deployed without a hard fork, and nodes can independently enable it without the need for coordination across the entire network. Ethereum co-founder Vitalik Buterin expressed support for this, believing that the mechanism can provide "hard guarantees" for transactions within a single time slot (about 12 seconds) under specific network conditions. However, there are still voices of skepticism in the community, with some users concerned about whether its trust assumptions can hold up under network pressure. Currently, client and API integration work is still ongoing.

The GMGN Agent API, designed specifically for large model and AI developers, is now officially open for internal testing. This API allows developers to perform on-chain trading operations through natural language instructions.In terms of data and functionality, this API provides real-time K-line data and research indicators covering multiple chains such as SOL, BSC, and Base, and has the capability to identify on-chain risk information such as snipers, insider trading, and high-control bundled wallets. In terms of security mechanisms, the system uses Ed25519 asymmetric encryption authentication, with private keys stored locally, and is equipped with an IP whitelist and anti-clipping protection based on a custodial wallet architecture.Currently, developers can access it through tools like OpenClaw and Claude Code (the query function only requires an API Key, while the trading function requires additional configuration of a private key). This API currently employs a whitelist application mechanism, with the official team reviewing and importing UIDs daily.

The head of Plasma engineering stated that they have joined Plasma and are leading the development of the flagship product Plasma One. They pointed out that as infrastructure such as account abstraction, rapid settlement, and crypto payment cards gradually improves, the usability of crypto products is significantly increasing.They believe that stablecoins, as a "new type of currency," possess characteristics such as globalization, permissionless access, and programmability, but the current user experience still lags behind traditional finance. Plasma One aims to bridge this gap and create a user experience similar to a new type of digital bank. Currently, Plasma One has entered the private testing phase, and the team is accelerating product iteration and plans to open early access.

According to Jinshi News, Musk announced that the digital payment system "xMoney" on the social media platform X will begin early public testing next month, starting in the U.S. market and then expanding globally.Musk's ultimate goal is to transform X into a one-stop platform similar to WeChat, integrating streaming media, messaging, images, videos, and financial services. In the future, users will be able to complete their entire financial life transactions on X, including purchasing goods, storing value, tipping creators, and making investments.

Bank of Canada completed a pilot project called Project Samara with several major Canadian banks, testing the feasibility of issuing, trading, and settling bonds on a distributed ledger.In this experiment, Export Development Canada, the official export credit agency of Canada, issued a bond worth 100 million Canadian dollars (approximately 73 million US dollars) with a maturity of less than three months, selling it to a small group of institutional investors. Participants in the project also included RBC Dominion Securities, RBC Investor Services Trust, and TD Securities under Toronto-Dominion Bank. The results of the experiment showed that a single blockchain-based platform could support the entire lifecycle of a bond, including issuance, bidding, coupon payments, secondary market trading, and maturity redemption processes. Additionally, the project tested on-chain settlement using a wholesale digital Canadian dollar issued by the Bank of Canada, allowing funds and bonds to be settled on the same ledger. This pilot comes at a time when Canada is strengthening its regulation of digital assets. The government plans to introduce regulatory legislation for Canadian dollar stablecoins and has passed a new framework for crypto asset custody to enhance asset security and risk management on trading platforms.

Glassnode published an analysis on platform X, stating that the outflow trend of Bitcoin spot ETF funds has stabilized. The 14-day net flow trend has turned upward, indicating that as Bitcoin breaks through $70,000, selling pressure is easing. Institutional demand is still in a tentative stage, but early signs of reaccumulation are emerging.

According to Reuters, Ziff Davis has agreed to sell its Connectivity division to Accenture for $1.2 billion in cash. This division includes the Ookla Speedtest app, Downdetector, Ekahau, and RootMetrics.After the transaction is completed, Ziff Davis will focus on vertical media such as IGN and Mashable, as well as businesses like Everyday Health. The Connectivity division generated approximately $231 million in revenue in 2025, accounting for about 16% of Ziff Davis's total revenue.Ziff Davis stated that the proceeds from the transaction will be used for general corporate purposes and capital allocation activities. Accenture mentioned that after the acquisition, it will leverage the Ookla product suite to provide end-to-end network intelligence services to support its AI-related transformation business.

According to the official announcement from the UK's Financial Conduct Authority (FCA), the FCA has selected 4 companies to enter its regulatory sandbox to test stablecoin innovative services in a real environment with safety assurances.The selected 4 companies are Monee Financial Technologies, ReStabilise, Revolut, and VVTX, which stood out from 20 applications. Testing will begin in the first quarter of 2026, focusing on applications such as stablecoin issuance, payments, wholesale settlement, and crypto trading.FCA's Director of Payments and Digital Assets, Matthew Long, stated that this move aims to ensure the credibility of stablecoins in payments and settlements, and the test results will directly impact the final regulatory rules for UK stablecoins to be issued later in 2026.

According to official news, Uniswap Labs has announced the official opening of the Uniswap developer platform in Beta version. Developers can now generate Uniswap API keys and integrate exchange and liquidity provision functionalities directly into their applications within minutes.In addition, Uniswap has also launched the Skill integration for proxy-based workflows, supporting one-click API access via the command line.