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The U.S. Department of State's Bureau of International Narcotics and Law Enforcement Affairs announced a reward of up to $4 million under the Transnational Organized Crime Rewards Program for information leading to the arrest of Daren Li, who assisted various scam centers in Southeast Asia in laundering their proceeds.According to court documents, Daren Li laundered funds obtained from victims through cryptocurrency scams and related fraudulent means, instructing accomplices to open U.S. bank accounts in the name of shell companies, and monitored the interstate and international wire transfers of victim funds. At least $73.6 million of victim funds were directly deposited into bank accounts associated with him and his accomplices, including at least $59.8 million from U.S. shell companies involved in laundering the proceeds obtained from defrauded victims.

According to official news, OKX Wallet has officially launched the X Launch event for Fluent Network (BLEND) in the OKX Boost product. Eligible users can share a prize pool of over 3 million BLEND.It is reported that Fluent Network is a blockchain built specifically for reputation-based applications. OKX Wallet, as an industry-leading one-stop Web3 gateway, supports over 140 popular public chains.RootData information shows that Fluent Network has a transparency score of 78% (out of 100%), which is above average, indicating that information disclosure is relatively complete.

Binance Wallet launches the OpenGradient (OPG) trading competition on Binance Alpha. The event is divided into two batches, with the first batch running from April 24, 2026, 21:00 to May 1, 2026, 21:00, and the second batch running from May 1, 2026, 21:00 to May 8, 2026, 21:00. Participants will be ranked based on their total buying trading volume of OPG during each event period, and the top 3,370 users will share 303,300 OPG tokens. During the event, users must trade OPG tokens through Binance Wallet (without private keys) or Binance Alpha, and specific rewards will be distributed before May 22, 2026, 21:00.

BIT tweeted that in the past two issues of the "Biton Target" report, we hinted that the bear market phase of Bitcoin may be nearing its end. Signals from multiple time dimensions are gradually forming resonance, supporting this judgment. When this judgment was made, Bitcoin was approaching the downward trend line formed since the bear market began in October 2025, just one step away from breaking upwards. Meanwhile, the weekly stochastic oscillator has fallen to a low not seen since January 2023, which was near the phase bottom after the end of the 2021/2022 bear market. Historically, this indicator reading often corresponds to market bottom areas.Our Bitcoin trend model has turned bullish. Trend signals do not always materialize, but considering that Bitcoin itself has strong trends and high volatility characteristics, after the previous two signals reversed quickly, the current round of movement has better conditions for continuation. Additionally, Bitcoin's price is gradually approaching the 21-week moving average, which has a critical boundary significance in our bull-bear judgment framework.$73,000 has always been an important watershed since March 2024 and is a key threshold for confirming whether this trend can reverse. Recently, Bitcoin has been fluctuating around $70,000. If it can effectively break through and stabilize above $73,000, the reversal signal will be further confirmed. Currently, various indicators are overall positive, but before the price enters this round's target range, the upward pace may still be disturbed by phase risk factors, so attention should be maintained.

According to market news, the cryptocurrency market weakened overall on Friday, with BTC hovering around $77,800, and the upward trend that started at $65,000 since Wednesday has clearly slowed down; ETH is reported at $2,300, with a 24-hour decline of about 0.8%, underperforming BTC.The market pressure mainly comes from two aspects: first, Japan's corporate service price index rose 3.1% year-on-year in March, exceeding expectations, and core inflation is also accelerating upward. The market expects the Bank of Japan may signal an interest rate hike at the next policy meeting, and a stronger yen could trigger the unwinding of carry trades in global risk assets; second, the ongoing war in Iran continues to disrupt oil transportation in the Strait of Hormuz, with WTI crude oil futures rising over 40% to $96 per barrel since the outbreak of the war. The U.S. Pentagon warns that clearing mines will take at least six months, and global inflationary pressures may persist, further compressing the Federal Reserve's space for interest rate cuts.

According to Jin Shi reports, the U.S. stock market fell on Thursday amid volatile trading, as hopes for a quick resolution to the Iran conflict gradually faded. Analyst Jay Hatfield stated that investors are struggling to digest mixed earnings reports, and concerns about the disruptive impact of artificial intelligence on the software industry have resurfaced. He pointed out that the market had previously risen significantly, and some investors are looking to reduce their positions, using the war as an excuse is not necessarily a bad thing.

SlowMist CISO 23pds disclosed that the password management tool Bitwarden CLI version 2026.4.0 suffered a Checkmarx supply chain attack between 17:57 and 19:30 Eastern Time. The attacker briefly distributed a malicious package via npm by abusing the GitHub Action in the Bitwarden CI/CD pipeline.The official confirmation states that Vault data was not leaked, and production systems were not affected; only users who installed this version via npm during that time window were impacted. The official recommendation for affected users is to immediately uninstall 2026.4.0, clean the npm cache, rotate sensitive credentials such as API Tokens and SSH Keys, investigate any abnormal activities on GitHub and CI, and upgrade to the fixed version 2026.4.1.

The head of the ETF business at BNY Mellon stated that Bitcoin ETF fund flows have turned into net inflows this year, returning to positive territory overall. Bloomberg data shows that fund flows for all periods of spot Bitcoin ETFs have turned positive for the first time in months.Although there were outflows previously due to low coin prices and macro uncertainties, the scale was relatively limited. As of now, 12 spot Bitcoin ETFs have seen a net inflow of approximately $335 million in a single day, with a monthly cumulative inflow exceeding $2.1 billion, and a year-to-date net inflow of about $1.8 billion. Among them, BlackRock's IBIT is the largest contributor, with an inflow of about $246 million in the past day and a monthly inflow reaching $1.9 billion; meanwhile, Grayscale's GBTC still recorded some outflows.

Coinbase Institutional tweeted that its March market cycle survey shows that among institutional investors, 43% believe we are currently in the late bear market; among non-institutional investors (retail), 49% believe we are still in the bear market markdown phase.

The Bank for International Settlements (BIS) released a report indicating that cryptocurrency exchanges are gradually providing bank-like services, such as lending and earn products, but lack the regulation and deposit protection found in traditional financial systems, posing systemic risks.The report states that these high-yield products are essentially closer to "unsecured loans," where user assets are often used by the platform for high-risk operations such as lending, trading, or market making, and users only hold a creditor position against the platform. If the platform encounters problems, users will be directly exposed to repayment risks. The BIS also noted that leading cryptocurrency platforms have evolved from single exchanges into "multi-functional intermediaries," integrating the functions of banks, brokerages, and exchanges, but lacking transparency and risk isolation mechanisms. The previous collapses of Celsius Network and FTX are typical cases of such structural risks. Additionally, the report mentioned that the flash crash in the cryptocurrency market in October 2025 triggered approximately $19 billion in forced liquidations, highlighting the chain reaction risks under high leverage and opaque structures.

According to on-chain analyst Ai Yi's monitoring, Sun Yuchen has deposited a total of $1.3 billion in assets to Spark, with USDS Farming rewards reaching as high as $5.38 million.Sun Yuchen's address 0x939...6a1d1 withdrew 300 million USDS from Sky in the past 3 hours and then deposited it into Spark. The current deposits on the platform are as follows:USDS: $436 million, accounting for 18.72% of the deposit pool;USDC: $135 million, accounting for 28.17% of the deposit pool;USDT: $93.39 million, accounting for 9.89% of the deposit pool.

According to CoinDesk, data disclosed by the market-making company Caladan shows that about 93% of GameFi projects are now nearly dead, with token values down 95% from their peak in 2022, and game studio funding plummeting by 93% by 2025. Investment in Web3 games has almost completely dried up, with funds shifting towards AI, real-world assets, and Layer-2 infrastructure, leading to a collapse in the gaming industry. Even Animoca Brands, the most active investor in the Web3 space, has reduced its gaming business to about 25% of its portfolio and has begun to shift towards areas like stablecoins.Additionally, in 2022, 63% of Web3 venture capital funding went to the gaming sector, but by 2025, this proportion has dropped to single digits, with over 300 games announcing shutdowns, turning Web3 gaming into a cautionary tale about chasing speculation while neglecting product-market fit.

According to Gate market data, U.S. software stocks generally fell before the market opened due to weak earnings reported by IBM. Microsoft fell 1.5%, Adobe fell 2.1%, and CrowdStrike fell 2.4%.

Former OpenAI Codex team engineer Daniel Edrisian announced his departure and founded an AI hardware company, Blackstar Computers. The company has completed a $12 million seed round of financing, led by Abstract, with participation from SV Angel, Naval Ravikant, Chapter One, and Timeless.Blackstar positions itself as a new type of computing device, planning to reconstruct the computing experience from hardware, software, and interaction perspectives. Edrisian stated that current software development has matured, and further enhancement of human-AI interaction needs to be innovated at the operating system level. The company team currently consists of about 8 people, distributed between San Francisco and Shenzhen, and has not yet launched a public product.

The Web3 asset data platform RootData has outlined the cryptocurrency portfolio of Federal Reserve nominee Kevin Warsh, covering multiple areas including blockchain infrastructure, on-chain financial protocols, institutional financial services, and application tools. Structurally, Warsh's layout can be divided into four major sectors:Underlying Infrastructure: Networks and scaling solutions such as Solana, Optimism, and Lightning Network;On-chain Finance: DeFi and trading protocols like Compound, dYdX, and Polymarket;Institutional and Financial Services: Asset management, banking, and funding channels such as Polychain, Scalar Capital, Kinetic, and OnJuno;Applications and Tools: User entry and development tool projects like Dapper Labs, Crossmint, and Tenderly.Overall, Warsh's strategy of layering financial protocols on top of infrastructure and focusing on controlling institutional funding channels shows a clear difference from typical crypto-native VC approaches, aligning more closely with traditional financial background investors' concerns about market structure and institutional levels.It is reported that on April 21, Warsh held a confirmation hearing before the Senate Banking Committee. According to his recent compliance disclosure documents, if he enters the regulatory system in the future (such as leading the Federal Reserve), he will need to dispose of relevant holdings.

Vercel's CEO Guillermo Rauch tweeted that the team has completed an in-depth security investigation, analyzing nearly 1 PB of complete Vercel network and API logs, far exceeding the initial Context.ai account breach incident.The investigation revealed that the attackers' activities extended beyond Context.ai and have distributed malware on a broader scale, targeting account keys from platforms like Vercel. Once the keys are obtained, the attackers quickly and comprehensively enumerate non-sensitive environment variables. Current measures include deepening collaboration with industry partners such as Microsoft, AWS, and Wiz to jointly protect the broader internet ecosystem; other suspected victims have been notified and advised to immediately rotate credentials and strengthen security best practices.

SpaceX stated in its IPO application documents that orbital AI computing and the industrialization efforts on the Moon and Mars are still in the early stages, involving significant technological complexities that may not be commercially viable.Elon Musk has called space AI computing an obvious choice, believing that orbit could become the lowest-cost storage location for AI within two to three years. The documents warn that orbital AI data centers operate in harsh and unpredictable space environments, where systems may fail. Additionally, delays in the development of Starship could also limit the company's growth strategy. SpaceX currently targets a valuation of approximately $1.75 trillion and plans to raise $75 billion in the coming months.