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OKX Ventures has made a strategic investment in Vietnam’s CAEX Exchange, joining VPBankS, LynkiD, and HashKey Capital as partners. The parties will inject capital in April to meet the minimum VND 10 trillion (approximately $380 million) requirement for Vietnam’s government pilot program for regulated crypto asset trading, and will support CAEX’s development in compliance, security, risk management...

On April 9 (ET), spot Bitcoin ETFs recorded a total net inflow of $358 million, while spot Ethereum ETFs saw a total net inflow of $85.1861 million. —link

Scroll (SCR), the first project to be traded pre-market on Binance, currently has a market capitalization of only $8.16 million, having fallen 83% in the past year. Scroll previously raised $50 million in 2023 at a valuation of $1.8 billion.Scroll has received praise from Vitalik and EF multiple times and is considered a benchmark for Ethereum's zkEVM. —link

According to mempool data, Bitcoin block 944306 was mined by an independent miner on Solo CK with an estimated hashrate of about 70 TH/s, earning a total block reward of 3.128 BTC, equivalent to approximately $222k at the time.Based on this level of hashrate, the probability of mining a block in a single day is roughly 1 in 100k, which corresponds to an expected occurrence of about once every 300 ...

OKX founder Star and Binance founder CZ are once again engaged in a heated debate. Star accuses CZ of lying about the divorce and failing to legally divide Binance shares.CZ counters by stating that the divorce is official and he's willing to bet $1 billion, offering to have lawyers verify the divorce agreement. —link

Bullish sentiment is emerging in the Bitcoin options market, with call options at an exercise price of $80,000 becoming the most concentrated betting target. Data shows that the notional open interest of $80,000 call options expiring at the end of June on the Deribit platform has surpassed $1.6 billion, leading all exercise prices. Meanwhile, the rise in implied volatility (IV) indicates that trad...

BitMine Immersion Technologies announced the successful transfer of its listing from Nasdaq to the New York Stock Exchange (NYSE) and expanded its stock repurchase program to $4 billion. BitMine disclosed that over the past 9 months, the company has accumulated approximately 4.803 million ETH, representing 3.98% of the total ETH supply, and has completed over 79% of its target to acquire 5% of the...

Exchange Data Report In March 2026: Spot trading volume across major exchanges decreased by approximately 19.4% compared to February 2026. All exchanges recorded declines.Derivatives trading volume across major exchanges decreased by approximately 2.9% month-over-month. Website traffic of major exchanges decreased by approximately 2.34% compared to February 2026. Read more:— link

Strategy founder Michael Saylor recently stated that Bitcoin may have bottomed at around $60,000, when forced sellers in the market had largely exited. Addressing recent market concerns over quantum computing threats, he said the risk is overstated and largely theoretical, and that the crypto community would take the lead in responding through software upgrades when needed. —link

Highlight clipQiao Wang: We Only Invest in Founders with "Childhood Trauma" and "Autism"Alliance DAO founding partner Qiao Wang said in a September 6, 2024 interview on the When Shift Happens channel, half-jokingly, that the firm invests in founders who show strong "autistic traits" and have childhood trauma. He noted that when evaluating consumer product founders, autistic traits are almost a req...

Highlight clip Arthur Hayes: Retail Investors Fighting Top Institutions Is Doomed To FailArthur Hayes, Co-Founder of BitMEX, shared how AI reshapes financial markets saying AI will crush retail in PvP by manipulating market sentiment. He believes fighting institutional algorithms is a losing battle especially in economic stress driven hyper gambling. He suggests ditching short term speculation and...

On April 8 (ET), U.S. spot Bitcoin ETFs recorded total net outflows of $125 million. BlackRock’s IBIT posted the largest single-day net inflow among Bitcoin spot ETFs at $40.38 million. Spot Ethereum ETFs saw total net outflows of $18.63 million, while BlackRock’s Staked ETH ETF (ETHB) recorded the largest single-day net inflow at $44.23 million. —link

In his autobiography, CZ recounts that when he was 13, his father spent 7k Canadian dollars (equivalent to seven months of his father's total income) on an x286 computer. CZ believes that without this "huge investment" from his father, he wouldn't be who he is today.   —link

FOMC minutes for March indicate that inflation may take longer than expected to return to the 2% target, with risks skewed to the upside, while Middle East-driven oil price increases add to inflation pressures and economic uncertainty. Participants increasingly supported a “two-sided” policy approach, signaling that rate hikes remain possible if inflation stays elevated, while rate cuts could be w...

The U.S. Treasury is set to propose joint rulemaking by FinCEN and OFAC imposing AML and sanctions compliance requirements on stablecoin issuers, requiring them to implement risk control frameworks with the ability to identify, block, and freeze suspicious transactions, apply risk-based customer and activity monitoring, and support law enforcement investigations by tracing relevant transactions. —...

Ethereum Foundation to Convert 5,000 ETH Into StablecoinsThe Ethereum Foundation announced via X that it will convert 5,000 ETH into stablecoins using CoW DAO’s TWAP feature to fund R&D, grants, and donations. —link

CZ's Autobiography "Binance Life": Five Vivid Details and Numerous Valuable PhotosZhao Changpeng’s long-awaited autobiography Binance Life reveals the untold story behind the world’s biggest crypto exchange — from his early struggles with stuttering, to the chaotic birth of Binance, near-collapse of BNB at launch, dramatic cross-border evacuation amid China’s crypto ban, legal battles with Sequoia...

According to the Financial Times, Iran plans to charge crypto-denominated transit fees of about $1 per barrel on fully loaded oil tankers passing through the Strait of Hormuz during the two-week ceasefire with the U.S.; vessels must submit cargo details via email and settle payments in digital assets such as Bitcoin, while empty tankers may be exempt; Hamid Hosseini said the move aims to monitor t...

Polygon Labs is in early talks to raise up to $100 million to launch a stablecoin payments business aimed at boosting on-chain volume; the move marks a rare entry by a blockchain developer into regulated payments; in January, Polygon partnered with Coinme and Sequence to compete with firms like Stripe. —link

Binance saw $2.7 billion in BTC taker buy volume on its derivatives market within roughly two hours. This followed the U.S.–Iran two-week ceasefire and the reopening of the Strait of Hormuz, according to CryptoQuant. Meanwhile, Hyperliquid’s HIP-3 WTIOIL-USDC surged to $2.4 billion in 24-hour volume, making it the platform’s second-largest market after BTC. —link

According to statements by MEXC’s new CEO Vugar Usi Zade in an exclusive interview, he first encountered Bitcoin and entered the crypto industry in 2019. In the future, MEXC will continue to expand into gold, silver, U.S. stocks, prediction markets, and more yield-generating products. In terms of regional strategy, this year it will focus on Turkey, the CIS, and Eastern European markets. Regarding...

The New York Times reported that Adam Back may be Satoshi Nakamoto based on circumstantial evidence, including Hashcash’s citation in the Bitcoin white paper, early electronic cash proposals (1997–1999), linguistic similarities, and his “silence” during 2008–2011; large-scale text analysis ranked him highly, but stylometric results were inconclusive and no direct evidence exists, while Back denies...