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According to China News Weekly, a 19-year-old female college student from Guangdong was recently invited to Thailand to participate in the Water Splashing Festival. After landing, she was controlled and is suspected to have been sold to a Myanmar telecom fraud park near the Three Pagodas area on the Thailand-Myanmar border.Her family stated that the other party claimed to have purchased her for 29,000 U and then demanded a ransom of 30,000 U, equivalent

According to French media reports, on the morning of April 20 local time, a malicious "targeted robbery of crypto assets" occurred in Ploudalmézeau, France: two masked gunmen broke into a residence, controlling and binding a family of five (including two children and two elderly individuals) for several hours, ultimately coercing the victims to transfer approximately 700,000 euros worth of cryptocurrency.The incident took place in a residential community in broad daylight, and the suspects were clearly "well-prepared," having a thorough understanding of the victims' crypto asset holdings. Police initially determined that this case represents a typical new crime model of "offline violence + on-chain transfer," where personal threats are used to forcibly obtain private keys or transfer authorizations.It is noteworthy that the family members of the victims were engaged in work related to the crypto industry, which may have been a significant reason for this targeted crime. The case is still under investigation, and the suspects have not yet been arrested.This incident once again highlights that, against the backdrop of the increasing popularity of crypto assets, "physical world attacks" (such as kidnapping and home invasion) are becoming new security risk points, and personal asset security is no longer limited to on-chain protection.

The U.S. Department of Justice revealed that Carmine Agnello, the grandson of mob boss John Gotti, was sentenced to 15 months in prison for fraudulently obtaining approximately $1.1 million in COVID relief funds and investing part of the money into cryptocurrency ventures.Prosecutors stated that from April 2020 to November 2021, Agnello obtained multiple relief loans from the U.S. Small Business Administration (SBA) through false declarations, falsely claiming they were for the operation of his auto parts and recycling business, while actually diverting the funds for personal use, including approximately $420,000 invested in cryptocurrency-related investments. The U.S. Attorney's Office for the Eastern District of New York indicated that this conduct occurred during the peak of the pandemic, representing a serious abuse of government aid funds. Agnello is expected to report to prison on July 1. Additionally, official data shows that fraud related to U.S. pandemic relief funds is severe, with the Government Accountability Office (GAO) estimating that about $135 billion (approximately 15% of the total) has flowed into fraudulent activities.

According to Lookonchain monitoring, a suspected whale "dimethyltryptamine.eth" associated with the Solana chain wallet "fent.sol" purchased 5.66 million SPIKE, and this whale previously achieved a return of 52,600 times from investing in PEPE.

The HTX Genesis Hackathon, hosted by HTX DAO and B.AI, and co-initiated by TinTinLand and OpenCity, has opened in Hong Kong. The opening event was lively, with increasing frequency of exchanges and interaction density, creating a high-intensity dialogue atmosphere among developers, investors, and ecosystem participants.HTX DAO ambassador Molly shared on the theme "HTX DAO Ecosystem Development Plan: Launch of a Multi-Million Dollar Ecological Fund and Value Closed-Loop Strategy." She pointed out that the core vision of the HTX Genesis Hackathon is to build a free financial port based on the exchange's hinterland. To achieve this goal, five major ecological matrices covering the entire industry chain have been constructed, including: Huobi HTX as the core business engine and liquidity center; HTX DAO serving as the governance hub and centralized decision-making brain of the ecosystem; public chains and innovation layers providing payment network support through TRON, and building a solid DeFi infrastructure with JustLend, SunX, etc.; HTX Ventures focusing on industry frontiers, providing investment, incubation, and acceleration services for outstanding projects; and B.AI aiming at future trends, dedicated to creating financial infrastructure for the AI Agent era.Molly further emphasized that regarding future development, Huobi HTX has clearly proposed four core strategic keywords: "stability, transparency, institutionalization, AI empowerment," aiming to enhance the platform's long-term competitiveness in a complex market environment and provide ecosystem participants with more certain growth expectations.

The Solana ecosystem liquidity protocol Kamino stated on platform X that its platform and users have not been affected by the current Ethereum rsETH incident. However, out of caution, it has suspended all core market interactions related to LayerZero tokens (USDS, LBTC, FBTC). The related reserve assets have entered a "reduce-only mode," allowing users to withdraw and repay debts, but deposit and lending functions have been temporarily closed.Kamino added that it is in communication with the LayerZero team and will notify users as soon as the related reserves return to normal operations. These measures are all part of proactive risk control, and the platform and user funds have not been affected.

The audit report of NXC, the parent company of South Korean gaming giant Nexon, shows that by the end of 2025, the scale of cryptocurrency assets held by NXC is 147.6 billion won, including 2,356 bitcoins and 22,400 ethers, a decrease of 15.2% from the previous year's 174 billion won. NXC has sold its shares in Bitstamp and excluded it from its subsidiaries.In addition, NXC decided to dispose of all its shares in Korbit through a board resolution in February this year. Meanwhile, NXC, through its subsidiary NXMH, acquired shares in the European industrial solutions company CLI Group in February this year to promote business diversification.

According to Cointelegraph, Edward Felten, co-founder of Offchain Labs, stated in his keynote speech at EthCC 2026 that Ethereum's layer two networks need to introduce a "dynamic pricing" mechanism to support billions of users and reduce fee fluctuations during network congestion.Felten pointed out that the current drastic fluctuations in Gas prices remain the main means of resisting network overload, but this volatility poses a significant barrier to mainstream users. He stated that a dynamic pricing mechanism could accommodate more transaction volume at lower Gas prices while avoiding infrastructure overload.In response, developer Julian Kors noted that the main drawback of dynamic pricing is its predictability, which is lower than that of EIP-1559. Cyprien Grau, head of the Status Network project, believes that while this model improves fee accuracy, it still does not address structural issues— as competition for scaling intensifies, layer two network Gas fees trend towards zero in the long term, and dynamic pricing is essentially still an income model built on continuously depreciating assets.

The crypto risk rating agency CORE3, founded by Dyma Budorin, CEO of HAI Group, a blockchain security company, officially launched on Thursday and has rated 1,426 crypto projects and 253 exchanges. World Liberty Financial, owned by the Trump family, received a D rating, with a loss probability score of 68.01, ranking among the top 50 highest-risk projects on the platform.CORE3 pointed out that the main risks of the project include: lack of continuous on-chain monitoring, failure to establish a structured bug bounty program, and the centralization issue of insiders holding the majority of tokens. CORE3 aims to promote the security of DeFi protocols and exchanges through a publicly transparent scoring method. Budorin expressed welcome for industry feedback and improvement suggestions on the rating methodology.

According to Arkham monitoring, Multicoin co-founder Kyle Samani has deposited $10 million worth of PRIME into Kamino Finance and borrowed 8.6 million USDC against it as collateral. The total annual yield of the USDC stablecoin he holds is 39.4%, but using PRIME can achieve an annual yield of 56.4%.

According to CoinDesk, American Bitcoin (ABTC), a U.S. Bitcoin company backed by the Trump family, announced that its Bitcoin reserves in the treasury have surpassed 7,000 coins.Since its debut on Nasdaq in September 2025, its BTC holdings have increased by approximately three times. The company reported that the number of Bitcoins represented per share (satoshis per share) has more than doubled, reaching over 660 satoshis per share, making it the 16th largest publicly listed Bitcoin-holding company in the world.

According to The Block, the leveraged prediction trading platform OmenX has announced the completion of a multi-million dollar seed round financing, with participation from institutions such as Paramita VC, Penrose Ventures, M77 Ventures, and several founders of centralized exchanges.It is reported that OmenX focuses on transforming real-world events into tradable markets and introducing a leveraged mechanism similar to perpetual contracts into the prediction market space, aiming to enhance capital efficiency and institutional-level risk hedging capabilities. OmenX founder James stated, "OmenX is not just a prediction market, but an infrastructure that can treat global events as liquid tradable asset classes with institutional-level leverage."Currently, the OmenX Public Testnet has officially opened to the global community, allowing users to participate in the OmenX points system, which is an incentive framework designed to encourage the community to stress test the platform's leverage mechanism and liquidity depth. OmenX is preparing for the subsequent full mainnet launch and plans to deploy on the Base network.

According to Arkham monitoring, former Multicoin co-founder Kyle Samani deposited a total value of $10 million in PRIME into Kamino Finance and used it as collateral to borrow $8,600,000 USDC.He pays an annualized yield of 39.4% on USDC, but earns an annualized yield of 56.4% on PRIME. Kyle Samani is an experienced user of Solana DeFi.

U.S. Senator Elizabeth Warren wrote to Secretary of Commerce Howard Lutnick, requesting information regarding the potential national security risks associated with Bitmain, and expressing concerns about its business dealings with the Trump family.The letter requests the disclosure of communication records between Bitmain and Eric Trump and Donald Trump Jr. Reports indicate that the FBI is conducting an investigation named "Operation Red Sun" to assess whether there are risks of remote control related to the mining equipment. Previously, U.S. regulatory agencies have repeatedly questioned the safety of Bitmain's products. Bitmain responded that the related accusations are untrue, and American Bitcoin Corp stated that its safety tests found no issues.

According to Financefeeds, citing public statements from Eric Trump, the son of U.S. President Donald Trump, the Trump family's three cryptocurrency ventures have generated over $1 billion in total revenue, covering three types of projects: Meme Coin, NFT, and stablecoins.Among them, the Trump Meme Coin, issued in early 2025, contributed approximately $350 million in revenue, primarily from token sales and trading activities, with retail participation and speculative trading as the main driving forces.In terms of the NFT business, the family entered the market and issued a total of four generations of Trump-themed NFTs between 2022 and 2024. The third business is a cryptocurrency platform related to the family, WLFI, which includes governance tokens and the dollar-backed stablecoin USD1, having completed large-scale financing through token sales and partnerships.

According to Jinshi reports, on March 22 local time, Israeli Prime Minister Netanyahu stated in the southern city of Arad that Israel is responding to attacks from Iran, but not targeting civilians.Netanyahu stated that Israel's goal is the current Iranian regime and the Iranian Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps, and the military will directly strike the leaders of the Revolutionary Guard as well as their infrastructure and economic assets.