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Bitcoin fell below $77,000, with the U.S. spot Bitcoin ETF recording a net outflow of $263.2 million, ending a nine-day streak of net inflows. This coincided with the eve of this week's Federal Reserve FOMC meeting, adding a touch of caution to the already resilient April rebound.Bitcoin declined today, but it has still risen about 15% over the past month, reaching a high of $79,000 in April. The interruption of ETF fund momentum is significant because it occurs just before a week of major macroeconomic events. The market is currently digesting the Federal Reserve's decisions, new inflation concerns, GDP data, a series of earnings reports from major tech companies, and another round of interest rate decisions from central banks in Europe and Asia.Timothy Misir, head of research at BRN, stated that the crypto market entered this week with inspiring momentum, but there are too many cross factors to determine a clean risk appetite trend. In his view, investors are showing signs of "war fatigue" regarding the situation in the Middle East, while central banks are forced to find a balance between supply-driven inflation and weakening confidence along with mixed data.Glassnode expressed a similar view in its latest weekly pulse report. Analysts noted that Bitcoin still exhibits a "mix of bullish momentum, cautious sentiment, and consolidation," with strong buying pressure offset by weaker speculative participation and lower trading activity.QCP Capital stated that Bitcoin had a significant rebound in April, maintaining an overall constructive pattern. However, the firm believes that $82,000 remains a key level, with the nearby CME gap constituting the next real test.Andy Baehr, managing director at GSR Asset Management, mentioned that prices are "gradually rising," and $80,000 remains a key psychological level.

Lianlian Digital announced that it has successfully obtained a Money Services Business (MSB) license through the acquisition of an entity at the Financial Transactions and Reports Analysis Centre of Canada (FINTRAC), allowing it to conduct regulated activities such as foreign exchange, remittances, virtual currency, and payment services. The specific acquisition amount has not been disclosed.

Aave announced on platform X that the Ethereum core organization Consensys and Ethereum co-founder Joseph Lubin have officially joined the DeFi United recovery initiative, providing funding support of up to 30,000 ETH, with ongoing strategic consulting provided by Sharplink.Aave stated that the aforementioned contributions are an important part of the overall recovery plan for DeFi United, playing a key role in promoting the recovery of rsETH collateral and normalizing market conditions. Without this support, the current recovery process would be difficult to advance.

According to a report from CoinShares' research department, digital asset investment products recorded a net inflow of $1.2 billion this week, marking the fourth consecutive week of positive inflows. Total assets under management (AuM) rose to $155 billion, the highest level since February 1. Among them, Bitcoin led with an inflow of $933 million, bringing the year-to-date total inflow to $4 billion; Ethereum saw inflows of over $190 million for the third consecutive week; XRP returned to net inflow after a week of outflows.Regionally, the United States dominated this week's inflows ($1.1 billion), while Germany, Switzerland, and Canada also recorded positive inflows, indicating a broadening demand. Additionally, blockchain stock ETFs have cumulatively attracted $617 million over the past three weeks, setting a record for weekly inflows, reflecting growing interest from institutional investors in this sector. The market is currently focused on the FOMC meeting on April 28-29, which may create some disturbances in short-term sentiment.

According to SoSoValue data, the net inflow for Bitcoin spot ETFs during the last trading week (Eastern Time from April 20 to April 24) was $824 million.The Bitcoin spot ETF with the highest net inflow last week was BlackRock ETF IBIT, with a weekly net inflow of $733 million, bringing IBIT's historical total net inflow to $65.37 billion. The second was Ark & 21Shares ETF ARKB, with a weekly net inflow of $59.6 million, and ARKB's historical total net inflow currently stands at $1.610 billion.The Bitcoin spot ETF with the highest net outflow last week was Grayscale Bitcoin Trust GBTC, with a weekly net outflow of $59.01 million, and GBTC's historical total net outflow has reached $26.22 billion.As of the time of writing, the total net asset value of Bitcoin spot ETFs is $102.64 billion, with an ETF net asset ratio (market cap relative to total Bitcoin market cap) of 6.60%, and the historical cumulative net inflow has reached $58.23 billion.

According to SoSoValue data, last week's trading day saw a net inflow of $155 million for Ethereum spot ETFs.The Ethereum spot ETF with the highest net inflow last week was BlackRock ETF ETHA, with a weekly net inflow of $138 million, bringing ETHA's historical total net inflow to $11.97 billion. The second was BlackRock ETF ETHB, with a weekly net inflow of $60.9053 million, and ETHB's historical total net inflow currently stands at $456 million. The Ethereum spot ETF with the highest net outflow last week was Grayscale Ethereum Trust ETHE, with a weekly net outflow of $49.2393 million, and ETHE's historical total net outflow has reached $5.25 billion. As of the time of writing, the total net asset value of Ethereum spot ETFs is $13.79 billion, with an ETF net asset ratio of 4.91%, and the historical cumulative net inflow has reached $12 billion.

According to Coinglass data, the Coinbase Bitcoin Premium Index has been positive for 18 consecutive days, currently reported at 0.0336%.The Coinbase Bitcoin Premium Index is used to measure the difference between the Bitcoin price on Coinbase (a mainstream trading platform in the U.S.) and the global market average price. A negative premium typically reflects greater selling pressure in the U.S. market, a decline in investor risk appetite, increased market risk aversion, or capital outflows.

According to CoinDesk, while quantum computers cannot disrupt the Bitcoin mining mechanism or the blockchain ledger, they may potentially crack the elliptic curve encryption system that protects wallet ownership through Shor's algorithm. Currently, about 6.9 million BTC (approximately one-third of the total supply) face potential risks due to public keys being visible on-chain, including around 1 million early holdings by Satoshi Nakamoto; transactions generated after the Taproot upgrade in 2021 are also affected due to public key exposure.Ethereum has established a formal quantum resistance migration plan since 2018, with 4 full-time teams and over 10 independent development groups, and has launched a dedicated progress website at pq.ethereum.org. In contrast, Bitcoin currently lacks a unified response roadmap, and the existing BIP-360 proposal and BitMEX Research detection scheme have not received widespread support from core developers. Notable Bitcoin advocate Nic Carter pointed out that Bitcoin's response is "the worst," while Blockstream CEO Adam Back believes that current quantum systems are still in the laboratory stage, but he also agrees that optional upgrade solutions should be deployed in advance.Analysts point out that Bitcoin's anti-centralization governance culture makes coordinating large-scale security upgrades extremely difficult, and how to handle historical legacy issues such as Satoshi Nakamoto's holdings is particularly challenging. A related paper from Google warns that once quantum attacks become a reality, the window for response may have already closed.

According to The Information, Anthropic and OpenAI have both experienced security incidents, raising market concerns about the safety of AI models themselves.Currently, Anthropic is investigating potential unauthorized access to its Claude Mythos model by users. Almost simultaneously, OpenAI was also reported to have accidentally exposed several unreleased models in its Codex application. Industry opinions indicate that these vulnerability incidents have intensified scrutiny on the security governance capabilities of AI companies and reflect that the security systems of current AI technology still need improvement as it rapidly develops. Analysts believe that even AI model providers that focus on cybersecurity capabilities face significant security challenges themselves. As AI is gradually used to defend against cyberattacks, issues related to platform security and access control have also become critical risk points.

Coinbase stated that it is optimizing the rule creation process in its anti-fraud system by integrating machine learning models with a rules engine, achieving more efficient risk management. It also proposed a dual-track strategy of "models responsible for long-term defense, rules responsible for rapid response," and built a unified framework to create a feedback loop between the two: rules are used to capture new types of fraud and train the model in reverse, thereby continuously enhancing overall defense capabilities.In terms of specific optimizations, Coinbase has transformed the previously manual rule creation process into a data-driven and automated recommendation system by restructuring data, automating schema evolution, and introducing notebook-based analytical tools, significantly improving efficiency. Among these improvements, the performance of rule backtesting has increased by more than 10 times, and the overall response time has been reduced from several days to a few hours. Additionally, the new system uses machine learning to recommend parameters, helping to reduce false positive rates while combating fraud and minimizing the impact on normal users. Coinbase indicated that the next step will be to advance event-driven automatic rule generation and explore the "one-click conversion" of efficient rules into model features, further moving towards an automated risk management system.

According to SoSoValue data, most sectors of the cryptocurrency market have risen, with the NFT sector performing outstandingly, climbing for three consecutive days, and increasing by 2.63% in the last 24 hours. Among them, Pudgy Penguins (PENGU) rose by 8.88%, Blur (BLUR) rose by 8.32%, and Audiera (BEAT) and Zora (ZORA) rose by 3.17% and 3.64%, respectively.At the same time, Bitcoin (BTC) rose by 2.76%, breaking through $78,000; Ethereum (ETH) rose by 2.09%, approaching $2,400. In other sectors, the Layer2 sector rose by 1.14% in the last 24 hours, with Starknet (STRK) rising by 18.56%; the Meme sector rose by 1.12%, with SPX6900 (SPX) rising by 14.87%; the DeFi sector rose by 0.85%, with Genius (GENIUS) rising by 16.71%; the CeFi sector rose by 0.83%, with Bitget Token (BGB) rising by 3.08%; the Layer1 sector rose by 0.58%, with Canton Network (CC) rising by 2.65%; the PayFi sector fell by 0.24%, but Ultima (ULTIMA) rose by 5.94%.The cryptocurrency sector index reflecting historical market trends shows that the ssiRWA, ssiNFT, and ssiLayer1 indices rose by 3.72%, 3.36%, and 1.55%, respectively.

MetaMask co-founder Dan Finlay announced today (April 23) that he has officially left Consensys, marking the end of over a decade of building MetaMask. He stated that the reason for his departure is professional burnout and the need to spend more time with his family, and he expressed his best wishes for the future development of the team.Dan Finlay also expressed his satisfaction with the recent official launch of the advanced permission feature (ERC-7715) for MetaMask, believing that this feature fills an important gap in the product that has existed for a long time, and he looks forward to experiencing this feature as an ordinary user in the future.

According to the official announcement from the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) of Thailand, the Thai SEC is publicly soliciting opinions on adjusting the licensing rules for futures contracts. The core content allows existing digital asset business operators to directly apply for a futures contract business license without the need to establish a new company, while also formally including digital assets in the category of reference targets for futures contracts.

The Web3 asset data platform RootData has outlined the Web3 business partners of Zero Hash, whose partners cover key areas such as asset management institutions, payment channels, public chain infrastructure, and stablecoin systems, and are building a cooperative network centered on compliance clearing and asset access.Structurally, Zero Hash is committed to becoming a B-end crypto financial infrastructure provider, offering institutions a one-stop capability of "fiat currency → crypto assets → multi-chain circulation → stablecoin settlement":Upstream, it connects asset management and financial platforms such as Morgan Stanley, Franklin Templeton, and Republic; on the funding entry side, it interfaces with payment and fiat channels like Stripe, Ramp, and Transak; at the infrastructure level, it covers multi-chain infrastructures such as Ethereum, Solana, Polygon, Avalanche, and Aptos; at the same time, it connects with stablecoin systems like Circle, Tether, Paxos, as well as PYUSD and RLUSD, completing clearing and settlement support.In addition, Zero Hash, as one of the few infrastructure providers holding money transmission licenses (MTL) in multiple U.S. states and possessing complete regulatory framework adaptation capabilities, has a very clear common characteristic among its partners: funding entry (banks/payments), asset carriers (stablecoins/public chains), or distribution platforms (financial products/applications). Related collection 【Zero Hash Web3 Partner Network Collection (Continuously Updated)】Crypto projects actively showcasing their partner networks has become a key way to enhance transparency and market trust. It is reported that RootData welcomes Web3 project parties to claim data and continues to track and open more project business relationship disclosure channels. The platform has continuously released multiple versions of the crypto project ecosystem map, nominating Web3 ecological partners for upstream clients such as Visa, Mastercard, and Coinbase.If you wish to nominate your project in future ecosystem maps, please fill out the 【RootData 2026 Industry Ecosystem Mapping】 form to supplement your important clients and partners.

According to CoinDesk, the Bitcoin Coinbase premium index has been positive for 14 consecutive days since April 9, marking the longest bullish record since BTC reached its historical high of over $126,000 in 2025.As the preferred exchange for institutional investors in the United States, Coinbase's sustained positive premium indicates that U.S. institutions such as corporate treasuries, hedge funds, and ETFs are actively buying BTC.

According to Cointelegraph, bipartisan lawmakers in the United States jointly announced the "PACE Act," which aims to create a unified national payment license for fintech companies and cryptocurrency companies, to be regulated by the Office of the Comptroller of the Currency (OCC).

According to DL News, the Russian government has published a draft bill on the State Duma website, proposing to hold criminal liability for organizing the circulation of digital currencies without registration or permission from the Central Bank of Russia, with a maximum penalty of 7 years of forced labor.The draft states that ordinary violators could face fines of up to approximately $4,000 and a maximum sentence of 4 years; operators of large cryptocurrency trading platforms could face fines of up to approximately $13,000, and responsible individuals could be sentenced to 5 to 7 years. The bill also proposes that most cryptocurrency transactions be completed through commercial bank apps and imposes penalties on industrial cryptocurrency miners for unreported activities. If approved by the State Duma and the president, the new regulations are set to take effect on July 1, 2027.

Cryptocurrency market analyst Axel stated that Bitcoin's net flow has shifted from positive to negative since early March, peaking at a strong outflow of -300,000 BTC on March 25, and as of today, it remains in a net outflow state of -98,000 BTC.During the same period, the BTC reserves on trading platforms decreased from 2.786 million to 2.681 million, declining for seven consecutive weeks, with a total reduction of over 105,000 BTC. There was no panic inflow during the price correction in April, indicating that tokens continue to be held by long-term holders. The current pattern is interpreted as a synchronized accumulation signal, and there is a need to be cautious of the potential risk of net flow returning to positive territory.