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Nasdaq-listed company Tron Inc. (TRON) announced that today it has increased its holdings by 154,494 TRX tokens at an average price of $0.3236, further raising the total amount of TRX in its treasury to over 693.3 million tokens. Tron Inc. plans to further expand the scale of its TRX treasury to enhance long-term shareholder value.

The Humanity Foundation has recently made significant adjustments to the $H token allocation plan, requiring investors to make a final choice between two options by April 26 at 09:00 UTC: one, extend the distribution, pushing the Cliff to September 25, 2026, and changing to equal distribution over 12 quarters; two, a 3:10 discounted immediate unlock, replacing the original 16,666,666 tokens with 5,000,000 $H (a 70% reduction), to be fully distributed on June 25, 2026.It is understood that the Humanity Foundation has sent adjustment notifications to over 100 investors. Early investment firm Trix Ventures has publicly disclosed its choice of the discounted immediate unlock.It is reported that this firm invested during the project's valuation phase of approximately $60 million, and even after the 3:10 discounted replacement, it can still achieve about 7 times return. Notably, the Humanity Protocol previously reached an in-depth cooperation with payment giant Mastercard, and the project's fundamentals have received endorsement from traditional financial institutions. The on-chain identity verification sector it belongs to is currently in its early market stage, but with the continuous expansion of AI-generated content and automated accounts, the demand for on-chain real identity verification is widely believed to grow exponentially, giving this sector long-term potential to become a leading project in the Web3 infrastructure field.The project is about to face a test of significant selling pressure from a one-time massive unlock, and whether it can grow explosively alongside the AI sector is crucial. Analysts point out that choosing the one-time unlock on June 25 is a safer decision. In the current market cycle, "certain liquidity" far outweighs paper numbers. The deferred plan extends the cycle to 3 years, with huge uncertainties regarding the protocol's survival and team stability.From a market structure perspective, June 25 faces obvious concentrated selling pressure risks: the Sablier contract release node is transparent on-chain, and quantitative and short-selling funds will precisely target this node; institutions may lock in profits by hedging in advance during the two-month window; market makers may withdraw buy depth in advance, causing the actual realization value to be less than 10% of the nominal value. Historically, large-scale concentrated unlocks of Starknet (STRK) and ApeCoin (APE) have triggered severe selling pressure, with the former dropping over 95% from its peak and the latter declining 77% within 7 months.

According to South Korean media Newsis, a company finance employee in their 20s was sentenced to 3 years in prison by the Busan District Court for embezzling funds for cryptocurrency investments.The court found that between 2021 and 2025, they transferred company funds to personal accounts approximately 680 times, embezzling a total of about 570 million won, and used the related funds for trading cryptocurrencies, overseas travel, and living expenses; they also forged company deposit trust balance certificates to cover up the crime.

The Monetary Authority of Singapore has released a consultation document proposing to establish a more friendly regulatory capital guideline for the treatment of crypto assets on permissionless blockchains before implementing the Basel capital requirements for crypto assets.It is reported that the Basel capital requirements for crypto assets categorize them into two groups. The first group involves tokenized traditional assets and stablecoins, which are subject to lower capital requirements.The second group involves crypto assets that do not meet the above conditions. The Monetary Authority of Singapore intends to abandon the practice of categorizing all crypto assets on permissionless blockchains as part of the second group, allowing them to be classified as first group crypto assets with lower risk weights and more lenient prudential requirements, provided they meet a series of principled requirements. Specifically, for banks registered in Singapore, the risk exposure of permissionless blockchain crypto assets classified as first group crypto assets must not exceed 2% of the bank's Tier 1 capital, and if the issuance creates liabilities at the bank level, the issuance scale must not exceed 5% of Tier 1 capital.

The Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) of the Philippines has issued an investor warning, reminding the public not to invest in seven cryptocurrency trading platforms including dYdX, Aevo, gTrade, Pacifica, Orderly, Deriv, and Ostium.The SEC stated that the aforementioned platforms are not registered with the commission and have not obtained the necessary authorization required under the cryptocurrency asset service provider (CASP) framework. At the same time, the SEC warned that individuals promoting these platforms within the Philippines may be held criminally liable, facing fines of up to 5,000,000 Philippine pesos (approximately 89,000 USD) or a maximum of 21 years in prison.

ChainCatcher reported live that Justin Sun, the founder of TRON, shared a keynote speech titled "From TRON to B.AI: Infrastructure as the Game-Changer in the AI Era" at this year's 2026 Hong Kong Web3 Carnival.He introduced that TRON currently supports about 86.4 billion USDT, with other stablecoins bringing the total close to 90 billion dollars, and the global account number has reached 376 million, making it one of the largest stablecoin settlement networks in the world. He emphasized that the most important aspects of financial services are stability and security, rather than being cheap.He pointed out that the existing payment systems are not compatible with AI, as bank accounts require human identity for opening, and each payment needs manual authorization, which cannot support high-frequency decision-making by AI. B.AI is building the underlying financial infrastructure for AI agents, allowing each AI to operate without becoming human, managing keys and on-chain wallets through cryptography to complete payments, and can anonymously call the world's most

In the first quarter of 2026, public Bitcoin miners sold over 32,000 BTC, setting a record liquidation, while shifting capital towards AI infrastructure due to rising mining costs.

According to CoinDesk, Liz Truss, the former Prime Minister of the UK with the shortest term, stated in an interview that the UK economy is on a "very negative trajectory," with high taxes, excessive regulation, and energy costs making it so that the risks for entrepreneurs "often do not justify the returns." She attributed inflation and wealth inequality to "currency devaluation" and pointed out that discussions about monetary policy within the government have become "taboo," a phenomenon that is "quite disturbing."Truss expressed that she is "very interested" in Bitcoin, believing it to be an important tool against currency devaluation and to resist centralized financial control, and revealed that she had come into contact with Bitcoin as early as during her time as Chief Secretary to the Treasury.She is currently actively preparing for CPAC UK, planning to hold a three-day conference to unite entrepreneurs and activists to promote the "sovereignty and freedom" movement, stating bluntly: "There are only two choices, either sink or change completely."

Nine hours ago, the last 5,020 ETH ($12.33 million) was transferred to Coinbase. The ETH raised by the Ethereum privacy L2 Aztec project last year has now been fully liquidated.Last December, the project auctioned off 15% of AZTEC (1.5 billion tokens) and received 19,388.4 ETH ($5.913 million), with an AZTEC fundraising price of $0.0473 (which has now dropped by 50%). In February of this year, during their TGE, they took 4,234.6 ETH ($1.291 million) from the auction funds to provide liquidity. The remaining 15,154 ETH ($37 million) has been gradually transferred to Coinbase over the past three months, with the final transfer of 5,020 ETH occurring early this morning.

According to official news, the NFT public chain Mint Blockchain announced that the blockchain network officially ceased operations on April 17, 2026. To ensure the safety of user assets, the project team reminds all users to transfer their on-chain assets to the Ethereum mainnet as soon as possible, including assets such as ETH, WBTC, USDC, and USDT.The announcement states that users need to complete the asset migration through the extraction channel provided by the official team, with a deadline of October 20, 2026. Before this deadline, users can still perform asset extraction operations normally to ensure the safe transfer of funds to external networks. If users do not complete the extraction before the deadline, the related assets will no longer be processed or recoverable.

According to DefiLlama data, the total locked value (TVL) of Plasma, a Layer 1 blockchain designed for global stablecoin payments, has reached $2 billion, with a weekly increase of 27% and a monthly increase of over 80%, rising to become the seventh largest blockchain. One of the key driving factors for this growth is that Plasma was selected as one of the first supported networks for Tether's self-custody wallet launched on April 14, alongside Ethereum and Arbitrum.This wallet supports USD₮, XAU₮, USA₮, and Bitcoin, allowing users to trade without holding a separate Gas token. According to CoinDesk, the driving factors behind the expansion of Plasma's TVL are not yet clear, but may be related to optimistic expectations regarding the potential approval of the U.S. CLARITY Act.

NVIDIA CEO Jensen Huang recently stated on the Dwarkesh podcast that the company chooses to invest broadly in a large number of tech companies rather than picking a few winners for two reasons: first, picking winners is not NVIDIA's responsibility; second, the company's own history serves as a lesson.Jensen Huang pointed out that when NVIDIA was founded, there were 60 3D graphics companies in the industry, and if one were to predict who would succeed at that time, NVIDIA would likely have been at the top of the least favored list. Currently, NVIDIA, as the world's most valuable company, has made extensive investments in AI ecosystems, biotechnology, robotics, and autonomous driving, holding shares in publicly traded companies such as CoreWeave, Intel, Synopsys, and Nokia.In the field of large language models, NVIDIA committed to investing up to $10 billion in Anthropic last November and announced a $30 billion investment in OpenAI this February. Jensen Huang stated at a March meeting that since both companies are about to go public, these might be NVIDIA's last rounds of investment in them.

XRP Ledger announced the integration of zero-knowledge infrastructure provider Boundless to support banks and asset management institutions in executing transactions on the public chain that balance privacy protection and compliance.According to reports, this solution can hide sensitive information such as transaction size, frequency, and counterparties, while still allowing regulatory agencies to conduct audits through selective disclosure and role-based access control, thus achieving a balance between privacy and compliance. This integration will support institutional scenarios such as cross-border B2B payments, fund and capital management, over-the-counter (OTC) trading, tokenized asset issuance, and on-chain trading and lending.Industry insiders believe that the contradiction between the transparency of public chains and the demand for privacy has always been a significant barrier to institutional adoption, and this solution aims to reduce the so-called "transparency tax." Meanwhile, competition in the privacy track continues to heat up. Technologies such as zero-knowledge proofs (ZK) and fully homomorphic encryption (FHE) are accelerating implementation, pushing privacy capabilities from optional features to underlying infrastructure. Data shows that the market size of tokenized assets has reached approximately $29.25 billion, with a monthly increase of about 7.9%.

As the infiltration and attacks targeting the cryptocurrency industry continue to escalate, security experts point out that the core difference from hackers with backgrounds in other countries is that cryptocurrency assets have become an important direct source of financing for military expenses in that country. Reports indicate that during a recent months-long infiltration operation against Drift Protocol, North Korean hackers once again caused a stir in the industry.Experts state that this model is not merely a "fund transfer tool," but rather a direct "predatory profit" mechanism used to bypass international sanctions and obtain immediately usable hard currency. Security researchers note that, unlike countries such as Russia and Iran, North Korea almost entirely lacks sustainable foreign economic and commodity export capabilities, making it more reliant on cryptocurrency theft as a core source of income to support its nuclear weapons and ballistic missile programs.Experts also emphasize that North Korean hacker attack targets have expanded from simple phishing to exchanges, wallet services, and key holders of DeFi protocols, commonly employing long-term social engineering and identity disguise infiltration methods. Due to the characteristic of blockchain transactions being "irreversible once confirmed," the cryptocurrency industry is far weaker than the traditional financial system in terms of freezing and recovering funds, making such attacks more destructive in speed and scale. Security personnel warn that this type of "long-term infiltration + precise power seizure" attack model has yet to be effectively addressed by the industry.

Binance co-founder He Yi (@heyibinance) published a lengthy article on the X platform on April 10, directly responding to a series of accusations made by OKX founder Xu Mingxing (@star_okx) against CZ and Binance. He Yi refuted each point in the article, stating that Xu deliberately blamed Binance for the market crash on March 11, defined the BNB chain meme as market manipulation by Binance, hired online trolls to suppress competitors, and engaged in "six tactics" such as creating controversies to drive traffic to himself. He bluntly stated, "You know too well how to attack a professional woman," emphasizing that his position is earned through independent effort and is unrelated to anyone else.At the end of the article, He Yi also responded strongly to personal attacks against him, stating, "You know too well how to attack a professional woman, just by stigmatizing 'she is where she is today because of a man,' deliberately creating scandalous rumors, and belittling me as 'a trophy'," and emphasized, "My identity is not given by anyone; I built my own empire. I came, I saw, I conquered; this applies to both my career and my relationships."Previously, CZ (@cz_binance) had posted about Xu Mingxing's public $1 billion bet, demanding that he "apologize like a man." Xu Mingxing responded by stating that CZ's public initiation of a huge bet contradicts the professional ethics expected of executives at regulated exchanges. The debate between the two parties is still ongoing.

According to Business Insider, SpaceX executive Michael Nicolls pointed out in a memo sent to xAI employees that the company's training performance is "embarrassingly low" and clearly stated that xAI is "significantly behind" its competitors. Previous reports indicated that xAI is experiencing staff turnover and team adjustments.The memo announced an immediate reorganization of the engineering team, appointing several new leaders responsible for pre-training, post-training, infrastructure, and other modules. This move is part of a comprehensive reconstruction pushed by Elon Musk after SpaceX acquired xAI in February 2026, aimed at quickly catching up with competitors like OpenAI, Anthropic, and Google.

OKX founder and CEO Star responded on Twitter regarding the "12 years ago OKCoin employee forged contract" incident, stating that the evidence of the richest man (suspected to refer to CZ) forging contracts during his tenure at OKCoin was already publicly available on the internet 12 years ago. Star also attached a YouTube video disclosed at that time, which contains QQ chat records between "CZ" and an accountant.According to CZ's new book "Binance Life," in the early years, CZ worked at the exchange OKCoin founded by Xu Mingxing. In January 2015, Xu Mingxing attempted to renegotiate his 10% stake in OKXCoin. CZ stated in the book that after his departure, Xu Mingxing continued to accuse him of forging the cooperation contract between Roger Ver and OKCoin during his tenure.