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According to CNN, sources say that Iran is expected to submit a revised peace proposal soon.

According to Bitcoin.com, the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) has issued a notice seeking public comment on the rule change proposed by the NYSE Arca.The proposal requires that at least 85% of the assets in commodity trust shares must meet existing eligibility standards, with derivatives calculated based on nominal total value. Eligible assets include Bitcoin, Ethereum, Solana, and XRP, which have been traded on designated markets for at least six months and have exchange-traded products providing significant exposure, while NFTs and collectibles are explicitly excluded.If the trust holds Bitcoin and over-the-counter call options on Bitcoin ETFs, only about 71% of the exposure will meet the requirements and will not be approved. The proposal aims to limit most exposure to a manageable range of assets while allowing more products to be listed. The SEC can approve, reject, or initiate related procedures during the review period.

According to market news, the legislative committee of the Russian government has approved a proposal from the Ministry of Finance to include operations related to digital currencies within the scope of personal income tax collection, which includes cryptocurrency exchanges.The bill proposes that transaction costs be accounted for using the FIFO (First In, First Out) method and prohibits the carryover of losses from digital currency transactions to future tax periods. Meanwhile, certain services and transactions are proposed to be exempt from value-added tax, including services from digital custodians, cryptocurrency exchange services, and certain foreign digital rights transactions without physical delivery. For debt-type digital financial assets (such as tokenized bonds), the bill sets separate profit tax calculation rules and allows for loss carryover. Previously, the State Duma of Russia had passed the "Digital Currency and Digital Rights" bill in its first reading.

According to official news, a new proposal from Compound has been launched, aiming to support the rsETH recovery initiative coordinated by DeFi United, with a maximum contribution of 3,000 ETH.The proposal states that although Compound's direct risk exposure is expected to be limited, this move reflects its broader commitment to maintaining the integrity of the DeFi market and will participate in recovery efforts that help enhance the resilience and long-term sustainability of the DeFi ecosystem.

El Salvador has added a total of 8 bitcoins in the past 7 days and 31 bitcoins in the past 30 days. Currently, its bitcoin holdings amount to 7,633.37 bitcoins, with a total value of 624 million dollars.

The on-chain analysis platform Arkham posted on X that the Ethereum Foundation has unstaked approximately $48.9 million worth of ETH. Tracking data shows that the Ethereum Foundation has deposited WSTETH into Lido's unstETH contract, and after the unlocking process is completed, it will receive the corresponding ETH.The market's focus is on whether the ETH unstaked by the Ethereum Foundation will be sold further. Previously, the Ethereum Foundation has sold ETH multiple times for operational fund management, raising ongoing concerns in the market about potential selling pressure.

According to official news, after discussions with multiple stakeholders, Aave service providers, ether.fi, KelpDAO, and other projects have submitted a governance proposal to the Arbitrum DAO, requesting the release of ETH that was frozen by the Arbitrum security committee after the rsETH incident on April 18.The announcement stated that if these ETH are released, the funds will be directed to DeFi United. Aave firmly believes that this contribution will significantly advance the path to a solution.

According to on-chain analyst Ai Yi's monitoring, an early Ethereum whale has once again transferred 10,000 ETH (approximately $23.21 million) to a multi-signature address, which may sell the received tokens soon. The address 0x26c...B9392 has accumulated a total of 12,001 ETH deposited to OKX over the past two months, with a total value of $24.62 million. Based on past experience, the ETH transferred to this address will typically flow to exchanges in batches later.

Ethereum developer Tom Lehman has released a draft proposal for EIP-8182, which aims to make private transactions a native feature of Ethereum by introducing shared privacy pools, a fixed address system contract, and zero-knowledge proof verification precompiles at the Ethereum protocol layer.The proposal states that the solution will be implemented through a hard fork upgrade, without an administrator key, governance tokens, or on-chain upgrade mechanisms, with the goal of addressing the issues of decentralization and inconsistent trust models in privacy applications. As designed, users can make private transactions to any Ethereum address or ENS name using existing wallets, and it supports atomic "de-sensitization - interaction - re-privatization" processes.

According to monitoring by Lookonchain, Riot Platforms transferred 500 BTC to NYDIG again 6 hours ago, worth approximately 38.95 million dollars, continuing its recent selling operations.

The ether.fi community has released a proposal to "Utilize treasury funds to restore the collateral assets of rsETH." The proposal includes injecting 5,000 ETH into the rsETH special rescue pool to cover the collateral gap, protect user assets, and prevent bad debts from spreading in the DeFi system.

Circle Chief Economist Gordon Liao initiated a proposal on the Aave governance forum, suggesting an emergency adjustment to the USDC interest rate parameters in the Aave V3 Ethereum main pool to address the situation where the pool's utilization rate has remained at a very high level of 99.87% for four consecutive days following the KelpDAO attack incident.Liao stated that Aave's current interest rate mechanism has failed to effectively "clear" the market. The current supply of the pool is $1.89 billion, with the borrowing amount also at $1.89 billion, and available liquidity is less than $3 million. The borrowing interest rate remains at the upper limit after the inflection point (around 14%), and over the past 24 hours, the pool size has shrunk by about $60 million—this is due to repayment funds being used one by one to meet the withdrawal demands in the queue.Therefore, the Slope 2 parameter in the USDC deposit interest rate curve should be immediately increased from about 10% to 40% through the Risk Steward mechanism, and further confirmation to raise the target to 50% should be achieved through governance voting within 5 to 7 days. Meanwhile, the optimal utilization will be adjusted down from 92% to 87% during the transition phase, and after final confirmation, it will be reduced to 85%. According to Liao's proposal, under the new parameter settings, when the utilization rate reaches 100%, the maximum USDC deposit interest rate will increase from about 12.6% to 48.2%.

QCP stated that BTC rebounded from an overnight low near $75,000 to around $78,000, but this rise seems more like a correction after a calming of risk sentiment rather than a new phase for the market.The report pointed out that Trump's unilateral extension of the ceasefire with Iran has reduced expectations for short-term escalation of conflict, but the Strait of Hormuz remains largely closed, and Iran's position is still unclear. Meanwhile, oil prices remain around $100 per barrel, creating a coexistence of inflationary pressure and slowing growth. QCP also noted that BTC's open interest has significantly rebounded, and the funding rate remains negative, indicating that shorts are still increasing their positions during the rise; the options market overall is still pricing for volatility rather than a continuation of trends.

According to Gate market data, the U.S. retail sales month-on-month rate exceeded expectations, causing the dollar index DXY to rise slightly in the short term, while spot gold fell by 14 dollars in the short term.

U.S. Senator Thom Tillis is urging the Senate Banking Committee to postpone the consideration of the cryptocurrency market structure bill until May, in order to allow more time for finalizing a compromise on stablecoin regulation between banks and the cryptocurrency industry.This move aims to provide additional negotiation space around key disagreements regarding stablecoins and to promote the formation of a more viable regulatory framework.

According to BBX data, the bidirectional penetration of traditional financial institutions and industrial infrastructure into the crypto space has accelerated over the weekend, with the following core dynamics:The Charles Schwab Corporation (NYSE: $SCHW) officially launched the Schwab Crypto platform in phases on April 17, opening direct trading of Bitcoin and Ethereum spot to 39 million active brokerage account customers through its Charles Schwab Premier Bank, SSB, with compliance custody and trade execution provided by Paxos, and a fee of 75 basis points per transaction; initially excluding New York and Louisiana. The company recorded earnings per share of $1.43 and revenue of $6.48 billion in Q1 2026, with total customer assets of approximately $12.22 trillion as of early 2026.Alcoa Corporation (NYSE: $AA) CEO Bill Oplinger confirmed in a Bloomberg interview on April 17 that the company is in deep negotiations with Bitcoin financial services company NYDIG regarding the sale of the Massena East smelter site in New York (1,300 acres, closed since 2014), which "should be completed by mid-year." The site is adjacent to the St. Lawrence River and can access hydroelectric resources provided by the New York Power Authority; NYDIG has been operating Bitcoin mining facilities there since 2024 and will gain full control of the infrastructure after the acquisition. The financial terms of the transaction have not been disclosed.

Aave core member Marc Zeller announced on the X platform that he has initiated a proposal to end the Aave-Chan Initiative {ACI} Frontier project. He stated that he has been operating the Ethereum staking node on behalf of the Aave DAO for many years, but given the current situation, he has chosen to withdraw all validators and provide all ETH to the Aave DAO, potentially protecting wETH depositors, while also giving up all potential income related to this service to reduce the potential impact on users.It is reported that Marc Zeller has been one of the most active figures in the Aave ecosystem, participating in the formulation of incentive mechanisms through the Aave Chan Initiative, and he previously announced that he would withdraw from Aave in July.

According to documents from the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC), the New York Stock Exchange (NYSE) submitted a rule change proposal to the SEC (File No. SR-NYSE-2026-17) to add Rule 7.5 and amend related provisions, allowing eligible securities to be traded in tokenized form on the exchange.The proposal is based on the three-year tokenization pilot program by the Depository Trust Company (DTC) and is modeled after similar rules previously approved by the SEC for Nasdaq. According to the proposal, tokenized securities must share the same CUSIP number, trading code, and shareholder rights as traditional securities to trade with equal priority on the same order book. The initial scope is limited to components of the Russell 1000 Index and ETFs tracking major indices, with a settlement cycle remaining unchanged at T+1, and existing regulatory rules will also apply to tokenized securities.

According to data from TheMinerMag, in the first quarter of 2026, publicly listed Bitcoin mining companies including MARA, CleanSpark, Riot, Cango, Core Scientific, and Bitdeer collectively sold over 32,000 BTC, surpassing the total amount sold throughout last year and even exceeding the sell-off levels triggered by the Terra-Luna collapse in Q2 2022, setting a "new record for a single quarter."The backdrop of this sell-off is the key metric for measuring miner profitability, "hashprice," which has fallen to a historical low of below $35 per PH/s per day, with about 20% of miners already in the red. Asset management firm CoinShares stated in its report: "Unless the BTC price rebounds significantly, high-cost miners will further capitulate in the first half of 2026."

According to market news, Blockstream CEO Adam Back stated at the Paris Blockchain Week that he supports the optional advancement of Bitcoin's quantum resistance upgrade and opposes the proposal to forcibly freeze quantum-vulnerable addresses. He emphasized that "preparation is much safer than hasty responses in a crisis" and pointed out that the Bitcoin community has the coordination ability to respond quickly to urgent vulnerabilities.Previously, the BIP-361 proposal ("Post-Quantum Migration and Legacy Signature Sunset") put forward by developers Jameson Lopp and five others advocated for the gradual elimination of quantum-vulnerable addresses over five years, ultimately freezing coins that have not completed migration— including approximately 1.7 million Bitcoins held by Satoshi Nakamoto.