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04-09
U.S. Law Enforcement Groups Oppose DeFi Developer Protections in Senate Crypto Market Structure Bill
ME News reports that on April 9 (UTC+8), multiple law enforcement groups, including the National Sheriffs’ Association and the National District Attorneys Association, recently sent letters to members of Congress opposing a provision in the Senate’s Cryptocurrency Market Structure Bill that shields ...
DeSci Project NanoVita Completes $20M Series A Funding Round
Huo Xing Cai Jing reports that the new DeSci project NanoVita has announced the completion of its Series A funding round today, achieving a post-money valuation of $20 million, with co-investment from K24 Ventures, LandScape Capital, and WestLabs.
NanoVita is a decentralized science (DeSci) protoco...
Crypto Market Slides as BTC, ETH, XRP Drop 1.1% to 3.5% in 24 Hours
Crypto market drops as Bitcoin Ethereum XRP record notable lossesAltcoins decline sharply while traders shift focus to smaller tokensMajor cryptocurrencies struggle as selling pressure intensifies across marketA wave of selling pressure pushed the cryptocurrency market lower, with leading assets rec...
Israel Orders Energean to Resume Operations at the Karish Gas Platform
ME News reports that on April 9 (UTC+8), Israel’s Ministry of Energy announced that, following the ceasefire agreement between the U.S. and Iran, it has instructed international oil and gas exploration and production company Energean to resume operations at the Karish natural gas platform off Israel...
Filecoin Onchain Cloud Launches Mainnet with 49.41 TiB Stored
Mainnet launch key dataFilecoin Onchain Cloud (FOC) has officially launched on mainnet. It is a programmable storage and payment infrastructure built for the AI Agent era—data possession is verified through on-chain proofs, payments are automatically executed via smart contracts, and every action ge...
DeSci Project NanoVita Completes $20M Series A Funding
ChainCatcher report: The new DeSci project NanoVita today announced the completion of its Series A funding round, achieving a post-money valuation of $20 million, with participation from K24 Ventures, LandScape Capital, and WestLabs.
NanoVita is a decentralized science (DeSci) protocol that deeply ...
Visa, Mastercard, and Stripe Aggressively Expand Stablecoin Settlement Infrastructure
For most of the past two years, debate about stablecoins in payments has focused on the checkout screen: will consumers ever tap a wallet instead of a card?Visa, Stripe, and Mastercard have answered with their capital. Visa now settles in USDC, Stripe bought Bridge, and Mastercard is acquiring BVNK....
Circle Launches Managed Services to Simplify Stablecoin Payments
Circle introduces Managed Services to simplify stablecoin adoption and reduce technical and compliance barriers.CPN Managed Payments enables fiat-native access to USDC settlement through a single API integration model.Growing demand for faster payments drives adoption, with stablecoin volumes exceed...
WeChat Pay Launches AI-Native Toolkit for Low-Barrier Payment Integration
Huo Xing Finance reports that WeChat Pay has officially launched an AI-native integration toolkit, offering merchants and developers a low-barrier payment integration solution that enables rapid generation of payment functionality code through natural language commands.
The toolkit consists of Skil...
Tom Lee Confirms U.S. Stock Market Bottom, Forecasts S&P 500 to Reach 7,300 by Year-End
ChainCatcher report: Tom Lee stated on CNBC that the market bottom has been established, noting that equities did not decline during prior escalations in conflict and rising oil prices, and that the current situation is de-escalating. He expects the S&P 500 to reach 7,300 by year-end, a 7.6% increas...
Iran Proposes Charging Bitcoin for Oil Tanker Passage Through the Strait of Hormuz
Original | Odaily Planet Daily (@OdailyChina)Author | Golem (@web3_golem)Some news stories immediately spark speculation, such as the one on April 8—Iran proposed charging a $1 per barrel toll on tankers passing through the Strait of Hormuz during a two-week ceasefire, payable in Bitcoin.The crypto ...
WeChat Pay Launches AI-Native Integration Toolkit for Low-Barrier Payment Solutions
ChainCatcher report: WeChat Pay has officially launched an AI-native integration toolkit, offering merchants and developers a low-barrier payment integration solution that enables rapid generation of payment functionality code through natural language commands.
The toolkit consists of Skill package...
Gobi Partners invests in Transak to expand compliant stablecoin and digital asset payments in Asia.
According to Chainwire, leading Asian venture capital firm Gobi Partners has announced an investment in Transak. Founded in 2019, Transak provides financial institutions with a single API for fiat-to-crypto and crypto-to-fiat conversions, uniformly handling KYC, AML, risk monitoring, and local payme...
KuCoin Trading Bot to Delist WILDUSDT, ALUUSDT, and PUFFERUSDT on April 16, 2026
Derived from Announcement, KuCoin Trading Bot will delist WILDUSDT, ALUUSDT, and PUFFERUSDT at 7:00 on April 16, 2026 (UTC), affecting Futures Grid, AI Futures Trend, Futures Martingale, and DualFutures AI. Users are advised to shut down their bots before the deadline; otherwise, the system will aut...
KuCoin Isolated Margin Adds StakeStone (STO) Trading Pair
In accordance with Announcement, KuCoin's Isolated Margin Trading has added the StakeStone (STO) asset and trading pair. New margin and borrowable assets include STO, with a new margin pair STO/USDT. The forced liquidation fee for STO is 4%, while USDT is 0%. The margin coefficient for STO is 0.97. ...
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