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04-09

Base Announces 12 Projects in Batch 003 of Its Accelerator Program

Huo Xing Cai Jing reports that on April 9, Base announced the入选名单 for Base Batches 003 accelerator, featuring 12 projects. These include AI agent infrastructure Blockrun.ai, prediction market Stealth, AI agent payment infrastructure 4Mica, privacy-focused Perp DEX OPAL, gamified social prediction pl...

White House Report: Banning Stablecoin Yields Offers Little Bank Protection

On April 8, the White House Council of Economic Advisers (CEA) released a 21-page research report titled "Effects of Stablecoin Yield Prohibition on Bank Lending," directly challenging the banking industry's core lobbying argument: that prohibiting crypto companies from offering yield on stablecoins...

LIT Surges 40% Amid Buybacks and Telegram Integration

Peter Thiel-backed Lighter perpetual DEX has accelerated the buyback of its native LIT token. On 08 April, the project announced it had bought and locked 10 million LIT. This translated to 4% of the current circulation of 250 million tokens since its debut last December. A month ago, the buyback pro...

Whale opens a 4.35M ETH long position with a $2,220 take-profit target.

ME News reports that, on April 9 (UTC+8), according to Hyperinsight monitoring, a whale address starting with 0x9fa opened a long position on ETH with 10x leverage over the past two hours, holding approximately $4.35 million at an average price of $2,179 and a liquidation price of $2,001. Within the...

U.S. Labor Department rule may enable the $12 trillion 401(k) market to access Bitcoin

Written by: Thejaswini M ACompiled by Chopper, Foresight NewsAny default option will eventually become the choice of the majority. In behavioral economics, this is known as the "default effect."The history of the entire U.S. pension system is a history of default options. In the 1980s, the default o...

Ripple CTO Comments on New York Times' Bitcoin Creator Investigation

Ripple’s David Schwartz saw the headline and could not resist. “Finally we have the definitive answer that will certainly end the debate forever,” the Ripple CTO wrote on X after the New York Times published what it described as an 18-month investigation into the identity of Bitcoin’s creator.Whethe...

Over $93.9 million withdrawn from the U.S. spot BTC ETF market

According to AiCoin monitoring, a significant amount of capital flowed out of the U.S. spot BTC ETF market yesterday, with a net outflow of $93.9 million. The largest outflow was from FBTC, at $79.1 million in a single day, followed by ARKB, with a net outflow of $74.7 million. Based on AiCoin’s de...

U.S. Labor Department rule may allow $12 trillion in 401(k) funds to invest in Bitcoin

Written by: Thejaswini M ACompiled by Chopper, Foresight NewsAny default option will eventually become the choice of the majority. In behavioral economics, this is known as the "default effect."The history of the U.S. pension system as a whole is a history of default options. In the 1980s, the defau...

Tom Lee: Markets Often Reach Their Bottom Early in Wars, Not After

Huoxing Finance reports that on April 9, Tom Lee told CNBC that last week’s escalation in U.S.-Iran tensions and rising oil prices did not lead to a decline in stock markets—a positive sign of “decoupling,” indicating that negative risks have already been priced in and that markets are resilient. Hi...

Whale opens a 4.35M ETH long position and sets a $2,220 take-profit order.

Huo Xing Finance reports that, according to Hyperinsight monitoring, over the past two hours, a whale wallet starting with 0x9fa opened a long position on ETH with 10x leverage, holding approximately $4.35 million at an average price of $2,179 and a liquidation price of $2,001. Within the following ...

Meme Coin Freedom of Money Drops 40% Following CZ’s Book Launch

ME News reports that, as of April 9 (UTC+8), data from GMGN shows that the BSC-based meme coin Freedom of Money has continued to decline since the official release of CZ’s English-language book and the anticipated launch. As of now, the token price has dropped nearly 40% from yesterday’s high and is...

Peter Schiff Predicts 92% Bitcoin Drop, Slams Michael Saylor's Strategy

Peter Schiff, the forever Bitcoin [BTC] critic, never misses a chance to take a jab at Bitcoin. In a fresh attack, he once again took a shot at the world’s leading cryptocurrency. Poking Bitcoin investors, the exec recently noted that if Bitcoin ends 2026 at $10,000, “it will still be the best-perfo...

Visa Launches AI-Powered Shopping Platform 'Intelligent Commerce Connect'

According to CoinTelegraph, Visa officially launched the "Intelligent Commerce Connect" platform this Wednesday, positioning it as a universal gateway for AI agent builders and merchants to enter AI-driven commerce. The platform enables secure payment initiation, tokenization, spending controls, and...

Ethereum spot ETFs recorded a $18.63 million net outflow on April 8, with Fidelity's FETH leading the outflow at $32.43 million.

According to ChainCatcher, data from SoSoValue shows that on yesterday (April 8 Eastern Time), the total net outflow of Ethereum spot ETFs amounted to $18.63 million. The Ethereum spot ETF with the highest single-day net inflow yesterday was BlackRock’s Staked ETH ETF (ETHB), with a net inflow of $...

Ju.com Meme Round 2 Phase 4 FLUFFY Launches April 9 with Dynamic Allocation Model

ChainCatcher update: Issue 3 of ZX820RR has officially launched, with a subscription success rate of 2.8%, an initial price of 0.132 USDT, and a new listing yield of 32%. The overall fund yield is approximately 1%. After the subscription assets for this ZX820RR issue are settled, there is no lock-up...

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