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04-09

US Treasury Secretary Urges Senate to Pass CLARITY Act Before Summer

US Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent is calling on the Senate to pass the CLARITY Act before summer. In a Wall Street Journal op-ed, he wrote that regulatory ambiguity had pushed crypto development to jurisdictions with clearer rules. The CLARITY Act crypto regulation is long overdue, according to Be...

Morgan Stanley's MSBT Undercuts BlackRock's IBIT Fee by 11 BPS, Analysts Weigh Implications

Morgan Stanley Bitcoin Trust (MSBT) launched on April 8 with a 0.14% expense ratio, making it the cheapest US spot Bitcoin ETF and undercutting BlackRock’s iShares Bitcoin Trust (IBIT) by 11 basis points.Senior ETF analyst Eric Balchunas, however, does not expect BlackRock to respond with a fee redu...

Maji Da Ge closes HYPE long position and adds 12,300 ETH to Ethereum position

Odaily Planet Daily reports, according to Hyperbot data, Huang Licheng’s recent HYPE long position was fully closed 20 minutes ago. He is currently continuing to add to his 25x leveraged Ethereum long position, with a current holding of 12,300 ETH, valued at $26.611 million, and a liquidation price ...

Analyst Keeps $80,000 Bitcoin Target Amid Stable Price Following PCE Inflation Data

ChainCatcher report: The latest U.S. PCE inflation data came in largely in line with expectations, easing market uncertainty, and Bitcoin’s price has stabilized after reaching approximately $73,000. The data showed core PCE increased 3% year-over-year and 0.4% month-over-month. The market has also b...

Canary Capital Files for Spot PEPE ETF Amid Mixed Community Reactions

Canary Capital has filed for a Spot Pepe [PEPE] ETF despite limited enthusiasm from Wall Street for memecoin products. If approved, PEPE could become the second memecoin ETF, after Dogecoin [DOGE], to reach such a milestone. However, the community reactions to Canary’s PEPE ETF filing were mixed, wi...

Bitcoin Devs Build Quantum-Proof Wallet Prototype to Protect 6.9M BTC

Story HighlightsBitcoin developers built prototype allowing wallet recovery during potential quantum computing security emergency.Prototype uses zk-STARK proofs to verify ownership without exposing private keys.Solution protects roughly 6.9 million Bitcoin vulnerable to future quantum attacks.Proof ...

Hype position closed; Ethereum longs rise to 12,300 ETH

According to ChainCatcher, Hyperbot data shows that Huang Licheng’s latest long position in HYPE was fully closed 20 minutes ago. He is currently continuing to add to his 25x leveraged Ethereum long position, with a current holding of 12,300 ETH, valued at $26.611 million, and a liquidation price of...

Galaxy Digital CEO Mike Novogratz Highlights $15 Billion Helios AI Data Center in 2025 Annual Report

Galaxy Digital (GLXY) founder and CEO Mike Novogratz highlighted the firm’s key milestones in its 2025 annual report, marking its first 10-K filing as a Nasdaq-listed company. Novogratz described the listing as more than a milestone, calling it “a declaration that the digital economy is real, and th...

Wyoming Leads in Digital Asset Regulation, Says U.S. Senator Lummis

ME News reports that on April 9 (UTC+8), Cynthia Lummis, Chair of the U.S. Senate Subcommittee on Digital Assets and Banking, posted that she hosted a roundtable at the Wyoming State Capitol alongside Comptroller of the Currency Jonathan V. Gould and Governor Mark Gordon to discuss the state’s curre...

Chip startup SiFive completes $400 million funding round led by Atreides Management

According to Bloomberg, chip startup SiFive has completed a $400 million funding round led by Atreides Management, with participation from Nvidia, Apollo Global Management, and Point72. Post-funding, SiFive is valued at $3.65 billion. SiFive stated that the raised capital will be used to expand it...

Bitcoin Depot Suffers Hack, Loses $3.7M in BTC

Bitcoin Depot, a cryptocurrency ATM operator, disclosed that it lost approximately 50.9 bitcoins—valued at around $3.7 million at current prices—in a cybersecurity incident on March 23. The hackers gained access to internal systems by compromising credentials associated with the company’s enterprise...

Etherscan Launches Redesigned Contract Tab with IDE-Style Code Browser

ME News reports that on April 9 (UTC+8), the blockchain explorer Etherscan announced a redesign of its Contract tab, introducing an IDE-style code browser featuring file tree navigation, multi-file tabs, contract outline navigation, and cross-file keyword search. The update also features a redesig...

Pyth Launches Data Marketplace with Support from Six Financial Institutions

The oracle service Pyth has announced the launch of the Pyth Data Marketplace, with support from six financial institutions: Euronext, Exchange Data International, Fidelity Investments, OTC Markets Group, SGX’s FX data business, and Tradeweb. These institutions will act as data providers, distributi...

SiFive Completes $400M Oversubscribed Funding Round Led by Atreides Management

Odaily Planet Daily reports: Chip startup SiFive has completed a $400 million oversubscribed funding round led by Atreides Management, with participation from Nvidia Corporation, Apollo Global Management, and Point72, valuing the company at $3.65 billion. The funds will be used to expand its AI data...

AlphaTON Secures $43 Million in Financing to Support AI and Privacy-Preserving Computing Infrastructure

Odaily Planet Daily report: AlphaTON Capital, the treasury company of TON, has announced a strategic financing agreement with Vertical Data totaling approximately $43 million, with closing expected in the second quarter of 2026. AlphaTON stated that this financing partnership focuses on AI hardware ...

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