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04-08

The U.S. Department of Justice Rejects Tornado Cash Developer's Motion to Dismiss Charges

BlockBeats news, on April 8, according to Decrypt, the U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ) on Tuesday firmly opposed Roman Storm, co-founder of the Tornado Cash mixer protocol's latest request to dismiss criminal charges, stating that the Supreme Court's recent ruling is irrelevant to this case and sho...

Bitdeer Launches 9 J/TH Miners, MARA Shifts to AI Infrastructure, Mining Firms Sell BTC in Q1

ME News report, April 8 (UTC+8): According to comprehensive disclosure from BBX cryptocurrency-related stock information, yesterday the global crypto asset market experienced a highly real and brutal "structural cleansing." As total network hash rate recorded its first quarterly decline in six years...

Circle Launches Stablecoin Payouts for Singapore Partners via Circle Mint

ME News reports that on April 8 (UTC+8), Circle announced the launch of Stablecoin Payouts for its Circle Mint Singapore partners, further expanding its payment infrastructure into Asia. Circle stated that the feature is designed for global scale, aiming to help businesses automate payment processes...

Solana DEX Stabble Urges Liquidity Providers to Withdraw Funds Due to Involvement of North Korean Developer

Huo Xing Finance reports, according to The Block, that the Solana ecosystem decentralized exchange Stabble has issued an emergency notice urging liquidity providers to withdraw their funds immediately, following the revelation that a North Korean employee had previously worked on the project. This a...

Whale Converts 40x BTC Short to Long Position, Holding Over $8M in BTC

ME News reports that on April 8 (UTC+8), according to Hyperinsight monitoring, market volatility intensified as a whale address starting with 0xf51 rapidly adjusted its position within just 10 minutes, flipping its previously opened 40x leveraged BTC short position to a long position, followed by a ...

Polygon Crypto Price Drops Ahead of Giugliano Upgrade on April 8

Key Insights:Polygon crypto (POL) price stays weak ahead of the April 8 Giugliano upgrade.Technical indicators show a bearish trend with low momentum.Strong network activity and adoption support long-term outlook.Layer 2 network Polygon is back in the spotlight as the platform is gearing up for a ma...

Solana DEX Stabble Urges Liquidity Providers to Withdraw Funds Amid Allegations of North Korean Developer Involvement

ChainCatcher report, according to The Block, the Solana-based decentralized exchange Stabble has issued an emergency notice urging liquidity providers to withdraw their funds immediately, following the revelation that a North Korean employee had previously worked on the project. This alert appears t...

Global liquidations reach $600M in 24 hours, with short positions dominating.

ChainCatcher report, according to Coinglass data, over the past 24 hours, the total liquidations across the network amounted to $600 million, with long positions liquidated at $170 million and short positions liquidated at $431 million. Specifically, Bitcoin longs were liquidated at $30.55 million, ...

Iran's Bitcoin hashrate drops 77% in Q1 2026, global hashrate unaffected

On April 8, the latest report from the Hashrate Index showed that Iran’s Bitcoin hash rate decreased by approximately 7 EH/s (exahashes per second) over the past quarter, now standing at only about 2 EH/s—a 77% quarter-over-quarter decline. Ian Philpot, Marketing Director at Luxor Technology, noted ...

GSR Leads Investment in Tokenization Platform Libeara, Incubated by SC Ventures

According to The Block, crypto market maker GSR has announced a lead investment in Libeara, a tokenization platform incubated by Standard Chartered’s SC Ventures, though the specific investment amount was not disclosed. Previously, GSR completed full acquisitions of Autonomous and Architech to enhan...

U.S.-Iran ceasefire agreement sparks Bitcoin surge to $72,738

Author: Shenchao TechFlowThe 40-day war reaches a turning pointFrom "Tonight, an entire civilization will die" to "I agree to halt the bombing," Trump took less than 12 hours.On Tuesday evening, with about 90 minutes remaining until the 8 p.m. deadline, Trump announced on Truth Social that, at the r...

ETH Surpasses $2,200 as Whale’s $22M Short Position Is Liquidated for a $1.47M Loss

HuoXing Finance reports that on April 8, according to Hyperinsight monitoring, the price of ETH broke through $2,200. Around 3 a.m. today, a whale address starting with "0x4A2" opened a short position worth $22 million in ETH. As the price rose, the short position came under pressure, prompting the ...

New wallet deposits 3M USDC on HyperLiquid to open a 20x leverage long position on BRENTOIL.

According to on-chain analyst Onchain Lens (@OnchainLens), a newly created wallet deposited $3 million in USDC into HyperLiquid, opening a long position of 90,001 BRENTOIL contracts with 20x leverage, representing a notional value of approximately $8.53 million. Within less than 12 hours, the unreal...

Whale with '100% Win Rate' on CL Suffers Over $3.41M in Floating Loss

ME News reports that on April 8 (UTC+8), according to Onchain Lens monitoring, a whale address that previously maintained a "100% win rate" on CL is now facing losses. The address opened a 2x long position on CL six hours ago, but as the U.S. and Iran reached a two-week ceasefire agreement, oil mark...

Polymarket lowers the odds of a US-Iran ceasefire to 37%, Morgan Stanley Bitcoin ETF to launch tomorrow

1. Polymarket's probability of a U.S.-Iran ceasefire drops to 37%Odaily Seer monitoring shows that the probability of a U.S.-Iran ceasefire before May 15 on Polymarket has dropped to 37%, a 45% decline in 24 hours. To date, total trading volume for the "When Will U.S.-Iran Ceasefire?" event contract...

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