The unpositioned squaring position of BTC options on the whole network is close to $20 billion, and the unpositioned squaring position of ETH options rises to $5.829 billion

The three major U.S. stock indexes collectively opened higher, with the Dow up 3.47%, the Nasdaq up 3.72%, and the S & P 500 up 3.26%. Technology stocks and chip stocks rebounded, Broadcom rose more than 9%, Nvidia rose more than 6%, Tesla, Amazon, Micron Technology, Meta rose more than 5%, TSMC, Oracle rose more than 4%, and Apple, Google, and Microsoft rose about 3%.

Richard Teng, CEO of Binance, said that the resurgence of trade protectionism is causing significant volatility in global markets - and the crypto market is no exception. Looking ahead, this environment may also accelerate interest in cryptocurrencies as a non-sovereign store of value.

According to CertiK, the MIM Spell protocol hacker has transferred 1,200 Ethereum to the cryptocurrency mixing protocol Tornado Cash.

AI-powered crypto security platform Octane announced the completion of a $6.75 million seed round, led by Archetype and Winklevoss Capital, and participated in by Gemini Frontier Fund, the venture capital arm of cryptocurrency exchange Gemini, Circle, Duke Capital Partners, and a group of strategic angel investors including former Coinbase CTO Balaji Srinivasan. The platform already has 15 enterprise customers, including stablecoin USDC issuer Circle, cross-chain trading tools Decent.xyz Gemini ...

Hedge fund mogul Ackman said on social media that he advocated a 30, 60 or 90-day pause before the imposition of tariffs tomorrow in order to complete negotiations without causing major global economic disruption that would harm America's most vulnerable companies and citizens.

Crypto payments app Lyzi has completed a seed round of around $1.40 million, with participation from Astek founder Jean-Luc Bernard and Dfns founder Christopher Grilhault des Fontaines. Lyzi is built on the Tezos Layer 1 blockchain and allows consumers to make daily payments in retail and e-commerce environments using cryptocurrency, and merchants receive payments in cryptocurrency and deposit fiat money directly into their bank accounts.

On April 8th, HTX DAO Ambassador Molly (Huobi HTX Sixth Master) was invited to attend the "TRON x HTX DAO 2025 Hong Kong Night". At the event site, she introduced the development achievements and governance progress of HTX DAO since its establishment, and announced that the "Position Voting Tool" is now officially launched. The first batch of HTX DAO HIP formal governance proposals are also about to start voting, namely "HTX DAO Committee Governance Mechanism Setting...

Artemis Terminal, an encrypted data and analytics platform, shows that the number of active developers flagged on the open-source repository was 12,380 during the week of March 17, 2024. On March 16 this year, that number dropped to around 7,600, representing a 38.6% drop in weekly active developers over the course of the year. The number of active developers working in over 1,500 ecosystems is used as an indicator of the overall health of the Web3 ecosystem. Developer activity indicates an incr...

On April 8th, the "TRON x HTX DAO 2025 Hong Kong Night" theme event hosted by TRON and co-organized by HTX DAO was grandly held in Hong Kong. At the event, Alec Goh, head of HTX Ventures, shared his insights and outlook on the development trend of the crypto industry. Alec said that the inauguration of "Crypto President" Trump has enhanced regulatory clarity and stimulated the influx of traditional Financial Institutions Groups into the crypto market.

Ripple's XRP token price could rise to $12.50 before US President Donald Trump leaves office, Standard Chartered said in a report released on Tuesday. Standard Chartered forecasts that XRP will rise to $5.50 by the end of this year, $8 by the end of 2026, $10.40 by the end of 2027 and $12.50 by the end of 2028.

The US Treasury secretary said the Trump administration was open to a deal to reduce tariffs and denied that the market sell-off had caused the White House to change its approach. Mr. Bescent denied reports that he visited Mr. Trump in Florida at the weekend to urge him to change his message about the tariffs. "I would say the negotiations are the result of a lot of calls coming in to negotiate," he said. "It's not about the market."

Crypto catering app Blackbird completed a $50 million Series B funding round led by Spark Capital, with participation from Coinbase, a16z crypto, Union Square Ventures, and Amex Ventures. Founder Ben Leventhal said he raised the funding in the fourth quarter of 2024, but did not disclose it until recently, and he declined to disclose the implied valuation of the round. Blackbird has raised a total of $85 million since 2022.