20:05 2025-04-23
Strike founder Jack Mallers will lead Tether-backed bitcoin buying firm Twenty OneAccording to Wednesday's announcement, Strike founder Jack Mallers will join the newly formed cryptocurrency joint venture Twenty One Capital as its CEO. The company's sole purpose is to "maximize its holdings of bitcoin." It currently holds 42,000 bitcoins on its balance sheet.
It is reported that the company is backed by stablecoin issuer Tether, Softbank, and Wall Street investment bank Cantor Fitzgerald. The company's articles of association specify that only...
20:05 2025-04-23
U.S. stocks ended sharply higher, with the Dow up 1.07% and the Nasdaq up 2.50%.U.S. stocks ended sharply higher, with the Dow up 1.07%, the Nasdaq up 2.50%, and the S & P 500 up 1.66%. Technology stocks led the gains, with Tesla and Intel up more than 5%, Amazon and Meta up more than 4%, Nvidia up nearly 4%, and Apple, Google, and Microsoft up more than 2%.
19:56 2025-04-23
Goldman Sachs cuts first-quarter U.S. GDP growth forecast to 0.1%Goldman Sachs economists now expect the US economy to grow at an annualised rate of 0.1 per cent in Quarter 1, down from a previous forecast of 0.4 per cent. New home sales in the US rose more than expected last month, but the deflator for construction fell less than Goldman Sachs had expected, weakening the reading of inflation-adjusted growth. The US will release its preliminary Quarter 1 GDP figures on April 30.
18:53 2025-04-23
The Fed Beige Book supports the view that interest rate cuts will take timeThe Fed's Beige Book said US employment was "resilient" and prices were rising at a moderate, moderate or unchanged pace. The comments are likely to support the view that a rate cut will take some time. "Economic activity has been little changed since the last report, but uncertainty surrounding international trade policy is prevalent in the report," it noted.
18:10 2025-04-23
BTC breaks through $94,000The market shows that BTC has broken through $94,000 and is now reported at $94038.09, with a 24-hour increase of 2.89%. The market is volatile, so please do a good job in risk control.
17:58 2025-04-23
Bitfinex Announces Support for USDT0 Deposit and Withdrawal on the Optimism ChainFollowing Ink and Arbitrum, Bitfinex has officially announced that USDT0 deposits and withdrawals on the Optimism network can now be processed directly on the exchange platform. USDT0 is a cross-chain stablecoin developed by Everdawn and Layer Zero, and is also a full-chain bridge version of Tether USDt. However, it should be noted that USDT0 is not issued or exchanged directly by Tether.
17:19 2025-04-23
Ethereum Core Developers: Pectra Upgrade Will Introduce Features That Increase Validators' Effective BalancesEthereum core developer timbeiko.eth said in a post on the X platform that for stakers, Pectra will introduce a function to increase the validator's effective balance. This means that small operators can directly increase the value of the pledge, while large operators can consolidate validators to reduce the bandwidth consumption of the p2p network. The function also eliminates the PoW follow distance before merging, shortens the delay in processing validator deposits, and introduces the executi...
16:46 2025-04-23
The Ethereum mainnet will be upgraded to Pectra on May 7Tim Beiko, head of protocol support at the Ethereum Foundation, wrote that the Pectra upgrade will be launched on the mainnet on May 7, with an expected epoch height of 364032.
It is reported that Pectra has introduced EIP-7702, which allows standard Ethereum accounts (EOAs) to extend smart contract functionality to support use cases such as bulk transactions, gas sponsorship, or social recovery. For stakers, Pectra has introduced the ability to increase validators' valid balances.