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On April 7, 2026, The New York Times revealed an investigative report that sent shockwaves through the crypto industry and the global political arena. Argentine President Javier Milei had seven phone call records with project key figure Mauricio Novelli on the night LIBRA tokens launched on February 14, 2025; the timing precisely covered the period just before and after he published a promotional post on the X platform.
This news has once again pushed a crypto scandal that has been simmering for more than a year into the center of public attention—no longer merely a “Rug Pull” scam, but gradually evolving into a hallmark event that tests political trust and the bottom line of industry regulation.
Why has presidential endorsement become the new paradigm for Meme coin harvesting?
Over the past two years, the operating logic of the Meme coin market has undergone a significant

As of April 7, 2026, Bitcoin's price hovers around $69,000, with the spot market showing a typical sideways consolidation pattern. However, the underlying currents in the derivatives market are far more complex than the surface price movements suggest.
Implied volatility in options remains consistently higher than realized volatility, with demand for put options soaring to historic highs. Market forecasts indicate a 65%–68% probability of Bitcoin dropping below $65,000. These seemingly contradictory signals collectively point to a core proposition: beneath the "calm" appearance of the spot market, the pricing structure of Bitcoin options is quietly accumulating significant downside risk.
What explains the divergence between the sideways movement in the spot market and the pricing in derivatives?
Recently, Bitcoin's price has been oscillating within a range of $64,000 to $74,000, maintaining a relatively stable price trend on the surface. However, the pricing signals from the options market starkly contrast with the calmness of the spot market. Currently, the 30-day

From April 6 to April 12, 2026, the cryptocurrency market will unlock approximately $597 million worth of tokens, with the peak release occurring on April 10. The main project BABY accounts for 37.77% of the circulating supply, which may impact the price. Investors should consider the unlock scale, liquidity, and market sentiment to assess potential risks and market reactions.

The focus of cybersecurity attacks in the crypto space is rapidly shifting from code vulnerabilities to human trust layers.
On April 1, 2026, the leading decentralized derivatives protocol Drift Protocol in the Solana ecosystem was attacked, resulting in a loss of approximately $285 million. The platform’s total value locked (TVL) plummeted from about $550 million before the incident to around $230 million. Drift later released an initial investigation confirming that the attack was orchestrated by UNC4736, a hacker group linked to the North Korean government, and was part of a “six-month structured intelligence operation.”
This conclusion reveals more than just a security incident: as nation-state hackers shift their focus from discovering code vulnerabilities to infiltrating human trust over several months, the entire DeFi industry’s security paradigm is being systematically rewritten. Attacks no longer require complex smart contract exploits.

In March 2026, Google's Quantum Artificial Intelligence team, in collaboration with Stanford University and the Ethereum Foundation, released a 57-page white paper systematically analyzing the security threats of quantum computing to cryptocurrencies. The core conclusion is that the quantum resources required to crack the 256-bit elliptic curve cryptography (ECC-256) relied upon by Bitcoin and Ethereum are approximately 20 times less than previous best estimates. Specifically, under a superconducting quantum computer architecture, it would take fewer than 500k physical qubits to perform the attack, with the runtime compressed to about 9 minutes.
The significance of this discovery is not that quantum computers can already break Bitcoin—current hardware is far from capable—but that it compresses the timeline for "Q-Day" (the moment when quantum computers can crack current cryptography) from a distant theoretical issue to a calculable engineering window. Google has already migrated its internal systems to post-quantum cryptography (PQC).

On April 1, 2026, Drift Protocol, the largest decentralized perpetual contract exchange in the Solana ecosystem, was hacked within approximately 12 minutes, resulting in the theft of about $285 million in user assets, making it the second-largest security incident in Solana history. Just a few days later, XRP Ledger validator Vet issued a warning on social media: this attack serves as an important lesson for XRP ecosystem developers—similar social engineering threats could target any crypto network.
How did a six-month "intelligence operation" dismantle multi-signature defenses?
The core of the Drift attack was not a smart contract vulnerability but a six-month structured social engineering campaign. According to Drift's official investigation, the attackers began their deployment as early as fall 2025: they disguised themselves as representatives of quantitative trading firms.

Token unlocks are among the most predictable structural events in the lifecycle of crypto assets. Whenever locked tokens are released into circulation according to a preset schedule, the market’s supply and demand dynamics are recalibrated. On April 7, 2026, the modular oracle project RedStone (RED) will experience a highly anticipated unlock: 40.85 million RED tokens will enter the market, valued at approximately $4.2 million, accounting for 13.89% of the current circulating supply. This is not an ordinary monthly linear release but the single largest daily proportion in the RED token economic model.
RED’s maximum supply is 1 billion tokens. The 40.85 million tokens unlocked this time will mainly flow to core contributors, early supporters, ecosystem partners, and protocol developers. This distribution structure means that the token flow after unlocking will be highly complex—potentially involving multiple layers of allocation and strategic considerations.

Gate DEX Meme Go has completed in-depth optimization of the cross-chain ranking and "Smart Money" features, enhancing market navigation, data visualization, and tracking systems to help users respond flexibly to market changes. It also provides multi-dimensional risk indicators and real-time monitoring services. The new version features quick buy-in and customizable monitoring functions, improving trading efficiency.

On April 7, 2026, NASDAQ-listed mining company Bit Digital completed a pledge of 43,335 ETH through the liquidity staking protocol Liquid Collective, valued at approximately $91.34 million. This single pledge is highly notable within the mining company's financial structure and has been called by multiple crypto industry media outlets as one of the largest institutional ETH pledges since Q2 2026. However, what truly warrants attention is not the number itself but the indication of a deeper industry structural shift—traditional Bitcoin mining companies are transitioning from an extensive profit model of "mining and selling coins" to a hybrid business model of "staking for yield + financial infrastructure."
In recent years, the capital efficiency of Bitcoin mining has continuously declined. Rising energy costs, increasing network difficulty, hardware depreciation cycles

In April 2026, South Korea's payment and banking giant Toss was revealed to be considering developing its own blockchain network and issuing a native cryptocurrency. This fintech platform, which has over 20 million users, shifted its focus to the more foundational Layer 1 infrastructure just one month after announcing its stablecoin strategy. However, its final decision has stalled—not due to technical feasibility, but because South Korea's "Digital Asset Basic Act" has yet to be enacted. This legislative battle not only influences Toss's public chain roadmap but also reflects a broader industry question: when regulatory vacuum persists, how will traditional financial giants navigate their Web3 transformation?
Why Toss is Moving from Fintech to Blockchain Infrastructure
Toss's venture into the blockchain space is no coincidence. In March 2026, Toss publicly unveiled its "Money 3.

In April 2026, DraftKings, Lionsgate, and Futu Holdings each disclosed their cryptocurrency asset allocation plans, collectively holding over 1.03M Bitcoins. The companies' crypto asset allocations are primarily driven by asset hedging, Web3 strategic collaboration, and improvements in the regulatory environment. Facing challenges such as volatility management and compliance costs, they will further leverage crypto assets to participate in ecosystem development in the future.

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The S&P 500 rose 3.18%, and the Nasdaq gained 4.14% during a shortened holiday week, benefiting from hopes of easing tensions in Iran and dovish signals from Powell. However, the first quarter of 2026 remains the worst-performing quarter in nearly four quarters, with the S&P 500 down 4.6% year-to-date.
In March, non-farm payrolls increased by 178k, and the unemployment rate fell to 4.3%. The resilience of the labor market complicates the Federal Reserve's decision to cut interest rates, while geopolitical uncertainties continue to impact the outlook.
WTI crude oil rose 11.41% this week, with a year-to-date increase of 93%, driven by Oman’s push to establish a monitoring agreement. In the absence of a clear timeline for resolution, energy inflation risks remain elevated.
The crypto market rebounded last week, with BTC up 4.6% and ETH up 6.4%, but market sentiment remains firmly in extreme fear (11).
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In Ethereum's historical price trends, April has always been a special month. Looking back at previous market cycles, ETH has shown a clear seasonal positive bias in April, with an average increase of nearly 18%. This pattern is not a coincidental resonance of market sentiment but is closely related to structural features such as ecosystem catalytic rhythms, capital inflow cycles, and the timing of technical upgrades.
Looking ahead to April 2026, ETH's price trend is undergoing a new round of testing. According to Gate Market data, as of April 7, 2026, Ethereum is priced at $2,114.42, with a 24-hour trading volume of $367.37 million, a market capitalization of $248.51 billion, and a market share of 10.28%. The price has increased by 3.95% over the past 30 days, but in the last 7 days, it recorded a slight correction of -0.5%.
However, this April narrative is not purely straightforward. On-chain data shows that the two major on-chain...

In the first week of April 2026, Strategy Inc. filed an 8-K with the U.S. SEC revealing a set of seemingly contradictory data: its digital assets for the first quarter showed an unrealized loss of $14.46 billion, yet the company continued to buy Bitcoin during the same period — purchasing approximately 4,871 BTC for about $329.9 million between April 1 and 5, with an average cost of around $67,718 per Bitcoin.
The coexistence of unrealized losses on the books and ongoing purchases has quickly fueled discussions about Strategy's Bitcoin treasury strategy. Meanwhile, a widely circulated report states that Michael Saylor has bought approximately the same amount of Bitcoin this year as the iShares Bitcoin Trust under BlackRock.

As of April 2026, the meme coin sector of the crypto market is experiencing an unusually quiet period. According to Gate market data on April 7, 2026, PEPE is priced at $0.000003365, with a 24-hour trading volume of $5.89 million, a market capitalization of $1.41 billion, and a market share of 0.057%. In the past 24 hours, the price has changed by -3.28%. Over a longer period, PEPE's price change in the past year is -46.91%. Meanwhile, SHIB's 24-hour trading volume is $96.21 million, with a market cap of $3.45 billion, and a 24-hour change of -3.55%.
PEPE, which in early January 2026 drove meme coin market capitalization back to $47.7 billion with a 65% weekly increase, such

In early April 2026, Sei Network officially completed the final phase of the SIP-3 upgrade. This high-speed Layer 1 blockchain, once renowned for its dual-chain architecture of Cosmos SDK + EVM, has completely bid farewell to the Cosmos ecosystem and transitioned into a pure EVM blockchain. From its highlight moment at mainnet launch in 2023 to now, after experiencing over 60% price retracement, making such a radical architectural shift, Sei's bold gamble is driven by both the internal logic of technological iteration and the survival anxiety within the public chain competition landscape.
This article will focus on the technical essence of SIP-3, migration timeline, market response, institutional cooperation progress, and Sei's collaboration with

April has traditionally been viewed by the crypto market as Bitcoin's "strong month." Since 2013, out of 13 April market movements, 8 have ended in gains, with an average return of 12.12%. From 2016 to 2020, Bitcoin experienced five consecutive years of gains in April, with an average increase of about 30%.
However, the market rhythm in 2026 seems to be diverging from this repeatedly cited historical pattern. In January, it declined by 10.1%, and in February, it fell by 14.8%, breaking the average positive return for the same period twice; March saw only a slight increase of 0.19%, far below the historical average of about 10.2% for March. Since the end of 2025, Bitcoin has been deviating from traditional seasonal patterns for several consecutive months.
According to Gate Market data, as of April 7, 2026, Bitcoin's price is $68,926.3, down slightly by 0.47% in the past 24 hours. From the historical high of $126 in October 2025,

The computing power market is showing a set of noteworthy signals: on one hand, the expansion of AI PC product lines and collaborations with large platforms are driving continuous growth in computing demand; on the other hand, discussions around Agentic AI applications are heating up, causing the importance of inference-side computing power to rise rapidly. Meanwhile, changes in market share and partnership scale for Advanced Micro Devices (AMD) make it a key example for observing adjustments in the computing power structure. These changes are not driven by a single company but reflect a shift in the nature of computational demand, directly related to how computing resources are allocated, who can access these resources, and the future way on-chain computation is supported.
What new structures are emerging from AMD-driven changes in computing demand?
Recently, the demand for computing power has shifted from a “centralized training” model to a “distributed inference” model. As AI applications move from model development to actual deployment, the need for computing power

When the Nasdaq 100 Index steps into a “wearing phase” of directional drift amid global macro fog, the traditional buy-and-hold logic is facing severe pullback tests. On the Gate platform, the tokenized Nasdaq 100 mirror asset Nasdaq xStock (QQQX) is active, releasing a strong signal: investors are trying to use on-chain tools to turn the high-frequency fluctuations of technology stocks into deterministic trading opportunities. The significance of this asset is not simply a price mapping, but the use of Volatility as an independent asset class to demonstrate its liquidity conversion efficiency in a choppy market.
Observing this phenomenon not only helps understand how RWA (Real-World Assets) can hedge against macro uncertainty, but also allows us to see how, during periods of sluggish growth, the crypto ecosystem is redefining “anchor assets.”
Nasdaq high-level oscillation triggers a structural profit window
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The article discusses the structural changes in AI computing power supply, emphasizing that computing power has become a key production factor in the AI era. NVIDIA is gradually shifting from selling GPUs to becoming a vital part of AI infrastructure, with its ecosystem and scale effects enhancing its pricing power. However, the concentration of computing power, while improving efficiency, also introduces systemic risks and competitive barriers. In the future, the computing power market will enter an oligopolistic competition stage, but decentralized computing networks still have room to survive. The overall trend depends on technological advancements and market changes.