A CEX co-founder, Ben Delo, donated $5.4 million to the Reform UK party, and the donation took place before new UK regulations came into effect. Delo was previously fined $10 million for violating anti–money laundering compliance and received a pardon from Donald Trump. Reform UK positions itself as a pro-cryptocurrency political party and is currently facing a pause order on crypto donations. After relocating to the UK, Delo plans to be exempt from donation limits.

On April 9, a whale address starting with 0x9fa opened an approximately $4.35 million ETH long position with 10x leverage, with an entry average price of $2,179 and a liquidation price of $2,001. Subsequently, the address planned to take profit at $2,220 and place a $4.45 million sell order.

Gate News message, according to data ranking top L1 chains by average daily active users in Q1 2025, BNB Chain ranks first with 4.5 million daily average users, TRON takes second place with 3.2 million users, and NEAR Protocol secures third position with 2.5 million users. Solana and Sei Network ran

Gate News updates: Africa’s cryptocurrency market is seeing rapid growth. According to Ripple’s latest report, the total on-chain transaction value in the region grew 52% year over year, a trend closely tied to more and more countries putting clear cryptocurrency regulatory rules in place. Countries such as South Africa, Nigeria, Kenya, and Mauritius are gradually bringing digital assets under financial supervision, giving businesses and users greater confidence and thereby boosting cryptocurrency adoption rates.

On April 7, on-chain data shows that during Polymarket’s NBA Blazers vs. Nuggets match prediction, an account bought a prediction for a Blazers win for $130k, earning nearly $4 million in profit. The Blazers are ranked 9th in the West, and the Nuggets are 4th. The game will take place at 9:00 PM Beijing time today.

Visa executives, during their visit to South Korea, said that the country is the best place to conduct stablecoin experiments, with 17 million cryptocurrency investors, and strong performance in the field of artificial intelligence. Visa is optimistic about South Korea’s future potential in combining stablecoin and AI businesses.

FTX/Alameda sold 6.94 million DRIFT tokens through Wintermute, raising about $320k. This liquidation took place after the Drift Protocol suffered a $285 million hack. The 8.33 million DRIFT tokens Alameda received from early investments have since seen their current value drop sharply, with the initial investment value falling significantly.

Gate News message, April 3, the newly released ranking of CodeArena, an AI programming-focused competition under the globally renowned model blind test leaderboard LMArena, was published. Alibaba’s latest generation large language model, Qwen 3.6-Plus, ranked second on the global leaderboard, surpassing international giants such as OpenAI, Google, and xAI, becoming the highest-ranked Chinese model on that leaderboard.

Metaplanet purchased 5,075 bitcoins for $398 million in the first quarter of 2026. Its total holdings reached 40,177 bitcoins, surpassing MARA Holdings to become the world’s third. After MARA sold 15,133 bitcoins, its holdings fell to 38,689 bitcoins. Metaplanet plans to hold 100,000 bitcoins by the end of 2026 and expects to raise about $255 million in financing. Despite its rank improving, its stock price still declined, facing pressure from losses; going forward, it will depend on financing and the MARA strategy.

The Polymarket team on Discord addressed concerns that fees were too high, acknowledged a calculation error that caused the fee curve to become unbalanced, and has now revised the calculation to be based on “share quantity,” restoring the normal fee structure. Users are advised to place limit orders to get fee-free trading, and they can also receive a maker rebate incentive of 20% to 25%.