Gate News message, April 14, on the X platform, product leader Nikita Bier posted that the crypto industry has gone through a difficult year, and perhaps some products should be introduced to improve the current situation.

Gate News message. On April 13, on X, the on-chain analytics platform Glassnode said that after a dramatic deleveraging in early October 2025, the open interest (OI) of XRP perpetual futures contracts fell sharply from 7 billion coins to 2 billion coins, a decline of 71%. Since then, market positions have been further compressed, with OI dropping another ~25% to 1.5 billion coins. The current market has not yet rebuilt speculative positions, indicating that derivatives traders overall are still staying cautious and risk appetite has not clearly recovered.

Gate News message: On April 13, the third-party trading market Atomicals Market in the Bitcoin ecosystem posted on the X platform announcing that it will officially stop operating on April 30. The platform said that the current order and bid data are all stored off-chain, and they will no longer be displayed after the shutdown. Users do not need to take any additional action regarding their orders or quotes, but they must transfer their assets or export the AM Wallet private key before the service is discontinued.

Gate News update, on April 13, BIT posted on X, saying that Bitcoin ETF fund flows have just turned positive again, and that it may achieve a continuous second month of net inflows. BIT noted that the current trend is highly similar to the same period in 2025, when early-year fund inflows were lackluster but were later followed by a concentrated surge of nearly $30 billion, driving a rebound after the tariff policy was implemented in April, and continuing through October. BIT said that net inflows resumed in March, which was the first time it turned positive since the pullback that began last October.

Gate News message, April 13, Strategy co-founder Michael Saylor posted on the X platform that the annualized breakeven return on Strategy’s Bitcoin holdings is about 2.05%. If Bitcoin’s long-term growth rate exceeds this level, Strategy can pay dividends indefinitely without issuing additional MSTR stock. Michael Saylor said that the relevant data can be tracked in real time on the company’s official website.

Musk said on the X platform that xAI’s Grok model is catching up to Anthropic’s Claude Opus 4.6, with a prediction it will come close to parity in May and may surpass it in June. He said that this timeline counts as a long time in the AI field. Claude Opus 4.6 is Anthropic’s flagship AI model and is the strongest version in the Claude 4 series.

On April 12, the prediction market Polymarket briefly appeared in Google News search results, but was then removed. Google said this was an error and said it will no longer display it. The platform has been proactively integrated with media and has already partnered with Google and the X platform.

X platform product lead Nikta Bier announced that the split for aggregated accounts will be reduced to 60% and that it plans to reduce it by another 20% in the next cycle. This move is intended to curb the impact of stolen content and clickbait information on real creators. Going forward, accounts that use clickbait-style tags will face a permanent reduction in earnings.

On April 12, the X product lead Nikita Bier announced that the new tool has officially gone live to identify original content creators and distribute revenue, aiming to incentivize the creation of high-quality original content, improve the user experience, and continuously refine the revenue-sharing program.

Bitmine chairman Tom Lee said on the X platform that although there are still doubts in the market, there are signs that the bottom has already formed. He is bullish on Ethereum and related assets and believes crypto is a wartime value-preservation tool. Risk assets may rebound, but it’s important to watch whether the macroeconomic environment and geopolitical situation remain stable.