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Strategy announced the purchase of 34,164 BTC for approximately $2.54 billion, at an average price of about $74,395. Since the beginning of 2026, BTC has yielded a 9.5% return. As of April 19, the company holds a total of 815,061 BTC, with a total cost of approximately $61.56 billion and an average cost of about $75,527.

Wintermute CEO Evgeny Gaevoy stated that the current DeFi innovation outlook is "quite grim," especially in terms of composability, as the spillover effects of security incidents often extend beyond a single protocol. The industry should prioritize tightening and re-evaluating security systems.

Mastercard is currently testing the integration of stablecoins into the card payment settlement process, collaborating with SoFi Technologies to use the USD stablecoin SoFiUSD for backend transaction clearing. This solution mainly targets the settlement link between issuing banks and acquiring banks, keeping the user payment experience unchanged. Mastercard plans to support stablecoins, tokenized deposits, and digital representations of fiat currencies through its Multi-Token Network, enabling 24/7 settlement and improving cross-border payment efficiency. (Cointelegraph)

According to Hong Kong Economic Daily, Hong Kong introduced the Office of the Key Enterprises (OASES) (on the 20th) and announced the sixth batch of key enterprise lists, including the American pharmaceutical giant Pfizer, the leading mainland pharmaceutical company Hengrui Medicine, chip design company Hygon Information, digital asset custody institution Cobo Fintech HK Limited, and stablecoin payment fintech company RedotPay, among others.
Hong Kong Financial Secretary Paul Chan Mo-po attended the signing ceremony and stated that the companies have diverse backgrounds. Currently, there are

Coinbase is testing an AI-based internal proxy system (AI agents) that can serve as "virtual colleagues" providing strategy advice and feedback to employees via Slack and email. The first two agents launched simulate the decision-making styles of co-founder Fred Ehrsam and former CTO Balaji Srinivasan. CEO Brian Armstrong stated that in the future, the company "is very likely to have more AI agents than human employees" and plans to allow employees to create more AI agents themselves. This project is part of Coinbase's push for "AI + crypto infrastructure," which previously included the launch

CoinShares has released its latest weekly report stating that last week, inflows into digital asset investment products totaled $1.4 billion—marking the third consecutive week of net inflows and setting the highest single-week record since January. Total assets under management now amount to $155 billion. Of this, Bitcoin saw inflows of $1.116 billion, with total inflows of $3.1 billion since the start of the year; Ethereum saw inflows of $328 million, recording the strongest single-week performance since January.

The Hong Kong Securities and Futures Commission announced the launch of a new regulatory framework, allowing tokenized investment products approved by the SFC (mainly open-ended funds) to be traded on licensed virtual asset trading platforms in the secondary market, and to explore over-the-counter trading arrangements. The new measures reference the operational mechanisms of ETFs and virtual asset platforms, covering requirements for pricing, liquidity, and information disclosure. As of March 2026, Hong Kong has issued 13 tokenized products to the public, managing assets worth approximately HK

Japanese stablecoin project JPYC announces completion of Series B secondary financing of approximately 2.8 billion yen (about 18.6 million USD), with a total funding amount of about 4.6 billion yen. The funds will be used for ecosystem expansion, system development, and compliance and business capability building. JPYC is a stablecoin anchored to the Japanese yen, currently issued on Ethereum, Polygon, Avalanche, and other chains.

The General Manager of the Bank for International Settlements (BIS), Pablo Hernandez de Cos, stated that stablecoin regulation requires global coordination; otherwise, regulatory differences among countries could lead to severe market fragmentation and trigger regulatory arbitrage. He pointed out that stablecoins could weaken monetary and fiscal policies, create pressure on financial markets, and impact anti-money laundering systems. Currently, stablecoins face friction in redemption mechanisms, making them more similar to securities or ETFs rather than currencies, and he warned that a run cou

Coinbase announces the launch of crypto collateralized lending for UK users, allowing them to use BTC, ETH, or cbETH as collateral to borrow USDC.
This product is based on the lending protocol Morpho on Base, with a floating interest rate and no fixed repayment term.

"How Much Will the Impact Be on China's Cryptocurrency Circle After the Implementation of the Financial Law?" (Author: Lawyer Liu Zhengyao)
The draft of the "Financial Law" will comprehensively regulate financial activities; transactions, issuance, and promotion related to virtual currencies are all considered illegal financial activities.
KOLs promoting products will become unlicensed financial marketing, OTC funds are more likely to be frozen, and overseas coin issuance will also be restricted under transparent regulation;
For mainland project parties, issuing coins is illegal, and tra

OCBC, Lion Global Investors, and DigiFT launch a tokenized physical gold fund GOLDX issued on Ethereum and Solana, targeting institutional and accredited investors, supporting subscription and redemption with stablecoins or fiat currency. This product is based on LionGlobal's Singapore physical gold fund, with an current management scale of approximately 669 million SGD, jointly issued under Singapore's regulatory framework overseen by the Monetary Authority of Singapore.

Wu said that Spark's strategic director, monetsupply.eth, stated that Spark had delisted rsETH and other low-usage assets in January, and has been continuously tightening the collateral scope and feature set. This is also the reason why SparkLend's ETH market maintains relatively high maximum interest rates, even though this decision is not popular among ETH cycle loan users and may have caused significant business and revenue loss to Aave. However, under the current circumstances, this proves that the approach is cautious and correct. SparkLend still has sufficient ETH withdrawal liquidity, w

Wu said he learned that ZachXBT questioned MemeCore’s claims that it had obtained official recognition from Grayscale, while also requiring it to provide data backing a supported market cap of about $6 billion (ranking among the top 20 tokens), and to explain the reasons insiders hold more than 90% of the supply. It also pointed out that tokens such as RAVE show signs of manipulation on centralized exchanges—having entered the top 15 by market cap within 10 days, then dropping 95% within a few hours. Projects with similar price behavior include SIREN, MYX, COAI, M, PIPPIN, and RIVER.

Wu reported that Starknet announced on Twitter that the mainnet will be temporarily unavailable starting today at 16:10 (UTC+8) for the v0.14.2 upgrade, expected to last about 10 minutes; this upgrade introduces in-protocol proof verification, enabling the network to verify proofs natively without relying on application-layer solutions, thereby unlocking native privacy capabilities and supporting STRK20 and strkBTC, while also laying the foundation for zkThreads (toward infinite scalability) and deeper decentralization.

Wu said that LayerZero disclosed in a post that on April 18, 2026, KelpDAO suffered an attack resulting in losses of approximately $290 million. Initial attribution points to North Korea’s DPRK Lazarus Group (TraderTraitor). The attack polluted the downstream RPC used by the DVN and, together with a DDoS, triggered a failover, causing the DVN to confirm that no transactions occurred. It did not take advantage of any protocol or key vulnerabilities.
The incident arose from KelpDAO using a 1/1 single DVN configuration, leading to a single point of failure. The impact was limited to rsETH only