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According to Gate data, U.S. and Brent oil rose in the short term, with WTI crude oil once hitting $111 per barrel, up 0.74% during the day. Brent crude oil stood at $112 per barrel, rising more than 1% during the day.

According to ChainCatcher news, Pumpfun announced that it will adjust its tokenomics model to use 50% of its net income to buy back PUMP tokens and burn them all immediately, replacing the previous practice of using 100% of revenue for buybacks but keeping them in the treasury. Previously, the community continued to criticize the buyback for failing to effectively support the currency price. The 50% buyback allocation covers the net income from Bonding Curve, PumpSwap, and Terminal products, with the remaining 50% going to operations, recruitment, and strategic investments. Pumpfun also disclosed that the previous buyback had burned about 36% of the circulating supply of PUMP, and the price of PUMP briefly rose after the news was announced. Co-founder Alon said the move aims to establish a sustainable token value support mechanism.

Recently, in the global benchmark evaluation EthProofs initiated by Ethereum, Ant Digital's self-developed zero-knowledge proof virtual machine zkDTVM compressed the block proof speed to 3.7 seconds under unified hardware and testing rules, breaking the previous industry's highest record of 4.2 seconds and topping the world. EthProofs is currently one of the most recognized public benchmarks in the industry. Unlike a single test in the lab, the platform requires participants to compare under real-world loads, reproducible processes. Ant Digital's breakthrough is based on end-to-end systematic optimization - using the zkVM architecture for GPU-native parallelism, from the execution layer, arithmetic layer to the proof system layer collaborative reconstruction.

According to Onchain Lens monitoring, an address related to FalconX deposited $11.94 million USDC into HyperLiquid and increased its CL long order (20x leverage) to 202,000, with a position value of about $21.6 million. In addition, the address holds small long orders on BRENTOIL (20x leverage), as well as short positions on HIMS and RIVN (10x leverage).

ChainCatcher news, according to Onchain Lens monitoring, a wallet (0xEbE) associated with FalconX deposited 11.94 million USDC into HyperLiquid and increased its long position 20 times CL to 202,000 CL, worth $21.6 million. The whale also holds a small position of 20x long position on BRENTOIL, as well as a 10x short position on HIMS and RIVN.

According to the OKX market, WLFI fell below $0.0615 and is now trading at $0.0637, with a 24H drop of more than 13%. Previous news: WLFI token unlock governance proposal opens 7-day limited-time voting

According to ChainCatcher news, according to Bloomberg, decentralized cryptocurrency exchange Hyperliquid is proposing to add prediction market functionality to its platform to compete directly with Kalshi and Polymarket. The proposal, numbered HIP-4 and currently in public beta, will allow users to place betting transactions on real-world event outcomes on the Hyperliquid platform. Hyperliquid is currently one of the most actively traded trading venues in the digital asset space, and the speed and scale of its product expansion have attracted widespread attention from Wall Street.

According to ChainCatcher news, according to Blockaid monitoring, the NEAR ecological application SweatEconomy suffered continuous attacks last night, and multiple Sweat Foundation-related accounts were cleared within about 30 seconds, with a total of about 13.71 billion SWEAT transferred, accounting for about 65% of the token supply. The funds were routed through Ref Finance and the Wormhole/Portal Bridge. Since then, SWEAT's official response stated that all users' external account balances have been fully restored and business has returned to normal.

ChainCatcher news, DefiLlama data shows that Polymarket's TVL exceeded $530 million, reaching $5.37, a record high. In addition, the platform's fee income in the past 7 days exceeded $8 million.

ChainCatcher news, according to Lookonchain monitoring, an address related to World Liberty Financial (WLFI) sold 8,500 ETH at a price of about $2,268 8 hours ago, in exchange for about $19.27 million USDC. The address then repaid the entire borrowed money and withdrew all funds from Aave.

Odaily Planet Daily News According to on-chain data, the giant whale Maji was partially liquidated in the market pullback, and turned from profit to loss during the week. It reduced some ETH and BTC long positions during the early morning market decline, but some positions were still forced to be liquidated. According to the data, its current overall position size is about $30 million, of which the ETH position liquidation price is $2,197 and the BTC position liquidation price is $72,194.1.

ChainCatcher news, according to BBX data, yesterday's mining enterprise credit management, Ethereum treasury reserve update and Bitcoin reserve expansion action were implemented simultaneously, and the core dynamics are as follows: Riot Platforms, Inc. (NASDAQ: $RIOT) disclosed in its SEC Form 8-K signed on April 21 and published by CoinDesk on April 28 that the company has completed the second amendment to its credit agreement with Coinbase Credit, Inc., switching the original floating rate $200 million secured term loan to a fixed interest rate and extending the maturity date by 364 days, while retaining the option to extend it for another 364 days; The loan size and collateral structure remain unchanged, and the collateral is still Bitcoin, USDC, and Coinbase Custody cash in custody. The company's Bitcoin holdings have dropped from 19,368 at the beginning of the year to 15,680; If the price of BTC falls further, the selling pressure will continue under the loan-to-value ratio constraints, which is an analytical judgment and is not officially disclosed by the company. Bitmine Immersion Technologies, Inc. (NYSE: $BMNR) released its latest position update on April 27, holding 5,078,386 ETH (approximately $2,369 at the market price of the day, market capitalization of approximately $12.04 billion), and 200 BTC, $200 million in equity in Beast Industries (owned by MrBeast) and $91 million in cash. the total amount of combined crypto assets and strategic investments is approximately $13.3 billion; ETH holdings account for approximately 4.21% of the total circulating supply, which is the size accumulated by the company in the 10 months since launching its Ethereum treasury strategy in June 2025. Strive, Inc. (NASDAQ: $ASST) disclosed through an official announcement on GlobeNewswire on April 27 that the company purchased approximately 789 BTC (at a cost of approximately $61.43 million, with an average price of approximately $77,890), bringing its total holdings to approximately 14,557 BTC as of April 24; During the same period, it held $90.5 million in cash and equivalents, $50.3 million in Strategy Preferred Shares (STRC), and the total market value of BTC reserves was about $1.13 billion, surpassing Hut 8 to rank ninth in the world's listed Bitcoin reserves.

According to the Wall Street Journal: Sources said that the Trump administration informed Anthropic that it opposes expanding access to the Mythos model. (Jin Shi)

Bank of Korea officials: If necessary, action will be taken to stabilize financial markets and the conflict in the Middle East is being watched. (Jin Shi)

According to crypto analyst Ember @EmberCN, a whale who bought 103 trillion SHIB for 37.8 ETH in the early days transferred 800 billion SHIB to the exchange in the past day, worth about $4.91 million. The address, which was valued at $9.1 billion at its 2021 high, still holds approximately 95.42 trillion SHIB, accounting for approximately 16.2% of the total supply, valued at approximately $588 million at current prices.

According to ChainCatcher news, Samsung Electronics' operating profit in the first quarter increased by 756.1% year-on-year to 57.23 trillion won (about $38.5 billion), a quarterly high, of which the chip business contributed most of the revenue, and revenue increased by 69.2% year-on-year to 133.87 trillion won, and net profit increased by 474.3% to 47.23 trillion won. The Device Solutions segment, which is responsible for its semiconductor business, achieved revenue of KRW 81.7 trillion and operating profit of KRW 53.7 trillion. These results far exceeded market expectations. According to financial data provider FnGuide, local brokerages generally expected revenue of 117.13 trillion won and operating profit of 38.12 trillion won in the past month. Samsung Electronics' latest quarterly revenue and operating profit both exceeded record highs set in the previous quarter (93.84 trillion won and 20.07 trillion won, respectively).

ChainCatcher news, according to Jinshi, CITIC Securities Research Report pointed out that after Walsh becomes chairman of the Federal Reserve, it is expected that the benchmark situation will be cut by 25 basis points once in the second half of the year. The report emphasizes that in the future, it is necessary to pay close attention to the speeches of the 12 incumbent voting committee members, the Fed's monetary policy path depends more on the balance of votes among FOMC members, and the role of the Fed chairman's personal speech in guiding the market has declined compared to the past.

According to the Financial Times, sources revealed that SoftBank Group plans to establish and list an independent intelligent robot and data center company called "Roze" in the United States. SoftBank plans to list Roze within this year with a target valuation of $100 billion. SoftBank CEO Masayoshi Son is driving the process, a move aimed at recovering tens of billions of dollars invested by his company in artificial intelligence. SoftBank has been increasing its debt, and Son has tried to position himself as a key player in the global AI boom, making a massive investment in OpenAI. (Jin Shi)

Coinbase announced that it will launch Wrapped Ronin (WRON) spot trading, and if the liquidity conditions are met, the WRON-USD trading pair will open after 00:00 Beijing time on May 1. At the same time, Coinbase will support MegaETH (MEGA), and users can now generate a deposit address, but they will not be able to deposit until the project team opens the transfer, and the specific transaction launch time will be announced separately. In addition, Coinbase has launched Gensyn (AI) and Virtuals Protocol (VIRTUAL), allowing users to buy, sell, exchange, and transfer money on the platform.