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Bitcoin surged above $75K to reach a two-month high as easing geopolitical tensions, driven by a tentative ceasefire in the conflict involving the U.S., Israel, and Iran, sparked a broader market rebound. Meanwhile, the Aave DAO has voted to consolidate all protocol revenue under the AAVE token, Y Combinator has completed its first all-stablecoin funding round in USDC on Solana, and Tether has launched a self-custodial wallet supporting USDT, Bitcoin, and tokenized gold.
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News Roundup
Artificial Intelligence
MiniMax Drops State-of-the-Art AI Agent Model—Then Quietly Changes the License (Decrypt)
Japan's Tech Titans Just Teamed Up to Build a Trillion-Parameter AI (Decrypt)
Anthropic Talking to the Trump Administration About its Next AI Model (Reuters)
OpenAI Has Bought AI Personal Finance Startup Hiro (TechCrunch)
NVIDIA Launches Ising, Open AI Models to Accelerate the Path to Useful Quantum Computers (NVIDIA)
What Is Hermes? The Self-Improving AI Agent Coming for OpenClaw (Decrypt)
Gemini Robotics-ER 1.6: Powering Robotics Tasks Through Enhanced Embodied Reasoning (Google)
Decentralized, Centralized, & Traditional Finance
ClearBank Secures MiCA Approval, Targets Circle Euro, Dollar Stablecoins for Institutional Clients (CoinDesk)
Aave DAO Votes to Consolidate All Revenue Under AAVE Token (The Defiant)
Y Combinator Settles First All-Stablecoin Funding in USDC on Solana (The Block)
Circle CEO Says Arc Network is Exploring a Native Token and Shift to Proof-of-Stake (Circle)
Neo Founder Proposes Foundation Restructure Amid Governance Deadlock (GitHub)
Aave Founder Declares 'Zero Room for Friction' as DAO Orgs Accuse His Firm of Grabbing Power (DL News)
Russian Central Bank Wants All Crypto Traders to Undergo Identity Verification Checks (DL News)
CoW Swap Pauses Protocol Amid Domain Hijacking (The Block)
Broadridge Rolls Out Crypto, Tokenized Asset Platform for Canada Wealth Managers (Cointelegraph)
Exchanges
Crypto.com Reveals $1 Million in CRO Fighter Bonuses for White House UFC Fight (Decrypt)
Binance Adds Seven Tokens to Monitoring List While Removing XAUT Seed Tag (Binance)
Deutsche Börse Takes $200 Million Stake in Crypto Exchange Kraken Parent Company Payward (Bloomberg)
Crypto.com Gets Into Prediction Markets Through High Roller Tie-Up (Cointelegraph)
Exchange-Traded Funds
On Apr. 13, U.S. Bitcoin spot ETFs recorded $291.11 million in net outflows.
U.S. Ethereum spot ETFs saw $9.44 million in net inflows on Apr. 13.
U.S. XRP spot ETFs posted $1.46 million in net inflows on Apr. 13.
U.S. Solana spot ETFs logged no flows on Apr. 13.
Goldman Sachs Files to Launch Bitcoin Income ETF Tied to Options (Decrypt)
Infrastructure
South Korean Payments Provider NHN KCP to Build Own Layer 1 on Avalanche (The Block)
Aptos Overhauls Tokenomics with Lower Staking Yield, Higher Fees, and Supply Cap (Aptos Network)
Visa, Stripe and Zodia Custody by Standard Chartered Become Validators on Tempo's Payments Blockchain (The Block)
Ledger Now Has a Chief Human Agency Officer to Prove You’re Not AI (DL News)
Tether Launches Self-Custodial Wallet Supporting USDT, Bitcoin and Tokenized Gold (The Block)
XRP Ledger Adds Zero-Knowledge Proofs Targeting Institutional Privacy Gap (CoinDesk)
Ethereum Foundation Launches $1 Million Crypto Security Subsidy, Providing Access to Over 20 Audit Firms (The Block)
Markets
Polymarket Trader Turns $500 Into $252K After UFC Makes Yet Another Scoring Error (Decrypt)
Oil Price Surges 8% on Iran Tensions: Five Things to Know in Bitcoin This Week (Cointelegraph)
Japan's Central Bank Cools Rate Hike Expectations, Removing a Key Risk for Bitcoin's Rally (CoinDesk)
Bitcoin Nears $75K As Risk-on Sentiment, Geopolitical Landscape Improves (Decrypt)
U.S. March Producer Price Index Rose 0.5% MoM and 4.0% YoY, Below Expectations (BLS)
U.S. March Core Producer Price Index Rose 0.2% MoM and 3.6% YoY, Below Expectations (BLS)
Omnichain Token Launchpad Printr Rolls Out V2 Aiming for Greater Flexibility (The Block)
Polymarket Audits Startups Potentially Helping Users Copy Insider Trading (The Block)
Bitcoin Shorts Get Rekt as BTC Jumps Above $75K, Hitting 2-Month Price High (Decrypt)
Mining
Investigators Find Scores of Crypto Mining Farms Disguised as Chicken Coops (DL News)
Politics & Regulation
List of 'Unsolvable' Issues Have Shrunk, Top White House Crypto Advisory Says (The Block)
Former CFTC Chair Chris Giancarlo Goes Full-Time as a Tech and Crypto Advisor (The Block)
IRS Turns Up Heat on Crypto Ahead of April 15 Tax Deadline (DL News)
US Justice Department Opens Claims for Victims of $4 Billion OneCoin Fraud (The Block)
Anthropic Hires Trump-Linked Lobbying Firm Ballard Partners (Bloomberg)
Who's Joining Iron Mike Tyson at Trump’s Crypto Luncheon? (DL News)
UK Lawmaker Calls for FCA Probe of Farage's Crypto Promotion, Citing 'Trump Playbook' (The Block)
Fed Chair Nominee Warsh Discloses Assets Above $190 Million, Including Holdings in Crypto and AI (Bloomberg)
Senators Eye Draft Deal on Stablecoin Yield Amid Banking Lobby Pushback (Decrypt)
Crypto-Aligned Super PAC Begins to Endorse Candidates for US Midterms (Cointelegraph)
Nauru Taps Bitcoiner Dadvan Yousuf for Trade Role in Digital Asset Push (Cointelegraph)
Treasuries
Strategy's STRC Sees Record-Breaking Trading Day, May Surpass That on Tuesday (CoinDesk)
Venture Capital
Paxos Labs Raises $12 Million, Launches Amplify Platform for Onchain Financial Products (The Block)
Other News
X Product Chief Nikita Bier Teases a Crypto ‘Fix’ Amid Market Slump (Cointelegraph)
Fake Ledger Live App on Apple App Store Drained $9.5M From Victims: ZachXBT (Cointelegraph)
Web3 Hacks Cost $482M in Q1 as Phishing Drove Majority of Losses (Cointelegraph)
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Several once highly valued crypto projects, have seen steep valuation declines, with some falling 85–99% from peak funding-round valuations to current FDV.
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