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The crypto data platform Dune Analytics announced a major restructuring on Thursday, cutting 25% of its workforce while shifting its strategic focus to two main areas: AI-driven data tools and the on-chain asset adoption by financial institutions. The company stated that it is well-funded and emphasized that it has built a complete end-to-end technology stack for crypto data infrastructure, covering data collection, quality assurance, storage, cleaning, standardization, and querying. Its core product, Dune MCP, allows teams and agents to build dashboards and workflows without the need for SQL knowledge or managing data infrastructure costs.Dune stated that it currently serves almost all leading crypto companies and is expanding to large financial institution clients to address the trend of traditional assets such as currencies, stocks, bonds, and commodities migrating on-chain. Since its establishment in 2018, Dune has experienced multiple market cycles, and this restructuring reflects a broader trend in the industry towards institutional-grade infrastructure and AI integration tools.

Elon Musk just responded on the X platform regarding the topic "What has Bernie Sanders contributed to society in 45 years of politics" by saying "Memes." Stimulated by this news, the Solana ecosystem meme coin BURNIE briefly surged over 1x.According to GMGN market data, as of the time of publication, BURNIE's market cap is reported at 18.07 million USD, which quickly fell back after the brief surge.ChainCatcher reminds users that the prices of related tokens are highly volatile, and users should invest with caution.

After previously announcing the completion of a $200 million Series B financing, Shenzhen Zhongqing Robot Technology Co., Ltd. has now completed a Series B+ financing, with the specific scale and investors yet to be disclosed.According to official sources, after the completion of the Series B financing, Zhongqing Robot's valuation exceeded 10 billion yuan, placing it in the top tier of valuations in the domestic humanoid robot sector. Recently, the foreign investor representative of Zhongqing Robot, REDA NIDHAKOU, has resigned from the board of directors of Zhongqing Robot.

According to official news, the AI predictive market operating system Elastics has completed a $2 million Pre-Seed round of financing, led by Frst, with participation from ElevenLabs, XBTO, RedStone, and a16z.

Samsung Electronics' operating profit in the first quarter increased by 756.1% year-on-year, reaching 57.23 trillion won (approximately 38.5 billion USD), setting a new quarterly record. The chip business contributed the majority of the earnings, while revenue grew by 69.2% year-on-year, reaching 133.87 trillion won, and net profit increased by 474.3%, reaching 47.23 trillion won. The Device Solutions division (responsible for its semiconductor business) achieved revenue of 81.7 trillion won, with operating profit reaching 53.7 trillion won.These results far exceeded market expectations. According to data from financial data provider FnGuide, local brokerages had generally expected revenue of 117.13 trillion won and operating profit of 38.12 trillion won over the past month. Samsung Electronics' latest quarterly revenue and operating profit both surpassed the record highs set in the previous quarter (93.84 trillion won and 20.07 trillion won, respectively).

According to PRNewswire, Bitmine Chairman Tom Lee stated that since the US-Iran conflict, ETH has outperformed the S&P 500 Index by 1,696 basis points, becoming the best-performing single asset globally, aside from crude oil, and has acquired the attributes of a "wartime store of value" asset.Tom Lee added that as Wall Street accelerates the promotion of on-chain tokenization and the demand for public, neutral blockchains from the Agentic AI system continues, Ethereum will continue to benefit. His basic expectation is that we are currently in the final stage of a "mini crypto winter."

India is promoting the application of the digital rupee through about 10 welfare pilot projects, distributing part of the approximately $80 billion in subsidies and food benefits via e-rupee to reduce fund leakage and corruption, and to provide a clearer use case for central bank digital currency.At the same time, the Reserve Bank of India is pushing for a cross-member CBDC interconnection plan to be proposed at the 2026 BRICS summit, aiming to enhance the efficiency of cross-border trade settlements and reduce reliance on the US dollar. Currently, there are about 10 million e-rupee users, with a cumulative transaction amount of approximately $3.6 billion, which is still significantly lower than the UPI system that processes about $300 billion in transactions monthly in India.

Liquid Capital founder Yi Lihua stated that the current rebound in the crypto market continues, but overall performance appears weak compared to the S&P index reaching new highs and MicroStrategy's ongoing purchases, showing characteristics of a rebound in a bear market.He pointed out that MicroStrategy continues to buy Bitcoin through aggressive financing methods, which may be effective in the short term, but could face uncertainty in the medium term as macro financial risks increase. At the same time, he believes there is no need for the market to be pessimistic, as opportunities often arise during bear market phases.

X product lead Nikita Bier announced the launch of Snooze Topics on the platform, allowing Premium subscribers to hide selected topics on the For You homepage for 24 hours.Optional topics include politics, video, sports, business and finance, science and technology, entertainment and arts, artificial intelligence, and more. You can reset at any time. The feature is available on iOS and the web, launched alongside Custom Timelines on the same day.

According to Cointelegraph, Bitcoin rose over 5% on Tuesday, reaching a daily high of $76,120, the highest level since February 6, successfully reclaiming the key support area of $75,000—where the 100-day exponential moving average and simple moving average intersect. From a technical perspective, Bitcoin broke through the upper boundary of the ascending triangle at $73,000 on Monday.Analyst CryptoBlockto stated, "Bitcoin broke through $76,000, standing above the March high, sending a bullish signal of renewed strength." He pointed out that if the daily close stabilizes above the $75,000 moving average area, it will confirm the breakout of the pattern, with the next resistance level at the psychological barrier of $80,000, and the measured target of the ascending triangle pointing to $89,050, about 18% higher than the current price. The daily RSI has now risen to 63, having previously fallen to the oversold area of 15 on February 6.On-chain data shows that the average daily number of Bitcoin transactions has increased by 62% since 2026, reaching 765,130 on April 5, a new 17-month high, comparable to the level when Bitcoin first broke $100,000 during the 2024 U.S. presidential election. Analyst CW8900 stated, "The current daily transaction count for Bitcoin is higher than when BTC was priced at $120,000, indicating that the network is exhibiting bullish behavior."Glassnode noted in its latest market report that the total fee income from Bitcoin over the past week increased by 4%, rising to $153,700, indicating "increased on-chain demand," and stated, "This growth suggests a rise in network activity and may indicate that users' willingness to increase fee spending for priority processing of transactions is changing."

Aptos released an update on its token economics. The main adjustments include: the annualized staking reward rate decreased from 5.19% to 2.6%; Gas fees increased tenfold (the cost of stablecoin transfers remains as low as approximately $0.00014); after the launch of Decibel DEX, on-chain trading volume and Gas fee burning will significantly increase, with an expected annual burn of over 32 million APT; setting a hard cap total supply of 2.1 billion APT at the protocol layer; the Aptos Foundation will permanently lock and stake 210 million APT; future incentives will be converted to milestone triggers; exploring a programmatic buyback plan.

According to CBS News, JPMorgan Chase CEO Jamie Dimon revealed that the bank is considering offering prediction market services to clients.Dimon stated that JPMorgan may launch prediction market services similar to Kalshi and Polymarket in the future, but clearly indicated that it will not venture into sports and politics and will strictly adhere to regulations related to insider information.When asked about the attributes of prediction markets, Dimon believes they also have investment characteristics in specific areas—participants use deep expertise to judge that their predictions about a certain outcome are superior to those of their opponents.

The decentralized zero-knowledge proof verification layer Aligned updates the ALIGN token economics, with a total supply of 10 billion tokens and an initial circulation of approximately 16%.Of this, 23.5% will be allocated to the team (40% cliff unlock after 12 months, with the remaining portion unlocking linearly over 18 months), 19.71% will be allocated to investors, 18% will be allocated for the ecosystem (3.23% unlock at TGE, 6 months cliff unlock, with the remaining portion unlocking linearly over 24 months), 16.61% will be used for future reserves (40.24% unlock at TGE, 6 months cliff unlock, with the remaining portion unlocking linearly over 24 months), 11.4% will be allocated to the foundation (37.83% unlock at TGE, with the remaining portion unlocking linearly over 30 months), 8.74% will be used for airdrops (44.36% unlock at TGE), and 2.04% will be used for community sales (32.72% unlock at TGE).

Aster announced an update to its tokenomics and a restructuring of ecosystem emissions, replacing the previous monthly linear unlocking mechanism with a staking-only emission model.Previously, 78.4 million ASTER (approximately 1% of the maximum supply) were unlocked on a linear schedule each month; after the update, ecosystem tokens will only be released as staking rewards, currently at a rate of 450,000 ASTER per cycle (weekly), equivalent to a monthly release of 1.8 million to 2.25 million ASTER.Aster stated that since the TGE on September 17, 2025, all unlocked ecosystem and community tokens, aside from staking rewards, have remained untouched, and the relevant token holdings can be publicly verified through addresses starting with 0x0A55.

According to The Block, JPMorgan analysts stated that during the Iran war, Bitcoin outperformed gold and silver, showing signs of inflows and increased activity, while precious metals faced significant outflows and position liquidations.Analysts pointed out that gold ETFs saw outflows of nearly $11 billion, and silver ETFs have completely reversed the inflows since last summer, while Bitcoin showed net inflows during the same period, indicating its strong performance relative to traditional safe-haven assets. The analysts noted that following the outbreak of war, cryptocurrency activity in Iran surged, with local residents transferring funds from domestic exchanges to self-custody wallets and international platforms. Bitcoin's borderless nature, self-custody capability, and 24/7 trading make it the preferred tool for capital movement during times of economic instability, currency pressure, and capital controls.In terms of institutional holdings, gold and silver futures positions have significantly decreased since January, while Bitcoin futures positions have remained relatively stable. The liquidity situation has also reversed, with Bitcoin's market breadth surpassing that of gold.