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The cross-chain protocol Axelar Network released a statement regarding the recent security incident related to Secret Network, stating that there is a misunderstanding within the community about the event. Both Axelar and the Inter-Blockchain Communication Protocol (IBC) were not attacked or compromised. The affected token smart contracts were neither developed, deployed, nor maintained by Axelar, and Axelar's firewall mechanism also prevented the impact from spreading to other chains.It is reported that the exploited contract is a forked version based on CW20-ICS20, but the developers removed two core security checks, resulting in an "infinite minting" vulnerability. By deleting the verification mechanisms originally used to prevent such issues, this fork altered the original trust model of the contract and did not undergo a new security audit.Axelar Network explained that anyone can deploy contracts for cross-chain asset wrapping through IBC, and similar contracts have also been used to wrap tokens from other chains into Secret Network. However, the Secret side fork version in this incident has vulnerabilities due to the removal of key security checks. This incident is not a unique logical flaw, nor is it an issue with the IBC protocol itself, but rather a security risk introduced by modifications to third-party contracts.

According to CoinDesk, an address from the "Satoshi era" that has never been used since March 2011, holding 35.55 bitcoins (approximately $2.54 million), made a transfer this week, which is seen as one of the first publicly visible responses from defendants in a lawsuit involving approximately 3.8 million bitcoins (valued at about $285 billion) in New York.On-chain data shows that the address transferred 15 BTC to a new address on June 2, keeping the remaining 20.55 BTC as change. The address initially received bitcoins on March 27, 2011, when the price of BTC was less than $1.In March of this year, a plaintiff using the pseudonym "Noah Doe" filed a lawsuit in New York state court alongside two LLCs from Wyoming, attempting to claim ownership of approximately 3.8 million long-dormant bitcoin wallets under New York's lost property law, positioning themselves as the "discoverer." The court approved sending on-chain notifications to the relevant wallets via the bitcoin OP_RETURN field.In July 2025, the advisory firm Salomon Brothers Strategic Advisors sent dust transactions with links to legal notices to 39,000 wallets, including the aforementioned address, requesting holders to prove ownership within 90 days.Alex Thorn, head of research at Galaxy Research, pointed out that the address corresponds to defendant number 38215 in the case, stating, "Clearly, these bitcoins have not actually been abandoned."Additionally, another address that had been dormant for 15 years, 1CDSyXAQxro4FPUoqAQb81642ruqDsUiNp, also transferred 20 BTC (approximately $1.48 million) on the same day, but this address did not appear on Noah Doe's list of lawsuits.Analysis suggests that the on-chain movements mentioned above indicate that some bitcoins from the Satoshi era, considered "abandoned assets," are actually still under the control of the original holders.

UPBIT will launch trading for OriginTrail (TRAC) on April 20 at 16:00, supporting KRW, BTC, and USDT markets. The deposit service for TRAC will open 1 hour and 30 minutes after the announcement is made. Users are advised to pay attention to network selection.

According to the Financial Times, Blue Origin, the American commercial space company founded by Jeff Bezos, is considering bringing in external investment for the first time. Introducing external capital could accelerate Blue Origin's operational expansion and technological research and development by mobilizing internal and external resources, thereby breaking through the growth model that relies solely on internal funding.More broadly, the rising interest of venture capital in the space industry may intensify competition for talent and contracts within the industry, while also sending positive signals of investor confidence to the supply chain and regulatory systems.

According to market news, Moon Kyung-ho, head of the Income Tax Division of the Ministry of Economy and Finance of South Korea, stated at an emergency meeting on the taxation of virtual assets that the government will proceed with the taxation of virtual assets as originally planned starting January 1 next year. This is the first time the Ministry of Economy and Finance has publicly expressed its stance on the issue of virtual asset taxation.According to the current income tax law, income generated from the transfer or lending of virtual assets will be classified as other income, with a tax rate of 22% applicable to virtual asset income exceeding 2.5 million won (20% other income tax plus 2% local income tax). The tax targets approximately 13.26 million investors. Head Moon revealed that the National Tax Service is formulating relevant announcements and has had multiple discussions with the five major virtual asset operators, expecting to conduct legislative announcements soon.

Bitcoin mining company and energy infrastructure platform Hut 8 announced that its subsidiary has reached a $200 million Bitcoin collateralized credit agreement with FalconX, replacing the previous financing arrangement from Coinbase Credit. The new financing has an annual fixed interest rate of 7.0%, a decrease of 200 basis points from the previous 9.0% financing from Coinbase; during the period from December 2023 to March 2025, the financing cost was as high as 10.5%–11.5%, with a cumulative reduction of up to 450 basis points, demonstrating progress in continuously optimizing debt costs.After this refinancing, Hut 8 has approximately 3,300 BTC converted to an uncollateralized state, valued at about $260 million based on the market value as of May 1, 2026, significantly enhancing its balance sheet flexibility and liquidity. Meanwhile, the credit structure maintains key risk control terms, including a limited recourse structure, a no-rehypothecation clause, and a fixed LTV threshold design, preventing additional margin calls triggered by a decline in Bitcoin prices.Hut 8's management stated that this financing not only reduces financing costs but also releases more uncollateralized Bitcoin assets, helping to enhance capital allocation flexibility across different market cycles; FalconX emphasized that this transaction reflects its ongoing expansion capabilities in institutional-level Bitcoin credit solutions.

Syndicate has released an update regarding the recent security incident, stating that the leakage of private keys led to the malicious upgrade of bridging contracts on two chains, resulting in the theft of approximately 18.5 million SYND (about $330,000) and around $50,000 in customer tokens. Affected users will receive full compensation, and SYND holders will receive additional compensation.The attack involved multi-stage reconnaissance, infrastructure mapping, vulnerability exploitation development, and precise timing, ruling out the possibility of insider involvement. The root cause of the vulnerability was the storage of private keys in a password manager, and the upgrade process did not utilize multi-signature or hardware signing. Syndicate is strengthening security measures, including adding an encryption layer outside the password manager and implementing multi-signature or hardware signing for the upgrade path.

SpaceX announced today that it has reached a cooperation intention with AI programming startup Cursor, which grants SpaceX the right to acquire it later this year for $60 billion, or to pay $10 billion to advance the cooperation between the two parties.It is reported that Cursor's developer Anysphere completed a $400,000 Pre-Seed round of financing in April 2022, jointly invested by Alameda Research and Heroic Ventures. Among them, Alameda invested $200,000 in Anysphere, acquiring about 5% of the shares.This equity was sold at the original price during the bankruptcy liquidation of FTX. Based on a $60 billion valuation, if the equity had not been sold, it would currently be worth about $3 billion.

According to Jinshi reports, U.S. President Trump stated in an interview that he was surprised by the rebound of the stock market during the Iran war, as he originally thought the Dow Jones index would drop by 20%.

According to Arkham monitoring, Dragonfly received 55.8 million LIT from Lighter. Analysis indicates that this may be the investor token share of Dragonfly, which will be locked for 1 year and will be unlocked in phases after the TGE. It is expected that these tokens will not be liquid again before December 30, 2026.

The blockchain interoperability protocol Hyperbridge disclosed details of the previous DOT attack incident, resulting in a loss of approximately $237,000. The root of the vulnerability lies in the HandlerV1 contract's VerifyProof() function, which lacks input validation and does not verify the leaf_index leafCount, allowing attackers to forge Merkle proofs.Using this, the attacker gained administrator privileges for the DOT token bridging contract on Ethereum, subsequently minting 1 billion bridged DOT (which is about 2800 times the legitimate circulation of approximately 356,000) and cashing out on decentralized exchanges. Hyperbridge stated that it is currently working with security partners to trace the funds, and cross-chain functionality will remain suspended until the investigation is completed.

Binance founder Zhao Changpeng (CZ) recalled in his new book that he was approached in early 2014 to become the CEO of Mt. Gox's China region. This position was facilitated by the head of Susquehanna International Group's China region, originally planned for Susquehanna to provide funding support, Mt. Gox to handle technology, and CZ to manage operations in China, with an approximate 10% equity stake.CZ stated that he subsequently met with Mt. Gox founder Mark Karpeles in Tokyo, but just as both parties were close to signing, Mt. Gox suddenly suspended withdrawals on February 7, 2014, leading to a crisis, and he ultimately decided not to join.

According to Hurriyet Daily News, the Turkish parliament has removed the tax provisions related to crypto assets during the review of the comprehensive bill.The deleted provisions would have imposed a 0.3% transaction tax on the sale and transfer of crypto assets conducted through service providers and taxed cryptocurrency gains, primarily through withholding at the source. Although these provisions have been removed from the current draft, officials have stated that a revised version may be reintroduced to the parliament in the form of a separate legislative proposal.

According to Hurriyet Daily News, the Turkish parliament removed the tax provisions related to crypto assets during the review of the omnibus bill. The provisions had proposed a 0.3% transaction tax on crypto transactions conducted through service providers and imposed withholding tax on crypto gains.This adjustment stemmed from strong opposition from the opposition parties. Officials stated that the relevant content may be resubmitted in the form of separate legislation in the future.

Elon Musk stated that the planned "increase the exposure weight of creators based on their region" will be paused and further consideration will be given.Previously, X product head Nikita Bier revealed that starting this Thursday (March 26), the X platform will adjust the revenue-sharing incentive mechanism for creators, focusing on increasing the weight of exposure from the creators' regions. This adjustment aims to encourage content that resonates with users in their own country, neighboring countries, and those who speak the same language, while reducing the motivation for creators to specifically optimize traffic for U.S. or Japanese accounts, in order to promote a more diverse content ecosystem on the platform.

YZi Labs transferred 87.5 million RDNT (worth $470,000) to Binance. These RDNT were obtained through vesting unlocks over the past two years, with a value of approximately $3.86 million at the time of unlocking, and now only worth $470,000.

According to official news, the modular blockchain Origins Network has announced the completion of a $8 million strategic financing round, with participation from Animoca Brands, TBV, Candaq FinTech Group, Castrum Capital, Coinvestor Ventures, and others.The main business of the project is to build a modular blockchain for AI Agents, aiming to achieve transparent verification of the AI reasoning process through its PoC (Proof of Computation) mechanism. Origins Network adopts a hybrid architecture of off-chain computation and on-chain verification, and has currently partnered with cloud service providers such as AWS, Tencent Cloud, and Alibaba Cloud.This round of financing will be used to expand global decentralized computing nodes, improve the developer ecosystem toolchain, and accelerate global market operations.

The DeFi protocol Neutrl stated on platform X that in response to the recent DNS hijacking incident, the team has migrated the official domain to a new address and switched to a new DNS service provider. The smart contract has been unpaused and is now operating normally.Neutrl further stated that all user funds are safe, and the protocol's net asset value (NAV) and reserve assets are stored in a custodial wallet, isolated through a custodial framework and over-the-counter settlement mechanism (OES), effectively avoiding front-end and infrastructure risks.The official reminder is that users should no longer access the original domain, which will gradually be phased out. Users who have interacted with the affected domain are advised to revoke related authorizations, including Permit2 authorizations for specified malicious addresses, and to clear all unknown authorizations.

According to CoinDesk, South Korea's opposition party has proposed a bill to completely abolish the cryptocurrency income tax system that was scheduled to be implemented. The bill states that the current plan is to impose a 22% tax rate on cryptocurrency investment gains, while stock investment gains are not subject to income tax, which is deemed unfair to cryptocurrency investors. If the bill passes, South Korea's planned cryptocurrency tax collection scheme will be canceled.