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The OpenAI official status page shows that OpenAI is investigating multiple service outages, with the Codex 5.5 engine experiencing a high error rate, particularly affecting free users. All Codex users have also seen an increase in latency for gpt 5.5.In addition, the Realtime API's SIP/WebRTC process has experienced interruptions, which has been officially marked as "under investigation," and the related issues have persisted for several hours. The official website notes that the impact of the outage varies depending on subscription level and the models and features used.

According to CoinDesk, wallet service provider Exodus Movement (EXOD) sold approximately $73.2 million in crypto assets in the first quarter, during which its Bitcoin holdings decreased by 1,076 coins, a decline of about 63%, leaving only 628 BTC. The fair value of its assets dropped from $149.2 million to $42.8 million.During the same period, it added 5,068 SOL, increasing its total holdings to 17,541 SOL. The company stated that the related cash-out was mainly used for the acquisition of the W3C payment business and to pay off maturing consideration, and it has converted over $70 million into dollar reserves, raising its cash, cash equivalents, and stablecoin balance from $5.2 million to $74.4 million. Affected by the impairment and disposal of crypto assets, Exodus's revenue in the first quarter fell by 36.8% year-on-year to $22.7 million, and net losses widened to $32.1 million.

Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei stated on Wednesday at the Code With Claude developer conference in San Francisco that the company's revenue in the first quarter saw an 80-fold increase alongside customer AI usage, which took the company by surprise. He mentioned that the company had originally planned for a 10-fold annual growth, but the actual growth rate far exceeded expectations, leading to a tight supply of computing power.Anthropic's annualized revenue increased from nearly $1 billion at the end of 2024 to $9 billion by the end of the year, and by early April this year, it had surged to $30 billion. The strong demand for Claude Code and work agents allowed it to nearly meet its annual forecast ahead of schedule last month. To alleviate the pressure on computing power, Anthropic signed contracts for a total of 10 gigawatts of computing power supply with Amazon and Google over the past month, and announced on Thursday that it will utilize all the computing power of xAI's first data center, Colossus 1, located in Memphis, within the next month. Amodei stated that the company will continue to acquire more computing power as much as possible.

According to Jinshi News, St. Louis Fed President Bullard stated that there is significant uncertainty regarding the outlook for the U.S. economy and monetary policy. He believes that the risks associated with current inflation are rising compared to employment risks. Bullard pointed out that inflation is significantly above the 2% target level, and the risks are more tilted towards inflation rather than employment.He mentioned that the Fed's benchmark policy rate is currently at a neutral level, possibly slightly leaning towards easing, and there is a reasonable scenario for maintaining the current policy rate, but further rate cuts or increases may also be necessary.

According to Jin Shi reports, Federal Reserve's Musalem stated that there are reasonable scenarios indicating that interest rates need to remain stable for a period of time.

According to the Korea Economic Daily, Jeong Eun-bo, the chairman of the Korea Exchange, announced at the 30th anniversary ceremony of the Busan derivatives market that they plan to launch digital asset derivatives to make Busan a global hub for the derivatives market.He stated that the exchange will actively promote the introduction of related products and attract international conferences to solidify Busan's position as South Korea's leading derivatives financial center.

The cryptocurrency trading platform SuperEx announced that it will launch the AMDUSDT, QCOMUSDT, and USARUSDT U-based perpetual contract trading pairs today at 22:00 Beijing time (14:00 UTC).It is reported that the newly launched contract trading pairs support full margin, cross margin, and isolated margin modes, and users can experience trading through SuperEx's web and app platforms.

Kelp DAO announced that it will migrate its re-staked token rsETH to Chainlink CCIP, stating that this move is to enhance security.Previously, the cross-chain bridge built by Kelp DAO based on LayerZero was attacked on April 18, resulting in hackers stealing approximately 116,500 rsETH, involving an amount of about $292 million, and using the related assets as collateral to borrow WETH on Aave v3. Regarding the cause of the vulnerability, LayerZero previously stated that the issue stemmed from Kelp DAO using a single DVN verification path configuration instead of multiple independent verifications. Kelp DAO responded that this configuration was the default setting and that LayerZero had confirmed its security without indicating any related risks. LayerZero CEO Bryan Pellegrino subsequently denied this claim, stating that Kelp DAO had actively modified the default multi-DVN configuration. Both parties are currently still in ongoing disputes over the attribution of responsibility.

According to Cointelegraph, the Tennessee Bankers Association in the United States has selected Stablecore as its preferred digital asset technology provider, offering infrastructure for products such as stablecoins, tokenized deposits, and crypto asset-backed loans to approximately 175 member banks, without the need for banks to build their own systems.Stablecore develops backend infrastructure that allows banks to issue and manage tokenized assets while handling compliance and integration with core banking systems. This collaboration reflects the trend of traditional financial institutions integrating crypto services through third-party providers.

The Binance futures platform will launch the AMDUSDT perpetual contract on May 6, 2026, at 21:30, with a maximum leverage of up to 10 times; the QCOMUSDT perpetual contract will launch at 21:35, with a maximum leverage of up to 10 times; the USARUSDT perpetual contract will launch at 21:40, with a maximum leverage of up to 10 times.

According to Cointelegraph, Nominis analysis indicates that some of the "Iran-related" crypto wallets recently seized and frozen by the U.S. OFAC may not exhibit on-chain behavior characteristics consistent with the past operational patterns of the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC), suggesting the involvement of other state-level actors.Previously, the U.S. Treasury stated that over $340 million, totaling nearly $500 million in Iran-related crypto assets, had been frozen in the "Operation Economic Fury." Nominis CEO Snir Levi noted that historically, IRGC-related wallets typically spread funds across multiple addresses, maintain low balances in single wallets, avoid long-term holdings, and employ complex operations to reduce the risk of being frozen; however, the wallets that were seized this time show significant differences in their funding structure and behavior patterns.He believes this raises a critical question: how much of the frozen $340 million in assets is directly controlled by the IRGC, and how much involves broader infrastructures that may even overlap with financial networks of other countries.Levi also pointed out that organizations, including the IRGC and potential state-level actors from China, are continuously upgrading their use of blockchain infrastructure, and traditional static risk control labels are no longer sufficient; behavioral analysis and address clustering are becoming increasingly critical.

OKX will officially launch the USAR/USDT perpetual contract on April 27, 2026, at 22:00. The COST/USDT contract will open at 22:15, the LLY/USDT contract will open at 22:30, the HIMS/USDT contract will open at 22:45, and the BMNR/USDT contract will open at 23:00. All contracts are settled in USDT, and trading hours are 7×24 hours.

Gate announced the launch of the GateRouter enterprise account feature, enhancing enterprise-level management capabilities based on the existing AI model gateway, providing an integrated AI usage and governance solution for team and institutional users. GateRouter supports quick access to over 30 mainstream models such as GPT, Claude, DeepSeek, and Gemini through a single API, and automatically matches models based on task complexity. By intelligently routing and automatically selecting cost-effective models, GateRouter can help enterprises significantly reduce costs and achieve more efficient scalable applications.The launch of the GateRouter enterprise account feature optimizes three aspects: cost, permissions, and data. It achieves unified billing through a shared quota pool and controls budgets with a three-tier quota mechanism based on organization, members, and API Key; it supports up to 4 levels of organizational structure and a multi-role permission system for refined management; it also provides multi-dimensional statistics such as per capita usage, model distribution, and API Key, making AI usage traceable and analyzable. The overall design connects model invocation with organizational management, providing foundational support for the scalable implementation of AI within enterprises.

Gate's outdoor crossover exhibition "Racing the Future" officially opened at the K11 MUSEA waterfront promenade in Victoria Harbour, Hong Kong. On the opening day, the event attracted a large number of citizens and tourists, with attendance exceeding ten thousand, and the waterfront area remained crowded, creating a lively atmosphere.As the official sponsor of the F1 Red Bull Racing team, Gate showcased the team's brand new 2026 racing car and related equipment at this exhibition, and set up an interactive experience area to attract visitors to closely experience the combination of racing engineering and speed culture. Many visitors stopped to take photos and engage with the interactive content. The racing suits, equipment, and gloves of champion driver Max Verstappen and driver Isack Hadjar were also on display, along with a giant driver helmet installation of Max Verstappen, drawing many fans to the event.In addition, Gate will hold the "Gate 13 Blue Carpet Ceremony" on April 20, where the unveiling of the F1 Red Bull Racing team's display car and brand collaboration will take place; that evening, Gate will also host a high-end anniversary dinner at the Rosewood Hong Kong, with platform founder and CEO Dr. Han in attendance, and over 300 representatives from top industry institutions and partners expected to participate in the exchange.

According to Cointelegraph, Kalshi CEO Tarek Mansour stated that the company plans to launch a "parent portal" feature that allows parents to submit identification information to verify whether their children are using the platform under their identity.In addition, Kalshi will also introduce a selfie verification mechanism to further confirm user identity through facial recognition, strengthening age restrictions and compliance management to prevent minors from using related services.

According to Jinshi reports, Federal Reserve's Musalem stated that the weakening impact of tariffs will help inflation decline, and housing inflation is also moving in the right direction.

OpenAI announced the launch of the GPT-5.4-Cyber model, which is fine-tuned from GPT-5.4 for cybersecurity scenarios, reducing the refusal limits on security-related requests under specific conditions to support specialized operations such as binary reverse engineering.According to the introduction, the model is only available to vetted security vendors, corporate security teams, and researchers through the "Trusted Access for Cybersecurity" (TAC) program. OpenAI stated that the relevant layered mechanism will limit the scope of model usage and impose additional constraints on access in low visibility scenarios.

Justin Sun previously posted accusations that the WLFI token contract has a "backdoor" and can arbitrarily freeze user assets. The WLFI official responded by denying these claims and stated that they would take legal action.The WLFI official stated that Justin Sun is using the image of a "victim" to smear and make false accusations, and such public accusations are not the first occurrence. WLFI has gathered relevant contracts and evidence and claims it will meet Justin Sun in court.

According to The Wall Street Journal, U.S. Vice President Vance stated after marathon peace negotiations between the U.S. and Iran that the two sides failed to reach an agreement because Tehran refused to abandon its pursuit of nuclear weapons. "Unfortunately, we were unable to make any progress." Vance also called on Iran to make a "clear commitment" to no longer seek nuclear weapons. The chief negotiator for Iran stated that Washington had failed to earn its trust.The U.S. also stated that two U.S. Navy destroyers passed through the Strait of Hormuz on Saturday, marking the first time U.S. warships have traversed the waterway since the war began. In response, the Iranian Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps Navy denied that these ships passed through the waterway and stated that any attempt to navigate this route would face a "decisive and tough response."