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Reform UK leader Nigel Farage bought Bitcoin with roughly £2 million, becoming the first sitting member of Parliament to publicly disclose an investment of this size. The move highlights his party’s support for cryptoassets and could spark debate about the impact on the UK’s crypto policy and potential conflicts of interest. Farage invested via Stack BTC, strengthening his dual political and financial endorsement.

Foundry Zcash, the Zcash mining pool under Foundry Digital, the operator of a cryptocurrency mining pool, quickly accumulated 29.2% of Zcash hashrate after its launch, squeezing the market share of the leading mining pool, ViaBTC. This shift has boosted the Zcash network’s decentralization and security, reducing the risk of 51% attacks, while the ZEC price surged significantly due to institutional participation and the appeal of privacy technology.

Recently, altcoins represented by RAVE have sparked a fierce investment craze, but some old star projects like FF and INX have used this wave of hype to carry out “pump-and-dump” operations—rapidly driving up coin prices to lure retail investors to buy, and then dumping them heavily, causing the price to plunge rapidly. Such behavior not only exposes the project team’s funding difficulties, but also damages investors’ trust. Investors need to stay alert to signals like abnormal short-term surges in order to avoid the risk of being manipulated by the market.

Bitcoin Cash is officially live on Lava Network, and it is a big advancement towards decentralized infrastructure to support scalable payments. The integration brings on board RPC access to BCH mainnet and BCH testnet which allows developers, applications and users to interact with the network

Dutch state lottery operator Nederlandse Loterij filed a civil lawsuit against Qbet, the Netherlands’ largest unlicensed online gambling platform. The first hearing will be held on April 9. The move is intended to directly pursue the legal responsibility of offshore shell companies and individual directors, protecting consumers from illegal gambling risks. Recently, the KSA issued fines to the relevant operators, but this was still criticized as insufficient, showing that there are gaps in current regulation. If this litigation strategy succeeds, it will provide an enforcement precedent for other European markets.

Ethereum Treasury Company Bitmine recently increased its holdings by 71,524 ETH, bringing its total position to about 4.87 million ETH, nearing its 5% target. Despite having $6.0 billion in paper losses, Bitmine still has $11.8 billion in total assets, and defines ETH as a “wartime value storage method.” This move reflects its confidence in Ethereum’s long-term value.

Const, co‑founder of Bittensor, has officially addressed the Samuel Dare (Covenant) betrayal that rocked the TAO community. In a lengthy X post, he apologized to every holder who lost money in the Covenant subnets (3, 39, and 81). He called Samuel a person he once considered a brother,

Aptos Foundation updated its tokenomics on April 14. The main reforms include lowering the staking annualized rate to 2.6%, increasing Gas fees by 10x, setting a supply cap of 2.1 billion tokens, and permanently locking 210 million APT. This adjustment is intended to shift the supply model from a “subsidy-driven” approach to a “performance-driven” one, in order to achieve a deflationary target and encourage long-term participation.

A new Oumi study, reported by The New York Times, found Google's AI Overviews inaccurate 9% of the time — translating to tens of millions of wrong answers per hour at Google's scale. Over half of accurate responses also cited sources that don't fully support their claims, while Google called the study "seriously flawed."

Anthropic's Claude AI is facing an unusual credibility problem: mounting quality complaints on GitHub, a major April 13 outage, and a self-assessment from the model itself concluding concerns have "escalated sharply" since January — with April on pace to surpass March's complaint volume, already a 3.5× jump over baseline.

In a significant development showcasing Monad’s commitment to digital asset security and user-driven solutions on its EVM-compatible Layer-1 blockchain, the protocol today entered into a strategic partnership with Ledger Wallet, a cold hardware non-custodial wallet infrastructure. This

The American Bankers Association criticizes the White House’s research framework in its stablecoin report, saying it overlooks the risk of deposit outflows that could be triggered by prohibiting stablecoin yield. The White House report says the ban will have only a minimal impact on bank lending, increasing it by just $2.1 billion, but the ABA believes this issue’s framework fails to reflect the risks that would actually harm community banks and support the local economy. This dispute is also tied to the current cryptocurrency regulatory legislative efforts, shaping the future development of stablecoins and the competitive landscape for banks.

U.S. House members recently introduced the “Protecting American Rights Through Interoperable Value and Yield” Act (PARITY Act), aiming to reform cryptocurrency tax policies, remove the $200 exemption threshold, and introduce wash sale rules, clearly distinguishing different types of trading activity. The bill’s legislative progress remains unclear, but it is expected to draw attention in future tax debates, and the industry is actively pushing to include the relevant provisions in new legislation.

Pi Network distributes 26.5 million PI tokens to more than 1 million community members who have completed KYC verification, to accelerate user identity verification and strengthen the decentralized model. 18 million already-verified users have laid the groundwork for the ecosystem’s development, but the key lies in how to convert these users into active participants. With the protocol upgrade, Pi Network is moving toward the open network phase, and smart contract support signals richer application scenarios.