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According to ChainCatcher news, asset management company WisdomTree disclosed that its crypto exchange-traded products (ETPs) recorded a net inflow of $137 million, a significant improvement from the $89 million net outflow in the same period in 2025. As of the end of the first quarter, WisdomTree's overall asset management (AUM) rose to $152.6 billion, a year-on-year increase of more than 30%, with strong inflows into products in the US and European markets as the main driver. Its crypto ETP AUM grew to approximately $1.8 billion in the first three months, a year-over-year increase of 15%. However, crypto ETP AUM, which started the period with about $2.2 billion, shrank by about $596 million during the quarter due to falling digital asset prices. WisdomTree also stated that it has launched new crypto ETP products tracking Bitcoin, Ethereum, XRP and Solana this quarter, and continues to promote the tokenization layout of real-world assets (RWA), which have been deployed on Ethereum and Arbitrum, Avalanche, Base, Optimism and other chains, as well as the Stellar network.

ChainCatcher news, according to Onchain Lens monitoring, a wallet associated with the Ethereum Foundation deposited 1,744 ETH into Kraken, worth $4.03 million.

ChainCatcher news, according to Gate market data, the US dollar index DXY continued its decline, with the latest decline of 0.35%. Brent crude oil fell 4% on the day and is now trading at $105.69 per barrel. Spot silver surged 4% on the day and is now trading at $76.67 per ounce.

ChainCatcher news, according to Golden Ten, Fed Logan said that the Fed should not issue guidance suggesting policy easing at this time.

ChainCatcher news, according to Golden Ten, Fed official Logan said that there is uncertainty about the outlook for the current inflation path.

ChainCatcher news, according to Jinshi, the Federal Reserve's Logan said that the next interest rate adjustment may be a rate cut or a rate hike.

ChainCatcher news, Curve Finance officially issued a document stating that it is introducing a bad debt recovery mechanism based on the on-chain market mechanism, allowing CRV-damaged users with bad debts in some lending markets to choose different recovery strategies: directly sell claims to exit, continue to hold for potential repairs, or provide liquidity to earn fees and incentives. Enables bad debt claims to be priced and liquidated in the market, providing users with an immediate exit channel instead of relying solely on the final liquidation result. It is reported that after the crypto market plummeted in October last year, some of Curve Finance's lending markets experienced bad debts, and some deposit users faced withdrawal restrictions and asset losses due to severe price fluctuations and liquidity contractions. Curve says that the recovery mechanism does not eliminate losses or guarantee recovery, but gradually reflects risks and repair expectations in a market-oriented manner. In addition, if the governance layer distributes rewards through the veCRV incentive mechanism, it will help increase liquidity depth, improve exit conditions, and enhance market pricing efficiency.

Axios global affairs reporter Barak Ravid posted on the X platform that on Monday, US White House special envoy Steve Witkoff sent a revised list to Iran through a Pakistani intermediary, and the core requirement is to re-incorporate the nuclear issue into the text of the agreement. According to people familiar with the matter, one of the amendments requires Iran to commit not to carry out any activities at bombed nuclear facilities and not to touch any part of its enriched uranium stockpile during the negotiations.

According to ChainCatcher news, SYNBO was invited to deliver a keynote speech at the special event of Fudan University in Shanghai, systematically dismantling the evolution logic of the public chain ecological investment and financing market. At present, the primary market of the industry is highly dependent on the offline intermediary model, and there are generally four dimensions of access, trust, capital release, and benefit distribution. In response to the existing pain points in the industry, SYNBO is committed to transforming capital operations into on-chain verifiable rules, relying on delivery-oriented fund release, dynamic pricing and financing share trading, continuous asset generation mechanism, and community co-construction model to build a native on-chain investment and financing agreement system. The SYNBO model will break down the barriers of the traditional VC industry, lower the threshold for innovation and entrepreneurship financing, promote the development of the industry from "asset on-chain" to "on-chain capital efficiency upgrade", and build sustainable endogenous growth potential for the entire public chain ecosystem.

ChainCatcher news, according to Coinglass data, BTC contract holdings on the entire network have increased by 5.92% in the past 24 hours, and the current total open interest is $57.621 billion. Among them, Binance holds $10.553 billion, OKX holds $3.349 billion, Bybit holds $4.725 billion, and Gate holds $5.323 billion.

According to ChainCatcher news, according to Golden Ten, the fear index VIX fell to its lowest level in more than two months at 16.72.

Odaily Planet Daily News The total venture capital in the crypto field fell to $659 million in April 2026, down 74% from $2.6 billion in March and the lowest monthly record since July 2024. According to Cryptorank, a total of 63 funding rounds were completed in April, bringing the total investment year-to-date to $5.64 billion in 2026. Among the segments, DeFi protocols are the most active, completing a total of 12 rounds of financing, followed by blockchain services and AI-related crypto projects. In terms of investors, GSR was the most active, participating in 4 rounds of investment, including the Legend Trade seed round; L1 Digital came in second with 3 investments. Since October 2025, the scale of monthly financing has continued to decline due to weakening liquidity, and the total market capitalization of the global crypto market has fallen by about 37% during the same period. （Cointelegraph）

According to ChainCatcher news, crypto analyst Murphy posted on the X platform that the holdings of new Bitcoin buyers have continued to rise recently, and have increased from the bottom of 3.38 million to 3.68 million. Although there are still 1 million+ coins away from the peak of the bull market, it at least shows that with the improvement of the macro environment, investors' risk appetite is gradually returning. If you compare it with the previous round, it is now almost equivalent to the size of new buyers in mid-August 2022. It was also in the second half of the bear market. BTC bounced back from a low of $19,000 to $24,000 (a 26% rebound); And this time BTC rebounded from $62,000 to $79,000 (a 27% rebound); The situation is similar. But the difference is that it costs 3-4 times more money to hold the same amount of BTC than in the past, but it still can't stop so many powerful new buyers from entering.

ChainCatcher news, according to PRNewswire, Nasdaq-listed Eightco Holdings (ORBS) released a position update, with a total value of approximately $333 million in assets held as of April 27, including: 283,452,700 Worldcoin (WLD), 11,068 ETH, $90 million investment in OpenAI, and Beast Industries $25 million in investments, as well as $121 million worth of cash and stablecoin holdings. Eightco Holdings said that the value of WLD tokens held has dropped to 21% of the company's total assets, with investments in OpenAI accounting for about 27% of the company's total assets and Beast Industries accounting for 8% of the company's total assets.

Odaily Planet Daily News TankerTrackers: The number of tankers carrying crude oil diverted to Iran continues to increase. (Jin Shi)

According to Al Jazeera, citing sources, Iran has submitted a new proposal through Pakistan, and nuclear negotiations are unlikely to succeed, and the focus may shift to ending the war. (Jin Shi)

According to ChainCatcher news, artificial intelligence application platform Certifyde announced the completion of a $2 million seed round of financing, with participation from K5 Global, Flamingo Capital, and many angel investors including Honey co-founder George Ruan, Ripple CEO Brad Garlinghouse, and Nutra co-founder Roland Peralta.

ChainCatcher news, MoonPay launched the "MoonAgents Card", a stablecoin debit card based on the Mastercard network, designed for AI agents to spend directly from on-chain self-custody wallets. The virtual card is issued through Monavate and cooperates with the Exodus wallet to convert stablecoins into fiat currency in real time for payments made by online merchants accepting Mastercard worldwide, without the need to preload funds or transfer assets off-chain. Funds are immediately returned to the wallet when the transaction fails, and the wallet custody is never transferred. The CEO of MoonPay said that this solves the pain point that AI agents were previously unable to spend on the merchant side, and is currently available in the UK and Latin America through the MoonPay CLI, and will be launched soon in the United States and the European Union (KYC required). This move targets the future trend of AI agents using cryptocurrencies for transactions on a large scale.

ChainCatcher news, USDT issuer Tether released its first quarter report for 2025, despite high volatility in the global market, Tether still achieved strong profitability, with a net profit of approximately US$1.04 billion, total assets of approximately US$191.768 billion, and total liabilities of approximately US$183.536 billion as of March 31, 2026, including approximately US$183.438 billion in liabilities related to digital token issuance. Tether's asset reserves reached a record high of $8.232 billion, a significant increase from the previous period. The overall circulating supply of USDT is stable at a massive level, around $183 billion. Tether's asset reserves are dominated by highly liquid and high-quality assets, mainly composed of the following: U.S. Treasury bonds directly + indirectly hold about $141 billion, which is still a core holding, making Tether the 17th largest holder of U.S. Treasury bonds in the world. Physical gold is about $20 billion. Bitcoin is about $7 billion, and Q1 continued to increase BTC holdings.