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According to ChainCatcher news, crypto derivatives trading platform Liquid has completed a $18 million Series A financing, co-led by Neo and Left Lane Capital, with participation from Haun Ventures, K5 Global, SV Angel, AntiFund and Sunflower Capital. The company previously closed a $7.6 million seed round led by Paradigm. Founded by Franklyn Wang, a former Two Sigma quantitative researcher and Harvard graduate, Liquid started as a perpetual contract aggregation platform and has since expanded to multi-asset trading such as stocks, forex, commodities, and prediction markets. The platform supports up to 200x leverage and integrates trading across multiple asset classes, including Polymarket positions.

ChainCatcher news, according to Gate Ventures' latest weekly report, there are signs of phased repair at the macro level, the performance of major stock indexes is differentiated but overall upward, and market risk appetite has rebounded. Against this backdrop, the crypto market rebounded simultaneously, with BTC rising 6.6% and ETH rising 4.7%, and recording net inflows of about $823.7 million and $155 million in spot ETFs, respectively, indicating an increase in capital returns. The overall market capitalization rose by 5.2%, while the market capitalization excluding BTC and ETH increased by 2.6%, indicating that the upward momentum is starting to spread to a wider range of assets, but the pace is still relatively moderate. In terms of asset and industry dynamics, structural opportunities continue to emerge. The top 30 assets rose by an average of 4.2%. At the same time, the promotion at the on-chain and industrial levels continues, including the continuous evolution of digital currency infrastructure and asset on-chain direction. In terms of investment and financing, a total of 12 transactions were completed last week, with a total disclosed financing of approximately US$54.89 million, an increase of about 31% month-on-month, with funds mainly flowing to the DeFi and infrastructure sectors. Among them, JPYC completed US$17.62 million in financing to promote the construction of yen stablecoin infrastructure; 3F completed a $4 million seed round of financing, with participants including Gate Ventures. In the context of marginal improvement in the macro environment, investment and financing activity has rebounded, and funds are still focusing on long-term application scenarios and underlying capacity building in a volatile environment.

Odaily Planet Daily News Market news: Saudi Aramco has extended its LPG delivery moratorium until the end of May. (Jin Shi)

According to ChainCatcher news, the Israeli Capital Markets Authority has approved Bits of Gold to issue the country's first shekel-pegged stablecoin, BILS. The token is a regulated asset launched by Bits of Gold after a two-year evaluation and pilot with the support of the Solana network, Fireblocks, as well as Ernst & Young. Bits of Gold said that the introduction of the shekel on-chain aims to put it on par with currencies such as the euro, yen, and Singapore dollar that have already entered the blockchain financial system. With a stablecoin market size of over $300 billion, this issuance aims to address the dominance of USD-pegged tokens in on-chain payments and maintain digital sovereignty.

According to official news, Polymarket is undergoing a coordinated upgrade of the exchange stack: including new smart contracts, a rewritten order book, and a new collateral token. During the switchover, trading will be suspended for approximately 1 hour (until approximately 20:00 UTC+8).

ChainCatcher news, according to Cointelegraph, US President Donald Trump's attitude has softened significantly just days after criticizing the prediction market. "I know some very smart people who like to predict the market," he said. A lot of other countries are doing this, and if we don't, other countries will isolate us. ” Previously, Trump had said in the White House that he was "unhappy" with prediction markets, saying that the whole world had become a casino and that he "conceptually didn't like" such a thing.

According to Cryptoquant data, the total inflow of stablecoins on the Binance platform in the past two months exceeded $6 billion.

According to ChainCatcher news, according to Hyperinsight monitoring, the long position of the largest ETH long "BIT-related whale" on the chain has fallen back underwater, with a current floating loss of about $110,000 (-5%). The address holds 20,000 long orders of 20x leveraged ETH, worth approximately $45.6 million, with an average entry price of $2,287. The position was opened on April 20, during which the floating profit peak reached $2 million, and as the market fell, the floating profit has been given up. It is reported that the address belongs to the digital financial services group BIT, which has received funds from its name many times, and has previously long ETH on a scale of hundreds of millions. Address: 0x6c8512516ce5669d35113a11ca8b8de322fd84f6.

Odaily Planet Daily News Pharos posted on the X platform that Pharos Pacific Ocean Mainnet has been launched and is the first native asset-grade L1 network designed for high performance and regulatory compliance.

ChainCatcher reported a cumulative loss of $17.1 billion in the past decade, involving 518 incidents; Approximately $15.2 billion was lost in the past five years, involving more than 450 incidents; Approximately $2.5 billion was lost over the past year, involving more than 140 incidents. Recent losses show that crypto attacks have shifted from smart contract vulnerabilities to private key leaks and access controls.

ChainCatcher news, according to market news, whales are continuing to buy ETH. Address 0xE5eB raised 4,361 ETH worth approximately $9.98 million from Kraken 5 hours ago after 3 months of silence. Additionally, a newly created wallet address, 0xA605, raised 2,000 ETH worth approximately $4.58 million from Binance 1 hour ago.

ChainCatcher news that SuperEx will officially list COSTUSDT, LLYUSDT, and BMNRUSDT USDT-M perpetual contract trading pairs at 13:30 on April 28, 2026 (UTC). The above futures trading pairs support cross margin, isolated margin and split margin modes. You can trade through the web or app.

Odaily Planet Daily News A sharp weakening of the yen may prompt the Bank of Japan to take action, as the Bank of Japan said in a report that it will continue to raise interest rates based on economic, price and financial conditions. Mitsubishi UFJ Morgan Stanley Securities strategist Naomi Rokucha said this marks a change in the Bank of Japan's "policy response function". In this report, the Bank of Japan said that foreign exchange rates are increasingly likely to affect prices, and that such fluctuations could affect potential inflation by changing inflation expectations. The Bank of Japan does not directly target the yen, but if the yen's depreciation significantly accelerates price increases, the central bank may adjust its policy. (Jin Shi)

Nikolai Tangen, CEO of Norway's sovereign wealth fund, said that the arrival of the era of artificial intelligence is offsetting some of the inflationary impact of soaring energy prices caused by the war in the Middle East and helping the market absorb the shock. "This is striking because based on the current situation in the Middle East, you would expect this to transmit to higher energy prices, higher fuel prices, higher fertilizer prices," Tangan said in an interview on Tuesday. "To some extent, this has begun to hit Asia," he noted. We expect it to be transmitted to Europe and the United States through price increases. This is usually bad for the market. But the market is indeed taking it easy. Tangan said he was surprised that there had been no major imbalances in the financial markets. Inflation is usually a factor that hits the market. This is something we must pay close attention to. On the other hand, we have AI, which we consider to have a deflationary effect. I think that's exactly what the market is currently digesting. (Jin Shi)

ChainCatcher news, according to Arkham data, the suspected Block Street team address has been deposited to the Bybit deposit address (0xEcB8... 0D51), a total of 5 million BSB tokens were transferred, with a total value of approximately US$3.6534 million. The token of this sending address was previously derived from the BSB team's multisig address. With a current circulating supply of 207.75 million BSB, the address received approximately 2.41% of its total circulating supply. BSB is currently trading at $0.7595, down 9.11% in 24 hours, and its circulating market capitalization is approximately $157.8 million.

According to Arkham data, the suspected Block Street team address has been depositing money to Bybit (0xEcB8... 0D51), a total of 5 million BSB tokens were transferred, with a total value of approximately US$3.6534 million. The token of this sending address was previously derived from the BSB team's multisig address. With a current circulating supply of 207.75 million BSB, the address received approximately 2.41% of its total circulating supply. BSB is currently trading at $0.7595, down 9.11% in 24 hours, and its circulating market capitalization is approximately $157.8 million.

ChainCatcher news, according to Golden Ten, Crédit Agricole said its month-end pricing model points to a strong sell-off in the US dollar. Global equities generally strengthened in April, and the US dollar weakened in the foreign exchange market as a whole. The agency believes that the rebalancing of portfolio flows at the end of the month is likely to lead to a strong sell-off in the US dollar across the board, especially the strongest sell signal against the euro, which is expected to rise further against the dollar.

Odaily Planet Daily News In response to the first customized commodity transaction recently completed on the Kalshi platform, Kalshi CEO Tarek Mansour posted on the X platform, "Historically, the bottleneck of institutional risk transfer lies in liquidity. The bottleneck in liquidity lies in the lack of a price benchmark for each category of associated risk (e.g., WTI for oil). Kalshi has built a large community of the world's top hyperforecasters who are among the best in the world in risk pricing. This allows us to provide price benchmarks for broader issues facing people and institutions. Institutions have begun to adopt these price benchmarks by incorporating them into traditional asset pricing models. While there is still work to be done, we are seeing data use cases and integrations expanding rapidly. The next stage is to transfer risk through block transactions and RFQs using price benchmarks. This stage is still in its early stages, but it is beginning to take shape. The market size of risk transfer for non-traditional financial targets is difficult to estimate. The closest reference is the reinsurance market and the derivatives sector of banks: about $700 billion in reinsurance; Insurance-linked securities and parametric insurance (such as disaster bonds) are about $1200-135 billion; Bank derivatives (structured products, dealer-to-dealer, exotic products, etc.) are about $2000-400 billion. The current market is about $1-1.5 trillion, but most of it is illiquid and over-the-counter (OTC). Whenever major OTC markets shift to exchange-traded trading, the market grows significantly due to the establishment of price benchmarks, narrowing bid-ask spreads, the removal of monopoly access from Wall Street elites, and the entry of new players, with interest rate swaps increasing by 10-15 times, stock options by 20-30 times, and energy derivatives by 5-8 times. Institutional use cases for prediction markets could form a $10-15 trillion market, with more upside depending on how much it democratizes products that are currently limited to Wall Street. ”

Odaily Planet Daily News On-chain detective ZachXBT posted on the X platform that no one mentioned Altman's other company, WorldCoin (also known as World), which launched a low-circulation crypto token WLD, which is comparable in size to SBF/FTX. They acquire biometric data of residents of low-income countries by giving away a small amount of WLD tokens. This technology, originally designed to verify human identities, has led to black market transactions for verified accounts. The token supply is inflating at an unsustainable rate, with insiders regularly engaging in OTC holdings.