According to data from a research institution, crypto perpetual contracts that are anchored to traditional assets are gradually becoming a tool for “pre-pricing Wall Street,” with their weekend price movements predicting the accuracy of Monday’s traditional market by as much as 89%. Trading volume and weekend activity for these contracts have increased significantly, and they have become an important reference for gauging the short-term direction of traditional markets.

Recently, small-cap altcoins have been seeing frequent surges and crashes amid easing tensions between the U.S. and Iran and a period of Bitcoin trading sideways, drawing in high-risk investors. In this kind of coin, ownership is highly concentrated and insiders control the market, with high volumes in daily futures contracts. Some people believe this high volatility attracts liquidity, but some investors are also concerned that there is no fundamental support, so trading should be done cautiously.

Gate News message, April 11, listed crypto wallet provider Exodus launched a new feature called Exodus Pay, aiming to turn its self-custody storage app into an everyday payments tool. The feature allows users to make payments with cryptocurrency. Currently, Exodus Pay is only available to users in five U.S. states, including New York and California.

World project announces that it will adjust the WLD token unlocking mechanism starting July 24, 2026, reducing the total daily unlocked amount by 43%. The community token daily unlocked amount will be reduced to 1.6 million, while the team and investors will be reduced to 1.3 million. It will continue to be unlocked linearly every day. As of April 10, 4.9 billion tokens have been unlocked, accounting for 49% of the total supply.

A giant whale recently deployed large-scale hedging positions on-chain, including $30.4 million in BTC long positions and $23.2 million in HYPE short positions, for a total size of about $53 million. As HYPE rises, this portfolio faces losses, with a net loss of roughly $300k. Previously, this address profited $37.1 million across a variety of altcoins using a similar strategy.

The Chicago Mercantile Exchange’s Bitcoin futures market has continued to weaken. In March 2026, the daily average open interest fell to $7.2 billion, hitting a new low since February 2024, and has been declining for five straight months. The main reason is the large-scale unwinding of basis trades, which eliminated the arbitrage spread and caused leveraged capital to exit.

From 2026-04-09 08:30 to 2026-04-09 08:45 (UTC), BTC surged quickly within the USDT 70979.6 to 71333.3 range. The 15-minute return was +0.49%, with a range (amplitude) of 0.50%. Near-term market volatility intensified, market attention increased significantly, the number of active on-chain addresses remained consistently above 120k, and daily trading volume exceeded $2.0 billion, reflecting rising user participation. The main driving force behind this abnormal move was a large-scale liquidation of short positions in the futures market, with approximately $273 million in short funds being forced to liquidate during this period

April 8, the U.S. SOL spot ETF saw a daily net outflow of $1.9208 million, including a $867.1k outflow from the Grayscale Solana Trust and a $779.6k outflow from the Bitwise Solana Staking ETF. Currently, the SOL spot ETF’s total net asset value is $794 million, and its historical cumulative net inflows total $963 million.

Gate News message: On April 8, according to some CEX price data, Bitcoin fell below 71,000 USDT and is currently trading at 70,997.66 USDT, with a daily decline of 1.29%.

Gate News message, according to data ranking top L1 chains by average daily active users in Q1 2025, BNB Chain ranks first with 4.5 million daily average users, TRON takes second place with 3.2 million users, and NEAR Protocol secures third position with 2.5 million users. Solana and Sei Network ran