U.S. well-known angel investor Jason Calacanis expressed optimism about Bittensor and its subnet project Ridges AI on the All-In Podcast, saying that this open-source AI assistant reached about 80% of Claude 4’s performance within 45 days, and highlighting the innovative advantages of decentralization and incentive mechanisms. He also founded the Stillcore Capital fund to focus on investing in the Bittensor ecosystem.

Gate News message. On April 11, Strategy's Stretch (STRC) has, to date this week, raised enough funds to purchase 8,000 BTC. It is estimated that STRC may hold 10,000 BTC by the end of this week.

Gate News message, April 11, investment bank TD Cowen analyst Lance Vitanza lowered MicroStrategy (stock code MSTR)’s target share price from $440 to $350, and maintained a Buy rating. TD Cowen manages $15 billion in assets.

Gate News message, a whale holding a 50,000 $ETH long position with 20x leverage, valued at $111.9M, currently has a floating profit exceeding $11.29M as the market rises.

On April 11, DefiLlama data shows that crypto startups raised $76.0 million in funding this week, bringing 2026’s total to nearly $500 million. Major deals include Pharos’s $44.0 million Series A round, Oh’s $7.5 million Series A round, and Kulipa’s $6.2 million seed round, covering blockchain, Web3 AI, and crypto wallet services.

The three major U.S. stock indexes finished mixed, with the Nasdaq up 0.35% to set an eight-session winning streak, while the S&P 500 fell 0.11% and the Dow Jones fell 0.56%. Tech stocks were broadly higher, and the Nasdaq’s gain for the week reached 4.68%. Blockchain-related stocks showed mixed performance.

Gate News message: On April 11, Wall Street banks such as Goldman Sachs and Morgan Stanley are testing Anthropic’s Mythos large language model.

Gate News, on April 10, a source said that OpenAI will be brought under the jurisdiction of the EU’s Digital Services Act (DSA) and classified as a very large online search engine. This means OpenAI will need to comply with stricter regulatory requirements under the DSA for large platforms.

TD Cowen cut Strategy (MSTR)’s target price by 20.5% to $350, maintained a Buy rating, citing a lowered expectation for the price of bitcoin. For fiscal year 2026, its forecast for bitcoin revenue was reduced to $7.87 billion, and it still believes MSTR will convert demand for market volatility through leverage.

The Quantum-Safe Bitcoin (QSB) proposal put forward by StarkWare researcher Avihu Levy uses existing Bitcoin scripts to provide post-quantum security, avoiding a soft fork. QSB uses a Binohash-based construction and a “hash-to-signature” puzzle to defend against quantum computers’ attacks on elliptic curve cryptography. The scheme relies on RIPEMD-160’s preimage resistance, effectively strengthening the security of Bitcoin transactions.