Aave founder Stani announced on a social platform that Aave will pivot to $AAVE as its core token, with all revenue flowing back to the DAO treasury. In the future, it will launch a debit card and financial technology experience, aiming to increase the protocol’s scale from $40 billion to $1 trillion, positioning it as a foundational market for traditional financial assets.

Fueled by the U.S.-Iran geopolitical conflict, Western banks have accelerated their exit from large-scale commodity trade finance due to compliance and sanctions risks, prompting traders to shift to stablecoins for cross-border settlement. Stablecoins have become an alternative settlement tool; their usage is rising, with market value exceeding $300 billion and on-chain transaction volume reaching $4 trillion.

2026-04-12 01:30 to 2026-04-12 01:45 (UTC), the ETH price dipped briefly. The candlestick data shows a 15-minute return of -2.46%, with a price range of 2219.38 to 2283.74 USDT and a volatility of 2.82%. During this period, market attention rose rapidly, spot and derivatives markets saw a clear increase in volatility, and investor sentiment was relatively cautious. The main driving force behind this unusual move is the expiration of large-scale derivatives options contracts. The total notional value of ETH options is about 669 million USD, and the Put/Call ratio

April 10, the China Artificial Intelligence Industry Development Alliance held its plenary meeting in Wuhan, emphasizing that artificial intelligence is entering the era of intelligent-native systems, focusing on breakthroughs in model capabilities, the rise of agent frameworks, and the activation of economic growth and security risks through large-scale applications. The alliance will focus on technological innovation and safety governance.

The HY-Embodied-0.5 series of embodied intelligence foundation models released by Tencent includes two versions: 2B and 32B. It focuses on improving spatiotemporal perception and embodied reasoning capabilities, and is suitable for scenarios such as environment prediction and task planning. The 2B model has been open-sourced; its performance is better than other same-scale SOTA models, demonstrating strong intelligent generalization ability and application potential.

Bittensor co-founder Const responded to community controversy, clarifying token release and management permission issues and emphasizing that his actions are no different from those of ordinary holders. He denied large-scale sell-offs, saying transparency in trading is a core principle, and that community discussions are still ongoing.

SK Telecom, Arm, and Rebellions sign a trilateral memorandum of understanding to jointly develop AI data center inference server solutions, combining Arm’s AGI CPU and the RebelCard chip to optimize high-density inference and large-scale AI deployments.

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.

On April 10, after BTC reached $72k, a whale starting with 0x2fc liquidated twice in a row at 40x leverage, totaling 423.4 BTC, or about $30.5 million. Due to a liquidation loss of $580k, the address opened a short position again and was liquidated again; it can currently support 67 short positions, with a liquidation price of $72,669.

Musk confirmed on the X platform that Grok 4.2 has 0.5 trillion parameters. Calculations suggest that Claude Opus has about 5 trillion parameters, and Sonnet has 1 trillion. Although Anthropic has not disclosed the model parameters, these figures come from Musk’s remarks. Meanwhile, SpaceX AI’s Colossus 2 supercomputer is training a model with the largest scale of 10 trillion parameters, which will become a key competitive factor.