The Office of Management and Administration at the White House sent a warning email to employees on March 23, prohibiting the use of their position to speculate in the futures market. The warning came after the announcement by Trump of a pause in attacks on Iran, and suspicious trading appeared in the market. Senior officials described the email as a timely “reminder.”

Gate News message: On April 10, according to on-chain analyst Yu Jin monitoring, over the past roughly month and a half, a total of about 116 million ONDO (worth approximately $30.21 million) have been gradually transferred from the Ondo Finance multisig wallet to a certain CEX. The transfer pattern shows clear regularity: basically, about 20 million ONDO are transferred out of the multisig wallet to another multisig address each week, and then within a few days the funds are split into multiple transactions that are gradually sent into the exchange.

Seven members of the U.S. House of Representatives sent a letter to the CFTC Chair, questioning the regulator’s lack of enforcement regarding insider trading in prediction markets related to Iran and Venezuela, and requesting answers to six questions from the CFTC. The incident has sparked concerns about the legitimacy of prediction markets and the strength of regulatory oversight, and the CFTC has pledged to pursue selective enforcement. As the market expands, in the absence of clear regulations, investors need to pay attention to possible policy changes and their impacts.

In his new book, CZ recalls a mistake he made when buying Bitcoin using BTC-e after Mt. Gox collapsed. He accidentally sent 46 BTC to the wrong address, resulting in the permanent loss of the assets, worth about $30k. He highlighted the risk of blockchain transactions being irreversible and the lack of a centralized compensation mechanism.

Gate News message. On April 6, Arkham monitoring data shows that, about 32 minutes ago, BlackRock sent a total of about 1,178 BTC, worth approximately $82.25 million, to an institutional-grade custody platform via its Bitcoin exchange-traded fund IBIT to a certain institution. After this transfer, there may be further transfer activity.

Figure co-founder Mike Cagney recently received a 1099-MISC tax form from a certain CEX Custody showing last year’s income of $1,600, but the account’s assets are only $10. He is dissatisfied with the customer service’s runaround and criticized the exchange for blocking the passage of the CLARITY Act, arguing that the industry no longer needs to care about his views.

Drift on the X platform confirmed that it has obtained key information related to the exploit attack, and sent messages to the ETH wallets of the four stolen funds, saying it would like to talk. The attack caused at least $200 million in losses, and subsequent updates will be released after third-party attribution is completed.

U.S. Senator Elizabeth Warren sent a letter to Commerce Secretary Howard Lutnick, requesting documents related to Bitmain to understand the potential risks the company poses to national security. Bitmain is a major manufacturer of Bitcoin mining machines and is under investigation by the Department of Homeland Security regarding safety concerns related to its equipment and connections to the Trump family.

U.S. Senator Warren sent a letter to the Department of Commerce requesting an investigation into Bitmain's national security risks and its connections to the Trump family, as well as the disclosure of related communication records. The FBI is investigating the potential risks associated with the company's mining equipment. Bitmain responded to the allegations, stating they are unfounded, and that relevant safety tests did not reveal any issues.

Maxine Waters, Chair of the U.S. House Financial Services Committee, sent a letter to the Federal Reserve Bank of Kansas City’s president, asking for a detailed explanation of the approval process for Payward Financial—an “account with limited purpose”—opened for cryptocurrency exchanges, and focusing on the scope of the relevant services, risk management requirements, and regulatory review, while expressing concerns about the account’s policies and consumer protection issues.