Gate News update: On April 13, according to Yu Jin monitoring, USDD withdrew 109 million USDT from the lending platform Spark about 1 hour ago, and then added it to the USDD PSM pool (Peg Stability Module, peg stability module). At present, the available liquidity for exchanging USDD for USDT is $42 million.

Gate News update, April 9, Xverse, a Bitcoin wallet, announced the launch of its Bitcoin-native AI agent wallet, the Xverse Agentic Wallet. The wallet enables AI agents to execute payment, trading, and fund management operations on the Bitcoin network. Lightning payments are settled via Spark, and it also supports machine-to-machine payments through MPP (multi-path payments)

Gate News message, April 9, Meta launched its new AI model Muse Spark on April 8. The model was developed by Meta’s superintelligent lab, and is led by Alexandr Wang, former CEO of Scale AI. Meta says that the new model has achieved near prior results with fewer compute resources by redesigning the AI infrastructure.

Meta released its AI foundation model Muse Spark on April 8, the first in the Muse series, using multimodal reasoning technology and supporting tool use and multi-agent orchestration. It has already gone live in the Meta AI app, and is providing a private preview to select partners; it may be open-sourced in the future.

Gate News message. On April 8, according to on-chain analyst Yu Jin’s monitoring, a DeFi whale repaid a 4.14 million DAI loan on Spark about 9 hours before an Israel-Iran ceasefire proposal was agreed upon, then retrieved 264.4 WBTC worth of collateral and transferred it to a certain CEX to sell at a price of about $67,990 per WBTC, for a total value of approximately $17.98 million. Six hours later, the Israel-Iran ceasefire proposal was agreed upon; as a result, the BTC price rose 5%, causing the whale to miss out on about $1 million in potential gains.

2026-04-06 22:45 to 23:00 (UTC), BTC fell 0.62% in short-term trading. The price fluctuated between 68812.1 and 69240.0 USDT, with an amplitude of 0.62%. Trading volume rose in sync during this period, market attention increased noticeably, volatility risk rose, and short-term investors’ sentiment turned cautious. The main driving force behind this unusual move is that on-chain data shows whales holding large amounts of BTC are concentrating funds to exchanges. Within 10 minutes, the total amount of funds transferred was about $420,000; within 24 hours, it reached 867.28 BTC, even higher. Then

According to on-chain analyst Yu Jin’s monitoring, Spark completed its first month of token buybacks on April 6, spending 571,957 USDS to purchase 26.66 million SPK tokens at an average price of $0.0215. The buyback program is expected to run for 12 months, with an annual buyback-to-circulation rate of up to 12%.

According to Ember monitoring, in the first month of Spark’s buyback program, 571,957 USDS were repurchased, and 26.6 million SPK were purchased at an average price of $0.0215. The expected annual buyback will reach 12% of the circulating supply, about 320 million SPK.

On April 5, Spark completed its first token buyback, spending 571,957 USDS to purchase 26.66 million SPK tokens at an average price of $0.0215, which is about 1% of the circulating supply. The buyback program is expected to last 12 months, and within the year it could repurchase about 320 million SPK tokens worth $6.86 million.

In March 2026, gold prices saw a sharp 12% pullback, prompting the market to reassess its structural risks. Goldman Sachs analysts said that trading was driven by margin imbalances and intensifying geopolitical conflicts, leading traders to close positions and sell off gold. Despite increased short-term volatility, institutions remain optimistic about gold’s medium- to long-term outlook, forecasting that the price could reach $5,400 by year-end. Future trends will be influenced by the strength of the U.S. dollar and the state of the global economy.