Gate News, April 10, international crude oil prices rose briefly. WTI crude oil (West Texas Intermediate, one of the international crude oil benchmark prices) broke above $100 per barrel, up 2.04% during the day; Brent crude oil (North Sea Brent, one of the international crude oil benchmark prices) stood above $95 per barrel, up 1.15% during the day.

Gate News message, April 9, according to market data, WTI crude oil futures (West Texas Intermediate) were up 6.00% intraday, trading at $100.08 per barrel.

Gate News message; on April 9, according to official Hyperliquid data, the combined trading volume of WTI crude oil (U.S. West Texas Intermediate crude oil) and Brent crude oil (Brent crude oil) perpetual contracts surpassed Bitcoin for the first time. The data shows that Bitcoin’s trading volume was $2.29 billion, WTI crude oil’s trading volume was $1.68 billion, and Brent crude oil’s trading volume was $770 million; the combined volume of the two oils reached $2.45 billion.

Gate News message, April 9, Arthur Hayes posted a comment on reports that Iran is charging Bitcoin tolls. Hayes said he would only believe that Iran is truly collecting tolls in the form of BTC after seeing the related transactions on the real Bitcoin blockchain. He believes that before that, it is only the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps playing with the Western fiat currency and financial system.

On April 7, on-chain data shows that during Polymarket’s NBA Blazers vs. Nuggets match prediction, an account bought a prediction for a Blazers win for $130k, earning nearly $4 million in profit. The Blazers are ranked 9th in the West, and the Nuggets are 4th. The game will take place at 9:00 PM Beijing time today.

Gate News, April 6, according to Gate data, WTI crude oil (West Texas Intermediate) prices have fallen back to below $110 per barrel, with a daily decline of 2.06%.

Gate News update: On April 2, according to Gate data, both U.S. and Brent crude oil (WTI crude oil, Brent crude oil) saw a sharp drop in the short term. WTI crude oil (U.S. West Texas Intermediate crude oil futures) fell by nearly $5, to $108.93 per barrel. The report says Iran is drafting a Strait of Hormuz transit agreement with Oman.

Gate News message, April 2, Nasdaq-listed company Soluna Holdings announced that it has spent $53.0 million to acquire a wind farm located in West Texas. Soluna Holdings focuses on developing green data centers for compute-intensive applications such as bitcoin mining and artificial intelligence. After the transaction is completed, the company will launch the Dorothy 3 project development to support building a renewable-energy-driven AI data center.

Gate News message: April 2, WTI crude oil (U.S. West Texas Intermediate crude oil futures) broke through $100 per barrel, up 0.93% during the day. Brent crude oil (international benchmark crude oil futures) broke through $99 per barrel, up 0.27% during the day. As oil prices rise, Trump is giving a speech.

Gate News message, April 1, the intraday spot gold gain has widened to 2.00%, currently reported at 4760.61 USD/ounce. The spot silver price is 75.259 USD, up 0.13% intraday; Brent crude (the international crude oil benchmark price) is 99.86 USD, down 2.22% intraday; WTI crude (West Texas Intermediate) is 98.870 USD, down 2.87% intraday.