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Odaily Planet Daily News Andre Cronje said that most current decentralized finance (DeFi) protocols no longer comply with "DeFi in the strict sense" and are closer to business systems operated by teams, and have caused divisions in the industry over whether "circuit breakers" should be introduced to deal with attack risks. In an interview, Andre Cronje pointed out that in the early days, DeFi was centered on immutable smart contracts, but now a large number of protocols rely on upgradable contracts, multi-signature permissions, off-chain infrastructure, and manual operation and maintenance processes, essentially transforming from "immutable public goods" to "operable profitable businesses". He said that in the context of recent security incidents, including DeFi attacks of about US$280 million and US$293 million, industry risks have expanded from simple smart contract vulnerabilities to "Web2-style risks" such as infrastructure, permission control, and social engineering attacks. For risk management, Andre Cronje's Flying Tulip recently introduced a circuit breaker mechanism to delay or queue withdrawals in the event of abnormal outflows, providing an emergency response window of about 6 hours to prevent systematic runs and further losses. However, the mechanism has also caused controversy. Michael Egorov argues that circuit breakers can introduce a new centralized attack surface that, if controlled by signers or administrators, could become a new source of security breach or freeze risk. He emphasized that DeFi design should minimize human intervention rather than adding human control nodes. Industry analysts pointed out that this debate essentially reflects that DeFi is gradually shifting from the ideal model of "code is law" to the realistic architecture of "hybrid governance + operational control", and the security boundary is being redefined. （Cointelegraph）

Pakistani Prime Minister Shahbaz said that Iranian Foreign Minister Aragzi promised him that the Iranian side would respond to the prospects of Iran-US talks after leadership consultations. Shahbaz said at a cabinet meeting on the same day that Aragzi led a delegation to visit Pakistan last week and held several rounds of comprehensive talks with Pakistan. "He (Aragqi) assured me before leaving that he would reply to me after consulting with the Iranian leadership." Shahbaz also said that the ceasefire reached by Iran and the United States with the efforts of the Pakistani side is still valid. (CCTV News)

Odaily Planet Daily News Fortune magazine revealed that the total investment in the White House Trump Ballroom has risen from the initial estimate of $200 million to $400 million, mainly from tax-deductible private donations, which will be managed through the non-profit organization Trust for the National Mall. Fortune previously announced that a number of crypto industry companies and individuals participated in the donation, including Coinbase, Ripple, Tether America, and Paxos co-founders Charles Cascarilla, Cameron Winklevoss, and Tyler Winklevoss and other well-known figures in the crypto industry. In addition, big tech companies such as Meta, Apple, Amazon, Google, Microsoft, etc. are among them. Among them, Google's parent company Alphabet previously reached a settlement with Trump and promised to spend $22 million on the construction of the banquet hall.

White House officials said that U.S. President Donald Trump met with energy company executives on Tuesday to discuss domestic production, Venezuela, oil futures, natural gas and shipping. (Jin Shi)

According to Iranian media Press TV, citing a senior Iranian security source, Iran has issued a warning that if the United States continues to seize Iran-related ships, Iran will take "unprecedented military action." (Jin Shi)

Fence, a blockchain finance company, announced the completion of a new round of financing of $20 million, led by Galaxy Digital and participated by Parafi Capital and Crane Venture Partners. Including loan pool tracking, collateral verification and cash flow. Fence emphasized that it does not define itself as a blockchain company, but uses blockchain as a back-office infrastructure to automatically manage cash, collateral and transaction rules through smart contracts, and tokenize loan positions when necessary to improve liquidity and automation. （CoinDesk）

According to ChainCatcher news, according to Golden Ten, Andrew Slimmon, senior portfolio manager at Morgan Stanley Investment Management, said that investors should be prepared for a pullback in the US stock market and strike decisively when fear reaches its peak. He believes that the current strong earnings of companies collide with accumulated risks, and the stock market, especially the "Big Seven", has risen sharply, increasing the risk that stock prices will continue to rise. Slimon advised investors to be patient, believing that now is not the best time to deploy new funds, but he remains constructive in the long run.

According to ChainCatcher news, Visa announced that it has officially included Polygon in its global stablecoin settlement program (Stablecoin Settlement Program), and Visa partners, including card issuers and acquirers, can now complete stablecoin settlements through the Polygon network. Polygon said it has now become the world's largest USD stablecoin payment network. According to Allium vs. Dune data: 34% of USD stablecoin transfers occur on Polygon, more than twice as much as BNB Chain; 54% of USDC transfers occur on Polygon, which is higher than all other chains combined; 36% of the world's USDC transactions run on Polygon; Polygon currently has approximately 3.19 million weekly active stablecoin users; The supply of on-chain stablecoins reached a record high of $3.62 billion; The number of USD stablecoin transactions reached 178.1 million in March. Visa said its stablecoin settlement program has reached $7 billion in annualized operations this quarter, up 50% from three months ago. Polygon emphasized that its network has Asian-American tiered transaction fees, a transaction finality time of about 4 seconds, and has been used by Stripe, Revolut, Flutterwave, BlackRock and other institutions to settle real financial activities.

Odaily Planet Daily News Bitfinex reported that Bitcoin's 30-day implied volatility (IV) has fallen back to about 42%, a new low in nearly three months, a significant decrease from the high of about 56% from January to February 2026, in addition, the market has experienced negative funding rates for 26 consecutive days, and the superimposed option price has fallen, forming an obvious structural asymmetry. If the Bitcoin spot price effectively stands above the short-term holder realization price level of $80,100, the cost of short positions will increase significantly, and the current options market is not fully priced in, and call options may be systematically undervalued.

The Avalanche Foundation announced the launch of the Call For Research Proposals, which is open to global academic researchers, with a maximum single funding amount of $50,000, focusing on supporting research related to Avalanche network economics, and focusing on two core areas: First, crypto asset pricing and valuation, focusing on how the native assets of the PoS public chain accumulate value, including token issuance mechanisms and monetary policy , the relationship between network adoption and long-term value; The second is validator economics and network security, focusing on topics such as the best quality staking ratio, validator income model, validator aggregate health, and non-inflationary reward mechanism.

ChainCatcher news, according to PR Newswire, Nasdaq-listed Eightco Holdings (ORBS) released a position update, with a total value of approximately $333 million in assets as of now, including: 283,452,700 Worldcoin (WLD), 11,068 ETH, $90 million investment in OpenAI, and 2,500 in Beast Industries $10,000 in investments, as well as holding $121 million worth of cash and stablecoins. Eightco Holdings said the value of WLD tokens held fell to 21% of the company's total assets, with investments in OpenAI accounting for about 27% of the company's total assets and Beast Industries accounting for 8% of the company's total assets.

According to Arkham monitoring, the Bitcoin holding address in the Kingdom of Bhutan transferred BTC again, transferring 102 BTC to an address about three hours ago, worth about $7.89 million, and currently holds a total of 184 BTC transferred by the Kingdom of Bhutan.

According to ChainCatcher news, Agent Economy project NeoSoul announced a strategic cooperation with AI-powered financial OS Infini. Currently, NeoSoul has adopted the Infini Enterprise Card to support the team's spending scenarios such as SaaS subscriptions, AI APIs, cloud services, marketing, community operations, and collaboration tools in the process of global operations, further improving the payment efficiency and financial management capabilities of the AI/Web3 team. With the increasing degree of global operation of AI and Web3 projects, the team's daily expenditure is showing the characteristics of high frequency, small amount, cross-border, and multi-platform. From model calling, cloud infrastructure, and node services to advertising, content production, and community growth, enterprise financial tools have become an important infrastructure that affects R&D efficiency and market execution speed. Through this partnership, NeoSoul will leverage the Infini Enterprise Card and related tools to optimize the team's experience in cross-border spending, budget management, expense visualization, and operational collaboration, providing more flexible financial support for subsequent product development and global market expansion. In the future, the two sides will further exchange views on corporate financial operations in the AI era. Potential directions include the application of AI Agent in enterprise fee management, budget control, subscription management, and cross-border payments, the role of stablecoin payments in the global operations of AI/Web3 teams, and the payment authorization, settlement, and reputation infrastructure needs that may arise during the development of the agent economy. NeoSoul and Infini also plan to continue to pay attention to the integration of AI Agent and enterprise financial infrastructure through industry exchanges, closed-door discussions, and ecological communication, and promote more discussions on AI-native operations, stablecoin payments, and digital economy infrastructure. NeoSoul co-foudner Kaelan said: "The development of AI agents is gradually moving from content generation and information processing to more complex economic behaviors. As agents begin to participate in forecasting, collaboration, payments, settlements, and long-term reputation accumulation, enterprises and development teams also need financial infrastructure that is better suited to globalization, digitalization, and automation. This cooperation with Infini will start from the operation scenario of NeoSoul's own team and gradually explore more possibilities for combining AI with new financial tools. ” "NeoSoul is exploring cutting-edge directions such as AI Agents, prediction markets, and the Agent Economy, which aligns well with Infini's judgment on the future of enterprise financial automation," said Infini founder Christian. We are pleased to support NeoSoul's global operations through corporate cards and financial operation tools. In the future, Infini also looks forward to further discussions with NeoSoul around the AI-native team's financial management, stablecoin payments, and automated operations. ”

Odaily Planet Daily News Artificial intelligence application platform Certifyde announced the completion of a $2 million seed round of financing, with participation from K5 Global, Flamingo Capital, and many angel investors including Honey co-founder George Ruan, Ripple CEO Brad Garlinghouse, and Nutra co-founder Roland Peralta. （Techfundingnews）

As of the end of April, XBIT, a crypto trading aggregation platform, ranked fourth on the official Polymarket Builder ranking with a monthly trading volume of $36.12 million. The project was officially launched in early April, and recently XBIT has also passed the official Polymarket Builder review. Currently, XBIT has launched two core categories, Prediction Markets and Perpetual Contracts (Perp DEX), and plans to launch a leveraged prediction market to further enrich the aggregated trading experience.

According to ChainCatcher news, the cross-chain protocol ZetaChain disclosed that the security issues involved in its recent vulnerability attack of about $334,000 were reported in advance by researchers in the bug bounty program, but were regarded as "expected behavior" by the project team at the time and were not addressed. According to the official incident review, this attack stemmed from a combination of three seemingly independent and low-risk design flaws: the Gateway contract allows anyone to send arbitrary cross-chain instructions; The receiver can perform calls to almost any contract, and the blacklist limit is too narrow. Some wallets have not been cleaned up for a long time. The attacker ultimately completed the asset transfer by combining these flaws by instructing Gateway to transfer tokens directly to its control address. ZetaChain stated that the attack involved a total of 9 transactions on four chains: Ethereum, Arbitrum, Base, and BSC, and the stolen funds all came from wallets controlled by ZetaChain, and user funds were not affected. Officials said the attack was clearly premeditated. The attacker funded the wallet through Tornado Cash three days before the crime, deployed a dedicated Drainer contract in advance, and also carried out an address poisoning attack. Currently, ZetaChain has begun pushing a fix patch to mainnet nodes, permanently disabling the arbitrary call function and changing the unlimited authorization mechanism in the deposit process to "precise limit authorization".

According to ChainCatcher news, according to Bloomberg, crypto payment company MoonPay has acquired Israeli crypto security startup Sodot and established a new division "MoonPay Institutional" based on this, focusing on serving the needs of institutional customers for digital assets. The division will provide services such as trading, tokenized securities, payments, wallet management, and stablecoin issuance for large traditional financial institutions. Caroline D. Pham, former acting chairman of the U.S. Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC), will head the division, and she will join MoonPay as chief legal officer and chief administrative officer at the end of 2025.

According to ChainCatcher news, OKX will open RLUSD (Ripple USD) deposits at 19:00 on April 29, 2026, with early pending orders from 21:00 to 23:00 on the same day, RLUSD/USDT spot trading will open at 23:00, and withdrawals will be made at 01:00 on April 30, 2026.

ChainCatcher news, according to Jinshi, Mitsubishi UFJ Financial Group bank analyst Derek Halpenny said in a report that the dollar could rise if the Fed admits that the war in Iran could lead to higher inflation due to higher energy prices. He pointed out that the interest rate decision may be the last meeting of Federal Reserve Chairman Powell's tenure and may highlight that price stability risks are accumulating. This could lead to a jump at the front end of the US yield curve and reinforce the initial signs of improved demand in the US Dollar.