Morning News | Kraken receives $200 million investment from Deutsche Börse; Goldman Sachs submits application for Bitcoin Premium Income ETF; Walsh discloses his cryptocurrency holdings

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Important News:

• Scroll proposes to dissolve the Security Council, management rights will be transferred to a multi-signature address
• Circle founder confirms Arc Network will issue a token, more details to be disclosed later
• Y Combinator completes investment using stablecoins for the first time, paying $500,000 USDC via Solana on-chain
• Market news: Kraken receives $200 million investment from Deutsche Börse
• Goldman Sachs submits application for btc-42">Bitcoin Premium Income ETF
• Federal Reserve Chair nominee Warsh discloses his cryptocurrency holdings
• Visa, Stripe, and Zodia Custody under Standard Chartered become validators for Tempo payment blockchain

What important events happened in the past 24 hours?

Polymarket is auditing a startup that helps users track suspected insider trading activities

According to ChainCatcher, citing The Information, Polymarket has initiated an audit of app startups that promise to help users track suspected insider trading activities.

Reports indicate that these copy-trading applications provide clients with a list of traders on the Polymarket platform with good profit records or flag unusually large or oddly timed bets that may be based on confidential information. Clients can use bots to replicate these trades or receive notifications about seemingly good trades. These applications charge service fees.

It is reported that Polymarket and its main competitor Kalshi have both been scrutinized for insider trading issues. Last month, Polymarket introduced clearer rules regarding insider trading and its enforcement.

Federal Reserve Chair nominee Warsh discloses his cryptocurrency holdings

According to ChainCatcher, Reuters reports that Federal Reserve Chair nominee Kevin Warsh disclosed in his latest financial statement that his personal assets exceed $100 million, including two holdings in Juggernaut Fund LP, each over $50 million, and small early investments in several emerging tech and finance companies through an entity named DCM Investments 10 LLC.

The related entities include Elon Musk's SpaceX, the prediction market platform Polymarket, the Ethereum development platform Tenderly, the crypto financial services platform Lemon Cash, the consumer credit neobank Stashfin, as well as the AI vector art platform Recraft, AI physical security software Volt, the autonomous AI labor platform 11x, the protein engineering company Outpace Bio, the social event platform Partiful, the robotic coffee bar platform Cafe X, and projects developing herpes vaccines, reversible male contraceptives, and "bionic" assistive clothing, and the digital avatar platform Delphi AI.

Goldman Sachs submits application for Bitcoin Premium Income ETF
According to ChainCatcher, market news indicates that Goldman Sachs has submitted an application for a Bitcoin Premium Income ETF.
Strategy will release Q1 financial report and hold an online briefing on May 5
According to ChainCatcher, Businesswire reports that Bitcoin treasury company Strategy announced it will release its Q1 2026 financial results after the US stock market closes on May 5, 2026, and will hold a video conference at 5:00 PM Eastern Time on the same day to interpret the results.
Visa, Stripe, and Zodia Custody under Standard Chartered become validators for Tempo payment blockchain
According to ChainCatcher, Theblock reports that institutional payment giants Visa and Stripe, along with Zodia Custody under Standard Chartered, have become early validators for Tempo.

It is reported that Tempo is a Layer 1 compatible with Ethereum, built for high-throughput payments and stablecoin settlements. The project was incubated by Stripe and Paradigm and launched on a private testnet in September. At the same time, Tempo also launched a proxy payment protocol aimed at facilitating transactions through software agents.

Market news: Kraken receives $200 million investment from Deutsche Börse
According to ChainCatcher, market news indicates that Deutsche Börse has invested $200 million in the cryptocurrency trading platform Kraken.

OpenAI investors question its $852 billion valuation, claiming its strategy is shifting
According to ChainCatcher, the Financial Times reports that OpenAI investors are questioning its $852 billion valuation, claiming its strategy is shifting. Some OpenAI investors state that these changes may make OpenAI vulnerable to threats from Anthropic and Google.
Y Combinator completes investment using stablecoins for the first time, paying $500,000 USDC via Solana on-chain
According to ChainCatcher, Y Combinator has completed an investment entirely in stablecoins for the first time, paying $500,000 USDC to the prediction market startup Totalis through three transactions on Solana: a $1 test payment, $124,999, and $375,000. The funds are held in custody by the financial operations platform Ramp.

Y Combinator President Garry Tan stated on X that YC will offer stablecoin payment options for any startup it invests in, not limited to crypto-related companies, and said that the new track of financial revolution will not be built on ACH or wire transfers. YC crypto access partner Nemil Dalal previously stated that stablecoin transfer costs are typically less than 1 cent, settling in less than 1 second, far superior to traditional cross-border wire transfers.

Circle founder confirms Arc Network will issue a token, more details to be disclosed later

According to ChainCatcher, Circle founder and CEO Jeremy Allaire stated at an offline event in Seoul, South Korea: "We are exploring issuing a token for Arc Network (the stablecoin payment public chain being developed by Circle) to achieve governance, incentives, and economic alignment, and will gradually transition it to a PoS system. We hope to announce more details in the near future."

Suspect in attack on OpenAI founder's residence charged with attempted murder, warns "humans will go extinct due to AI" in confession

According to ChainCatcher, on Monday local time, the San Francisco District Attorney's Office stated that Daniel Moreno-Gama, the suspect who attacked OpenAI founder Sam Altman last week, has been charged with attempted murder. The Department of Justice's announcement also indicated that the suspect faces federal charges, including attempting to use explosives to damage property and illegal possession of unregistered firearms.

According to the indictment submitted to the San Francisco federal court on Monday, Daniel Moreno-Gama was arrested after the attack on Friday, and San Francisco police officers found a document on him detailing his intentions. In the document, Daniel Moreno-Gama expressed his intent to kill Altman and warned that humans are "about to go extinct" due to artificial intelligence.

Scroll proposes to dissolve the Security Council, management rights will be transferred to a multi-signature address

According to ChainCatcher, official news states that Scroll has announced an important proposal regarding protocol and governance operations, proposing to dissolve the Security Council and transfer protocol management rights to the Scroll Admin multi-signature address, with the transition expected to be completed within the next ten days.

Scroll stated that the costs of the Security Council are no longer reasonable compared to actual usage over the past few quarters, and resources should be better allocated to product development and growth. Scroll will work with key stakeholders to seek a new Security Council structure that better adapts to current market conditions.
Solana co-founder toly: A foundational stablecoin should only be frozen with court authorization

According to ChainCatcher, Solana co-founder toly commented on the controversy over Circle USDC's freezing mechanism, stating that we need a foundational stablecoin that can only be frozen under a court order. If there are other factors that can freeze it besides authorization from judges approved by the US Senate, then it is not a true dollar stablecoin.

toly suggested that protocols (such as Drift, Kamino) should issue wrapped stablecoins with their own freezing and unfreezing strategies on top of the foundational stablecoin, equipped with a security team truly responsible for handling hacking incidents, while having independent freezing and unfreezing strategies.

It is reported that after the recent Drift protocol was hacked, Circle did not promptly freeze the stolen USDC, and Circle CEO Jeremy Allaire's comments on the "ethical dilemma" and freezing policy sparked widespread community discussion about the centralized stablecoin freezing mechanism.

People's Daily of China criticizes behaviors that attract traffic with false profit information such as "hundred times coins"

According to ChainCatcher, the People's Daily of China published an article titled "Disrupting Capital Markets, These Abnormalities of Financial Self-Media Accounts Need Attention," which specifically named some accounts that attract traffic for virtual currency trading by publishing false profit information such as "hundred times coins" and "monthly earnings of millions from trading coins."

The article again cited a previous notice from the central bank and eight other departments, emphasizing that activities related to virtual currencies are considered illegal financial activities, and accounts and platforms providing traffic and technical services for illegal virtual currency trading are suspected of violating laws and regulations, which may threaten financial security and anti-money laundering efforts.

Analysis: BTC inflows turn positive for the first time since January, $80,000 is the current key testing level

According to ChainCatcher, crypto analyst Willy Woo tweeted that inflows into Bitcoin have just turned positive, marking the first time since January, and liquidity is being restored.

At the same time, the spot market remains stable, and the derivatives market is currently attempting a second rebound after being hit hard on October 10.

Willy Woo pointed out that $80,000 is the current key testing level.

Meme Popularity Rankings

According to the meme token tracking and analysis platform GMGN, as of April 15, 09:00,

The top five popular tokens in ETH over the past 24 hours are: HEX, SHIB, LINK, PEPE, UNI

The top five popular tokens in Solana over the past 24 hours are: TROLL, swarms, Punch, neet, Buttcoin

The top five popular tokens in Base over the past 24 hours are: SKITTEN, PEPE, BASED, B3, BRIAN

What are some interesting articles worth reading in the past 24 hours?

Chinese-funded institutions retreat from Hong Kong stablecoins

After more than a year of stablecoin sandbox testing and multiple twists and turns, Hong Kong's first batch of stablecoin licenses has finally been issued.

On the afternoon of April 10, the Hong Kong Monetary Authority announced the first batch of companies that have obtained stablecoin licenses. Unlike previous market speculation about companies with Chinese backgrounds such as Ant Group and Guotai Junan International, the first batch consists of only two companies: HSBC Hong Kong and Anchor Financial Technology Limited.

Among them, the shareholders of Anchor Financial Technology Limited are Standard Chartered Bank (Hong Kong), Animoca Brands, and HKT (Hong Kong Telecommunications) under Li Ka-shing. Unlike HSBC's application entity, Anchor Financial Technology Limited is actually a joint venture of the three companies, with its management team independent of the three shareholder companies.

YZi Labs invests tens of millions of dollars, CZ serves as an advisor, Genius still lacks followers

On April 13, the Perp DEX trading terminal Genius, supported by YZi Labs, disclosed information about its first quarter airdrop event, which will allocate a total of 70 million GENIUS tokens and simultaneously list on Binance Alpha. However, this launch, which should have been a celebratory moment, has triggered a crisis of trust within the community due to the significant gap between official rules and community expectations.

AI multi-agent applications will boost the rise of blockchain payments

What advantages does blockchain have over mobile payments? This has been a question that has embarrassed many blockchain experts. In 2015, renowned blockchain evangelist Andreas Antonopoulos was challenged by an audience member during a speech, who asked, given that mobile payments are convenient and fast, while Bitcoin is slow and cumbersome, what advantages does it have in payments? He did not defend or argue but instead posed a vivid scenario: if a self-driving taxi operates independently, needing to both collect payments and pay for charging, would Bitcoin be a more ideal payment solution?

This is a thought-provoking question. In fact, for over a decade, many thinkers in the blockchain field, such as Zhu Jiaming and Xiao Feng, have pondered this question and posed a bold inquiry: perhaps blockchain was never meant for humans, but rather for AI and robots.

Ten years ago, discussions about AI agents and self-driving cars were still new research in laboratories, but now these technological applications are being implemented. Currently, the development of AI multi-agent organizations has become the hottest direction; will it open up new bases for blockchain applications and ultimately facilitate the combination of AI and blockchain?

Hyperliquid feature story: Jeffrey's billion-dollar gold rush story
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