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According to ChainCatcher, South Korean prosecutors have officially filed a petition with the court to sentence Jung Sang-ho, the former CEO of the crypto platform Delio, to 20 years in prison, accusing him of committing large-scale economic fraud. In the closing statement of the Seoul Southern District Court, the prosecution cited the local economic crime aggravated punishment bill, pointing out that the suspect had deliberately deceived and falsely publicized for a long time, resulting in about 2,800 investors' funds being trapped and difficult to redeem. The prosecution pointed out that the defendant's subjective intention to defraud was clear, the losses involved in the case were huge, and he refused to cooperate with the investigation afterwards, deliberately shirked responsibility, and continued to aggravate the losses and plight of the victim group, so he sought strict punishment in accordance with the law.

ChainCatcher news, according to Golden Ten, the European Stoxx 600 index expanded its gain to 1%, hitting an intraday high.

According to Fortune magazine, AI Financial (formerly Alt5 Sigma), a publicly traded cryptocurrency company linked to the family of U.S. President Donald Trump, reached a $43 million deal last week to acquire cryptocurrency infrastructure company Block Street. Company records show that Block Street was only incorporated in Nevada in late October. Matthew Morgan, an advisor to AI Financial who is also the CEO and largest shareholder of Block Street, said he founded the company about 16 months ago. Morgan said the acquisition of Block Street was not a proprietary transaction.

Odaily Planet Daily News Citigroup said that due to the uncertainty of the situation in the Middle East, gold selling pressure may remain strong in the short term, maintaining the gold price target unchanged, with a 0-3 month target of $4,300 and a 6-12 month target of $5,000. (Jin Shi)

ChainCatcher news, according to Jinshi, the number of people continuing to apply for jobless benefits in the United States for the week ending April 18 was 1.785 million, lower than the market expectation of 1.815 million, and the previous value was revised from 1.821 million to 1.808 million.

ChainCatcher news, according to Jinshi, the preliminary annualized quarterly rate of the PCE price index in the United States in the first quarter was 4.5%, higher than the market expectation of 3.8% and the previous value of 2.9%.

According to ChainCatcher news, BNB Chain officially announced that the tokenized stock platform xStocks has been officially launched, and the first batch of more than 50 tokenized US stocks and ETFs such as Apple, Tesla, Nvidia, and S&P 500 ETFs will be opened, and 100+ assets will be added in the next few weeks. Users can participate with a minimum of $10, supporting 24/5 non-stop trading. It is now available for direct trading on PancakeSwap and CowSwap, and 1inch will be connected soon. These tokenized shares can also be used as collateral for lending and integrated into structured yield strategies, which will be further connected with Venus Protocol and Flux through Chainlink. BNB Chain has become the world's second largest RWA public chain, with $3.8 billion in RWA assets on the chain, approximately 45,000 holders, and $1.17 billion in transfer volume.

ChainCatcher news, according to official news, the Binance wallet web terminal has integrated the Ethereum network, and users can now seamlessly access and trade tokens on the Ethereum chain on the web page.

According to ChainCatcher, the Hyperliquid Policy Center (HPC) announced that it has formally submitted a letter of comment on the U.S. Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC) Notice of Pre-Proposed Rules (ANPRM) on prediction markets, advocating the establishment of a clear compliance path for decentralized prediction markets based on public, permissionless blockchains while improving the regulatory framework for centralized prediction markets. In its comment letter, the HPC called on the CFTC to develop more flexible function-oriented rules to accommodate the decentralized market structure; Establishing clear legal channels for U.S. market participants to access decentralized prediction markets; and pushed the United States to maintain its leading position in decentralized finance innovation. HPC says prediction markets are a natural extension of the federal derivatives framework that helps participants directly manage their economic exposure to real-world events and has been widely validated for price discovery capabilities, even better than traditional polls and expert forecasts, by aggregating decentralized information through continuously updated market price aggregations. It pointed out that decentralized prediction markets based on public blockchains have the advantages of transparency, non-custody, and high resilience, and do not rely on centralized operators to hold user funds, and there is no risk of single points of failure. All transactions are recorded in real time on the public ledger, which is convenient for supervision and market supervision, and market access standards are more transparent and unified. HPC emphasized that current rulemaking should not solidify reliance on a single exchange operator, custodian intermediary, and traditional settlement monitoring mechanisms, as it would hinder the legitimate participation of U.S. users in decentralized prediction markets. It said it will continue to promote U.S. market participants to compliantly access Hyperliquid and HIP-4 outcome markets and continue to communicate with the CFTC.

According to a reporter from the Washington Examiner, a senior official said the White House is in active dialogue with congressional lawmakers on today's deadline to request a 30-day reauthorization of the Iran war. (Jin Shi)

ChainCatcher news, AllUnity, a joint venture company backed by DWS, Flow Traders, and Galaxy Digital, announced that it has expanded its euro stablecoin EURAU, which complies with the EU's MiCA regulatory framework, to the Solana blockchain network to improve the efficiency of euro on-chain transfers and support compliant financial applications. EURAU was first launched on Ethereum in July last year, backed by 100% reserves and issued under the EU's e-money regulatory framework. With this integration into Solana, AllUnity hopes to leverage its high-performance network to achieve faster settlement speeds and lower transaction costs, enabling enterprises and developers to complete on-chain transfers in seconds. This mechanism can be widely used in cross-border payment, transaction settlement, lending, and corporate fund management. For example, payment companies can complete payments to overseas contractors in real time without having to wait days for traditional bank transfers to arrive.

Odaily Planet Daily News Iran's Supreme Leader Advisor Mukhbel posted on social media on the 30th that Iran holds the lifeblood of global oil and gas transportation and is not afraid of naval blockades. "When we control 20% of the world's oil and more than 18 trillion cubic meters of natural gas, a naval blockade will not set Iran back to the Stone Age, but it will certainly plunge the hegemonic regime into an ice age," he said. (Xinhua News Agency)

According to OKX market data, MEGA opened at 0.2 USDT.

AethirClaw officially released CARA (Pre-configured Crypto AI Agent), which runs on Aethir's decentralized GPU infrastructure and has more than 50 built-in skills, covering core encryption scenarios such as real-time market monitoring, whale wallet tracking, on-chain analysis, social media sentiment monitoring, and project due diligence. The platform supports credit cards and various payment methods such as USDT, USDC, and ATH tokens. Aethir also disclosed that it will soon launch a model-as-a-service (MaaS) layer to run mainstream open-source large models on Aethir's decentralized GPU infrastructure, and expand multi-modal capabilities such as textual graphs and video creation

According to ChainCatcher news, Web3 asset data platform RootData released the eighth issue of the "Cryptocurrency Exchange Transparency List (Stocks)", continuing to focus on the growth trend of stock assets on crypto exchanges. Binance, OKX, Bybit, Gate, and Bitget continue to rank in the top five in this list. In terms of ranking changes, BingX ranked ninth for the first time due to a significant increase in visits, while XT.com fell out of the top ten in this period due to declining trading volume and lack of compliance transparency. In terms of visits, the head platform showed a moderate decline. BingX, a newcomer to the list, came in second with 7.6 million weekly visits, behind Binance. Ourbit's visits plummeted from 1.33 million to less than 310,000, a drop of more than 76%, making it the exchange with the largest decline in visits in this period. In addition, according to the data of the list, the average daily trading volume of almost all exchanges has declined significantly, generally between 10% and 25%. It is reported that RootData adheres to the principle of "transparency first" and takes the lead in building a dual evaluation system of "transparency + liquidity" in the field of stock cryptocurrency exchanges, so as to provide investors with more effective data reference, and will continue to improve and publish the list in the future.

According to Iranian media reports on April 30, Iran's Supreme Leader Mujtaba Khamenei said that Iran's fate is linked to its Gulf neighbors, and "evil foreigners" have nowhere to hide and only deserve to sink into "deep water". (Xinhua News Agency)

ChainCatcher news, according to Gate market data, the US dollar index DXY fell 0.5% during the day and is now at 98.45.

According to ChainCatcher news, the US dollar against the Japanese yen (USD/JPY) continued to fall, falling below 158, with an intraday decline of 1.5%, according to Golden Ten.

ChainCatcher news, according to Gate market data, the US dollar index DXY fell more than 10 points in the short term to 98.53. Spot gold rose $100 during the day to $4,643.77 per ounce, an increase of 2.21%