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Gate News message, April 25 — China's National Development and Reform Commission (NDRC) has directed multiple AI companies to reject U.S. capital in recent weeks unless they obtain explicit government approval, according to Bloomberg citing informed sources. Moonshot AI and StepFun, both preparing f

Gate News message, April 25 — The U.S. Treasury Department has extended a short-term waiver allowing Russian oil deliveries and sales through May 16, prompting criticism from the European Union, which questioned why Washington was easing pressure on Moscow while the war in Ukraine continues. Europea

Gate News message, April 25 — According to Coinglass data, if Bitcoin breaks above $81,151, cumulative short liquidations across major centralized exchanges would reach $1.645 billion. Conversely, if BTC drops below $74,199, cumulative long liquidations would reach $1.446 billion.

Gate News message, April 25 — Yiming Zhang, a senior quantitative researcher at Jump Trading, has secured seed funding from hedge fund giant Millennium Management to launch his own external management operation, according to BusinessInsider. Zhang will operate as an external manager and is subject t

Gate News message, April 25 — A federal judge has questioned the legal validity of President Donald Trump's lawsuit against the U.S. Internal Revenue Service and Treasury Department. U.S. District Judge Katherine Williams raised concerns about whether the case presents a genuine case or

Gate News message, April 25 — A U.S. judge has dismissed fraud allegations filed by Elon Musk against OpenAI and OpenAI co-founder Sam Altman in his ongoing lawsuit against the company. The court has ruled that the fraud claims will not proceed, though the judge has scheduled additional hearings

Gate News message, April 25 — The U.S. Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC) filed an amicus brief today with the Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court, asserting its exclusive federal jurisdiction over commodity derivatives markets, including prediction markets. The case, Commonwealth of Massa

Gate News message, April 25 — Bitcoin whales are rapidly accumulating BTC as the price approaches the $80,000 level, on-chain data shows. Addresses holding between 10 and 10,000 BTC have accumulated approximately 40,967 BTC worth about $3.17 billion since April 10, according to Santiment. In contra

Gate News message, April 25 — Spanish police in Almería dismantled what authorities described as the country's largest Spanish-language pirated comics platform, seizing two cryptocurrency cold wallets containing approximately €400,000 (roughly $467,000) in assets. Three suspects were arrested

Gate News message, April 25 — U.S. President Donald Trump criticized the Supreme Court's tariff ruling on social media, stating that the nation could have saved $159 billion if the court had included a single clause stating "the U.S. need not return already-paid funds." Trump argued that companies a

Gate News message, April 24 — The White House announced that U.S. Presidential Envoy Steve Wittkoff and Trump son-in-law Jared Kushner are expected to travel to Pakistan on Saturday, April 26, to advance negotiations with Iran. Vice President JD Vance will remain in the United States on standby, and

Gate News message, April 24 — Iran's Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps announced on the night of April 24 that it has seized a vessel suspected of cooperating with the U.S. military after the ship violated regulations and ignored Iranian warnings. According to the Revolutionary Guard Navy's

Gate News message, April 24 — France has experienced 41 kidnappings of cryptocurrency holders in just 3.5 months of 2026, according to Pavel Durov, Telegram founder, who attributed the surge to widespread data leaks. Durov highlighted in an X post that sensitive personal data—including information h

Gate News message, April 24 — Iran's Supreme Leader Mujtaba Khamenei delivered a Nowruz (Iranian New Year) address on April 24, stating that Iran has faced three "military and security wars" over the past year. He described the ongoing conflict as an enemy attempt "to kill leaders and military

Gate News message, April 25 — The Ethereum Foundation completed an over-the-counter sale of 10,000 ETH to Bitmine, the digital asset treasury led by Tom Lee, at an average price of $2,387 per ether, totaling nearly $24 million. The foundation said the proceeds will fund core operations and activitie

Gate News message, April 24 — COMEX gold futures (contracts traded on the U.S. Commodity Futures Trading Commission exchange) closed up 0.03% at $4,725.4 per ounce, though the contract posted a weekly decline of 2.56%. COMEX silver futures rose 0.24% to close at $75.685 per ounce, while also

Gate News message, April 24 — Tennessee has become the second U.S. state to outright ban cryptocurrency ATMs after Gov. Bill Lee signed House Bill 2505 into law on April 13. The legislation, which passed both chambers unanimously, was officially codified on Thursday and will take effect July 1.

Gate News message, April 24 — Trump Media & Technology Group Corp., the parent company of Truth Social, appointed Boris Epshteyn and Meredith O'Rourke to its board on Friday (April 24), according to a regulatory filing. Epshteyn has served as a Trump aide for more than a decade, while O'Rourke is o

Gate News message, April 24 — Giancarlo Lelli, an Italian researcher, has been awarded one Bitcoin after demonstrating the largest-scale quantum attack on elliptic curve cryptography to date. The breakthrough escalates concerns about quantum threats to Bitcoin, Ethereum, and other assets secured

Gate News message, April 24 — The DeFi Education Fund (DEF) and 35 co-signatories, including a16z crypto, Aptos Labs, Uniswap, Chainlink, Paradigm, Solana Policy Institute, and Phantom, have petitioned the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) to convert its recent staff guidance on DeFi interfac