Gate Crypto Flash News and Market Updates

Gate News message, April 12, according to Xinhua News Agency, U.S. President Trump issued new threatening remarks to Iran. Trump said: "At the appropriate time, we will be fully 'ready,' and our military will put an end to Iran's remaining forces."

DWF Labs co-founder Andrei Grachev said the market is currently in a “boring” phase, with many important activities quietly underway. He advised investors to stay patient and look for a better timing. He emphasized that opportunities still exist in the market—such as holding Bitcoin or participating in altcoins—and urged retail investors to keep learning and remain optimistic.

Tok-Edge, a digital asset financial services company, will launch a crypto hedge fund aimed at institutional investors, with plans to complete its first round of fundraising of $100 million by 2026. The initial size will be $21 million, and the cornerstone investors will be Marcus Meijer and his investment consortium, which will provide $10 million in funding.

Gate News update. On April 12, U.S. President Donald Trump said that the U.S.-Iran talks had reached agreement on most issues, but that they failed to reach agreement on the key issue of nuclear matters. Trump disclosed that the U.S. side had received briefings on the status of the relevant talks. The talks lasted about 20 hours, but Iran was unwilling to give up its nuclear ambitions. Trump said the U.S. would continue to push for negotiations, but at the same time had made comprehensive preparations. He reiterated that Iran would never have nuclear weapons.

Gate News message, on April 12, a researcher proposed a transaction scheme that enables quantum-resilient protection for Bitcoin without requiring a fork. At present, the quantum computing threat to Bitcoin is still at the theoretical level. Meanwhile, tech companies such as Google and Cloudflare have already begun preparing countermeasures and set a target timeline to complete the migration of quantum cryptography after 2029.

Gate News message, April 12, according to on-chain analyst Ai Yi (@ai_9684xtpa) statistics, the short positions of the contract whale “first set 10 big targets” (@Jason60704294) are currently up $3.21 million. Of this, the BTC short positions are 2,567.49 BTC, with an opening price of $71,554.61, and an unrealized profit of $1.19M; the ETH short positions are 38,465.22 ETH, with an opening price of $2,248.74, and an unrealized profit of $2.03M.

Fueled by the U.S.-Iran geopolitical conflict, Western banks have accelerated their exit from large-scale commodity trade finance due to compliance and sanctions risks, prompting traders to shift to stablecoins for cross-border settlement. Stablecoins have become an alternative settlement tool; their usage is rising, with market value exceeding $300 billion and on-chain transaction volume reaching $4 trillion.

Gate News message: On April 12, according to @BitcoinArchive monitoring, Strategy added 3,447 bitcoins worth $250 million yesterday (April 11) through its perpetual preferred stock product STRC. This increase is equivalent to the supply of bitcoin mined by the network over the past 8 days.

A super political action committee affiliated with Tether filed paperwork with the U.S. Federal Election Commission showing that its first $300k expenditure went to Nxum Group, founded by Tether U.S. CEO Bo Hines, to buy campaign ads for Georgia Republican candidate Clay Fuller, raising questions about pay-to-play.

CryptoQuant analyst Amr Taha noted that a major Bitcoin whale inflow to a certain CEX platform first fell below $3 billion; the market value of long-term holders recovered to $49 billion, while short-term holders fell to -$54 billion. This indicates that weak hands are distributing Bitcoin, while long-term holders are re-absorbing it.

Former BCB Group CEO Oliver von Landsberg-Sadie and his family were robbed at home at knifepoint, with the assailants explicitly demanding cryptocurrency wallet keys. In the end, they only stole cash, silverware, and jewelry. Police have been brought in to investigate, and Oliver is warning public figures to be alert to this kind of crime.

Gate News message, April 12, market data shows that Bitcoin fell below $71,000, with a 24-hour drop of 2.65%.

2026-04-12 12:45 to 13:00 (UTC), the BTC price range was 71081.7 to 71493.2 USDT, with an amplitude of 0.58%. Within 15 minutes, the return recorded was -0.57%. During the period of unusual activity, market volatility increased somewhat, risk sentiment warmed up, and overall attention rose; however, there was no extreme surge in volume or a sudden drop in liquidity. The main driver behind this unusual activity is that, under the leverage structure, long positions were reduced passively. Recently, the funding rate for perpetual contracts turned from negative to positive. Leverage among longs in the market accumulated; the price dipped slightly, triggering liquidations of some leveraged long positions and sell orders for position closures, resulting in

Paradigm CEO Matt Huang said that although Gen Z employees sometimes cause chaos, their creativity and technical breakthroughs have kept the company firmly committed to investing in young talent. MIT dropout Charlie Noyes contributed to the Ethereum ecosystem at age 19, demonstrating the potential of young employees.

Gate News bot 消息，Gate 行情显示，BTC 跌破 71000 USDT，现价 70969.4 USDT。

Gate News, April 12, Unitree Robotics announced that its H1 robot has refreshed the world record for the hundred-meter test running speed of humanoid robots. The video shows that in this test, the H1 robot’s measured peak speed reached 10 meters per second. For comparison, the speed of Usain Bolt, the current men’s 100-meter world record holder, is 9.58 seconds (10.44 meters per second). This March, Unitree Robotics’ founder Wang Xingxing said at the Yabuli Forum: “By mid-year this year, China’s humanoid robots in the 100-meter dash will break the 10-second barrier and surpass Bolt.”

Gate News message: After negotiations between the United States and Iran ended on April 12, there was no U.S. delegation left in Pakistan. U.S. President Trump’s special envoy Wittekov, Trump’s son-in-law Kushner, and the U.S. technical team have all left Pakistan’s capital, Islamabad. U.S. Vice President Vance arrived at Ramstein Air Base in Germany before 7:00 a.m. Eastern Time on the 12th. According to earlier reports from Pakistani media, Vance left Pakistan on the 12th local time. (Xinhua)

Gate News message, A whale identified as "0x9e8" closed the majority of its $SILVER long position with 20x leverage and opened a 95,577 $CL long position with 20x leverage valued at $9 million over the past 5 hours. This trading activity occurred as the U.S.-Iran negotiations did not reach success.

UK financial regulators are assessing the risks of Anthropic’s new AI model, Claude Mythos Preview, which has demonstrated strong cybersecurity capabilities in testing. For safety reasons, Anthropic has decided not to publicly release the model, instead providing access to 40 partner organizations only, triggering market reactions and differing expert opinions.

Gate News update, April 12, Strategy founder Michael Saylor again shared information related to the Bitcoin Tracker, and said "Think ₿igger". According to the previously observed pattern, Strategy typically discloses information about additional Bitcoin purchases on the second day after the related news is released.