Gate Crypto Flash News and Market Updates

Gate News message. On April 10, according to Lookonchain monitoring, a whale address that previously bought 163,405 ETH (about $440 million) and 4,000 cbBTC (about $296 million) via over-the-counter trading sold 899,999 RAVE (about $229k) at cost three weeks ago. However, RAVE’s price is up 226% today; if the address had not sold in advance, its current unrealized profit would be about $870k.

Banks such as Australia and New Zealand Banking Group (ANZ) and investment banks like Goldman Sachs predict that gold may rebound in the long term, mainly driven by central bank demand, geopolitical uncertainty, and expectations that the Federal Reserve will cut interest rates. ANZ expects the gold price to reach $5,800 by year-end, while Goldman Sachs maintains a $5,400 outlook, saying that central bank gold purchases will be a support factor.

TD Cowen cut Strategy (MSTR)’s target price by 20.5% to $350, maintained a Buy rating, citing a lowered expectation for the price of bitcoin. For fiscal year 2026, its forecast for bitcoin revenue was reduced to $7.87 billion, and it still believes MSTR will convert demand for market volatility through leverage.

The Quantum-Safe Bitcoin (QSB) proposal put forward by StarkWare researcher Avihu Levy uses existing Bitcoin scripts to provide post-quantum security, avoiding a soft fork. QSB uses a Binohash-based construction and a “hash-to-signature” puzzle to defend against quantum computers’ attacks on elliptic curve cryptography. The scheme relies on RIPEMD-160’s preimage resistance, effectively strengthening the security of Bitcoin transactions.

Decentralized GPU cloud computing platform Aethir confirmed that its Ethereum bridge contract was attacked, with losses kept within $90k. The team promptly disconnected the contract and worked with exchanges to deal with the hacker wallets. The attacker used a cross-chain smart contract to move funds. Aethir plans to announce a compensation plan next week, and revenue is expected to reach $127.8 million in 2025.

xStocksFi launched on the Mantle network on April 10, allowing users to trade 10 of the most prominent U.S. stocks 24/7. The project is supported by BackedFi and Flowdesk, aiming to improve the distribution efficiency of real-world assets and deliver low trading fees and a fast, smooth experience. More features are planned for the future.

Gate News message, the Central Government of Bhutan transferred 250 BTC valued at $18.05 million to a newly created wallet address.

Gate News Message, April 10, Iran’s Deputy Foreign Minister Lavanchi said today at a meeting attended by representatives of foreign diplomatic missions in Iran and international organizations that all parties have reached consensus, and Iran’s Ten-Point Plan will serve as the basis for negotiations. He emphasized that Iran has always welcomed diplomacy and dialogue, but it will never accept dialogue based on false information, intended to deceive, and meant to pave the way for a renewed military aggression against Iran. (CCTV News)

2026-04-10 11:00 to 2026-04-10 11:15 (UTC), the ETH price saw a clear intraday surge, with a 15-minute return of +0.62%. The candlestick price range was 2197.27 to 2212.8 USDT, with a swing of 0.71%. During this period, trading activity increased significantly, market attention rose, and volatility intensified. The main drivers behind this sudden move are a simultaneous rise in spot trading volume and the total value of on-chain transfers. In the first 10 minutes, spot trading volume was about $420,000, significantly higher than the average over the previous hour, confirming a more noticeable

Gate News message, on April 10, market data showed that Bitcoin broke through $72,000, with a 24-hour increase of 1.17%.

According to DefiLlama data, on April 10 on-chain Perp DEX market trading volume fell, with Aster’s trading volume in second place. The major trading volume rankings were, in order: Hyperliquid, TradeXYZ, and Aster.

A cryptocurrency exchange became the first CEX to be approved for a Federal Reserve master account, but the account is restricted—access is limited to the Fedwire payment system, and it cannot earn interest. This move has sparked concerns about financial risk and transparency in the U.S., and regulatory experts warn it could affect financial stability. The exchange said it is complying with anti–money laundering requirements.

On April 10, ahead of the US stock market open, crypto-related stocks generally rallied, with CRCL up 1.7%, MSTR up 0.14%, SBET up 0.78%, and ABTC up 1.35%. msx.com is a decentralized RWA trading platform that has launched multiple RWA tokens.

The HY-Embodied-0.5 series of embodied intelligence foundation models released by Tencent includes two versions: 2B and 32B. It focuses on improving spatiotemporal perception and embodied reasoning capabilities, and is suitable for scenarios such as environment prediction and task planning. The 2B model has been open-sourced; its performance is better than other same-scale SOTA models, demonstrating strong intelligent generalization ability and application potential.

Gate News update, April 10: Strategy's Stretch (STRC) has raised enough funds so far this week to buy 8,000 BTC. STRC is expected to hold 10k BTC by the end of this week.

Flare announced a governance proposal on April 10. The plan is to capture the maximum extractable value (MEV) to the protocol layer through a newly established entity called FIRE, and to repurchase and burn FLR tokens. The proposal includes a three-stage block-building reshaping, along with the FLR annual inflation rate and an annual hard cap reduction, with the goal of optimizing the network’s economic model and improving protocol transparency and security.

Gate News message, on April 10, according to Alternative data, the crypto fear and greed index today is 16, up 2 points from yesterday’s 14, with the market’s “fear” sentiment slightly easing. The index threshold range is 0-100; based on an overall assessment of market sentiment, its components include: volatility (25%), market trading volume (25%), social media buzz (15%), market surveys (15%), Bitcoin’s share across the entire market (10%), and Google trending search analysis (10%).

Gate News message, April 10, the Kremlin issued a statement regarding special envoy Dmitryev’s visit to the U.S. The Kremlin said that this trip was not a restart of peace talks on Ukraine, and that Dmitryev did not negotiate on the Ukraine issue. The Kremlin emphasized that Russia is seeking peace rather than a ceasefire; as long as Ukraine’s President Zelensky makes a decision, peace can be achieved today. In addition, the Kremlin noted that a ceasefire for Orthodox Easter has humanitarian significance.

Bittensor co-founder Const responded to community controversy, clarifying token release and management permission issues and emphasizing that his actions are no different from those of ordinary holders. He denied large-scale sell-offs, saying transparency in trading is a core principle, and that community discussions are still ongoing.

On April 10, the authoritative AI benchmarking platform LMArena updated its rankings. GLM-5.1 took first place among global open-source models and third place globally, showcasing excellent coding ability and breakthroughs in long-range tasks. It became the only open-source model to achieve continuous work for 8 hours.