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MetaMask co-founder and longtime developer Dan Finlay posted on the X platform on April 22 to announce that it was his last working day at Consensys. He said he is stepping down due to extreme physical and mental burnout caused by more than a decade of work developing crypto wallets, and he plans to spend more time with his family. On the same day, Finlay also announced the launch of MetaMask’s ERC-7715 advanced permissions feature.

According to SolanaFloor’s April 23 report, the Solana-based decentralized trading aggregation platform Jupiter has officially launched the Jupiter Prediction Bot, bringing prediction market functionality to the Telegram platform so users can access prediction markets without leaving their messaging app.

Pi Network core team released the second Pi Request for Comments draft (PiRC2) on April 23, announcing that the testnet will open subscription smart contracts for technical review and community feedback, and inviting developers to test the subscription feature integration, review contract design, and identify potential vulnerabilities. As of the time of reporting, the PI token is about $0.17, unchanged from the previous day.

Vercel CEO Guillermo Rauch posted an update on an X security investigation on April 22 in U.S. Pacific time, saying the investigation team has processed nearly 1 PB of Vercel global web and API logs, and that the scope of the investigation goes far beyond the Context.ai intrusion incident. Rauch said that the attackers stole Vercel account keys by distributing malware to computers, and that they have notified the victims.

Singapore's Hao Mart supermarket chain has shuttered 13 of its 20 listed outlets as of March 30, 2025, according to field checks by The Straits Times, amid mounting financial losses and legal disputes. The company reported a $49.6 million loss for the financial year ending March 31, 2025—up

Singapore's family offices have widely adopted AI tools for operations, but they are largely excluded from investing in the technology itself. An Ocorian survey of 25 family offices based in Singapore found that despite 96% of them deploying AI tools for operations and data management, none are

According to data monitoring on GMGN Chain, on April 23, the BSC ecosystem meme token HAKIMI (Hakimi) saw a 24-hour increase of 66%. Its market cap rose from $11 million, and the intraday high reached $24.0 million. On the same day, GMGN data showed that the “Binance Life” token in the BSC ecosystem—previously the hottest by popularity—fell 25% over 24 hours, and more than 90% of BSC meme coins’ market caps continued to decline.

China's Guangdong province, an industrial hub comparable in size to South Korea, has experienced electricity spot prices nearly double due to constrained natural gas supply from the Middle East, according to Bloomberg. Spot rates climbed to nearly 680 yuan (S$112) per megawatt-hour on April 14 – a t

According to a Bloomberg report dated April 23, Polymarket—long a dominant force in predicting-market trading volume—has been facing multiple operational challenges. Dune Analytics data shows that Polymarket’s global trading volume has been surpassed by Kalshi; on valuation, after Kalshi announced a new round of funding last month, it reached $22 billion. The two prediction markets simultaneously announced plans to enter the perpetual futures market in April.

Tesla CEO Elon Musk announced on April 23, 2024 during the company's earnings call that the automaker will launch large-scale production of its Optimus humanoid robot, with the first production line targeting output beginning in July or August 2024 at the Fremont factory. The third-generation Optimu

On April 22, the crypto community account Crypto Rover (@cryptorover) posted on X, drawing a comparison between Berkshire Hathaway’s current cash holdings and similar situations before the 1999 dot-com bubble and before the 2007 global financial crisis. According to Berkshire Hathaway’s latest publicly disclosed financial filings, the company currently holds more than $350 billion in cash and short-term assets.

South Korea’s new Bank of Korea Governor Shin Hyun-song used his April 21 inaugural address to plant a firm stake in the ground: the country’s digital money future runs through central bank digital currency ( CBDC) and bank-issued deposit tokens, not private stablecoins. Key Takeaways: Bank of Ko

The altcoins are still below the major moving averages indicating low overall market momentum. The increasing Bitcoin dominance still restricts capital flows into altcoins. Before anticipating a lasting increase in the altcoins, technical confirmation is still important.  The

According to an alert posted on the X platform on April 23 by SlowMist’s Chief Information Security Officer 23pds, the hacker group ShinyHunters claims it has breached internal systems related to the Anthropic Mythos models and has publicly shared screenshots as evidence, including a user management panel, an AI experiment dashboard, and analyses of model performance and costs. However, Anthropic has not yet issued an official statement.

According to a report by Cointelegraph on April 23, citing the ADI Foundation announcement that was obtained, the Sharia-compliant stablecoin PUSD issued by Palm Azgar Finance has completed deployment on the ADI Chain, becoming the second stablecoin on this Ethereum Layer 2 network that focuses on institutional settlement in the Middle East. The PUSD circulating supply is about $2.3 billion.

According to disclosures by the crypto community account @aaronjmars on April 23 on the X platform, and subsequent reporting by Le Monde and BFMTV, a man allegedly tampered with the automated weather sensors at Paris Charles de Gaulle Airport (CDG) with portable heating devices on April 6 and April 15, respectively, generating cumulative profits of about $34k from weather betting markets on the prediction market platform Polymarket.

According to publicly available records from the New York Criminal Court on April 23, Solana ecosystem application Believe founder Benjamin Pasternak was arrested in New York on April 22. He is charged with one second-degree strangulation count and two counts of assault with intent to cause bodily injury. The case is scheduled to be heard at the New York Criminal Court on June 11. Pasternak has pleaded not guilty to all of the charges mentioned above.

New York Governor Kathy Hochul signed an executive order on Wednesday, April 22, barring state officials and employees from using nonpublic information obtained through their positions to place bets in prediction markets, or from assisting any third party in engaging in the foregoing conduct. On the same day, prediction market platform Kalshi announced that it had completed an internal investigation into three political candidates who placed bets in their own campaign activities, and imposed fines and suspensions on them.

According to a report from The Verge on April 22, Anker has officially released its self-developed artificial intelligence chip Thus, positioning it as the world’s first neural network audio AI chip based on an In-Memory Computing architecture. The first batch will be built into Soundcore’s upcoming flagship headphones.