Gate Crypto Flash News and Market Updates

Visa officially launched its “Smart Business Connect” platform on April 9, aiming to provide AI agents and merchants with a gateway into AI-driven commerce. The platform supports multiple payment methods; it is currently being piloted and is planned to roll out nationwide in 2026.

Gate News message, on April 9, according to Onchain Lens monitoring, the government of the Kingdom of Bhutan transferred 319.7 BTC (worth about $22.67 million) to two wallets. One is a newly created wallet, possibly a CEX wallet; the other is an old wallet that was previously used to transfer funds for sale via a certain CEX or Galaxy Digital.

Trump said on the Truth platform that all U.S. troops and supplies will remain in Iran and the surrounding region until an agreement is reached and carried out. He warned that if the agreement is not followed, he will launch stronger military action, but he pledged not to use nuclear weapons to ensure the security of the Strait of Hormuz. The U.S. military is also stepping up its preparations for war.

Gate News message: On April 9, according to Gate market data, as of the time of publication, BLUR (Blur) is trading at $0.02243. It is up 18.86% over the past 24 hours, reaching a high of $0.023 and a low of $0.0183. Its current market cap is about $6.2189 million. Blur is a decentralized marketplace and aggregator that supports NFTs and will be managed by $BLUR holders. Blur’s architecture is designed to handle high traffic loads, enabling unmatched speed and advanced features, including real-time data feeds, charts, bulk listings and purchasing tools, as well as portfolio management. This message does not constitute investment advice; investing involves risks, including market volatility.

Gate News message, April 9, Arthur Hayes posted a comment on reports that Iran is charging Bitcoin tolls. Hayes said he would only believe that Iran is truly collecting tolls in the form of BTC after seeing the related transactions on the real Bitcoin blockchain. He believes that before that, it is only the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps playing with the Western fiat currency and financial system.

MiniMax released MMX-CLI, a fully multimodal command-line tool designed for AI agents, on April 9, aiming to simplify how agents call the AI capabilities of the MiniMax platform. By executing commands and retrieving results, the tool improves the efficiency of automated workflows, and introduces three design improvements to address issues that command-line tools face in automated environments.

SpaceX executive Michael Nicolls said in a memo that xAI’s training performance is poor and clearly behind its competitors. As a result, it decided to reorganize the engineering team, appoint a new leader, and aim to catch up with companies like OpenAI and Google. This move is part of the rebuilding plan pushed by Elon Musk.

U.S. Treasury Secretary Bessent urged Congress to pass the “Clear Act” as soon as possible to establish a clear regulatory framework for digital assets. He noted that cryptocurrencies have been widely adopted and emphasized that the United States must proactively maintain its leadership position in global financial regulation.

Reports say Anthropic’s revenue has grown rapidly this year, surpassing OpenAI, and its valuation is $3800 billion, leaving investors puzzled by OpenAI’s $8520 billion valuation. Differences in how reports split revenue with cloud partners partly explain the revenue gap, and investors are focused on OpenAI’s pricing strategy and whether its valuation is reasonable.

Surf launched the Surf Skill CLI tool, enabling AI agents with the ability to query cryptocurrency data and replacing 60+ separate APIs. Users can analyze the market, DeFi TVL, and social trends in real time, and get $200k in free API credit to simplify the development process.

Gate News message, April 9, Tmall Flash provides an AI Agent entry for restaurant merchants— the AI Store Assistant’s voice search capability has officially launched. The AI "Ask & Search" feature supports executing voice commands, and is currently the industry’s first merchant AI Agent service that can directly bring up an execution window to complete a complex end-to-end action loop. Merchants can use a single sentence to issue multiple action commands, such as order lookup, product management, blocking malicious customers, and more.

According to Hyperinsight monitoring, the whale address starting with 0xe84 opened a 40x leveraged BTC long position on April 9, with a trade size of $3.55 million. The opening average price was $70,965. Currently, it has set sell orders totaling $1.94 million to take partial stop-losses.

Gate News message, April 9, OpenClaw released the 2026.4.9 version update. This update officially introduces the “Dreaming” feature, using REM backfilling to process historical data and adding a diary timeline UI so that AI agents can replay users’ notes to form memories. The update also strengthens security protections against SSRF and node execution injection, adds role atmosphere QA assessments, and fully optimizes the Android pairing process.

Gate News message. On April 9, U.S. President Trump issued a statement denying the 10-point plan for Iran negotiations reported by The New York Times and CNN. Trump said the 10-point plan is completely false, a fabricated scam intended to smear the people involved in the peace process.

Short video + meme trading platform Giggles completed a $1.2 million Pre-Seed funding round in 2025, with investors including 1kx Capital, etc. The app developed by founder Justin Jin combines social features with prediction markets. It is currently in an invite-only testing phase, where users trade on trending content.

On April 8, Bitcoin spot ETF saw net outflows of $124 million. BlackRock’s IBIT had net inflows of $40.67 million, Fidelity’s FBTC had net outflows of $79.12 million, Ark’s ARKB had net outflows of $74.70 million, Grayscale’s GBTC had net outflows of $11.10 million, and the flows for the remaining institutions were all zero.

According to Gate News, on April 9, Ethereum spot ETFs saw net inflows of $13.84 million yesterday. Among them, BlackRock’s staking version of ETHB performed best, with net inflows of $44.30 million, while the Grayscale series showed more notable net outflows.

Gate News, April 9 — Jupiter officially announced that ASR rewards for Q1 2026 are now open for applications. The total reward pool is 50 million JUP.

Gate News message: On April 9, the HIP-3 ecosystem project Trade.xyz launched a Nikkei 225 Index (Japan stock market benchmark index) contract, supporting up to 20x leverage.