Gate Crypto Flash News and Market Updates

Gate News message: On April 7, the U.S. financial giant Charles Schwab released a research bulletin warning that even if only 1%-3% of funds are allocated to Bitcoin or Ethereum within an investment portfolio, it may significantly change the portfolio’s overall risk characteristics. The research report notes that Bitcoin and Ethereum have both historically experienced drawdowns of more than 70%, far higher than the volatility levels of stocks or bonds; therefore, even small allocations can have a noticeable impact during periods of market volatility. Charles Schwab proposed two cryptocurrency allocation approaches: one is the traditional portfolio theory method, which allocates based on expected returns, volatility, and correlation; the other is a risk-based method, which determines the share of crypto assets according to the level of risk one is willing to take, shifting the focus from returns to risk tolerance.

Gate News update: On April 7, the Federal Reserve Bank of New York (one of the Federal Reserve’s 12 regional banks) published data on 1-year inflation expectations for March at 3.42%, below the market expectation of 3.5% and above the prior value of 3.00%.

Gate News: According to the latest Gate TradFi data, XTIUSD (WTI Crude USOIL) has surged by 4% in a short period. Current volatility is significantly higher than recent averages, indicating increased market

Velora (formerly Paraswap) has released a new governance proposal. The main adjustments include refocusing on structural decisions regarding the VLR token, terminating the staking plan, closing the DAO treasury and paying for infrastructure services, and stopping fee routing. Going forward, governance will focus on decisions related to the VLR token, and protocol operations will be supported by the development team.

Gate News message, Circle(@circle) has issued another 1 billion USDC in the past 24 hours. According to Lookonchain, Circle(@circle) issued another 250 million USDC 4 hours ago. Over the past month, Circle has issued a total of 10.25 billion USDC on Solana.

SOL Strategies announced on April 7 that it will acquire Solana zero-knowledge technology company Darklake Labs for $1.2 million. The deal includes $200k in cash and $1 million in stock. Darklake Labs developed the zero-knowledge proof system Zyga for Solana, aiming to improve transaction privacy and prevent front-running trading and sandwich attacks. After the acquisition, its founders and core team will join SOL Strategies.

Gate News message, April 7, the market shows that spot gold fell by more than $20 in the short term, with the latest price at $4,625 per ounce. New York futures silver fell 3.00% during the day, currently at $70.66 per ounce; spot silver slipped below $71 per ounce, down 2.46% on the day.

Gate News message, April 7, Eric Balchunas, a senior ETF analyst at Bloomberg, posted on the X platform stating that, according to a listing notice from the New York Stock Exchange (NYSE), the Morgan Stanley Bitcoin exchange-traded fund will be listed tomorrow (April 8), with the trading ticker "MBST".

Gate News message, April 7, according to market data, Bitcoin has fallen below 68,000 USDT and is currently trading at 67,971.75 USDT, with a decline of 1.27% during the day.

Biconomy’s new Ethereum standard ERC-8211 introduces a “smart batching” mechanism, allowing AI agents to dynamically execute multiple-step DeFi operations within a single transaction, effectively addressing issues with price volatility and changes in transaction fees, in line with the Ethereum Foundation’s strategy to improve the user experience.

Between 2026-04-07 14:00 and 2026-04-07 14:15 (UTC), the BTC price fluctuated within the range of 67801.3 - 68256.1 USDT. The candlestick chart recorded a -0.51% return, with an amplitude of 0.67%. Short-term volatility intensified, and market attention increased significantly. Overall liquidity was still within the normal range, but showed marginal changes. The main drivers of this unusual move are the combined effect of short-term capital outflows and the simultaneous rise in net inflows to exchanges. Short-term holders take profit or cut losses at market volatility nodes, pushing prices lower. Spot

Gate News bot 消息，Gate 行情显示，BTC 跌破 68000 USDT，现价 67983.9 USDT。

Gate News message, on April 7, the U.S. news network Fox News officially integrated the Kalshi platform, using prediction market mechanisms to add accountability to news reporting while encouraging content to be closer to the facts. As one of the three major mainstream U.S. news networks, Fox News hopes to use prediction markets to eliminate bias, strengthen accuracy, and ensure that news reporting is not influenced by political stances, with correctness as the guiding principle.

Gate News message, April 7, public chain project Rayls announced that its mainnet will go live on April 30 at 23:00. At the same time, Rayls staking plans and its native stablecoin USDr will also be launched. USDr is Rayls’ native, U.S. dollar–backed stablecoin, used to pay network transaction fees.

Gate News message: On April 7, Ethereum Treasury company SharpLink posted on the X platform that since launching its ETH treasury strategy, the company’s cumulative Ethereum staking reward revenue has reached 16,947 ETH. In addition, the Ethereum staking rewards SharpLink received last week were 511 ETH.

Gate News message, on April 7, according to Iranian state media The Tehran Times, Iran has shut down all diplomatic and indirect communication channels with the United States.

Gate News update, April 7, Fluent posted a tweet saying that registration is now open for the BLEND token public offering, targeting $1 million in funding with a FDV of $100 million, with full unlock at TGE. On April 13, the token public offering will close, and the mainnet will go live 2 weeks after the end of the public offering. The total supply of the BLEND token is 1 billion, with an initial unlock of 75 million; 100 million will be allocated to the foundation, 225 million to investors, 200 million to the team, and 400 million to ecosystem expansion.

Gate News message. April 7, Tether CEO Paolo Ardoino said the team is developing a decentralized search engine called hypersearch. The product is built on a distributed hash table (DHT, a decentralized data storage technology) architecture.

Gate News update. On April 7, U.S. stocks opened lower: the Dow Jones Industrial Average (the U.S. blue-chip benchmark index) fell 0.2%, the S&P 500 (the U.S. large-cap benchmark index) fell 0.18%, and the Nasdaq Composite (the U.S. tech-sector benchmark index) fell 0.3%. Large-cap tech stocks broadly traded lower: Arm (ARM.O) fell 2.8%, Nvidia (NVDA.O) fell 0.8%, and Tesla (TSLA.O) fell 1.7%. The Nasdaq China Golden Dragon Index fell 0.38%.

With rising demand for AI computing power and the rapid deployment of low-Earth-orbit satellites, space has become a new area for countries to invest in. Beijing plans to establish a space computing power innovation center to drive breakthroughs in key technologies and enable the use of computing power in space.