Gate Crypto Flash News and Market Updates

Gate News message, April 1, Hyperbot data shows that Ma Ji Da Ge Huang Licheng’s Bitcoin long positions have all been fully closed off 1 hour ago, and his HYPE long positions have also all been fully closed off this morning. At present, Huang Licheng holds Ethereum long positions with 25x leverage, with a position size of 6,800 ETH, a position value of $14.337 million, an unrealized profit of $306,000, and a liquidation price of $2,039.

Gate News message, April 1, bolstered by a significant cooldown in U.S.-Iran geopolitical risk, U.S. equities’ tech seven giants (Meta, Nvidia, Google, Tesla, Amazon, Microsoft, Apple) all rebounded across the board today. Among them, Meta and Nvidia led the gains with 6.67% and 5.59%, respectively, while Google, Tesla, Amazon, Microsoft, and Apple rose in tandem by 2.9% to 5.14%, respectively. The easing of the geopolitical situation effectively lowered the global risk premium, prompting capital to flow back into high-beta growth assets.

JPMorgan Chase CEO Jamie Dimon made hawkish remarks on April 1, expressing dissatisfaction with Iran’s actions, questioning Western tolerance for them, and emphasizing the importance of eliminating the Iranian threat, calling for achieving permanent peace in the Middle East.

April is typically a stronger month for Bitcoin’s performance, with a historical average monthly gain of about 11.3%. But since 2020, this pattern has become less stable. Bitcoin’s relative strength indicator is currently 47%, and market sentiment is being influenced by geopolitical and inflation concerns. This suggests that April’s volatility may rise, so it’s important to watch whether the market can form a clear direction.

Gate News message. On April 1, according to Ember monitoring, the SIREN market maker address spent 144,000 USDT to buy back 500,000 SIREN about half an hour ago. The buy-in price was $0.288. These 500,000 SIREN were previously sold at a price of $0.947 about half a month ago, yielding 473,000 USDT. After the price dropped today, the address bought back the same amount of tokens with 144,000 USDT; the token quantity did not decrease, but it earned $329,000.

Several self-driving Baidu taxi vehicles in parts of Wuhan stopped in the middle of the road, and the traffic management department has already handled the situation, with passengers safely getting out. Industry analysis suggests the vehicles encountered an unexpected situation and autonomously triggered a safety self-check mechanism. Robo-Run (Luobo Kuaipao) has not responded yet.

Gate News message, April 1, Polygon co-founder Sandeep Nailwal said in a post on the X platform that Polygon’s stablecoin transaction count reached 159.9 million last week, setting a new all-time high. At the same time, key metrics such as Polygon on-chain stablecoin transaction volume and the number of active addresses also rose in parallel. In addition, Polygon PoS

Gate News message, on April 1, Nasdaq-listed digital asset treasury company Nano Labs released its 2025 second-half financial performance report. The data shows that the company’s net revenue for the 2025 second half was RMB 18.70 million. As of December 31, 2025, Nano Labs holds 126,662 BNB, with an additional 3,338 BNB as receivable collateral. The company said it will further enhance its crypto asset strategic reserves.

Tom Lee said in a CNBC interview that the market has already digested most of the selling pressure, or has already found a bottom. He noted that historically, the stock market often shows signs of a bottoming early in wartime, and if the current environment matches that pattern, the market could see a V-shaped rebound. In addition, he believes the U.S. economy can withstand an oil price as high as $120.

Gate News message, April 1, SIREN token saw a drop of more than 84% within 24 hours, and the current price is 0.27 USDT. Data shows that the token experienced consecutive, highly volatile swings over the past week.

Gate News message, April 1, the DeFi protocol Spark announced that its lending platform SparkLend has added support for wBTC (Wrapped Bitcoin, a tokenized form of Bitcoin on Ethereum) as collateral. Users can now use wBTC to borrow and lend on the SparkLend platform.

Gate News reports that on April 1, Nasdaq-listed Bitcoin treasury company Empery Digital disclosed that it sold 79 bitcoins last week at an average price of $71,031, generating total proceeds of approximately $5.6 million. Its total bitcoin holdings have decreased to 3,359 bitcoins. Additionally, the company revealed that to date, it has invested about $137 million to repurchase 23,630,147 shares of common stock. Going forward, it will continue to sell bitcoin as needed to fund future stock buybacks and may also repay some outstanding debt.

Gate News message: On April 1, according to Iranian media and eyewitnesses, an explosion occurred in Tehran, the capital of Iran. The scale of the blast has been described as unprecedented. There are currently no further details available.

Spanish bank CaixaBank was approved on March 30 to become the sixth crypto-asset service provider under the EU MiCA regulation, allowing it to offer services for crypto-asset custody, trading, and transfers. The EU’s MiCA authorization is valid across member states, providing regulatory convenience. Unauthorized institutions will lose their eligibility to provide services in 2026.

Gate News message, April 1, UX Chain’s official announcement stated the launch of a platform shutdown plan. According to the announcement, users must clear all outstanding positions before the platform begins full liquidation on April 30. The protocol is expected to be completely shut down by May 15. UX Chain stated that it will use reserve funds and fiscal funding to cover the protocol’s funding shortfall, and specific details will be published in the UX Governance Forum.

Polymarket prediction markets show that, influenced by OpenAI news, the probability that Anthropic’s publicly announced valuation in 2026 exceeds $500 billion has fallen from 93% to 90%, but it has risen 4% over the past 7 days. This prediction is based on confirmation of Anthropic’s publicly disclosed or private funding valuations. Anthropic completed a $30 billion Series G round in February this year, with a post-money valuation of $380 billion.

Gate News message. On April 1, U.S. President Donald Trump said he expects the U.S. military to withdraw from Iran within "two to three weeks." Trump told reporters at the White House: "We’re leaving because we have no reason to do that." "We’ll be leaving very soon." A few hours later, the White House announced that Trump will deliver a nationwide address at 9:00 p.m. Eastern Time tomorrow evening (9:00 a.m. Beijing time Thursday), providing important updates on the situation in Iran.

Gate News message, according to Gate’s official announcement Gate has decided to remove trading services for 32 tokens. These tokens include PLENA, CATGPT, TOKO, TGT, KBD, PORTX, PFVS, TEN, AGLA, PAI, GAN, BEFE, OOE, RUNI, RIZZMAS, ASTRA, BMB, DF, HDRO, SNET, ASMATCH, BDP, TPT, PHIL, PAW, UTK, STB, DCB, QUACK, CHESS, LAI, and TOMI. Gate will carry out the removal in phases. Before 16:00 on April 2, 2026 (UTC+8), Gate will close new leveraged borrowing and collateral borrowing for the related tokens; at 11:00 on April 8, 2026 (UTC+8), Gate will officially suspend spot trading, quant grid trading, Yubibao, and leveraged trading for the related tokens. After the delisting, users holding positions may apply for a repurchase during the period from April 22 to April 29, 2026. Gate will repurchase the related tokens at the specified price; the maximum compensation amount per user is 100 USDT. After the delisting, users can still continue using Gate as a wallet to store these assets.

On April 1, Arkham analyst Emmett Gallic disclosed that a cryptocurrency exchange has not yet repaid a BTC loan of 4,619 BTC, worth approximately $314 million, with an annual fee rate of 4%-8%, no fixed maturity date, and lenders able to demand repayment at any time. Historically, the exchange has borrowed more than 11,000 BTC and 133,000 ETH.