Bittensor co-founder Jacob Steeves responded to Covenant AI’s exit from the network, proposing to restart the subnet governance mechanism and bring in community votes to elect the team. He believes this is an opportunity to redefine the subnet’s form and criticized Covenant AI’s founder’s decision-making.

Gate US launched a tax dashboard on April 9, providing users with a unified interface to access tax information and tools. Users can submit W-9 or W-8 forms according to IRS requirements, view the applicable IRS forms, and get reminders of filing deadlines.

Crypto analyst Ali Martinez says that current market volatility could provide cycle-level get on board opportunities, and has set multiple key price ranges based on on-chain data. The main support band is $63,111 to $70,685; if it breaks below, it could lead to a liquidity vacuum. In the long term, BTC is approaching its historical uptrend line, and it’s recommended to accumulate in batches.

Gate News, according to Gate’s official announcement, the platform has decided to remove the trading markets for 30 tokens. After the platform’s re-evaluation, these tokens do not meet the criteria for enabling trading, involving tokens such as SHI, ZORO, ORTB, CRE8, ORNJ, LCAT, SOULS, XCAD, BOOM, GAI, TOKE, CLOT, VIVI, MIST, APRS, PSTAKE, LIFE, DEAI, DOMI, DUEL, GEAR, GARI, VISTA, CALCIFY, PIZZA, KOII, PTS, DAOLITY, DMAIL, SEAM, and the corresponding USDT trading pairs. The platform has suspended the deposit service for the related tokens, and will suspend the trading service at 11:00 on April 16, 2026 (UTC+8), including both spot trading pairs and quantitative grid trading. After delisting, users holding positions can withdraw the tokens to the Gate Web3 wallet for storage. In addition, the KOII token cannot be contacted with the project team at this time due to abnormal activity on-chain. The chain withdrawal service for the time being is not supported; it will be restored once security has been confirmed. For any of the related tokens that remain stored on the platform after April 30, 2026, users may submit a form application for buyback between April 30, 2026 and May 7. The platform will conduct the buyback at the specified price, and the maximum compensation amount for individuals is 100 USDT.

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.

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.

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.

Gate News message: According to Gate’s official announcement, Gate TradFi’s FX, indices, metals, and commodities section has launched 25 CFD trading pairs. The newly launched trading pairs include 9 FX pairs: CHFSGD, EURDKK, EURPLN, USDBRL, USDCLP, USDCOP, USDILS, USDKRW, USDPLN; 2 indices: ES35, SA40; 5 metal pairs: XAGAUD, XAUAUD, XAUEUR, XAUJPY, XPDUSD; and a GAS commodities trading pair. These trading pairs support fixed-leverage trading at 20x, 50x, and 100x, with a minimum order size of 0.01. Among the FX pairs, CHFSGD, EURPLN, and USDPLN support 50x leverage, while EURCNH, EURHKD, GBPNOK, GBPSEK, NOKSEK, NZDSEK, AUDZAR, and CHFZAR support 100x leverage. Indices and most metals pairs support 100x leverage, and XPDUSD supports 20x leverage. TradFi refers to a derivative form of a contract for difference (CFD) on traditional financial assets, covering asset classes such as metals, FX, indices, commodities, and U.S. stocks. The platform notes that during non-U.S. trading hours, the liquidity of CFD quotes may be lower.

Gate News message, according to Gate’s official announcement dated April 7, 2026 Gate launches the GUSD Minting Newcomer Limited-Time Rewards Campaign, Episode 10. The campaign is open to new users who have never held GUSD spot and have never participated in GUSD minting. The campaign runs from April 7, 2026 at 16:00 to April 13, 2026 at 16:00 (UTC+8). New users can mint GUSD by using USDT or USDC, with an annualized return rate of up to 100%. Returns start accruing from the day after subscription and are distributed in the form of GUSD. GUSD is a demand-deposit principal-protected wealth management product. After users mint with USDT/USDC, they receive investment receipts. It supports trading and collateralization, and upon redemption it is exchanged for USDT/USDC at a 1:1 ratio (redemption fees are deducted). In addition, for GUSD participating in other wealth management products such as Launchpool and Launchpad, during the investment period users can simultaneously earn the corresponding wealth management returns from those products, the GUSD minting proceeds, and the campaign rewards.

Figure co-founder Mike Cagney recently received a 1099-MISC tax form from a certain CEX Custody showing last year’s income of $1,600, but the account’s assets are only $10. He is dissatisfied with the customer service’s runaround and criticized the exchange for blocking the passage of the CLARITY Act, arguing that the industry no longer needs to care about his views.