Zerion confirmed a recent AI-driven social engineering attack by North Korean hackers, resulting in a $100,000 loss from corporate hot wallets. User funds remain safe, and the company has taken precautionary measures. This follows another significant attack on Drift Protocol.

Gate News message, according to Gate’s official announcement on April 15, 2026 Gate launches a “Crazy Wednesday” campaign, running from April 15, 2026 at 14:00 to April 19, 2026 at 16:00 (UTC+8). Users complete multiple tasks to unlock mystery boxes, with a chance to win XRP tokens and Glenfiddich whisky. The mystery box tasks include multiple categories such as flash swaps, spot, and futures trading, as well as top-ups, invitations, and VIP upgrades, and each tier corresponds to a different number of mystery box openings. Campaign Two launches a USDT wealth-management product, with a 14-day fixed-term annualized yield of 6%. New users can also participate in a 3-day product offering 100% annualized yield. In addition, Yu’e Bao also offers multi-currency wealth-management options such as USAT, USDD, 0G, and APT, with annualized returns of up to 300%. Campaign Three introduces a boosted rewards policy for staking users, offering up to a 16% annualized return for staking BTC, ETH, and SOL; for SOL staking, staking 0–1 coins can yield up to 16% annualized.

Gate News message. On April 14, according to Gate Market Data, as of the time of writing, GT (GateChain) is currently trading at $6.75. Over the past 24 hours, it is up 2.42%, hitting a high of $6.85 and falling to a low of $6.59. The 24-hour trading volume reached $485.5k. The current market cap is approximately $736 million, ranking 92nd. GateChain is a new-generation public chain focused on securing users’ assets and decentralized trading. It features an original online hot insurance account and a settlement/clearing protection system, creatively addressing the industry’s core foundational issues, such as users’ digital assets being stolen, private keys being damaged and lost, decentralized trading, and cross-chain transfers. GateChain is an EVM-compatible Layer-1 blockchain, allowing developers to quickly deploy it at zero cost

April 9, U.S. March CPI data will be released on April 11. The market expects the year-over-year rate to rise from 2.4% to 3.4%. The Bitcoin market has responded calmly, with the options market’s volatility range only at 2.5%. Attention has been drawn by the rise in gasoline prices. Analysts believe that CPI data coming in either too soft or too hot will have different impacts on the crypto market.

BTC OG insider mega-whale agent Garrett Jin analyzes President Trump’s speech, saying it suggests a commitment to a hot war, and that the escalation of the Middle East conflict is already set in stone. He notes that the market hasn’t priced this in, that the near-term rebound is driven by positioning, and that the absence of any solution to the war will continue to weigh on oil supply and raise risks for importing countries. A 6% jump in oil prices reflects the reality of the conflict escalating.

Bitcoin’s hot-holdings trend is cooling off, as multiple companies and governments sell off their reserves, causing market volatility to increase. Companies such as Empery Digital and Genius Group have already cleared their bitcoin reserves, while Riot Platforms continues to reduce its holdings. Despite worries raised by the selloffs, the public vault still holds a large amount of bitcoin. The current bitcoin price is about $66,500, and market sentiment remains weak.

ZachXBT criticized Circle for not taking action in the Drift hacking incident, with millions of USDC moved from Solana to Ethereum. Circle has frozen part of its hot wallets, but progress has been slow to resume. He says Circle is a bad actor in the industry.

On March 27, 2026, from 14:15 to 14:30 (UTC), BTC experienced significant fluctuations, with a 15-minute return rate of -0.94%. The price range was between 65725.1 and 66374.1 USDT, with a volatility of 0.98%. During this period, trading volume surged unusually, and market attention clearly increased, reflecting heightened volatility against a backdrop of tightening liquidity. The main driver of this fluctuation was the concentration of large whale-level transfers, with multiple on-chain transfers exceeding 800 BTC each and a total value of over 90 million USD being moved. Some of the funds directly flowed into the hot wallets of trading platforms, impacting mainstream

On-chain detective ZachXBT revealed that Circle has unfrozen two frozen hot wallets, "500 Casino" and "Whale," which users were previously unable to withdraw from. The details of the case are still unclear, and Circle has not objected to the information.