PANews reported on April 28 that according to Tether's official website, as of today, the circulation of Tether Gold (XAU₮) corresponds to 246,523.33 ounces of gold (over 7.7 tons), with a market value of US$770 million. XAU₮ is currently regulated by El Salvador, and each token is backed by 1:1 physical gold and stored in a high-standard vault in Switzerland.

PANews reported on April 28 that the Trump family's crypto project World Liberty Financial (WLFI) has officially signed a memorandum of understanding (MOU) with Pakistan and met with the Pakistan Cryptography Committee and relevant leaders, committed to jointly promoting crypto technology innovation.

PANews reported on April 28 that according to the official Worldcoin blog, as of today, the circulating supply of WLD tokens has increased to about 1.3 billion, accounting for 13% of the total supply of 1 billion WLD. WLD is mainly distributed free of charge by verifying human uniqueness, and more than 12 million people have completed Orb verification. The portion held by the team and investors will be unlocked linearly for up to 5 years, which is expected to be completed in 2028.

According to PANews on April 28, the OKX market showed that BTC had just fallen below $94,000 and is now trading at $93,970.10 per coin, with a daily increase of 0.07%.

PANews reported on April 28 that according to The Block, Nexus Mutual is developing a penalty protection product for Babylon's Bitcoin staking mechanism, targeting individual pledgers and institutional users, aiming to provide higher protection for Bitcoin holders to participate in staking. Babylon has launched the Genesis mainnet this month, and currently about 45,000 Bitcoins have participated in staking.

PANews reported on April 28 that according to Onchain Lens monitoring, Circle has just minted an additional $250 million USDC on the Solana network. Since 2025, Circle has minted a total of $13.25 billion USDC on Solana.

According to the official announcement from PANews on April 28, Huobi HTX has launched the SIGN/USDT perpetual contract on April 28, with a maximum leverage of 20 times. At the same time, Huobi HTX will hold a SIGN contract trading party from 21:00 on April 28 to 21:00 on May 5 (UTC+8), with a total prize pool of up to US$10,000. Activities include: 1. New user benefits: Users who have never traded contracts can receive $HTX worth 3 USDT (a total of 3,000 USDT worth $HTX) by completing SIGN/USDT contract transactions and having a cumulative transaction volume of ≥100 USDT. 2. Trading party: Users who participate in SIGN/USDT contract transactions and have a cumulative effective transaction volume of ≥10,000 USDT can share $HTX worth 7,000 USDT based on their transaction volume ranking. It should be noted that users need to click to register to participate in the event.

PANews reported on April 28 that BNB Chain announced the winning projects of the latest "BNB AI Hackathon" (April 24 batch). This global online hackathon aims to explore the integration of artificial intelligence and blockchain technology. A total of 11 outstanding projects were selected for the Tier 4 Potential Award, which will provide continuous guidance and support to help the project develop and obtain subsequent higher-level rewards. In the previous three rounds of selection, BNB Chain has decided on 1 winning project and 12 potential awards, among which 6 projects have been successfully launched on the mainnet and have the opportunity to obtain more ecological rewards based on their development. In this round of selection, the organizer received more than 28 project applications, of which 11 entered Tier 4. These projects cover a variety of application scenarios, including decentralized AI trading tools, new governance solutions, and content creation platforms. The selected projects will enter an observation period and receive ecological support at different stages during the continuous development process. The projects selected for Tier 4 potential areas are: Aster AI: A decentralized AI hedge fund-level analysis platform based on BNB Chain, providing real-time on-chain data analysis, intelligent alpha signal identification, portfolio risk tracking and seamless trading functions, helping users develop smarter trading strategies. Barktalkai: A decentralized application that uses AI technology to translate pet dog movements into human language and rewards users with TBTA tokens, combining blockchain technology to enhance the human-pet interaction experience. BNBOT: BNB Chain’s AI crypto intelligence platform, providing users with advanced data analysis, market insights and trading tools to optimize cryptocurrency investment strategies. DataFlyer: A modular multi-agent platform that focuses on real-time market monitoring, sentiment analysis, and cross-chain services, providing transparent on-chain data analysis and in-depth market trend insights. EchoVote: A decentralized AI governance agent platform that simplifies the blockchain governance participation process through customized AI agents, improving user voting decision-making efficiency and governance proposal reach. Fezz: A Web3 multi-chain client that supports users to efficiently manage decentralized resources and interact with blockchain services. Idea Pie: A fair contribution distribution tool based on AI and Shapley value, providing hackathon teams with transparent on-chain reward distribution records. Jam: Focuses on building AI tools and agents to assist creators and communities, and promote creative collaboration and innovation in content production. NovelForge: A decentralized online novel creation platform that integrates Web3 and AI, empowering authors, readers and project owners through a unique economic model and AI tools. TradingFlow: A decentralized quantitative fund platform that lowers the threshold for algorithmic trading through AI-driven automated trading strategies. Visualyze: An on-chain data visualization tool that supports natural language queries and simplifies the blockchain data analysis process. Participation Mechanism BNB AI Hackathon is open to all AI-driven projects that are launched on the testnet or mainnet after February 12, 2025. Individual developers and early teams can apply. The event provides tiered rewards (up to $10,000 in cash rewards and $50,000 in startup resource packages) through a biweekly review mechanism, and projects can be exposed through BNB Chain official channels. Projects interested in participating in the next batch of selections should register before April 30th, the registration link: https://www.bnbchain.org/en/hackathons/bnb-ai-hack

PANews reported on April 28 that according to official news, OKX Pay (first version) is now officially launched and will be embedded in the OKX App and open to some markets. Relying on the X Layer public chain, it provides zero-fee encrypted payment services, supports self-custody, global seamless payment and daily automatic reward functions. OKX Pay adopts a private key sharding management method, dividing the private key into two, half of which is stored in the user's Passkey and the other half is stored by OKX. OKX Pay will focus on stablecoin payments, initially supporting USDT and USDC, and will gradually access more stablecoins in the future. OKX CEO Star retweeted that the first version of OKX Pay still has some problems, but the system has been launched and the team will work hard to provide the best payment solutions for global users.

PANews reported on April 28 that according to Decrypt, Coinbase has fixed a user interface (UX) error that incorrectly marked login password failures as "two-step verification failures", causing some users to mistakenly believe that their accounts were attacked. The official has now updated the system to correctly display "password attempts failed" to improve user experience and trust.

PANews reported on April 28 that according to The Block, Ledger announced that it will cooperate with the DeFi infrastructure platform Kiln to allow users to directly self-host and earn USDC, USDT, USDS and DAI in the Ledger Live application, with an annualized return rate of 5%-9.9%. Users can easily participate in protocols such as Aave and Compound without connecting to a third-party Web3 wallet, improving security and convenience.

PANews reported on April 28 that Gate.io MemeBox has launched SIGN and launched a limited-time airdrop event from 18:30 on April 28 to 18:30 on May 1 (UTC+8). During the event, completing the first transaction in MemeBox (regardless of currency) or any Sign (SIGN) transaction will receive airdrop rewards, with a total prize pool of 400,000 SIGN. MemeBox now supports popular public chains such as ETH, BNB Chain and Base. Users can use USDT in their spot accounts to directly purchase popular assets on the chain without manually changing chains, recharging or authorizing.

PANews reported on April 28 that according to The Block, London-based financial services company Calastone announced a partnership with Fireblocks to launch new tools to support asset managers to tokenize any fund on its platform. The platform can deploy smart contracts on blockchains such as Ethereum and Polygon, aiming to connect traditional finance with the Web3 market while maintaining compliance and operational security.

PANews reported on April 28 that according to Jinshi, US Treasury Secretary Bessant said that many of the 17 important trading partners have put forward excellent suggestions. The United States is rapidly promoting customized trade agreements with 15 to 18 countries with standardized templates, and President Trump will participate in the whole process. Bessant revealed that the first batch of trade agreements may be reached as early as this week or next week, while emphasizing that negotiations with Asia and Japan are progressing smoothly. He also said that India may be one of the countries that sign the first trade agreement with us.

Coinbase, the world’s third-largest cryptocurrency exchange by volume, is launching the Coinbase Bitcoin Yield Fund on May 1, aiming to offer Bitcoin (BTC) exposure for institutional investors outside the US. The fund targets an annual net return of 4% to 8% on Bitcoin holdings, according to an April 28 blog post by Coinbase. “To address the growing institutional demand for bitcoin yield, Coinbase Asset Management is excited to introduce the Coinbase Bitcoin Yield Fund (CBYF),” the company wrote. The fund is backed by multiple investors, including Aspen Digital, a digital asset manager based in Abu Dhabi and regulated by the Financial Services Regulatory Authority. Coinbase introduces Bitcoin yield-bearing fund. Source: Coinbase Related: Michael Saylor hints at Bitcoin purchase as whales stack aggressively The yield will be generated through a cash-and-carry strategy, through the difference between spot Bitcoin prices and derivatives. Unlike Ether (ETH) and Solana (SOL), Bitcoin holders can’t generate passive income through staking — a gap the fund is aiming to fill, according to the announcement: “Bitcoin yield funds have emerged to address this limitation, but these funds generally require institutional allocators to take on significant investment and operational risk.” The new fund seeks to lower the investment and operational risks typically associated with Bitcoin yield products, which Coinbase says will better align with the risk appetite of institutional investors. Related: Stacks Asia expands Bitcoin initiatives with Abu Dhabi partnership

PANews reported on April 28 that according to the Form 8-K document submitted by MicroStrategy to the SEC, the company purchased 15,355 bitcoins between April 21 and 27, 2025, with a total expenditure of approximately US$1.42 billion and an average purchase price of US$92,737. As of April 27, MicroStrategy held a total of 535,555 bitcoins, with a cumulative purchase cost of approximately US$37.9 billion and an average price of US$68,459.

PANews reported on April 28 that according to The Block, Geoffrey Kendrick, global head of digital assets at Standard Chartered Bank, said that Bitcoin is expected to hit a new high of about $120,000 in the second quarter of 2025, driven by the withdrawal of US capital and the continued increase in holdings by large investors. He maintained the target price of $200,000 at the end of the year, saying that now is the time to buy. Analysis pointed out that the high US Treasury term premium and ETF fund inflows further supported the upward trend of Bitcoin.

PANews reported on April 28 that according to Aunt Ai, a user of X platform, the whale who "borrowed coins to short 4,000 ETH on April 25" repurchased 3,851 ETH (about 6.99 million US dollars) at an average price of 1,816.4 US dollars in the past 15 minutes, and closed 3,800 ETH short orders, with a loss of 29,500 US dollars. Currently, there are 200 ETH short orders left, and the cumulative loss has expanded to 413,000 US dollars since April 22.

PANews reported on April 28 that according to the latest data, the cumulative pledged amount of WBS, the platform token of the crypto trading platform Websea, has exceeded 5 million. Since the launch of the Inspur pledge plan on February 8, the price of the token WBS has increased by more than 250%. As an important engine for Websea's ecological construction, Inspur pledge not only accelerates the release of WBS value, but also lays a solid foundation for the platform's layout in GameFi, live broadcasting, principal protection and copy trading, social networking and other diversified tracks. With the deep binding of the platform's core token WBS with the platform's major ecological modules, Websea is accelerating the construction of a truly value-driven cryptocurrency trading ecosystem.

PANews reported on April 28 that according to Crypto In America, U.S. congressmen returned to Congress after the Easter recess and listed crypto legislation as a priority, aiming to complete the stablecoin and market structure bill before the August deadline set by President Trump. The House Financial Services Committee and the Agriculture Committee will hold a joint hearing on May 6 to discuss the blueprint for digital asset legislation. The Senate is also integrating the 2022 Lummis-Gillibrand Act and the FIT21 Act.