The International Monetary Fund (IMF) says El Salvador has stopped using public funds to invest in Bitcoin.

Loopscale, a Solana on-chain lending protocol, disclosed on the X platform that at 11:30 am EST today (23:30 Beijing time on April 26), the pricing function of Loopscale's RateX PT token was manipulated, resulting in the theft of approximately 5.7 million USDC and 1,200 SOL from the Loopscale USDC and SOL vaults. Currently, all Loopscale markets have been temporarily suspended to allow the team to further investigate. The funds involved in this security vulnerability incident account for approximately 12% of Loopscale's total funds and only affect depositors who deposited funds into Loopscale's USDC and SOL vaults. Borrowers and revolving loan users were not affected. We are working hard to restore the repayment function as soon as possible to avoid unforeseen liquidations. The team is working closely with law enforcement officials, security experts, and investors to recover the funds. Once more information and a complete technical analysis report are obtained, it will be released immediately.

PANews reported on April 26 that according to Cointelegraph, World Liberty Financial (WLFI), a crypto project supported by the Trump family, is still facing problems of shrinking portfolios and limited liquidity after completing two rounds of token sales totaling US$550 million. WLFI was launched in September 2024 and mainly raised funds by selling non-transferable WLFI tokens.

PANews reported on April 26 that according to Coingape, Citibank predicted in its latest report that the total supply of stablecoins will grow to $1.6 trillion by 2030 in the baseline scenario and $3.7 trillion in the optimistic scenario. Analysts believe that if Citigroup's forecast is realized and the regulatory momentum under Trump's policy continues, Bitcoin is expected to enter the price discovery stage, based on the historical ratio of stablecoin growth to BTC price appreciation - a 6.7-fold increase in stablecoins may translate into a 3- to 5-fold increase in Bitcoin, and the price of Bitcoin may reach $285,000 in 2030, with a more optimistic upper limit of close to $475,000 per coin.

PANews reported on April 26 that this week can be seen as a positive week as concerns about the independence of the Federal Reserve and ongoing trade frictions at the beginning of the week dissipated. On Friday, U.S. stocks were largely flat as market participants continued to wait for more information on the tariff war. Looking ahead to next week, although the Federal Reserve has entered a "quiet period" and the domestic market is about to enter the May Day holiday, there are still many important schedules, including but not limited to non-farm data, U.S. first quarter GDP data, PCE inflation data, and the Bank of Japan's interest rate decision... The following are the key points that the market will focus on in the new week: Monday 22:30, U.S. Dallas Fed Business Activity Index for April Tuesday 22:00, U.S. JOLTs Job Vacancies in March, Conference Board Consumer Confidence Index in April Wednesday 09:30, China's official manufacturing PMI in April Wednesday 09:45, China's Caixin Manufacturing PMI in April At 17:00 on Wednesday, the preliminary value of the Eurozone's first quarter GDP annual rate will be released at 20:15 on Wednesday, the US ADP employment number for April will be released at 20:30 on Wednesday, the US first quarter labor cost index quarterly rate, the preliminary value of the first quarter real GDP annualized quarterly rate, the preliminary value of the first quarter real personal consumption expenditure quarterly rate, the preliminary value of the first quarter core PCE price index annualized quarterly rate will be released at 22:00 on Wednesday, the US March PCE price data, the March personal expenditure monthly rate, the March existing home sales index monthly rate will be released on Thursday at 19:30, the number of layoffs of US Challenger companies in April will be released at 21:45 on Thursday, the final value of the US S&P Global Manufacturing PMI for April will be released on Friday at 20:30, the US April seasonally adjusted non-farm payrolls and April unemployment rate, the ADP employment report known as the "small non-farm" will also be released next Wednesday, along with the latest PCE inflation and consumption data.

Alex Gluchowski, founder of ZKsync and CEO of Matter Labs, wrote on the X platform that Ethereum is the world computer and still has product-market fit. There are "decentralized Nasdaq and SWIFT" downstream, but the Ethereum network is the real moat. Ethereum is the foundation of the value Internet, and credible neutrality is its core feature. If Ethereum maintains this status as the world computer, then value will flow directly or indirectly to ETH.

According to on-chain analyst Yu Jin’s monitoring, the 1inch team investment fund sold 70.76 WBTC for 6.676 million USDC 30 minutes ago, with a selling price of $94,346. The 1inch team investment fund spent $44.22 million to purchase WBTC, ETH and 1INCH between February 2 and March 10.

The Ethereum spot ETF with the largest single-day net inflow yesterday was the Blackrock ETF ETHA, with a single-day net inflow of US$54.425 million. Currently, ETHA's total historical net inflow has reached US$4.114 billion.

The Bitcoin spot ETF with the largest single-day net inflow yesterday was Blackrock ETF IBIT, with a single-day net inflow of US$240 million. Currently, IBIT's total historical net inflow has reached US$41.20 billion.

An account suspected to belong to the new chairman of the US SEC, Paul Atkins, posted the Solana on-chain token contract address, and the tweet was subsequently deleted.

Elon Musk’s xAI holding company is in talks with investors to raise about $20 billion for its newly combined artificial intelligence startup and social media business, according to people familiar with the matter. If the deal goes through, it would be the second-largest startup financing round in history, according to data provider PitchBook, second only to OpenAI’s $40 billion financing earlier this year.

According to the monitoring of on-chain analyst Ember, the whale who made a profit of $732,000 in just half an hour through the news of Trump's dinner plan repurchased TRUMP 7 hours ago: using 5.732 million USDC to buy 427,000 TRUMP at a price of $13.4. Among the 5.732 million USDC, 5 million was the principal he withdrew from Binance, and 732,000 was the profit on TRUMP the day before yesterday.

U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) Commissioner Mark T. Uyeda said at a crypto asset custody roundtable that federal regulators currently allow national banks to custody crypto assets as trustees. Given the historical practice of allowing state-chartered banks to compete with federally chartered banks, he suggested that the SEC should consider listing state-chartered trust companies as qualified crypto custodians.