Gate Crypto Flash News and Market Updates

The head of the largest energy company in the United Arab Emirates said that Iran’s blockade of the Strait of Hormuz constitutes “global economic extortion,” threatening energy flows and economic stability. He called for international cooperation to address this “intolerable threat.”

On April 1, ahead of the U.S. stock market open, crypto concept stocks generally rose, with SBET seeing the largest gain reaching 2.02%. Others such as COIN, MSTR, and BMNR also rose as well. msx.com is a decentralized RWA trading platform that has already launched multiple U.S. stock and ETF tokens.

Gate News reports that, on April 1, according to Onchain Lens monitoring, a certain whale purchased 4,000 ETH from a certain CEX, valued at $8.54 million.

Ethereum Foundation researcher Jihoon Song presented FOCIL’s progress at the EthCC conference. The project aims to reduce Ethereum’s centralization risk by using a decentralized committee of validators. FOCIL improves blocks’ resistance to censorship by randomly selecting validators and encoding rules, lowers attack risk, and supports account abstraction and privacy protocols. This mechanism has been confirmed as a core feature of Ethereum’s future upgrades.

Gate News, April 1, according to monitoring by BitcoinTreasuries.NET, Strategy accounted for 94% of the total amount of Bitcoin purchased by listed companies in March. In that month, listed companies bought a total of 47,000 BTC, but 9 companies reduced their holdings by 22,000 BTC, narrowing the net increase to 25,000 BTC.

EddyAncogld is betting $170,000 on the prediction market. The US and Iran will not cease fire before April 15, and the current unrealized profit is $2,561. Trump stated that US troops will withdraw from Iran within two to three weeks, while Iran indicated that the decision-making authority regarding negotiations lies with the Supreme Leader.

An analyst at ING said that the re-opening of the Strait of Hormuz could be a key factor driving a sharp drop in the U.S. dollar. It is still unclear whether the strait will re-open, and the U.S. Dollar Index falling back to the March 23 low of 99.0 needs a clearer timeline.

Gate News: According to Gate’s official announcement, Gate has delisted the trading markets for 29 tokens, including POWERLOOM, ZAP, NVIR, PBX, MNRY, HAT, EARNM, VICE, FST, LBLOCK, ELIX, ELIZA, GET, VIA, SGC, SKAI, 1, GPT, DPET, EQ, EMPIRE, ELDE, CNNS, MYTH, HARD, TROY, MICHI, OVPP, ROOST, etc. After assessment, the above tokens do not meet the standards for enabling trading. Gate has conducted a buyback for users holding these tokens; for users who meet the requirements, the buyback amount has been deposited into their Gate accounts. After delisting, users can still continue using Gate as a wallet to store assets for the aforementioned coins. The specific delisting time for wallet functionality and the operational details will be notified separately through an official announcement.

Gate News update: On April 1, according to 8marketcap data, Bitcoin (BTC)’s current market cap is approximately $1.37 trillion. In the global asset market cap ranking, it ranks 14th, down 2 places from before. Meta Platforms (Facebook) ranks 12th with approximately $1.447 trillion in market cap; Tesla ranks 13th with approximately $1.394 trillion—both have surpassed Bitcoin.

An Ethereum Foundation researcher presented the zkAttester client solution at the EthCC conference, addressing the computational burden of node re-execution, allowing validators to verify zero-knowledge proofs directly, lowering CPU performance requirements, shortening the time for new node synchronization, and helping enable Ethereum light verification and scaling.

An Ethereum Foundation researcher, Antonio Sanso, updated the progress on Ethereum’s post-quantum security at the EthCC conference, noting that quantum computing will threaten the ECDSA algorithm in the mid-2030s. Ethereum has completed about 20% of its post-quantum readiness and plans to fully implement quantum resistance from 2028 to 2032. The main challenge is signature size, and the research team will address it through account abstraction and the introduction of LeanVM.

Gate News update: On April 1, the U.S. will release its March ADP employment report tonight at 20:15 (known as “the little nonfarm,” a leading indicator for nonfarm employment data), followed by the release of the U.S. February retail sales month-over-month rate (known as “terrible data,” reflecting the strength or weakness of the consumer market). The market will get the latest data on the U.S. labor market and consumer market, and the Federal Reserve’s interest-rate path may change accordingly.

B2C2 has designated Solana as its institutional clients’ large stablecoin settlement network, prioritizing support for multiple stablecoins. Despite a recent increase in activity on Solana in stablecoin trading, its market capitalization still lags behind Ethereum and Tron.

Gate News update. On April 1, U.S. President Trump said he is strongly considering having the United States withdraw from NATO because NATO failed to join his war against Iran. Trump called NATO a “paper tiger” and said that having the United States withdraw from NATO is “not up for further discussion.”

Gate News, April 1, BTC’s current trading price is 21% higher than its realized price (the average purchase cost of all circulating BTC). Data shows that BTC’s realized price is $54,286, and the current premium level is the lowest in the past three years, with a premium performance close to the historical cycle’s bottom-range behavior.

Ethereum Foundation researcher CPerezz introduced the VOPS technology at the EthCC conference, aiming to solve Ethereum’s state bloat problem and reduce the storage requirements for full nodes. VOPS nodes only need to store basic fields, reducing storage requirements by 25x, enabling users to participate in transactions, and accelerating Ethereum’s move toward statelessness.

Gate News: According to the latest Gate TradFi data, NKE (Nike) has dropped by 6% in a short period. Current volatility is significantly higher than recent averages, indicating increased market activity.

Gate News announces that on April 1st, OpenClaw’s AI intelligent agent Skills 库 platform ClawHub officially launched a China mirror site, with the domain mirror-cn.clawhub.com. This infrastructure is sponsored and supported by BytePlus, a subsidiary of ByteDance.

This article summarizes cryptocurrency news for April 1, 2026, focusing on the latest updates on Bitcoin, Ethereum upgrade, Dogecoin trend, Hong Kong stablecoin license, Hong Kong dollar stablecoin regulation encountering obstacles, and Bitcoin's first quarter. Major Web3 events today include: 1、The CFTC issues a strong warning about insider trading in prediction markets; violators may face enforcement actions; 2、Delays in the issuance of Hong Kong stablecoin licenses—will Hong Kong dollar stablecoin regulation encounter obstacles? 3、Bitcoin plummeted 24% in the first quarter, marking its worst performance since 2018.

Gate News, April 1, according to Lookonchain monitoring, a newly created wallet address has withdrawn 25.5 million STO from a certain CEX within the past 20 hours, worth approximately $4.85 million, accounting for 11.32% of the circulating supply.