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Polymarket announcement: a major upgrade is planned in the next 2–3 weeks, including rebuilding the trading engine, introducing Polymarket USD, optimizing order-matching efficiency, and more. This upgrade is the largest scale since the platform launched, and it will improve trading efficiency while reducing users’ concerns about non-official assets.

Circle Internet Group minted $3.25 billion in USDC on the Solana blockchain, marking the largest weekly issuance in 2026. This move reflects Circle's strategy to enhance USDC's accessibility and capitalize on Solana's speed and low fees amid rising stablecoin demand.

Gate News report, on April 6, Whale Alert monitoring shows that USDC Treasury completed a USDC minting operation on the Solana chain at 22:55 Beijing time, minting 250M USDC.

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A decentralized perpetual contract trading platform Denaria announced that its smart contract was attacked, resulting in a loss of about $165k. The team is investigating with the auditors and has suspended the user interface while preparing a refund process. Denaria hopes to avoid legal action by inviting the attacker to contact them through a bounty program.

Gate News message: April 6, according to Onchain Lens monitoring, the whale yeti.hl deposited 2,190,000 USDC into HyperLiquid 30 minutes ago and bought 58,884 HYPE at a price of $37.21 per HYPE token.

Gate News, April 6, according to SolanaFloor data, Circle minted about 3.25 billion USDC on the Solana chain over the past 7 days, setting a record for the largest stablecoin single-week minting volume in 2026.

Gate News message, April 6, Onchain Lens monitoring shows that the whale address loracle.hl has sold off all of its held 450,000 HYPE tokens, receiving a total of 15,012,000 USDC. Of this, 12,725,000 USDC has been transferred to a certain CEX.

Gate News report: On April 6, according to Lookonchain monitoring, ETH has returned above $2,100. Within the past 2 hours, a newly created address deposited 3.98 million USDC into Hyperliquid and shorted 9,526 ETH using 20x leverage (worth $20.25 million). It is currently down $255k unrealized.

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After the $285 million Drift hack, the focus is shifting to Circle (CRCL) and whether it could have done more to stop the money. The attacker siphoned off roughly $71 million in USDC as part of the exploit Wednesday, according to blockchain security firm PeckShield. After converting most of the

Circle has significantly increased USD Coin (USDC) minting on Solana, totaling over $10.25 billion recently. This surge indicates strong demand linked to crypto trading and DeFi growth, positioning Solana as a key player for stablecoin activity.

Gate News message, Circle destroyed another 250 million USDC four hours ago. Over the past month, Circle has destroyed a total of 10.25 billion USDC on Solana. According to Lookonchain's earlier report on April 3, 2026, Circle has been destroying 750 million USDC per day over the past four days, tot

After the $285 million Drift hack, the focus is shifting to Circle (CRCL) and whether it could have done more to stop the money. The attacker siphoned off roughly $71 million in USDC as part of the exploit Wednesday, according to blockchain security firm PeckShield. After converting most of the

The U.S. stablecoin company Circle has been accused of failing to effectively freeze more than $420 million in suspicious USDC funds. Investigators ZachXBT pointed out that since 2022, Circle has delayed freeze actions in multiple hack incidents, sparking questions about its compliance. The Drift Protocol attack involved in the incident has also made Circle’s criticism the focus. Market calls for Circle to raise its risk management standards were followed by serious losses to users caused by its delayed compliance enforcement.

The “Futures Events Exchange,” launched in Taiwan as early as 2006, combines academic research with market mechanisms and has become an important prediction market in the Chinese-speaking world. The platform trades using virtual currency to predict the likelihood of future events based on prices; some predictions performed better than polls, but later it shut down after a transition. Compared with Polymarket today, the Futures Events Exchange is more like an academic experiment.

Gate News update: On April 3, according to Lookonchain monitoring, Circle has continued minting USDC over the past 4 days. The daily minting amount is 750 million tokens, for a total of 3 billion minted USDC over 4 days.