Huang Renxun has left Beijing, and NVIDIA has not disclosed whether Huang Renxun met with the DeepSeek founder.

On April 15, cryptocurrency quantitative analyst @AxelAdlerJr noted that Bitcoin recently touched the **average entry cost for U.S. Bitcoin ETF holders**—$74,200. Should Bitcoin hold above this level consistently, ETF holders will shift from a loss position to breakeven (neutral). A drop below it, however, signals the market structure remains weak, with downside pressure persisting. On the other hand, Short-Term Holders (STH) have a cost basis of roughly $83,734—this is the key resistance level in the current market. The analyst argues Bitcoin’s market structure will see more meaningful improvement only when the gap between the ETF holders’ cost basis and the STH cost basis narrows further.

Virginia Governor Abigail Spanberger signed House Bill 798 into law Monday (April 15), with the measure set to take effect July 1, 2026. The law requires unclaimed cryptocurrency in customer accounts — defined as assets unclaimed for five years — to be transferred to state custody in their "physical form" (actual tokens), rather than immediately liquidated or converted to cash. Previously, state officials typically liquidated unclaimed crypto shortly after taking custody, meaning owners who later claimed their assets might receive cash based on an earlier (and potentially lower) market price. Under the new law, state managers must hold these unclaimed digital assets for at least one year before liquidation. (Source: The Block)

April 15 — Hyperliquid’s native token HYPE retested $45 on Tuesday, hitting its highest level since October 31, 2025, according to Cointelegraph. The token has rebounded 108% from its annual low of $21 on January 21. Yet conflicting market signals are emerging: - **Weak spot buying interest**: Spot Cumulative Volume Delta (CVD) has dropped to -41.48 million, diverging from the price rally. This indicates the uptick is primarily driven by passive demand, not aggressive spot buying support. - **Cautious futures sentiment**: Futures CVD has held around -748 million over the past month. While Open Interest (OI) has climbed to $1.38 billion, the softness in futures CVD suggests traders lack confidence in chasing the uptrend. Additionally, BitMEX co-founder Arthur Hayes predicts HYPE could surge 200% to $150 by August this year if Hyperliquid continues to capture market share from centralized exchanges (CEXs). HYPE is currently trading at $43.5, down 27% from its all-time high o

April 15 — Senate Democratic Leader Chuck Schumer announced Thursday (April 14) that he will push for weekly mandatory votes to limit former President Donald Trump’s war powers. Schumer said: “If Republicans fail to act, Senate Democrats will forcefully advance this measure. Starting this week, we will bring a war powers resolution to the floor for a vote. If Republicans block it, we will hold votes repeatedly.” (Xinhua)

On April 15th, Web3 wallet app Zerion revealed that a team member fell victim to an AI-powered social engineering attack linked to a North Korean threat actor last week. The attack resulted in the theft of roughly $100,000 from the company’s hot wallet—user funds and app infrastructure were not impacted. In response, Zerion has proactively taken its web app offline and expects to restore service within 48 hours. The company has also rotated all compromised credentials, hardened its deployment infrastructure, and is collaborating with security partners (Blockaid, ZeroShadow, ChainPatrol) to trace the attacker’s wallet. The address holding the stolen funds has been reported to relevant law enforcement agencies.

On April 15, cybersecurity firm Elastic Security Labs uncovered a new social engineering attack targeting professionals in finance and crypto. Attackers posed as a venture capital firm on LinkedIn and Telegram, tricking targets into opening an Obsidian note vault with a hidden malicious payload—this deployed PHANTOMPULSE, a previously undocumented Windows remote access trojan (RAT). The attack did not exploit any software vulnerabilities; instead, it abused Obsidian’s Shell Commands plugin to auto-execute malicious code when the vault opened. The macOS variant used an obfuscated AppleScript dropper plus a Telegram channel as a secondary command-and-control (C2) server, while the Windows variant relied on Ethereum transaction data to resolve C2 addresses via blockchain.