U.S. CFTC Acting Chairman: Enforcement Division Restructured, Refocused on Combating Fraud

April 1st — Garrett Jin, a representative linked to the "BTC OG Insider Whale" group, commented on the latest US-Iran conflict developments, highlighting two key statements: - Former President Trump said NATO should secure its own oil if it wants it. - US Defense Secretary Haggis stated ensuring the Strait of Hormuz remains open is not a US military objective, framing it as a task for other nations. But these two officials’ views are irrelevant to current dynamics. Iran now holds the upper hand, controlling the strait and a strategic trump card. Its options are stark: - Negotiate → Face later attacks from a stronger, untrustworthy adversary. - Refuse → Either face immediate strikes (against an enemy with stretched supply lines) or freely collect tolls on the Strait of Hormuz, boosting its regional power in the Middle East. The choice is clear. Per PolyBeats monitoring, the prediction market Polymarket puts the probability the Strait of Hormuz stays navigable by April’s

On April 1st, Japanese industrial firm MHI Group announced it has adopted JPMorgan’s blockchain technology to enable cross-border real-time transfers, becoming the first company in Japan to use the service.

On March 31, Twitter co-founders Jack Dorsey and Roelof Botha published a lengthy article titled *From Hierarchy to Intelligence*, outlining that AI-powered replacement of human hierarchical coordination will emerge as a common pattern for future organizations—ending a 2,000-year reliance on hierarchy. Core points include: - Organizational design has relied on hierarchy for over 2,000 years. Rooted in military and industrial eras, this structure is limited by humans’ “span of control”—typically just 3 to 8 people managed effectively. - Hierarchy functions as an information routing protocol, but more layers mean slower information flow and decision-making. - Block aims to fully replace human hierarchical coordination with AI, shifting companies from “hierarchical organizations” to “entities built as intelligent beings.” - Value will shift from hierarchy to intelligence: human roles move to the “edge,” focused on engaging with reality, intuition, and ethics, while AI handles c

March 31 — Latin American e-commerce giant Mercado Libre will shut down its platform token, Mercado Coin, on April 17, wrapping up a nearly four-year user incentive cryptocurrency experiment. At that time, users will no longer be able to buy or sell the token, or earn cashback rewards via purchases. However, they can still sell the token within the app, use it for shopping discounts, or wait for the system to automatically convert it to local fiat currency. Mercado Libre noted it will continue to retain features like stablecoin transfers and cryptocurrency trading, with over $38 million worth of BTC still on its balance sheet.

On March 31st, Glassnode released an analysis showing that the 7-day simple moving average (SMA) of net inflows into U.S. Bitcoin spot ETFs has turned negative since early last week. Recent daily net outflows have ranged between 200 and 500 BTC. While the outflow scale is not large, the persistence of these outflows is a subtle signal that institutional buying interest and demand confidence remain somewhat hesitant at current Bitcoin price levels.

**Resolv Co-Founder Ivan Shares Latest Update on Protocol Security Incident & Recovery (March 31)** On March 31, Resolv co-founder Ivan released the latest update on the protocol’s security incident and recovery process, addressing the following key points: - **Why whitelisted USR users are prioritized for redemption**: Verified wallets let the team complete manual redemptions within 24 hours, minimizing further market disruption. 98% of these redemptions are now finalized. - **How non-whitelisted pre-incident USR holders will be supported**: A 1:1 redemption is committed, with the team wrapping up the technical redemption solution. - **Insider manipulation claims**: The investigation remains ongoing; no evidence of insider involvement has been uncovered to date. - **How post-incident USR holders, LPs, and RLP holders will be addressed**: Next steps include legal, technical, and ecosystem coordination with multiple partners. No single definitive solution exists—only a set o