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On April 17th, per HyperInsight Monitoring (Telegram: https://t.me/HyperInsight), a whale wallet starting with 0x133 opened a 40x leveraged long position on BTC. The position totals $6.95 million, with an average entry price of $75,320. After racking up roughly 20% in unrealized profits, the address immediately placed a limit take-profit order, planning to close the full position at $77,000. Notably, no stop-loss orders were set for the address. Given its liquidation price of $74,287, the whale appears to be using that level as an implicit stop-loss. Wallet Address: 0x1335607139aaff8492f1e189e44fdad5f9206dc9

Per an official announcement dated April 17, Binance will cease trading and delist the following assets on April 28, 2026, at 11:00 UTC+8: Dego Finance (DEGO), DENT (DENT), and TrueFi (TRU). Additionally, Coinglass data shows SIREN has liquidated $7.14 million over the past 24 hours—$3.75 million in long liquidations and $3.4 million in short liquidations.

April 17th — Per HTX market data, SIREN surged over 174% from $0.83 to a peak of $2.278 before plummeting 88%, currently trading at $0.271. Additionally, Coinglass data shows SIREN-related liquidations totaled $7.14 million in the past 24 hours, with $3.75 million in long positions and $3.4 million in short positions liquidated.

April 17: The Hong Kong Stock Exchange (HKEX) has released a consultation paper proposing to shorten the Hong Kong stock market’s securities settlement cycle from the current T+2 to a T+1 model, and is seeking market feedback on the proposal. (Source: Golden Finance)

On April 17th, per data from Coinglass, if Bitcoin climbs above $77,000, the cumulative short liquidation intensity across major centralized exchanges (CEXs) will hit $1.17 billion. Conversely, should Bitcoin fall below $73,000, the cumulative long liquidation intensity for these same major CEXs will total $1.277 billion. BlockBeats Note: The liquidation chart does not display the exact number of contracts at risk of liquidation or the precise value of those contracts. Instead, the bars on the chart indicate how significant each liquidation cluster is compared to neighboring clusters—meaning they represent "intensity." In short, the chart illustrates how strongly the underlying asset’s price will react when it hits a specific level. A taller "liquidation bar" signals that the price reaching that point will trigger a more intense response due to a liquidity cascade.

April 17 — According to CoinDesk, the Ethereum network processed 200.4 million transactions in Q1 2026, marking the first time it’s topped 200 million transactions in a single quarter. That’s a 43% jump from Q4 2025’s 145 million transactions, forming a clear U-shaped recovery curve. Ethereum’s quarterly transaction volume hit a low of ~90 million in 2023, traded sideways between 100 million and 120 million throughout 2024, and began steady quarterly growth around mid-2025. However, a notable divergence exists between ETH (Ethereum’s native token) price and on-chain activity: ETH currently trades at ~$2,328, down over 50% from its all-time high near $5,000 in August 2025. Two key drivers fueled the transaction volume growth: 1. Layer 2 networks (e.g., Optimism, Arbitrum) settle user transactions and bridge data to the Ethereum mainnet; 2. Ethereum’s stablecoin total supply hit a record $180 billion, accounting for ~60% of the global stablecoin market. Some analysts have fl