A whale transferred 1000 ETH to Binance after a year of hibernation

On April 12, TRU surged over 90% in a single day, last trading at $0.0119, according to HTX market data. Separately, Coinglass figures show total TRU contract positions across all exchanges have risen to $14.99 million—up 209% in 24 hours—indicating strong bullish momentum in derivative trading for the token. BlockBeats notes that prices of related tokens are highly volatile, and investors should exercise caution.

April 12 – Iran’s Mehr News Agency reported Thursday that Iranian Islamic Parliament Vice Speaker Hajibabaie has warned the U.S. the Strait of Hormuz is a “red line” fully controlled by Iran, and transit fees for the waterway must be paid in rials. The report added that a majority of Iranian parliament members support the related plan, and per leadership directives, control of the strategic waterway is non-negotiable under any circumstances. (Xinhua)

April 12 — A recent article by self-proclaimed WLFI Web3 Ambassador Peter Girnus has sparked community discussion. WLFI has clarified that the author is not part of its team and has no affiliation with the organization. WLFI CEO Zach Witkoff also addressed related tweets publicly, noting: “Peter Girnus lacks a grasp of basic facts. Here are the clarifications: - World Liberty has no connection whatsoever to the meme coin TRUMP; - World Liberty has no association with Fight Fight Fight or CIC Digital; - Our early investors purchased at $0.015 and $0.05; the current price is $0.08; - Trading fees are not our primary revenue source. Our core product is a stablecoin backed by government bond assets — and it’s the second-largest stablecoin meeting the GENIUS standard, by both transaction volume and market cap.”

April 12 — Binance Alpha will list Genius Foundation (GENIUS) on April 13, per an official announcement.

Eligible users can claim an airdrop using Binance Alpha points on the Alpha Events Page once trading begins. More details will be released soon.

On April 12, Bittensor co-founder Jacob Robert Steeves addressed the Covenant AI incident, noting the recent events had left the team "deeply shaken." He held Covenant AI founder Samuel Dare responsible for severe harm to the protocol and its community, breaching the trust of investors and users, and apologized to those who incurred losses from the incident. Steeves noted Bittensor’s original design aimed to counteract human greed and selfishness, enabling collective AI ownership by all participants via a permissionless mechanism. He stressed that while the incident revealed system vulnerabilities, it would also push the protocol and community to boost their risk resilience. On future plans, Steeves proposed upgrading the "Locked Stake" mechanism by adding a "time + stake" commitment layer at the protocol level—aimed at improving transparency, protecting investors, and mitigating similar risks. He noted the proposal was initially developed with input from Samuel Dare. Addition

April 12 — LookOnChain monitoring shows two whales are accumulating TRUMP tokens ahead of the Trump banquet. - Whale 8DHkza withdrew 850,488 TRUMP (≈$2.4 million) from Bybit over the past two days; - Whale 7EtuAt pulled 105,754 TRUMP (≈$298,000) from Binance 17 hours ago and now holds a total of 1.13 million TRUMP (≈$3.2 million).