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

**Binance to Pause ETH Network Deposits/Withdrawals for Wallet Maintenance (April 7, 2026)** April 6 — Binance will conduct wallet maintenance on the Ethereum (ETH) network on **April 7, 2026 at 14:00 Beijing Time**. To support the work, ETH network deposits and withdrawals will be suspended starting **05:55 UTC on April 7, 2026** and resume once maintenance wraps up. The task is expected to take roughly one hour. Key details: - Transactions for ETH network tokens will remain unaffected. - Binance will address all user-related technical needs. - Deposits/withdrawals will reopen without further notice once the network is confirmed stable post-upgrade.

On April 6, per Onchainlens monitoring, a crypto whale withdrew 5.97 million ASTER tokens (valued at $3.99 million) from Binance. The address has prior interaction with the Aster protocol, suggesting it may be preparing to deposit the ASTER.

On April 6th, per Onchainlens monitoring, a new wallet with the prefix 0x01f sold 242 ETH before opening a 3,286.46 ETH short position at 20x leverage—valued at roughly $7 million.

On April 6, cryptocurrency market research firm Santiment shared on social media that, per on-chain data, Bitcoin’s weekend close registered a 2.95-to-1 ratio of profitable trades (coins moved at a profit post-acquisition) to loss-making trades. Historically, this has been a short-term price top signal.

**April 6 — CoinGlass data shows Bitcoin surged past $69,000 today, with funding rates on mainstream CEXs and DEXs indicating a slight weakening of bearish sentiment in the market. Specific rates are shown in the attached chart.** **BlockBeats Note:** Funding rates are fees set by cryptocurrency exchanges to keep contract prices aligned with underlying asset prices—typically for perpetual contracts. They act as a fund-exchange mechanism between long and short traders; exchanges do not charge this fee themselves. The goal is to adjust traders’ holding costs or profits to keep contract prices close to the underlying asset’s price. A 0.01% funding rate is the baseline. Rates above 0.01% generally signal a bullish market, while rates below 0.005% generally signal a bearish market.

On April 6, ETHGlobal named the finalists for its Cannes event: ENShell, DIVE, maki, Défi, ALMA, npmguard, VEIL VPN, PaintGlobal, EVM PORST, and Corpus.