Visa New Pilot: Businesses Can Now Settle Payments Directly in Stablecoin, Initial Support for USDC

LookOnChain monitoring data shows that on April 1st, STO’s price jumped from $0.11 to $0.26, marking a 136% surge. A newly created wallet (0x5e2E) has withdrawn 25.5 million STO tokens from Binance over the past 20 hours—valued at roughly $4.85 million at current rates—accounting for 11.32% of the token’s circulating supply.

On April 1st, data from HyperInsight (via its Telegram channel @HyperInsight) and Coinglass shows Brent Oil (BRENTOIL) contract liquidations ranked third across all networks in the past 24 hours. A single Hyperliquid platform address holding a Brent Oil long position triggered multiple large liquidations as oil prices continued to drop, with total losses exceeding $20 million. The first liquidation hit when Brent Oil fell below $101, totaling $17.17 million; later, as prices slipped further below $100, the address triggered another $3.7 million liquidation. These consecutive liquidations mark the largest single-address liquidation across the network in the past 24 hours.

April 1: Despite former President Trump’s claim that U.S. troops would withdraw “within three weeks” sparking a retaliatory rebound in global equities, deep-seated anxiety over the global economic outlook lingers beneath the market’s recent gains. On Wednesday, the MSCI Asia Pacific Index posted its biggest single-day gain since April 2025, while the STOXX Europe 600 Index rose 2.5%. Thin trading volume, however, underscored the rebound’s fragility: the Korea Composite Stock Price Index (KOSPI) traded at just 80% of its monthly average over the past month, for example. Investors fear even if U.S. forces withdraw, the blockade of the Strait of Hormuz will remain a long-term drag on economic fundamentals. Brent crude, though now below $100 a barrel, is still 37% higher than pre-war levels. Analysts at Goldman Sachs, SMBC Nikko Securities and other firms note that a structural rise in energy costs will squeeze corporate profits and erode consumer purchasing power. Notably, energy

April 1 saw the market hit simultaneously by three disruptions: weakening employment, energy supply contraction, and war escalation. The decline in U.S. job openings signals softening labor demand; gasoline prices rising to $4/gallon and OPEC production dropping to a new low since the pandemic peak imply another passive tightening of energy supply, with unresolved inflationary pressures pushing policy paths back into uncertainty. Meanwhile, Buffett continues to hoard cash, and the CFTC is ramping up regulation of energy and information manipulation—reflecting mainstream funds cutting risk exposure and being wary of market price distortions. On the geopolitical front, a qualitative shift has emerged. Iran has not only refused to back down but expanded its attack scope, moving beyond traditional energy and military facilities to U.S. tech and data infrastructure, explicitly naming operational bases of several Silicon Valley and defense firms in the Middle East. This signals the war ha

April 1 – Iranian Parliament states the Strait of Hormuz will not be opened; it has not held any negotiations to date and will not do so in the future, per market sources. (Oriental Wealth)

Bitget’s Launchpool is set to launch the Mezo (MEZO) project on April 1, with a total reward pool of 4,000,000 MEZO. The lock-up channel will be open from April 1 at 22:00 UTC+8 to April 6 at 22:00 UTC+8, featuring two lock-up pools: - **BGB Lock-up Pool** Airdrop amount: 3,800,000 MEZO VIP user lock-up limit: 50,000 BGB Regular user lock-up limit: 5,000 BGB - **MEZO Lock-up Pool** Airdrop amount: 200,000 MEZO Individual lock-up limit: 5,000,000 MEZO Additionally, MEZO will be listed on Bitget’s Innovation Zone, with spot trading going live on April 1 at 22:00 UTC+8.