Ethereum Falls Below $2600, 24-hour Loss Extends to 4.9%

April 3 — Per Axios, Iranian media and a source report that Iran has shot down a U.S. fighter jet. Search-and-rescue efforts are underway to locate the two crew members. This would be the first time a U.S. jet has been downed by enemy fire since the Iran War began. The U.S. military and White House have not yet commented on the incident. On Friday, Iranian state media released images and videos purporting to show parts of the crashed plane and one ejection seat. The visuals suggest the aircraft was an F-15 fighter jet.

CCTV News reported on April 3 that three large commercial vessels operated by Oman successfully transited the Strait of Hormuz on April 3 local time. The fleet includes two Very Large Crude Carriers (VLCCs) and one liquefied natural gas (LNG) carrier. Tracking data shows the three ships have reached waters off Oman’s Muscat and completed port entry procedures. Each VLCC is carrying approximately 2 million barrels of crude oil, while the LNG carrier appears to be empty. All three vessels are managed by an Omani shipping management firm, which has not commented on the transit.

April 3rd: Per monitoring from HyperInsight (https://t.me/HyperInsight), Huang Licheng—known as "Brother Ma Ji"—just boosted his ETH long position with 25x leverage to 7,171 coins, worth ~$14.74 million. He’s currently sitting on a floating loss of $157,000, with an entry price of $2074.25 and a liquidation price of $1988.04.

April 3: Market pricing shows reduced bets on Fed rate cuts in 2026. (Xinhua News Agency)

April 3rd: U.S. March seasonally adjusted non-farm payrolls rose by 178,000, beating expectations of 60,000. (Xinhua) ### Notes on alignment with American language habits: 1. **U.S. (with period)**：Standard abbreviation for the United States in U.S. media; 2. **"rose by"**：More natural than "up by" in news context (active verb for clarity); 3. **"beating expectations"**：Replaces flat "expected" to highlight the upside surprise (common in U.S. financial/news briefs); 4. **Comma in numbers**：178,000 is preferred over 178K for formality in official data briefs (K is acceptable for casual/quick updates, but comma-separated numbers are standard in U.S. financial reporting); 5. **Lowercase for terms**："seasonally adjusted non-farm payrolls" uses lowercase (only proper nouns/capitalized terms are capitalized in U.S. news style). If a more concise (casual) version is preferred: April 3rd: U.S. March seasonally adjusted non-farm payrolls rose 178K, beating 60K expectations. (Xinhua

April 3: U.S. March unemployment rate comes in at 4.3%, below the expected 4.4% - FXStreet