The new meme trading platform Giggles has closed a $1.2 million Pre-Seed funding round, with participation from 1kx Capital.

April 9th — CoinTelegraph reports that Visa officially launched its "Intelligent Commerce Connect" platform this past Wednesday, positioning it as a universal gateway for AI agent builders and merchants to tap into AI-powered commerce. The platform enables a single integration with Visa’s acceptance network, supporting secure payment initiation, tokenization, spending controls, and identity authentication. It accommodates both Visa and non-Visa card payments and is compatible with major AI agent protocols. The tool is currently in pilot phase, with a full launch scheduled for later in 2026.

On April 9, PeckShield monitoring showed an attacker opened a $15 million long position in $Fartcoin (totaling 1.4524 billion tokens) on Hyperliquid using 4 wallets. The attacker then proactively triggered a "suicidal" liquidation in a low-liquidity environment, forcing the Auto-Deleveraging (ADL) mechanism to activate. This compelled the HLP liquidity pool to absorb toxic assets, leading to bad debt and roughly $3 million in accounting losses. HLP has shed about $1.5 million over the past 24 hours. PeckShield noted the attacker likely hedged in advance via cross-domain strategies—meaning actual net profit may far outpace the accounting loss figure.

On April 9, blockchain analytics platform Onchain Lens reported that the Government of the Kingdom of Bhutan transferred 319.7 Bitcoin (valued at approximately $22.67 million) to two wallets: - A new wallet (likely a centralized exchange, or CEX, wallet); - An old wallet previously used to move funds for sales via OKX or Galaxy Digital.

On April 9th, Trump posted on Truth Social stating: “All U.S. ships, aircraft, military personnel, plus additional ammunition, weapons, and all other necessary and proper supplies to effectively engage and destroy a significantly weakened adversary will remain in place within and around Iran until a true agreement is reached and fully executed. “If for any reason (this is highly unlikely) the agreement is not complied with, a ‘shooting operation’ will commence immediately—on a larger, more sophisticated, and more powerful scale than ever seen before. This consensus was reached long ago, despite various false narratives to the contrary: no nuclear weapons will be used, and the Strait of Hormuz will remain open and secure. Meanwhile, our great military is ramping up preparations and making necessary adjustments; in fact, they’re eagerly looking forward to the next victory.”

On April 9, Morpho rolled out the beta version of Morpho Agents. Morpho Agents equip agents with a machine-readable protocol knowledge layer, native tools, and simulation infrastructure—enabling them to read, simulate, and interact with the Morpho protocol. Key offerings include: - The User Agent (featuring the Morpho CLI and MCP server), which grants 30+ AI agents full read, simulate, and write access to the Morpho protocol on Ethereum and Base. It’s compatible with wallet infrastructure providers like Coinbase, Safe, and Fireblocks. - The Builder Agent, a protocol knowledge base that helps coded agents quickly grasp protocol models, contract addresses, edge cases, and code examples for streamlined integration.