Morgan Stanley: Maintains Brent Crude Price Forecast Unchanged, $110 per Barrel in Q2 2026

On April 13th, CryptoQuant data shows Bitcoin inflows into Binance have fallen to 2020 levels. Analyst Darkfost noted: "Investors aren’t looking to move BTC onto exchanges to sell—instead, they appear to favor a holding strategy, which structurally eases short-term selling pressure."

April 13 – On-chain Perp DEX trading volume saw a slight weekend dip overall, per DefiLlama data. However, TradeXYZ—an HIP-3 ecosystem project—bucked the trend: its traditional asset holdings climbed ~13% from Friday, pushing Hyperliquid’s total open interest higher. Top Perp DEXs by 24-hour trading volume: ? Hyperliquid: ~$51.8B | $78.3B open interest ? TradeXYZ: ~$16.9B | $21B open interest ? Aster: ~$14.5B | $19.5B open interest ? EdgeX: ~$12.4B | $9.90B open interest ? ApeX: ~$10.6B | $1.22B open interest ? Pacifica: ~$2.53B | $79.97M open interest ### Notes on American English adaptation: 1. **Conciseness**: Used ~ for "about" (common in financial/news shorthand), simplified phrasing (e.g., "posted a slight decline" → "saw a slight dip"). 2. **Terminology**: Retained industry-standard terms (Perp DEX, open interest) and clarified units ($B = billion, $M = million) for readability. 3. **Flow**: Used em dashes (—) for parenthetical context (natural in U.S. n

On April 13, per Onchain Lens monitoring, Nasdaq-listed crypto mining firm Bit Digital has pledged 29,900 ETH, valued at approximately $65.3 million.

April 13 — Foreign media reports: U.S. President Trump’s proposed White House banquet hall construction project may proceed for at least another week, following a temporary ruling last Saturday from the U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit. The appellate panel’s 2-1 decision paused enforcement of U.S. District Judge Richard Leon’s earlier order halting the project. Leon, a George W. Bush appointee, had ruled in March the project could not move forward because the U.S. government lacked congressional authorization.

On April 13, Binance announced that the Genius Foundation (GENIUS) Alpha airdrop has been delayed. Please stay tuned for further official updates. Earlier reports noted that Binance had said users holding at least 230 Alpha points would be eligible to claim 240 GENIUS tokens in the airdrop.

On April 13, Circle CEO Jeremy Allaire told reporters at a Seoul press conference that the stablecoin issuer will not freeze USDC wallets unless tied to legal processes—addressing ongoing community backlash over whether it should freeze funds amid hacking and exploit incidents. The controversy flared earlier this month when decentralized finance (DeFi) protocol Drift lost ~$280 million in an attack linked to a six-month, complex social engineering campaign possibly tied to a North Korea-aligned hacking group. Prominent on-chain analyst ZachXBT and others publicly criticized Circle for allegedly failing to freeze ~$230 million in USDC that was reportedly transferred from Solana to Ethereum via Circle’s cross-chain transfer tool.