Singapore's largest money laundering case suspect Wang Shuiming may be extradited to China, with his accomplice being the mastermind behind the Hong Kong crypto platform scam AAX.

As of April 29, per GMGN market data, the Ethereum ecosystem token uPEG briefly topped a $12 million market cap, hitting a new all-time high. It now trades at a $11.22 million market cap, with a 24-hour gain of 52.7% and $3.7 million in 24-hour trading volume. Public records show Unipeg (its native token uPEG) centers on on-chain assets built using Uniswap V4 Hooks. Every transaction instantly generates a unique 24×24 SVG pixel art unicorn—no artist involvement or minting required, as the process is fully on-chain driven. As previously reported, on April 25, OpenSea CMO Adam Hollander bought a small amount of uPEG, stating: “I’m just interested in this concept and wanted to experiment.” This move briefly triggered a more-than-3x surge in uPEG’s price. BlockBeats advises users that prices of associated tokens are highly volatile; invest with caution.

April 29 – The judge overseeing Elon Musk’s lawsuit against OpenAI has ordered tech executives tied to the case to limit excessive social media posts. The day prior, the world’s richest person targeted OpenAI leadership on social media, labeling ChatGPT owner OpenAI’s CEO Sam Altman a “fraudster.” Ahead of Tuesday’s court hearing, District Judge Iroegbu urged Musk and OpenAI’s representatives to “curb social media use to prevent out-of-court tensions from escalating.” Musk, Altman, and OpenAI President Grokman have all stated they will comply, per Golden Finance.

April 29 – OpenAI pushed back against sales growth concerns Tuesday, dismissing a Wall Street Journal (WSJ) report as "classic clickbait." Bloomberg noted the AI firm rejected worries over missed internal targets, saying its consumer and enterprise divisions are "operating at full tilt." Commercial client demand and its nascent ad business are growing, OpenAI added, with the company calling internal morale "extremely positive." Earlier Monday, WSJ reported OpenAI missed several internal goals amid rival competition—something OpenAI brushed off as misleading. Shares of OpenAI investors/partners—SoftBank Group, Oracle, CoreWeave among them—dropped Tuesday. WSJ also reported OpenAI CFO Sarah Friar has warned slower sales growth could leave the firm unable to fund future computing needs. The stock declines underscore OpenAI’s central role in a tangled web of investments and deals with top cloud providers and chipmakers. Investors have previously flagged an AI infrastructure bubble, g

April 29 — Despite Bitcoin’s recent gains, investors are ramping up bets on a price drop. Data from CEX.IO shows short sellers paid roughly 11% interest in April to keep their positions open, peaking at 19% at one point—its highest level since early 2023. Meanwhile, Bitcoin is in one of its biggest accumulation phases on record. The simultaneous jump in strong buying pressure and short selling activity signals the market could see sharp price swings, with one side at risk of being squeezed—including a potential short squeeze. Bitcoin was recently down 1.6% at $75,754.

April 29: NVIDIA officially launched Nemotron 3 Nano Omni, the latest addition to its Nemotron 3 series. The model integrates unified multimodal reasoning into a single, efficient open-source system. NVIDIA explains that agentic systems typically need a single perception-to-action loop spanning screens, documents, audio, video, and text—but they still rely on fragmented model chains: separate visual, audio, and text technology stacks. This boosts reasoning hops and orchestration complexity, driving up costs while eroding cross-modal contextual consistency. Nemotron 3 Nano Omni is designed to replace this fragmented visual-language-audio (VLA) stack, serving as a multimodal perception and context sub-agent within agentic systems. On accuracy, the model topped the document intelligence leaderboard and led in video and audio understanding rankings. Against the open industry benchmark MediaPerf for video understanding, it delivered the highest throughput across all tasks and the lowe

April 29 — LookOnChain data shows a BIT-affiliated whale (who previously netted over $59 million in profits) is ramping up their ETH long positions, now holding 63,000 ETH ($143.5 million) across three wallets.