A man in Texas, USA, has been sentenced to 23 years in prison for a cryptocurrency scam involving over $20 million.

April 17th, official sources report that SpiderPool—ranked the world’s fifth-largest Bitcoin mining pool—has become the first to roll out Bitcoin Native Segwit Address Transport (NAT) distribution, officially kicking off a new era of dual-layer rewards in the industry. DMT-NAT (NAT) is the first Bitcoin native companion asset rooted in digital matter theory, sharing the same hashrate, blockchain, blocks, and addresses as BTC. Minted every 10 minutes in sync with Bitcoin blocks, it’s a native companion mining coin tied directly to Bitcoin. Currently, each block yields roughly 386 million NAT tokens, with a per-block value of around $38—translating to a total market cap of approximately $38 million. Block rewards will decrease gradually alongside hashrate difficulty and block height. Its code is fully open-source, and the mechanism is fair and transparent. NAT’s market cap is growing steadily, gradually helping miners cut operating costs: ? When per-block rewards hit $50,000 (eq

April 17th — On-chain analyst Ai (Twitter handle @ai_9684xtpa) reports that the “ETH ICO whale” holding 1 million ETH transferred 2,000 ETH to a multi-signature address roughly 8 hours ago, hinting at a possible intent to sell. Per reports, the recipient address is the whale’s “designated selling address,” where incoming ETH is consistently routed to OKX for liquidity replenishment. This transaction, valued at approximately $4.63 million in ETH, originated from address 0x2bf…E4087 — an address with a history of frequent interactions with blockchain builders BuilderNet and Titan Build.

As of April 17th, ORDI has surged to a high of $10.7, according to market data from HTX. It is currently trading at $10.09, up 177% over the past 24 hours.

April 17 – Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) issued a social media statement early on the 17th, noting a Resistance Front commander has issued a severe, unprecedented warning to all commercial and military vessels in the Strait of Hormuz. The warning reads: “Starting tomorrow at noon, anyone planning to transit the Strait of Hormuz must exercise extreme vigilance.” The statement adds the Strait of Hormuz is moving into a new phase of military tension.

On April 17, data from OnChain Lens monitoring shows an address purchased 590,900 HYPE tokens via Galaxy Digital’s OTC wallet, totaling $25.92 million. Separately, a cluster of six wallets—believed to be controlled by the same entity—collectively hold 4,114,234 HYPE tokens, valued at roughly $180.53 million. All these wallets received their HYPE tokens through Galaxy Digital’s OTC channel.

On April 17, Onchain Lens data indicates a newly created wallet address deposited $7.45 million in USDC into HyperLiquid, purchasing 169,838 HYPE tokens at $43.86 each. Of those tokens, 10,000 HYPE were staked.