Data: Web3 social application Towns has over 400,000 total users, with over 200,000 token holders

April 11, the U.S. Department of Energy announced it is set to lend 8.5 million barrels of crude oil from the Strategic Petroleum Reserve (SPR) to four companies. The firms receiving the SPR crude loans include Macquarie and Phillips 66. (FX168)

April 11 — Iranian Parliament Speaker Qalibaf led a negotiating delegation to Nur Khan Air Base near Pakistan’s capital Islamabad on Tuesday, Iranian media reported. The delegation includes the country’s foreign minister, the secretary of the Defense Committee, the Central Bank governor and several lawmakers.

April 11 – Lebanon and Israel have agreed to hold their first meeting this Tuesday at the U.S. State Department, per market sources. The session will focus on announcing a ceasefire and setting a date to launch negotiations. (Forex)

April 11: U.S. and Iranian delegations are expected to hold talks in Islamabad, Pakistan’s capital, on April 11. Islamabad has stepped up security measures, and the media center is now operational. However, no clear details on the talks’ timing or format have emerged yet. Reports indicate the sides may not hold face-to-face talks in the initial phase; instead, U.S. and Iranian officials will meet separately with Pakistan first, then determine if direct U.S.-Iran negotiations can proceed. (CCTV)

April 11 — Per Cointelegraph, traders are eyeing $88k for Bitcoin amid a notable uptick in whale activity and a sharp decline in exchange inflows. This week, Bitcoin hit a weekly high of $73,255 on Friday after four days of consolidation between $70k and $72k. The current price setup mirrors the breakout rally from Q2 2025: back then, after prolonged consolidation below its moving average, BTC surged quickly to the next supply zone once it broke above the downtrend line. The key trigger level now sits at $76k — that’s also the upper trendline drawn from BTC’s ~$126k peak, from which the token has been declining. A break above this level could clear the psychological resistance that’s capped rebounds for months. On-chain data: Crypto analyst Amr Taha notes that Bitcoin whale inflows to exchanges hit $2.96 billion over the past 30 days — the first time that figure has dipped below $3 billion since June 2025 (it peaked at $8 billion in February this year). Meanwhile, on April 9,

(FXStreet) — On April 11, U.S. Democratic Senator Elizabeth Warren sent a letter to the Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC) calling for an investigation into oil trading linked to former President Donald Trump’s rhetoric regarding Iran.