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Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei said yesterday at The Briefing, an event held by the company, that companies can no longer rely on "software complexity" as a moat to defend against competitors. "If your moat is 'our software is complex and difficult to develop, only we can write it, no one else can copy it,' then that advantage is disappearing," Dario explains. As for the overall fate of SaaS companies today, I think it's still uncertain, but for individual companies, it's entirely possible for them to fall in market capitalization, go bankrupt, or even disappear entirely, depending on how they respond to change. Some incumbents will see it very clearly...... These moats are disappearing, so they are rapidly transforming, even better than in the past; But there are also companies that do not pay attention to these changes, are caught off guard, and end up with very bad results. ”

According to ChainCatcher news, according to Onchain Lens monitoring, Paradigm Capital deposited 2,436 ETH to Coinbase Prime in the past 2 hours, worth $5.75 million.

According to ChainCatcher news, according to official news, Anchorage Digital, a U.S. federally chartered digital asset bank, plans to launch a "Cashless" stablecoin reserve model on Solana to improve liquidity, capital efficiency, and security for large-scale institutional stablecoin issuers. This model holds reserve assets in interest-bearing, low-risk tokenized vehicles on Solana, meeting redemption needs through instant liquidity and reducing the need for static cash cushions. Anchorage Digital will issue and manage stablecoins on behalf of institutional partners and is exploring potential tokenization tool solutions with JPMorgan Asset Management to support liquidity frameworks.

According to Gate data, spot silver rose by $0.7 in the short term, expanding to 3% during the day, and is now trading at $74.97 per ounce.

According to ChainCatcher news, AMM infrastructure Ekubo posted on the X platform that a security incident occurred on Ekubo's Swap routing contract on the EVM chain, liquidity providers were not affected, and Starknet was not affected. The team is investigating the scope of the incident and recommends that users immediately revoke all authorizations for the affected addresses. Affected addresses include V2 and V3 contract addresses on Ethereum, as well as V3 contract addresses on Arbitrum. The team is preparing a postmortem analysis report to alert users to links claiming to be related to Ekubo Protocol or the vulnerability.

According to ChainCatcher news, Australian rapper Iggy Azalea is facing a class action lawsuit over the Solana meme coin MOTHER, with investors accusing it of exaggerating the token's true utility and commercial integration, according to Decrypt. The complaint alleges that Azalea advertised MOTHER for ecosystems such as the Motherland casino, Unreal Mobile mobile service, and the DreamVault marketplace, but these integrations failed to materialize or did not work as promised. The MOTHER token has fallen by over 99% from its peak of around $0.23. The plaintiffs seek compensation for the injured investors, including statutory damages and potential triple damages. The lawsuit was filed by Burwick Law, which has previously filed a lawsuit against "Hawk Tuah" girl Hailey Welch and her meme coin project.

ChainCatcher news, according to CoinDesk, Joseph Lubin, founder and CEO of Consensys and co-founder of Ethereum, said at Consensus Miami 2026 that almost all economies around the world will be tokenized, and this trend is no longer experimental, but inevitable. Lubin noted that Ethereum's early design allowed anyone to issue assets without creating a new blockchain, a feature that puts it in the best position for traditional financial institutions to bring real-world assets like stablecoins, treasury bonds, and more on-chain. Ethereum is mature enough to attract traditional financial institutions and regulators through Layer 2 scaling, synchronous composability, and ETH's role as a "trust commodity." Lubin also pointed out that transactions across multiple networks will consume ETH, which may have monetary properties as more economic activity goes on-chain.

ChainCatcher news, according to CoinDesk, Solana co-founder Anatoly Yakovenko said at Consensus Miami 2026 that the major upgrade of the Solana network "Alpenglow" is expected to be launched this year and may be launched as early as the next quarter. Yakovenko said the Alpenglow upgrade aims to bring transaction confirmation speeds close to the "speed of light" of physical limits, improving the network's speed, reliability, and transaction certainty, moving from Solana's early innovations to a more mature stage focused on performance assurance and reliability. This is crucial for time-sensitive applications such as financial applications.

According to ChainCatcher news, Strategy founder Michael Saylor said that the company may sell some of its Bitcoin to pay dividends in the future, "just to send a message to the market that this model has been achieved." It said the move aims to verify that Bitcoin assets can support shareholder returns in the corporate financial system.

Odaily Planet Daily News Kraken co-CEO Arjun Sethi said at the Consensus Miami conference that Kraken's IPO preparations are about 80% complete, and the company has submitted an application to the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission and is currently waiting for a suitable market window. Kraken also announced a partnership with MoneyGram to collaborate on crypto assets and cash exchange scenarios to solve the "last mile" cash access problem. MoneyGram currently has approximately 500,000 retail locations worldwide. Executives from both sides said that stablecoins are expected to reduce cost and efficiency losses in payment systems, especially in regions with weak financial infrastructure. （CoinDesk）

ChainCatcher news, according to CoinDesk, Drift Protocol unveiled a user recovery plan for a security breach of about $295 million on April 1, which was attributed to a North Korean-backed hacking group. At the heart of the recovery plan is the issuance of receipt tokens representing verified user losses, each representing $1 in verified losses, which holders can redeem based on the recovery pool value accumulated over time. The recovery pool has an initial funding of approximately $3.8 million and is expected to grow through up to $127.5 million in exchange revenue and up to $20 million in Tether support and partners until it covers a total loss of approximately $295.4 million. Drift has frozen approximately $3.36 million in USDC and initiated a public bounty to recover 10% of the assets. Drift plans to relaunch in the second quarter as a "security-first" exchange. Legal recovery is still ongoing.

ChainCatcher news, according to CoinDesk, State Street Head of Digital Assets Angus Fletcher said at the Consensus Miami conference that institutional investors hope for improved blockchain security performance in the context of recent frequent DeFi attacks. He noted that the young crypto industry needs to find solutions now before trillions of dollars in real-world assets go on-chain. Fletcher argues that interoperability between blockchains needs to be clearly defined and understood, and institutional clients need to understand the legal ownership and legal rights of cross-chain tokens. Morpho head Dennis Bree said April could be the most hacked month in DeFi history, with regulators doing more due diligence on the security of collateralized assets.

According to ChainCatcher news, According to The Block, U.S. Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC) Chairman Michael Selig said that the CFTC is considering rules to solidify its position on protecting non-custodial software developers. In March, the CFTC issued a letter of inaction against crypto wallet Phantom, stating that it would not take enforcement action for not registering as a broker and clarifying that eligible self-custodial wallet software developers do not need to register as brokers. According to Selig, the CFTC is seeking to formalize this position in rulemaking. Additionally, Selig reiterated that prediction markets fall under the exclusive jurisdiction of the CFTC and will continue to prosecute states that violate federal jurisdiction. The CFTC has previously sued Wisconsin, Illinois, Arizona, Connecticut, and New York.

ChainCatcher news, according to The Block, after suffering a bridge attack of about $292 million last month, Kelp DAO decided to abandon LayerZero and adopt Chainlink's cross-chain infrastructure instead. Kelp DAO will use the Chainlink cross-chain interoperability protocol, which requires 16 independent node operators to validate cross-chain transactions, becoming the first major protocol to leave LayerZero after the attack. In the attack, LayerZero-powered OFT bridges used a 1-of-1 single-validator configuration, with 47% of LayerZero applications using the same configuration at the time. LayerZero has since announced the discontinuation of single-signature validator configuration. Kelp DAO said that the migration to Chainlink CCIP directly addresses the architectural vulnerabilities in the attack. rsETH will also adopt a cross-chain token standard. As part of DeFi United's rescue operation, LayerZero has donated and lent a total of approximately 10,000 ETH to Aave.

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ChainCatcher news, according to Golden Ten, bond traders are increasing their bets, believing that the Fed's next policy move may be to raise interest rates rather than cut interest rates. Swap contracts tied to central bank interest rate decisions show that markets are expecting a more than 50% probability of the Fed raising interest rates by April next year before cutting interest rates. Lawrence Gillum, chief fixed income strategist at LPL Financial, said the possibility of a rate cut this year remains, but it will gradually decrease as the conflict in Iran prolongs.

According to ChainCatcher news, CME Group announced that it will launch cash-settled Bitcoin volatility futures, which are scheduled to be launched on June 1 (subject to regulatory approval). The product is based on the 30-day Implied Volatility Index (BVX), which allows traders to trade or hedge against Bitcoin volatility without betting on price ups and downs. The new contract, expected to be coded BVI, employs a contract multiplier of $500 × index value, aiming to provide the market with more refined risk management tools.

According to ChainCatcher news, SoFi Technologies announced that its stablecoin SoFiUSD will be expanded to the Solana network, mainly focusing on its low cost, high throughput, and fast settlement capabilities. Launched in 2025 as a fully reserved USD stablecoin, SoFiUSD was initially deployed on Ethereum to provide banks, fintechs, and enterprises with a 24×7-hour near-real-time settlement infrastructure. As the regulatory framework is gradually clarified, banks and financial institutions are accelerating their deployment in the stablecoin track, competing with leading issuers such as Tether and Circle.

ChainCatcher news, TD Cowen pointed out that the differences surrounding the stablecoin yield mechanism are still difficult to bridge, which may delay the advancement of the US Crypto Market Structure Act and even affect the possibility of its passage within the year. Several banking organizations, including the American Bankers Association, have formally opposed the compromise, arguing that allowing crypto platforms to offer stablecoin yields to users would be an impact on traditional banks. According to the analysis, banks and crypto platforms have opposing positions on this issue, and in the short term, "it is difficult to have an intermediate solution", which has become a key obstacle in the current legislative process.