spot gold continued to rise, reaching $3220 per ounce, up 1.4% intraday.

according to official announcements, the BNB Chain has announced that the Lorentz test network hard fork has been completed, reducing the block time of opBNB to 0.5 seconds, and the BSC test network to 1.5 seconds. The mainnet upgrade schedule has been determined: opBNB will be upgraded on April 21 at 03:00 UTC, and BSC will follow on April 29 at 05:05 UTC.

On April 11th, Solayer developer Chaofan Shou posted on social media that the security vulnerability in Morpho frontend (Bundler3) has been fixed. Previously, Chaofan Shou tweeted that there was a vulnerability in the lending agreement Morpho frontend (Bundler3) and advised against any interaction.

Bitcoin collateral loan platform Firefish announced the completion of a $1.8 million seed round of financing, with investment from Miton C and Braiins. The new funds will support the launch of its Prime institutional loan program, providing instant USDC loans to users in the United States and global markets, expanding channels for Bitcoin holders to access stablecoin liquidity. In addition, the company also supports financial services based on the Euro and Swiss Franc.

according to PeckShieldAlert, the address identified as the Zoth attacker has transferred 1000 ETH (approximately $1.5 million) to Thorchain, and then cross-chain transferred to the Bitcoin (BTC) and Litecoin (LTC) networks.

Vitalik Buterin, co-founder of Ethereum, shared a simple privacy roadmap for Ethereum L1. This includes ideas to improve the privacy of Ethereum users without changing the Ethereum consensus, focusing on four types of privacy: on-chain payment privacy, partial anonymization of on-chain activities within applications, on-chain reading privacy, and network anonymity. Solutions include integrating privacy tools such as Railgun into wallets, defaulting to "one address per application," implementing FOCIL and EIP-7701, using TEE and PIR technology to protect RPC privacy, aiming to enhance user privacy and reduce metadata leakage.

according to Decrypt, FTX founder Sam Bankman-Fried has been transferred to the medium-security federal prison FCIVictorvilleMediumII in California, known for its frequent violence and referred to as "Victimville". SBF was sentenced to 25 years in prison in 2023 for defrauding users of over $8 billion. The prison is known for its strict racial factions, frequent brawls, and armed attacks, with a harsh living environment. SBF maintains his innocence and is seeking an appeal.

Financial Supervisory Service of South Korea announced that the obligation of virtual asset exchanges and other enterprises to comply with the "Act on the Use and Protection of Credit Information" will be postponed until December 1, 2025. During this transition period, unless there is intentional or gross negligence, relevant enterprises will not be sanctioned for violating the regulations. Virtual asset enterprises must complete internal regulation improvements and customer transaction information management compliance preparations during this period.

On April 11th, it was reported that according to former US federal prosecutor James K. Filan, the SEC and Ripple have jointly filed a motion with the US Second Circuit Court of Appeals to "stay the proceedings" of their respective appeals and cross-appeals, citing that both parties have reached a "principled settlement agreement" that is currently pending approval by the SEC Commissioners. If approved, they will seek a declaratory judgment from the district court. The court has cancelled the original arrangement for filing response materials on April 16th.

This motion indicates that the case may soon be reaching a final settlement.

as market concerns about tariff policies intensify, investors are turning to safe-haven assets, driving the total market value of tokenized gold products to nearly $2 billion. This trend reflects a significant increase in demand for digital gold as a safe haven in an environment of increasing uncertainty. CoinDesk data shows that recent inflows into related products have been significant, highlighting the trend of integration between cryptocurrencies and traditional safe-haven assets.