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Mars Financial News, according to Jintiao citing New Delhi Television, reports that the second round of Iran-U.S. negotiations will be held on April 27.

Mars Finance News, Drift product lead Minh Don stated on its official Discord that they will spend a few weeks optimizing the codebase, removing and adding some small but impactful features, and plan to relaunch its forked exchange around May or June this year. Previously, Drift Protocol suffered losses exceeding $285 million in an attack incident.

This article discloses two unlocks in this round: EigenLayer introduces restaking on Ethereum, allowing ETH users to re-stake through smart contracts to enhance the network's cryptoeconomic security. This round unlocks 36.85 million tokens, approximately $6.67 million. Jupiter is a Solana-based DEX aggregator offering products such as DCA, limit orders, perpetual trading, and Launchpad, with 53.35 million tokens unlocked, approximately $9.23 million.

From 2021 to 2026, the global number of ultra-high-net-worth individuals (over $30 million) increased from 551,435 to 713,626, for an average of about 89 individuals per day. The United States leads, accounting for 41% of new additions; by 2031, its share of the global total may reach 41%. China declines to about 17%, and is expected to fall further to 15%. India shows the largest growth, at about 63%, rising to about 20,000. Australia grows significantly. Over the next five years, emerging markets such as Indonesia, along with countries such as Saudi Arabia and Poland, will continue to drive the growth of billionaires, making the global wealth landscape even more globalized.

Purrlend was attacked on the MegaETH and HyperEVM networks, with total losses of approximately $1.52 million. HyperEVM lost about $1.2 million in assets (USDC, USDT, USDH, and some tokens), while MegaETH lost approximately $324k (USDT, WETH, USDm, etc.). Purrlend has suspended operations and launched an investigation; the attacker's address has been identified on both network block explorers.

Mars Finance News: On April 24th, at the 2026 Beijing International Auto Show, Carl Power officially announced its core strategy for the next decade targeting L4 freight transportation—KargoBot Inside. According to reports, this is the world's first full-stack empowerment strategy for trunk line freight using "AI + Robot + Service."

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Liu Cixin wrote about an image in "The Three-Body Problem" that has been quoted countless times since — the Dark Forest. Every civilization is a hunter armed with a gun; whoever reveals themselves first, dies first. It’s not that there are no people in the forest, but everyone knows that turning on the lights will attract bullets, so everyone keeps their lights off.
In the spring of 2026, top AI laboratories entered this dark forest.
On April 16, Anthropic released Claude Opus 4.7 first. On the same day, they took an unusual step — publicly admitting that Opus 4.7’s performance does not match an unreleased model, Mythos, citing safety concerns.
On April 23, OpenAI posted GPT-5.5 on their official website. On the same day, Anthropic also published on their official blog

University of Science and Technology of China releases "Lingjing Creation" intelligent scientific research tool in Hefei, a cloud service platform open to global scientific research entities, marking AI-driven scientific research advancing towards engineering, platformization, and open sharing.
This tool is based on a full-stack domestically produced hardware and software ecosystem, coordinated by the Scientific Intelligent Material Creation Center jointly established by the Anhui Provincial Government and the Chinese Academy of Sciences, integrating scientific large models, vertical small models, research robots, automated computing, automated experiments, and skill libraries, forming an operating system-level entry point.

Mars Finance News, according to official data, within the 7 days ending April 23, Circle issued approximately 5.1 billion USDC, redeemed about 5.8 billion USDC, and the circulating supply decreased by about 700 million tokens.
The total circulating supply of USDC is 78 billion tokens, with a reserve of approximately 78.2 billion USD, including overnight reverse repurchase agreements of about 47.2 billion USD; Treasury bonds with less than 3 months maturity of about 19.4 billion USD; systemically important institution deposits of about 11 billion USD; and other bank deposits of about 600 million USD.

Mars Finance news: Fu Peng, the newly appointed Chief Economist of New Fire Group, tweeted that the underlying business model of Bitcoin perpetual contracts is essentially the same as the “deferred fee/overnight fee” in traditional finance, such as gold and industrial commodity spot exchanges. Fu Peng pointed out that back then, gold exchanges carried out daily forced liquidation settlements, with longs and shorts paying rollover fees to each other. When retail investors massively hold highly leveraged long positions, the deferred fee becomes the platform’s most stable and covert source of income. Today, Bitcoin spot platforms mainly rely on perpetual contracts, with longs and shorts settling the funding rate every 8 hours. When longs are dominant, retail investors holding long positions continuously pay the funding rate to shorts. Although the platform does not directly collect this fee, it significantly boosts trading activity, open interest, and liquidity, indirectly generating a large amount of trading fee income, forming stable and enormous cash flow. Essentially, it is large traders/institutions holding long-term positions “collecting rent,” retail investors leveraging and going long to pay, and platforms indirectly extracting

Mars Finance News, Polymarket's latest data shows that the market's probability of betting on "MegaETH's market cap (FDV) exceeding 1 billion USD one day after launch" is currently 88%, the probability of exceeding 600 million USD is 97%, exceeding 800 million USD is 93%, exceeding 1.5 billion USD is 56%, and exceeding 2 billion USD is 31%. Previously, it was reported that MegaETH may conduct its TGE on April 30.

Hong Kong Exchanges and Clearing announced 20 companies applying for listing from April 20 to 24, covering fields such as intelligent driving, biomedicine, optoelectronics, and new energy, among which many are already listed on the A-shares market, with significant market value distribution.
The intelligent driving sector focuses on Tiantong Vision, T3 Mobility, Qianli Technology, and Huanchuang Technology, with L4 commercialization and profitability being key concerns;
In biomedicine, there are Zhite Biological, Ying Shi Biological, Yuanxin Technology, and Weimai;
The optoelectronics and new energy fields are represented by Dier Laser, Tianfu Communication, and Sunshine Power, showcasing market potential in lasers, optical devices, and photovoltaic inverters.

Mars Finance News: The DeFi United coordinated rescue effort led by Aave service providers following the rsETH incident on April 18 has already raised a total of $161.53 million (approximately 69,618 ETH). The plan is designed to help restore rsETH collateral support that was damaged by the Kelp DAO bridge attack, and to improve liquidity across multiple-network markets. Major participants/commitments currently include: Aave founder Stani Kulechov personally committing 5,000 ETH; EtherFi proposing to contribute 5,000 ETH; Lido Finance proposing to contribute up to 2,500 stETH; and Golem Foundation contributing 1,000 ETH. In addition, Mantle, E

Mars Finance reports that quant trader Killa predicted the bear market bottom to be around $38,800 on the X platform, considering a 5% deviation, the bottom could be at $40,740 or $42,680. Previously, he used a model to forecast the top of this bull market at $121,362, with the actual being $126,100. Even the highest estimate of $42,680 is well below $60k, so a $60k bottom is optimistic. He plans to buy as much spot Bitcoin as possible in July and August.

On April 25th, at the Beijing Auto Show, Ruan Chong, former core researcher of DeepSeek's multimodal technology, made his first public appearance as the Chief Scientist of Yuanrong Qixing. Yuanrong Qixing CEO Zhou Guang stated that multimodal large model capabilities will achieve a breakthrough by early 2026, with the starting point of the large model autonomous driving route already far surpassing the previous generation of technology. Small model autonomous driving faces a "see-saw effect" and cannot achieve full-scene safety coverage. The company has fully shifted to the large model route. (Securities Times)

Mars Finance News, according to onchainschool.pro monitoring, FF team address (0xeF6...7071) transferred tokens worth $13 million to a new wallet, then distributed from that wallet to other participants or fund wallets. This is the largest transfer record for the project to date. An hour ago, approximately $1,000,000 worth of tokens were further transferred from the above wallet and ultimately deposited into an exchange.