Trident Digital Tech Holdings has partnered with Ripple Strategy Holding. Ripple will provide stablecoin technology to support Trident’s expansion across Africa. It plans to build a blockchain tax system for 2.1 million small and mid-sized businesses in Ghana, and to set up an RLUSD/GHS liquidity pool to enable low-cost cross-border payments.

Gate News, April 9 — Jupiter officially announced that ASR rewards for Q1 2026 are now open for applications. The total reward pool is 50 million JUP.

World Liberty Financial borrowed more than $50 million in stablecoins on the Dolomite platform in the short term, drawing attention from the DeFi market. WLFI deposited large amounts of governance tokens as collateral, causing the liquidity pool utilization rate to exceed 100%, leaving liquidity nearly exhausted and pushing interest rates sharply higher. Analysis suggests this move could be intended to meet liquidity demand or to increase on-chain activity; investors should carefully assess the risks.

Gate News message, April 8, Leavitt Mining Pool BTC.TOP founder and CEO Jiang Zhuoer posted that he went short ETH at $2242; this is a mid-to-short-term operation, just like the last time he went long at $1850 and closed it out at $2144. Jiang Zhuoer said that the bear market cycle hasn’t finished yet, and event-driven bounces are opportunities to go short as well; there’s also a small chance that he will start another round again.

Pi Network has completed the distribution of rewards for the first round of KYC verification. With more than 1 million validators contributing to the confirmation of 18 million global identities, the reward pool exceeds 26 million Pi Coin. This progress marks a key step toward the mainnet launch, demonstrating the efficiency of human–machine collaboration, optimizing performance mechanisms, and attracting more users to participate.

Zcash, a privacy coin, patched a critical security vulnerability on April 1 that could have been exploited by malicious miners to move more than 25,000 ZEC from the now-deprecated Sprout pool. The vulnerability has existed since July 2020, but it was not actually exploited. The development team has released a patched version, and major mining pools have completed the upgrade. In addition, Zcash’s mechanism helps prevent inflationary issuance, ensuring the total supply remains secure.

AWAKE（LGNS）announced on March 31 that it has completed the first round of the $100 million dual-chain ecosystem plan ILO. The total project size is $220 million, and it plans to launch a dual-chain parallel development strategy after completing the ILO, while deploying new contracts on Anubis Chain.

F2Pool co-founder Wang Chun disclosed that a Thai apartment purchased in 2015 was sold for 7 BTC, representing a sharp depreciation from the original purchase price. The current value of 2,900 BTC is about $194 million, and while he was in Pattaya he obtained a passport and visa, and he also led the launch of the Zcash mining pool.