Gate News , April 8, U.S.-listed Bitcoin miner Cango released a March operational update report. The report shows that in March, the company produced 27.98 BTC from self-mining and completed a strategic sale of 2,000 bitcoins, with the proceeds used to repay BTC-backed loans. As of the end of March, the company’s outstanding Bitcoin-backed loan total was $30.6 million, and its Bitcoin reserves fell to 1,025.69 BTC.

Gate News message. On April 8, publicly listed self-custody crypto company Exodus Movement released updated data on its digital asset holdings as of the end of March. The data shows that the company’s Bitcoin holdings increased to 628 coins (a net monthly gain of 18 BTC), its Ethereum holdings increased to 1,857 coins (a net monthly gain of 17 ETH), and its Solana holdings increased to 17,541 coins (a net monthly gain of 1,847 SOL).

Monad co-founder Keone Hon posted a protocol security self-audit checklist on the X platform, covering 10 key areas including fund safety and management permissions. It includes items such as time locks, real-time monitoring, and multi-signature mechanisms, to improve protocol security.

In April 2026, the price of Ethereum fell under the influence of geopolitical pressure, but on-chain data performed well and network activity was high. User preference for self-custody increased, and the DEX market share rose. Analysts say the market has not seen panic selling; whether the price will reverse in the future still depends on the external environment.

Vitalik Buterin and Nicolas Consigny presented new progress on Kohaku, a privacy framework, at the EthCC conference, emphasizing the capabilities of integrating the network layer, the hardware layer, and light clients. By directly integrating the Helios light client into a wallet SDK, Kohaku enables user self-verification, protects privacy, and introduces an automated privacy routing mechanism, improving privacy and security within the Ethereum ecosystem.

Gate News message, April 1, open-source self-developed AI tool OpenClaw held Asia’s first developer conference "ClawCon" in Shibuya Ward, Tokyo, this past Monday, attracting a large number of participants interested in this technology. OpenClaw can help users automate various tasks on their local computers, and it is viewed by the outside world as a potential "next ChatGPT." Industry insiders noted that the tool still has some security risks at present.

Gate News message, March 30, iQIYI (IQ.O) announced that the company has officially initiated the public commercial testing of Nadou Pro, its self-developed AI smart assistant, in the recent period. Nadou Pro is the first AI smart assistant in China designed specifically for professional long-form video production. By integrating leading foundation models and iQIYI’s deep experience in producing high-quality content, it can effectively simplify the entire production process from creative ideation to final video generation.

Gate News message: On March 30, according to Gate market data, as of the time of writing, STO (StakeStone) is trading at $0.1475. Over the past 24 hours, it is up 12.70%, with a high of $0.1688 and a low of $0.1306. The 24-hour trading volume is $1.3197 million. The current market cap is approximately $33.2412 million. StakeStone is a decentralized, cross-chain liquidity infrastructure protocol designed to change how liquidity is obtained, distributed, and used across blockchain ecosystems. Its core mission is to provide efficient, sustainable, and organic liquidity to meet the growing needs of increasingly modular and multi-chain DeFi. As a crypto-native new bank, StakeStone is designed for the era of self-custodied finance, bringing on-chain assets, institutions

Trust Wallet is accelerating its expansion into the AI field by launching the Trust Wallet Agent Kit, which allows authorized AI agents to perform on-chain operations on behalf of users, transforming crypto wallets from "storage tools" into "smart execution gateways." This tool supports a multi-chain ecosystem, enhancing the automated decision-making capabilities of Web3 applications, enabling users to set strategies for automatic execution by the system. In the future, an agent marketplace will be launched to further promote the platformization of the wallet ecosystem.

At the 2026 Zhongguancun Forum, Yang Zhilin, founder of the Dark Side of the Moon, hosted a roundtable discussion on AI open-source. Guests shared their views on models, computing infrastructure, and Agent applications, focusing on issues such as the growth of token usage, the costs of long-context reasoning, and technological bottlenecks. Four experts predicted future trends using a single word, reflecting the importance of ecology, self-evolution, sustainable tokens, and computing power.