Gate News message, according to Gate’s official announcement on April 15, 2026 Gate launches a “Crazy Wednesday” campaign, running from April 15, 2026 at 14:00 to April 19, 2026 at 16:00 (UTC+8). Users complete multiple tasks to unlock mystery boxes, with a chance to win XRP tokens and Glenfiddich whisky. The mystery box tasks include multiple categories such as flash swaps, spot, and futures trading, as well as top-ups, invitations, and VIP upgrades, and each tier corresponds to a different number of mystery box openings. Campaign Two launches a USDT wealth-management product, with a 14-day fixed-term annualized yield of 6%. New users can also participate in a 3-day product offering 100% annualized yield. In addition, Yu’e Bao also offers multi-currency wealth-management options such as USAT, USDD, 0G, and APT, with annualized returns of up to 300%. Campaign Three introduces a boosted rewards policy for staking users, offering up to a 16% annualized return for staking BTC, ETH, and SOL; for SOL staking, staking 0–1 coins can yield up to 16% annualized.

Hong Kong's Financial Secretary Paul Chan reported strong economic performance driven by exports, services, and goods trade, alongside steady consumption and rising private investment. He emphasized the city's robust stock market and the need for financial stability to enhance competitiveness.

Gate News message, according to the Gate official announcement on April 15, 2026 Gate will list Genius Foundation (UTC+8)GENIUS(GENIUS perpetuity contract spot trading at 10:30 )UTC+8 on April 15, 2026. It supports USDT settlement, with a leverage ratio of 1–20x. At the same time, it will launch GENIUS unified account lending and borrowing, isolated-position leverage trading pairs, as well as GENIUS spare-coin wealth management, demand-deposit collateralized lending, and fixed-term collateralized lending. 1 hour after the GENIUS spot trading goes live, Gate will sequentially launch the GENIUS fast swap feature and the DCA function. The fast swap feature supports exchanging GENIUS for USDT or other supported tokens, while the DCA function supports choosing multiple intervals, such as hourly and daily. In addition, within 1 hour after the perpetual contract goes live, copy trading and trading bot services will be opened.

On April 13, Ethereum spot ETF net inflows reached $9.4404 million, rising for three consecutive days. Among them, the BlackRock Staked ETH ETF had the largest net inflow, at $5.7776 million, bringing its historical total net inflows to $383 million. At the same time, Grayscale’s Ethereum mini trust ETF also performed well, with net inflows of $5.1508 million. Overall, Ethereum spot ETFs’ net assets were $12.98B.

Gate News message, April 14, according to Gate market data, as of the time of writing, INX (Infinex) is trading at $0.01516. It is down 29.98% over the past 24 hours, with a high of $0.0296 and a low of $0.01413. The 24-hour trading volume is $9.0676 million. The current market cap is approximately $54.7882 million. Infinex is a crypto super app (Superapp) that aims to provide users with a unified experience across more than 25 blockchains by abstracting away the complexity of on-chain interactions. Infinex was founded by Kain Warwick, the founder of Synthetix. It includes Passkey authentication, cross-chain swaps and bridging, as well as native trading applications

2026-04-13 22:45 to 2026-04-13 23:00 (UTC), the BTC price recorded a +0.49% return, rapidly fluctuating within the 74148.0 to 74741.9 USDT range, with a swing of 0.80%. During the anomaly window, market attention increased; spot and derivatives trading became active, and volatility intensified. The main driver behind this anomaly is that sustained net inflows into ETFs strengthen buy-side demand in the spot market, while long positions in the derivatives market add leverage; overall, the funding rate remains biased to the upside. BTC perpetual contract open interest rose in tandem, indicating leverage as well

Varys Capital venture investment chief Tom Dunleavy noted that in the past six months, the crypto VC funding environment has changed significantly: well-funded projects are proactively coming to them, while most VC capital has run out or shifted to late-stage investments, extending the fundraising cycle to 2–3 months. Only a few institutions are still making early-stage investments, and in the future they may see investment opportunities on a historic scale.

Gate News, April 12. Lookonchain monitoring shows that the well-known trader “Maji” saw their 13-win streak come to an end. Due to the market downturn, they just closed a Bitcoin long position, incurring a loss of about $192k.

U.S. well-known angel investor Jason Calacanis expressed optimism about Bittensor and its subnet project Ridges AI on the All-In Podcast, saying that this open-source AI assistant reached about 80% of Claude 4’s performance within 45 days, and highlighting the innovative advantages of decentralization and incentive mechanisms. He also founded the Stillcore Capital fund to focus on investing in the Bittensor ecosystem.

Gate News message, April 11, Web3 wallet Zerion posted an announcement on the X platform saying that it detected abnormal activity on the platform, and the web app service has been temporarily taken offline. Zerion urges users to temporarily not use the web app; at the moment, the iOS and Android apps, as well as the browser extension program, are running normally and are secure, and users’ funds in the wallet are not affected. Zerion says it is actively monitoring the situation, and it will notify users separately once the web application is restored.