#Gate广场四月发帖挑战
April 14
1. Bitcoin market: Bitcoin surged 6% last night without any news catalyst, closing at $74,628, and is still in an uptrend. Ethereum jumped 8%, closing at $2,373, showing strong performance.
2. Altcoin market: Bitcoin and Ethereum both surged, and the altcoin market remains active. SOL rose 6%, closing at $86.4; DOGE was slightly weaker, up 3.7%, closing at $0.094; after RAVE set a new high of $13.32 last night, it pulled back, and there has been sharp fluctuation this morning; it is now closing at $8.16, with contract trading volume down by half compared with before. BLESS performed strongly, up 250%, closing at $0.0297; WET rose 60%, closing at $0.165; EVAA rose 60%, closing at $1.025; GIGGLE rose 30%, closing at $38.3.
3. Neighboring markets: All three major U.S. stock indices closed higher as a group; the Nasdaq and the S&P rose by more than 1%, and Oracle rose by more than 12%. China A-shares opened lower, then moved up, and closed slightly higher. Gold was weak and volatile, up 0.4%, closing at $4,784; silver rose 0.4%, closing at $76. London aluminum prices skyrocketed to a four-year high. Crude oil fell 2.7%, closing at $96.41.
4. Current news: U.S. President Trump said to the media at the White House on the 13th that Iran called the U.S. side that morning and said, “They hope to reach an agreement.” U.S. officials revealed that after talks in Islamabad, contact between the U.S. delegation and Iran’s leadership is still ongoing, and “progress is being made toward reaching an agreement.” It’s still the same script from before: the U.S. and Iran keep flipping back and forth with negotiation headlines, harvesting retail investors worldwide.
5. Current news: According to a senior U.S. official, the U.S. blockade operation has officially begun, and more than 15 U.S. warships are currently on site providing support for this operation.
6. Financial information: Stock markets in South Korea and Japan opened significantly higher.
7. Crypto news: MicroStrategy founder Michael Saylor said that it is possible to sell trillion-dollar credit and buy Bitcoin of equivalent value, and the entire system will run better. He pointed out that the credit market size is $300 trillion.
8. Crypto news: The U.S. SEC life clarifies the regulatory boundary for crypto trading interfaces: in specific scenarios, they can be exempt from broker licenses.