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🐸 Canary Capital has filed an application for a spot PEPE ETF
In the S-1 form submitted to the SEC, it states that the fund will track the price of PEPE, holding the underlying tokens with a third-party digital custodian (custodian).
Unlike Bitcoin or Ethereum-based funds, this product is tied to a meme coin, whose market logic is much less related to fundamental factors.
⚠️ Moreover, PEPE itself is already far from its previous success and is trading 85% below its peak.

📉 The crypto market has pulled back after the Iran ceasefire was disrupted
The market started to decline after doubts arose about the stability of the ceasefire between the US and Iran.
👉 BTC is trading around $71 000 (-1.1% over 24 hours)
👉 ETH has decreased to $2181 (-2.8%).
👉 The fear and greed index has dropped to 14 points, remaining in the extreme fear zone.
The situation around the Strait of Hormuz has once again increased pressure on risky assets, including cryptocurrencies.

🪙 The developer proposed a way to save Bitcoin wallets in the event of a quantum attack: instead of vulnerable signatures, the owner will be able to prove that the wallet belongs to them without revealing secret data.
This will allow access to funds even if current cryptography stops working.
It complements ideas like BIP-360 and provides a real scenario for saving funds in a post-quantum world.

🪙 Circle has launched CPN Managed Payments — a platform that enables banks and payment services to settle transactions in USDC without holding crypto assets: all infrastructure and compliance remain on Circle's side.
This simplifies the integration of stablecoins into traditional payments and lowers barriers for institutional players.

☠️ Scammers are increasingly selling fake hardware wallets with pre-set seed phrases — they simply withdraw the funds after some time.
You should only buy such devices from official sellers and always generate the seed phrase yourself — otherwise, the wallet itself becomes a hacking tool.#GateSquareAprilPostingChallenge

Visa has launched the "Intelligent Commerce Connect" service, which supports AI agents in making purchases and payments on behalf of consumers in commercial scenarios worldwide #GateSquareAprilPostingChallenge

🇮🇷 Iran will charge transit fees for tankers passing through the Strait of Hormuz in BTC — Financial Times
15–20 million barrels of oil pass through the Strait of Hormuz daily — this amounts to $15–20 million in profit per day.
#GateSquareAprilPostingChallenge

🪙 The new ERC-8211 standard on Ethereum will enable combining complex DeFi operations into a single transaction instead of multiple separate steps.
This will simplify the work of AI agents and applications — the system will be able to calculate the result on the fly during execution, without predefined parameters.
#GateSquareAprilPostingChallenge

🏦 Charles Schwab enters the crypto industry
Charles Schwab, a broker managing assets worth $11 trillion, plans to launch cryptocurrency trading.
"We are waiting for the green light from regulators," said the company's CEO Rick Wurster.#GateSquareAprilPostingChallenge

Solana projects will receive a unified response system to hacks
The non-profit organization Solana Foundation introduced the STRIDE security framework and the Incident Response Network SIRN.
The STRIDE initiative was developed in collaboration with Web3 firm Asymmetric Research and is a "structured program for assessing, monitoring, and enhancing security measures for Solana projects."
At the same time, the foundation announced the creation of SIRN, which will unite security companies for rapid response to hacking attacks on the Solana network in real-time.
Participants will share threat infor

Bitcoin has risen above $72 000 amid a ceasefire between the US and Iran
BTC has risen above $72 000 for the first time in 20 days following the announcement of a two-week ceasefire between the US and Iran.
👉 Currently, BTC is trading around $71 811, up +4.7% over the past 24 hours (
👉 ETH also increased, )$2240 +6.7%(
👉 The fear and greed index has risen to 17 points but remains in the extreme fear zone.
This is how the market reacted when Donald Trump posted on Truth Social: “I agree to a two-week halt to bombing and attacks on Iran.” )

🛡 Solana Enhances DeFi Security
After the Drift Protocol hack with damages of approximately $280 million, the Solana Foundation is launching the STRIDE program to strengthen the security of DeFi protocols.
Projects worth over $10 million will receive 24/7 threat monitoring.
⚠️ At the same time, Solana has launched the SIRN ( incident response network) to accelerate attack response.

👨‍💻 Quantum Threat to the Lightning Network
Following Google's report on the quantum threat to Bitcoin, the crypto community is once again engaged in a heated discussion.
🙄 Some analysts believe that Bitcoin itself is not at risk in the coming years.
But others warn that the weak point could be the Lightning Network.#GateSquareAprilPostingChallenge

❗️Trump stated that "very respected people" asked him to delay a devastating strike on Iran for two weeks, but he has not made a final decision yet#GateSquareAprilPostingChallenge

Oil will soar to $200 per barrel if Trump carries out his threats against Iran, media reports. At the same time, the Iranian government is ready to retaliate by striking Saudi Aramco oil facilities and infrastructure in Yanbu, Saudi Arabia.#GateSquareAprilPostingChallenge

Trump:
A whole civilization will perish tonight, and it will never be restored. I don't want this to happen, but most likely, it will.
However, now that a complete and total regime change has occurred, where smarter and less radicalized minds prevail, something revolutionary and miraculous might happen. WHO KNOWS? We will find out tonight, at one of the most important moments in the long and complex history of the world.
The deadline for Iran will end today at 3:00 AM Moscow time#GateSquareAprilPostingChallenge