HSC Global Season is live — 4 conferences across Asia and the Gulf We're opening onboarding for speakers, sponsors, and media partners. The through-line across all four: tokenization, RWA, stablecoin adoption, AI and how institutions are turning digital assets into financial system infrastructure Where we'll be: 🇻🇳 HSC Conference Ho Chi Minh City · Aug 15 · Hilton Saigon - luma.com/HSC_HoChiMinh 🇰🇷 HSC Conference Seoul · Oct 1 · Novotel Ambassador Gangnam - luma.com/HSC_Seoul 🇸🇬 HSC Asset Management Singapore · Oct 8 · Fairmont · two stages - luma.com/HSC_Singapore 🇦🇪 HSC Asset Management Abu Dhabi · Dec 9–10 · two days - luma.com/HSC_Abu_Dhabi Speaker, sponsor, or media partner? Contact: t.me/poshivanik_anna

What keeps users coming back to an exchange? Trust. 🎙️ @50Nent, Global CEO of @BitMartExchange, joins Sébastien Marque (@LunaPRofficial) on Tech It or Leave It. Coming soon.

🏭 According to @KillaXBT, the current correlation between $BTC and mining difficulty is mirroring patterns from past bear markets. He believes the capitulation phase is the clearest signal that it’s time to accumulate $BTC. The analyst also suggested that #Bitcoin’s ultimate low for this cycle might still be ahead. He predicts it will happen alongside a stock market correction, with the bear market bottom likely forming toward the end of this year.

🔥 @Gate Ecosystem Update: Expanding Multi-Asset Trading, World Cup Prediction Markets, Stock Access, and Institutional Market Infrastructure ▫️Rising volatility boosts demand for diversified assets as multi-asset trading infrastructure expands across crypto and TradFi markets ▫️World Cup prediction markets gain traction, with South Korea vs. Czechia attracting strong trading activity and participation ▫️Polymarket trading activity reaches No.1 among distribution channels, with daily transactions exceeding 54,000 ▫️Four new stock perpetual futures launched, including UVXY, CIEN, ISRG, and PANW with up to 20x leverage ▫️World Cup prediction campaigns continue with rewards, leaderboards, and prediction challenges across major tournament matches ▫️SOL staking reaches 624,200 SOL, with APR up to 8.50% and instant redemption through GTSOL ▫️Ondo USDY listed for spot and Convert trading, expanding access to yield-bearing digital assets ▫️Gold-backed assets see strong activity, with XAUT trading volume ranking second globally on the platform ▫️AI and chip stocks gain momentum as NVDAX futures rank first in volume and open interest ▫️Stock trading launches on Web, enabling access to 10,000 U.S. stocks and ETFs via USDT ▫️Web stock expansion strengthens unified investing across digital assets, equities, and global financial markets ▫️SanDisk futures activity surges as trading volume and open interest rank among industry leaders ▫️Token Crew Phase 12 launched with a 700,000 USDT prize pool through referral rewards ▫️Research highlights AI-driven storage growth as Samsung, SK hynix, and Micron exceed $1T market caps All details: gate.com/announcements gate.com/announcements

🗳️ @BlackRock has filed a Form 8-A with the @SECGov for the iShares Bitcoin Premium Income ETF (BITA). The investment vehicle is designed to provide spot #Bitcoin exposure while incorporating a yield-generating strategy. The fund would actively sell call options primarily on IBIT, #BlackRock’s own spot Bitcoin ETF and the largest fund of its kind. "That typically means launch in one week," Bloomberg analyst @EricBalchunas said. "So if I had to bet I'd say next [Thursday] BITA goes live. We'll see though."

#HSCLifeRules - Theo Golden (@TFGolden), Investment Manager and Tokenisation Lead at @BaillieGifford, Hack Seasons Conference Cannes, April 1 We have 55 partners who run and work in the business, and we're an unlimited liability partnership - if I get something badly wrong, the owners lose their houses. So we really care about client outcomes, and that's why we took this route: stepping into the future of finance, we want to take people to the gold standard first, not make sacrifices that add layers of risk The financial system already works pretty well - flows are embedded, people know what to expect. So for clients to spend growth CapEx onboarding a digital-asset custodian or a Chainlink oracle, you have to at least meet the standard they already expect, then raise the bar #HackSeasonsConferenceCannes

📈 @LGUS has developed its own Layer 2 blockchain network in collaboration with @arbitrum. The network is designed to support advertising and media-related use cases. LG’s new network will serve as a platform for placing, buying, selling, and managing digital advertisements. It will also track customer interactions with ads and provide a shared advertising inventory database for advertisers and publishers. According to the developers, blockchain technology will eliminate intermediaries and automate settlements without manual intervention. The company piloted the platform with an unnamed Japanese advertising agency through its dedicated blockchain research lab. LG said it plans to explore bringing the platform to market later this year. Arbitrum’s $ARB token rose more than 5% over the past 24 hours.

📉 Investors are continuing to move away from "debasement trade," with the pullback accelerating for Bitcoin and extending to gold, according to analysts at @jpmorgan. According to the analysts, the debasement trade has been losing momentum across ETFs, futures markets, and broader investor positioning. The bank noted that gold ETFs recorded $20B in outflows last week. Meanwhile, #Bitcoin ETFs have posted steadily increasing outflows over the past four weeks. JPMorgan also pointed to changing market correlations. Bitcoin’s correlation with 10-year US real Treasury yields has recently turned negative, mirroring a similar shift previously observed in gold. This suggests that rising opportunity costs associated with holding non-yielding assets may be weighing on demand for both. At the same time, gold’s correlation with the S&P 500 has moved closer to $BTC’s traditionally positive relationship with equities, indicating that both assets have recently traded more like risk assets than portfolio hedges or diversifiers. Despite maintaining a cautious outlook on digital assets, #JPMorgan said a stronger second half of the year could depend on DAT companies providing greater clarity on how they plan to meet dividend obligations, as well as progress on US #crypto market structure legislation. Even so, the analysts noted that the current weak sentiment across the market could ultimately prove to be “a bullish contrarian signal going forward.”

🚓 The @SecretService’s Cyber Investigative Section, @IRS_CI, @Europol, @Eurojust, and partners from 10 additional countries have shut down the #crypto service “AudiA6,” which was based in Georgia, as part of a joint operation. Authorities say that between 2022 and 2025, more than €336M may have been laundered through the platform. Two alleged administrators of the service were arrested. Law enforcement carried out searches at three locations, took down 25 domains, and seized more than 30 servers, over 80 vehicles, and several real estate properties. Authorities also froze approximately €692,000 in crypto and confiscated an additional €86,000 in cash.

#HSCLifeRules - Rafael Mastroberardino, Digital Assets Partnership Development & Strategy at @FTI_US, Hack Seasons Conference Cannes, April 1 Most protocols built on-chain have done something well: you can now access finance without an intermediary - directly access the raw products. But intermediaries will still exist; they just have to focus on the added value they provide, because users can now reach finance without them. If they want to stay relevant, they provide that value - and that's where distribution comes in. Big companies will use the blockchain as a white-label solution, or leverage decentralized platforms, to give their existing customers a better product #HackSeasonsConferenceCannes

🚀 @SpaceX is officially set for the largest IPO on record. The rocket company is raising $75B by selling 555.6M shares at $135 each. The deal values #SpaceX at $1.77T, making it the seventh most valuable US company. SpaceX’s @Nasdaq debut under the ticker SPCX will take place on Friday, when the public will have its first opportunity to invest in the 24-year-old company.

🔥@Gate Ecosystem Update: Expanding Web3 Education, Prediction Markets, TradFi Trading, and Global Platform Growth ▫️Web3 workshop with Dubai university connected students with blockchain insights, industry trends, and simulated trading experience ▫️Net inflows exceeded $22.67 million in 24 hours, placing the platform among the top three globally ▫️DEX BountyDrop launched LingoAI airdrop, allowing 3,000 participants to share $10,000 in LINGO rewards ▫️May transparency report highlights growth across CFDs, stocks, prediction markets, and over 10,000 supported TradFi assets ▫️Wealth management products grew alongside AI upgrades, Gate Layer expansion, and rising on-chain transaction activity ▫️Prediction markets show Spurs with 65% win probability for NBA Finals Game 5 after Knicks victory ▫️Gold trading volatility increased, with XAUT spot volume ranking second and futures open interest among global leaders ▫️BTC and ETH activity rebounded, with ETH spot trading volume ranking first globally and strong derivatives liquidity ▫️World Cup prediction markets launched, showing Mexico favored against South Africa with 69% win probability ▫️Optical stock futures gained momentum, with COHR and LITE open interest ranking among leading platforms ▫️Alpha World Cup competition launched with $40,000 rewards for trading selected hot tokens ▫️SanDisk led tech stock momentum, with futures volume reaching $18.16 million amid strong market demand ▫️USD1 rewards and Convert Scratch & Win campaigns launched with trading incentives and prizes up to 500 USDT All details: gate.com/announcements gate.com/announcements

🇯🇵Japan's lower house has advanced a bill that would reclassify #crypto assets as financial instruments, marking a significant step toward stricter oversight of crypto markets. Classifying crypto assets as financial instruments would place them under a regulatory framework similar to that governing stocks. The change would subject the crypto sector to stricter trading rules, including a ban on insider trading, while also paving the way for more favorable tax treatment. This could potentially reduce the tax rate on crypto gains from a maximum of 55% to a flat 20%, bringing it in line with the taxation of stocks and bonds. The bill advanced after receiving approval from the House of Representatives' Finance and Financial Affairs Committee. Submitted by the Cabinet in April, the legislation is expected to take effect next year if it is approved by the House of Councillors.

❌ Delaware and New Jersey have advanced bills that would ban #crypto ATMs as lawmakers respond to rising scam complaints tied to the machines. The bills would prohibit the ownership, installation, and operation of crypto kiosks across both states. Violations would be treated as unlawful trade practices, and operators could face penalties of up to $10,000. The Delaware bill also prohibits retail point-of-sale or cashier-assisted cryptocurrency sales that function similarly to a crypto kiosk.

#HSCLifeRules - Mykolas Majauskas, Global Head of Policy at @Bybit_Official, Hack Seasons Conference Cannes, April 1 AI is like electricity - it's not a product in itself, it's what powers the products. It's at every layer: internal reporting, auditing, forecasting, customer service, transaction screening, sanctions monitoring, markets forecasting, AI bot trading. But it's just a tool to bring new products and services to market I keep hearing crypto OGs at conferences talk about disrupting traditional finance like never before - but in reality, many of them aren't even at the table, they're on the menu, as major banks enter crypto and slowly eat them up. Unless they go back to the drawing board in DeFi and build new products, the times will be gloomy #HackSeasonsConferenceCannes

🏦 @Bitwise CIO @Matt_Hougan said financial advisors are now showing more interest in stablecoins and tokenization than #Bitcoin, based on meetings with more than 40 advisors this week. “This is the most important takeaway. Throughout crypto’s history, new bull market cycles have relied on a combination of new product breakthroughs and new types of investors,” he added. According to the expert, the adoption of new products is seen as a potential catalyst for an exit from the 2026 bear market, with #stablecoins, #tokenization, perpetual futures, and other real-world applications of #crypto beginning to gain traction.

#HSCLifeRules - David Vatchev, Head of Tokenization at @FasanaraCapital, Hack Seasons Conference Cannes, April 1 Accessibility is why treasuries grew so much - DeFi yields were so low compared to real-world interest rates, and on-chain capital had no way to access them. That's where most of the product-market fit came from. Yield matters: as DeFi rates compress and RWAs grow (especially when designed correctly to fit on-chain) we'll get sustainable DeFi yields comparable to real-world yields, instead of yields that just follow crypto or BTC prices. That's a monumental change for the ecosystem #HackSeasonsConferenceCannes

👾 Solana-based DEX @Raydium said that an exploit targeting its legacy AMM v3 program resulted in the removal of approximately $1.34M in assets from a small number of inactive liquidity pools. The affected pools included $RAY-$SOL, $USDC-$RAY, and $SRM-$RAY pairs, with the attacker draining roughly 150,000 $RAY, 5,600 $SOL, and nearly 900,000 $USDC, according to early estimates. #Raydium added that its current mainnet programs remain unaffected and are now undergoing a separate security review. The protocol also stated that all losses will be fully compensated by its treasury.

#HSCLifeRules - Liam Karwan (@KarwanLiam05), Head of Tokenization Business at @chainlink, Hack Seasons Conference Cannes, April 1 What's powerful about Proof of Reserve is that we make data composable. You don't necessarily need on-chain proof of reserve to show collateral value - you can have a PDF audit statement and people will trust you. It gets interesting when you put that data on-chain One thing we have is Secure Mint: Proof of Reserve is a continuous data feed you link to your minting function, so you can never overmint if there's no collateral backing it. That's the kind of use case we're excited about - making data composable on-chain #HackSeasonsConferenceCannes

📊 @cryptoquant_com sees #Bitcoin's bottom near $53,600 — its current realized price and a level that has historically marked bear market bottoms. Meanwhile, $BTC demand conditions remain "deeply unfavorable." #CryptoQuant estimates that total Bitcoin demand, combining speculative perpetual futures activity and apparent spot demand, fell by 652,000 $BTC last week, marking the largest weekly contraction since January 2022. Furthermore, 30-day ETF demand growth has dropped to negative 74,000 $BTC, the weakest reading since US spot Bitcoin ETFs launched in January 2024. Rather than absorbing selling pressure, ETFs are now contributing to net supply expansion as investors reduce exposure. At the same time, realized losses have yet to reach bear market capitulation levels — a phase of widespread panic selling typically seen during sharp market downturns.