On April 10, Solayer founder @Fried_rice highlighted on social media the growing reliance of large language model (LLM) agents on third-party API routers, which distribute tool call requests to multiple upstream providers. According to BlockBeats, these routers operate as application layer proxies and can access each JSON payload in plaintext during transmission. However, no provider currently enforces encryption integrity protection between the client and upstream models. A study tested 28 paid routers purchased from platforms like Taobao, Xianyu, and Shopify independent sites, along with 400 free routers collected from public communities. The findings revealed that one paid router and eight free routers were actively injecting malicious code. Additionally, two routers deployed adaptive evasion triggers, 17 accessed AWS Canary credentials owned by researchers, and one stole ETH from a private key held by researchers. Further poisoning studies demonstrated that seemingly harmless routers could also be exploited. A leaked OpenAI key was used to generate 100 million GPT-5.4 tokens and over seven Codex sessions. Weaker bait configurations resulted in 2 billion billing tokens, 99 credentials across 440 Codex sessions, and 401 sessions running autonomously in YOLO mode. The research team developed an experimental proxy named Mine, capable of executing all four types of attacks on four public proxy frameworks. They also verified three client defense strategies: fault lock strategy gating, response-side anomaly screening, and append-only transparent logging.

A high-profile memecoin gala hosted by Donald Trump at Mar-a-Lago is raising fresh doubts over both scheduling feasibility and ethics, as the event clashes with the White House Correspondents’ Dinner and draws scrutiny from U.S. lawmakers over potential conflicts of interest.

Bitcoin's weekly report indicates that the ceasefire announcement, rising inflationary pressures, and the anticipated transition of the Federal Reserve Chair all point to a potential shift in market sentiment. Normally, these factors combined should have triggered more significant market volatility, but Bitcoin's overall reaction has been relatively limited. The market's muted response to multiple variables is noteworthy. Geopolitically, the ceasefire agreement reached under Trump's impetus remains highly uncertain in its implementation. Iran's influence in the Strait of Hormuz remains strong, with related shipping traffic significantly below normal levels. Technically, Bitcoin is clearly oversold, with some indicators showing marginal recovery. However, it's premature to conclude the downtrend has ended based solely on these signals. A similar oversold condition persisted for months in 2022, with some rebound signals appearing but ultimately failing to materialize. More important than whether indicators rebound is to watch at which price level will trigger market repricing and the outcome of two key events next week.

CITIC Securities has experienced notable trading activity, with its A-share transaction volume reaching 10 billion yuan and its stock price rising by 8%. According to Jin10, the company's Hong Kong-listed shares (06030.HK) have also surged, recording a 10.7% increase. This performance highlights the strong market interest and investor confidence in CITIC Securities across both the A-share and Hong Kong markets.

Huang Licheng, also known as 'Machi Big Brother,' has maintained a successful trading streak without liquidation for 10 days. According to BlockBeats On-chain Detection, he has completed 13 consecutive profitable trades, earning a profit of $1.14 million over the past week.

Starknet has announced that voting is now open for STRK holders on the v0.14.2 upgrade proposal. According to Foresight News, the voting period will end on April 16. The proposed upgrade includes the introduction of SNIP-36, SNIP-37, and SNIP-13, and aims to enable protocol-level S-Two proof verification, significantly reducing costs for privacy use cases and zk-thread applications. Additionally, the upgrade seeks to adjust the storage economic model to more accurately reflect network resource usage while maintaining cost advantages for developers. The StarkGate token contract will also be upgraded to optimize ERC-20 event indexing, verification, and token handling. Other internal upgrades are planned to prepare for the decentralized verification phase described in SNIP-33, including improvements in P2P, weighted proposer sampling, and the concept of virtual proposers.

Bitcoin's market response remains subdued despite recent geopolitical and economic developments. According to Foresight News, the announcement of a ceasefire, rising inflation pressures, and the anticipated transition of the Federal Reserve Chair have not significantly impacted Bitcoin's overall market behavior. These factors, which typically would cause noticeable market fluctuations, have resulted in a surprisingly calm response. Geopolitically, the ceasefire arrangement, influenced by U.S. President Donald Trump, faces considerable uncertainty in its implementation. Iran's strong influence over the passage arrangements in the Strait of Hormuz continues, with shipping traffic noticeably below normal levels. From a technical perspective, Bitcoin is currently in an oversold zone, with some indicators showing marginal recovery. However, it is premature to conclude that the downward trend has ended. In 2022, similar oversold conditions persisted for months, with temporary rebound signals failing to lead to a sustained reversal. The focus should be on identifying the price level that might trigger market repricing and the outcomes of two key events scheduled for next week.

According to Lookonchain monitoring, Machi Big Brother (@machibigbrother) has not been liquidated for 10 days and has made a profit on 13 consecutive trades, earning $1.14 million in the past week.

Silver is encountering potential technical resistance around the $90 mark, according to analysts. Rashad Hajiyev has outlined a scenario where silver could reach approximately $300. According to NS3.AI, The Long Investor noted that silver previously peaked near $121 following a January chart call and is currently trading around $74, which the analyst considers attractive once more.

According to on-chain analyst Ai Yi, the whale "First Set 10 Big Targets" updated its latest positions, failing to stop losses and increasing its short positions to $270 million, currently showing a floating profit of $644,000. Specific positions include: 2567.49 BTC short positions, opened at $71,554.61, with a floating loss of $1,374,000; and 38,465.22 ETH short positions, opened at $2,248.74, with a floating profit of $2,018,000.

A new meme coin inspired by Neukgu, a wolf that recently escaped from South Korea's O-World zoo, has been launched on PumpSwap. According to NS3.AI, the coin has a total supply of 160 million tokens and is supported by approximately $20,000 in liquidity. The associated X account has garnered 78 followers, although it connects to a nonfunctional website.

Get a comprehensive overview of DeepSeek V4, a trillion-parameter AI model, including its performance benchmark results, engram memory architecture, API pricing, and a comparison with GPT-5.4 and Claude 4.5.

After several rumors of delays, the highly anticipated DeepSeek V4 is about to be released.

South Korea boasts one of the world's largest retail cryptocurrency investor communities. A turning point is expected in 2026: retail investors will gradually withdraw, while institutional investors will begin to enter.

Bessant and Powell urgently convened the CEOs of systemically important banks such as Citigroup, Goldman Sachs, and Bank of America to discuss the cybersecurity threats posed by Anthropic's latest AI model, Mythos.

Binance is making a high-impact entry into the prediction markets sector, integrating event-based trading into its Wallet app while eliminating trading and settlement fees. The move positions the exchange to compete directly with incumbents like Polymarket and Kalshi in a rapidly expanding market now handling billions in monthly volume.

OpenAI is building a powerful cybersecurity AI model and plans to limit access to a small group through its Trusted Access programme.

Artificial Intelligence, AI Agent, OpenClaw, Anthropic, Q1 2026: AI Agent Completes Its Coming-of-Age Ceremony (Golden Finance) - AI Agent Completes Its Coming-of-Age Ceremony, Where Will Humans Retreat To?

Regardless of whether the Iranian government will actually accept Bitcoin, the claim has gone viral globally, and perhaps that's the most important significance of the whole affair. The era of Bitcoin has arrived.

Zhao Changpeng, Binance, from selling his house to buy cryptocurrency to going to jail and publishing a book: CZ's self-defense and self-mythologizing. Golden Finance, believe it or not, but he certainly did a lot.