France's Lise Exchange has announced plans to conduct Europe's first fully on-chain IPO for aerospace company ST Group on April 9. According to Odaily, as one of the EU's initial DLT pilot exchanges, Lise has garnered support from institutions like BNP Paribas. The exchange's on-chain listing model aims to achieve rapid settlement and transparent equity tracking, directly competing with the tokenized securities strategies of Nasdaq and the New York Stock Exchange.

U.S. crude oil futures have continued their upward trend, surpassing $110 per barrel. According to Odaily, the price increased by 10% within the day, reflecting ongoing market dynamics.

Turkey's central bank reportedly sold approximately 26 tons of gold last week, according to Odaily. This move comes amid ongoing economic adjustments and strategic financial decisions by the bank. The sale is part of broader efforts to manage the country's monetary resources effectively.

CME Group has announced a significant increase in the average daily trading volume of cryptocurrency contracts for March, reaching 210,000 contracts with a nominal value of $7.98 billion. According to ChainCatcher, this marks a 19% growth. The micro Bitcoin futures saw a 6% rise in average daily contract trading volume, reaching 77,000 contracts, while Ethereum futures experienced a 53% increase, with 19,000 contracts traded daily. Additionally, the overall average daily trading volume on the CME platform reached 41.1 million contracts in March, setting a new monthly record with a 33% year-over-year increase. The first quarter also saw a record high, with an average daily trading volume of 36.2 million contracts, reflecting a 22% year-over-year growth.

Amazon's cloud computing division, AWS, has conducted high-pressure testing on the go-verkle implementation of Ethereum's Verkle tree at the EthCC[9] conference. According to Foresight News, researchers Ekleen Kaur and Everton Fraga revealed four major performance bottlenecks hindering the stateless implementation. Firstly, during tree updates, numerous shadow nodes are created that do not exist logically but occupy physical space, leading to approximately 35% redundancy in state data. Secondly, the design of database index keys includes a significant amount of duplicate path information, increasing storage overhead by about 50%. Thirdly, converting the memory tree structure to proofs involves extensive memory copying rather than pointer referencing, resulting in deserialization speeds that are 24 times slower than optimized theoretical values, potentially causing proof verification timeouts under high load. Lastly, the Verkle tree implementations in different language clients such as Go, Rust, and Nimbus generate proofs that are not mutually recognizable in specific edge cases, posing a risk of unexpected forks after upgrades. The researchers noted that AWS has submitted several optimization proposals to the Ethereum core repository, focusing on restructuring deserialization logic to eliminate memory copying. Once completed, node operational efficiency is expected to improve by over three times, laying the groundwork for the formal integration of Verkle trees.

India's Ministry of Foreign Affairs has refuted claims that New Delhi made payments to Iran for the safe passage of its vessels through the Strait of Hormuz. According to NS3.AI, the denial comes after Iran permitted Indian ships to transit the strategic waterway on March 28, during which several vessels were reportedly escorted by Iran's Revolutionary Guard.

Bitcoin is nearing a significant milestone, approximately 1,600 blocks away from reaching block 945,000, which marks the midpoint between its last halving and the upcoming one. According to NS3.AI, this pace suggests that the midpoint will be reached in about 11 days. The previous halving occurred on April 20, 2024, and the next is anticipated around April 2028.

South Korean authorities are investigating a series of revenge attacks reportedly orchestrated through upfront USDT payments. According to NS3.AI, brokers facilitating these attacks are demanding payments in USDT and compensating hired individuals with as little as $300 per month. Police in Gyeonggi Province have identified at least six incidents this year and are actively pursuing the masterminds behind these operations.

Banking sources say that data from the Turkish central bank shows the bank sold approximately 26 tons of gold last week. (Jinshi)

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