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1) Goldman Sachs has filed for the Goldman Sachs Bitcoin Premium Income ETF, a proposed fund that would offer indirect exposure to Bitcoin through investments in Bitcoin ETPs and related options, rather than by holding BTC directly.
The structure suggests an income-focused approach to crypto exposure, distinguishing it from traditional spot Bitcoin ETFs and marking a further step in Goldman’s expansion into digital asset investment products.
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2) 21Shares has filed a second amended S-1 for its proposed Hyperliquid ETF, indicating continued engagement with the SEC as the product moves through the registration process.
The updated filing shows the fund is expected to list on Nasdaq under the ticker THYP, while also outlining a structure that would allow the ETF to stake a portion of its HYPE holdings.
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3) Bitwise is moving closer to launching a U.S. spot Hyperliquid ETF, filing a second amended S-1 on April 10 that adds Flowdesk and Wintermute to the fund’s trading counterparties and finalises more of its market structure.
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4) Canary Capital filed a Form S-1 with the SEC today, seeking to launch the first spot PEPE ETF.
Structured as a spot ETF, the trust would hold physical PEPE tokens rather than derivatives, with a custodian safeguarding the assets, and could also allocate up to 5% of holdings to ETH to cover network transaction fees.
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5) Tether has launched Tether Wallet, a non-custodial crypto wallet supporting USDT, USAT, XAUT, and BTC at launch.
The product allows users to send funds to customised addresses such as name@tether.me, while transaction fees are paid in the same asset being transferred, removing the need for separate gas tokens.
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6) Societe Generale-FORGE has partnered with Consensys to integrate its USD CoinVertible (USDCV) stablecoin into MetaMask, expanding distribution for one of Europe’s bank-backed digital dollar products.
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7) Polygon Labs is reportedly in talks to raise between $50M and $100M in equity for a new stablecoin payments business, according to The Information.
The new venture is expected to be led by Polygon Labs CEO Marc Boiron and would deepen the firm’s push into one of the fastest-growing areas of digital assets, with stablecoins increasingly used for cross-border settlement and payments infrastructure.
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8) The Ethereum Foundation has launched a $1M Security Subsidy Program to help reduce the cost of smart contract audits for builders on Ethereum, according to their post on X.
The initiative is being run with Areta’s audit marketplace, giving selected teams access to more than 20 security firms, while subsidies can cover up to 30% of audit costs.
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9) Bitmine Immersion Technologies has uplisted its stock from the NYSE American to the New York Stock Exchange, with trading on the NYSE beginning on April 9, 2026 under the ticker BMNR.
The company also announced expansion of its share repurchase program from $1.0B to $4.0B, with buybacks to be executed in the open market under existing program terms.
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10) Bitmine Immersion Technologies has expanded its Ethereum treasury to 4.87M ETH as of 12 April, equivalent to roughly 4.04% of total ether supply, and with total cash holdings of $11.8B.
At current prices, the position is worth about $10.7B, making Bitmine the largest corporate holder of ETH and the second-largest corporate crypto treasury overall after Strategy’s bitcoin reserves.
The latest update also brings the company close to its stated objective of accumulating 5% of ETH supply, with last week’s 71,524 ETH purchase marking its strongest weekly buying pace since late December 2025.
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11) The number of staked Ethereum tokens continues to reach new all time highs, now reaching 38,847,025 ETH, which marks approximately 32.2% of the estimated 120.69M ETH supply.
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12) Strategy has expanded its Bitcoin treasury with a purchase of 13,927 BTC for approximately $1.0B at an average price of $71,902 per bitcoin.
This brought total holdings to 780,897 BTC acquired for about $59.02B at an average of $75,577 per coin as of April 12, 2026.
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13) Foundry, a digital asset infrastructure firm and operator of a Bitcoin mining pool, has launched a Zcash mining pool that has reached around 30% of the network’s hashrate with multiple institutional miners onboarded.
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14) Securitize announced on April 10 that it is integrating with the TRON blockchain, marking a broader expansion of its multichain tokenization strategy.
The partnership will make tokenized funds and securities issued through Securitize available on TRON, giving those products access to one of the largest blockchain ecosystems by user activity, transfer volume, and stablecoin usage.
The announcement also said the integration will support the launch of a new real-world asset product on TRON, with further details expected at a later date.
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15) TON, The Open Network blockchain linked to Telegram, announced on its official website that its Catchain 2.0 upgrade is now live on mainnet, bringing sub-second finality to the network.
Key changes include block times of around 400 milliseconds, transaction confirmation in roughly one second, and a new streaming layer designed to push updates to apps almost instantly.
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16) Visa has launched Intelligent Commerce Connect, a new solution aimed at helping businesses plug into AI-driven shopping through a single integration.
Built on the Visa Acceptance Platform, it supports secure agent-initiated payments, tokenisation, authentication, and spend controls across both Visa and non-Visa cards.
The product is already being piloted with partners including AWS, Aldar, Mesh and Payabli, with a wider rollout planned later this year.
Visa said the launch is designed to help businesses securely accept purchases made by AI agents at scale.
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Perle (PRL) is a Solana-based token that underpins a marketplace for human-verified AI data.
Public project materials describe PRL as a fixed-supply SPL Token-2022 on Solana, with mint and freeze authorities revoked, meaning the token has a fixed issuance structure, and the team cannot freeze user balances.
In practical terms, Perle is designed to connect enterprises, AI developers, and research teams with verified contributors who perform the annotation, validation, and review tasks needed for model training and evaluation.
PRL serves as the economic layer of this ecosystem, enabling payments for data services, rewarding contributors for completed work, and supporting a transparent, auditable record of contribution and reputation.
The logic behind the project is that advanced AI systems still depend heavily on high-quality human input, particularly in specialised or high-stakes domains where generic crowd-sourced datasets are insufficient. Perle proposes to organise that expert input more efficiently, verify it more rigorously, and align incentives around it using blockchain infrastructure.
Rather than focusing on AI compute or model ownership, the project is positioned around the data layer, specifically the idea that trustworthy human judgment remains essential to building and refining useful AI systems.
The platform is structured as a two-sided network:
This gives PRL a clearer use case than many tokens associated with the AI theme, as it is intended to operate within a live marketplace that links demand for high-quality data work with the supply of skilled human input.
What makes Perle particularly interesting is that it seeks to tokenise and coordinate human judgment as a productive input into AI.
This is a more concrete proposition than broad claims around “AI + crypto,” especially as increasingly sophisticated AI systems rely on expert feedback, edge-case review, reinforcement-style evaluation, and domain-specific data curation.
Perle’s thesis is that these forms of human input should be traceable, measurable, and economically rewarded within a transparent network.
If the model gains adoption, PRL could benefit from a reinforcing cycle in which enterprise demand for reliable AI data drives contributor activity, contributor activity improves dataset quality, and better dataset quality attracts further demand.
From a market perspective, the asset currently has public listings showing a circulating supply in the roughly 175–180M PRL range and a 1B maximum supply.