Odaily Planet Daily News: US Commerce Secretary Howard Lutnick stated during a congressional hearing that President Trump's "Gold Card" visa program has only approved one applicant to date. The program is seen as a replacement for the traditional EB-5 immigrant investor program. It allows foreigners to legally live and work in the US by paying at least $1 million, with a path to citizenship. Additionally, companies can pay $2 million per foreign employee, along with a 1% annual maintenance fee.
Howard Lutnick previously claimed that the program had sold $1.3 billion worth of slots within days of its launch and anticipated it could generate $1 trillion in revenue to help alleviate the US fiscal deficit. Although only one person has been officially approved so far, Lutnick stated that hundreds of other applicants are still under review. (Fortune)
According to a financial disclosure report, U.S. President Trump conducted dozens of bond trades in March, totaling millions of dollars. The latest report, released on Friday evening, shows a total of 175 transactions, the vast majority of which were purchases, with only 11 sales. Nearly all of these transactions were bonds, but they also appear to include some bank stocks.
The report did not detail each purchase, but the amounts of dozens of bond purchases were distributed across several ranges, with many reaching at least one million dollars. These bond transactions covered numerous issuers, including Nvidia (NVDA.O), General Motors (GM.N), Netflix (NFLX.O), and Boeing (BA.N). Trump also disclosed that he appears to have bought equity in Bank of America (BAC.N) and Wells Fargo (WFC.N). The specific amounts of the stock purchases were not detailed, but the total value of these four transactions was roughly between $130,000 and $300,000. (Jin Shi)
Odaily News: U.S. Army Special Forces Command Sergeant Major Gannon Van Dyke has been charged with illegally profiting over $400,000 by allegedly using classified military intelligence on the prediction market platform Polymarket to speculate on the arrest incident of Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro. Notably, Van Dyke had previously attempted to open an account on the competing platform Kalshi but was rejected due to failed identity verification and KYC checks. Polymarket stated that it proactively reported his suspicious trading activities to law enforcement authorities and fully cooperated with the investigation. This case is considered the first major insider trading criminal case in the prediction market sector, once again drawing market attention to the risk of insider trading on prediction platforms. (Business Insider)
Odaily According to SoSoValue data, yesterday (Eastern Time April 24), SOL spot ETFs recorded a total net daily outflow of $1.1736 million.
Among them, the Fidelity Solana Fund ETF (FSOL) saw a net daily inflow of $255,700, bringing its historical total net inflow to $158 million.
The VanEck Solana ETF (VSOL) experienced a net daily outflow of $1.4293 million, with its historical total net outflow now standing at $299,100.
As of press time, the total net asset value of SOL spot ETFs is $883 million, with a SOL net asset ratio of 1.77%, and the historical cumulative net inflow has reached $1.019 billion.
According to SoSoValue data, yesterday (Eastern Time April 24), the XRP spot ETF recorded a single-day total net inflow of $6.4382 million.
Yesterday, only the Bitwise XRP ETF (XRP) saw a net inflow, with a single-day net inflow of $6.4382 million. Its historical total net inflow has now reached $426 million.
As of press time, the total net asset value of XRP spot ETFs stands at $1.095 billion, the XRP net asset ratio is 1.23%, and the historical cumulative net inflow has reached $1.291 billion.
Odaily reported that Elvira Nabiullina, Governor of the Central Bank of Russia, stated that the launch of the digital ruble is indeed aimed at strengthening state oversight of fund flows, particularly in scenarios such as government contract spending, to enhance transparency and automate audit efficiency. She emphasized that the digital ruble is not intended for monitoring everyday payments between individuals, calling the claim that "the government wants to control personal payments" a misunderstanding.
Nabiullina pointed out that, from a transparency perspective, residents using the digital ruble is essentially no different from existing cashless ruble transactions. However, as a third form of national currency, the digital ruble will help reduce manual review processes and achieve partial automation of regulation. She also reiterated that the Central Bank of Russia will not force the public to open digital ruble accounts or mandate its use. Instead, it will promote voluntary adoption by highlighting its convenience and opening it up for public trials starting in September. (bits.media)
Odaily reported that according to Lookonchain monitoring, Grayscale staked 102,400 ETH, worth $237 million, through its Ethereum Mini Trust over the past 10 hours.
Odaily reported that as of the close of US stocks on April 24, Nvidia's stock price rose over 4%, pushing its market cap above $5 trillion. This marks the first time in nearly six months, since late October last year, that Nvidia's market cap has surpassed $5 trillion again.
A report released by Stanford University last week mentioned the rapid adoption of AI. The report stated that AI is being adopted at an unprecedented rate, with the adoption rate of generative AI reaching 53%, faster than the adoption speed of personal computers and the internet. However, DeepSeek released its new model, DeepSeek-V4, which features a million-character ultra-long context and achieves leading performance in China and the open-source field in terms of agent capabilities, world knowledge, and reasoning ability. This model was developed in collaboration with Huawei Ascend. The cooperation and adaptation of cutting-edge models with domestic computing power providers are expected to promote the use of domestic computing power, which objectively also poses a challenge to Nvidia. (Yicai Global)
The Odaily Seer Channel monitoring shows that in the Polymarket "NBA Playoffs Western Conference First Round G3: Spurs vs. Trail Blazers" prediction event, an account that lost nearly $1.5 million (address: 0xbd14b65383c15e0b0f64944ca000f9a2bc5dd62a) purchased $390,000 on the Spurs defeating the Trail Blazers, with an average opening price of 57.2¢; additionally, it purchased $70,000 on the Spurs covering a -2.5 point spread against the Trail Blazers, with an average opening price of 52.2¢.
The NBA Playoffs Western Conference First Round G3: Spurs vs. Trail Blazers will tip off today at 10:30 AM Beijing time. The series is currently tied at 1-1. For this game, the Spurs have ruled out Victor Wembanyama and Mac McClung; the Trail Blazers have ruled out Damian Lillard.
The Odaily Seer Channel continues to monitor the prediction market, spotting changes before the pricing.
Odaily reported that Musk's X Chat messaging app has officially launched on Apple iOS and is now available for use. The app supports X account login, end-to-end encrypted chat, screen recording blocking, and cross-device voice or video calls. It also allows users to delete messages for everyone, enable chat self-destruction after reading, or set messages to auto-disappear. (TechCrunch)
Nasdaq-listed company Aurelion disclosed that it currently holds 33,318 Tether Gold (XAUT) tokens. Based on the price of $4,719.15 per ounce on April 23, the total value of its holdings exceeds $157 million. The company also revealed that it has staked 10,000 XAUT, transforming the gold token from a pure reserve asset into a yield-generating collateral asset, while the remaining 23,318 XAUT remain unstaked. (PRNewswire)
Odaily reported that Aave posted on platform X, stating that its service provider has published an Aave DAO governance proposal. The proposal suggests allocating 25,000 ETH to participate in the ongoing "DeFi United" initiative. This ETH allocation will be used to support the asset backing of rsETH, helping it restore its peg as soon as possible and promoting the normalization of market conditions. This proposal aims to accelerate the risk management process for rsETH and stabilize the related DeFi market ecosystem through financial support at the Aave DAO level.
Odaily Planet Daily News: Nasdaq-listed company Nakamoto announced the launch of its Bitcoin Derivatives Program, which involves placing a portion of its Bitcoin holdings in Kraken’s compliant custody solution as collateral for derivatives strategies. Managed by Bitwise in a separately managed account (SMA), the program aims to generate ongoing premium income through covered call options and call spread strategies, while hedging against market value fluctuations caused by Bitcoin price declines using protective put options and put spread strategies. (Businesswire)
According to data from fees.pump.fun, Pump.fun spent 8,754.98 SOL (approximately $812,000) yesterday to repurchase 421.5 million PUMP tokens. Since initiating the PUMP token buyback program on July 15, 2025, the cumulative number of repurchased PUMP tokens has reached 125,866,560,136, valued at approximately $367,323,928. This has reduced the total circulating supply by 35.556%.
1. U.S. law enforcement offers a $4 million reward for information leading to the arrest of cryptocurrency money laundering suspect Daren Li;
2. U.S. Treasury Secretary Bessent rules out the possibility of extending exemptions for Iranian oil sanctions;
3. U.S. judge dismisses Musk's fraud allegations against OpenAI and its founders;
4. Bitmine stakes another 112,040 ETH, valued at over $260 million;
5. An account with only a 24% win rate bought $117,000 worth of NBA playoff Western Conference first round Game 3 bets on the Spurs defeating the Trail Blazers 2 hours ago;
6. Aave has secured pledge commitments of 69,576 ETH, with a remaining shortfall of only 5,505 ETH;
7. Polymarket VP of Engineering: Platform growth far exceeds infrastructure capacity, prompting performance and architecture upgrades;
8. A wallet allegedly linked to the WorldCoin team deposited 21.177 million WLD into a CEX, worth $5.57 million;
9. A suspected insider trader profited over $2.27 million by opening positions in both directions;
10. The Balancer hacker has swapped 14,300 ETH for 419.3 BTC.
According to on-chain analyst EmberCN's monitoring, the Balancer hacker started swapping ETH for BTC via THORChain yesterday. So far, 14,300 ETH have been converted into 419.3 BTC ($32.51 million). Currently, the hacker still holds 7,700 ETH on the Ethereum chain and 419.3 BTC on the Bitcoin chain, with a total value of $50.4 million. The assets stolen in November last year were worth $98 million at the time, but have since depreciated significantly due to ETH being priced at around $3,600 back then.
