Gate Crypto Flash News and Market Updates

Gate News message, April 6, Onchain Lens monitoring shows that a whale address deposited 31 million STO tokens (worth about $5.86 million) in batches into multiple CEXs. This operation enabled the whale to profit by approximately $1.37 million. On-chain data shows that this address previously withdrew 31.06 million STO tokens from a certain CEX; at that time, the cost was about $4.49 million.

Gate News report: On April 6, according to Lookonchain monitoring, ETH has returned above $2,100. Within the past 2 hours, a newly created address deposited 3.98 million USDC into Hyperliquid and shorted 9,526 ETH using 20x leverage (worth $20.25 million). It is currently down $255k unrealized.

Gate News message, James Wynn(@JamesWynnReal) experienced another liquidation as the market rallied. Over the past two weeks, he has been liquidated six times.

This week will see multiple token unlocks totaling more than $36 million. The main ones include APT, BABY, and LINEA, among others, with unlock dates concentrated from April 6 to April 13, impacting the share of circulating supply for each.

Gate News message, Trader @thomasg_eth sold 11,409 ETH valued at $23.47 million and 13,150 AAVE valued at $1.21 million two hours ago. The total transaction value reached approximately $24.68 million.

Gate News message, April 6, the Bahraini foreign minister called on the United Nations to pass a resolution authorizing the use of force to clear the Strait of Hormuz to avert a humanitarian and economic crisis. The Bahraini foreign minister said: "This draft is not seeking to escalate the situation, but is intended to provide a framework to prevent the international system from further collapse by emphasizing the necessity of protecting freedom of navigation and transit and preventing further attacks."

Arthur Hayes said on a podcast that, because the Federal Reserve has not expanded liquidity, he will not put more money into Bitcoin. He expects his medium- to long-term target price to be between $250,000 and $750,000. He warned that if the Iran–U.S. conflict continues, Bitcoin could fall below $60,000 in the short term. Meanwhile, Charles Schwab will launch spot trading for Bitcoin and Ethereum. Research shows that after major shocks, Bitcoin has performed better than gold and the S&P 500, and its current price has rebounded to $67,300.

Gate News news, on April 6, local time April 6, the yield on 10-year newly issued Japanese government bonds, which is a benchmark for Japan’s long-term interest rates, briefly rose to 2.400%, the highest level since February 1999.

Gate News message, April 6, according to Alternative.me data, today the Crypto Fear & Greed Index rose to 13, up 1 point from yesterday’s 12. Despite the index recovering, market sentiment is still in an “extreme fear” state.

Attorney Ariel Givner said that the 280M-dollar attack incident involving the Drift Protocol, which resulted from failing to follow basic security procedures, could amount to civil negligence. The attacker, after 6 months of planning, used a trusting relationship to steal the developers’ devices; there is already a class-action lawsuit advertisement targeting Drift circulating.

Gate News message: On April 6, market data shows that Bitcoin has broken through 68,000 USDT; it is currently trading at 68,007.46 USDT, with a intraday gain of 1.05%.

According to CryptoRank data, political-topic trading volume is the highest in the market during the first quarter of 2026, while sports-related trading makes up only a small portion. The top five assets by trading volume are all related to political events, indicating the market’s focus on political forecasting.

Visa executives, during their visit to South Korea, said that the country is the best place to conduct stablecoin experiments, with 17 million cryptocurrency investors, and strong performance in the field of artificial intelligence. Visa is optimistic about South Korea’s future potential in combining stablecoin and AI businesses.

Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps jointly launched the “True Promise-4” operation on April 5, striking multiple facilities related to Israel and the United States, including the Haifa oil refinery and natural gas and petrochemical plants in the UAE, causing the facilities to halt operations and widespread fires.

According to Ember monitoring, in the first month of Spark’s buyback program, 571,957 USDS were repurchased, and 26.6 million SPK were purchased at an average price of $0.0215. The expected annual buyback will reach 12% of the circulating supply, about 320 million SPK.

Gate News message, April 6, on-chain investigator @tayvano_ posted and disclosed that North Korean IT workers had participated in building multiple well-known crypto protocols, with projects that can be traced back to the DeFi Summer era, including SushiSwap, THORChain, Harmony, Ankr, Shib, and Yearn. @tayvano_ also added that the “7 years of blockchain development experience” marked on these North Korean IT workers’ resumes is not false.

Gate News message. On April 6, according to today's CME “FedWatch” data, the probability that the Federal Reserve keeps interest rates unchanged in April is 98.4%, and the probability of a 25-basis-point rate hike is 1.6%. The probability that the Federal Reserve will keep interest rates unchanged cumulatively by June is 96.6%, the probability of cumulative 25-basis-point rate cuts is 1.8%, and the probability of cumulative 25-basis-point rate hikes is 1.5%.

Gate News: According to the latest Gate TradFi data, VIX (VIX) has dropped by 1.5% in a short period. Current volatility is significantly higher than recent averages, indicating increased market activity.

Gate News bot 消息，Gate 行情显示，BTC 突破 69000 USDT，现价 69028 USDT。

Gate News message, on April 5, the ETH price broke through the 2100 USDT mark, and is currently trading at 2101.17 USDT, with a 24-hour gain of 1.7%.