The White House, along with the Treasury, SEC, and CFTC, is intensifying efforts to advance the CLARITY Act in the Senate, aiming to transform the regulatory framework of the $2.4 trillion cryptocurrency market. According to NS3.AI, the White House Council of Economic Advisers has indicated that prohibiting stablecoin yields would only marginally increase U.S. bank lending by $2.1 billion within a $12 trillion market. Additionally, a proposal from FinCEN and OFAC dated April 8 suggests categorizing U.S. stablecoin issuers as financial institutions under the Bank Secrecy Act. SEC Chair Paul Atkins and CFTC Chair Mike Selig have expressed readiness to enforce the bill, contingent upon congressional action.

Anthropic has agreed to lease data center capacity from CoreWeave to address the growing demand for its AI services, Jin10 reports. CoreWeave announced on Friday that the multi-year agreement will assist Anthropic in building and deploying its Claude AI model. CoreWeave's CEO, Intrator, stated that the deal will involve various Nvidia chip architectures within U.S. data centers. The financial terms of the agreement were not disclosed by either company. Anthropic, similar to OpenAI, has been at the forefront of the AI service surge, sometimes struggling to maintain its products online due to what it describes as 'unprecedented demand.' Earlier this week, Anthropic revealed a collaboration with Broadcom and Google to secure 3.5 gigawatts of energy, noting that one gigawatt of power is sufficient to supply electricity to approximately 750,000 U.S. households simultaneously.

According to the Arab media outlet Asharq News, negotiations between Lebanon and Israel will precede those between Iran and the United States. A preparatory teleconference was held today, with participants including Israeli Ambassador to Washington Nada Hamad Moawad, Israeli Ambassador to Washington Yeshir Light, US Ambassador to Lebanon Michelle Issa, and US State Department Director of Policy Planning Mike Needham. A face-to-face meeting between Lebanon and Israel is scheduled for Tuesday, chaired by Lebanese Ambassador Hamad Moawad. The Lebanese talks are now being overseen by US Secretary of State Marco Rubio and are completely independent of the Iran and Islamabad talks. (Jinshi)

Anthropic has agreed to lease data center capacity from CoreWeave to address the growing demand for its AI services. CoreWeave said in a statement Friday that the multi-year agreement will help Anthropic build and deploy its Claude AI model. CoreWeave CEO Anthony Interrato said the agreement will include multiple Nvidia chip architectures within U.S. data centers. The two companies declined to disclose the financial terms of the agreement. Like OpenAI, Anthropic has been at the forefront of the AI ​​services boom, sometimes facing what it calls “unprecedented demand” that has made it difficult to keep its products online. Earlier this week, Anthropic announced partnerships with Broadcom and Google to acquire 3.5 gigawatts of energy (1 gigawatt of electricity is enough to power approximately 750,000 U.S. homes simultaneously). (Jinshi)

The World Cup prediction market heated up today, with odds distribution becoming more dispersed and market divergence intensifying. Gate, a CEX integrated with Polymarket, reported that in the "2026 World Cup Champion" prediction market, Spain, France, and England have probabilities of 15.4%, 14.7%, and 11.3% respectively, reflecting both concentrated market attention on traditional powerhouses and growing uncertainty. Currently, users can directly access the prediction market through the Gate App, participating in event predictions using assets in their exchange accounts and trading with USDT, or conducting on-chain prediction transactions on the Polygon network via a Web3 wallet.

According to Lookonchain monitoring, a whale address that previously purchased 163,405 ETH (approximately $440 million) and 4,000 cbBTC (approximately $296 million) through over-the-counter trading sold 899,999 RAVE (approximately $229,000) at cost price three weeks ago. However, the price of RAVE has risen by 226% today, and if the address had not sold earlier, its current unrealized profit would be approximately $870,000.

ANZ and Goldman Sachs, among other institutions, say gold could rebound in the long term even if the Middle East wars disrupt markets. Analysts at these institutions cite resilient central bank demand, ongoing geopolitical uncertainty, expectations of a Federal Reserve rate cut, and diversification into dollar-denominated assets as reasons for a long-term bullish outlook. ANZ analysts Soni Kumari and Daniel Hynes stated that they expect prices to eventually recover as a deteriorating macroeconomic mix of economic growth and inflation paves the way for central banks to resume rate cuts. ANZ maintains its outlook, predicting gold prices will reach $5,800 by the end of the year. The analysts write that central bank gold purchases are expected to remain a key support pillar, with official purchases projected at around 850 tonnes in 2026. ANZ's bullish stance echoes similar forecasts from Goldman Sachs and RBC in early March. Goldman Sachs maintained its $5,400 forecast, citing continued central bank gold purchases and expectations of a 50-basis-point rate cut by the Federal Reserve this year. Goldman Sachs analysts previously stated that gold still faces tactical downside risks in the short term if the disruption in the Strait of Hormuz continues. However, prolonged conflict could accelerate the diversification of traditional Western assets, providing long-term support for gold prices. (Jinshi)

Caixin.com published an article titled "Financial Innovation or Insider Trading: The Rise and Controversy of Polymarkets," which points out that when insider information can be openly monetized, the boundaries of prediction markets have become blurred. This raises the question of whether it's "gambling" disguised as finance, or even insider trading. Regardless of the outcome of the legal debate over whether it's gambling or not, the fact that Polymarkets uses the USDC stablecoin for settlement and delivery poses a significant legal risk to participants within China. Previously, US Senators Merkley and Klobuchar introduced the "End Prediction Market Corruption Act," which would prohibit the president, vice president, and members of Congress from trading in prediction markets and require their spouses and dependent children to include prediction market trading activities in their annual financial disclosures.

The 17th Plenary Session of the China Artificial Intelligence Industry Development Alliance was held at the National Cybersecurity Base in Dongxihu District, Wuhan. Yu Xiaohui pointed out that artificial intelligence is rapidly entering the era of native intelligence, with four major trends worth noting: First, the capabilities of large-scale foundational models continue to break through, and programming capabilities are rapidly moving from "code completion" to "full-stack development of intelligent agents"; second, intelligent agent frameworks, represented by OpenClaw, are rapidly emerging, and the intelligent agent application ecosystem is experiencing explosive growth; third, the large-scale application of intelligent agents continues to activate the intelligent economy, and the rise in token consumption is driving rapid growth in cloud services; fourth, the security risks such as data privacy and abuse of permissions brought about by the rapid popularization of intelligent agents cannot be ignored, and security governance must be promoted in tandem with application promotion. He stated that the alliance will continue to focus on five aspects: technological innovation, application-driven development, ecosystem building, international cooperation, and security governance, to jointly create a new pattern for the development of the artificial intelligence industry. (China Academy of Information and Communications Technology)

Coinbase Asset Management announced a partnership with global index provider MarketVector Indexes to launch the Coinbase Store of Value Index (COINSOV), a value store index designed to integrate digital and traditional assets into a rules-based index framework. The index dynamically adjusts the weighting of Bitcoin and gold based on volatility and rebalances quarterly. While capturing Bitcoin's upside potential, it aims to maintain drawdown levels similar to gold, providing institutional investors with a value store tool that balances digital and traditional assets. (Businesswire)

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