Switzerland's consumer confidence index dropped significantly in March, reaching -42.9, according to Jin10. This figure is notably lower than the anticipated -32.4 and the previous value of -30.4. The decline suggests increasing pessimism among Swiss consumers regarding the economic outlook.

Investors directed $269.3 million into BlackRock’s iShares Bitcoin Trust on Thursday, marking its most successful day since early March, coinciding with the escalation of the US-Iran conflict. According to Cointelegraph, this influx helped reverse two days of net outflows among the 12 U.S. spot Bitcoin ETFs, culminating in a net inflow of $358.1 million. Bitcoin ETF inflows serve as a measure of both retail and institutional interest in Bitcoin. The Fidelity Wise Origin Bitcoin Fund (FBTC) followed with $53.3 million in inflows, while the newly launched Morgan Stanley Bitcoin Trust (MSBT) contributed $14.9 million on its second trading day, as reported by Farside Investors. Bitwise and ARK 21Shares' Bitcoin ETFs saw inflows of $11.7 million and $4.8 million, respectively, while Franklin Templeton and VanEck’s Bitcoin products recorded around $2 million. Since March 23, BlackRock’s IBIT has accumulated $1.5 billion in net inflows, despite a broader crypto market downturn that saw Bitcoin's price drop from a 2026 high of $97,000 to $72,100. Robert Mitchnick, BlackRock’s digital assets head, remarked in March that IBIT investors tend to be "disproportionately long-term buy and hold" investors, even amid significant selling pressure in the Bitcoin market. Meanwhile, Amy Oldenburg, Morgan Stanley’s digital asset head, highlighted in a Bloomberg interview that MSBT was the bank’s most successful ETF launch to date. She noted, "This is just the first of a long roadmap of new products on the asset management side." Morgan Stanley has also filed to list a staked Ether (ETH) ETF and Solana (SOL) ETF. With the recent inflows, U.S. spot Bitcoin ETFs are nearing a year-to-date net inflow. The Bitcoin ETFs concluded 2025 with $56.59 billion in net inflows and currently stand at $56.51 billion, just $80 million shy of returning to their initial inflow figures for the year.

Tria, a non-custodial financial operating system, has announced the integration of its global trading engine with the Aptos network. According to ChainCatcher, this integration allows over 500,000 users across more than 150 countries to directly access and trade Aptos assets. Users can now perform cross-chain exchanges and asset interactions within a single application without the need for cross-chain bridges. The collaboration aims to leverage Aptos's sub-second confirmation and parallel execution technology to provide users with a seamless transaction experience. Additionally, it seeks to further connect traditional finance, Web2, and on-chain infrastructure.

A well-known trader, identified as 'Set 10 Big Goals First,' has updated his trading positions, according to ChainCatcher. The trader's BTC short position has not triggered a stop-loss and has been increased to 2,567.49 BTC, with an average opening price of $71,554.61. Currently, this position is experiencing an unrealized loss of $1.374 million. Meanwhile, the trader's ETH short position stands at 38,465.22 ETH, with an average opening price of $2,248.74, resulting in an unrealized profit of $2.018 million. Overall, the trader's positions reflect a combined unrealized profit of approximately $644,000.

Binance will launch the Binance Alpha Airdrop today at 17:00 (UTC+8). This event uses the newly upgraded Binance Alpha Box model, with the airdrop pool containing tokens from multiple projects. Users with at least 240 Binance Alpha Points can claim a token reward on a first-come, first-served basis. Furthermore, this airdrop has three reward tiers: Common (60% of the reward pool), Rare (35%), and Super Rare (5%), each with a different Alpha Box value. Users will be automatically assigned to one of the tiers upon claiming. Rewards will be distributed proportionally based on the tier. If rewards are not fully distributed, the points threshold will automatically decrease by 5 points every 5 minutes.

According to Lookonchain monitoring, whales continue to buy HYPE. A newly created wallet deposited 5 million USDC into Hyperliquid to buy HYPE, and has so far purchased 59,200 HYPE, worth $2.39 million.

MarketVector and Coinbase Asset Management launched a new index that combines Bitcoin and tokenised gold to track modern store-of-value investments. The index uses a volatility-based model and quarterly rebalancing to balance risk and returns between the two assets.

The S&P 500 has experienced an 8% increase from its March 30 low, marking a recovery in U.S. stocks following the March selloff. According to NS3.AI, analysts from The Kobeissi Letter attribute this rebound to stronger market breadth and increased insider buying, which have provided support for the upward trend.

Stock perpetuals have faced persistent challenges, according to PANews. Ondo, a financial services company, has identified a three-layered structural explanation for these difficulties. The first issue is the inherent complexity of stock perpetuals, which can deter potential investors. Unlike traditional stock investments, perpetuals require a deeper understanding of financial derivatives, making them less accessible to the average investor. Secondly, the market infrastructure for stock perpetuals is not as developed as that for other financial instruments. This lack of infrastructure can lead to inefficiencies and increased costs, further discouraging participation. Lastly, regulatory uncertainties surrounding stock perpetuals contribute to their underperformance. The evolving nature of financial regulations can create an unpredictable environment, making it challenging for investors to commit to these instruments. Ondo's analysis highlights the need for improved education, infrastructure, and regulatory clarity to enhance the performance and adoption of stock perpetuals.

The Global RWA Digital Agriculture Ecosystem Summit, co-hosted by RWA Global Incubation Alliance and City Arrow Tower, is set to take place in Hong Kong. According to Odaily, the summit will focus on the application of RWA in agriculture and how agricultural infrastructure can be digitized and connected to global capital through financial structuring. The event will cover topics such as the construction of agricultural RWA models, IoT data-driven asset verification, and the pathways involving SPVs and capital markets. The aim is to promote the integration of traditional agriculture with the Web3 financial system. Strategic partners for the event include GreenX, GreenPro Capital Corp (NASDAQ: GRNQ), the Malaysia ESG Association, and the XGT Foundation.

On April 10, Solayer founder @Fried_rice highlighted on social media the growing reliance of large language model (LLM) agents on third-party API routers, which distribute tool call requests to multiple upstream providers. According to BlockBeats, these routers operate as application layer proxies and can access each JSON payload in plaintext during transmission. However, no provider currently enforces encryption integrity protection between the client and upstream models. A study tested 28 paid routers purchased from platforms like Taobao, Xianyu, and Shopify independent sites, along with 400 free routers collected from public communities. The findings revealed that one paid router and eight free routers were actively injecting malicious code. Additionally, two routers deployed adaptive evasion triggers, 17 accessed AWS Canary credentials owned by researchers, and one stole ETH from a private key held by researchers. Further poisoning studies demonstrated that seemingly harmless routers could also be exploited. A leaked OpenAI key was used to generate 100 million GPT-5.4 tokens and over seven Codex sessions. Weaker bait configurations resulted in 2 billion billing tokens, 99 credentials across 440 Codex sessions, and 401 sessions running autonomously in YOLO mode. The research team developed an experimental proxy named Mine, capable of executing all four types of attacks on four public proxy frameworks. They also verified three client defense strategies: fault lock strategy gating, response-side anomaly screening, and append-only transparent logging.

A high-profile memecoin gala hosted by Donald Trump at Mar-a-Lago is raising fresh doubts over both scheduling feasibility and ethics, as the event clashes with the White House Correspondents’ Dinner and draws scrutiny from U.S. lawmakers over potential conflicts of interest.

Get a comprehensive overview of DeepSeek V4, a trillion-parameter AI model, including its performance benchmark results, engram memory architecture, API pricing, and a comparison with GPT-5.4 and Claude 4.5.

After several rumors of delays, the highly anticipated DeepSeek V4 is about to be released.

South Korea boasts one of the world's largest retail cryptocurrency investor communities. A turning point is expected in 2026: retail investors will gradually withdraw, while institutional investors will begin to enter.

Bessant and Powell urgently convened the CEOs of systemically important banks such as Citigroup, Goldman Sachs, and Bank of America to discuss the cybersecurity threats posed by Anthropic's latest AI model, Mythos.

Binance is making a high-impact entry into the prediction markets sector, integrating event-based trading into its Wallet app while eliminating trading and settlement fees. The move positions the exchange to compete directly with incumbents like Polymarket and Kalshi in a rapidly expanding market now handling billions in monthly volume.

OpenAI is building a powerful cybersecurity AI model and plans to limit access to a small group through its Trusted Access programme.

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Regardless of whether the Iranian government will actually accept Bitcoin, the claim has gone viral globally, and perhaps that's the most important significance of the whole affair. The era of Bitcoin has arrived.