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ChainThink News, April 3: According to Coinglass data, the Coinbase Bitcoin Premium Index has turned positive after 15 days of negative premium, currently standing at 0.0019%, indicating a gradual recovery in buying sentiment within the U.S. market.

The Coinbase Bitcoin Premium Index measures the deviation of Bitcoin's price on the Coinbase platform relative to the global average market price, serving as a key indicator for monitoring capital flows, institutional investment activity, and market sentiment dynamics in the U.S. market.

A positive premium indicates that Coinbase's price is above the global average, typically reflecting strong demand in the U.S. market, active participation of institutional or compliant capital, ample USD liquidity, and an optimistic investment sentiment.

ChainThink report, April 3: According to BitcoinTreasuries.NET monitoring, the preferred shares STRC issued by Strategy are expected to raise funds sufficient to purchase 4,535 BTC this week.

The monitoring data only discloses the BTC equivalent of STRC's fundraising volume for this week, without further details.

ChainThink News, according to News1, on April 3, South Korean drug kingpin Park Wang-yeol, aged 47, was transferred to the South Korean prosecution.

Park Wang-yeol is suspected of large-scale smuggling and distribution of narcotics from the Philippines into South Korea between November 2019 and July 2024. He allegedly received proceeds from drug transactions via bank transfers or Bitcoin e-wallets. To date, illicit gains have been confirmed at approximately 6.8 billion KRW (around $45.09 million), with the total scale of criminal activities reaching 13.1 billion KRW (approximately $86.86 million).

The South Korean Government's Joint Investigation Unit for Drug Crimes will focus on tracing concealed funds and conducting in-depth analysis of Bitcoin transaction records potentially linked to criminal activities.

ChainThink report, April 3: According to Arkham, a blockchain analytics platform, the Ethereum Foundation has carried out another ETH staking operation.

The recently staked ETH is valued at approximately $46.64 million, bringing the total accumulated ETH staked by the foundation to $96.59 million.

ChainThink News, April 3: According to official Binance announcements, the Binance Wallet will host the Sentio Pre-TGE event from 16:00 to 18:00 on April 7.

Users with sufficient Alpha can participate in this event by clicking the Pre-TGE banner within Binance Wallet, with a participation cost of 15.

ChainThink report, April 3: According to monitoring by 1M AI News, OpenAI announced two updates today: dedicated Codex seats are now available for ChatGPT Business and Enterprise workspaces, operating under a pay-per-token model with no fixed seat fees and no rate limits, charging only based on token consumption; simultaneously, the annual subscription price for ChatGPT Business has been reduced from $25 per seat to $20.

Previously, ChatGPT Business seats included Codex usage quotas but were subject to usage caps. Following this price reduction, the entry barrier for this pathway has decreased significantly. Qualified Business workspaces will receive a $100 credit for each additional dedicated Codex member added, with a team-wide cap of $500 in total credits.

OpenAI disclosed related usage data: over 9 million paid commercial users currently utilize ChatGPT for workplace productivity, while over 2 million developers use Codex weekly. Since January this year, Codex user adoption within Business and Enterprise tiers has grown sixfold. Companies including Notion, Ramp, AI evaluation platform Braintrust, and WebAssembly runtime Wasmer have already integrated Codex into their internal teams.

This adjustment coincides with the same week that Anthropic’s Claude Code faced controversy over usage limitations, positioning OpenAI’s strategy—unlimited speed, transparent per-token billing, and pricing reductions—as a clear differentiator.

ChainThink report, April 3: According to DefiLlama data, hackers stole over $168.6 million in cryptocurrency assets from 34 decentralized finance (DeFi) protocols during Q1 2026, marking a significant decline from the $1.58 billion losses recorded in the same period of 2025, primarily driven by the $1.4 billion theft incident involving Bybit.

The largest single attack this quarter was the Step Finance private key exposure incident in January, resulting in losses of approximately $40 million; second was the smart contract vulnerability exploit on Truebit on January 8, causing a loss of $26.4 million in Ethereum; third was the private key theft from stablecoin issuer Resolv Labs on March 21.

ChainThink report, on April 3, due to the overlap of the Qingming Festival and Western Easter holiday, financial markets across multiple regions entered a shutdown mode. Stock markets in Europe and the U.S., Hong Kong stocks, Taiwan stocks, and Australian stocks were all closed; commodities and WTI crude oil futures under CME Group were fully suspended for the day, while foreign exchange, U.S. equities, and U.S. Treasury bond futures closed early; Brent crude oil futures under ICE were fully suspended for the day; Shanghai Gold Exchange, Shanghai Futures Exchange, Zhengzhou Commodity Exchange, and Dalian Commodity Exchange did not conduct overnight trading.

According to Jinshi News, the U.S. March non-farm employment report is scheduled for release at 20:30 local time on the same day, with market expectations indicating a gain of 60,000 jobs, marking a reversal from previous negative growth trends. Given the critical importance of this data to the Federal Reserve’s interest rate trajectory, the results could trigger significant market movements as early as Monday, warranting close attention to associated risks.

ChainThink report, April 3: According to an official post from CoinGlass, Bitcoin price is confined within a range-bound zone as defined by BTC whale order book data.

Sell orders are concentrated around $67,500 and in the $67,950–$68,050 range, while buy orders are clustered between $65,600 and $65,800, with strong support near $64,900.

The market is currently not in a trending phase but rather in a consolidation state. If upward sell walls are absorbed, the bias leans bullish; if lower buy walls are lifted or consumed, the bias turns bearish. Until then, price action will remain compressed within the range set by major whales.

ChainThink News, April 3: According to 1M AI News monitoring, Anthropic has announced that Claude's computer use functionality is now supported on Windows systems and can be utilized within Claude Cowork and Claude Code Desktop.

This feature was initially launched in research preview form on macOS on March 24, and one week later achieved full platform coverage. Accessing this functionality requires a Pro or Max subscription plan.

The newly released Windows version is consistent with the macOS version—Claude can directly open applications, interact with browsers, and edit local files without requiring API key configuration or terminal environment setup; users can start using it immediately after downloading. Combined with the Dispatch feature, users can issue tasks via their mobile devices, and Claude will automatically complete the work on the PC. Claude prioritizes using dedicated connectors for services such as Slack and Google Calendar, resorting to direct keyboard, mouse, and screen control only when no connector is available, and will request user permission before performing any actions.

ChainThink report, April 3: According to on-chain analyst Ai Yi (@ai_9684xtpa), the address 0x35129365 completed a full liquidation of its ETH holdings three hours ago.

The address initially accumulated ETH on January 28 at an average entry price of $3,005.72. This time, it sold 1,323 ETH at an average exit price of $2,050.20, amounting to a total sell-off value of $2.71 million, resulting in a realized loss of $1.264 million. This marks the first transaction by this address since its initial position was established.

ChainThink News, April 3: According to Tasnim News Agency, Iran claims to have shattered the myth of American military invincibility.

Iran is currently alleged to be the only nation in the world that has successfully destroyed multiple U.S. "THAAD" missile defense systems, advanced F-35 fighter jets, several aerial refuelers, and three early-warning aircraft.

ChainThink report, April 3: According to an official announcement, the privacy email system Dmail Network has declared it will gradually discontinue all services starting May 15.

The official disclosure of the core reasons for shutting down includes: excessively high costs associated with decentralized infrastructure (bandwidth, storage, computation) making sustainable operations unfeasible; failure to establish a viable monetization model or commercialization path; lack of clear, large-scale use cases for the token and a closed-loop economic model; underestimation of the cooling trend in the crypto market; departure of key team members resulting in insufficient operational capacity, and unsuccessful attempts at subsequent fundraising or acquisition.

Users are required to export their email content to other platforms via the official portal before May 15. After export, users may apply for account deactivation, after which all data (emails, NFT domain names, linked social addresses, etc.) will be permanently deleted. Upon service termination, nodes will cease operation and emails will become inaccessible.

ChainThink report, April 3: According to Fortune, Mercor, an AI data startup valued at $10 billion, has confirmed a major security breach. The company supplies training data to AI firms including OpenAI, Anthropic, and Meta.

The vulnerability stemmed from a supply chain attack targeting the open-source library LiteLLM, widely used by developers to connect AI services with daily download volumes reaching millions. The attack was launched by the hacker group TeamPCP, who injected malicious code into LiteLLM to exfiltrate credentials.

Subsequently, the hacking group Lapsus$ claimed to have obtained up to 4TB of data from Mercor, including source code, database records, internal Slack communications, and platform conversation videos. Additional unverified reports suggest that some customer datasets and confidential AI project information may have also been exposed.

Mercor stated it has swiftly taken measures to contain the incident and has initiated a third-party forensic investigation.

ChainThink report, April 3: According to Ars Technica, Google has launched a major AI upgrade to its video editing tool, Google Vids, integrating the latest Veo 3.1 video generation model and Lyria music composition model.

Veo 3.1 can generate 8-second videos at 720p resolution. Free users are granted 10 generations per month, AI Pro subscribers receive 50, and AI Ultra users can generate up to 1,000 videos monthly. The Lyria model autonomously generates 30-second or 3-minute audio clips based on user-provided style descriptions, eliminating the need for manual lyric input.

In addition, Vids now features customizable AI avatars that maintain consistent appearance and voice across different scenes and can interact with objects within videos. Google has also released a companion Chrome extension enabling quick screen and camera recording, along with direct publishing to YouTube. All new features are now live.

ChainThink report, April 3: According to BeInCrypto, researchers from MIT CSAIL have released a new study indicating that AI chatbots such as ChatGPT may trigger a phenomenon known as the "delusion spiral" due to the "flattery effect," where excessive alignment with user perspectives gradually reinforces users' incorrect or extreme beliefs.

The study found through simulations of multi-turn dialogues between users and chatbots that even when bots provide only factual information, selectively presenting facts consistent with the user's existing views can still guide users toward biased conclusions.

The research also highlights that neither reducing misinformation nor making users aware of potential AI bias can fully eliminate this effect. As AI chatbots become increasingly widespread, such behavior may lead to deeper societal and psychological impacts.

ChainThink message, April 3: According to macro researcher Adam (@BTC__options) from Greeks.live, a total of 28,000 BTC options and 156,000 ETH options expired on the day. The BTC options Put/Call Ratio stood at 0.54, with the maximum pain point at $68,000 and notional value of $1.8 billion; the ETH options Put/Call Ratio was 0.73, with the maximum pain point at $2,075 and notional value of $320 million.

BTC options market share has clearly surpassed 80%, with trading activity exceeding that of ETH. Main-term implied volatility (IV) for BTC has dropped below 51%, while ETH’s main-term IV has fallen under 70%, and realized volatility (RV) continues to decline.

Adam noted that BTC underperformed in both price and sentiment during Q1, and the first week of Q2 remained weak, compounded by multiple DeFi project failures—indicating clear bearish market characteristics. Rebuilding market confidence will require time and sustained capital support.

ChainThink message, according to CryptoQuant analyst Darkfost, current Bitcoin profitably held supply is approximately 11.2 million BTC, while loss-held supply stands at around 8.2 million BTC—approaching typical bear market levels. Comparing to the 2022 bear market trough, where profitably held supply was 9 million BTC and loss-held supply reached about 10.6 million BTC, the analyst suggests this indicates the market is entering a significantly undervalued state, with a bottom potentially near.

Andri Fauzan Adziima, Research Head at Bitrue exchange, argues that this data reflects "increasing market pressure rather than undervaluation." A true bottom, he contends, would require deeper losses—such as loss-held supply exceeding 50% and profitably held supply falling below 45%, as seen in 2022. Currently, Bitcoin has declined approximately 52% from its all-time high, far short of past bear markets' 77%-84% drawdowns.

Additionally, analyst Timothy Peterson notes that dollar strength (DXY up ~5% over two months) and RMB weakness are constraining Bitcoin’s rebound, with the dollar’s attractiveness expected to diminish only by late 2026 or 2027.

ChainThink message, April 3: According to an official announcement, Drift Protocol has sent an on-chain message to the ETH wallet holding the stolen funds.

The official statement indicates that attackers can contact the team via Blockscan chat.

ChainThink report, April 3: According to data from Defillama, the prediction market platform Polymarket generated daily revenue of $1.71 million, ranking fifth among crypto protocols by revenue.

Since March 30, Polymarket has introduced taker fees on nearly all trading categories. The new fee structure employs variable rates, with peak fees for crypto-related contracts reaching up to 1.8%, dynamically adjusting based on share price and market conditions; sports, finance, politics, culture, weather, and general categories use lower tiered rates, with peak fees for certain economic and niche prediction contracts around 1.5%.

In addition, Polymarket team member Mustafa confirmed in response to community inquiries that the platform will support paying transaction fees using POLY tokens to receive discounts.