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On April 7, the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) stated that it would focus on targeting infrastructure belonging to the United States and its allies, with the aim of preventing the U.S. and its allies from accessing the region’s oil and gas resources in the coming years. U.S. regional allies should also understand that, to date, the IRGC has exercised significant restraint in selecting retaliatory targets and acted with careful deliberation due to friendly ties with these nations. However, moving forward, all such considerations will no longer apply. (Source: Oriental Fortune)

April 7: Tehran has rejected any interim ceasefire agreement with the U.S., laying out prerequisites for talks on "lasting peace." Prerequisites include an immediate end to attacks, assurances no further strikes will occur, and compensation for losses. Under a permanent peace deal, Tehran is demanding fees for vessels transiting the Strait of Hormuz, with amounts varying by vessel type, cargo, and current transit conditions.

On April 7, a BlackRock strategist noted in a report that high energy prices are likely to show up in U.S. March CPI data due Friday. A Wall Street Journal survey of economists broadly forecasts the U.S. March non-seasonally adjusted CPI will climb from 2.4% (February) to 3.3%. The strategist added that the Middle East conflict has created supply chain bottlenecks, which are expected to drive up inflation. (FXStreet)

April 7 – Per HyperInsight monitoring data, two whales (addresses 0x9ab and 0x01f) holding ~$14M in BTC shorts and ETH shorts, respectively, closed their full positions nearly simultaneously within the past hour. Prior to this, both short positions had seen significant intraday position increases. Key details: - The BTC short’s average liquidation price was ~$69,683, resulting in a ~$165K loss. - The ETH short’s average liquidation price was ~$2,115, yielding a ~$65K profit. Both addresses now hold no assets post-closure.

On April 7, analytics firm Glassnode published an analysis of Bitcoin options gamma exposure. Bitcoin is currently trading in a narrow negative gamma range between $65k and $70k, where traders’ hedging activity can amplify short-term price volatility. Resistance is building around $72k, while downside support remains relatively thin. Should rebound momentum fade, downside risk rises significantly. Bitcoin Gamma Exposure (GEX) is a derivatives metric that primarily analyzes how options market makers’ hedging behavior impacts Bitcoin’s spot price volatility in the short term.

April 7 — On-chain analyst Ai Auntie (@ai_9684xtpa) reports a suspected Ether.fi investor has received another $6.01 million in tokens, three months after their last major allocation. The address **0xf10...e41aC** received 13.63 million ETHFI tokens from the Ether.fi Investors Allocation address four hours earlier. Over the past three months, this address has accumulated a total of 54.53 million ETHFI tokens, worth roughly $35.9 million. ### Notes on U.S. English adaptation: 1. **Conciseness**: Cut redundant phrasing (e.g., "according to on-chain analyst..." → "On-chain analyst... reports"), use numerals for dates/tokens/values (standard in U.S. finance media). 2. **Flow**: Added "major allocation" to clarify the prior receipt, "accumulated" instead of repeating "received" for variety. 3. **Approximation**: Rounded $35.898M to $35.9M (common in real-time finance alerts to avoid unnecessary precision). 4. **Formatting**: Bold the address (standard for crypto alerts in U.S. ou