The UAE Denies Its Territory Was Used to Launch Attacks on Iran

April 3rd — Antpool’s cloud mining product (from the crypto mining pool Antpool) has caught the eye of plenty of new investors. The offering breaks down physical mining machine hashrate into smaller units, lowering barriers to hardware procurement and operation for users looking to get into mining. Antpool now offers full-platform access: users can subscribe with one click via the official website or App Store, enabling “buy now, mine now” functionality. The platform handles unified operation and hosting, letting non-professional users tap into professional mining farm-level hashrate resources.

On April 3, Hyperliquid officially announced that trading results from its binary market testnet are now immediately eligible for inclusion in its mainnet-level bug bounty program. Note: The current bug bounty scope does not cover multi-outcome markets. Frontend feedback is welcome but not eligible for program rewards. Previously, Hyperliquid had announced that HyperCore will support outcome trading (per HIP-4). Outcome contracts are fully collateralized, with settlement prices bounded within a fixed range. They act as a generic foundational transaction element for use cases including prediction markets and bounded option-like instruments.

April 3, the White House announced that Trump’s fiscal year 2027 budget requests $1.5 trillion in defense spending.

April 3rd: Iranian authorities reported an American pilot was allegedly captured by the Iranian military. Tasnim News Agency, an Iranian outlet, reported from Kohgiluyeh and Boyer-Ahmad Province that, per some sources, the pilot ejected and landed inside Iran after the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) shot down an advanced American fighter jet early local time. (Source: Jinse)

April 3 — Conflict in the Middle East has disrupted shipping through the Strait of Hormuz, sending global shipping costs sharply higher and pushing war risk insurance premiums for vessels to skyrocket. Additionally, shipping firms are factoring in freight rates, with industry insiders noting current rates have jumped 11 to 12 times. The mounting costs of insurance and rerouting are continuing to hit global trade and supply chain security, per CCTV Finance.

As of April 3rd, per Coinglass data: - A Bitcoin decline below $65,000 would trigger cumulative intensity of long liquidations totaling $1.143 billion across major centralized exchanges (CEXs). - Conversely, a Bitcoin rise above $68,000 would lead to cumulative intensity of short liquidations worth $754 million on these same platforms. BlockBeats Note: Liquidation charts do not display the exact number or value of contracts at risk of liquidation. Instead, the bars represent the relative importance of each liquidation cluster compared to neighboring clusters—defined here as "intensity." This means the chart shows how strongly a given price level will impact the market. A taller "liquidation bar" indicates that hitting that price will spark a more intense reaction due to a liquidity cascade.