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On April 7, 2026, according to publicly available data, 21 crypto projects have recently announced closures or significant service reductions, covering the four major areas of DeFi, NFT, wallets, and gaming. This is not an isolated incident but a concentrated reflection of industry structural adjustments driven by the long-term market environment.
Looking at the distribution of the projects that have shut down, in the wallet sector, Leap Wallet will fully close all products on May 28, Magic Eden has decided to shut down ME Wallet to focus on the NFT marketplace and infrastructure on Solana, with services ending on May 1. In the DeFi space, Angle Protocol has ceased stablecoin operations due to reduced activity and increased competition, while ZeroLend and Polynomial Finance have scaled back services due to insufficient liquidity and low trading volume. In gaming, Fantasy

As of April 7, 2026, according to Gate market data, the total cryptocurrency market capitalization is $2.35 trillion, with stablecoins totaling $319.1 billion. These two figures are not simply additive but exhibit noteworthy structural characteristics.
In historical cycles, stablecoin market cap and total crypto market cap usually maintain a high positive correlation. However, at the current stage, the stablecoin market cap has surpassed $315 billion, accounting for approximately 13.4% of the total crypto market cap. This ratio is significantly higher than the levels seen during the 2021 bull market peak. Meanwhile, Bitcoin's market dominance (BTC Dominance) stands at 58.2%, also near multi-year highs.
This combination—high stablecoin proportion alongside high BTC dominance—is not a typical bullish or bearish signal but rather a state of observation and...

As of April 7, 2026, according to Gate market data, the spot price of BTC has been fluctuating within the range of $68,000 to $69,000. Within this price range, the crypto mining company MARA was again monitored on-chain transferring 250 BTC to an external address, worth approximately $17.37 million. This is not an isolated incident—since early March, this NASDAQ-listed mining company has completed multiple rounds of large-scale sell-offs, with a total sale volume exceeding 15k BTC. As the industry’s leading “HODLers” begin systematic liquidation, what structural changes are occurring in the Bitcoin market?
Evolution and Key Milestones of the Mining Companies’ Sell-off Wave
In the first quarter of 2026, Bitcoin mining companies experienced a collective sell-off wave. Taking MARA as an example, its sell-off pace showed a clear acceleration: March

On March 23, 2026, Cboe Global Markets officially launched the Cboe IBIT Volatility Index (BITVX), introducing the VIX methodology to the Bitcoin market for the first time. Based on the pricing of iShares Bitcoin Trust ETF options, BITVX aims to measure the forward-looking implied volatility of Bitcoin over the next 30 days, followed by the launch of enterprise-level volatility index options tailored for companies holding more than 500 coins on their balance sheets.

In the first week of April 2026, the crypto market saw a concentrated batch of token unlocks. GoldFinger released 5.05% of its circulating market value as scheduled, totaling approximately $1.86 million. In early April alone, unlocks exceeded $300 million, and the market faced supply pressure. The effect of token unlocks on price is complex, depending on the unlock ratio, the behavior of recipients, and market sentiment. GF’s unlock is seen as a market test of its token economic model, and its performance will influence other projects in the RWA sector. Investors need to watch for risks stemming from information asymmetry and market volatility.

On April 7, 2026, The New York Times revealed an investigative report that sent shockwaves through the crypto industry and the global political arena. Argentine President Javier Milei had seven phone call records with project key figure Mauricio Novelli on the night LIBRA tokens launched on February 14, 2025; the timing precisely covered the period just before and after he published a promotional post on the X platform.
This news has once again pushed a crypto scandal that has been simmering for more than a year into the center of public attention—no longer merely a “Rug Pull” scam, but gradually evolving into a hallmark event that tests political trust and the bottom line of industry regulation.
Why has presidential endorsement become the new paradigm for Meme coin harvesting?
Over the past two years, the operating logic of the Meme coin market has undergone a significant

As of April 7, 2026, Bitcoin's price hovers around $69,000, with the spot market showing a typical sideways consolidation pattern. However, the underlying currents in the derivatives market are far more complex than the surface price movements suggest.
Implied volatility in options remains consistently higher than realized volatility, with demand for put options soaring to historic highs. Market forecasts indicate a 65%–68% probability of Bitcoin dropping below $65,000. These seemingly contradictory signals collectively point to a core proposition: beneath the "calm" appearance of the spot market, the pricing structure of Bitcoin options is quietly accumulating significant downside risk.
What explains the divergence between the sideways movement in the spot market and the pricing in derivatives?
Recently, Bitcoin's price has been oscillating within a range of $64,000 to $74,000, maintaining a relatively stable price trend on the surface. However, the pricing signals from the options market starkly contrast with the calmness of the spot market. Currently, the 30-day

From April 6 to April 12, 2026, the cryptocurrency market will unlock approximately $597 million worth of tokens, with the peak release occurring on April 10. The main project BABY accounts for 37.77% of the circulating supply, which may impact the price. Investors should consider the unlock scale, liquidity, and market sentiment to assess potential risks and market reactions.

The focus of cybersecurity attacks in the crypto space is rapidly shifting from code vulnerabilities to human trust layers.
On April 1, 2026, the leading decentralized derivatives protocol Drift Protocol in the Solana ecosystem was attacked, resulting in a loss of approximately $285 million. The platform’s total value locked (TVL) plummeted from about $550 million before the incident to around $230 million. Drift later released an initial investigation confirming that the attack was orchestrated by UNC4736, a hacker group linked to the North Korean government, and was part of a “six-month structured intelligence operation.”
This conclusion reveals more than just a security incident: as nation-state hackers shift their focus from discovering code vulnerabilities to infiltrating human trust over several months, the entire DeFi industry’s security paradigm is being systematically rewritten. Attacks no longer require complex smart contract exploits.

In March 2026, Google's Quantum Artificial Intelligence team, in collaboration with Stanford University and the Ethereum Foundation, released a 57-page white paper systematically analyzing the security threats of quantum computing to cryptocurrencies. The core conclusion is that the quantum resources required to crack the 256-bit elliptic curve cryptography (ECC-256) relied upon by Bitcoin and Ethereum are approximately 20 times less than previous best estimates. Specifically, under a superconducting quantum computer architecture, it would take fewer than 500k physical qubits to perform the attack, with the runtime compressed to about 9 minutes.
The significance of this discovery is not that quantum computers can already break Bitcoin—current hardware is far from capable—but that it compresses the timeline for "Q-Day" (the moment when quantum computers can crack current cryptography) from a distant theoretical issue to a calculable engineering window. Google has already migrated its internal systems to post-quantum cryptography (PQC).