BTC falls below the $79000 mark

On April 18th, according to TechFundingNews, OpenAI's $500 billion Stargate AI infrastructure project is considering expanding to Europe, with the UK, Germany, and France being major candidates. The project was jointly initiated by OpenAI, SoftBank, and Oracle, and the first large-scale data center has started construction in Abilene, Texas, USA. Although the core of the project still focuses on the US market, OpenAI CEO Sam Altman expressed a strong desire to bring similar projects to Europe. European countries have responded positively, with the UK launching the AI Opportunity Action Plan, France receiving over 100 billion euros in AI infrastructure commitments, and the EU announcing simplified AI laws and regulations to maintain competitiveness.

According to Foresight News, the decentralized secured trading infrastructure TradeOS will launch a Web3 native, trustless P2P free trading market. By using smart contracts to drive the direct and trusted trading of assets such as props, goods, or services between strangers, DeFi economy is extended to the off chain trading market, breaking through the Web3 cycle and unleashing a new round of growth potential. This market will be based on WebRoof technology (integrating zkTLS and TEE-TLS), using verifiable encryption proof to achieve a dispute resolution mechanism without intermediaries, breaking the monopoly of Web2 data and transactions, and building a new paradigm for peer-to-peer transactions. TradeOS is a decentralized secured trading infrastructure for Web3, dedicated to providing secure, trustworthy, and scalable free trading capabilities for C2C and B2B trades based on digital currencies. At present, it has received support from institutions such as Animoca Brands, HashKey, TON Ventures, etc.

OKX-BTC/USDT is currently trading at $84539.50, with a 24-hour decline of 0.26%. Please pay attention to market fluctuations.

Foresight News reported that according to Onchain Lens monitoring, a giant whale deposited 1000 ETH worth approximately $1.6 million into Binance 13 hours ago after a year of dormancy. At present, the wallet still holds 2001 ETH worth approximately 3.16 million US dollars.

According to Bitcoin.com, global retail chain giant SPAR is testing cryptocurrency payments in Switzerland. This retail group, which has over 13900 stores in 48 countries across Europe, Asia, Africa, and Australia, has recently been revealed to have accepted Bitcoin payments through the Lightning Network at its stores in Zug, Switzerland. This test marks one of the largest attempts by large retail chains towards cryptocurrency payments. SPAR's move demonstrates its interest in serving the growing group of cryptocurrency holders and its willingness to explore digital payment methods. Industry insiders expect that this experiment will provide important reference for evaluating the feasibility and customer demand of cryptocurrency payments in mainstream retail environments.