Roman Storm stated that despite FinCEN abandoning the proposed mixer rules, the US Department of Justice is still advancing the Tornado Cash case against him.

Token based cash fund issuer Spiko has completed a $90 million Series B funding round, led by New Enterprise Associates (NEA), bringing the company's total financing amount to $120 million. The Spiko tokenized cash fund business covers over 25 jurisdictions, with an asset management scale of $2.7 billion. The company plans to use the funds to launch more fund products, expand new markets, and increase team size. (Source: The Block)

Analyst Alicharts predicts that the peak of Bitcoin's bull market this round will be $190000, and Ethereum will be $8800. Peter Brandt stated that the market has entered a new bull market cycle for Bitcoin and has raised the target range for the end of 2029 to $300000 to $600000. Trader Killa predicts that BTC will break through historical highs from April 26 to August 2, 2027.

The Japanese government has decided at a cabinet meeting to impose additional sanctions on Russia, prohibiting the provision of operation, maintenance, insurance, and financing services to 35 vessels of Russia's "shadow fleet", and including 33 military related groups and 9 individuals on the asset freeze list, including those involved in using encrypted assets to evade financial sanctions. (Source: Reference message)

Crypto analyst Darkfost stated that Bitcoin has been closing above the capital cost benchmark of approximately $80400 for several consecutive weeks, and most of the market's invested funds are already in a profitable state. Market stability has been enhanced as investors' positions become profitable.