OpenAI CEO Sam Altman responds to the Molotov cocktail attack, admits he underestimated the societal impact of AI-related anxiety, calls for democratizing technology, and acknowledges mistakes in corporate governance, reiterating his refusal to comply with Elon Musk’s demands for control of OpenAI to ensure the company develops independently.

Gate News message, April 10, Denis Beau, Deputy Governor of the Banque de France, called for limiting the use of stablecoins in payments under the framework of the European Union’s Markets in Crypto-Assets regulation (MiCA), especially stablecoins pegged to currencies other than the euro. French regulators are strengthening oversight of crypto assets from multiple directions.

Bittensor co-founder Jacob Steeves responded to Covenant AI’s exit from the network, proposing to restart the subnet governance mechanism and bring in community votes to elect the team. He believes this is an opportunity to redefine the subnet’s form and criticized Covenant AI’s founder’s decision-making.

The Democratic Party of Korea plans to regulate tokenized real-world assets and stablecoins in the soon-to-be enacted “Framework Act on Digital Assets.” The proposal would require issuers to deposit assets with a trustee-managed trust institution, and classify stablecoins as a means of payment, subject to oversight by foreign exchange regulators. The bill bans earnings from idle stablecoins and calls for the development of interoperable technical standards, aiming to improve market transparency and safety. This marks an important step forward for South Korea’s digital asset regulation.

The Blockchain Association responded to the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission to Citadel’s claim that it should strengthen DeFi oversight, arguing that DeFi developers should not be subject to the regulatory framework applied to traditional financial intermediaries, and suggesting that an “innovation exemption” mechanism be advanced to promote innovation in on-chain assets and tokenized securities.

A Haitong Securities research report says that the conflict in the Middle East has gone beyond short-term impacts, causing capital and supply disruptions. Even if the situation improves, the market’s allocation approach will be different from spring. It expects the U.S. dollar and oil prices to perform better than anticipated. It also calls for paying attention to shortages of goods and supply-chain risks, and maintaining a cautious attitude toward market volatility.

Gate News message: On April 4, the Qwen3.6-Plus new model, released for only 1 day, climbed to the #1 spot on OpenRouter’s daily ranking among globally well-known large-model API calling platforms. Data shows that Qwen3.6-Plus’s daily call volume surpassed 1.4 trillion tokens, breaking the platform’s global record for daily calls to a single model.

The token supply model of Pi Network has sparked heated debate, and there is controversy over whether the tokens generated through user mining are fully owned by the community. Insufficient transparency has made some users cautious about the circulating supply and distribution structure, prompting calls for verifiable data. As the network transitions to the mainnet, transparency will affect user confidence and the project’s competitiveness.

At the EthCC conference, Protocol Guild contributor cheeky-gorilla said that Ethereum L1 core developers are paid less than the market, and that high-performance projects lure them away with higher salaries, which could cause critical roadmaps to stall. To protect the Ethereum ecosystem, they urged project teams to give back to Protocol Guild with a "1% Pledge," emphasizing the necessity of maintaining L1 development.

Investment bank Benchmark initiates coverage of tokenization platform Securitize, assigning a “Buy” rating and a $16 target price. It calls the company an “early shovel seller” opportunity in the tokenization wave, citing its comprehensive positioning across the tokenized asset lifecycle and a 70% market share, even though industry momentum remains strong. However, the broader adoption of tokenization still requires a clearer regulatory environment.