The United States will provide a $40 billion reinsurance commitment for vessels transiting the Strait of Hormuz, and will introduce new insurance partners to boost confidence in maritime trade. The DFC will work with multiple insurance companies to jointly determine which vessels qualify for reinsurance.

The latest research shows that Japan’s Gen Z has stronger risk-awareness in the cryptocurrency space, especially staying alert to scams on social media. Overall data indicates the main concerns include understanding how cryptocurrencies work, price volatility, and scam risk. Older groups focus more on technical complexity, while Millennials are the most active investors. About 50% of respondents have not been exposed to cryptocurrencies, and their information mainly comes from traditional news and social media, with YouTube having the greatest impact on decision-making. In the future, targeted education will be needed to increase user engagement.

Gate News updates, April 3, according to Gate market data, as of the time of writing, CTSI (Cartesi) is trading at $0.03927. Over the past 24 hours, it is up 73.51%, reaching a high of $0.05399 and falling to a low of $0.02185. The 24-hour trading volume is $8.881 million. The current market cap is approximately $35.6957 million. Cartesi is a Layer 2 foundational infrastructure designed to enable complex and intensive computing to run in a Linux environment outside the blockchain without affecting decentralization and security. Developers can work in a familiar environment without any artificial restrictions and can access well-known development tools. With the Cartesi Machine virtual machine, developers can launch a full Linux or

Gate News message, on April 2, Clem Chambers, founder of the European stocks and market news platform ADVFN, said that the crypto industry is moving out of a cycle centered on token speculation, and that the next bull market will be driven by real-world blockchain use cases. Chambers noted: "That era may have ended, and is heading toward its conclusion; what will replace it is genuine use cases." He advised investors to "forget financial primitives (Fi) and instead focus on applications—the actual use-case scenarios where tokens and blockchain are put to work."

Gate News report: On April 2, Galaxy Digital (GLXY) recently experienced a cybersecurity incident. Hackers carried out unauthorized access to its isolated R&D work area. The company stated that the affected environment is solely used for research and development and is completely isolated from core infrastructure, production systems, trading platforms, and customer accounts. The loss amount is less than $10,000, and customer funds and data were not impacted. Galaxy Digital responded swiftly, completing the lockdown and reinforcement of the compromised work area, and deploying additional security measures at the on-chain infrastructure layer.

2026-03-31 13:45 to 14:00 (UTC), the BTC price ranged between 66,978.1 and 67,410.8 USDT, with the 15-minute return recording +0.48% and a range of 0.65%. During this time window, market attention increased, on-chain and exchange interaction activity intensified, and volatility characteristics became pronounced. The main driving force behind this unusual move is whale large-capital withdrawal behavior from exchanges. On-chain data shows that whale wallets withdrew about $4.2 million worth of BTC within 10 minutes; in the past 24 hours, there were a total of 1,633 large BTC outflows, directly leading to the trading decline and increased market volatility.

Anchorage Digital CEO Nathan McCauley announced support for the newly formed U.S. bipartisan political action committee Blockchain Leadership Fund to help clarify the cryptocurrency regulatory framework. The move is an extension of the company’s long-term policy advocacy and, together with Chainlink, will work to advance legislation.

Gate News update: On March 31, Google’s Quantum AI team said in its latest blog post that the ECDLP-256 protocol, which most blockchain technologies and cryptocurrencies rely on, has security vulnerabilities. While viable solutions such as post-quantum cryptography (PQC) already exist, implementation takes time, and the urgency of anti-quantum migration efforts is increasing. Google has set 2029 as the timeline for post-quantum cryptography migration and is working with organizations such as a certain institution, the Stanford Blockchain Research Center, and the Ethereum Foundation to advance the related work.

Guan Yang Gao, a postdoctoral researcher at ETH Zurich, accuses Google of three major issues with the paper TurboQuant for ICLR 2026, including the incorrect definition of its relationship with the prior work RaBitQ, misassessment of RaBitQ's theoretical results, and unfair experimental comparisons. Gao and his team have submitted a complaint to ICLR and released a public comment, to which the authors of TurboQuant have expressed willingness to address some of the issues.

Backpack founder Armani Ferrante addressed community concerns on social media, clarifying that the team did not cash out via OTC trading, outlined holder rights arrangements, introduced a new witch review and handling approach, and emphasized that token performance is closely tied to the team’s interests—while pushing forward related work and product development.