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On April 13, two supertankers laden with Iranian crude oil, which are under sanctions, anchored at a port in India. This may mark the first shipment of Iranian oil to India in nearly seven years, coinciding with increased U.S. efforts to curb Tehran's exports. Since 2019, India has not received Iranian crude due to U.S. sanctions. However, a waiver last month allowed the purchase of crude oil already in transit, aimed at mitigating the impact of the Middle East conflict on global supplies. As the world's third-largest crude oil importer, India subsequently announced plans to purchase oil from Iran and other countries to address the energy crisis. Vessel tracking data shows that the Felicity tanker anchored near Sikka in western India late Sunday. According to the Equasis database, this very large crude carrier belongs to the National Iranian Tanker Company and is loaded with 2 million barrels of Iranian oil, which was shipped from the oil export hub of Khark Island in mid-March. The Jaya tanker began signaling on Sunday, indicating it was anchored near Paradip on India's east coast. Before the U.S. and Israel began attacks on Iran, this vessel loaded 2 million barrels of crude oil from Khark Island in late February.

Foresight News reports, according to monitoring by PeckShield, it has detected a suspected minting and immediate sell-off of 1 billion DOT (Polkadot native tokens) on the Ethereum network. Details of the incident are still being further verified.

BlockBeats news, on April 13, according to Colossus, Hyperliquid founder Jeffrey Yan received an investment proposal based on a valuation of about 1 billion US dollars and a scale of around 100 million US dollars less than a year after the project's launch. However, after careful consideration, he ultimately chose to reject this investment offer. The report shows that before and after the investment proposal, the team had been continuously maintaining operations "out of their own pockets," with the founder covering project costs with personal funds every month. During this period, Jeff communicated with multiple entrepreneurs and VCs regarding the essence and significance of fundraising, but he could not be convinced that "external capital would enhance its intrinsic value." In the end, he clearly informed the team on Monday that he was rejecting the funding proposal. Internal sources said that the team's financial managers were shocked by the decision, since much preparatory work around fundraising had already been advanced. Jeff's core reason was that Hyperliquid is not a traditional company, but an on-chain protocol that needs to maintain neutrality. He believes that once external equity capital is introduced, it may undermine the protocol's "permissionless and neutral" positioning, which would conflict with its long-term design goals. He once stated publicly that if Bitcoin had accepted VC funding in its early days, its "neutrality narrative" might have been weakened. Following the same logic, he chose to continue maintaining Hyperliquid's no-investor structure and to support part of the operating expenses with his own funds in the long term. On January 28, 2024, he summarized the project's principles on social media: · No investors· No paid market makers· No fees charged to the development team (or the development team does not take fees)· No insiders (or privileged internal participants) This declaration is also seen as the core annotation of Hyperliquid's "extreme decentralization/de-capitalization" path.