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1. A new address accumulated 2,015 ETH, worth $4.13 million; 2. Economists: The Federal Reserve may find it difficult to cut rates this year; 3. Ethereum Foundation's staking amount reaches 46,000 ETH; 4. Iran: If the situation escalates, the entire Middle East will become hell for the US and Israel; 5. Iranian military rejects Trump's "48-hour" ultimatum; 6. Twitter co-founder Jack Dorsey's Bitcoin at Block will launch a free Bitcoin faucet; 7. Michael Saylor: There is now a global consensus that "Bitcoin is digital capital"; 8. Suspected Bitmine address purchased another 40,000 ETH, worth approximately $82.07 million; 9. Trump once again issued a 48-hour final ultimatum to Iran.

BlockBeats news, April 5, according to NBC reports, prediction market platform Polymarket issued an apology statement for allowing users to bet on the fate of pilots aboard a US fighter jet shot down over Iran. Previously, a US official said that a two-seater F-15E "Strike Eagle" fighter jet was shot down on Friday. One crew member has been rescued, but the other remains missing. In a market that was later deleted, users could predict when the pilot would be rescued, with most guessing it would be Saturday. The market was titled: "Will the US confirm the pilot will be rescued by...?" US Representative Seth Moulton—a US Marine Corps veteran who served in Iraq—sharply criticized the market in a post on social platform X, pointing out that people were betting while a dangerous search and rescue operation was underway in Iran. In response to Seth Moulton's post on X, Polymarket apologized and said the market had been taken down. The company wrote: "We have immediately removed the market as it does not align with our integrity standards. This content should not have been published, and we are investigating how it bypassed our internal review mechanisms."

Foresight News reported that Block co-founder Jack Dorsey introduced mesh-llm, a decentralized P2P inference project developed by Block employee Michael Neale, which allows users to pool idle computing power to run large open-source models.mesh-llm supports mainstream open-source models such as GLM, Qwen3, DeepSeek, and Llama, uses the MIT open-source license, provides an OpenAI-compatible API, and can be integrated with AI programming tools like goose and Claude Code. The project is currently in the experimental stage.