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Mars Finance News, CEO of Strive Matt Cole posted on the X platform stating that Strive purchased 789 Bitcoins for $61.43 million, with an average cost of approximately $77,890. By 2026, the organization will hold a total of 14,557 Bitcoins.

Mars Finance News: According to official information, Strategy last week increased its holdings by 3,273 BTC at an average price of approximately $77,906, for a total value of about $255 million. The BTC return rate since the beginning of 2026 has reached 9.6%. As of April 26, 2026, Strategy holds a total of 818,334 BTC, with a total purchase cost of approximately $61.81 billion, and an average price of about $755.37 million.

Mars Finance News, according to Jintiao reports, Yuxin Bank economists stated in a report that the European Central Bank is very likely to keep interest rates unchanged this week, but is expected to raise rates by 25 basis points in June and September respectively. They pointed out that, assuming the economy remains stable, the likelihood of future rate hikes is greater than not raising rates. The European Central Bank will release its latest macroeconomic forecasts in June to more accurately assess the risks to price stability.

Mars Finance News: Spark Protocol released its Q1 2026 financial report on April 27th.
The report shows that the protocol achieved a gross return of $31.5 million (down 31% quarter-over-quarter), a net return of $6.91 million (down 30% quarter-over-quarter), and a net surplus of $3.46 million (down 47% quarter-over-quarter).
The protocol treasury reached $46.1 million at the end of the quarter (up 5.7% quarter-over-quarter).
Additionally, Spark launched an SPK token buyback program, investing $986k to repurchase tokens on the open market.
This quarter's revenue structure shifted, with distribution rewards becoming the largest source of net return contribution for the protocol ($3.31 million), surpassing Spark Liquidity Layer (SLL) net income for the first time.
The average deployed capital in SLL was $1.93 billion, with an average annualized return.

Mars Finance news: according to on-chain monitoring data, Gate’s hot wallet transferred out 299.999726 PAXG (approximately $1.4092 million). PAXG market data shows the current price is about $4,690.54, and the market value is about $22.60亿 (approximately $2.26 billion).

Bitcoin has retaken the 21-week moving average, the trend model has turned bullish, and the monthly RSI and weekly stochastic indicators are approaching the bottom, indicating a transition from a phase bottom to a recovery phase. If it remains steady at $78,000–$79,000, it may trigger an entry point and push toward the $88,000 range. The capital inflow is strong, with approximately $18.7 billion flowing back in April, and Strategy financing of about $11 billion continues to buy, making the market structure more stable than the previous cycle. In the short term, it is still affected by macro variables and may experience a gradual rise amid oscillations.

Mars Finance News, according to an official announcement from the Pakistan Virtual Asset Regulatory Authority (PVARA), all virtual asset services are subject to PVARA regulation and must obtain prior authorization before conducting business or making public announcements. PVARA stated that it welcomes responsible innovation and encourages relevant participants to engage early in communication, which can be done through compliant channels such as regulatory sandboxes, No-Action Relief Letters, and No Objection Certificates (NOCs) to carry out innovative activities.

Curve founder Egorov proposed converting impaired positions into tradable investment products to recover bad debt, with a pilot in the CRV-long LlamaLend market, estimating approximately $700k in bad debt by October 2025. He also established a Stableswap pool with about 71% solvency, allowing trading of impaired tokens and discounted purchases, with liquidity providers earning fees and the DAO accumulating management fees. Community feedback is polarized, with some questioning that the lack of immediate returns makes it difficult to attract buyers.

Mars Finance News: The AiQiCha App shows that recently, the company associated with the Mars unmanned vehicle, New Stone Technology Huitong (Beijing) Co., Ltd., underwent an industrial and commercial change. New shareholders were added, including the Beijing Artificial Intelligence Industry Investment Fund (Limited Partnership) and the Beijing China Mobile Digital New Economy Industry Fund Partnership (Limited Partnership), among others, while the registered capital increased to RMB 50.1685 million. The company was established in 2018, and its business scope includes artificial intelligence application software development, IoT device manufacturing, artificial intelligence industry application system integration services, and service consumption robot manufacturing.

Mars Finance News: French authorities recently launched a large-scale crackdown on a series of violent robberies targeting cryptocurrency holders, officially prosecuting 88 people, including some minors. These types of crimes typically involve criminals using violence or threats to force victims to hand over crypto assets. According to reports, since 2023, France has recorded 135 such violent incidents related to cryptocurrencies. This law enforcement action reflects that, as the value of cryptocurrencies rises, offline crimes against holders are experiencing a nationwide surge.

Mars Finance News reports, citing Jintou, that Goldman Sachs analysts said investors’ risk appetite has rebounded to pre–Iran war levels. With bets increasing that the worst-case scenario of the US-Iran conflict will not occur, stock market volatility has fallen sharply. U.S. retail investors have returned to the stock market, and automated trading has also driven stocks higher. In the four weeks through last Wednesday, investors pulled nearly $125 billion out of safe-haven money market funds, marking one of the largest fund outflows on record.

Mars Finance news: Strive CEO ColeMacro responded to a Grayscale report, saying the report notes that Strategy’s ability to pay STRC dividends over the long term depends on Bitcoin price appreciation. ColeMacro said demand for digital credit is enormous because it offers double-digit returns, low volatility, and credit risk is easy for investors to understand and is favored by them. He also pointed out that the report failed to address volatility and has shortcomings in its credit analysis.

Mars Finance News April 27 – The Qishang Online Ulanqab Intelligent Computing Power Center has officially passed registration. The total planned investment is 6 billion yuan, with the construction of 13 data center buildings, capable of deploying nearly 20k cabinets. In the future, a green computing power foundation integrating "source-grid-load-storage" deeply will be built here. The project promotes the operation of computing power through direct green electricity supply, energy storage regulation, and other methods, striving to achieve a "zero-carbon" goal. In the future, it will gradually realize 100% green electricity supply. (Wide-angle Observation)

Mars Finance News, according to the official website of the European Union Council, the EU officially approved the 20th round of sanctions against Russia in 2026, which is also the largest sanctions package in two years, adding 120 individuals and entities to the list, and exerting comprehensive pressure across multiple dimensions including energy, finance, military industry, and trade. In the field of cryptocurrencies, given Russia's increasing reliance on cryptocurrencies for international settlements under financial sanctions pressure, the EU has implemented a comprehensive industry ban on crypto asset transfers and trading platforms within Russia, while also sanctioning a platform in Kyrgyzstan that supports the stablecoin A7A5 issued by the government, and banning all transactions related to the cryptocurrency RUBx as well as any EU support for the development of the digital ruble.

Mars Finance News, April 27th, Alibaba's video generation model HappyHorse 1.0 has begun testing in a closed beta. HappyHorse 1.0 relies on a native multimodal architecture, utilizing a joint audio-visual generation approach, targeting content creation scenarios such as advertising, e-commerce, short dramas, and social media creativity, providing integrated production capabilities from intelligent generation to editing. The official website's pricing for 720P and 1080P video generation is 0.9 yuan/second and 1.6 yuan/second, respectively.

COSCO SHIPPING Energy Transportation announced that its wholly owned subsidiary, Dalian Haineng, plans to acquire 100% of the equity interests in COSCO SHIPPING Dalian Investment held by the controlling shareholder, COSCO SHIPPING, for cash of approximately 1.585 billion yuan, and to implement an absorption merger with it. This transaction is a related-party transaction but not a major asset reorganization. It is intended to integrate the energy chemical and hydrogen-based green energy supply chain, inject assets such as Dalian Investment’s under-construction VLGC and warehousing and logistics park into the listed company, so as to reduce related-party transactions and avoid competition among industry peers. With respect to payment, Dalian Haineng will pay the consideration using 40% of its own funds and 60% external financing. The company will increase its capital in Dalian Haineng by approximately 634 million yuan. The transaction will come into effect after it is submitted to and approved by the shareholders’ meeting.

Mars Finance News, German Commerzbank analyst Falkmar Bower stated in a report that if the Bank of Japan keeps interest rates unchanged on Wednesday and remains cautious about future rate hikes, the yen may weaken. He indicated that the market expects the Bank of Japan to give a fairly clear signal, suggesting a possible rate hike in June—at least on the condition that the Iran conflict eases by then. If this signal fails to materialize, the warning from Japan's Ministry of Finance about intervention to support the yen will "no longer be of much help." Bower said that in this scenario, USD/JPY could rise above 160.