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On April 1st, Hack Seasons Conference lands in Cannes, co-hosted with @SpectrumNodes, for a full day of sharp conversations, real connections, and the ideas defining the future of digital assets. Register for free: luma.com/mixer_cannes Among the confirmed speakers: - Andrew O'Neill (@andrewoneill317), Managing Director, Digital Assets Analytical Lead, @SPGlobalRatings - Ophelia Snyder (@OpheliaBSnyder), Co-Founder, @21shares - Patrick Hansen (@paddi_hansen), Senior Director, EU Strategy & Policy, @circle - Daniel Seifert, VP & Regional Managing Director EMEA, @coinbase - Darius Moukhtarzade (@PapaDari_), Venture & Research, @21shares - Rafael Mastroberardino, Digital Assets Partnership Development & Strategy, @FTI_Global - Zach Pandl (@LowBeta_), Head of Research, @Grayscale - Paul Brody (@pbrody), Chairman, @EntEthAlliance - Matthew Dawson (@ismiMatthew), Enterprise Lead, @ethereum - Theo Golden (@TFGolden), Investment Manager and Tokenisation Lead, @BaillieGifford - Anya Nova (@Anya_Nova), Director EMEA at @GK8_Security by @galaxyhq - Ed Felten (@EdFelten), Co-founder, @OffchainLabs - Lorenzo Sicilia (@aboutlo), Head of Technology at @Arbitrum - Axel Mitbauer (@AxelMtbr), Western Europe Lead, @base - Nenter Chow (@50Nent), CEO, @BitMartExchange - Matthew Felice Pace (@mfelicepace), CEO, @SpectrumNodes - Emilijus (@emiiway_), Head of Ecosystem, @0xReactive - Ciara Sun (@Crypto_Ciara), Founder & Managing Partner, @csquaredvc - Dorian Vincileoni (@DorianKraken), Head of Regional Growth at @krakenfx with more TBA! 🤝 Media partners: @LunaPRofficial @0xPivot_ @Coinstelegram @blockchainrptr @coin_gabbar_ @cryptodotnews @CoinCodex @cryptovate_io @CryptoRank_io 🌐 Community partners: @solus_group @Coiniseasy @akindo_io Spots are limited, conversations won't be!

George V (@vargs_g), Strategic Partnership Lead at @0G_labs, joins Hack Seasons Conference Cannes on April 1. Register to catch George in Cannes: luma.com/mixer_cannes George leads strategic partnerships at 0G — an AI L1 with $75M raised and a mainnet built around decentralized storage and data availability for AI agents and dApps.

Most people think crypto's biggest battle is CEX vs. DEX. @MEXC_Official's COO says that's the wrong question. We sat down with Vugar Usi Zade, and his take on where trading is actually headed might surprise you. "The question isn't CEX versus DEX anymore — it's who figures out how to combine the best of both without the tradeoffs." In this interview, @usithetalk shares his perspective on the forces reshaping the sector — from AI agents outpacing human traders in real time, to why tokenized Treasuries are becoming crypto's most important product. Read the full article: mpost.io/coo-of-mexc-on…

📊While institutional players were exiting gold, retail investors were buying the dip via ETFs at record levels—during H2 2025 and Q1 2026, private capital poured roughly $70B into gold ETFs. Institutional selling began in mid-November and accelerated following the January correction in precious metals. The BIS attributed the move to overheated positioning, noting that smaller speculators had built up excessive leveraged long positions. The subsequent margin calls and forced liquidations across over-leveraged funds triggered a broader domino effect. Over the past two days, gold has corrected by nearly 10%, pulling back toward $4,500. A similar trend has been observed across silver and other metals.

Neo Liat Beng (@every1lovesneo), COO at @UR_global, joins Hack Seasons Conference Cannes on April 1. Register to catch Neo in Cannes: luma.com/mixer_cannes Neo has spent a decade building payments infrastructure across. At UR, he's applying that to a crypto smart money app designed for real-world use.

🤖 @cryptocom co-founder and CEO Kris Marszalek announced the exchange is reducing its workforce by approximately 12%, a move he attributed to a company-wide shift toward #AI integration. "We are joining the list of companies integrating enterprise-wide AI. Companies that do not make this pivot immediately will fail. Companies that move slowly will be left behind. Companies that move immediately and pair the best AI tools with top-performers will achieve a level of scale and precision that was previously impossible," @kris said in the post. In the comments on X, users criticized the decision, questioning whether layoffs can ensure success. One user said that AI is not meant to reduce the workforce; it is intended to increase productivity. Earlier, Kris Marszalek purchased the domain AI.com for $70M to launch an AI agent platform.

✅ The @SECGov has approved @Nasdaq to support the trading of tokenized shares, marking another step in the convergence between TradFi and digital assets. Eligible participants will be able to settle trades in tokenized form using the same ticker within a shared order book during a pilot program operated by the Depository Trust Company, a subsidiary of the @The_DTCC. If the DTC is unable to process a request due to #blockchain incompatibility, wallet issues, or broker restrictions, settlement will proceed in the standard format without the use of tokens.

Emilijus Pranckus (@emiiway_), Head of Ecosystem at @0xReactive @0xReactiveDev, joins Hack Seasons Conference Cannes on April 1. Register to catch Emilijus in Cannes: luma.com/mixer_cannes Emilijus builds the developer ecosystem for Reactive Network — infrastructure that lets smart contracts trigger and respond to on-chain events across EVM chains without manual coordination.

❌ @Meta announced that it is shutting down Horizon Worlds, the virtual reality social network for Quest VR headsets, which was once a central part of its pivot toward the metaverse. The app will be removed from the Quest Store at the end of March and will be fully discontinued on June 15. The company had invested heavily in the project over recent years, following reported losses of between $70B and $80B after its name change from #Facebook to #Meta in 2021, a move intended to reflect the company’s new strategic direction. Despite these losses, Meta’s market capitalization has doubled since that time. The decision to shut down Horizon Worlds comes weeks after the firm laid off more than 1,000 employees in its Reality Labs division, which, in addition to developing the #metaverse, also produces the Quest VR headsets.

Paul Brody (@pbrody), Chairman of the @EntEthAlliance, joins Hack Seasons Conference Cannes on April 1. Register to meet Paul in Cannes: luma.com/mixer_cannes Paul chairs the EEA — the industry body for enterprise Ethereum with members including Microsoft, JPMorgan, and Accenture. He wrote the book on it, literally: Ethereum for Business (2023).

📉 The #crypto market lost more than $100B in value over the past 24 hours as #Bitcoin and major #altcoins retreated amid a broader pullback across global markets. $BTC fell about 5% on Wednesday, trading below $71,000 after briefly reaching $76,000 the day before. Other major tokens recorded steeper declines, with $ETH, $SOL, and $DOGE each down between 5% and 6%. Meanwhile, oil rose to $112, while the Pentagon requested $200 billion to fund an operation in the Middle East.

We’re excited to see our Co-founder & Chief Scientist @EdFelten take the stage at Hack Seasons Cannes! 🇫🇷 Join Ed as he shares insights on the future of digital assets and onchain infrastructure. Don't miss it. 👇

Konstantins Vasilenko (@Maverick_LV), Co-Founder & CBDO at @paybis, joins Hack Seasons Conference Cannes on April 1. Register to hear Konstantins in Cannes: luma.com/mixer_cannes Konstantins co-founded Paybis in 2014 — now serving 180+ countries with $2.5B+ in cumulative transactions. He leads regulatory strategy across Europe, the UK, and the US, and tracks stablecoin flows closely: Paybis saw USDT volumes grow 423% YoY in 2025.

Konstantins Vasilenko (@Maverick_LV), Co-Founder & CBDO at @paybis, joins Hack Seasons Conference Cannes on April 1. Register to hear Konstantins in Cannes: luma.com/mixer_cannes Konstantins co-founded Paybis in 2014 — now serving 180+ countries with $2.5B+ in cumulative transactions. He leads regulatory strategy across Europe, the UK, and the US, and tracks stablecoin flows closely: Paybis saw USDT volumes grow 423% YoY in 2025.

⚙️ @ethereum has rolled out the Fast Confirmation Rule mechanism, reducing deposits from Layer 1 to Layer 2 or #crypto exchanges to just 13 seconds. This represents a 98% speed improvement compared to current network metrics, which rely on multiple block confirmations. Full finalization may still take up to 13 minutes. Development teams for client applications are already working on the implementation, with no hard forks expected for the update.

💬 Crypto Twitter discusses the investment track record of FTX and its team, led by Sam Bankman-Fried. A standout example is the AI company @AnthropicAI, whose valuation has risen with each funding round. @SBF_FTX recently stated that lawyers had convinced him that “Anthropic is worth nothing,” which led to the sale of an 8% stake for $1.3B. Today, an initial $500M investment in the company would be worth $30B. Several other investments show similar unrealized upside: ◽️$1B invested in @solana via Alameda in November 2022 would have grown to $5.1B. At the time, Sam Bankman-Fried was a well-known $SOL advocate and was reportedly willing to buy all $SOL from a prominent influencer at $3. ◽️A $648M investment in @RobinhoodApp would have increased to $5.7B. ◽️$100M invested in @SuiNetwork would have grown to $1.2B. ◽️$1.15B invested in Genesis Digital Assets would have reached $3.5B. ◽️#FTX also invested through venture firm K5, including a notable position in @SpaceX, where $700M would have grown to $3B. Additional smaller investments were also part of the portfolio. In total, these investments are estimated to have increased from $4.7N to $52.5B.

@BitgetWallet has expanded its Bank Transfer feature to Bangladesh, enabling users to convert $USDT and $USDC into Bangladeshi Taka and send funds directly to bKash and Nagad — the country's two dominant mobile money platforms. Bangladesh's mobile financial sector has over 238M accounts across a population of 174M, processing $260M+ in daily transactions. The integration removes the P2P middleman: no manual matching, no counterparty risk, direct on-chain-to-local-currency conversion. The rollout follows earlier Bank Transfer launches in Nigeria and Mexico, part of Bitget Wallet's broader PayFi network buildout connecting on-chain assets to local financial rails.

Pauline Shangett (@deeepmoist), CSO at @ChangeNOW_io, joins Hack Seasons Conference Cannes on April 1. Register to hear Pauline in Cannes: luma.com/mixer_cannes Pauline scaled ChangeNOW's user base 2x in six months and has since led the company's strategy across growth, partnerships, and development on a platform processing $1B+ in monthly volume.

🗳 Crypto governance solution @tallyxyz is shutting down after more than five years of operation. The platform had been used by major players such as @Uniswap and @arbitrum. The company’s CEO, @DennisonBertram, stated that the project did not attract venture capital attention due to the nature of its business, and with the arrival of a new administration in the United States, decentralization became a lower priority. “Tally was built on a particular vision of the future. Like many others in the Ethereum ecosystem, we believed we were heading toward […] the ‘infinite garden’ vision of Ethereum, a diverse ecosystem of protocols and communities that needed sophisticated coordination and governance infrastructure. That future hasn’t materialized. […] the industry has largely found product-market fit in payments and speculation. The rich ecosystem of consumer applications, protocol communities, and governance-heavy organizations that we expected simply hasn’t developed at the scale required to sustain companies like ours. For infrastructure companies built on that vision, the reality is difficult: the market isn’t there yet. We’ve spent years championing the DAO vision. But at some point you have to accept the world as it is […]” The protocol attracted around 1M users and dozens of organizations through its integrated infrastructure. At one point, the system secured $80B on behalf of hundreds of organizations. The project considered launching an ICO but ultimately decided against it, deeming it impractical.