According to Odaily Seer, an account that profited $640,000 (address: 0x36257cb65f199caa86f7d30625bbc1250a981187) purchased over $490,000 worth of shares in the Polymarket prediction event for the NBA playoffs' Hawks vs. Knicks game. The average opening price was 70¢, and the total number of shares purchased was 707,559.7. The NBA playoffs game between the Hawks and Knicks will begin at 8:00 AM Beijing time on April 21st. The Hawks are the 6th seed in the Eastern Conference, and the Knicks are the 3rd seed. Odaily Seer continuously monitors the prediction market, seeing changes before prices are set.

According to NADA NEWS, JPYC, the issuer and operator of the Japanese yen stablecoin JPYC, announced that it has completed the second closing of its Series B funding round, raising approximately $17.62 million. Combined with the initial closing, the total funding raised is expected to be approximately $28.93 million. Participants include NCB Venture Capital, Metaplanet, Hokuyang Bank, and Yokohama Capital. The funds will primarily be used for system and application development, business expansion and recruitment, stablecoin issuance and redemption, trading, payment and management-related businesses, and new strategic investments. JPYC stated that as of April 15th, its cumulative issuance has exceeded approximately $13.21 million. It currently supports Avalanche, Ethereum, and Polygon, and is considering adding Kaia and Arc.

According to Lookonchain monitoring, in the past 10 hours, address "0xb581d667C53fd8a50bF7ffd817BE0E62DAA16F4f" deposited 9 million USDC into Hyperliquid to open a 3x leveraged long position of 200,687 xyz:BRENTOIL tokens, worth $18.08 million. This address still holds a short position of 254,771 SOL tokens, worth $21.6 million.

According to five sources familiar with the Bank of Japan's (BOJ) thinking, the BOJ is unlikely to raise interest rates next week. The dwindling hope for a swift end to the Middle East conflict has left Japan's economic and price outlook uncertain. While the final decision remains somewhat uncertain and depends on the progress of peace talks between the US and Iran, the sources said the central bank prefers to maintain the status quo this month to allow more time to assess the impact of the conflict. One source stated, "Given the current level of uncertainty, the BOJ might consider maintaining the status quo this month feasible." Another source echoed this sentiment. A third source said the BOJ is unlikely to raise rates, as the market has already fully priced in the possibility of no rate hike this month. These sources added that even if the BOJ keeps rates unchanged next week, given escalating inflationary pressures, the bank is likely to signal it is prepared to raise rates as early as June. (Jinshi)

According to Onchain Lens monitoring, an OTC whale (0xFB7) deposited 1,000 cbBTC ($74.02 million) into Coinbase, making a profit of $1.97 million. The whale still holds 2,000 cbBTC ($149.6 million) and 133,200 ETH ($31.62 million).