On April 15, Hong Kong AI concept stocks saw significant declines, with Zhipu AI falling over 10% and MINIMAX-W and Xunce each dropping more than 5%.

Gate News, according to Gate’s official announcement Gate’s initial listing of Sentio (ST) includes spot trading and instant exchange, and it has launched the 339th HODLer Airdrop campaign. Users holding 1GT or more can participate for free and share 750,000 ST tokens. This airdrop will end at 2026-04-15 17:00 (UTC+8). Spot trading will open at 18:00 on the same day, instant exchange trading will open at 19:00, and withdrawals are expected to open at 2026-04-16 18:00. Sentio is a decentralized, AI-agent-ready blockchain data network that provides unified Web3 observability and a data platform, integrating indexing, querying, visualization, and alerting features. The project has been adopted by 70,000 users and 24 billion in customer TVL. ST is a BEP-20 standard token with a total supply of 1,000,000,000. The contract address is 0x70be40667385500c5da7f108a022e21b606045dd. In this campaign, the participation cap for VIP 0–VIP 4 users is 2,000 GT. VIP 5–VIP 9 users receive different amount bonuses based on their tier, and VIP 10 and above users have no participation cap. All airdrop rewards are 100% immediately unlocked.

More than 8,000 illegal cryptocurrency mining sites were found in the Irkutsk region of Russia, with a wide variety of disguises. Since 2019, the company has filed 2,170 lawsuits seeking $18.5 million in compensation. To stabilize the power grid, it plans to use AI to track down the illegal mining sites.

The U.S. Department of Justice has initiated a restitution process for victims of the OneCoin crypto Ponzi scheme. Victims who were harmed between 2014 and 2019 may apply for restitution, and more than $40 million is currently available. The scheme was launched in 2014 and resulted in more than $4 billion in losses for 3.5 million victims worldwide.

Gate News message, April 14, according to Gate market data, as of the time of writing, INX (Infinex) is trading at $0.01516. It is down 29.98% over the past 24 hours, with a high of $0.0296 and a low of $0.01413. The 24-hour trading volume is $9.0676 million. The current market cap is approximately $54.7882 million. Infinex is a crypto super app (Superapp) that aims to provide users with a unified experience across more than 25 blockchains by abstracting away the complexity of on-chain interactions. Infinex was founded by Kain Warwick, the founder of Synthetix. It includes Passkey authentication, cross-chain swaps and bridging, as well as native trading applications

Gate News message. On April 14, the Financial Times reported that OpenAI investors questioned its $852 billion valuation, saying the company’s strategy is shifting. Some investors said these strategic changes may make OpenAI more vulnerable to threats from competitors such as Anthropic and Google.

Gate News message, April 14, Scroll released an important proposal for protocol governance, planning to dissolve the Security Council and transfer protocol management permissions to the Scroll Admin multisig address. The transition is expected to be completed within the next ten days. Scroll said that the operating costs of the Security Council are no longer reasonable compared with the actual usage in the past few quarters, and the related resources should be better used for product development and growth. Scroll will work with major stakeholders to explore a new Security Council structure that is more suitable for current market conditions.

The Federal Security Service of Russia arrested three Telegram investment channel admins for manipulating stock prices through a "Pump&Dump" strategy, involving more than 55k trades across 19 large companies. Research shows that 11% of Telegram investment signals can affect stock returns, and more than 60% of investors rely on such signals. The central bank warned that it will monitor unusual transactions.

Gate News update: On April 14, after the U.S. stock market closed, the Dow Jones rose 0.63%, the S&P 500 Index rose 1.02%, and the Nasdaq rose 1.23%. The crypto sector moved higher across the board—Circle rose 12.09%, Solana rose 7.41%, a certain CEX rose 3.98%, Strategy (MSTR) rose 2.89%, SharpLink rose 2.76%, and Bitmine rose 1.08%.

Gate News message, on April 14, Lighter officially announced the launch of a Liquidity Partner Program, which will reward users who provide liquidity for RWA assets on the platform. The RWA asset categories covered by the program include crude oil, precious metals, U.S. stocks, and more.