Gate News reports that on April 1, the U.S. Energy Information Administration (EIA) announced crude oil inventories for the week ending March 27 at 5.451 million barrels, well above market expectations of 814,000 barrels, with the previous value at 6.926 million barrels.

Gate News message: On April 1, according to on-chain analyst Ai Yi’s monitoring, the well-known crypto investor “Ma Ji Big Brother” has cumulatively contributed $1.94 million in trading fees to the Hyperliquid platform, while the losses on that platform have reached approximately $30 million.

On April 1, ahead of the U.S. stock market open, crypto concept stocks generally rose, with SBET seeing the largest gain reaching 2.02%. Others such as COIN, MSTR, and BMNR also rose as well. msx.com is a decentralized RWA trading platform that has already launched multiple U.S. stock and ETF tokens.

The Solana network faces pressure from declining DEX trading volume and SOL’s token price falling to $82.98, as it moves toward the $80 support level. Although trading volume dropped to $55.5 billion in March, Solana performs exceptionally well in the high-revenue DApp space, which still helps stabilize the price. Despite the challenges, analysts remain optimistic about SOL’s long-term outlook and believe that a short-term pullback does not necessarily mean the price will break below $75.

Oskar Thoren of the Ethereum Foundation said at the EthCC conference that privacy should be core infrastructure for Ethereum, emphasizing the importance of protecting business strategies and transaction privacy, as well as how the maturity of privacy technologies supports institutions. He introduced three R&D directions of the Privacy Maintainers team: privacy writing, privacy reading, and privacy proofs, to advance Ethereum’s privacy protection.

OpenEden announces that the team and advisor tokens will be locked up for another 9 months, extending the overall vesting period to January 2027. This decision reflects its long-term development strategy, and the team will focus on expanding the range of applications and deepening institutional as well as DeFi integrations.

As of March 31, 2026, Bitcoin and Ethereum returns for Q1 were -23.15% and -31.81%, respectively, far below their historical averages. At the same time, the April average returns for Bitcoin and Ethereum have historically performed well, at +13.06% and +19.98%, respectively.

On March 31, the overall crypto market saw a modest rise, with the RWA sector performing especially well, up 2.16%. Keeta rose 33.75%, major coins like Bitcoin rose 1.87%, and Ethereum rose 3.15%. Other sectors such as DeFi and Layer2 also saw slight gains.

The current price of the SIREN token is $1.80, with a 24-hour increase of 16.46%. The project SirenAI combines AI and blockchain to provide smart investment and decentralized finance solutions. However, the token is highly concentrated in a few addresses, raising market risks, and the controlling party is suspected to be the well-known investment firm DWF Labs. Investment should be approached with caution.

Gate News reports that on March 30, the probability for the prediction event "Where will the next diplomatic meeting between the US and Iran be held?" on Polymarket quickly rose to 59% for Pakistan this morning, an increase of 21% in 24 hours. Earlier today, Trump stated that he has been conducting indirect negotiations with Iran through a "special envoy" from Pakistan, and that progress is going well.