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Golden Ten Data reported on April 25 that, according to US media sources on the 24th, aviation fuel reserves in California—the most populous and economically significant US state—have dropped to their lowest level in two and a half years due to Middle East conflicts disrupting global oil supplies. The Los Angeles Times, citing data from the California Energy Commission, reported that California's aviation fuel reserves last week were only 2.6 million barrels, down more than 25% from the peak of over 3.5 million barrels last year. The report stated that as fuel supplies tighten, air ticket prices are rising. Airlines are beginning to charge additional baggage fees to offset increased fuel costs. Some flights departing from smaller California airports have been canceled, and a few low-cost airlines are even facing the risk of bankruptcy.

BlockBeats reported that on April 25, the world's second-largest mining pool, F2Pool, announced it will launch the NAT block distribution mechanism on April 27. Miners will be able to receive NAT rewards while mining BTC at the same time, officially expanding the dual-layer block revenue model to major mining pools. NAT (DMT-NAT) is positioned as a Bitcoin-native companion asset, sharing the same computing power, public blockchain, block, and address as BTC. It is produced every ten minutes with each block, with approximately 386 million NAT generated per block, currently valued at about $100 per block, and a total market capitalization of around $100 million. NAT has become the largest token by market capitalization in the Bitcoin ecosystem. Previously, SpiderPool was the first to support this mechanism. With F2Pool joining, NAT is expanding from a single mining pool to mainstream computing power entry points, promoting the new "mine BTC + earn companion coins" revenue model. Related analysis suggests that if the value of NAT continues to rise, it may partially offset miners' income decline after the halving, and explore new solutions to the Bitcoin network's "security budget" issue.

According to Odaily, Onchain Lens monitoring shows that a certain whale "0x2D2D" spent 200 ETH ($463,500) in the past 7 hours to buy 1.72 billion ASTEROID. Currently, this whale holds a total of 8.38 billion ASTEROID, worth $2.27 million.