Odaily Planet Daily reports that Seiji Adachi, a former member of the Bank of Japan's Policy Board, said on Tuesday that the Bank of Japan is likely to raise interest rates before July because the Middle East war has caused oil costs to surge, increasing the risk that the central bank will lag behind the curve in dealing with rising inflationary pressures. Adachi stated that the underlying inflation rate has reached the central bank's 2% target, and last week's Tankan survey showed that companies' five-year inflation expectations reached 2.5%. He said that the surge in oil prices and supply constraints caused by the war in Iran provide further justification for the central bank to raise its short-term policy rate from the current 0.75% soon. He stated, "The Bank of Japan would be better off raising interest rates to a level neutral to the economy as soon as possible," adding that Japan's neutral interest rate is likely around 1.25%. However, Adachi said that the possibility of a rate hike in April is "50%" because the war in Iran keeps markets volatile and obscures Japan's fragile economic outlook. (Jinshi)

Odaily Seer's monitoring shows that in the Polymarket "CS2 Match MIBR vs. EYEBALLERS" prediction event, an account that had lost over $370,000 purchased approximately $180,000 worth of MIBR winning positions at an opening price of approximately 60¢, corresponding to approximately 310,000 shares. The current price is approximately 58.5¢, indicating a slight loss. This match is a crucial game in the Swiss round stage of PGL Bucharest 2026, and its result will directly impact qualification for the playoffs. Odaily Seer continuously monitors the prediction market, anticipating changes before pricing.

According to Odaily Planet Daily, the FDV (Funds Deposit Volume) on Predict for the "Polymarket token launch day" event has plummeted across the board. Currently, the probability of an FDV exceeding $2 billion is 13%, and exceeding $10 billion is 6%. The official settlement statement reads, "If the FDV of the Polymarket token exceeds a specified value one day after the token launch, the market settlement will be 'Yes'." Today, Polymarket announced a comprehensive upgrade to its trading engine and the launch of its native stablecoin, Polymarket USD, which is also considered a Polymarket token launch, causing significant fluctuations in the probabilities of related events on Predict. Note: A similar situation occurred with MegaETH previously, but the MegaETH event settlement statement specified "launch a governance token," while Polymarket is limited to "circulating fungible tokens," and stablecoins also fall into this category.

Odaily Planet Daily reports that the Polygon Foundation announced the activation of the Giugliano hard fork on the mainnet on April 8th, expected to occur at block height 85268500, around 14:00 UTC. This upgrade aims to improve network final confirmation speed by allowing earlier block broadcasts, introducing fee parameters in the block header, and adding RPC support for fee data. The upgrade was tested on the Amoy testnet last month, with data showing a reduction in final confirmation time of approximately 2 seconds. The official notice advises node operators to update Bor to v2.7.0 or Erigon to v3.5.0 before upgrading. This hard fork is part of Polygon's "Gigagas" expansion roadmap, focusing on improving network performance and user experience.

Huoxun Finance reports that Alibaba's Qianwen App has upgraded its "In-Depth Research" function, adding a new financial analysis module. This module, in partnership with Tonghuashun, accesses minute-level real-time market data for over 13,000 stocks, while also integrating approximately 1 million listed company financial reports, announcements, and authoritative institutional research reports. Users can generate complete in-depth research reports with a single click using pre-set analysis command templates. These reports support automatic generation of visual charts and can be exported in Word or PDF format. The core technology supporting this upgrade is the Qianwen Agentic architecture, which possesses autonomous planning and execution capabilities. It can interpret user intent, automatically retrieve real-time data, and integrate multi-source information to output conclusions, with all key data clearly indicating its original source.