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Elon Musk wants to monitor IRS data by creating a mega API, according to a report by Wired. To create the API, the Department of Government Efficiency or DOGE will organize a hackathon in Washington, DC, by next week. DOGE will work along with IRS leaders to organize a hackathon, and engineers will have two main tasks: dismantle the current IRS systems and build a new mega API that will control and oversee the IRS data. This means every taxpayer’s name, social security number, tax return, and other sensitive data will be accessed and manipulated by this mega API. The DOGE hackathon will be organized by Sam Corcos and Gavin Kliger, two of the IRS’ most skilled DOGE operatives. Corcos is a tech entrepreneur and CEO of Levels, a healthcare and tech company. He is also an adviser to Scott Bessent and “has been embedded at the Treasury Department,” according to a career federal employee. The Rolling Stone reported that Corcos has multiple ties to Elon Musk’s company, SpaceX. Kliger doesn’t have any experience working for the government. Before he started working at DOGE, he attended UC Berkeley until 2022. Then, he worked at the AI company Databricks. According to the New York Times, Kliger confronted security officials from USAID, accessed sensitive Internal Revenue Service (IRS) data, and joined in taking down parts of the CFPB website. Corcos talked about DOGE’s plans to have “one new API to rule them all.” This API will make it easy to access IRS data for cloud platforms. Application programming interfaces (APIs) let applications talk to each other and exchange data. In this case, an API will help in moving the IRS data to the cloud and this cloud platform will be a central point for reading all IRS systems. This means that anyone with access has the ability to view and use IRS data. According to an IRS engineering source, DOGE and IRS leaders will organize the hackathon, and engineers will start dismantling the old IRS systems and create a new API within the next 30 days. Once the new API is ready, Crocos said they will deploy it to the IRS’s mainframes and then apply it to every other internal system. Such a system will have access to all IRS data, including names, social security numbers, tax returns, and even employment data. Some sources told Wired that DOGE representatives spoke about the software company Palantir many times, making it a potential partner that will assist in handling the IRS data. Palantir was founded by Peter Thiel, a billionaire and one of Musk’s associates. At the moment, the IRS operates various systems hosted in on-site data centers and on the cloud, and these systems are separate and designed to function independently. Such systems has permission-based access and workers will only see data essential to their role. In a recent FOX News interview, Corcos said that, “The IRS has some pretty legacy infrastructure. It’s actually very similar to what banks have been using. It’s old mainframes running COBOL and Assembly and the challenge has been, how do we migrate that to a modern system?” Crocos stated that he was brought in to oversee the IRS’s modernization program, which is 30 years behind schedule and over budget by $15 billion. He is expected to continue his role at the IRS for six months. Cryptopolitan Academy: Coming Soon - A New Way to Earn Passive Income with DeFi in 2025. Learn More

Billionaire Bill Ackman has mentioned that United States President Donald Trump may postpone the tariffs for his benefit. According to his post on X, Ackman, a big supporter of the crypto industry, is now predicting that Trump will postpone the tariffs to make more deals. Bill Ackman is an American hedge fund billionaire who is the founder and chief executive officer of Pershing Square Capital Management, a hedge fund management company. Ackman has been quite vocal about tariffs in the past, once telling world leaders hoping to strike a deal with Trump to act fast. He noted that the US President loves to make deals and the earlier they make it, the better for all parties. United States President Donald Trump is expected to announce the implementation of his controversial tariffs on April 7, with the US president announcing that all imported goods will be subjected to a universal 10% tariff starting from April 5. The country is also expected to impose harsher tariffs on trading partners with which the US has the largest trading deficits, with those expected to kick in on April 9. However, the billionaire feels like he could pause the said implementations of the tariffs. In his post on X, Ackman mentioned the likely outcome that may lead to the postponement, noting that Trump may not have enough time for deals. “One would have to imagine that President Donald Trump’s phone has been ringing off the hook. The practical reality is that there is insufficient time for him to make deals before the tariffs are scheduled to take effect,” Bill Ackman said. “I would, therefore, not be surprised to wake up Monday with an announcement from the President that he was postponing the implementation of the tariffs to give him time to make deals,” Ackman added. He mentioned that the United States’ industrial base has been decimated over many decades, noting that it is important to have a president who finally cares. “President Trump has gotten the world’s and our trading partners’ attention and elevated the importance of resolving an unfair tariff regime that has harmed American workers and decimated our industrial base over many decades. This is a critically important issue that needs to be resolved, and we finally have a president committed to getting this done,” he said. Bill Ackman also highlighted that the current issue cannot be resolved in days, noting that a delay will give the president time to prepare for changes. “The problem, however, can’t be resolved in days, so why wouldn’t a pause make sense to give the president time to properly resolve this critical issue and to allow companies large and small the time to prepare for changes in their supply chains?” he added. Finally, he added that the risks of not taking enough days to access things could prove costly, mentioning that the increase in uncertainty could drive the United States into a potentially severe recession. Noting the significance of Monday, he said, “One thing is for sure. Monday will be one of the more interesting days in our country’s economic history.” After the Trump announcement on April 2, the US stock market shed more value during the April 4 trading session than what the entire crypto market is worth. The fact that crypto performed better than the stock market after the announcement was a talking point for both industry supporters and critics. Popular crypto industry figures like BitMEX co-founder Arthur Hayes and Gemini co-founder Cameron Winklevoss recently showed their support for the tariffs. “For 50 years our country has sold out Main Street in favor of Wall Street. Past Presidents have relentlessly pursued globalization deindustrialization policies that favored Capital and decimated the American middle class. Time for change. Tariffs are going to reset bad trade relationships, build back the middle class, and Make America Great Again. If it requires short-term pain in the form of a market selloff for long-term nation-saving gain, then I’m ok with it,” Cameron Winklevoss said in a post on X. Cryptopolitan Academy: Coming Soon - A New Way to Earn Passive Income with DeFi in 2025. Learn More

It’s the fourth day after US President Donald Trump’s announcement of retaliatory tariffs on April 2nd, the so-called “Liberation day.” Stock markets across the world are tanking in what seems to be clear anticipation of an extended international trade war. As CryptoPotato reported on April 2nd, Donald Trump’s tariffs were imposed on literally all countries at a rate of 10%, with some of them facing even higher rates. China faces 34%, Vietnam – 46%, Japan – 24%, while the European Union was hit with 20% tariffs. Describing these as “reciprocal,” Trump has stated that the new taxes are needed to wipe out an existing deficit between the US and the rest of the world. What is more, imports will also be facing both the universal tariff of 10%, including the specific reciprocal import levies targeting each individual nation. International response was just as quick, with China announcing import taxes of 34% themselves, while also curbing exports of critical minerals and blacklisting American companies, while altogether saying that the actions of the US President are a form of “bullying,” as well as a violation of international trade rules. Tension between the US and other countries is also escalating, although many of them have chosen not to retaliate in hopes of negotiating better deals. Maroš Šefčovič, the trade commissioner for the European Union confirmed a “frank” exchange with US representatives, saying : “The EU is committed to meaningful negotiations, but also prepared to defend our interests. […] We stay in touch.” The stock market’s reaction came immediately, as major indices took a beating on April 2nd, which worsened as the week went by. Ultimately, on Thursday and Friday alone, the stock markets saw over $5 trillion in market cap erased, closing the worst week since the COVID crash. The S&P 500, for instance, lost over 6%, while the Dow Jones Industrial Average and Nasdq 100 “ended in a bear market,” as reported by the Business Insider. As seen in the chart, no sector was spared and tech giants such as Microsoft (MSFT), Apple (AAPL), Nvidia (NVDA), and so forth, all charting massive losses. For most parts during the past few months, turmoil across traditional stock markets also reflected in Bitcoin’s price, which was moving more or less hand in hand. This seems to have changed, at least for the past seven days. Amid the massive drawdown, Bitcoin has remained steady, charting a mild decrease of 0.3% for the past seven days, according to data from CoinGecko. As CryptoPotato reported earlier, many industry experts noted the detachment of the BTC price from traditional assets, with some of them even stating that it might be on the verge of noting gains in the coming weeks. “BTC positive divergence from gold and risk in past 24 hours is striking. Haven’t seen it to this extent in a long time,” wrote MacroScope.

Aptos has shown consistent growth, closing March with a total value locked (TVL) of $1.03 billion, after first crossing the $1 billion mark in November. According to Messari’s latest report, the figure reflects a strong climb from its earlier TVL range of $300-500 million seen between late March and mid-September 2024. Compared to the previous year, Aptos’ TVL rose by 109% in USD terms and a whopping 562% in APT terms. This increase occurred despite a 47% drop in the APT token price over the year. The stablecoin market cap on the Layer 1 network reached a milestone on March 24 when it surpassed $1 billion for the first time, which marked an over 10x increase compared to the same time last year and triple the value from December. This rapid growth has been fueled by major inflows into Tether’s USDT and Circle’s USDC after the launch of their native contracts on October 28 and January 31, respectively. While USDT saw its market cap soar over 8x to $680 million, USDC increased by 131% after climbing from $128 million to $295 million. Aptos Labs has launched two major technologies – Zaptos and Shardines – to improve performance. These solutions aim to lower latency and increase throughput as Aptos works toward becoming a global transaction hub capable of processing 1 million transactions per second (TPS). Zaptos is designed to improve Aptos’ pipelined architecture, where multiple block stages run in parallel for better efficiency. By optimizing this system, it sharply cuts end-to-end latency, thereby boosting overall performance and helping Aptos achieve faster, more scalable blockchain operations. Shardines, on the other hand, brings a horizontally scaled execution engine by splitting transactions into smaller parts and distributing them across multiple nodes for parallel processing. This sysytem enables the network to manage more transactions at once, and significantly increase transaction speed and overall network efficiency. Aptos is currently positioned as the 11th largest total value locked among blockchains, according to data compiled by DefiLlama. Bitwise filed to introduce a spot Aptos ETF in the United States last month. Although the network operates on a proof-of-stake model, the filing notably excluded any staking component. Additionally, Coinbase Custody is designated as the ETF’s proposed custodian in the application. The asset manager had launched an Aptos Staking ETP on Switzerland’s SIX Swiss Exchange last November, following which a Spanish bank then allocated 2% of its holdings to it.

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