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Glonghui, April 1st｜Artisan Partners welcomed Unilever’s decision to merge its food business with McCormick, stating that Unilever should now be able to manage its core personal care and household brands more efficiently. Artisan holds $1.6 billion worth of Unilever shares, accounting for 1.22% of the company’s stock. According to data from LSEG’s Workspace, Artisan is Unilever’s ninth-largest investor. The merger will create a company valued at approximately $65 billion, making it the second-largest food deal in history after the Kraft and Heinz transaction in 2015. Unilever’s food business is highly profitable, but its sales growth has lagged behind the company’s personal and beauty care business, affecting the group’s short-term ambition to boost overall sales by 4%-6%.

April 1, 2026 — DexFV, a foundational infrastructure for on-chain capital markets, has officially gone live today at 14:00 (UTC+8). At present, DexFV has successfully passed comprehensive base-layer protocol audits, security and compliance testing, as well as cross-chain liquidity orchestration stress tests. With today’s official launch, DexFV transitions from a strategic blueprint into a fully operational phase of global execution. Meanwhile, the deflationary matrix and full-protocol asset hedging strategies that drive ecosystem value growth have been simultaneously activated in full, marking the entry of the distributed on-chain financial network into a high-efficiency operational trajectory. This launch represents not only the birth of a protocol, but also a milestone moment in which “market-making sovereignty” returns from traditional institutions to individuals. As the system officially goes live, every participant is evolving from a passive recipient into a rule-maker, capturing the primitive upside of asset appreciation in real time within a fully transparent and automated on-chain network.

On April 1, CryptoQuant analyst Darkfost stated that Bitcoin transaction fees have dropped to their lowest level since 2017. Bitcoin transaction fees have historically been considered relatively high, with some fees reaching hundreds of dollars during network congestion. However, the situation is now quite the opposite. The average Bitcoin transaction fee has fallen below $0.40, indicating that transaction costs are at a very low level. Nevertheless, the decline in transaction volume is not as pronounced. On an annual average, daily transaction volume still exceeds 3,000, which is not low. The decrease in fees is primarily attributed to the introduction of inscriptions, which has somewhat limited the weight of transactions that can be included in each block. Although this was achieved through a soft fork, it remains a significant development for Bitcoin. It is also interesting to compare fee changes with price trends. Historically, fee peaks often occur at Bitcoin price tops, while fee lows tend to appear during bear market phases—exactly the case now.