Chung Daily Note - 2025/4/2

Happy Wednesday! You’re halfway there! Stay focused and keep moving forward! 💯

💡@Catex_Fi Pre-Mining is live—early liquidity providers can earn rewards and help shape Polygon’s MetaDEX!

Some highlights from today's note

🔸@circle files for IPO with $1.7B revenue, $285M EBITDA, and $155M net income

🔸@Fidelity ($6T AUM) launches a retirement plan with direct crypto investments

🔸@Binance launches the 2nd Batch of its Vote to List Campaign

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📰 News

• Circle files for IPO with $1.7B revenue, $285M EBITDA, and $155M net income

• Fidelity ($6T AUM) launches a retirement plan with direct crypto investments

• @gamestop raises $1.48B from notes to buy Bitcoin

• Indian firm Jetking plans to raise funds to buy Bitcoin

• @Binance launches the 2nd Batch of its Vote to List Campaign

• @vaneck_us files to set up a Delaware trust for a proposed $BNB ETF

• @FirstDigitalHQ denies @justinsuntron’s claims, affirms FDUSD’s solvency, and plans legal action

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📖 Good Reads

• @0xCoinshift - @pendle_fi vs @spectra_finance: Who’s Winning the DeFi Yield Race?

• @FishMarketAcad - Why DeFi Insurance Failed (And How It Can Be Fixed)

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🎉 New Protocols

• @miradaos

• @stablewatchHQ

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💰 Crypto Fundraising

• @UHTofficial (GameFi) - $TBD Strategic investment from @Aptos

• @BAIFUND_AGENT (Blockchain Service) - 1m

• Collecto (CeFi) - 3.02m Seed

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💵 Airdrops

• @atoms_res - list of March airdrop checkers

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💡 Videos & Podcasts

• @Unchained_pod - Hester Peirce on Freedom, Fraud, & Fixing the SEC - The Chopping Block

• @Dynamo_Patrick - Crypto After the Crash: Vibe Coding, RWAs, and the End of Altcoin Demand

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😇 Opportunity

gmonad, @monad_xyz aims for 1000x Ethereum scaling with a live testnet of 80M+ addresses, and the MonadBFT research paper is out. @category_xyz introduces a new consensus for tail-fork resistance, low latency, and decentralization

That's all!