Chung Daily Note - 2025/4/9
Happy Wednesday! You're halfway through the week—keep pushing and stay focused! 💪
💡@TacBuild Pilled Campaign is live—up to ~3% of $TAC will go to top community contributors based on Kaito Score and Discord activity
Some highlights from today's note
🔸President Trump announces a 90-day tariff pause with a reduced 10% rate—excluding China
🔸@vaneck_us confirms China and Russia are using Bitcoin to settle energy trades
🔸@binance to launch $LDUSDT — a new Futures margin asset that earns real-time APR rewards
Read More Below 👇
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📰 News
• President Trump announces a 90-day tariff pause with a reduced 10% rate—excluding China
• China to impose 84% additional tariffs on U.S. goods starting April 10
• Trump announces an immediate increase of tariffs on China to 125%
• VanEck confirms China and Russia are using Bitcoin to settle energy trades
• Binance to launch $LDUSDT — a new Futures margin asset that earns real-time APR rewards
• @aave has approved the AAVE Buy and Distribute program
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📖 Good Reads
• @DeFiMinty - How to survive a bear market
• @PinkBrains_io - Overview of the @megaeth_labs ecosystem (Testnet update)
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🎉 New Protocols
• @satoshibigmoto
• @LEOFUNHQ
• @MirraTerminal
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💰 Crypto Fundraising
• @MetaEraHK (Social) - $TBD Pre-Series A led by @fenbushi
• @Dashfun_games (Gamefi) - $TBD
• @wunder_social (Social) - 50m led by @Rollman_Mgmt
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💵 Airdrops
• @zeuuss_01 - @FogoChain
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💡 Videos & Podcasts
• @KevinWSHPod - How This Crypto Wallet hit 15M+ Users and a $3B Valuation in just 3 years - @phantom CEO | E115
• @phtevenstrong - Next big Stablecoin Airdrop? Coinshift
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😇 Opportunity
gmonad, @monad_xyz aims for 1000x Ethereum scaling with a live testnet of 100M+ addresses, and the MonadBFT research paper is out. @category_xyz introduces a new consensus for tail-fork resistance, low latency, and decentralization. TGE soon?
That's all!
