1. 🔬 Opportunities to watch

2. ❇️ DeFi

a. New projects in the past day

  • HypurrFi Isolated --- Lending (Hyperliquid, 2.27 million)

  • Catex MetaDEX --- Dexs (Polygon, 1.25 million)

  • KittyPunch PunchSwap V3 --- Dexs (Flow, 0 million)

  • Moonwell Vaults --- Onchain Capital Allocator (Multi-Chain, 65.25 million)

b. Project list

c. Related projects

  • US anti-inflationists launch dollar stablecoin USDi

  • Sei DeFi second quarter has now started, Yei Finance participants receive total SEI token rewards worth $1.3 million

  • Wayfinder: Remaining PROMPT rewards for PRIME staking users will be distributed every Thursday until June 2027

3. 🌏 Macro

  • Federal Reserve's Bostic: The economy is in a significant stagnation state

  • The probability of the Federal Reserve cutting interest rates by 25 basis points in May has fallen to 16%

  • On April 15, Bitcoin ETF saw a net outflow of 457 BTC, while Ethereum ETF had a net outflow of 20,604 ETH

  • Canada will launch a spot Solana ETF this week, supporting staking services

  • Bank of America survey: 82% of respondents believe the global economy will weaken, reaching a 30-year high

  • Ethereum spot ETF saw a total net outflow of $5.9781 million yesterday, continuing a 5-day net outflow

  • Bo Hines: The U.S. may use tariff revenue to purchase Bitcoin

4. 🐳 Whale movements

a. Institutions, large investments, whale behavior

  • Revealing the crypto holdings of Trump administration officials, BTC remains the top choice

  • Whale from the 2015 Ethereum ICO sells 612 ETH two days later, still holding 29,577 ETH

  • Abraxas Capital affiliated wallet withdrew 747 BTC from Binance, valued at $63.78 million

b. DeFi, NFT, On-chain activities

  • A new address transferred 3000 ETH from Kraken and deposited 3 million USDC into Aave and Compound

c. Exchange-related fund flows

  • A whale withdrew 3,704 BTC valued at $315 million from a CEX today

  • A whale deposited 710,000 AVAX into Coinbase, possibly incurring a loss of $12.2 million

  • A whale withdrew 1,500 BTC from OKX in the last 20 hours, amounting to approximately $128 million

  • In the past 48 hours, several large BTC withdrawals occurred, with 4 whales collectively withdrawing 5,532 BTC

5. 📃 Industry

a. NFT & GameFi & SocialFi & DID & DAO & Content Creation

  • ApeCoin: NFT staking rewards have now launched on ApeChain, old site staking will have no rewards

  • OpenSea announces it will launch Solana on-chain NFT trading

  • Trump's latest crypto project will be a real estate crypto game

b. Exchanges/Wallets

  • Alchemy Pay approved for money transfer license in Arizona, USA

c. Public Chain/L2

  • BNB Chain: Upcoming Lorentz mainnet hard fork upgrade

  • Solana has implemented SIMD-0207, block limit increased by 4%

  • Ethereum Foundation member: ERC-7786 will enhance cross-chain messaging, related discussions will be held on April 16

  • EigenLayer announces that the penalty mechanism will go live on the mainnet on April 17

  • Ethereum dApp fee revenue exceeds $1 billion in Q1 2025, ranking first

  • Interoperability protocol Everclear supported by the Ethereum Foundation launches mainnet

  • Sui announces joining the Bitcoin security network BSN of the Babylon Genesis Chain

d. Investment and financing

  • Treehouse Finance completes strategic financing at a valuation of $400 million

  • Optimum completes $11 million seed round financing, led by 1kx

  • Tether announces strategic investment in self-custody crypto wallet Fizen

e. Regulation

  • SEC delays decision on WisdomTree and VanEck spot Bitcoin and Ethereum ETF physical trading until June 3

  • Ethena Labs: Has reached an agreement with German regulators not to seek MiCAR authorization in the country

  • US SEC denies Musk's DOGE unit's request for certain institutional data

  • Ethereum Gaming Project CyberKongz Says SEC Has Ended Investigation

f. Security

  • Founder of phishing-as-a-service provider LabHost sentenced to eight and a half years in prison

  • ZKsync: Three airdrop distribution contract administrator accounts were hacked, attackers minted about 111 million ZK tokens

  • Emblem Vault CEO fell victim to Zoom meeting phishing attack, $100,000 in crypto assets stolen

  • ZKsync: An administrator account controlling approximately $5 million worth of ZK tokens is suspected to be stolen

  • KiloEx: Platform use has been suspended, vulnerabilities have been contained

  • KiloEx: Has monitored some hacker activity addresses, hackers can keep 10% of the funds as a white hat bounty

g. Others

  • Trump's second son will be invited to attend the TOKEN2049 Dubai conference

6. 🤖 AI-related

  • DoraHacks officially launches BUIDL AI, starting automated payment services for hackathons

  • Verisense Network announces AItonomy launches on BNBChain, proposing the AigentFi concept

7. 🔧 Tools

8. 💡 Viewpoint

  • Analysis: Market focuses on Powell's speech this week, interest rate cut expectations and global recession risks remain the focus

  • Current state of the crypto lending market: How to bring transparency to an opaque market?

  • Metrics Ventures market observation: The market has completed a stress test of asset prices

  • Analysis: Some Ethereum inverse ETFs have surged, shorting ETH may become a trading hotspot this year

  • ETH/BTC exchange rate hits a five-year low, does Ethereum still have hope?

  • IOSG Weekly Report: Overview of the Web3 consumer application paradigm and investment theory reflections

  • Greeks.live: Bitcoin may surge to $90,000, short-term outlook remains optimistic

  • Report: Tether, Galaxy, Ledn dominate CeFi crypto lending, on-chain DeFi lending surges

  • Zcash founder criticizes Binance CEO, dissatisfied with Binance's consideration to delist ZEC

  • In-depth analysis of the Asian crypto market: User behavior, national differences, and growth opportunities panorama

  • Standard Chartered: The stablecoin market size may grow to $2 trillion by the end of 2028

  • Analyst: XRP spot ETF may be easier to obtain SEC approval than other assets

  • Matrixport: Continuous inflow of stablecoin funds indicates resilience and growth in the crypto market

  • AWS outage reveals Web3 vulnerabilities: The decentralized vision struggles to escape centralized dependence

  • Viewpoint: Crypto market structure legislation may drive a significant rise in Bitcoin

  • Overview of 8 zero-cost interaction potential airdrop projects

  • An article to understand USDT0: Is the cross-chain version of USDT reliable?

  • By the end of 2024, the total scale of CeFi loans is $11.2 billion, down 68% from the historical peak in 2022