1. 🔬 Opportunities to watch

  • Binance HODLer airdrop launches Hyperlane (HYPER)

  • Zora announces it will launch ZORA token on April 23

  • Initia announces tokenomics: total supply of 1 billion tokens, airdrop accounts for 5%

  • Sign announces tokenomics: total supply of 10 billion tokens, initial circulation accounts for 12%

2. ❇️ DeFi

a. New projects in the past 1 day

  • Arche Protocol --- CDP (Movement, 120,000)

  • bemo V2 --- Liquid Staking (TON, 430,000)

  • LNDfi --- Lending (Sonic, 220,000)

  • Copump --- Launchpad (CORE, 0)

  • Titan Aggregator --- DEX Aggregator (TON, 20,000)

b. Project list

Project list: TVL > 5m & (7-day new | 24h TVL change > 10%)

c. Related projects

  • Raydium LaunchLab created 3,760 tokens in its first week, with a graduation rate of 1.12%

  • Omni Foundation announces a $10 million reward program

  • Balance will launch TGE and open airdrop collection on April 21

  • Resolv: Verifying the on-chain feasibility experiment of Ethena

  • Puffer Finance launches institutional staking and re-staking solutions

  • Synthetix founder: The sUSD staking mechanism has been implemented to address the sUSD decoupling issue

3. 🌏 Macro

  • Citi predicts the Fed will implement the next rate cut in June

  • Bitcoin spot ETF saw a net inflow of $15.85 million last week, with BlackRock's Bitcoin ETF IBIT leading with a weekly net inflow of $186 million

  • U.S. Conference Board leading economic index recorded a month-on-month rate of -0.7% in March, the largest decline since October 2023

  • Ethereum spot ETF saw a single-week net outflow of $32.17 million last week, marking eight consecutive weeks of net outflow

  • Cryptocurrency exchange trading volume has dropped to a six-month low, with spot trading accounting for a new low in this phase

  • The Fed 'doves', the dollar index hits a three-year low, BTC maintains a rebound (04.14~04.20)

4. 🐳 Whale movements

a. Institutions, large investments, whale behavior

  • Metaplanet has been added to the OTCQX Billion+ index, currently holding 4,855 BTC

  • A certain whale increased holdings by 6,528 ETH, valued at $10.69 million

  • Metaplanet has again increased holdings by 330 bitcoins, with BTC yield reaching 119.3% since 2025

  • ETH whales exchanged over $6 million in BTC assets within half an hour

  • A certain whale has accumulated 3,844 ETH since April 3, valued at $6.51 million

  • A certain whale bought 70 WBTC on-chain half an hour ago, worth about $6.12 million

  • Strategy purchased 6,556 bitcoins between April 14 and April 20

b. DeFi, NFT, On-chain activities

  • Smart money bottoms LUCE with a profit of over $90,000

  • A certain Fartcoin whale increased holdings at the bottom and turned losses into profits, selling 2.69 million tokens for a profit of $127,000

  • Whale sells spot and then borrows coins to short ETH

  • A certain whale deposited 5.1 million USDC into Hyperliquid and placed an order to short HYPE

c. Exchange-related fund flow

  • Abraxas Capital has withdrawn 8,719 ETH from Binance within a week; the latest 6,000 have been transferred to Aave

  • Galaxy Digital has withdrawn 123,058 SOL from Binance, valued at $17.09 million

  • A certain whale deposited 450 ETH into Binance, valued at about $730,600

  • Pumpfun deposited 95,934 SOL into Kraken, valued at $13.34 million

  • Whales withdrew over 370,000 SOL from Binance, valued at about $52.78 million

5. 📃 Industry

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

  • Zora will launch its native token ZORA on April 23 and has completed two snapshots

  • The Solana Meme market may warm up, with Pump.fun's trading volume and token graduation rate rising for three consecutive weeks in April

b. Exchange / Wallet

  • Circle will launch a new payment and cross-border remittance network aimed at competing with Visa and Mastercard

  • Binance wallet will soon launch Hyperlane exclusive TGE, requiring at least $20 of effective Binance Alpha purchases

  • Deutsche Bank and Standard Chartered plan to expand their cryptocurrency business in the U.S.

  • Coinbase will list Reserve Rights (RSR)

  • Binance will list ACH/USDC and GMT/USDC spot trading pairs

  • Binance will adjust the settlement frequency of the MAGICUSDT contract funding rate

  • Binance will transfer several tokens from Alpha accounts to spot accounts

  • Circle and BitGo plan to bring cryptocurrency into the banking sector

  • Binance Alpha launches MOG, SPX, POPCAT, and CULT

c. Public chain / L2

  • ZKsync updates on security incident progress: Investigation is ongoing, working hard to achieve decentralized sorting and recover funds

  • Under current gas levels, the average Ethereum transfer fee has dropped to about $0.01

  • TRC20-USDT issuance has exceeded 69.7 billion, a new historical high

  • The highest earning dApps on Solana in the past 7 days are Pump, Axiom, and Jupiter

  • Vitalik Buterin: Long-term L1 execution layer proposal: Replace EVM with RISC-V

d. Investment and financing

  • Web3 payment infrastructure company Kado Software has been acquired by Swapped.com

  • GSR makes a $100 million private equity investment in publicly traded company Upexi to support its Solana financial strategy

  • Grayscale's decentralized AI fund is now open to qualified investors

  • The mind-body-spirit AI healing platform Consciousness has received millions of dollars in strategic investment from Turkish full-stack venture capital firm Castrum Capital

e. Regulation

  • Market news: Paul Atkins may take oath as Chairman of the SEC as early as Tuesday

  • Coinbase CLO: Has obtained multiple unpublished documents from the Gensler era regarding the ETH2.0 investigation and plans to pursue further inquiry

  • Bloomberg analyst: There are currently 72 crypto-related ETFs waiting for SEC approval

f. Security

  • KiloEx releases hacker incident analysis: Due to the contract not rewriting key functions, the attacker returned 90% of the assets stolen across chains

  • 27.59% of the stolen funds from Bybit are untraceable, while 68.57% are still traceable

  • ZKsync: Will offer a 10% bounty to the hacker, with a refund window valid for 72 hours

  • SlowMist CISO: Supply chain attacks against developers are rampant, beware of suspicious VSCode plugins

6. 🤖 AI related

  • ai16z founder: The native token of auto.fun is ai16z

  • Crypto AI second half: Launchpad War, token economics shift to ecology, MCP rises

7. 🔧 Tools

8. 💡 Opinions

  • Arthur Hayes: This may be the last chance to buy BTC for under $100,000

  • Synthetix founder: If SNX stakers do not adopt the newly launched staking mechanism, it may put pressure on them

  • 2025 crypto market life-or-death situation: regulatory dividends, technological revolution, and trillion-dollar capital game

  • Analysts: M2 money supply growth may drive Bitcoin to rise to $132,000 by the end of the year

  • Bankless co-founder: Will refocus on Ethereum

  • Backpack CEO: Opaque trading platforms hide huge risks, real-time settlement mechanisms enhance system transparency

  • Lazy financial management strategy | Unichain incentive program launched; Superform confirms token issuance (April 21)

  • Binance CEO: Countries that adopt blockchain first will have multiple advantages

  • Greeks.live: The community holds a cautiously bullish view on the crypto market in the short term, with BTC resistance levels at $87,000-$88,000

  • Bitfinex report: Bitcoin remains resilient amid market turbulence, outperforming most traditional risk assets

  • Bitcoin cycle speculation: Who is leading the rise and fall? At what historical juncture are we standing?

  • TD Cowen: Strategy's purchase of BTC has minimal impact on coin prices

  • Ethereum Foundation Executive Director: Vitalik's proposal aims to open dialogue, community reviews have the power to veto

  • Michael Saylor: Strategy's Bitcoin yield has reached 12.1% so far in 2025

  • Trader Eugene's trading reflections for 2025: Accurately capturing peaks, profiting from SOL longs, but still missing the rebound starting point

  • Telegram founder: French parliament rejected a bill for a crypto communication backdoor, Telegram will never compromise user privacy

  • Without interest rate perpetuals, will DeFi ever be complete?

  • U.S. Senator Lummis: Strategic holding of Bitcoin could halve national debt in 20 years

  • ABCDE stops fundraising, crypto capital urgently needs a 'version update'