🔥 Top crypto projects of the week (April 12–19):

1️⃣ 📢 Ethereum Protocol Fellowship (EPF) – Phase 6 is open!

🔹 Opportunity for professional developers to participate in protocol projects

🔹 Period: June – November 2025

🔹 Includes live attendance events in France and Argentina

📅 Last application deadline: April 30

2️⃣ 💥 Meme Coin on Base Network causes chaos!

🔹 Promoted token 'Base is for everyone'

🔺 Spiked to $17 million then collapsed over 95% within an hour!

⚠️ The network clarifies: this is just a 'cultural experiment' and not an official token

3️⃣ 📉 Synthetix's sUSD token collapses to $0.66!

🔹 Historic low due to SIP-420 upgrade

🔼 Later recovered to $0.827

🛠 No debts or technical malfunctions

4️⃣ 🚀 Launch of Snapchain – the infrastructure for the Farcaster network

🔹 Snapchain is now active and supports Farcaster

🧱 New technology to strengthen decentralized social networks

5️⃣ 💰 TVL in Unichain jumps to $71 million thanks to Gauntlet incentives!

🔹 Pumping $330K rewards daily across 12 pools

🔹 USDC/USDT0 pool alone collects $44 million

📊 Significant surge in liquidity

6️⃣ 🔓 Admin account key of ZKsync hacked – $5 million stolen!

🔹 Unclaimed $ZK tokens stolen from airdrop contracts

🔐 The protocol is safe – the issue lies with the private key

⚖️ The ZKsync team investigates and communicates with the hacker to recover funds

7️⃣ 🖼 OpenSea launches token trading on Solana!

🔹 Currently available to limited users

🔜 NFT trading on Solana is coming soon

8️⃣ 🧪 Raydium launches LaunchLab for token launches!

🔹 In response to Pump Fun and PumpSwap

🔸 Higher launch fees (85 SOL)

💸 25% of fees are used to buy back RAY

9️⃣ ⚠️ Attack on KiloEx platform and $7 million stolen!

🔹 On BNB, Base, and Taiko networks

🔍 Cause of the hack: Oracle permissions issue

👨‍⚖️ The team investigates and offers the hacker a 90% reward as a 'white hat'

🔟 🔥 Binance Launchpool launches Initia (INIT) project!

🔹 Allows for INIT aggregation using BNB, FDUSD, and USDC

🕗 Starting April 18

🌐 Initia: Rollup network connecting application chains with a unified economy