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OKX will list Merlin Chain (MERL) for spot trading at 10:00 UTC on April 19, 2024.
Merlin Chain is a native Bitcoin Layer 2 that is EVM compatible to provide advanced utilization of BTC assets. MERL is its governance token.
https://www.okx.com/ru/help/okx-to-list-merlin-chain-merl-for-spot-trading
40 funds invested in BlackRock and Fidelity Bitcoin ETFs.
https://x.com/ericbalchunas/status/1780249379091198042
Long-term senior OKX executives Tim Byun, who was in charge of global government relations at the world's second-largest cryptocurrency exchange, and Head of Product Wei Lan have both recently left the company, according to people familiar with he matter.
https://www.coindesk.com/business/2024/04/16/okx-og-execs-tim-byun-and-wei-lan-leave-crypto-exchange/
Crypto Market Daily Review ☀️
The market is neutral. Market cap is $2.34T. Bitcoin is trading at $63.8K
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CoinList has announced the Analog Incentivized Testnet.
Analog is offering 1,811,594 ANLOG tokens (2% of the total supply) to qualifying participants for their contributions.
Rewards will be allocated across validators, developers, and the community:
▫️30% will be allocated to validators.
▫️70% will be allocated to community/dApp users and developers.
https://blog.coinlist.co/announcing-the-analog-incentivized-testnet-on-coinlist-rjlsb/
Memeland has introduced the premier project on Stakeland — Runecoin, a pioneering fungible token project on Bitcoin that uses the new Runes Protocol developed by Casey Rodarmor, the creator of Ordinals.
https://twitter.com/Memeland/status/1780233921088602266
Scroll has announced the Bernoulli upgrade, scheduled for April 29th, 2024.
This upgrade will reduce transaction costs by 10x, contingent upon L1 gas prices.
It introduces EIP-4844 data blobs for L1 data availability, and the SHA2-256 precompile.
https://scroll.io/blog/blobs-are-here-scrolls-bernoulli-upgrade
Parcl trading has started on OKX.
PRCL is now trading at $0.61.
FDV: $610M
https://www.okx.com/trade-spot/prcl-usdt
Fetch.ai, Singularity and Ocean have approved the Artificial Superintelligence (ASI) Alliance proposal.
https://twitter.com/SingularityNET/status/1780210716487590055
Drift, a Solana-based DEX protocol, is set to launch its token and airdrop 100 million DRIFT tokens to users.
The token launch and airdrop are expected to occur in the coming weeks, Drift co-founder Cindy Leow told The Block.
https://www.theblock.co/post/288648/solana-drift-token-launch-airdrop
TON has introduced Memelandia, a cultural hub for meme coins and community tokens.
https://blog.ton.org/ton-memelandia-is-here-recognizing-the-importance-of-community-driven-tokens
Renowned composer Hans Zimmer has created the official Tron anthem.
https://twitter.com/justinsuntron/status/1780131066600468833
Anthem: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4lblmnZfugM&ab_channel=TRONDAO
Microsoft continues its expansion into global artificial intelligence (AI) with a strategic partnership and $1.5 billion investment in the Abu Dhabi-based AI tech holding company, G42.
https://cointelegraph.com/news/microsoft-5-b-uae-ai-company-global-expansion
The value of NFT Bored Ape Yacht Club (BAYC) has fallen more than 13 times from its ATH in 2 years.
The current floerprice of 11.12 ETH ($33700) is the minimum since August 2021.
https://www.coingecko.com/en/nft/bored-ape-yacht-club
Crypto exchange OKX has launched X Layer on public mainnet, hoping to bring its 50 million users on-chain.
OKX’s platform token, OKB, will serve as the native asset to pay transaction fees on the Layer 2 network.
https://www.theblock.co/post/288372/okx-launches-new-layer-2-mainnet-x-layer
Coinlist has reset Karma and now you need to earn it again.
Events are ways to earn Karma for things like weekly trading and staking activity. Achievements are one-time claims for meeting certain criteria.
Your Karma score now places you in one of five tiers: Rust, Bronze, Silver, Gold, Platinum. The higher your tier, the higher your chances of getting into Token Launches and exclusive offerings.
https://coinlist.co/release
Crypto-mining stocks decline as the Bitcoin halving nears.
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2024-04-16/bitcoin-miners-fall-even-as-ceos-say-they-re-ready-for-halving
Pavel Durov's interview with Tucker Carlson has been released on YouTube.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1Ut6RouSs0w
Worldcoin will make an announcement on April 17.
https://twitter.com/worldcoin/status/1780295155888554284
Andreessen Horowitz raises $7.2 billion, plans more for 2025.
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2024-04-16/andreessen-horowitz-raises-7-2-billion-plans-more-for-2025
Internet Computer Protocol aims to be leveraged as a Bitcoin “layer zero” following the planned implementation of threshold-Schnorr signatures.
The implementation allows ICP smart contracts to etch Runes, inscribe Ordinals and trade BRC-20 tokens, tapping into the potential of Bitcoin-based DeFi.
https://www.theblock.co/post/288634/internet-computer-protocol-bitcoin-layer-zero-threshold-schnorr-implementation
Tether minted $1 billion USDT on Tron network.
https://whale-alert.io/transaction/tron/afec508a83ef45007367e265718d2168548a2559592104c81397a91de9d73c52
Binance.US added Martin Grant, a one-time Federal Reserve Bank of New York official who spent 17 years as its chief compliance and ethics officer, to its board of directors.
https://www.coindesk.com/policy/2024/04/16/binanceus-taps-former-new-york-fed-compliance-chief-for-board-role/amp/
Pavel Durov gave an interview to Tucker Carlson.
The interview is expected to be released on the journalist's Telegram channel.
/channel/durov/262
Binance Academy has collaborated with prestigious European educational institutions to launch a series of university-accredited courses covering key disciplines and topics of blockchain and Web3, thus broadening the reach of high-quality blockchain education.
The universities involved in this partnership include Prague University of Economics and Business, the European Business Institute in Luxembourg, and ESCP Business School. Renowned professors teaching blockchain and Web3 courses participated in designing and recording the material.
https://www.binance.com/en/blog/community/binance-academy-partners-with-leading-european-schools-to-offer-universityaccredited-web3-courses-2818104089412092345
Liquid restaking protocol Puffer has raised $18 million in a Series A funding round.
The round was led by Brevan Howard Digital and Electric Capital, with investments from Coinbase Ventures, Kraken Ventures, Lemniscap, Franklin Templeton, Fidelity, Mechanism, Lightspeed Faction, Consensys, Animoca and GSR.
https://www.coindesk.com/tech/2024/04/16/liquid-restaking-protocol-puffer-raises-18m-led-by-brevan-howard-electric-capital/
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The market is down. Market cap is $2.33T. Bitcoin is trading at $63.2K
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Parcl announces details of PRCL airdrop.
Parcl is an RWA project for property trading in the US on Solana.
Distribution details:
▫️To be eligible for the distribution, users needed to earn at least 6,000 Points.
▫️The top five wallets (above 1.9 billion points) were manually adjusted. These users were allocated 3.75M PRCL, 2.5M, 1M, 1M, and 1M, respectively. Wallets 3-5 were modestly sub-linear.
▫️40,000 to 1.3 billion Points (~48% of total wallets): provided a linear distribution proportionate to the number of Points earned.
▫️6,000 to 40,000 Points (27% of total wallets) were provided a constant allocation of 20 PRCL tokens.
▫️Diamond Hands: 655 PRCL
▫️Common: 420 PRCL
▫️150 PRCL will be allocated to each participating Mad Lad NFT.
The claim checker for the initial community allocation of PRCL is now live on Parcl users’ Points pages (https://app.parcl.co/points).
The claim itself will go live at 12:59 UTC on Tuesday, April 16th via Parcl Limited.
Trading will begin on centralized exchanges at 13:00 UTC on the same day.
https://www.parcl.co/blog/prcl-community-allocation-update
Illuvium revealed the details of its upcoming airdrop campaign, with an allocation of 250,000 ILV tokens (~$25M).
This includes 50,000 ILV dedicated to its loyal holders and 200,000 ILV set aside for its 6-month Play-to-Airdrop initiative.
Snapshot Date: on April 14th, 2024, 23:59 UTC.
Distribution Date: The loyalty rewards will be distributed to its participants in Q2 2024.
Who Receives a Share of the Rewards?
Illuvium Participants: Whether you're a staker, purchased land, a Beyond collector, or trading on IlluviDex, there's something for you.
How are the points attributed?
The Loyalty Airdrop is about your participation and interaction within the Illuvium ecosystem. Points were accrued for the following activities:
▫️Staking in the ILV pool: Amount and duration of your stake.
▫️Staking in the Sushi Liquidity Pool: Amount and duration of your stake. Additional points were accrued for this pool.
▫️Illuvitars: The amount spent.
▫️Illuvium Zero Land: Time held & Amount Spent.
▫️IlluviDex Trading Fees: Trading volume within the Illuvidex.
To earn a piece of the 200,000 ILV, play-to-airdrop, battle in the Illuvium:
Airdrop #1 - 20,000 ILV
This first 10% allocation of ILV is dedicated to the testnet phase of the beta: PB4 beginning on April 30th & Open Beta Testnet set to start on May 28th. At the end of Open Beta Testnet, airdrop points will be tallied, and everyone who participated in the beta will be airdropped this portion of ILV directly to their IMX Passport wallets.
Airdrop #2 - 180,000 ILV
Open Beta (Mainnet): Players can own their Illuvium assets. This portion of the campaign will last an additional five months, and airdrop points will be calculated at the end of this period. While this is still a beta, more features will be added over time; players will earn airdrop points across all its games.
https://illuvium.io/news/illuvium-airdrop-season-details