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Ben Zhou Talks About Bybit's AI Integration
https://x.com/benbybit/status/1914947285542428720
Arthur Hayes has introduced a new essay "No Border PEPE"
https://cryptohayes.substack.com/p/ski-cut
YZi Labs Launches EASY Residence, a 10-Week In-Person Global Incubation Program
The program kicks off in Silicon Valley, California, on June 2, 2025 and runs for 10 weeks, concluding on August 10, 2025, with a big Demo Day where founders will showcase their working products and early traction to the most reputable VCs in each field. Subsequent sessions are scheduled to take place in other major international cities, including Singapore, Dubai and additional locations, as part of the program's comprehensive global rollout.
Applications are open now and will close on May 21, 2025. It will welcome 10 to 20 exceptional teams into the inaugural cohort—builders with bold visions, long-term courage, and the hunger to create something that truly matters.
https://x.com/yzilabs/status/1914760145806278745
Injective activated Lyora, a mainnet chain upgrade
https://x.com/injective/status/1914707814712303617
Tesla has not sold its Bitcoin holdings worth $1.05 billion, the company announced in its earnings report for the first quarter of 2025 that it released on Apr. 22
However, the firm's Q1 2025 earnings missed the expectations by a large margin.
Tesla reported $19.34 billion in quarterly revenue against the expectation of $21.3 billion, a decline of 9% year-over-year (YoY).
https://www.thestreet.com/crypto/markets/startling-tesla-earnings-reveal-surprising-outlook
Coinbase will list tokenbot (CLANKER) on April 23
https://twitter.com/CoinbaseAssets/status/1914715795893919801
The crypto market is growing
BTC Dominance - 62.75%
Market Cap - $2.94T
BTC - $93,078.84 (+5.4%)
ETH - $1,790.41 (+13.05%)
XRP - $2.23 (+6.93%)
BNB - $615.11 (+2.48%)
SOL - $149.14 (+7.05%)
ZRO - $2.73 (+11.68%)
https://dropstab.com
Hyperlane (HYPER) trading has started on Bybit, Kucoin, MEXC and others.
HYPER is now trading at $0.28
FDV: ~$280M
https://www.bybit.com/en/trade/spot/HYPER/USDT
Binance Alpha has added SKYAI, TROLL, Wizard, and EPT
https://www.binance.com/en/square/post/23258921212353
Initia Introduces INIT Tokenomics
The total supply: 1,000,000,000
Token Allocations:
Foundation - 77,500,000 INIT
Protocol Developers (Team) - 150,000,000 INIT (4 year vesting period that includes a 12 month lock and a 36 month unlocking period)
Protocol Sales (Investors) - 152,500,000 INIT (4 year vesting period that includes a 12 month lock and a 36 month unlocking period)
Enshrined Liquidity & Staking Rewards - 250,000,000 INIT (5% per year (12,500,000 INIT per year)
Vested Interest Program (VIP) Rewards - 250,000,000 INIT (7% per year (17,500,000 INIT per year)
Binance Launch Campaign - 60,000,000 INIT
Airdrop - 50,000,000 INIT
Echo.xyz Community Sale - 10,000,000 INIT
https://x.com/initiaFDN/status/1914309728093831407
The Hyperliquid validator set has been updated to 21 permissionless nodes
Anyone can register a validator.
https://x.com/HyperFND/status/1914520069897670826
Paul Atkins sworn in as US SEC chair
https://www.reuters.com/world/us/paul-atkins-sworn-us-sec-chair-2025-04-21/
The crypto market is neutral
BTC Dominance - 63.02%
Market Cap - $2.78T
BTC - $88,167.32 (+1.02%)
ETH - $1,579.67 (-3.63%)
XRP - $2.08 (-1.46%)
BNB - $599.91 (-0.69%)
SOL - $139.39 (-0.21%)
ZRO - $2.44 (-4.67%)
https://dropstab.com
Trump Inauguration Donations:
• Ripple - $4.89M;
• Coinbase, Kraken, Solana, Crypto.com, ONDO, Galaxy Digital, Circle - $1M;
• Cardano - $250K;
• Uniswap CEO - $245K;
• Consensys - $100K
https://docquery.fec.gov/cgi-bin/forms/C00894162/1889684/f132
Binance has announced the 15th project on the HODLer Airdrops page – Hyperlane (HYPER)
Users who subscribed their BNB to Simple Earn (Flexible and/or Locked) and/or On-Chain Yields products from 2025-04-14 00:00 UTC to 2025-04-17 23:59 UTC will get the airdrops distribution.
Binance will then list HYPER at 2025-04-22 13:00 UTC and open trading against USDT, USDC, BNB, FDUSD, and TRY pairs.
https://www.binance.com/en/support/announcement/detail/cd31b4166f3047fe91889f1e83a99a79
Cantor, currently led by the son of U.S. Commerce Secretary Howard Lutnick, is planning to set up a $3 billion bitcoin investment vehicle with SoftBank, Tether and Bitfinex, according to the Financial Times.
The initiative involves setting up a new entity named 21 Capital, which would aim to create a “publicly listed alternative” to the Michael Saylor-led Strategy.
https://www.theblock.co/post/351603/lutnicks-cantor-plans-3-billion-bitcoin-venture-with-softbank-and-tether-ft
Plaintiffs have accused Solana DEX Meteora and its founder of secretly controlling the M3M3 meme coin launch, resulting in $69 million in investor losses.
The suit claims 150 insider wallets were used to dominate 95% of the token supply within 20 minutes of launch.
https://decrypt.co/315860/solana-dex-meteora-sued-alleged-pump-dump-meme-coin-launch
Bloomberg: Trump Ordered Creation of U.S. Bitcoin Reserve
In early March, President Trump signed an executive order to establish a national strategic reserve in Bitcoin and other tokens, Bloomberg reports. The Treasury was given 60 days to assess the legal and investment feasibility of the move.
With the deadline approaching in less than two weeks, details may emerge soon. Analysts say anticipation of new announcements is fueling recent crypto market gains.
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2025-04-22/bitcoin-rallies-20-during-market-turmoil-to-diverge-from-tech
Top 300 gainers in 24h: TURBO, ALCH, IMX, PENGU, VIRTUAL, LPT, POPCAT, AI16Z
https://dropstab.com/insights/top-performance
XRP Ledger Foundation discloses 'serious vulnerability' in recently updated version of XRPL JavaScript library
The issue was discovered by Aikido Security malware researcher Charlie Eriksen who said this “backdoor” could lead to a “potentially catastrophic” supply chain attack.
https://www.theblock.co/post/351578/xrp-ledger-foundation-discloses-serious-vulnerability-xrpl-javascript-library
Fuel will be purchasing $250K weekly over 4 weeks to buy back FUEL tokens
https://x.com/fuel_network/status/1914674423065362927
Trump Media, Crypto.com, and Yorkville America Digital Finalize Agreement for ETF Launch
https://www.globenewswire.com/news-release/2025/04/22/3065411/0/en/Trump-Media-Crypto-com-and-Yorkville-America-Digital-Finalize-Agreement-for-ETF-Launch.html
Immutable announces the outcome of a multibillion dollar partnership that's been in the works for 2+ years tomorrow
https://x.com/0xferg/status/1914650894840500628
The Multiplier sale on Fjord has been canceled
Multiplier is refunding everyone who joined the sale and rewarding its supporters with a generous airdrop.
https://x.com/lzminsky/status/1914355196378980791
Sign Introduces SIGN and tokenomics
Total Supply: 10,000,000,000
Initial Circulating Supply: 12%
Token Allocations:
• 40% – Community Incentive (10% – TGE Airdrop; 30% – Community Rewards & Future Airdrops)
• 20% – Backers
• 10% – Early Team Members
• 10% – Ecosystem
• 20% – Foundation
Token Release Schedule
• TGE Airdrop: Fully unlocked at TGE.
• Backers: 1-year cliff, monthly linear release over 2 years.
• Early Team Members: 1-year cliff, monthly linear release over 3 years.
• Foundation: 5% unlocked at TGE, quarterly unlocks over 5 years.
• Ecosystem: 10% unlocked at TGE, quarterly unlocks over 5 years.
•Community Rewards & Future Airdrops: Monthly unlocks commencing 3 months after TGE, spanning 5 years.
Onchain asset snapshot will be done at 2025.4.25 UTC 12:00:00.
https://x.com/ethsign/status/1914310880336158785
Circle announced Circle Payments Network (CPN) to connect financial institutions – banks, neo-banks, payment service providers, virtual asset service providers and digital wallets – and enable real-time settlement of cross-border payments using regulated stablecoins.
https://www.circle.com/pressroom/circle-announces-payments-network-to-transform-global-money-movement
Coinbase will add support for Reserve Rights (RSR) on the Base network
https://x.com/CoinbaseAssets/status/1914366753540317300
A new dashboard has been published by Token Terminal to showcase Injective’s deflationary tokenomics design, engineered for sustainability and adoption
https://x.com/injective/status/1914367813440983346
Binance Wallet announces Token Generation Event on BNB Smart Chain for Hyperlane, in collaboration with PancakeSwap
11th TGE Event Start Date: 22nd April, 2025 09:00 UTC
11th TGE Event End Date: 22nd April, 2025 11:00 UTC
Total Raise Amount: $600,000 in BNB
Available Token: 20,000,000 (2% of the total supply)
Price per Token: $0.03 USD in BNB
Subscription Cap per Binance Wallet user: 3 BNB
DEX Trading Date: Immediately after 22nd April, 2025 11:00 UTC in Binance Wallet DEX or on PancakeSwap.
Hyperlane is a permissionless interoperability protocol for cross-chain communication across different blockchain environments. It enables message passing and asset transfers across different chains without relying on centralized intermediaries or requiring any permissions.
https://www.binance.com/en/events/hyperlane-tge-rules
Aethir Introduces AI Unbundled: A Web3 AI Industry Alliance
The AI Unbundled Alliance comprises 0G Labs, Biconomy, ChainGPT, GEODNET, IoTeX, Oasis Protocol, FLock.io, OORT, DeAgent AI, Polyhedra, iExec, and AlphaNeural AI.
https://blog.aethir.com/blog-posts/aethir-introduces-ai-unbundled-a-web3-ai-industry-alliance