1. Public chain Aleph Zero launches USD 50 million ecosystem funding plan
Layer1 privacy-enhanced blockchain Aleph Zero announced the launch of a $50 million ecosystem grant program, with each project eligible to receive up to $500,000.
2.Uniswap Foundation: Will discuss how to deploy more than 4.37 million ARB in the next few weeks
The Uniswap Foundation said it will send the 4,378,188 ARB allocated by Arbitrum to the Uniswap Foundation-owned multi-signature address on Arbitrum (starting with 90xF4E08), and community discussions on how to deploy these funds will be launched in the coming weeks.
3. SignalPlus: Loan conditions for U.S. companies have been tightening
Lending conditions for US businesses have been tightening, but the sharp decline in commercial bank assets reported on H.8 has been exaggerated. The two-week change in total bank assets, an indicator of bank credit, fell by $200 billion, a faster pace than during the global financial crisis. However, the main reason for the decline was the failure of two banks, which resulted in $170 billion worth of assets being transferred from commercial bank balance sheets to the custody of the FDIC. If the FDIC factor is excluded, total bank assets are still down, but not as much as the indicator suggests.
4. "Rich Dad Poor Dad" author: BTC, gold and silver prices will continue to rise in the future
Robert Kiyosaki, author of Rich Dad Poor Dad, recently posted on Twitter to emphasize the rising price trend of Bitcoin in the past year, and praised Bitcoin's impressive performance in the past 12 months, predicting that its price will continue to rebound in the future. He also predicted that BTC, as well as gold and silver, may continue to maintain an upward trend in the next few months.
5. ETH staked exceeds withdrawals for the first time since Shapella upgrade
Data from Nansen, an on-chain analytics company, shows that as of April 17, the staked ETH was 124,000, exceeding the 64,800 ETH withdrawn for the first time. In the past 24 hours, the number of staked ETH was 94,968 and the number of withdrawals was 27,076. This is the first time since the Shapella hard fork on April 12 that the number of staked ETH has exceeded the number of ETH requested to be withdrawn.
6.Coinbase CEO: If the regulation is not clear, Coinbase may leave the United States
Brian Armstrong, CEO of Coinbase (COIN), said that if the U.S. regulation of the crypto industry is unclear, cryptocurrency exchanges will consider withdrawing from the United States. The United States has the potential to become an important market for cryptocurrencies, but currently we do not see the regulatory clarity we need, and I think if we don't see clarity in U.S. regulation in the next few years, we may have to consider investing more in other parts of the world.
7.Core DAO announces launch of $200 million ecosystem fund
Core DAO has announced the launch of a $200 million ecosystem fund designed to accelerate the development of decentralized applications and protocols based on the Core layer1 blockchain. The fund is backed by cryptocurrency exchange Bitget and supported by MEXC. Core DAO's ecosystem fund claims to provide tangible value to the Core community by not adopting a grant-based system, in which the main requirement for a project to receive funding is a commitment to build on a specific protocol. Instead, the ecosystem fund will incentivize each project to achieve pre-agreed custom benchmarks.
8. Ethereum Domain Name Service ENS launches new ENS App (Alpha) on the mainnet, supporting NameWrapper
Ethereum domain name service ENS has launched a new ENS App on the mainnet and supports NameWrapper (subdomain wrapper). The new ENS App is currently in the Alpha stage. NameWrapper enhances the functionality by wrapping existing ENS domain names into ERC-1155 tokens, including better control over the permissions of wrapped domain names and granting more permissions to subdomains.
9. Blockchain underlying protocol ME has released a white paper on the official website
The blockchain underlying protocol ME has released a white paper on its official website. ME is an open source smart contract public blockchain platform and a customizable blockchain infrastructure. ME processes peer-to-peer contracts through the ME virtual machine, and uses the ME framework in combination with proof of stake (DPOS), proof of activity (POA), and Byzantine proof (BFT) to ensure asset security. ME solves the scalability, security, cross-chain and interoperability issues of the blockchain ecosystem, and promotes higher transaction throughput with a more powerful framework.
10. SPACE ID established the DAO Treasury and will implement a token repurchase and destruction mechanism
Decentralized identity protocol SPACE ID announced the establishment of a DAO Treasury that will implement a token buyback and destruction mechanism. Platform revenue will include all registration earnings accumulated since the TGE date and will be executed on a quarterly basis moving forward. Specifically, 50% of the total net revenue generated by the SPACE ID platform (including revenue from domain name registrations, renewals, gift card purchases, and SPACE ID marketplace fees) will be used to purchase and destroy IDTokens. The remaining 50% of the total net revenue will be added to the DAO Treasury, which will be held in the form of stablecoins and managed by all eligible ID Token holders.
11. Huang Licheng briefly "withdraws from the NFT field" and then buys BAYC series NFT again
Huang Licheng, who had previously announced on Twitter that he was quitting the NFT field, purchased 2 BAYC, 2 BAKC, and 1 MAYC on the Blur platform today. According to previous reports, Taiwanese singer Huang Licheng pinned a tweet on April 15 saying "I have quit the NFT field", and then updated his pinned tweet to "Bored Ape Yacht Club" on April 17.
12.Polkadot Ecosystem announces the launch of ink! funding program
According to PolkaWorld, the Polkadot ecosystem announced the launch of the ink! funding program, which aims to further develop the ink! smart contract ecosystem (such as infrastructure projects or developer tools). The bounty program is funded by the Polkadot treasury and supported by the community. The bounty program managers include Astar Network, Parity, Phala Network, Brushfam, and Aleph Zero.
13.Lido Ethereum pledged amount exceeds 6 million ETH, worth over $12.56 billion
According to Lido's official data, the amount of Ethereum staked through the platform has exceeded 6 million ETH, reaching 6,023,685 ETH so far, worth approximately $12,560,701,428. The current APR is 4.3%, and the rewards paid have reached 284,367 ETH, equivalent to approximately $592,967,567. Historical data shows that the amount of Ethereum staked on Lido exceeded 4 million ETH in September 2022 and exceeded 5 million ETH in January 2023, which means that the amount of staked has increased by more than 20% in less than three months.
14.BinanceLabs announces the list of 12 projects for the 6th season of MVB Accelerator
Binance Labs announced that the sixth season of the MVB Accelerator Program was officially launched on April 17, and the 12 selected teams will take an 11-week course. The 12 selected projects are: DeFi lending protocol Kinza, decentralized privacy protocol Hinkal Protocol, perpetual contract DEX KiloEx, anti-MEV cross-chain aggregator Cashmere Labs, DeFi derivatives platform EthosX, blockchain execution and elastic expansion layer AltLayer, multi-chain ZK-Rollup execution layer ZKCross, AI dialogue game HIM, divination theme NFT social game Sparkle.xyz, Soulbound token SDK Masa Finance, Web3 native programmatic advertising platform Slise, NFT consumer credit protocol xBank.
15. Meta Mask Institutional Solution MMI Releases 2023 Q1 Review, On-chain Assets Increased by 89.17%
MetaMask institutional solution MMI (MetaMask Institutional) released a review of Q1 2023. New features include portfolio dashboards, account bundling for NFT views, identity authentication and login, Institutional Staking market, etc. In terms of data, the eight-week user retention rate of MMI extension exceeded 65%, which is an indicator that the team is closely watching. The assets (AUD) deployed on the chain using MMI increased by 89.17%. At the same time, the MMI team expects annual revenue to increase by 25.87%. It is reported that MMI was launched in December 2020 to address the needs of institutions such as cryptocurrency funds and market makers to access DeFi, while meeting security, operational and compliance requirements.