Binance announces strengthened KYC standards: Only verified and compliant users will be granted access to their sub-accounts. By 2024-05-20, sub-accounts holders that have not provided the necessary KYC information will have their accounts fully restricted and will no longer have access to the Binance Link Program services.

5 April Options Data 18,000 BTC options to expire with a Put Call Ratio of 0.64, Maxpain point of $68,000 and notional value of $1.2 billion. 270,000 ETH options are due to expire with a Put Call Ratio of 0.38, Maxpain point of $3,400 and notional value of $890 million.

The Solana network currently has a non-vote transaction failure rate of 76.8%, according to @scarn_eth Dune data. Because many bots engaging in arbitrage generates spam transactions. Solana foundation said a patch will be released soon.

Bybit, the third largest offshore exchange, released its ninth reserve certificate (April 3). Users' BTC assets increased by 16.44% from February 1, adding 6,273 BTC; users' ETH assets increased by 15.95%, adding 47,700 ETH; users' USDT assets increased by 10.62%, adding 226 million USDT; Bybit's net inflow in the past month was 534 million Dollar.

The Solana community Superteam produced a promotional video attacking Ethereum and criticizing ETHMAXI. The official Solana account and the chairman of Solana Foundation also retweeted. The video says that millions of developers are being suffered from ETHMAXI and call on them cross-chain to Solana through Wormhole.

In alignment with current market trends and to better meet users’ needs, the second largest offshore exchange OKX has decided to phase out the generation of EOS and ETC USDT-margined and crypto-margined expiry futures.

Google filed a lawsuit against two Chinese nationals in the Southern District of New York on Thursday, accusing them of using its Google Play store to scam more than 100,000 users globally out of money through fraudulent cryptocurrency investment apps.

LeverFi announced the release of the OmniZK Protocol, a secure validation protocol that expands scalability, logic construction and interoperability for Bitcoin. OmniZK is modularly designed for developers to construct conditional, non-custodial Discreet Log Contracts on Bitcoin that are secured by event proofs generated by zkOracles.

Xoom Finance, PayPal’s cross-border remittance service, now allows U.S. Xoom users to convert their holdings of PayPal’s stablecoin PYUSD into U.S. dollars and use it as a source of funds to send money to recipients in approximately 160 countries around the world.

Ripple is introducing its own stablecoin pegged to the price of the U.S. dollar, which will be 100% backed by U.S. dollar deposits, short-term U.S. government Treasuries and other cash equivalents. The stablecoin will be deployed onto Ripple's institution-focused XRP Ledger along with the Ethereum blockchain to start out, and it will be based on Ethereum's ERC-20 token standard.

OKX announced that it will list the Zeus Network token ZEUS and open the ZEUS/USDT trading pair. This is also the first project of the Jupiter LFG Launchpad. The Zeus Network is a permissionless layer that combines the Solana with Bitcoin blockchain.

Greekslive: Tomorrow there is the important macro data of the US unemployment rate in March, strong US economic data makes the Fed's May rate cut possibility drop significantly from 90% last month to 50% currently. Recent Block trading has been weaker, mainly buying call options after the halving of Bitcoin.

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Phoenix developer Ellipsis Labs, the DeFi protocol on Solana, announced the completion of a $20 million Series A round of financing, with Paradigm leading. The company’s debut product, a decentralized exchange called Phoenix, went live in February 2023. The exchange’s on-chain limit order book allows market makers to compete on quality of liquidity.

Binance NFT will cease support for trades and deposits of Bitcoin NFTs at 2024-04-18 06:00 (UTC). Users are advised to withdraw their Bitcoin NFTs from the Binance NFT Marketplace via the Bitcoin network before 2024-05-18 00:00 (UTC).

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According to SoSoValue, the total net inflow into Bitcoin spot ETFs was $113 million yesterday. The Grayscale ETF GBTC experienced a net outflow of $75.14 million for the day, bringing GBTC's total historical net outflow to $15.23 billion. The Bitcoin spot ETF with the highest daily net inflow was the Fidelity ETF FBTC, at approximately $116 million; followed by the BlackRock ETF IBIT, with a daily net inflow of about $42.03 million.

Binance announced the 51th project on Binance Launchpool - Saga (SAGA), an L1 to launch L1s. Users will be able to stake their BNB and FDUSD into separate pools to farm SAGA tokens over four days.

DeFi yield protocol Pendle hit a record high in single-day capture fees of $249,000 yesterday. Pendle TVL has grown by more than 60% in the past month, approaching US$4 billion, becoming the largest DeFi yield protocol.

In the past 7d, the number of daily transactions on the Linea has increased by 148% to 4.4 million, and the number of active addresses has increased by 75% to 569k, both at historical peak levels, which may be related to Linea Park activities. The most used contracts include AlianSwap, Micro3, FrogWars, Layer3, zAce and ACG Worlds.