⚡️ Base teases its first network upgrade to go live on May 13th
Base Azul delivers impact in key areas, including security, decentralization, the path to 1 gigagas/s, and developer experience. The project has also announced an upcoming launch of Base Vibenet scheduled for mid-May.
As Bitcoin reclaims $79,000 with a +15.8% monthly gain, the biggest gains came from the long tail. Asteroid Shiba led at +516K%, followed by 币安人生 at +703%, TIG at +347%, SKYAI at +296% and Block Street at +239%.
⚡️ USD AI (CHIP) is set to be listed on Binance and other major exchanges
Trading for $CHIP will go live on Binance, Bybit, Bithumb, KuCoin, MEXC, Coinbase, and Gate starting April 21 at 13:00 UTC. USD AI is a yield-bearing synthetic dollar protocol bringing InfraFi onchain.
Presenting a list of some recent crypto fundraising rounds, backed by well-known investors such as Polychain Capital, Tether, Hack VC, Circle Ventures, Framework Ventures, Jump Capital, Y Combinator, and others. Let's take a look!
⚡️ Crypto News Digest: Key Updates You Need to Know
The current report features updates of Strategy, Pharos, Polymarket, Open Gradient, Bitmine, SpaceX, Coinbase, Pieverse, Injective, KelpDAO, Aave, and RaveDAO.
Over $3.95B lost across 159 incidents in 2025 and 2026 YTD, and the dominant technique is the same in both years: someone got access to keys they shouldn't have.
Access control failures and private key compromises drove 62.8% of 2025 losses and 90.4% of 2026 losses to date. Flash loans accounted for 0.1% of 2025 losses and 0.7% in 2026. The threat landscape has shifted decisively from smart contract exploits to human and infrastructure layer failures.
The PROS token will have a total supply of 1B tokens, with 21% allocated for existing and future community and ecosystem growth. The token facilitates transaction fees and onchain execution costs, staking, validator participation & delegation, governance, ecosystem incentives, and potential RWA-specific utilities.
⚡️ Crypto News Digest: Key Updates You Need to Know
The current report features updates of Kraken, Circle, Drift Protocol, Binance, Pumpcade, Fluent, Superstate, Wallet, Rhea Finance, Plasma, and Stable.
⚡️ Kraken parent Payward has acquired Bitnomial for up to $550M
Kraken announces the acquisition of Bitnomial, the first fully CFTC-licensed derivatives company in the US built for digital assets. The transaction was settled in cash and stock valued Payward’s equity at $20B.
DePIN is an acronym, short for Decentralized Physical Infrastructure Networks. Networks that use crypto-incentives to efficiently coordinate the buildout & operation of critical infrastructure.
⚡️ Crypto News Digest: Key Updates You Need to Know
The current report features updates of BNB Chain, Ondo Finance, Tether, X, Tron, World Liberty Finance, Binance, eToro, Ether Fi, Ripple, Kraken, and Avalanche.
From $COAI's 36-hour +8,760% explosion to $LAB's 9-day +265% grind, the 12 tokens share more than outsized gains. Most ran on MEXC or Gate, had under 25% of supply circulating at the time of the pump, and returned to near pre-pump levels within weeks.