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Bitcoin rose by 0.65% last week, closely tracking the U.S. stock market, though price action remaine

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Bitcoin and SP500 surged by 10.12% and 4.59% last week, driven by growing optimism over a potential 

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<div>Bitcoin price increased by 1.7% last week, showing resilience compared to the S&amp;P 500&rsquo;s 1.5% decline over the same period. Bitcoin dominance has climbed for seven consecutive weeks, drawing a net inflow of $15.85 million into BTC ETFs despite ongoing macroeconomic uncertainty last week.</div>
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<div>President Trump is considering temporary relief on auto tariffs (currently at 25%) and auto parts (set to take effect on May 3). A mineral agreement with Ukraine is expected to be signed on Thursday.</div>
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<div>US-China dialogue remains vague, with Chinese officials insisting on respect before engaging further. Meanwhile, the White House has floated potential tariffs of up to 245% in response to China's retaliatory actions. Trump later clarified that talks with Chinese authorities are ongoing.</div>
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<div>The ECB cut interest rates by 25bps to 2.4%. Euro-denominated stablecoins surged 26% in April, driven by US Dollar depreciation.</div>
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<div>Fed Chair Jerome Powell reaffirmed a cautious, wait-and-see stance on monetary policy. Trump voiced frustration with Powell on social media. Kalshi, the largest regulated prediction market, places the odds of Powell&rsquo;s removal at<a rel="nofollow" href="https://kalshi.com/markets/kxleavepowell/powell-leaving"> 24%</a>, though such a move would challenge constitutional norms.</div>
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<div>US retail sales rose 1.4% in March, slightly beating expectations of 1.3%.</div>
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<div>Thursday, April 24, 8:30pm: US Durable Goods Orders in March</div>
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<div>Visa is reportedly joining Paxos' <a rel="nofollow" href="https://www.coindesk.com/business/2025/04/14/visa-is-joining-the-paxos-robinhood-stablecoin-consortium-sources?utm_term=organic&amp;utm_medium=social&amp;utm_content=editorial&amp;utm_campaign=coindesk_main&amp;utm_source=twitter">USDG</a> consortium together with Robinhood, Kraken, Galaxy Digital, Anchorage Digital, Bullish and Nuvei.</div>
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<div>Canary Funds filed a staked TRX ETF application with the SEC.</div>
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<div>VOXELUSDT on Bitget was exploited (reportedly in millions of dollars) due to a likely market-making bot bug causing the bot to trade in a big spread. The bot bid the price to increase 10% and sold back to a lower price every few seconds. Traders detected and placed opposite bets repeatedly to profit from the bug. <a rel="nofollow" href="https://www.bitget.com/support/articles/12560603825918">Bitget</a> detected the abnormal trading activities and rolledback those exploited trades.</div>
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<div>Solayer has launched the first <a rel="nofollow" href="https://x.com/solayer_labs/status/1912560881688531121">Emerald Reward program</a>, rewarding users with LAYER tokens for purchasing items with the Emerald Visa card.</div>
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<div>Converge, RWA Layer-1 powered by Ethena and Securitize, released <a rel="nofollow" href="https://www.convergeonchain.xyz/blog-posts/converge-tech-specification-roadmap">technical specification</a> and roadmap, introducing ENA as the staking token, USDtb and USDe as the gas token. The new blockchain will be built in collaboration with Arbitrum, Celestia and Conduit.</div>
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<div>Arbitrum launched <a rel="nofollow" href="https://x.com/arbitrum/status/1912945720237367449">Timeboost</a>, allowing users on Arbitrum One and Nova to bid for faster transaction inclusion through a private mempool.</div>
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<div>Astar Network reduced token inflation from <a rel="nofollow" href="https://astar.network/blog/astr-dynamic-tokenomics-update-194">4.86% to 4.32%</a> with the new dynamic inflation, allocating more weight on AdjustableStakersPart.</div>
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<div>Babylon announced <a rel="nofollow" href="https://babylonlabs.io/blog/sui-to-become-a-bitcoin-secured-network">Sui</a> to become a Bitcoin Secured Network (BSN) as part of Babylon's Phase 3, enabling use of Bitcoin as the staking asset to secure Sui Network.</div>
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<div>A16z announced an additional $55 million investment in <a rel="nofollow" href="https://x.com/alive_eth/status/1912899221868396869">ZRO</a>, with a 3-year lockup.</div>
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<div>Balancer v3 went live on <a rel="nofollow" href="https://medium.com/balancer-protocol/balancer-v3-on-avalanche-pushing-liquidity-forward-059a4ea7d14d">Avalanche</a> with Boosted Pools and programmable Hooks features.</div>
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<div>Avantis launched <a rel="nofollow" href="https://x.com/avantisfi/status/1912180762301862312">Zero-Fee Perpetuals</a> on Base, charging fees only if the trades realised in profit.</div>
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<div>Felix Protocol, Liquity v2 fork on Hyperliquid, enables <a rel="nofollow" href="https://x.com/felixprotocol/status/1912118353499406722">UBTC</a> collateral for minting stablecoins on Hyperliquid.</div>
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<div>F(x) Protocol deposited protocol-owned wstETH and USDC to <a rel="nofollow" href="https://x.com/protocol_fx/status/1912153702485643283">Aave</a> to generate extra yield for Stability Pool stakers.</div>
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<div>Euler went live on BNB Chain with a $100K incentive program. Euler's TVL has crossed $1 billion.</div>
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<div>Spark Finance has allocated <a rel="nofollow" href="https://x.com/sparkdotfi/status/1912133326695182805">$50 million</a> to Maple's SyrupUSDC and potentially increase to $100 million in the future. Maple's TVL has crossed $1 billion as well.</div>
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<div>Jupiter released <a rel="nofollow" href="https://x.com/JupiterExchange/status/1911820454366454162">Jupiter Pro</a>, an advanced trading platform on Solana with real-time analytics and 10x lower fees. Jupiter also introduced a new aggregator, <a rel="nofollow" href="https://x.com/JupiterExchange/status/1912898538142413066">Juno</a>, improving execution by 4.6x with new router algorithm and additional sources.</div>
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<div>Raydium launched <a rel="nofollow" href="https://x.com/RaydiumProtocol/status/1912496080383799632">LaunchLab</a>, its own version of Pump.fun.</div>
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<div>Defi App has integrated <a rel="nofollow" href="https://x.com/defidotapp/status/1912842843128803776">Sonic Network</a> to their platform with zero gas and bridges.</div>
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<div>ElizaOS launched <a rel="nofollow" href="https://x.com/autodotfun/status/1913705865770619285">auto.fun</a>, a no-code token launch platform with token graduation to Raydium and swap fees from graduated tokens are used for AI16Z buyback.</div>
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<div>Glow Finance launched an <a rel="nofollow" href="https://x.com/GlowFinanceXYZ/status/1911883050419396711">undercollateralised lending</a> platform on Solana via margin account.</div>
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<div>GMX passed the proposal to select LayerZero as its messaging partner for <a rel="nofollow" href="https://snapshot.box/#/s:gmx.eth/proposal/0xc0fa577853fa0d066e876a4df3cf8ae7302c60b68f1f13675821dbf5d2acac1b">multichain expansion</a>, including GMX, GM tokens and cross-chain governance.</div>
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<div>Zora, the SocialFi platform on Base where users are able to tokenise posts on the platform, is expected to launch <a rel="nofollow" href="https://x.com/zora/status/1914051452882063793">ZORA</a> token on April 23. Base released a tokenised post "<a rel="nofollow" href="https://zora.co/coin/base:0xd769d56f479e9e72a77bb1523e866a33098feec5">Base is for everyone</a>" last week, currently trading at a market cap of approximately $8 million.</div>
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<div>While the Arizona Bitcoin Reserve Bill is still currently pending the final House vote, Texas has scheduled a Bitcoin Reserve hearing on April 23.</div>
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<div>Dolomite, the leading lending protocol on Berachain, is expected to launch <a rel="nofollow" href="https://x.com/Dolomite_io/status/1912968870102802930">DOLO</a> token on April 24 with 36% initial circulation supply.</div>
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<div>Initia, the new Layer-1 blockchain that offers interwoven rollups (Layer-2 with custom VM, gas token and transaction ordering) and enshrined liquidity, is expected to launch its mainnet and token <a rel="nofollow" href="https://x.com/initia/status/1912800334197784664">INIT</a> on April 24. INIT is currently trading at approximately $750 million FDV on the perpetual market.</div>
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<div>Solana will be holding the <a rel="nofollow" href="https://x.com/solana/status/1890045891027017737">Crossroads</a> conference from April 25 to 26 in Istanbul.</div>
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<div>Pendle announced increasing YT fees from <a rel="nofollow" href="https://x.com/pendle_fi/status/1911766400210997399">3% to 5% </a>from May 2 onwards. All fees will be distributed to vePENDLE holders in stables. The adjustment is expected to increase the overall protocol revenue by 30% or vePENDLE APY by 60%.</div>
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<div>Aptos proposed to reduce the staking rewards rate from <a rel="nofollow" href="https://x.com/Aptos/status/1914031315810447442">6.8% to 3.79%</a> over 3 months, aiming to encourage more DeFi activities beyond staking.</div>
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<div>Vitalik proposed replacing EVM with <a rel="nofollow" href="https://ethereum-magicians.org/t/long-term-l1-execution-layer-proposal-replace-the-evm-with-risc-v/23617">RISC-V</a> architecture to boost performance of Ethereum execution layer by 100x.</div>
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<div>PLUME token unlocked on April 21, amount representing 5.48% of the token supply.</div>
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<div>RON token unlocked on April 27, amount representing 5.28% of the token supply.</div>
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<div>GRASS token unlocked on April 30, amount representing 1.35% of the token supply.</div>
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<div>OP token unlocked on April 30, amount representing 1.99% of the token supply.</div>
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<div>SUI token unlocked on May 1, amount representing 2.71% of the token supply.</div>
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<div>ENA token unlocked on May 2, amount representing 1.69% of the token supply.</div>
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<div>JTO token unlocked on May 7, amount representing 3.54% of the token supply.</div>
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<div>MOVE token unlocked on May 9, amount representing 2.04% of the token supply.</div>
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Bitcoin price increased by 1.7% last week, showing resilience compared to the SP 500s 1.5% decline o

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Bitcoin price increased by 6.8% last week as President Trump announced a 90 day-pause on reciprocal 

Weekly Market Insight: April Week 3



 Tariffs and Other Major Events Impacted Bitcoin, SP 500, and Gold in 2025


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2025 Crypto Market Outlook: Heightened Impact of Tariffs and Macro Variables

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Bitcoin declined by 4.88% last week, showing relative resilience compared to the SP 500's 9.08% drop

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<div>The cryptocurrency market remains heavily influenced by macroeconomic conditions and upcoming reciprocal tariffs, with investors maintaining a cautious stance due to prevailing uncertainties. Trading volume and open interest in major crypto assets have declined to levels last seen in November 2024.</div>
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<div>Bitcoin price decreased by 4.33% last week. Meanwhile, stablecoin market caps experienced the 4th consecutive weekly increase of $1.11 billion last week.</div>
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<div>President Trump has confirmed that reciprocal tariffs will take effect on April 2, including a newly announced 25% levy on all imported automobiles. He also warned of even steeper tariffs on the EU and Canada if they collaborate in ways that harm the U.S. economy. Additionally, Trump threatened new tariffs on pharmaceuticals, copper, and "secondary tariffs" on Russian oil. However, he signaled a willingness to negotiate with countries to prevent these tariffs after April 2. He also suggested that the U.S. might consider lowering tariffs on China if Beijing supports the sale of TikTok to American interests.</div>
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<div>The U.S. durable goods orders increased by 0.9% in February, significantly higher than market expectation of a 1% decrease. The final U.S. Q4 GDP was 2.4%, higher than 2.3% in advance estimates.</div>
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<div>The U.S. core PCE price index increased by 0.4% in February, higher than the market forecast of 0.3%. Personal income increased by 0.8% in February, significantly higher than the market estimate of 0.4%. Meanwhile, personal spending increased by 0.4%, slightly below market expectation of 0.5%.</div>
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<div>Tuesday, April 1, 10:00pm: U.S. ISM Manufacturing PMI in March and JOLTs Job Openings in February</div>
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<div>Thursday, April 3, 10:00pm: U.S. ISM Service PMI in March</div>
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<div>Friday, April 4, 8:30pm: U.S. Non-Farm Payrolls and Unemployment Rate in March</div>
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<div>Friday, April 4, 11:25pm: Jerome Powell Speech at SABEW Annual Conference</div>
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<h2 class="heading-2"><strong>Weekly-Cryptos-Overview</strong></h2>
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<div>Japan announced plans to amend crypto assets as <a rel="nofollow" href="https://www.nikkei.com/article/DGXZQOUB2126S0R20C25A3000000/?n_cid=SNSTW001">financial products</a> and introduce insider trading regulations to crypto trading.</div>
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<div>Wyoming introduced <a rel="nofollow" href="https://x.com/wyostable/status/1904976908019962111">WYST</a> token, the first fiat-backed and fully reserved stablecoin issued by a public entity in the United States. LayerZero is selected as the interoperability standard.</div>
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<div>The FDIC issued Financial Institution Letter <a rel="nofollow" href="https://www.fdic.gov/news/press-releases/2025/fdic-clarifies-process-banks-engage-crypto-related-activities">FIL-7-2025</a>, clarifying that FDIC-supervised banks may engage in permissible crypto-related activities without prior approval.</div>
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<div>The US introduced the <a rel="nofollow" href="https://steil.house.gov/sites/evo-subsites/steil.house.gov/files/evo-media-document/stable-act-final-bill.pdf">STABLE Act </a>of 2025, requiring 1:1 reserves in cash and Treasuries with maturity less than 93 days, no yield-bearing on payment stablecoin, 2-year ban on algorithmic stablecoin and more.</div>
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<div>The U.S. SEC has formally ended litigation against Kraken, Consensys and Cumberland. The SEC also closed its <a rel="nofollow" href="https://x.com/kris/status/1905401337631936684">investigation</a> into Crypto.com and <a rel="nofollow" href="https://www.coindesk.com/policy/2025/03/25/sec-drops-investigation-into-web3-gaming-firm-immutable">Immutable</a>.</div>
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<div>Crypto.com announced a partnership with Trump Media and Technology Group to support <a rel="nofollow" href="https://crypto.com/en/company-news/crypto-com-to-partner-to-power-trump-medias-etf-offerings">ETF baskets</a> of cryptocurrencies including CRO.</div>
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<div>Ripple agreed to <a rel="nofollow" href="https://x.com/s_alderoty/status/1904587116488917053">withdraw its appeal</a> against the SEC and settle by paying $50 million of the originally imposed $125 million fine. The SEC has also announced its intention to request Judge Torres to lift the &ldquo;obey the law&rdquo; injunction placed on Ripple. Once the Commission finalizes its vote and the necessary court documents are processed, the long-standing SEC vs. Ripple case will officially be concluded.</div>
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<div>Transfers between HyperCore and HyperEVM are now live. <a rel="nofollow" href="https://x.com/hyperunit/status/1905292966400229605">Spot ETH trading</a> is now available on Hyperliquid, powered by Unit protocol.</div>
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<div>Gelato announced supporting <a rel="nofollow" href="https://x.com/gelatonetwork/status/1905621956227203434">Avalanche Layer 1s</a>, enabling seamless Layer-1 launching experience with custom execution, KYC compliance and native interoperability.</div>
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<div>Celo Ethereum Layer-2 is now <a rel="nofollow" href="https://x.com/Celo/status/1904776407215202508">live</a>, featuring 1-second blocktime, fee abstraction and more.</div>
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<div>Movement announced cutting ties with an undisclosed market maker, as the market maker sold a substantial amount of MOVE without completing meaningful buy orders. Movement committed <a rel="nofollow" href="https://www.movementnetwork.xyz/article/movement-network-foundation-statement">38 million USDT buyback program</a> for MOVE, from cash proceeds recovered from the market maker.</div>
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<div>Peaq introduced <a rel="nofollow" href="https://x.com/peaq/status/1902737734562673037">Universal Machine Time</a> (UMT), the first onchain precision clock for better machine coordination and data timestamp consistency.</div>
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<div>Sei Foundation shared its plan to acquire <a rel="nofollow" href="https://x.com/SeiNetwork/status/1905315732767817892">23andMe</a>, a genetic data company, as their bet on DeSci initiatives.</div>
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<div>Sophon introduced <a rel="nofollow" href="https://x.com/sophon/status/1904223596655915413">Sophon OS</a>, an operating system for crypto-powered consumer experiences.</div>
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<div>World Liberty Finance introduced <a rel="nofollow" href="https://medium.com/@wlfi/world-liberty-financial-plans-to-launch-usd1-the-institutional-ready-stablecoin-2606f48d72d0">USD1</a>, 100% backed by short-term government treasuries.</div>
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<div>dYdX announced launching the <a rel="nofollow" href="https://www.dydx.xyz/blog/dydx-buyback-program">DYDX buyback program</a> using 25% of net protocol fees. The community is actively discussing increasing the allocation of net protocol fees to buyback programs to 100% in the future.</div>
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<div>Chainlink partnered with <a rel="nofollow" href="https://x.com/chainlink/status/1904144958845575439">Abu Dhabi Global Market </a>to develop compliant tokenization frameworks in the UAE.</div>
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<div>Particle Network, the chain abstraction DEX protocol, released <a rel="nofollow" href="https://blog.particle.network/introducing-parti/">PARTI</a> token. PARTI token is served as the gas token, staking, cross-chain liquidity and more utilities such as trading discount. The token is currently trading at less than $300 million in FDV and $4.5 million in fees generated by UniversalX, its trading platform.</div>
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<div>Bio Protocol announced the <a rel="nofollow" href="https://x.com/bioprotocol/status/1905627236692037711">first 3 BioDAOs</a> up for Curation in Bio v1. BIO holders can lock their BIO as curation to support the BioDAOs. BioDAOs with sufficient locked BIO will be qualified for funding, while curators are eligible for discounted BioDAO tokens.</div>
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<div>Ostium, a self-custody exchange with FX, commodities and indices trading, introduced a <a rel="nofollow" href="https://www.ostium.io/blog/introducing-ostium-v2">V2 upgrade</a> with new fee structures, more asset offerings, more trading flexibility functions and seamless onboarding and deposits.</div>
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<div>Rysk Finance introduced <a rel="nofollow" href="https://x.com/ryskfinance/status/1904215450579325227">Rysk V12</a>, a covered call strategy platform for liquid crypto assets such as ETH, BTC and MON.</div>
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<div>Term Labs introduced <a rel="nofollow" href="https://x.com/term_labs/status/1904278328724398520">TERM</a> token as the governance token which is powered to veto protocol changes in its optimistic governance framework. TERM stakers are also entitled to part of the protocol fees.</div>
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<div>DigiFT announced launching the first <a rel="nofollow" href="https://insights.digift.sg/digift-to-launch-the-worlds-first-on-chain-index-fund-with-tokenized-real-world-equities/">on-chain index fund </a>with tokenised equities.</div>
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<div>CARV launched <a rel="nofollow" href="https://medium.com/@Carv/carv-infinite-play-play-games-and-earn-your-share-a-total-reward-of-300-000-carv-182673a7507a">Infinite Play</a>, empowering players to own their gaming data and developers to gain insights from real-time gaming data from players.</div>
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<div>The Ethereum Pectra mainnet upgrade is expected to launch at the <a rel="nofollow" href="https://beincrypto.com/ethereum-pectra-mainnet-upgrade-delay/">end of April or May</a>.</div>
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<div>Solana community proposed to increase the <a rel="nofollow" href="https://github.com/solana-foundation/solana-improvement-documents/blob/main/proposals/0250-raise-block-limits-to-60M.md">block limit from 48M to 60M </a>in SIMD-0256, increasing the network transaction capacity.</div>
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<div>Sonic announced <a rel="nofollow" href="https://x.com/SonicLabs/status/1905291005605372328">SonicCS2.0</a>, the new consensus with 2x faster performance and 68% memory reduction, is coming to mainnet soon.</div>
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<div>Wayfinder, a DeFAI protocol, delayed the <a rel="nofollow" href="https://x.com/NaesYelof/status/1905990782516879850">PROMPT</a> TGE by approximately a week or two, potentially in mid-April.</div>
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<h3 class="heading-3"><strong>Token Unlock</strong></h3>
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<div>OP token unlocked on April 1, amount representing 1.98% of the token supply.</div>
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<div>GRASS token unlocked on April 1, amount representing 1.34% of the token supply.</div>
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<div>SUI token unlocked on April 2, amount representing 2.53% of the token supply.</div>
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<div>W token unlocked on April 3, amount representing 24.28% of the token supply.</div>
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<div>ENA token unlocked on April 3, amount representing 1.78% of the token supply.</div>
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<div>JTO token unlocked on April 8, amount representing 2.04% of the token supply.</div>
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<div>IO token unlocked on April 12, amount representing 2.09% of the token supply.</div>
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<div>APT token unlocked on April 13, amount representing 1.88% of the token supply.</div>
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<div>STRK token unlocked on April 16, amount representing 4.65% of the token supply.</div>
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<div>ARB token unlocked on April 17, amount representing 2.01% of the token supply.</div>
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<div>VANA token unlocked on April 17, amount representing 1.47% of the token supply.</div>
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