EigenLayer

EigenLayer's Protocol Council has completed executing the Slashing upgrade on Mainnet.

Base

Base launched "Base is for everyone" token, which crashed 95% and then recovered nearly all of its lost value.

Galaxy Ventures

Galaxy Ventures Fund surpassed its goal of raising $150 million to build a portfolio of about 30 investments.

Project Eleven

Quantum computing research firm Project Eleven is offering 1 BTC to anyone who can break Bitcoin’s cryptography.

Lorenzo Protocol

Lorenzo Protocol completed TGE on Binance Wallet and was initially listed on selected exchanges.

eXch 

Non-KYC exchange eXch to close down under money laundering scrutiny tied to the Lazarus Group.

Binance

Binance Alpha launches DARK, an experimental network for trusted execution environments.

Galaxy 

Galaxy proposes a new ‘market-driven’ voting system for Solana emissions following SIMD-228 rejection.

Hyperliquid

Hyperliquid grabs 70% market share in on-chain perps, signaling a shift from centralized derivatives.

Synthetix 

Synthetix USD (sUSD) has fallen below $0.70, down 31% from its $1 peg.

Bitcoin 

Spar supermarket now accepts Bitcoin payments in Switzerland.

Nakamoto Games

Nakamoto Games joined Binance in the global CyberWish campaign.

Core Staking is now live with two options: staking WMTx on Base via a new EVM staking app, and staking on Cardano through the revamped Vault. Both share the same rewards and no‑lock periods, differing only in technical flow, timing, and setup.

Starfish introduces a Byzantine Fault Tolerant consensus model for DAG protocols, using a new Q‑commit rule for transaction data and an efficient data‑availability mechanism. It achieves linear communication complexity at scale while maintaining low end‑to‑end transaction latency.

The subscription period will last for 2 hours. Allocation will be determined, based on the user's subscription amount relative to the total amount deposited. Allocation: 42M BANK. Price per 1 BANK = $0.0048. Valuation: $10M. Cap per User: 3 BNB.

The Season #0 offers first hands‑on access to R2’s product suite: swap and redeem R2USD with testnet USDC, interact with sR2USD and the R2BTC and R2ETH vaults to earn real yield, and join Signals/Points campaigns. Use the R2YLD invite code to get started.

Sophon OS features five core modules: Home, Account, Sophon+, ZK‑Stack, and Social Oracle. The Home module lets users create and manage a digital identity, track engagement across the ecosystem, discover interests with a built‑in engine, and instantly connect with any Sophon app.

BNB Chain

BNB Chain completed its 31st quarterly BNB token burn, destroying a total of 1,579,207.716 BNB.

Towns Protocol

Towns Protocol teases TOWNS token details with 10% allocated for an airdrop and Q2 launch.

Revolut

Ex-Revolut duo's Bleap partners with Mastercard in latest push to take stablecoins mainstream.

WalletConnect

WalletConnect has been listed on major exchanges, including Binance, Kraken, and OKX.

World Liberty

The Trump family-backed World Liberty gets a $25 million investment from DWF Labs.

Raydium

Raydium rolls out its highly anticipated LaunchLab, an all-in-one token launchpad.

ENS

ENS core developer nick.eth was targeted in a highly sophisticated phishing attack.

Unmarshal

Unmarshal partners with Meganet, a decentralized bandwidth-sharing network.

Aztec

Aztec developers roll out ‘StealthNote’ to protect anonymous whistleblowers.

XION

XION goes live on Base with listing on the largest Base exchange, Aerodrome.

Bitcoin 

Spot Bitcoin ETFs see $76 million in inflows, extending recovery streak.

Kernel 

Kernel has been listed on the Bithumb exchange.

Additional participants include Coinbase Ventures, Uniswap Ventures, and GSR. The company will join Andreessen Horowitz’s Crypto Startup Accelerator in San Francisco this spring.

Glider enables users to automate crypto trading, swaps, and other DeFi activities with personalized strategies. Currently in testing, the platform is expected to launch in the coming months.

👉 fortune.com/crypto/2025/04/16/crypto-investment-glider-raises-4-million-andreessen-horowitz-coinbase

Cyber.Fund and Maven11 led the round, with participation from Coinbase Ventures, SCB Limited, Arrington Capital, Gumi Cryptos, NoLimit Holdings, Robot Ventures, Animoca, and others.

Resolv will use the funds to add Bitcoin‑based yield strategies and deepen integrations with institutional digital asset managers.

👉 coindesk.com/business/2025/04/15/resolv-labs-raises-usd10m-as-crypto-investor-appetite-for-yield-bearing-stablecoins-soars