1. Market trading hotspots: LTC with halving concept, XRP with SEC regulation, LDO with LSD track, and EDU with IEO concept are active in trading.
2. On-chain monitoring: Yesterday, large whales transferred a total of 160 million US dollars to the Binance Exchange.
3. Tool recommendation: chainbot, which supports most on-chain data monitoring.
4. Hardware wallet Ledger launched an ID-based key recovery service "Ledger Recover", which eliminates the risk of losing cryptocurrency keys at a price of $9.99 per month. Because this feature requires the secret mnemonic to be stored online and associated with a passport or national ID card. The feature has faced criticism for requiring KYC registration, with some users saying that this violates the privacy values held by many in the crypto community and undermines the purpose of hardware wallets.
5. Sun Yuchen said on Twitter that Li Wei, the younger brother of Huobi founder Li Lin, repeatedly obtained a large amount of zero-cost HT through abnormal means and sold and withdrawn a large amount of money in Huobi. In response to this, Li Lin responded in WeChat Moments: I hope Huobi will provide relevant evidence. If it is true, I will personally pay ten times the HT.
6. Web3 social graph protocol CyberConnect released Litepaper. The three core components of CyberConnect are CyberProfile, CyberConnect Social Graph and the smart contract wallet CyberWallet under development.
7. OKX announced the Bitcoin Ecosystem Roadmap for Web3 Wallet for the first time. This includes the launch of the BRC-20 trading market, support for BRC20 Token trading, BTC cross-chain swaps, and support for Ordinals inscriptions and BRC-20 Token casting, Ordinals NFT trading, STX Staking (BTC layer 2), and BRC20 Staking. At the same time, OKX formally established a new industry BRC-20 parsing standard, which has passed the security audit of the security audit agency SlowMist.
8. The liquidity pledge protocol Lido has passed the on-chain vote and officially launched the V2 version, which introduced direct withdrawals and a new pledge module, allowing pledgers to directly release Ethereum in a pledged state through Lido, while promoting the Lido protocol to further develop in the direction of increasing protocol decentralization. In the past few days, LDO has rebounded rapidly from a low level, and the on-chain whales have increased their holdings by more than 1.95 million LDO in the past week.
9. OrdStarter, a launchpad and incubator based on BRC-20, will be launched soon. OrdStarter is committed to providing a platform for issuance and incubation for start-up projects in the financial and investment fields of the BRC-20 ecosystem, so as to efficiently achieve their development goals.
10. Tether released its reserve certificate for the first quarter of this year. The issuance of USDT increased from US$66 billion to over US$82 billion. Ether's direct holdings of U.S. Treasury bonds reached a record high of over US$53 billion, accounting for more than 64% of total reserves.
