【Blockchain News 0422】

【Overall Bulletin Board】

1. 24-hour BTC +1.4%, ETH -0.1%; the top 500 market capitalizations rose or fell >30%: SYS +50%, TRIBE -33%

2. 24-hour liquidation of $280 million, long and short liquidation

3. Financing: Crypto market services Skynet Trading, etc.

【Main News】

I. BTC, ETH

1. At 8:09 on April 20, 2024 (UTC+8), BTC completed the fourth halving at block height 840000, and the mining reward was halved from 6.25BTC to 3.125BTC. The last halving occurred on May 11, 2020

2. The fourth halving block was mined by ViaBTC, and the block reward reached 40.751 BTC

3. BTC network transaction fees continue to soar, with high priority reaching 2700Sat/byte

4. Ordinals developer: Affected by Runes, the fees of the last five BTC blocks have exceeded Coinbase rewards

5. OKXWeb3 wallet Runes market is now officially open and Runes has been officially launched on UniSat;

6. UniSat launches 7-day Runes etching and casting 3x points reward

7. CyberKongz launches rune No. 2 "DECENTRALIZED", Pre-RuneNFT price doubles

8. Bitcoin Wizard announces MAGIC INTERNET MONEY rune distribution plan, $WZRD and OrdinalsNFT holdings are airdropped according to market value ratio

9. Reports of worsening US debt raise concerns, investors favor BTC and gold over bonds

10. MicroStrategy founder sells company shares for $370 million this year

11. Merlinstarter: The third IDO is confirmed, and MSTAR staking will be launched in a few days

12. Zeus Network: Muses upgrade is planned to be launched in the second quarter

II. TON and Telegram release a large number of favorable measures

1. Tether has extended USDT to TON; reported that Tether is working with the TON Foundation to introduce crypto payments in instant messaging services; Tether CEo said XAUT will also be launched on TON in the next few months; Tether has 106% reserve support, and the US Treasury bonds held are 12% to 13% of those held by China

2. TON: 11 million Toncoin incentives for early adopters of USDT on the chain; transaction fees between USDT users are fixed at 0.0145 TON; USDT is not available for US users

3. TON launches the Open League DeFi funding program

4. Telegram CEo: will issue an introduction for creators, creators can get 70% of the income, and will allow in-app purchases of digital goods

5. Telegram CEO: will tokenize Telegram stickers and emoticons

6. Wallet users can send tokens and NFTs on TON to contacts directly in Telegram, without filling in the wallet address, just select the contact

7. Founding members of the TON Foundation: Some Telegram-based games have gained millions of users in just a few weeks

III. Blockchain / Infra / Tool

1. A lawyer: There is no sign of spot ETH ETF being approved before the end of the year

2. BNB: Beacon chain Sunset will cause a large number of BNB to migrate to BSC

3. Linea launches Builder Launchpad program to support developer Injective:

4. INJ3.0 governance proposal has been launched, and it is planned to upgrade the token economy

5. Worldcoin provides exclusive limited goods for WorldID holders

IV. DeFi / CeFi

1. UniswapLabs: The number of users trading on OP and Base exceeded 1 million in April

V. NFT / Inscription / MEME / DAO / Social / Web3

1. NFT hot spots: Pudgy Penguins, MAYC, BAYC, Milady, Lil Pudgys, Kanpai Pandas, Azuki, Terraforms

2. Magic Eden will expand to the Base network on April 25

3. DAO organization 0wn theDoge purchased the copyright of images related to the Dogecoin prototype Kabosu

4. Avalanche founder: Meme is a social signal that can attract new people

5. friend.tech will launch v2 version on April 29

Six, Game / Metaverse / Al

1. MyShell launches AI consumer L2, based on EigenDA and Optimism

Seven, Policy / Regulation

1. Federal Reserve Semi-annual Financial Stability Report: Continued inflation is considered the number one risk

2. The US Internal Revenue Service released a preview of the new tax form, involving new regulations for crypto investors,

3. One person admitted to stealing more than $9.5 million in cryptocurrency by impersonating the Coinbase website,

4. Crypto.com denied that South Korean regulation delayed the leadership change of its local department

5. Nigerian court postponed the bail application hearing of Binance executive Tigran Gambaryan to April 22

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