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As Solana continues to lead the meme coin niche, rumor suggests a high-stake battle brewing as Pump.Fun is gearing up to launch its own AMM. The race to control liquidity routing could permanently disrupt Raydium’s dominance.
Conversely, Avalanche and TON suffered major outflows, losing $506 million and $280 million, respectively, indicating liquidity shifts away from these networks.
Quick Take The SEC alleged the Uniswap DEX acts as Uniswap Labs’ unregistered securities exchange and unregistered securities broker-dealer.
Quick Take Aave’s community has approved a measure to essentially halt lending services on Polygon’s PoS chain by substantially increasing its risk parameters. Currently, Aave is the largest decentralized app on Polygon by TVL, with deposits exceeding $300 million on the PoS chain. The move comes after Polygon’s community considered a failed proposal to utilize over $1 billion in stablecoin reserves to generate yield.
Quick Take Aptos introduces Zaptos and Shardines, two innovations that reduce latency and boost throughput. Zaptos reduces end-to-end transaction latency by 40% with optimistic operations, including optimistically executing transactions before their order is finalized. Shardines applies sharding to Aptos’ execution engine, leveraging intelligent partitioning, micro-batching, and pipelining to surpass 1 million tps while minimizing cross-shard communication and efficiently handling conflicting transactions.
Quick Take Regulatory agencies have scrutinized crypto ATMs over the years over concerns that they are being used in scams. Durbin said a small-town business owner in Springfield, Illinois removed the crypto ATM from the store “after witnessing senior after senior walk in, talking on their phones, looking stressed and depositing huge sums of cash into the machines.”
After 169% surge, Pi Coin sets sights on ambitious price target from bullish momentum Market analyst forecasts strong Pi Coin rally, projecting $3.78 price in 2025 Binance listing potential: 86% vote yes to listing, could further Pi Coin’s price action
Quick Take Top Ethereum Foundation researchers including Vitalik Buterin, Justin Drake and Dankrad Feist discuss everything from scaling Ethereum to bolstering base layer revenue in wide-ranging Q&A on Reddit.
- 18:51Spot gold's intraday gains expand to 1%, priced at $3,349.74 per ounceJinse reports that spot gold's intraday gains have expanded to 1%, priced at $3,349.74 per ounce.
- 18:37Standard Chartered Bank Predicts Bitcoin Will Rise to $120,000 in the Second Quarter, Maintains Year-End Target of $200,000According to The Block, Geoffrey Kendrick, Head of Global Digital Asset Research at Standard Chartered Bank, predicts that Bitcoin will reach a new high of approximately $120,000 in the second quarter, mainly driven by U.S. asset reallocation. Kendrick states that now is the best time to buy Bitcoin and maintains his target of $200,000 by the end of 2025. He points out that several indicators support the next upward trend for Bitcoin, including the U.S. Treasury term premium reaching its highest point in 12 years and signs that U.S. investors may be seeking non-U.S. assets. Additionally, whale investors holding over 1,000 Bitcoins have continued accumulating during the market decline caused by tariffs and the subsequent rebound related to risks to the Fed's independence, highlighting the importance of this period for Bitcoin's next move. The current Bitcoin price is about $95,500, with an all-time high of $108,786 on January 20, 2025. With growing institutional interest and potential passage of U.S. stablecoin legislation, Bitcoin's rise may continue into the summer.
- 18:36Total Bitcoin Futures Open Interest Rises to $63.24 BillionAccording to Coinglass data, the total open interest in Bitcoin futures contracts across the network is 674,790 BTC (approximately $63.24 billion). Among these, CME Bitcoin contracts have an open interest of 147,110 BTC (approximately $13.78 billion), ranking first; CEX Bitcoin contracts have an open interest of 115,730 BTC (approximately $10.85 billion), ranking second.