<Odaily> Planet Daily News: According to the official announcement, Binance will launch the BANKUSDT perpetual contract on April 18, 2025, at 18:30 (UTC), supporting up to 50x leverage. The contract will support multi-asset mode, allowing users to trade using various assets as margin. Futures copy trading will be available within 24 hours of the contract's launch. (This brief news was assisted by AI generation)

<Odaily> Planet News: Jupiter announced a joint Meme art bounty experiment with Drip Haus, focusing on "culture". They invite community users to send any Meme tokens to the specified address CCFRRLa5qvykEuxN5XjwBGGj9QNrBmpa4NegyfbVk5Tk as a bounty pool for corresponding artworks. Jupiter stated they will select tokens with compelling stories or high bounties to showcase in their platform's token page and gallery, demonstrating the cultural diversity behind Meme coins. The activity timeline is as follows: - Before April 21: Token submission deadline - Before April 30: Creators submit artworks - Before May 5: Each community must officially announce selected works on X platform, otherwise the organizers will make the decision. Jupiter emphasized that this is an open experimental activity, and users should participate cautiously and avoid investing assets beyond their risk tolerance.

PANews reports on April 18th that according to the Virtuals Protocol announcement, the AI-driven movie-level intelligent agent @h011yw00dAgent is now online, with its accompanying token $HOLLY simultaneously launched. The project team stated that this is a platform and protocol co-created by AI directors and users, which is not just an experiment, but a form of "digital existence".

<Huoxing Finance> News, according to Jintai Report, Daley of the Federal Reserve stated that she is satisfied with the expectation of two rate cuts this year, but if inflation remains more sticky, the number of rate cuts this year may be less than two. If economic growth slows down, further rate cuts will be made. Gradually lowering policy rates without urgency is the correct approach. The Federal Reserve's only commitment is to restore price stability. Currently, the United States has a stable labor market, but price stability still needs to be achieved.

ChainCatcher reports that according to Tether CEO Paolo Ardoino's post on X, USDT is driving the US dollar's hegemony in all emerging markets, with over 450 million users, especially in developing countries, growing by more than 30 million users per quarter.

According to official sources from Mars Finance, the crypto asset management platform Bitwise will host a "Bit Standard Enterprise Investor Day" summit in New York, inviting top global Bit coin enterprise operators and institutional investors. Attendees will include Michael Saylor, founder of Strategy, and Eric Semler, chairman of medical technology company Semler Scientific, which holds 3,192 Bits.

According to ChainCatcher news, based on the official tweet, Solana ecosystem's liquidity restaking protocol <Fragmetric> announced that it has received a Grant from the <Solana> Foundation, with the project aiming to establish a new liquidity restaking standard. <Fragmetric> officially stated that this move will benefit all participants in the restaking ecosystem. Previously reported, the <Solana> ecosystem restaking protocol <Fragmetric> completed a $5 million strategic financing round, led by Rockaway Capital, with participation from Robot Ventures, Amber Group, Hypersphere, and BitGo.

<ChainCatcher> News, according to Coinglass data, the cryptocurrency market experienced a total contract liquidation of $102 million in the past 24 hours, with long positions liquidated at $50.0433 million and short positions liquidated at $51.7178 million. BTC total liquidation amount was $13.8714 million, and ETH total liquidation amount was $13.6786 million.

<Mars Finance> News: On April 18, the Federal Reserve released a rate cut signal, with strong market expectations.

According to <ChainCatcher> news, as monitored by Lookonchain, 10 Bitcoin ETFs had a net inflow of 1,147 BTC (approximately $97.03 million) today, with BlackRock inflows of 955 BTC, and current holdings reaching 573,188 BTC (approximately $48.47 billion); 9 Ethereum ETFs had a net outflow of 3,775 ETH (approximately $6 million), with Grayscale outflowing 5,241 ETH, and current holdings of 1,169,305 ETH (approximately $1.86 billion).

According to ChainCatcher, an analyst @ali_charts observes a Bitcoin market top signal, stating, "Retail investor frenzy is absent in this rally. Historical data shows that whenever Bitcoin reaches a cycle top, it is typically accompanied by a surge in retail trading activity. However, during this price increase from $70,000 to $110,000, this typical characteristic is notably missing—this abnormal trend is highly similar to the market structure at the end of the bull market in late 2021."

According to @ali_charts analysis, the BTC market top has historically been closely related to a surge in retail investor activity. However, during this round of Bitcoin's rise from $70,000 to $110,000, retail investor entry signs are not obvious, structurally similar to the market trend at the end of 2021.

According to the ChainCatcher message, based on the Aptos governance proposal page, community member moon shiesty submitted AIP-119, suggesting a monthly reduction of 1% in staking annual yield over the next three months, ultimately reaching approximately 3.79%. The proposal aims to be an initial attempt at restructuring the Aptos economic model, planned to be gradually implemented over six months to assess its potential impact. The proposal argues that the current ~7% staking rewards are too high, reducing capital efficiency and encouraging the community to explore more risky or costly opportunities such as restaking, DePIN infrastructure, MEV, and DeFi rewards. Although reducing staking rewards might decrease the incentive to hold APT, the proposal believes that reduced inflation and new reward mechanisms could offset the impact. The proposal notes that this could impact small validators and suggests considering supporting validators with less than 3 million APT through a community staking program, and initiating discussions on more efficient long-term incentive methods. The proposal is expected to be reviewed by the community and foundation over the next four weeks, with mainnet voting scheduled for the fifth week.

PANews news on April 18th, ZachXBT responded on X platform, stating that his public Solana address indeed received and returned 5 SOL donations, which were misunderstood as participation in token deployment. He explicitly denied any involvement with token issuance, saying, "If you really think I would launch a token, then you should lose everything."

<PANews> On April 18, White House Economic Advisor Hassett said on Friday that Trump and his team will study the possibility of firing Federal Reserve Chairman Powell when asked about it. Hassett answered reporters at the White House, saying: "The President and his team will continue to study this matter." The day before Hassett's communication with the media, Trump escalated his long-brewing discord with Powell, accusing Powell of "playing politics" by not cutting interest rates and claiming that he has the right to remove Powell "very soon".

According to ChainCatcher, Redacted has announced the final token allocation plan for RDAC. The official statement emphasizes that the token distribution reflects principles of fairness, collaboration, and long-term sustainability, aiming to incentivize early contributors, community participants, and builders. Specifically, the Jirasan community will have 25% of their tokens unlocked at TGE, followed by a 3-month cliff, then linear monthly release, with potential acceleration upon achieving Tier 1 listing, revenue, and market cap milestones. Other community allocations will have different TGE unlock percentages, a 3-month cliff, and a 24-month linear release. Team tokens will be strictly unlocked based on market cap thresholds: after a 12-month cliff, 10% will be unlocked for every $100 million increase in market cap. If the market cap does not reach $100 million, team tokens will be permanently burned, with an unlock cap at a $1 billion market cap. Redacted stated that this model is inspired by CZ's long-term incentive framework, ensuring the team only benefits when targets are met, and declared all previous token economic models null and void. Previously reported, Redacted completed a $10 million funding round, with Spartan Group as a co-lead investor, and participation from Saison Capital, Animoca Brands, and Polygon Ventures.

Mars Finance reports that on April 18, Swedish enterprise <Bitcoin Treasury> AB announced its listing plan, aiming to become the "European version of <MicroStrategy>" The company clearly stated: "Our goal is to acquire as many Bit ($BTC) as possible" (Note: <MicroStrategy> is a Nasdaq-listed company, currently holding approximately 194,000 BTC, making it the largest corporate Bit holder globally)

<Foresight News> message: UNI announced that the UNITE airdrop eligibility query page is now online, allowing users to check whether their wallet meets the airdrop claiming qualifications, supporting multiple event data sources. UNI stated that currently only eligibility query is open, and the specific allocation quantity will be announced closer to the Token Generation Event (TGE).

<ChainCatcher> According to the Coingecko quarterly report, the total market value of cryptocurrencies dropped 18.6% to $2.8 trillion in the first quarter of 2025. Bitcoin further consolidated its dominant position in the market, with its market share rising to 59.1% (reaching a new high since 2021), while Altcoins generally showed weak performance. The market share of stablecoins USDT and USDC increased, while Ethereum's market share fell to a five-year low of 7.9%. 1. Bitcoin Outperforms Traditional Risk Assets Bitcoin once broke through $100,000 in January, creating a historical high, but closed at $82,514 at the end of the quarter (a drop of 11.8%). Its performance was better than the Nasdaq index (down 10.3%), but inferior to gold (up 18%) and US Treasury bonds. Analysts pointed out that the strengthening of the yen and euro, monetary policy adjustments, and increased geopolitical uncertainty intensified market volatility. 2. Ethereum and Altcoins Under Pressure Ethereum's price plummeted 45.3% to $1,805, wiping out all gains in 2024, with daily trading volume shrinking to $2.44 billion. Top Altcoins like Solana (SOL), XRP, and BNB had relatively smaller pullbacks, highlighting Ethereum's relative weakness. Meme coins were severely impacted by the LIBRA project's runaway incident related to Argentine President Javier Milei, with Pump.fun's daily token deployment dropping by 56.3%. 3. Exchange Landscape Changes Centralized exchanges (CEX) spot trading volume decreased 16.3% to $5.4 trillion, with Binance maintaining a 40.7% market share. HTX was the only platform in the top ten to grow (+11.4%), while Bybit's trading volume was halved due to a hacker event in February. In decentralized exchanges (DEX), Solana led with a 39.6% share in Q1, but Ethereum briefly reclaimed the top spot in March. The total value locked (TVL) in DeFi dropped 27.5% to $12.86 billion, with the new public chain Berachain's TVL rising against the trend to $5.2 billion.

ChainCatcher news, according to Whale Alert monitoring, at 22:20 Beijing time, 229,767,998 USDT (approximately $229.68 million) was transferred from Bitfinex to Tether Treasury.