Important information last night this morning (April 24-April 25)
Reprinted from panewslab
04/25/2025·14D
Inco completes a US$5 million strategic round of financing, committed to on-chain privacy technology
According to Inco official news, Inco announced that it had completed a US$5 million strategic round of financing led by a16z crypto CSX and Coinbase Ventures, with a total cumulative financing of US$10 million. Inco focuses on solving blockchain privacy issues and is committed to allowing users to do salary payments, Texas Hold'em and other operations on the chain without revealing sensitive information. Currently, its first product, "Inco Lightning", has been launched on the Base Sepolia test website.
ApeCoin has enabled NFT staking rewards on ApeChain
According to official ApeCoin news, NFT staking rewards are now available for ApeChain, and users need to go to the new website apechainstake.io to pledge $APE to get the reward. The participation process includes: unsoliciting $APE from the old site, cross-chain assets to ApeChain, re-soliciting on the new platform, and managing Shadow delegation through Delegate.xyz. Pledge of old sites no longer generates rewards.
Moonshot launches Trencher ($TRENCHER)
Moonshot announced the launch of the Solana chain new coin Trencher ($TRENCHER). Its current market value is approximately US$2.7 million, with a 24-hour trading volume of US$18.5 million. In addition, Moonshot also launched Nobody Sausage ($NOBODY) in the early morning of this morning.
MagicBlock completes $7.5 million seed round, led by Lightspeed Faction
MagicBlock, a game company based in Solana, announced a $7.5 million seed round of financing, aiming to build a real-time, fragmented infrastructure for decentralized games and applications through Solana-native Ephemeral Rollups technology. This round of financing was led by Lightspeed Faction, and the participants include Maven11, Delphi Digital, Robot Ventures, Mechanism Capital, Equilibrium and Pivot Global. The angel investor lineup includes Solana co-founders Anatoly Yakovenko, Mert Mumtaz and Tristan Yver. a16z has participated in early stage investments and the total financing amount is now US$10.5 million. MagicBlock plans to expand the engineering team, promote the development of the Solana application ecosystem, and optimize the real-time execution architecture.
According to TrumpMeme's official X account, there is a misunderstanding about the participation rules for the "Dinner with Trump" event. The official clarification is that you do not need to hold a $300,000 token with a position of more than $TRUMP tokens to participate. Participation eligibility is based on registration and time-weighted positions on Leaderboard, non-block browser ranking. The initial unlock and daily unlocking of tokens will still be locked for an additional 90 days to ensure fairness in the competition.
El Salvador increased its holdings by 1 Bitcoin, with a total holding of 6157.18
According to the official website of the Ministry of Finance of El Salvador, the country increased its holdings by 1 Bitcoin 7 hours ago, and the current total holdings of Bitcoin reached 6157.18, with a total value of about US$578 million based on the current price.
ARK raises Bitcoin’s 2030 bull market target to $2.4 million
According to Bitcoin Magazine, ARK Invest has raised its target price for Bitcoin's 2030 bull market scenario from $1.5 million to $2.4 million, with an estimated annual growth rate of 72%. The forecast takes into account the penetration rate of institutional investment in the global market portfolio by 6.5%, the market value of Bitcoin replacing gold by 60%, the demand for hedging in emerging markets and the growth of on-chain financial services, and is based on the Bitcoin "active supply" adjustment model. ARK pointed out that most valuation models do not reflect Bitcoin’s scarcity and lost supply. According to the Big Ideas 2025 report previously released by ARK Investment Management, ARK expects Bitcoin's price target by 2030 to be about $300,000 in bear market scenarios, about $710,000 in benchmark scenarios, and about $1.5 million in bull market scenarios.
Deloitte Report: Global real estate tokenization market may reach $4 trillion by 2035
According to CoinDesk, citing a report from the Deloitte Financial Services Center, the global real estate tokenization market is expected to increase to US$4 trillion by 2035, with an annual compound growth rate of 27%. The trend will reshape the private real estate market through on-chain loans, funds and land ownership. The report pointed out that despite its significant advantages in efficiency, settlement speed and investor coverage, asset custody, regulatory clarity and default handling are still key challenges.
Mantle (MNT) is included in Coinbase Asset Roadmap
According to Coinbase Assets, Mantle (MNT) has been added to its asset roadmap, and future transactions will be notified separately depending on market making support and technical preparations.
Coinbase adds ZORA to its asset roadmap
According to Coinbase Assets, ZORA (ZORA) has been added to its asset roadmap. Coinbase said that the launch of ZORA's transactions still depend on market making support and technical infrastructure preparation, and the specific launch time will be announced separately.
Cumberland deposits 2,261 BTC to CEX, worth over US$200 million
According to The Data Nerd monitoring, Cumberland deposited 2,088 BTC (approximately $193.36 million) into Coinbase two hours ago. 20 minutes ago, it deposited another 173 BTC (about $16.05 million) into Coinbase.
US SEC meets with Ondo Finance to discuss the compliant issuance of tokenized securities
Ondo Finance held talks with Davis Polk & Wardwell LLP with the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) Crypto Assets Task Force on April 24 to discuss compliance paths for issuing and selling tokenized U.S. securities. The conference topics include key issues such as the structural model of tokenized securities, registration and broker requirements, market structure regulations, financial crime compliance, and state corporate laws. Ondo Finance proposes to seek regulatory sandboxes or other forms of regulatory exemptions to advance the issuance of its tokenized asset products. The talks aim to provide a clear regulatory framework for tokenized securities in the U.S. market.
According to Decrypt, decentralized AI training platform FLock.io announced a strategic cooperation with Alibaba Cloud, which will be based on Alibaba Cloud's big model, Qwen, and cloud computing infrastructure development vertical fields and general AI models. In this collaboration, FLock.io will use Alibaba Cloud's infrastructure and products to create various AI models. In the future, both parties will use their respective technical expertise to explore research opportunities and application scenarios in the field of AI. In addition to technology integration, FLock.io will also cooperate with Alibaba Cloud to promote joint research projects, leveraging the knowledge and resources of both parties to explore new applications of centralized and decentralized artificial intelligence. According to the market, FLOCK tokens are now at $0.08717, with a 24-hour increase of 47.9%.
According to PR News Agency, CME Group announced today that it plans to launch XRP futures on May 19, which will take effect after regulatory review is approved. Market participants will have the option to trade microcontracts (2,500 XRP) and larger contracts (50,000 XRP). CMEX's XRP futures will be settled in cash and based on the Chicago Mercantile Exchange CF XRP-USD reference exchange rate, which is the daily reference exchange rate for the XRP USD price, calculated at 4:00 pm London time every day. XRP Futures will join the company's suite of crypto products, including Bitcoin and Ethereum futures and options, as well as the recently launched SOL Futures.
According to CoinDesk, Polygon officially launched the Agglayer Breakout program, aiming to support development projects based on the Agglayer and Polygon PoS ecosystem. The program will provide Polygon Labs' technical support, funding and ecological resources for selected projects. Projects that have successfully graduated must airdrop 5%-15% of their total native tokens to POL stakers and integrate with the Agglayer network. Among the first batch of participating projects, Privado ID, the identity framework based on ZK, has been incubated and plans to airdrop 5% tokens; ZK Chain Miden, led by former Facebook blockchain team members, is about to graduate and will airdrop 10% tokens; an undisclosed DeFi chain is planning to airdrop 15% tokens. POL stakers can participate in snapshots to obtain empty investment spaces from next week.
Ether.fi transforms into a new DeFi bank and launches cash cards in the United States
According to CoinDesk, restaking agreement Ether.fi announced plans to increase banking services, making it a new DeFi bank. The platform application will integrate traditional banking services and encryption functions, support users to conduct daily financial operations such as bill payment and salary payment through fiat currency, while retaining its core re-staking products -users can obtain liquid staking tokens (LST) through pledging ETH and obtain additional benefits in the DeFi ecosystem. Last September, Ether.fi announced the launch of its own Visa “Cash” card, which will allow cardholders to use cryptocurrency as collateral to consume fiat currencies. Previously, the product and pledge services were restricted due to regulatory requirements, but it has now been launched in the United States. Initially, the product will be launched in selected states and a range of partnerships with local entities to ensure compliance with regulatory requirements.
Coinbase International Station will launch Initia perpetual contract transactions
Coinbase International Station issued an article on the X platform that Coinbase International Station and Coinbase Advanced will add support for Initia perpetual contracts, and the INIT-PERP market is expected to open at 23:00 on April 24, Beijing time.
Securities launches new crypto index fund, backed by Mantle $400 million
Real-world asset tokenization company Securities collaborates with Mantle to launch a new institutional crypto index fund, which Mantle promises to invest $400 million as the cornerstone of the fund, according to The Block. The Mantle Index Four (MI4) fund aims to invest in top crypto assets, including BTC, ETH, SOL and US dollar stablecoins, with the goal of becoming the "S&P 500 index in the cryptocurrency space". A press release said its configuration reflects market value and risk. The fund aims to further improve returns by rebalancing the fund every quarter and integrating staking strategies of Mantle's mETH, Bybit's bbSOL, etc.
Binance Alpha adds Dolomite (DOLO)
According to the official page, Binance Alpha has added Dolomite (DOLO).
RockawayX, an early supporter of Solana, launches new $125 million fund
According to Forbes, Prague crypto venture capital firm RockawayX announced the completion of a second early-stage fund raising of US$125 million. The fund was closed in the first quarter of this year and will mainly invest in Solana ecological startup projects. The Solana, which invested in the unlanding market in 2018, currently manages approximately $2 billion in assets, has offices in Prague, Dubai and London, and two-thirds of its 45 employees are engineers. RockawayX CEO Victor Fischer said two-thirds of the new fund will be used for seed investment, and the rest will be allocated to liquid assets. Although crypto venture capital fell by 22% in the first quarter, RockawayX's fund return in 2021 has exceeded 5 times, mainly benefiting from early-stage investments in Solana, market maker Wintermute and lending agreement Morpho Labs. The agency has invested in more than 15 Solana ecological projects and will jointly launch the accelerator center "Solana City" in Dubai on May 1 with the Solana Foundation and development company Helius Labs.
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