PANews reported on April 3 that the official of FDUSD issuer First Digital Trust (FDT) posted on social media that Justin Sun’s recent accusations against First Digital Trust are completely false. This dispute only involves TUSD and has nothing to do with FDUSD. First Digital is fully solvent. Officials said that every dollar of FDUSD reserves is fully backed by U.S. Treasury bonds, which is safe, reliable and fully traceable.

Asset management company VanEck launched an exchange-traded note (ETN) tracking Celestia's native token TIA on the Amsterdam and Paris stock exchanges, providing investors with a way to access the Celestia ecosystem without holding coins. The chain focuses on data availability and consensus separation and is regarded as a representative project of modular blockchain.

Tron founder Justin Sun provided emergency liquidity support to maintain TUSD's repayment ability after $456 million of TUSD reserve funds were illegally diverted to Dubai entity Aria Commodities DMCC. Documents show that the funds were originally supposed to be managed by First Digital Trust, but were later accused of being transferred to resource projects with extremely low liquidity without authorization.

BTCC focuses on selling call options at a "near price" to obtain high-frequency returns, giving priority to cash flow protection; BPI uses a "far price" option strategy to balance the upside potential and dividend income, suitable for investors seeking a balance between growth and income. Both funds are actively managed and plan to pay dividends monthly.

There are 12 candidate projects in this round, including VIRTUAL, BIGTIME, UXLINK, MORPHO, GRASS, ATH, WAL, SAFE, ZETA, IP, ONDO, and PLUME.

The Chicago Mercantile Exchange Group (CME) has an average daily trading volume of 198,000 cryptocurrency derivatives contracts in the first quarter of 2025, with a notional value of $11.3 billion, a record high. The trading volume of micro Ethereum futures reached 76,000 contracts, and the micro Bitcoin futures increased by 113% year-on-year, with an average daily trading volume of 77,000 contracts. Micro contracts have a low threshold and are easy to manage risks, which has driven the overall trading activity to soar.

Currently, 97% of US users have claimed compensation, but only 43% of non-US users have. The bankrupt crypto lending platform BlockFi issued an announcement stating that customers must complete asset claims before May 15, otherwise the unclaimed assets will be distributed to other unsecured creditors in accordance with bankruptcy law.

The Binance APP page shows that Binance Alpha has added ZETA and SAFE.

In November 2024, Circle reached an agreement with Binance, and Binance became the first approved participant under the stablecoin ecosystem agreement. Circle paid Binance a one-time fee of US$60.25 million and paid an annualized mid- to high-double-digit percentage incentive fee based on the USDC balance on its platform and vault. The premise is that Binance vault holds no less than US$1.5 billion in USDC and usually needs to maintain US$3 billion. The cooperation period is two years. If it is terminated early, there will be a one-year transition period to continue to perform some obligations.

In the Forbes 2025 Global Billionaires List, there are 16 cryptocurrency billionaires on the list, with a total wealth of more than $164 billion and an average net worth of $6.8 billion. Among them, Binance founder Changpeng "CZ" Zhao became the world's richest cryptocurrency billionaire with $63 billion. In addition, Tether's CFO Giancarlo Devasini ranked second with $22.4 billion, and JL van der Velde, Paolo Ardoino and Stuart Hoegner, who are also related to Tether, also made the list. The founders of cryptocurrency exchanges occupy an important position, including Coinbase co-founders Brian Armstrong and Fred Ehrsam, Gemini founders Cameron and Tyler Winklevoss, and Tron founder Justin Sun. Others on the list include Ripple's Chris Larsen, Stellar's Jed McCaleb, investor Tim Draper, and Microstrategy founder Michael Saylor. Saylor's company holds 528,185 bitcoins and he personally holds 17,732 bitcoins, and his crypto assets have significantly improved his wealth ranking.