Binance detailed its listing and delisting standards, including listing requirements for products such as Binance Alpha, Binance Futures, and Binance Spot, as well as the conditions that project teams must meet. Binance also emphasized continuous monitoring of market performance, team background, compliance, and product security, and projects that do not meet the standards may be delisted.

Jeff Weinstein, product director of US payment giant Stripe, posted on the X platform that Stripe is building its first financial product centered on stablecoins, which is ready for testing.

Bitcoin led a rebound in risk assets and is on track for its biggest weekly gain since Trump won the U.S. presidential election. The tech-heavy Nasdaq 100 index rose about 5% as investors digested the impact of Trump's trade war, but Bitcoin has risen about 12% since last week, surpassing $95,000 for the first time since early March. "Amid the ongoing volatility, implied correlations within cryptocurrencies remain high," said Jack Ostrovskis, a trader at cryptocurrency market-making firm Wintermute. "So while the overall market has improved, it's clear that macro and geopolitical forces remain the main drivers of capital flows."

Nasdaq sent a letter to the US SEC Crypto Working Group, suggesting that regulators carefully classify digital assets and clarify the regulatory "referees". The document was signed by John Zecca, director of regulatory affairs, and proposed four categories: first, financial securities tokens (such as tokens linked to stocks, bonds, and ETFs, which should be treated the same as underlying assets), which are regulated by the SEC; second, digital asset investment contracts (tokenized contracts that meet the revised Howey test), which are subject to securities rules; third, digital asset commodities (which meet the US commodity definition) are under the jurisdiction of the CFTC; fourth, other digital assets (not included in the first three categories, and are not subject to securities or commodity rules). The SEC and the CFTC will work together to clarify the regulatory boundaries, and the new cryptocurrency law may become a guiding basis. Nasdaq also suggested the establishment of cross-trading qualifications for multi-type asset processing platforms, and emphasized its credibility in the field of digital assets, calling for companies that fully handle investor activities to strengthen security constraints and align with industry practices.

Kevin Owocki, co-founder of Gitcoin, posted on the X platform that Gitcoin will close its main software development department, Grants Lab, and lay off some team members. Behind this decision is the change in the ecological environment: the way of funding public products is evolving, the L2 ecosystem is gradually maturing, the collaboration mechanism is constantly innovating, and new competitors are constantly emerging. At the same time, key members of Grants Lab have left one after another, and the team lacks a clear and sustainable profit model in its current form, causing its financial expenditure to exceed its affordable range. Therefore, Grants Lab will no longer apply for the budget for the second half of 2025, and the remaining funds will be used to pay severance pay to affected employees. Gitcoin said that they will do their best to support the transition of departing employees in a respectful and caring manner.

The Meme Coin team of US President Donald Trump has denied rumors circulating on social media that official TRUMP token holders will need at least $300,000 to attend the upcoming dinner with Trump. The rumor stems from community members citing information from the Solana blockchain explorer showing the holders of the token contract address. As of the time of writing, the explorer shows that the 220th holder holds 33,114 TRUMP tokens, worth more than $400,000. However, the Meme Coin team said that the explorer does not reflect their standards. "People mistakenly use the 220th holder data on the blockchain explorer as the qualification line, which is inaccurate because the data includes locked tokens, exchange positions, market maker positions, and user positions that did not participate in the event. The actual participation qualification should be based on the official leaderboard." According to the Meme Coin official website, the team will select the winners based on "time-weighted holdings", which takes into account the number of tokens held and the length of time they are held.

Semler Scientific, a U.S.-listed medical technology company, announced that it would spend $10 million to increase its holdings of 111 BTC.

Decentralized AI startup Nous Research has completed a $50 million Series A financing round led by Paradigm (this financing was almost entirely provided by Paradigm). This round of financing values Nous's token at $1 billion. The funds raised will be mainly used to increase computing power reserves and expand the research team. Previously, the company had raised approximately $20 million in a seed round of financing, with investors including Distributed Global, North Island Ventures, Delphi Digital and other institutions. It is worth noting that this is Paradigm's largest investment in the AI field since the FTX crash in 2022, indicating that crypto capital is accelerating its layout in the cross-cutting field of cutting-edge technology.

Ethereum core developers are considering quadrupling the Gas limit of Layer 1 as a key feature of Fusaka, the next hard fork after Pectra. On April 23, developer Sophia Gold proposed EIP 9678, proposing to increase the Gas limit to 150 million when Fusaka hard forks. On April 24, core developer Tim Beiko said in the meeting summary that the ACDE meeting had discussed raising the Gas limit as a "key feature" of Fusaka. Developers have drafted an EIP and plan to merge it early next week and formally propose it at the next ACDE meeting. As work progresses, changes may be needed within the protocol to support a higher Gas limit, and even if the hard fork range is set, more EIPs will need to be added for Fusaka. Pectra plans to launch its mainnet in May, and Fusaka may be launched at the end of 2025.

In the past five trading days, the net inflow of funds into the US spot Bitcoin ETF reached about $2.8 billion, pushing the price of Bitcoin from about $85,000 to $94,000. Among them, the iShares Bitcoin Trust Fund (IBIT) under BlackRock alone contributed $1.3 billion in inflows. Michael Saylor, chairman of Strategy (formerly MicroStrategy), said at the Investor Day event: "In ten years, IBIT will become the world's largest ETF."

Cryptocurrency advocates are stepping up calls for the Swiss National Bank to buy Bitcoin, saying that the global turmoil caused by Trump's tariff policy highlights the urgency of diversifying the central bank's foreign exchange reserves. In December last year, supporters launched a referendum initiative to amend the constitution to require the Swiss National Bank (SNB) to include Bitcoin in its reserve assets, alongside gold. Bitcoin Suisse board member Luzius Meisser pointed out that Bitcoin can be used as a hedging tool as the influence of the US dollar and the euro is declining under the trend of global multipolarization. He will emphasize at the SNB shareholders' meeting this Friday that 75% of the central bank's foreign exchange reserves are concentrated in the US dollar and the euro, which are vulnerable to political interference (such as printing money financing), while Bitcoin "cannot be artificially inflated through fiscal deficits" and has decentralized risk-resistant value. The organizer of the initiative, Yves Bennaim, added that he does not advocate full positions in Bitcoin, but if the Swiss National Bank has trillions of Swiss francs in reserves, allocating 1%-2% to this inflation-resistant, highly secure and in-demand asset can both diversify risks and enhance the long-term value of reserves.

Binance HODLer Airdrop is now live on the 16th project – Sign (SIGN), a global infrastructure for credential verification and token distribution. From 08:00 on April 15, 2025 to 07:59 on April 20, 2025 (ET8), users who subscribe to guaranteed earning (regular and/or current) or on-chain earning products with BNB will receive airdrop allocations. HODLer airdrop information is expected to be available within 12 hours, and new tokens will be distributed to users' spot wallets at least 1 hour before trading begins.

Binance announced that Binance Alpha will list Sign (SIGN), and trading will be open on April 28, with the specific time to be announced. Earlier, Sign announced the economics of SIGN tokens: 40% is allocated to community incentives, of which 10% will be airdropped during TGE.