According to Coingecko, more than 50% of cryptocurrency projects have failed since 2021. Of the nearly 7 million cryptocurrencies listed on GeckoTerminal, 3.7 million have stopped trading. As of March 31, 2025, 1.8 million projects have failed, a record high for a single year, accounting for 49.7% of the total number of project closures in the past five years. 2024 followed closely with 1.38 million projects failed, accounting for 37.7% of the total number in the past five years. Before pump.fun was launched in 2024, the number of project failures was only in the six figures. Project failures between 2021 and 2023 accounted for only 12.6% of the total number in the past five years. The number of projects increased from 428,000 in 2021 to nearly 7 million in 2025, mainly due to the launch of pump.fun, which flooded the market with a large number of meme coins and low-quality projects.

The human verification crypto project World was launched in the United States, where users can obtain WLD tokens by verifying their identities and establish a World ID. The project will be launched in six cities: Atlanta, Austin, Los Angeles, Miami, Nashville, and San Francisco. At the same time, World plans to launch a Visa card that allows users to pay with WLD tokens and other digital assets. In addition, World has partnered with Match Group to launch a pilot among Tinder users in Japan to help users verify their real identities. World will also provide access to the prediction market Kalshi through its application. The project plans to quickly expand to 1 billion users through small Orb devices and work with Razer to provide in-game human verification services. World was developed by Tools for Humanity and co-founded by Altman and Alex Blania.

In the world of Web3, marketing is no longer just about attracting users, but a key force in shaping and leading the market. From NFT to SocialFi, celebrity coins to DeFi, marketing strategies are gradually expanding to a wider audience and diversified tools. In this competition, the success of a project depends not only on technology and innovation, but also on how to connect with users through "emotion" and "narrative". As the market gradually matures, traditional marketing strategies are colliding with the decentralized concept of blockchain, forming a unique "marketing aesthetics".

According to Lookonchain monitoring, a trader spent $1,513 to buy 7.24 million gork tokens 5 hours ago, and then sold 3.86 million gorks for a profit of $132,700. He currently still holds 3.38 million gorks, worth $162,300. The trader turned his initial investment into $295,000 in just 5 hours, achieving a 191-fold return.

Moonshot announced the listing of New XAI gork ($gork). The token runs on the Solana chain and currently has a market cap of $40.7 million and a 24-hour trading volume of $120.9 million.

NFT whale dingaling announced that its upcoming token issuance platform boop has partnered with KaitoAI to grade more than 14,000 crypto Twitter accounts based on their influence and designed two airdrop plans, with details to be announced tomorrow. Users can access new tokens for free by staking $BOOP tokens, and $BOOP stakers will continue to receive 5% of the total supply of all new tokens and 60% of the SOL fees of the token liquidity pool. According to previous news, dingaling will launch Solana's on-chain token issuance platform boop this week and will conduct airdrops.

As of now, IBIT’s total holdings have reached 601,209 bitcoins, with a total value of approximately US$56.11 billion (based on the latest market price).

According to the official FAQ page of FIFA Collect, the FIFA Collect platform will be migrated to the EVM-compatible FIFA Blockchain no earlier than May 20. Collections exported to the off-chain must be re-imported before May 20, otherwise they will not be able to be traded on the new platform. There will be a brief service outage of about 10 hours during the migration.

"Xiaomi MiMo" surpassed OpenAI o1-mini and Alibaba Qwen-32B in AIME mathematical reasoning and LiveCodeBench programming assessments.

In 2025, his focus will include the long-term development of Ethereum L1 (such as single-slot finality, virtual machine evolution, statelessness and security/decentralization) and full-stack security and privacy construction, striving to achieve a non-intermediary, high-privacy Ethereum application environment. He will also focus on broader decentralized acceleration (d/acc) issues, including communication tools, mechanism design, public goods funding, operating systems, hardware and biodefense.

Binance Futures will launch the PUNDIXUSDT perpetual contract at 18:00 Beijing time on April 30, and the CTKUSDT perpetual contract at 18:15, both supporting up to 75x leverage.

Coinglass data shows that the liquidation amount of ALPACA tokens exceeded US$50 million in the past 24 hours, mainly due to short orders. The 24-hour liquidation was US$50.187 million, exceeding BTC (US$43.475 million), of which US$3.98 million was liquidated on the Bybit platform at 13:13:30 today.