The U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) announced that Paul S. Atkins has been officially sworn in as the 34th SEC Chairman.

The U.S. Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC) is seeking public comment on two market trends: one is expanding derivatives market trading hours to 24/7, and the other is evaluating the use and risks of perpetual derivatives.

The RSR-USD trading pair will be launched in phases after 0:00 am on April 23, 2025 (Beijing time).

Grayscale announced on the X platform that its Grayscale Decentralized AI Fund is now open to qualified investors who meet the requirements. Through fund holdings, investors can obtain diversified investments in the intersection of AI and cryptocurrency, including: NEAR, TAO, RENDER, FIL, GRT, and LPT.

Binance HODLer Airdrop now includes the 15th project – Hyperlane (HYPER), a permissionless cross-chain interoperability communication protocol between different blockchains.

Binance Wallet announced that it will hold its 11th exclusive token generation event (TGE) in partnership with Hyperlane (HYPER) through PancakeSwap from 17:00 to 19:00 Beijing time on April 22. Participants must complete a valid purchase of at least $20 worth of Binance Alpha tokens through Binance Wallet (keyless version) or Binance Exchange between 00:00:00 on March 22, 2025 (UTC) and 23:59:59 on April 20, 2025 (UTC). An additional 10,000,000 HYPER will be allocated for future marketing activities.

The full-chain Rollup L1 network Initia announced the INIT token economics, with a total supply fixed at 1 billion, of which 5% is used for airdrops. In addition, the foundation accounts for 7.75%, the protocol developers account for 15%, and the protocol sales account for 15.25%. For the initial CEX liquidity boot, 6% of the total supply is allocated to the Binance listing event.

OX reporter Charles Gasparino said that he learned from Wall Street sources that Paul Atkins will be sworn in as chairman of the U.S. SEC as early as Tuesday.

MANTRA announced in an official blog post that its CEO and founder John Patrick Mullin will destroy 150 million tokens from its team token allocation. This destruction is a commitment made to the community last week to rebuild trust. Team and core contributor tokens are staked at the mainnet launch in October 2024 to initiate network security. Currently, the process of unstaking 150 million tokens from the team and core contributor token pool has begun. The unstaking period will be completed on April 29, 2025. Once the process is over, all tokens will be sent directly to the destruction address. These tokens will be permanently removed and the total supply will be reduced by 150 million OM tokens accordingly.

Strategy (formerly MicroStrategy) purchased 6,556 bitcoins between April 14 and April 20, at an average value of $84,785 (total: $555.8 million).

The Web3 ecosystem has formed a multi-level, multi-track competition landscape, covering core areas such as Bitcoin ecology, infrastructure, NFT, Meme coins, RWA (real world assets) and DApp applications.

Binance Alpha adds SPX6900(SPX), Mog Coin(MOG), Popcat(POPCAT) and Milady Cult Coin(CULT).

Telegram founder Pavel Durov posted on the official TG channel that France almost banned encryption last month. The Senate passed a law requiring communication applications to set up a backdoor for the police to access private information. Fortunately, the law was rejected by the National Assembly. However, three days ago, the Paris police chief spoke out again in support of the law. Because technically, there is no guarantee that only the police can access the backdoor. Once a backdoor is introduced, it may be used by other parties - from foreign spies to hackers. Therefore, the private information of all law-abiding citizens may be threatened.