👨‍💻📉 Blockchain Developer Count Declines Long-Term

Bitwise reports that the collapse of #LUNA and #FTX, alongside ChatGPT’s public release, triggered a new downtrend in the number of engineers in the crypto sector. Many have shifted to work in #AI.

🐳📈 #BTC Over 60 new wallets holding more than 1,000 BTC have appeared since early March. A strong signal of growing whale activity.

😱 Investors are more afraid of stocks than cryptocurrencies

According to the Fear and Greed Index, on 04/18/2025, the stock market hit 20.94 (Extreme Fear), while crypto stands at 32.00 (Fear).

📈👀 #SOL The number of wallets holding over 10,000 SOL has risen by 1.53% in the past week, climbing from 4,943 to 5,019. A subtle but notable uptick in large-holder activity.

🆕📝 Projects that will hold their initial listing next week: #EPT, #H1, #HYPER, #INIT and #DOLO.

🇪🇺👀 #CBDC The ECB expects the digital euro to replace 50% of cash in circulation.

📊👀 #BTC at current prices is 85% above its 200WMA. Another meaningful divergence from US equities.

📊👀 CEO Nansen: Market value of #SOL in steaking has surpassed #ETH.

🔝 Top Chains By Active #USDT Addresses In The Last 30D

In the last 30 days, BNB Chain recorded 12M active USDT addresses, while the total number of unique active USDT addresses across all chains reached 31.1M.

Together, BNB Chain and Tron account for 74% (23.2M) of all active USDT addresses. Meanwhile, Arbitrum, Polygon and Celo have outpaced Solana in this metric.

🤖 #AI How do users see themselves in adopting crypto AI? A CoinGecko survey reveals:

- 59.3% identify as innovators or early adopters.
- 34.7% consider themselves early/late majority, showing growing but cautious interest.
- Only 6.1% are laggards, a small group unconvinced by crypto AI.

The key challenge for wider adoption is proving its value to these users.

🇨🇳🍿 China threatens to retaliate against countries that side with the U.S. on trade issues. #tradewars

🔓📝 Upcoming major unlocks this week:

#PLUME 5.42% ($17.72M) - Apr. 21
#RON 5.28% ($16.13M) - Apr. 27
#SCR 21.1% ($9.65M) - Apr. 22
#ALT 7.95% ($6.93M) - Apr. 25
#SOSO 9.45% ($3.28M) - Apr. 24
#ZND 23.5% ($2.50M) - Apr. 24
#ID 2.94% ($2.28M) - Apr. 22

👍 Michael Saylor: according to public data as of Q1 2025, more than 13,000 institutions and 814,000 retail accounts directly hold #MSTR. An estimated 55 million beneficiaries have indirect access through #ETFs, mutual funds, pension funds and insurance portfolios.

🤔 #ETH PlanB accused Ethereum of centralization, using PoS instead of PoW, changing the supply schedule and said it deserves ridicule.

📈 #macro Gold hit a new all-time high of $3390 per ounce.

📊👀 #BTC vs dollar

🆕 Binance Alpha adds #SPX, #MOG, #POPCAT and #CULT.

🏦 #USDC Circle and BitGo set to apply for a banking license - WSJ

🎁 #OMNI Network launched a $10M user reward program to promote applications built on Solvernet.

🔝 Top 15 Price Gainers in 2025

Among them are Saros, the most technically advanced AMM on Solana, Undeads Games, a multiplayer MMORPG game, and Onyx, a cloud blockchain infrastructure. #SAROS #UDS #XCN