Federal Reserve Board announces the withdrawal of guidance for banks related to their crypto-asset and dollar token activities and related changes to its expectations for these activities

https://www.federalreserve.gov/newsevents/pressreleases/bcreg20250424a.htm

Binance APP launches Alpha Points system, determining eligibility for Wallet TGE and Alpha token airdrop

Points are calculated daily based on the past 15 days' asset balance in Binance CEX and non-custodial wallet addresses, plus Alpha token purchase volume. Selling Alpha tokens does not contribute to points.

https://x.com/wublockchain/status/1915579971323781562

Binance Wallet announces Token Generation Event on BNB Smart Chain for OKZOO, in collaboration with PancakeSwap

Details:
Token Name: OKZOO (AIOT)
Subscription Period: Friday, April 25, 2025 from 8:00 to 10:00 UTC
Total Raise Amount: $100,000 in BNB
Available Token: 20,000,000 (2% of the total supply)
Price per Token: $0.005 USD in BNB
Subscription Cap per Binance Wallet user: 3 BNB
Binance Alpha Points* Requirement: Equal or Above 45 points

Trading opens at 10:00 on April 25, 2025 UTC in Binance Wallet DEX or on PancakeSwap.

OKZOO introduces the world's one of the first urban-scale decentralized environmental data network through an interconnected system of physical AIoT devices. OKZOO distributes portable machines with micro sensor nodes that collect both external and household environmental data through engaging AI pet companions.

https://www.binance.com/en/events/okzoo-tge-rules

Bithumb lists XYO and GRASS

https://feed.bithumb.com/notice/1648288

Binance has announced the 16th project on the HODLer Airdrops page – Sign (SIGN)

Users who subscribed their BNB to Simple Earn (Flexible and/or Locked) and/or On-Chain Yields products from 2025-04-15 00:00 UTC to 2025-04-19 23:59 UTC will get the airdrops distribution.

Binance will then list SIGN at 2025-04-28 11:00 UTC and open trading against USDT, USDC, BNB, FDUSD, and TRY pairs.

Genesis Total Token Supply: 10,000,000,000 SIGN 
Max Token Supply: 10,000,000,000 SIGN
HODLer Airdrops Token Rewards: 200,000,000 SIGN (2.00% of total token supply)
Circulating Supply upon Listing on Binance: 1,200,000,000 SIGN (12.00% of total token supply)

https://www.binance.com/en/support/announcement/detail/4ed7b66008e247329bf255a383699ef4

The crypto market is growing
BTC Dominance - 62.79%

Market Cap - $3.00T
BTC - $94,765.99 (+1.47%)
ETH - $1,799.08 (+2.1%)
XRP - $2.19 (+0.23%)
BNB - $602.16 (-0.05%)
SOL - $151.54 (-0.26%)
SUI - $3.62 (+7.72%)

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TON bridged, Toncoin Bridge is retiring

Starting May 10, 2025, users will no longer be able to bridge TON to Ethereum or BNB Chain.

https://x.com/ton_blockchain/status/1915804761300844823

Swiss National Bank Rejects Calls to Add Bitcoin Reserves, Citing Concerns Over Cryptocurrency Market Liquidity And Volatility

https://www.coindesk.com/coindesk-news/2025/04/25/swiss-national-bank-rejects-calls-to-add-bitcoin-reserves

U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission Chair Paul Atkins said he anticipates "huge benefits" from digital assets and said he plans to work with lawmakers to create a regulatory framework for crypto

https://www.theblock.co/post/352031/sec-chair-paul-atkins-signals-sharp-shift-on-digital-assets-in-first-public-remarks-at-crypto-roundtable

Georgia Senator calls Trump memecoin dinner ‘impeachable offense’

"The sitting president of the United States is selling access," a Senator said Friday.

https://www.dlnews.com/articles/regulation/senator-calls-trump-memecoin-dinner-impeachable-offense/

Warpcast has lifted regional restrictions on its wallet service

Users in Belarus, the Democratic Republic of the Congo, the Central African Republic, Libya, Myanmar, Russia, Sudan, Somalia, Yemen, and Venezuela now have access to this feature.

Warpcast is a decentralized social platform built on the Farcaster protocol, developed by the Farcaster team.

https://warpcast.com/

The crypto market is neutral
BTC Dominance - 62.72%

Market Cap - $2.98T
BTC - $94,035.63 (-0.04%)
ETH - $1,787.72 (-0.83%)
XRP - $2.26 (+4.41%)
BNB - $604.28 (+0.65%)
SOL - $149.03 (+1.55%)
SUI - $3.55 (+0.02%)

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Magpie has made the decision to move the TGE to the 2nd week of May

https://x.com/adiixbt/status/1915825672641253516

Nike faces $5M class-action lawsuit over shutdown of NFT platform RTFKT

https://www.reuters.com/sustainability/boards-policy-regulation/nike-sued-over-closure-crypto-business-2025-04-25/

The Arbitrum Foundation said it withdrew from the Nvidia-backed Ignition AI Accelerator program

Earlier reports indicated that NVIDIA rejected Arbitrum’s bid to join the accelerator program.

https://www.theblock.co/post/352075/arbitrum-says-it-pulled-out-of-accelerator-program-after-nvidia-refused-crypto-association

WLFI founders met with Binance founder CZ in Abu Dhabi to discuss growing global adoption

https://x.com/worldlibertyfi/status/1916579108584317160

Bitwise CEO: „Bitcoin at $94k, yet —

Google searches for "Bitcoin" near long term lows.

This hasn't been retail driven. Institutions, advisors, corporates, and nations have come into the space.

The types of investors buying Bitcoin is expanding“.

https://x.com/HHorsley/status/1916633443556794631

Weekly BTC ETF net inflows reached $3.06B — Second-Best Performance in History

https://sosovalue.com/assets/etf/us-btc-spot

The launch of the Ethereum “Fusaka” upgrade is scheduled for Q3–Q4 2025

https://x.com/tkstanczak/status/1916713080265855444

A "suspicious" transfer worth around 3,520 BTC ($330.7 million) occurred on Sunday, which appears to be a theft event, according to on-chain investigator ZachXBT.

Shortly after the transfer, the stolen funds were laundered through more than six exchanges and converted to Monero (XMR) to obfuscate the activity.

https://www.theblock.co/post/352105/apparent-bitcoin-theft-worth-330-million-spikes-monero-price-in-laundering-frenzy-zachxbt