Printr kicks off PRINT Public Sale today, at 12:00 PM UTC
Printr is an omnichain token launchpad, backed by Bybit Venture Studio that lets users create, trade & manage tokens across multiple chains from one interface, without coding.
👉 x.com/printr/status/2047755661845606463?s=20
Printr is an omnichain token launchpad, backed by Bybit Venture Studio that lets users create, trade & manage tokens across multiple chains from one interface, without coding.
🔤 PRINT Token Details
– Maximum Supply: 100,000,000 PRINT
– Community Sale: 4,000,000 PRINT, 4% of total supply
– Chain: Solana
– Sale FDV: $50M
– Token Unlock: 100% unlocked at TGE
👉 x.com/printr/status/2047755661845606463?s=20
Tether releases MDK, an Open Layer for BTC Mining
Mining Development Kit (MDK) is an open-source, full-stack development framework that gives Bitcoin mining operators and developers unified control over their entire infrastructure stack.
👉 tether.io/news/tether-launches-mdk-an-open-infrastructure-layer-for-bitcoin-mining/
Mining Development Kit (MDK) is an open-source, full-stack development framework that gives Bitcoin mining operators and developers unified control over their entire infrastructure stack.
The framework combines a JavaScript backend SDK with a React UI component library, allowing operators to build dashboards, automation tools and analytics pipelines without relying on closed vendor software.
👉 tether.io/news/tether-launches-mdk-an-open-infrastructure-layer-for-bitcoin-mining/
Price Discovery Board: Pharos (PROS)
PROS trading starts today at 14:00 UTC, backed by $53M in funding. This board compares potential FDV scenarios using benchmarks from other Layer 1s like Plasma, Aptos, Near, and Monad.
PROS trading starts today at 14:00 UTC, backed by $53M in funding. This board compares potential FDV scenarios using benchmarks from other Layer 1s like Plasma, Aptos, Near, and Monad.
REAL Finance (ASSET) will hold its TGE on April 30th
Backed by $25M commitment from Nimbus Capital, REAL is targeting institutional adoption with compliant infrastructure for issuing, managing, and settling tokenized assets onchain. The team aims to bring up to $500M in RWAs onchain within its first year.
👉 x.com/RealFinOfficial/status/2049058658818855226?s=20
Backed by $25M commitment from Nimbus Capital, REAL is targeting institutional adoption with compliant infrastructure for issuing, managing, and settling tokenized assets onchain. The team aims to bring up to $500M in RWAs onchain within its first year.
REAL is an RWA focused Layer 1 ecosystem, building compliant infrastructure for institutions to issue, manage & settle assets while bridging traditional finance with decentralized systems.
👉 x.com/RealFinOfficial/status/2049058658818855226?s=20
ZetaChain Pauses Cross-Chain Transactions After GatewayEVM Contract Attack
ZetaChain has temporarily suspended cross-chain transactions following an attack targeting its GatewayEVM contract. The team confirmed that only internal wallets were affected, with no impact on user funds.
The attack vector has already been identified and blocked, preventing further damage. As a precaution, cross-chain functionality on mainnet remains paused while the investigation continues.
Amid the news, ZETA fell ~4–5% over 24 hours. Community reaction is mixed, with some praising transparency while others raise cross-chain security concerns after incidents like KelpDAO.
👉 x.com/ZetaChain/status/2048854107633631356?s=20
ZetaChain has temporarily suspended cross-chain transactions following an attack targeting its GatewayEVM contract. The team confirmed that only internal wallets were affected, with no impact on user funds.
The attack vector has already been identified and blocked, preventing further damage. As a precaution, cross-chain functionality on mainnet remains paused while the investigation continues.
ZetaChain is currently preparing a patch to fix the vulnerability and will release a full post-mortem once the review is complete. The incident was disclosed shortly after detection, with real-time updates shared via the project’s status page.
Amid the news, ZETA fell ~4–5% over 24 hours. Community reaction is mixed, with some praising transparency while others raise cross-chain security concerns after incidents like KelpDAO.
👉 x.com/ZetaChain/status/2048854107633631356?s=20
Mapping 2026 TVL Flows. Winners & Losers
Tracking TVL changes helps identify where liquidity is consolidating and where it is leaving the market. While some protocols attract inflows, DeFi overall has lost $42.9B in TVL since the start of 2026.
Tracking TVL changes helps identify where liquidity is consolidating and where it is leaving the market. While some protocols attract inflows, DeFi overall has lost $42.9B in TVL since the start of 2026.
Liquid Raises $18M to Build Multi-Asset Leveraged Trading Platform
Exchange startup Liquid has secured $18M in a Series A round led by Neo and Left Lane Capital, with participation from Paradigm, Haun Ventures, SV Angel, and others. The raise comes less than six months after its $7.6M seed round.
Founded by Franklyn Wang, a former Two Sigma researcher, Liquid initially launched as a perpetual futures aggregator. The platform has since expanded to support trading across stocks, crypto, commodities, FX, prediction markets, and private secondaries.
Liquid positions itself as a general-purpose leveraged trading hub, targeting retail traders seeking exposure across diverse markets in one place. Competition remains strong, but the team believes its cross-asset focus could provide a unique edge.
👉 https://fortune.com/2026/04/28/liquid-18-million-leveraged-trading
Exchange startup Liquid has secured $18M in a Series A round led by Neo and Left Lane Capital, with participation from Paradigm, Haun Ventures, SV Angel, and others. The raise comes less than six months after its $7.6M seed round.
Founded by Franklyn Wang, a former Two Sigma researcher, Liquid initially launched as a perpetual futures aggregator. The platform has since expanded to support trading across stocks, crypto, commodities, FX, prediction markets, and private secondaries.
The app aims to unify multiple asset classes into a single interface, offering up to 200x leverage in some regions. This reflects a broader trend of crypto platforms moving beyond digital assets, similar to Coinbase and Robinhood expanding into traditional markets.
Liquid positions itself as a general-purpose leveraged trading hub, targeting retail traders seeking exposure across diverse markets in one place. Competition remains strong, but the team believes its cross-asset focus could provide a unique edge.
👉 https://fortune.com/2026/04/28/liquid-18-million-leveraged-trading
Fraction AI Launches Index for AI Perpetuals Trading
Fraction AI has introduced Index, a platform for building and deploying AI agents for perpetual futures trading, allowing strategies to be created, tested, and executed without traditional development infrastructure.
Index also supports an iterative optimization process, where strategy variants are compared, refined, and improved over time before being deployed into live markets.
The product targets traders and operators seeking systematic execution and strategy automation.
👉 x.com/FractionAI_xyz/status/2048733769574629580?s=20
Fraction AI has introduced Index, a platform for building and deploying AI agents for perpetual futures trading, allowing strategies to be created, tested, and executed without traditional development infrastructure.
The system structures trading logic across parameters such as entries, exits, leverage, position sizing, and risk controls, then runs historical backtesting to evaluate performance across different market conditions and identify weaknesses in execution.
Index also supports an iterative optimization process, where strategy variants are compared, refined, and improved over time before being deployed into live markets.
The product targets traders and operators seeking systematic execution and strategy automation.
👉 x.com/FractionAI_xyz/status/2048733769574629580?s=20
Ondo Finance Adds Proxy Voting to Tokenized Equities
Ondo Finance has introduced proxy voting for holders of its $700M tokenized equities, bringing onchain assets closer to traditional stock ownership. The feature allows investors to participate in corporate governance through offchain voting infrastructure.
While Ondo’s tokens don’t grant direct shareholder rights, the platform aggregates user preferences and applies them when voting the underlying shares it holds. The update addresses a key limitation of tokenized equities, lack of governance participation.
The move comes as tokenized stocks and ETFs surpass $1.1B in total value, with Ondo leading the sector. The integration aims to boost transparency and trust, aligning blockchain-based assets more closely with traditional financial systems.
👉 coindesk.com/tech/2026/04/28/ondo-finance-adds-proxy-voting-for-holders
Ondo Finance has introduced proxy voting for holders of its $700M tokenized equities, bringing onchain assets closer to traditional stock ownership. The feature allows investors to participate in corporate governance through offchain voting infrastructure.
Built in partnership with Broadridge Financial Solutions, the system enables users to access filings and submit voting preferences via the ProxyVote platform. Investors can connect with crypto wallets and interact with governance tools typically limited to brokerage accounts.
While Ondo’s tokens don’t grant direct shareholder rights, the platform aggregates user preferences and applies them when voting the underlying shares it holds. The update addresses a key limitation of tokenized equities, lack of governance participation.
The move comes as tokenized stocks and ETFs surpass $1.1B in total value, with Ondo leading the sector. The integration aims to boost transparency and trust, aligning blockchain-based assets more closely with traditional financial systems.
👉 coindesk.com/tech/2026/04/28/ondo-finance-adds-proxy-voting-for-holders
Visa Partners with WeFi to Enable Self-Custody Crypto Payments
Visa teamed up with WeFi to bring crypto payments to its global network while preserving user self-custody. The integration allows users to spend digital assets directly from self-custody wallets, removing the need to hold funds on centralized exchanges.
The partnership will initially focus on scaling stablecoin payments across selected markets in Europe, Asia, and Latin America. Transactions are designed to settle in the background, offering a user experience similar to traditional payments without manual conversions.
👉 theblock.co/post/399168/visa-taps-former-tether-ceos-wefi-connect-crypto-its-payment-network
Visa teamed up with WeFi to bring crypto payments to its global network while preserving user self-custody. The integration allows users to spend digital assets directly from self-custody wallets, removing the need to hold funds on centralized exchanges.
About. WeFi’s infrastructure enables seamless payments wherever Visa is accepted, with users retaining full control of their private keys.
The partnership will initially focus on scaling stablecoin payments across selected markets in Europe, Asia, and Latin America. Transactions are designed to settle in the background, offering a user experience similar to traditional payments without manual conversions.
👉 theblock.co/post/399168/visa-taps-former-tether-ceos-wefi-connect-crypto-its-payment-network
Polymarket Rolls Out Major Exchange Upgrade, Migrates to pUSD
Polymarket has upgraded exchange stack, introducing new smart contracts, a rebuilt order book, and a new collateral token, Polymarket USD (pUSD).
The new CTF Exchange V2 improves order matching, fee handling, gas efficiency, and execution reliability, reducing failed trades caused by nonce and balance-check issues.
👉 x.com/Polymarket/status/2049081739717304490?s=20
Polymarket has upgraded exchange stack, introducing new smart contracts, a rebuilt order book, and a new collateral token, Polymarket USD (pUSD).
The new CTF Exchange V2 improves order matching, fee handling, gas efficiency, and execution reliability, reducing failed trades caused by nonce and balance-check issues.
Collateral has moved from USDC.e to pUSD, a Polygon-based ERC-20 token backed 1:1 by USDC with onchain-enforced reserves, designed to improve settlement efficiency.
👉 x.com/Polymarket/status/2049081739717304490?s=20
Over Protocol Sunsets due to Financial Constraints
The Over Foundation has announced the sunset of Over Protocol, citing financial constraints and the discontinuation of its core infrastructure and services.
Future block production now depends entirely on independent validators running the open client software, but the Foundation stated it cannot direct or guarantee continued network operation.
👉 x.com/overprotocol/status/2049096903493840913?s=20
The Over Foundation has announced the sunset of Over Protocol, citing financial constraints and the discontinuation of its core infrastructure and services.
Operations for OverWallet, OverNode, OverFlex, RPC endpoints, block explorer, and APIs have been shut down, with no plans for restoration.
While Over Protocol remains a decentralized Layer 1 network by design, the loss of foundation-operated infrastructure makes continued chain activity unlikely in practice.
Future block production now depends entirely on independent validators running the open client software, but the Foundation stated it cannot direct or guarantee continued network operation.
👉 x.com/overprotocol/status/2049096903493840913?s=20
Pump fun Launches a 50% Revenue Buyback Plan
The team will now allocate 50% of revenue to a programmatic buyback-and-burn scheme over the next year as part of a broader effort to support token holders and strengthen long-term ecosystem sustainability.
👉 x.com/Pumpfun/status/2049232506143006844?s=20
The team will now allocate 50% of revenue to a programmatic buyback-and-burn scheme over the next year as part of a broader effort to support token holders and strengthen long-term ecosystem sustainability.
Pump fun has burned all previously bought-back PUMP tokens to date, representing around $370M in purchases and roughly 36% of the circulating supply.
👉 x.com/Pumpfun/status/2049232506143006844?s=20
RWA yield platform Nuva raises $5.2M in seed funding
Nuva Digital, co-incubated by Animoca Brands and Nuva Labs (formerly Provenance Labs), is a an RWA platform allowing users to earn yield through vaults that hold real-world or tokenized assets.
👉 x.com/NUVAFinance/status/2049169312112427322?s=20
Nuva Digital, co-incubated by Animoca Brands and Nuva Labs (formerly Provenance Labs), is a an RWA platform allowing users to earn yield through vaults that hold real-world or tokenized assets.
The platform aims to disrupt traditional alternative asset models, including firms like iCapital, CAIS, and Nasdaq Private Market, by allowing asset issuers and users to connect directly.
👉 x.com/NUVAFinance/status/2049169312112427322?s=20
Top Meme Coins by Campaign Momentum
While PEPE, FLOKI, and SHIB rely on brand legacy, APEPE is the only meme coin actively building momentum through campaigns — and the market is noticing. When organic community meets structured campaigns, momentum follows.
While PEPE, FLOKI, and SHIB rely on brand legacy, APEPE is the only meme coin actively building momentum through campaigns — and the market is noticing. When organic community meets structured campaigns, momentum follows.
Price Discovery Board: Gensyn (AI)
AI trading starts today, backed by $66.7M in funding. This board compares potential FDV scenarios using benchmarks from other AI projects like Allora, Sahara AI, Zama, and 0G Labs.
AI trading starts today, backed by $66.7M in funding. This board compares potential FDV scenarios using benchmarks from other AI projects like Allora, Sahara AI, Zama, and 0G Labs.
On-Chain Crypto Cards: Who's Winning the Race?
On-chain spending infrastructure is scaling fast, bridging crypto balances with everyday payments. Leaders like RedotPay and ether fi are driving this transition from speculation to real-world utility.
On-chain spending infrastructure is scaling fast, bridging crypto balances with everyday payments. Leaders like RedotPay and ether fi are driving this transition from speculation to real-world utility.
Top DeFi Protocols by TVL Growth in the last 30 Days
Among the top performers are Lido, a liquid staking protocol for Ethereum and beyond, SSV Network, a distributed ETH staking infrastructure protocol, and Spark, a decentralized lending and yield optimization protocol.
Among the top performers are Lido, a liquid staking protocol for Ethereum and beyond, SSV Network, a distributed ETH staking infrastructure protocol, and Spark, a decentralized lending and yield optimization protocol.
Tether Backs Belo’s $14M Raise to Scale Stablecoin Payments in Latin America
Tether has led a $14M Series A round into Belo, a digital wallet focused on stablecoin-powered payments across Latin America. The round also included Titan Fund, The Venture City, Mindset Ventures, and G2.
The company plans to expand into Mexico, Chile, Colombia, Peru, Bolivia, and Paraguay, while strengthening its presence in Brazil. Funds will also support hiring across product, engineering, and operations.
The raise highlights growing demand for stablecoin-based financial tools in emerging markets, where users increasingly rely on digital dollars for savings, remittances, and protection against inflation.
👉 coindesk.com/business/2026/04/28/tether-leads-belo-s-usd14-million-raise
Tether has led a $14M Series A round into Belo, a digital wallet focused on stablecoin-powered payments across Latin America. The round also included Titan Fund, The Venture City, Mindset Ventures, and G2.
About. Belo currently serves over 3 million users, offering a wallet that supports both local currencies and digital dollars. The platform integrates payments, FX, and cross-border transfers into a single flow, aiming to reduce friction in a region with fragmented financial infrastructure.
The company plans to expand into Mexico, Chile, Colombia, Peru, Bolivia, and Paraguay, while strengthening its presence in Brazil. Funds will also support hiring across product, engineering, and operations.
The raise highlights growing demand for stablecoin-based financial tools in emerging markets, where users increasingly rely on digital dollars for savings, remittances, and protection against inflation.
👉 coindesk.com/business/2026/04/28/tether-leads-belo-s-usd14-million-raise
Visa Expands Stablecoin Settlement to 9 Chains, Adds Polygon
Visa has expanded its stablecoin settlement program by adding five new blockchains: Polygon, Arc, Base, Canton, and Tempo. The move brings the total number of supported networks to nine.
The newly added chains join Ethereum, Solana, Avalanche, and Stellar, giving partners more flexibility to choose settlement infrastructure in a multi-chain environment.
Stablecoin settlement volume continues to grow, with Visa reporting a 50% increase in annualized run rate to $7B. The company positions stablecoins as a settlement layer, while its network handles transaction routing and global acceptance.
👉 pymnts.com/visa/2026/visa-adds-5-blockchains-as-stablecoin-settlement
Visa has expanded its stablecoin settlement program by adding five new blockchains: Polygon, Arc, Base, Canton, and Tempo. The move brings the total number of supported networks to nine.
The newly added chains join Ethereum, Solana, Avalanche, and Stellar, giving partners more flexibility to choose settlement infrastructure in a multi-chain environment.
Polygon’s inclusion highlights its appeal for payments use cases, offering near real-time settlement, sub-cent transaction costs, and high reliability. Visa noted that expanding supported chains allows issuers and acquirers to optimize for speed, cost, and scalability.
Stablecoin settlement volume continues to grow, with Visa reporting a 50% increase in annualized run rate to $7B. The company positions stablecoins as a settlement layer, while its network handles transaction routing and global acceptance.
👉 pymnts.com/visa/2026/visa-adds-5-blockchains-as-stablecoin-settlement