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According to Solid Intel, Trump will hold a National Security Council meeting today to review proposals to reopen the Strait of Hormuz and end hostilities.

After launching on KuCoin and LBank, Staynex is further advancing its exchange layout, and its native token $STAY will be listed on MEXC today at 19:00 (UTC+8). This is not just a listing; it opens up a broader market coverage.$STAY is an AI travel token, fundamentally based on real travel application scenarios. Staynex integrates AI + Web3-driven travel planning, hotel discovery, membership benefits, and token rewards into a single ecosystem. The underlying structure is driven by Web3, while the user experience prioritizes AI.In terms of the token model, the total supply of $STAY is fixed at 100 billion tokens, with an initial circulation of only 3% at TGE. The project adopts a distribution mechanism with no VC, no private placement, and zero team unlocks, giving the token stronger market attributes from the moment it is launched. At the application level, Staynex builds an AI + Web3 ecosystem centered around real travel consumption. Holding $STAY unlocks tiered membership benefits, including travel discounts, staking rewards, and lifestyle benefits such as airport lounges. Additionally, the platform will use 20% of its revenue for token buybacks, linking platform growth with token value.The listing on MEXC continues Staynex's active acceleration of global expansion, including the acquisition of the European Web3 travel platform Sleap and the introduction of over 40 ecological partners. As the product continues to iterate and more exchange listing plans are advanced, $STAY is gradually building an application path that connects digital assets with real consumption scenarios.

Issue 9 of BALLS has officially launched, with a winning rate of 5.8%, a launch price of 0.151 USDT, a new issuance yield of 51%, and an overall capital yield of about 3%. There is no lock-up period after the asset settlement for this issue of BALLS; the funds will be available as spot immediately, allowing users to choose to sell or withdraw instantly.Issue 10 of ASTEROID will officially open for subscription today at 16:00 and will end on April 29 at 16:00. This issue continues the multi-currency participation mechanism, allowing users to participate in the subscription using JU / USDT / BTC / ETH, with the platform uniformly converting and allocating based on U. A dynamic winning rate model will be introduced in this round; for every increase of 5,000,000 USDT in the raised amount, the winning rate will increase by 0.2%. Successfully inviting friends to participate can share a token reward of up to 20% of the final issuance amount.

According to on-chain analyst Yu Jin's monitoring, the KelpDAO hacker exchanged all 75,700 ETH for BTC through THORChain yesterday. The hacker who stole $98 million in assets from Balancer last November also exchanged ETH for BTC through THORChain today.Today, the Balancer hacker has already exchanged 7,000 ETH for 204.7 BTC ($15.88 million) and is still continuing. Currently, the Balancer hacker holds 15,000 ETH ($34.65 million) on the ETH chain and 204.7 BTC ($15.88 million) on the BTC chain.

According to the official announcement, Binance Wallet stated that it will open the Binance Alpha airdrop for collection today at 17:00.This event uses the updated Binance Alpha blind box (Alpha Box) model, and the airdrop pool includes tokens from multiple projects. Users with at least 228 Binance Alpha points can claim a token reward on a first-come, first-served basis. Claiming the airdrop will consume 15 Binance Alpha points.In addition, this airdrop has three reward tiers: Common (80% of the reward pool), Rare (15%), and Ultra Rare (5%), with each tier corresponding to different values of the Alpha blind boxes. Users will be assigned to one of the tiers when claiming, and rewards will be distributed according to the proportion of each tier. If the rewards are not fully distributed, the points threshold will automatically decrease by 5 points every 5 minutes.

The cryptocurrency trading platform SuperEx announced that it will soon launch Canton (CANTON) in the innovation zone and open the CANTON/USDT spot trading pair. Trading will officially start on April 24, 2026, at 11:00 Beijing time (03:00 UTC), and the deposit and withdrawal channels will soon be opened.The official stated that with the launch of spot trading, CANTON will also be included in the margin support range for all-currency contracts, allowing users to use it directly as margin assets for contract trading.It is reported that the Canton Network is a public, permissionless blockchain network designed specifically for institutional finance, aiming to integrate privacy, compliance, and scalability. The network is managed by the Canton Foundation and supported by several leading global financial institutions, enabling instant, secure synchronization and settlement of various asset classes on its shared infrastructure powered by its native token, Canton Coin.

According to Lookonchain monitoring, the net inflow of Bitcoin ETFs in the United States is 4,349 BTC, the net inflow of Ethereum ETFs is 35,736 ETH, and the net inflow of Solana ETFs is 1,311 SOL.

Web3 travel platform Staynex announced that its native token $STAY will officially launch on KuCoin and LBank exchanges today at 20:00 (HKT). This is the first round of listings, and the platform claims it will also be listed on more mainstream exchanges in the future.According to official disclosures, the total supply of $STAY is 100 billion tokens, with an initial circulation of 3% at TGE, and the launch price is $0.00035 (corresponding to an FDV of $35 million). The project has no VC institutional investment, no private placement rounds, and the team tokens will have zero release during the TGE phase.In terms of token economics and application scenarios, $STAY is tied to real consumption scenarios on the platform, allowing holders to enjoy up to a 25% discount on travel passes, 15% staking rewards, and access to airport lounges based on their level. Additionally, Staynex plans to use 20% of the platform's total revenue to buy back $STAY and has set a long-term goal of burning 70% of the total supply.Public information shows that Staynex previously acquired the European Web3 travel platform Sleap and has established partnerships with Gate Travel, Coinbase, and others. It currently has over 40 ecological partners and nearly 200,000 users.

A certain whale address 0x65B4 sold 10,829 ETH (approximately $24.91 million) for $2,300 three days ago, and then bought back 7,448 ETH (approximately $17.5 million) for $2,350 one hour ago.

The cryptocurrency trading platform SuperEx announced that it will soon launch Chip (CHIP) in the innovation zone and open the CHIP/USDT spot trading pair. The specific trading start time is April 22, 2026, at 12:00 PM Beijing time (04:00 UTC), and the recharge channel is now open.The official statement indicated that with the launch of spot trading, CHIP has also been included in the support range for margin of all cryptocurrency contracts, allowing users to directly use it as margin assets for contract trading.It is reported that Chip is a permissionless lending protocol designed to provide financing for artificial intelligence infrastructure. The protocol allows GPU operators to tokenize their hardware assets as collateral to obtain instant financing.

According to the official announcement, the first phase of the Bitget IPO Prime project preSPAX has now completed allocation, and spot trading will begin today at 20:00 (UTC+8). For more details, please refer to the Bitget official platform.

Binance tweeted that the participation threshold for the OpenGradient (OPG) TGE event has now been announced. Users must reach 226 Alpha points to participate. Participating in this event will deduct 15 points. The event will be open today from 17:00 to 19:00.

The digital asset trading platform CoinUp announced that it will hold the "CoinUp Jazz Night" themed social cocktail party today at 19:00 at The Murray hotel in Hong Kong.It is reported that the event aims to gather traders, project parties, investment institutions, and KOLs from the Web3 industry. There will be industry guest sharing, roundtable discussions, and jazz performances on site, providing high-quality resource connections and communication scenarios for attendees.CoinUp is a global digital asset trading platform that offers spot and derivatives services, currently holding over $3 billion in asset reserves (PoR) and a $50 million user protection fund. The official reminder states that participation in this event is limited, and registration must be submitted in advance and confirmed via email to gain entry.

Keone Hon from Monad Lianchuang stated: "I feel that the lending protocol for the liquidity pool should set rate limits on the supply of assets deposited as collateral. For example, if the current supply is 100 million and the supply cap is 300 million, then in the next 10 minutes, the maximum allowed increase should be to 110 million, rather than allowing a one-time deposit of the full 200 million. In reality, no one needs to complete such a large deposit all at once.This is important because when certain exotic assets are attacked, the impact depends on the scale of the exit channels for that asset. Especially in many cases where attacks belong to infinite issuance vulnerabilities, the scale of the exit that can be made essentially determines the upper limit of the attack losses. Lending protocols are often the largest exit channels. If a smart cap is introduced, where the initial cap is slightly above the current supply and is gradually adjusted to the real cap over several hours, it would have a huge effect. With such a mechanism, rsETH depositors could have avoided about 200 million dollars in losses.This also raises a point: the asset issuers themselves should support such mechanisms. If you are issuing redeemable tokens with redemption delays, you are not worried about hackers redeeming directly from you, but you need to compress the scale of external exit paths as much as possible without affecting normal users. Therefore, a high supply cap should be seen as a risk rather than a symbol of strength. For example, the Hyperbridge DOT attack did not result in a 100 million dollar loss because there were very few exit paths; the Resolv attack loss was 24 million dollars instead of 200 million dollars because the scale of the exit path limited the loss cap. This is an obvious principle, but there are still immediately actionable measures: audit the supply caps of all assets and lower the caps when unnecessary."

The "Crypto 2026: From Cryptocurrency to Smart Economy" themed forum, sponsored by Monera Digital and co-hosted by ChainCatcher and RootData, will be held today, April 19, from 14:00 to 18:00 (GMT+8) in Hong Kong. This forum has received joint support from partners including Tencent Cloud, HashKey Chain, Alchemy Pay, Kite AI, Sentient, Sign, Predict.fun, Monad, Brevis, UXLINK, OneBullEx, SVP Chain, OmenX, TurboFlow, LOTUS, Mentis, NeoSoul, Swap315, Electric Soul, and others.As an important peripheral event of the "Hong Kong Web3 Carnival," this forum will focus on the paradigm shift under the deep integration of AI technology and the crypto network, engaging in in-depth discussions on cutting-edge tracks such as AI Agent economy, smart payments, RWA, and crypto infrastructure.Event registration: https://luma.com/18v6vwpf

According to Lookonchain monitoring, the net outflow of Bitcoin ETFs in the United States is 142 BTC, the net inflow of Ethereum ETFs is 22,357 ETH, and the net inflow of Solana ETFs is 1,828,328 SOL.

According to Greekslive, approximately 22,000 BTC options are expiring, with a Put/Call ratio of 1.05, a maximum pain point of $72,000, and a notional value of about $1.65 billion; at the same time, about 100,000 ETH options are expiring, with a Put/Call ratio of 0.95, a maximum pain point of $2,250, and a notional value of about $460 million.

According to the official announcement, Binance Wallet stated that it will open the Binance Alpha airdrop collection today at 17:00.This event uses the updated Binance Alpha Box model, and the airdrop fund pool includes tokens from multiple projects. Users with at least 242 Binance Alpha points can claim a token reward on a first-come, first-served basis. Claiming the airdrop will consume 15 Binance Alpha points.In addition, this airdrop has three reward tiers: Common (80% of the reward pool), Rare (15%), and Ultra Rare (5%), with each tier corresponding to different Alpha Box values. Users will be assigned to one of the above tiers when claiming. Rewards will be distributed according to these tier proportions. If the rewards are not fully distributed, the points threshold will automatically decrease by 5 points every 5 minutes.

According to BBX data, yesterday the innovative structure of cryptocurrency ETF products was launched simultaneously with the reserve actions of Asian companies, with the core dynamics as follows:Bitwise Asset Management announced on April 15 via PR Newswire that the Bitwise Avalanche ETF (NYSE: $BAVA) officially landed on the New York Stock Exchange, becoming the first onshore ETP in the U.S. that integrates self-operated on-chain staking of Avalanche; the fund stakes approximately 70% of its holdings, targeting an annualized staking yield of 5.4%, with a management fee rate of 0.34% (waived for the first month on the first $500 million in assets).Metaplanet Inc. (TSE: 3350) reported by media analysis that the 27th batch of warrants officially became exercisable for the EVO FUND starting yesterday (April 16), which is part of the company's ongoing capital operations to expand its BTC reserves. Previously, the company disclosed on April 2 that it purchased 5,075 BTC in Q1 (costing approximately $398 million), raising its total holdings to 40,177 BTC, surpassing MARA Holdings to become the third largest BTC holder among publicly listed companies globally; the company's long-term goal is to hold 100,000 BTC by the end of 2026.

According to CoinMarketCap data, the performance of the top 100 cryptocurrencies by market capitalization is as follows:Top five gainers: RaveDAO (RAVE) up 39.53%, current price $17.06; siren (SIREN) up 37.75%, current price $1.11; MemeCore (M) up 27.84%, current price $3.68; Celestia (TIA) up 25.37%, current price $0.3997; edgeX (EDGE) up 16.31%, current price $1.2.Top five losers: JUST (JST) down 15.44%, current price $0.0597; DeXe (DEXE) down 8.6%, current price $11.16; Venice Token (VVV) down 4.67%, current price $8.48; Dash (DASH) down 4.19%, current price $36.52; Zcash (ZEC) down 3.96%, current price $337.2.