Chainlink Cross-Chain Interoperability Protocol Officially Enters General Availability | Cryptocurrency Trends

1. Mainstream Exchange Trends:

• Binance to delist ALPINE/BTC, FRONT/TUSD, HARD/BTC, RUNE/TUSD, SSV/TUSD, and WIN/BRL trading pairs on April 26, 11:00 AM (UTC+8).

2. Cryptocurrency Trends:

• Renzo announces on social media that they have decided to update the token distribution plan after hearing feedback from the community. Specifically, the total airdrop allocation will be increased to 12%, the distribution for Season 1 will be increased from 5% to 7% of the total supply (2% increase is coming from Liquidity Foundation), and the distribution for Season 2 remains at 5% of the total supply.
• Farside Investors data shows that Grayscale's GBTC witnessed $130.4 million net outflows yesterday.
• Chainlink announces that the Chainlink Cross-Chain Interoperability Protocol (CCIP) has officially entered general availability (GA). Any developer can now permissionlessly use CCIP to securely transfer onboarded tokens cross-chain, and send arbitrary messages to smart contracts on another integrated blockchain.
• Artemis Finance, a liquid staking protocol, has successfully locked METIS on the Metis Decentralized Sequencer Pool node, currently offering a 20% APR.
• Merlin Chain's official Discord is suspected to have been attacked. It appears that an administrative account has posted notifications containing phishing links.
• Jupiter announces that they have successfully reallocated 1000+ airdrops for community members who missed the airdrop because their wallets had been hacked. They have manually reviewed over 10,000 appeals.
• Strike, a Bitcoin payments app, rolls out its highly-anticipated service in Europe, allowing eligible individual and enterprise customers to buy, sell, send, and withdraw Bitcoins and to make local currency payments.

3. Financing Trends:

• InfiniGods, a blockchain game studio, raises $8 million in Series A financing, which is exclusively invested by Pantera Capital. The funding will be used to develop its mobile game, King Of Destiny.
• Tevaera, a blockchain gaming ecosystem based on ZK Stack, completes a $5 million financing round, which is led by Laser Digital, a digital asset subsidiary of Nomura Securities.
• Puffverse, a blockchain gaming platform, completes a $3 million financing led by Animoca Brands, with participation from Arcane Group, Spartan Group, Foresight Ventures, HashKey Capital, Sky Mavis, and Xu Family Office.

4. Regulatory Trends:

• Attorneys with the US Department of Justice filed a sentencing memo Tuesday night, arguing that Binance's founder Changpeng Zhao (CZ) should spend 36 months in prison and pay a $50 million fine after he pleaded guilty for violating the Bank Secrecy Act last November.