Odaily Planet Daily News Newly released documents from the U.S. Federal Election Commission (FEC) show that several cryptocurrency companies and their executives made significant contributions to U.S. President Donald Trump's inauguration fund after the results of the 2024 election were announced. According to FEC documents released on April 20, Uniswap CEO Hayden Adams donated more than $245,000, Solana Labs donated $1 million, and software company Consensys donated $100,000 to support the inauguration of the president-elect. Previously, many major cryptocurrency companies including Coinbase, Ripple Labs, Kraken, Ondo Finance and Robinhood have announced their support for Trump by donating to the inauguration fund. Overall, the Trump Inauguration Fund reported more than $239 million in net donations from companies and individuals between November 15 last year and April 20 this year. These include $1 million from McDonald's, $1 million from Apple CEO Tim Cook, $1 million from OpenAI CEO Sam Altman, and various donations from companies including Delta Airlines, ExxonMobil, FedEx, Nvidia, PayPal, Target, and Coca-Cola. (Cointelegraph)

According to BlockBeats, U.S. President Donald Trump is set to meet with representatives from major retail companies, including Walmart, Home Depot, Lowe's, and Target. The discussions will focus on the impact of comprehensive tariffs on their businesses amid growing concerns over tariffs.

According to the official announcement, Binance Futures will adjust the MAGICUSDTU perpetual contract funding rate settlement frequency from once every eight hours to once every four hours at 16:45 (UTC) on April 21, 2025. (This newsletter is generated by AI)

A user thought Binance stole an NFT-like Ordinal tied to one of his bitcoin deposits. In reality, a digital gold panner found and took it. source: https://protos.com/a-digital-gold-panner-won-the-lottery-with-binance-withdrawal/

Odaily Planet Daily News According to official news, the re-pledge protocol Puffer Finance announced the launch of institutional pledge and re-pledge solutions. Through integration with protocols such as EigenLayer, institutions can now use their pledged ETH to secure the rights and interests of multiple active verification services (AVS), and can also authorize specific accounts to withdraw ETH through the Puffer institutional treasury contract, while also implementing custom withdrawal strategies, such as daily withdrawal limits.

Mantra (OM) will unstake the share of founder John Mullin on April 29, in a bid to recover the market price and reputation. source: https://www.cryptopolitan.com/mantra-negotiates-burn-of-up-to-300m-tokens/

TL;DR Renowned Bitcoin analyst PlanB reignited controversy by strongly criticizing Ethereum, labeling it centralized and premined. He argued that its node size and issuance changes undermine its decentralization. PlanB also questioned Vitalik Buterin’s dominant role in Ethereum’s development. Despite the criticism, other experts defended Ethereum as a more complex and functional platform designed for different source: https://crypto-economy.com/bitcoin-expert-planb-reignites-debate-by-critiquing-ethereums-outlook-not-looking-good-now/

Deutsche Bank and Standard Chartered are accelerating plans to expand their U. S. crypto operations, seizing on favorable regulatory shifts under the Trump administration as traditional finance returns to the digital asset market. The post Deutsche Bank and Standard Chartered Eye U. S. source: https://cryptonews.com/news/deutsche-bank-and-standard-chartered-eye-u-s-crypto-expansion-wsj/

Coinbase is demanding the SEC release internal documents on its closed Ethereum 2. 0 investigation, pressing for transparency on the agency’s shifting stance and the so-called “ecosystem” test amid ongoing regulatory uncertainty. The post Coinbase CLO Presses SEC Over Withheld ETH2. source: https://cryptonews.com/news/coinbase-clo-presses-sec-over-withheld-eth2-0-docs-demands-transparency-on-ecosystem-test/

Major crypto venture capital firm Paradigm has responded to the US SEC, arguing that any MEV-related regulatory intervention would risk “disrupting a still-maturing but self-correcting market structure. source: https://cryptonews.com/news/paradigm-to-us-sec-crypto-task-force-first-do-no-harm-when-addressing-mev/

Powell, Trump, Trump "blasted" Powell, the US dollar plummeted, Bitcoin rose above $87,000. Golden Finance, the market was driven by macro news.

Golden Finance launches "Golden Web3.0 Daily" to provide you with the latest and fastest MEME, DeFi, DAO, NFT and Metaverse industry news.

Web3生态已形成多层次、多赛道的竞争格局，涵盖比特币生态、基础设施、NFT、Meme币、RWA（现实世界资产）及DApp应用等核心领域。

One tweet. 69 minutes. $17 million. And then there was chaos. What happened next to the official Base account opened up the entire crypto community to questions about “content coins,” insider trading, and the accountability of major platforms.

One of the great significances of Web3 is to "rebuild the threshold" by using new technologies to draw boundaries within the digital world and promote the formation of public space.

The first is to sell off US dollar assets, and the next is to diversify the investment portfolio. Gold and Bitcoin are ideal choices for global diversified investment.

The enthusiasm for the Web3 vision in 2021 has faded, and Ethereum is facing severe challenges.

Recommended reading for today's evening: 1. Is Base "stealing" Ethereum's GDP? 2. Vitalik's new proposal: replace the current EVM with RISC-V; 3. Arbitrage methodology: How to find a "free lunch"?

The Vatican has just confirmed that Pope Francis, the first Latin American leader of the Roman Catholic Church, has died at the age of 88

A casual question on X about how politeness in AI interactions impacts electricity use revealed that OpenAI's politeness costs could run into tens of millions of dollars. Despite these costs, OpenAI remains focused on improving model efficiency and expects substantial revenue growth in the coming years.