A Bybit Platform Trader's Nearly $4 Million ALPACA Position Faces Liquidation

On April 30th, the co-founder of Ethereum, Vitalik Buterin, published a post disclosing his personal focus areas for 2025: · Ethereum specifically: (i) The L1 Long-term Roadmap (e.g., single-slot finality, long-term virtual machine, statelessness, security/resilience/decentralization) (ii) Full-stack security, open source, and privacy: Ensuring that Ethereum is utilized in a highly secure, decentralized, and privacy-friendly manner, including at higher layers (applications, wallets, etc.) · [Link: https://vitalik.eth.limo/general/2025/01/05/dacc2.html] for Big-Picture d/acc · Communication tools, information and social layer, mechanism design, such as governance, public goods/open-source funding · Cryptography, operating systems, hardware, physical infrastructure, bio defense

On April 30th, as per official channels, the DePIN project Kairos has successfully completed its seed round of financing. This was led jointly by Vertex Capital (from the UK), HKIFS (from Hong Kong), and Oaktree Capital Management (from the US). Kairos is dedicated to constructing a DePIN resource network for the era of AI Agents. Its goal is to establish a collaborative path between edge hardware and intelligent body computing. Its flagship product is the world's first mass-produced smart ring for blood pressure monitoring, accompanied by a distributed health data computing ecosystem. It is reported that Kairos has achieved the large-scale implementation of medical-grade sensor modules. The core team has a background in chip design and manufacturing. The data encryption architecture of the project complies with the HIPAA medical compliance standard, demonstrating strong hardware delivery capabilities and a solid foundation of data security. Additionally, Kairos holds multiple core t

On April 30th: Japanese Monex Securities indicated that due to the significant increase in global uncertainty, the Bank of Japan is almost definite to maintain its policy rate unchanged. The impact of Trump's tariff policy on April 2nd has already dampened the prospect of the Bank of Japan raising rates further in the near term. The focus of the meeting may be on the outlook report. Inflation remains at a high level, and wage negotiations confirm that price pressures are still rooted in wage growth dynamics. How policymakers achieve a balance between inflation and the escalating global uncertainty will be crucial to the future interest rate path. It is still anticipated that the Bank of Japan will raise rates again later this year, with low confidence in a rate hike in September. This forecast will be re-evaluated after the meeting. (Fx678)

On April 30th, Binance Alpha made an announcement regarding the listing of the BSquared Token (B2).

On April 30th, according to official channels, in order to celebrate the launch of the BSquared Network (B2), MEXC has launched an Airdrop+ event with a total prize pool of 44,000 B2 and 50,000 USDT. Event Duration: From 18:00 (UTC+8) on April 30, 2025, to 18:00 (UTC+8) on May 9.

On April 30th, the crypto analyst ali_charts presented a chart analysis indicating that the key resistance level for Bitcoin to monitor is $97,530. If this resistance level is broken, it may lead to a new all-time high.