CZ and Vitalik Jointly Attend BNB Chain MVB 9 Hong Kong Offline Event

On April 8th, the crypto restaurant app Blackbird announced the completion of a $50 million Series B funding round. Spark Capital led this round, with Coinbase, a16z crypto, Union Square Ventures, and Amex Ventures participating. This funding round consists of both equity in the company and token warrants, which are allocations of a not-yet-issued cryptocurrency. Blackbird co-founder Levinthal stated that this funding was raised in the fourth quarter of 2024 but refused to disclose the implied valuation of this round. Since 2022, Blackbird Labs has raised a total of $85 million. Blackbird is a loyalty and payment application for restaurants. Each time a user visits a restaurant registered with the app, they receive an internal cryptocurrency called FLY as a reward. Users can use this cryptocurrency to pay for meals anywhere within the Blackbird network, which includes over 600 restaurants in New York City, San Francisco, and Charleston, South Carolina. Levinthal stated, "We aim to ente

On April 8th, as per an official announcement, Coin98 Super Wallet has officially launched perpetual contract trading that is supported by Orderly. It is reported that Coin98 Super Wallet has expanded its coverage to more than 170 countries globally and reached over 10 million users. Currently, users can avail themselves of perpetual contract trading services on more than 10 chains through Coin98 Super Wallet.

On April 8th, based on HTX market data, Bitcoin saw a rebound and surpassed $80,000, with a 24-hour increase of 4.44%.

On April 8th, Bloomberg's senior ETF analyst, Eric Balchunas, wrote, "XRP witnessed its first ETF today, a 2x leveraged version named XXRP. This indicates the first occurrence of a new subclass being opened by a leveraged product. I anticipate a multitude of 'firsts' this year, so it is advisable to simply go with the flow."

On April 8th, based on market information, a memo shows that the US Department of Justice has dissolved its National Cryptocurrency Enforcement Team.

On April 8th, as per blockchain analytics firm Bubblemaps, in excess of $30 million worth of the Meme coin MELANIA has been transferred and is being "quietly sold" without any explanation from the team. A total of 50 million MELANIA tokens (approximately $30 million) were moved from the community fund to the wallet address Cq2Tj6 and then distributed to multiple addresses: ? Two new positions each amounting to $6 million were established; ? Over $3 million was sent to a trading platform; ? Tokens valued at $500,000 have been sold. No individual from the MELANIA team has responded to this. There has been no clarification regarding the fund transfer. There has been no justification for the selling behavior. Bubblemaps warns that the MELANIA team's wallet holds 92% of the coin's total supply.