China's 84% retaliatory tariff on the U.S. has officially taken effect as of 12:01 a.m. today.

On April 18th, as per the monitoring of LookOnChain, the whale that had previously suffered a loss of $701,000 while trading Fartcoin has once again utilized 14,725 SOL coins ($1.98 million) to purchase 2.22 million Fartcoin at an average price of $0.89 per coin. Currently, it is facing a loss of $297,000.

On April 18th, based on Farside Investors' monitoring, yesterday the net inflow of the US Bitcoin spot ETF was $106.9 million.

On April 18th, according to data from Farside Investors, the net inflow/outflow of 9 U.S. Ethereum spot ETFs, such as BlackRock ETHA, yesterday was 0.

The whale who previously lost $701K on $Fartcoin spent another 14,725 $SOL($1.98M) to buy 2.22M $Fartcoin at $0.89, and is now down $297K again.

On April 18th, as reported by Cryptoslate, during a recent episode of the The Chopping Block podcast discussion, it was revealed that Mantra and its affiliated liquidity provider took advantage of a vulnerability in the self-reporting system of a data aggregator to manipulate the liquidity metric of the OM token. They distorted the circulating supply and trading volume to give a false impression of market activity. The Mantra team worked together with the liquidity provider to simulate token trades between controlled addresses and exchanges, inflating the data without significant natural participation. On-chain observers stated that the truly liquid supply of the OM token is less than 1%, yet it appears to be a top 25 asset in terms of market capitalization. This strategy exploited a loophole in the validation process of CoinGecko and CoinMarketCap, as both platforms rely on self-reported data from project teams and do not cross-reference it with exchange listing information an

On April 18th, as per the report by Cointelegraph, the cryptocurrency research firm Galaxy Research has put forward the "Multiple Election Stake-Weight Aggregation" (MESA) mechanism within the Solana community in order to reduce the inflation rate of SOL. Researchers describe this proposal as a "more market-oriented approach to determining the future SOL inflation rate." In contrast to traditional "yes/no" binary voting, MESA enables validators to vote on multiple inflation reduction proposals, and the final result is determined through a weighted average. Galaxy stated: "Rather than continuously toggling between inflation reduction proposals until one is passed, it is preferable to allow validators to assign voting weights to one or more proposals, and then take the weighted results of all 'yes' votes as the final issuance curve." This mechanism was inspired by the previous SIMD-228 proposal. Although the community generally supports reducing the SOL inflation rate, the binary votin