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April 30 – Per Hyperinsight’s monitoring, a crypto “whale” account has erased all paper gains from the past week amid a market downturn, now sitting on a paper loss of $3.94 million. On the operational front, the whale urgently deleveraged a batch of ETH and BTC long positions in the early hours as markets slid — though some positions still got liquidated during the rapid drop. It then replenished positions again within two hours. Post-downturn, the whale’s total position value has fallen to $29.06 million, with ETH liquidation at $2,188 and BTC at $72,143.1.

April 30 – Per GMGN market data, Binance Alpha project BSB extended its decline yesterday afternoon, with the drop accelerating sharply by 11:00 PM last night. In a short window, it plummeted over 60%, falling from around $0.9 to a low of $0.32. The day prior, the purported Block Street team address transferred tokens to a Bybit deposit address, with a cumulative inflow of 5 million BSB tokens—valued at approximately $3.6534 million. These tokens were previously sourced from BSB’s team multi-signature address. Team token sell-offs have been frequent recently. BLESS, another Binance Alpha project, dumped $5.09 million worth of tokens after a sustained rally, triggering a price collapse. Additionally, addresses linked to projects like LayerZero, AIOT, BIRB, and PUMP have also sold off some of their tokens amid ample liquidity in the meme coin market.

April 30 — Decentralized exchange protocol Legend has closed a $3.5 million seed funding round, led by Electric Capital with participation from Amber Group and GSR. The total capital raised by Legend now exceeds $5 million.

April 30th — Infura Monitoring reports that the "Whale Brother," who bought 103 quadrillion SHIB tokens (17.4% of the total supply) with just 37.8 ETH in 2020, transferred 800 billion SHIB (valued at $4.91 million) to centralized exchange Coinmena over the past day. At the 2021 price peak, his 103 quadrillion SHIB was worth $9.1 billion. Most of his holdings remain unsold; he still holds 95.42 quadrillion SHIB (16.2% of the total supply), now valued at $588 million.

Per Onchain Lens monitoring, whale address 0xe5e withdrew 4,472 ETH from Kraken 3 hours ago (April 30). The address currently holds 8,855 ETH, valued at $20 million.

**April 30: Meta to Roll Out Stablecoin Payments for Creators via Stripe** Meta will launch stablecoin payments for creators through Stripe on April 30, settling transactions with Circle’s USDC on the Solana and Polygon blockchains. This marks a milestone as major tech firms integrate crypto into the mainstream creator economy. The feature will first pilot in Colombia and the Philippines: creators there must convert USDC to local currency on their own via a local exchange, since Meta does not offer direct fiat-to-crypto exchange services. Meta scrapped its Libra project in 2022 amid regulatory pushback, but this partnership—leveraging existing stablecoin infrastructure—has cut compliance risks and boosted cross-border payment efficiency. (Source: The Information)