Crypto Market Fear Subsides Significantly, Today's Fear and Greed Index at 45

April 21st — With U.S. midterm elections on the horizon, former President Donald Trump’s super PAC raised $35.6 million in March, pushing its campaign war chest to $550 million. That total sets a record for a midterm cycle as Trump aims to defend the Republican majority in Congress amid a tight battle. Federal Election Commission (FEC) filings show longtime GOP donor Diane Hendricks—who addressed the 2024 Republican National Convention—provided the bulk of the March fundraising, contributing $25 million. Venture capitalists Marc Andreessen and Ben Horowitz each gave $3 million. The California-based Yocha Dehe Wintun Nation tribal organization donated $2 million. A subsidiary of prison operator GEO Group Inc.—a federal contractor with clients including ICE—contributed $1 million. Amid this cash surge, polls indicate Trump’s 2024 voter coalition is fracturing. Historically, the party holding the White House typically loses House seats in midterms, and Democrats are growing more optimis

April 21st — Binance will add the Binance NFT/USDT, Binance NFT/USD1, ENJ/USDT, GIGGLE/USDT, and ORDI/USDT trading pairs to cross-margin trading today at 16:00 UTC+8, per an official announcement.

April 21st: a16z-backed platform daos.fun founder baoskee shared a farewell message, noting daos.fun laid groundwork for subsequent ICM, Agents, and AI Meta efforts—but the team will halt new DAO launches. The decision stems from the community’s primary focus on speculation and fundamental issues with the "degen-managed hedge fund."

On April 21, according to EmberCN monitoring, a whale wallet at address 0x8ad has netted 143 ETH (valued at approximately $330,000) by actively purchasing aEthWETH (Aave ETH Deposit Certificates). Over the past 13 hours, the whale withdrew 13,000 ETH ($30 million) from a trading platform, swapped it for 13,143 aEthWETH, and then used those tokens to repay its ETH loan on Aave at a 1:1 ratio.

On April 21st, per GMGN monitoring (link: https://t.me/gmgnaibot?start=i_m4TE56o8), Solana-based meme coin BELIEF saw its market cap surge this morning—jumping by over $17 million at one point to hit a new all-time high. As of press time, it has retraced, with its market cap now at $13.2 million, its 24-hour gain narrowed to 18%, and 24-hour trading volume totaling $3.7 million. BlockBeats cautions users that meme coins are extremely volatile, relying heavily on market sentiment and hype while lacking tangible value or real-world use cases. Investors are advised to exercise caution amid these risks.

Bitcoin Core v31.0 was released on April 21st. Key updates in this version include: - Enhanced mempool logic: Nodes can now more accurately evaluate the combined value of related transaction sets to decide whether to retain, forward, or include them in a block. - Minimal impact for regular transfer users: Those using RBF, CPFP, the Lightning Network, complex wallets, or server-side wallets may notice changes in how their transactions are accepted or rejected. - Improved privacy broadcasting: The release supports sendrawtransaction broadcasts over Tor/I2P, so recipients can’t determine the transaction initiator’s IP address or geographic location.