| DigiDaigaku announced that it will launch Bitcoin Original NFT; 364 days before Bitcoin halving (May 1)

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2023-05-01 00:00

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The Cancun upgrade is determined to incorporate EIP-4844, 6780, 6475, 1153.

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Odaily News According to the official Twitter, the NFT project DigiDaigaku announced that it will launch Bitcoin Original NFT, DigiDaigaku Genesis holders will be free or Bitcoin NFT DigiDaigaku Chibi, which is expected to be snapshotted on May 1 at the Ethereum block height 1714466, DigiDaigaku Users are reminded to ensure that the Genesis NFT is in a hot wallet, not a multi-sig wallet like Safe. It is reported that the Chibi Genesis series will be the first foray into Bitcoin NFT by DigiDaigaku company Limit Break.

160th Ethereum ACDE Conference: Cancun Upgrade Confirmed to Include EIP-4844, 6780, 6475, 1153

In addition, some EIPs proposals have not been officially accepted for inclusion in the upgrade (EIP-6913, 6493, 4788, 2537, 5656) and some are determined not to be included in this upgrade (Big EOF and EVMMAX).

EIP-6780 (modify the function of the SELFDESTRUCT opcode, mainly to prepare for the future application of the Verkle tree);

EIP-6475 (introducing a new simple serialization type for optional values to provide better readability and compact serialization);

· EIP-1153 (introduction of transient store opcodes).

Following the discussion around the Cancun EIPs, the next meeting agenda will be on progress on EIP-4844.

Odaily News According to OKLink’s halving countdown special page, the current block height is less than 365 days away from Bitcoin’s halving time. BTC dropped to 3.125 BTC.

Industry news

CNBC: Bank of America considering bid for First Republic Bank

Odaily News According to CNBC reports, U.S. regulators have asked banks to make the best and final bids for the First Republic, hoping that the move will calm market sentiment and draw an end to an uncertain period for regional banks. JPMorgan and PNC Financial Services Group are likely bidders for First Republic, according to people familiar with the matter. Others are likely to follow, with Bank of America one of several others considering a bid for First Republic.

Binance Labs Grows Assets to $9 Billion, Has Invested in Over 200 Projects

Odaily News Binance Labs, the venture capital arm of Binance, continues to grow, and its assets have grown from $7.5 billion in August last year to $9 billion now.

Yibo Ling, Binance’s chief commercial officer, said the venture and incubation unit is global and unaffected by regulatory pressures in the U.S. and elsewhere. Its funds are invested in more than 200 projects in more than 25 countries on six continents. Among them, 50 projects were incubated by Binance Labs.

A spokesman for Binance said the agency offered a theoretical return of more than 10 times its investment. However, Binance does not appear to have plans to sell these investment businesses. "We bought and held, which has been our strategy for the past few years. With a few exceptions, we haven't exited," Ling said.

FDIC prepares to take over First Republic Bank

Representatives for First Republic and the FDIC did not immediately respond to requests for comment.

Project News

Bitcoin’s on-chain transaction volume hits record high as Ordinals surge

Odaily News According to the 7-day moving average tracking the daily transaction volume on the Bitcoin chain, it hit a record high yesterday. According to The Block data, the daily transaction volume on the chain reached 408,000, a record high. According to Glassnode data, the 7-day daily transaction volume on the Bitcoin chain was 426,337.14. The increase in the number of transactions comes from Ordinals. At present, there are more than 2.4 million Ordinals on the Bitcoin network, and the total transaction fee exceeds 213 Bitcoins.

Multi-chain staking infrastructure Stader Labs to launch ETHx Phase 2 testing on May 2

Odaily News According to the official Twitter, the multi-chain pledge infrastructure Stader Labs announced that the first phase of testing of the Ethereum liquid pledge token ETHx has ended on April 28, and the second phase of testing will begin on May 2. Stader's Ethereum liquidity staking solution requires users to provide a minimum of 4 ETH to participate in the pledge. Stader will allocate the funds deposited by the user to the licensed pledge pool, the pledge pool without permission, and the pledge using distributed validator technology (DVT) pool.

Lightning Labs Updates Lightning Network Management Tool Litd, Aiming to Make It Easy for Regular Users to Deploy Nodes

Odaily News Bitcoin Lightning Network developer Lightning Labs has updated the Lightning Network management tool Litd, allowing ordinary users to run Lightning Network nodes by themselves and send or receive Bitcoin in a non-custodial manner without being technically proficient. Other updates include algorithmic automatic updating of Lightning Network fees and the introduction of an "account" system that allows multiple users to share a Lightning Network node.

Stablecoin Protocol Djed Launches EVM-Compatible Cardano Sidechain Milkomeda-C 1

Djed Alliance, the manager of the stablecoin protocol Djed, announced that the protocol is now live on the EVM-compatible Cardano sidechain Milkomeda-C 1 .

This marks the third deployment of Djed, and more importantly, its first deployment on Solidity, the primary programming language for writing smart contracts on the Ethereum blockchain. The new deployment is expected to lay the groundwork for its expansion to several other EVM-compatible blockchains.

In January of this year, the Djed stablecoin was launched on the Cardano mainnet. (U. Today)

FalconX is working on a ChatGPT-powered robot "Satoshi," still in beta

Odaily News The digital asset platform FalconX is developing a robot "Satoshi" driven by ChatGPT, named after Bitcoin founder Satoshi Nakamoto, which can provide crypto users with investment advice based on their historical trading activities, investment portfolios and interests.

According to the official Twitter, the current release amount of CAKE Syrup Pool has been reduced to 3 CAKE/block.

PancakeSwap's proposal on "reducing block rewards" has been voted through

Odaily News PancakeSwap DAO's proposal to "reduce block rewards" has ended, and the "active reduction" proposal was voted through with a support rate of 57.77%.

It is reported that the proposal immediately adjusted the release amount of CAKE Syrup Pool from 6.65 CAKE/block to 3 CAKE/block, and then reduced 0.5 CAKE/block every month for 5 months. The release amount of CAKE Syrup Pool was the sixth Monthly reduction to 0.35 CAKE/block (about 2% APR).

According to the official Twitter, the current release amount of CAKE Syrup Pool has been reduced to 3 CAKE/block.

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Data: Nearly 90% of pledged Ethereum full withdrawals happen on centralized exchanges

Odaily News According to data compiled by 21 Shares Research, approximately 90% of all pledged Ethereum withdrawals on the Beacon Chain occur on centralized exchanges (Kraken, Binance, and Coinbase).

Tom Wan, a research analyst at 21 Shares Research, pointed out that users have withdrawn more than 877,000 ETH from these exchanges, accounting for 87.5% of the ETH that has been completely withdrawn.

In terms of validator exits, Kraken topped the list with more than 15,000 exiting validators, three times higher than the second-placed Binance, which only had 5,676 validator exits, and Coinbase took the top spot with 2,849 exiting validators third.

Additionally, Nansen’s Shapella dashboard shows that these exchanges accounted for only 77.8% of these full ETH withdrawals, or 785,742 ETH. (BeInCrypto)

Since the upgrade of Ethereum Shanghai, 1.96 million ETHs have been unstaked, with a net withdrawal of about 460,000 ETHs

Odaily News Token Unlock data shows that since the completion of the upgrade of Ethereum Shanghai, about 1.96 million ETHs have been unstaked, about 1.5 million ETHs have been newly deposited into pledges, and the net withdrawal of about 457,000 ETHs. In addition, about 450,000 ETH are currently pending withdrawal.

Bitcoin NFT protocol Ordinals minted more than 220,000 inscriptions yesterday, setting a record high in single-day minting volume

Odaily News According to data from Dune Analytics, the number of inscriptions minted on the Bitcoin NFT protocol Ordinals on April 29 reached 223,311, setting a record for the highest single-day minted volume so far, and the second highest record in history occurred on April 23. More than 190,000 pieces. At present, the total amount of Ordinals minted inscriptions has exceeded 2.426 million, and the total cost so far has reached about 213.1 BTC.

Metaverse GameFi and NFT

Grayscale Research Team Publishes a Paper to Explore the Potential of Bitcoin Ordinals NFT

Odaily News The Grayscale research team recently published an article exploring the potential of the Bitcoin Ordinals NFT market. It believes that Ordinals has a positive impact on the Bitcoin network in two key aspects: it will increase Bitcoin miners' fees and may promote cultural transformation within the Bitcoin community. .

NFT football game development company Goals completes $20 million in Series A financing, led by Seven Seven Six

Investment and Financing

NFT football game development company Goals completes $20 million in Series A financing, led by Seven Seven Six

Odaily News Swedish NTF football game development company Goals announced the completion of a US$20 million Series A financing, Reddit co-founder Alexis Ohanian (Alexis Ohanian)'s Seven Seven Six led the investment, Northzone, Moonfire and Cassius participated in the investment, The company's total funding to date has reached $39 million. The new funds will be used to accelerate the development of Goals' NFT football video game product, which is currently in pre-alpha stage, and add Web3 social and game competition elements, which have replaced traditional football game models such as traditional EA Sports FC. In addition, the company also intends to integrate its team Scale up to 75 people. (sportspromedia)

Sources: OpenAI completes $10.3 billion in financing, Tiger Global Management and Sequoia Capital participated in the investment

In total, outside investors currently own more than 30 percent of OpenAI, the sources said.