ChainCatcher news, according to CoinDesk, American financial giant Fidelity Investments launched a retirement plan on Thursday that allows direct investment in cryptocurrencies, opening up a new channel for investors to allocate digital assets.According to information on Fidelity's official website, this cryptocurrency IRA (Individual Retirement Account) product is open to all U.S. citizens aged 18 and over, supporting three digital assets: Bitcoin (BTC), Ethereum (ETH), and Litecoin (LTC). All cryptocurrency assets will be custodied by Fidelity through cold wallets, with no management fees. Investors can choose from three account types: Roth IRA, Traditional IRA, or Rollover IRA.

ChainCatcher message, OKX-ETH/USDT is currently at $1901.03, with a 24-hour decline of 0.82%.

ChainCatcher message, Ethereum researcher mikeneuder.eth proposed the EIP-7922 proposal, aimed at improving the validator exit queue mechanism. The proposal changes the fixed exit limit (approximately 16 per epoch) to a dynamically adjusted mechanism based on recent exit situations, enhancing exit flexibility, reducing validator waiting time, and lowering liquidity risk. The proposal is currently in draft stage.

ChainCatcher news, according to CoinDesk, in March 2025, the total trading volume of Ethereum decentralized exchanges (DEX) reached $64.616 billion, surpassing Solana's $52.62 billion, reclaiming the top position in the industry for the first time since September of last year.Affected by the market downturn and the decline in memecoin popularity, the activity of DEXs like Raydium on the Solana chain has significantly decreased. Although Ethereum DEX trading volume leads, the price of ETH fell over 18% in March, a larger decline than SOL's 15.8%.

ChainCatcher news, the encrypted payment protocol AEON announced a partnership with TON and Tether, enabling users to use $TON and the native $USDT for payments at tens of thousands of online and offline stores. It will provide various forms of crypto payment touchpoints such as DApps and Telegram mini-apps, gradually covering over 20 million merchants in Southeast Asia, Africa, Latin America, and other regions, promoting the application of crypto assets in real-world payments.

ChainCatcher news, according to Lookonchain monitoring, an Ethereum OG sold all remaining 2,001 ETH ($3.82 million) 6 hours ago. This OG bought 5,001 ETH at a price of $277 in 2017 (costing $1.38 million) and did not sell even when ETH reached $4,878 during the last bull market. A month ago, he started selling ETH, making a total profit of $8.66 million. However, at its peak, his unrealized gains once reached $23 million.

ChainCatcher news, Aethir's Chief Architect Jaden Yan will attend the "Crypto 2025: Breaking the Deadlock and New Birth" event on April 8. Aethir is a decentralized real-time rendering network that unlocks content accessibility in the metaverse. Aethir builds scalable, decentralized cloud infrastructure (DCI), and its network helps gaming and AI companies (regardless of size) deliver their products directly to consumers, no matter where they are or what hardware they have.It is reported that the main event of "Crypto 2025: Breaking the Deadlock and New Birth" is hosted by Web3 data company RootData and ChainCatcher during the Hong Kong Web3 Festival HK.The event will be held on April 8 from 14:00 to 18:00 at the 2nd floor of the Hong Kong Convention and Exhibition Centre (28 Stanley Street, Central, Hong Kong), focusing on hot topics in crypto such as AI, RWA, and PayFi, gathering industry leaders to explore trends and help investors seize new market opportunities.Several representatives from cutting-edge innovative projects, including Solana Foundation advisor Adam Jin, Alchemy Pay ecosystem head Arda Senoz, and Avalanche Chinese market head Jenny, will attend. In addition, top VCs and well-known KOLs will also gather on-site to discuss the future of the industry.Click link to register now, and industry professionals are welcome to participate in the exchange.

ChainCatcher news, Scroll co-founder Ye Zhang posted on the X platform, pointing out that taxing Ethereum Layer 2 is a major poison for the future development of Ethereum. This shortsighted behavior sacrifices long-term scalability and ecosystem growth for short-term revenue, which is the practice of centralized enterprises, not a choice for neutral platforms. Measuring the value of ETH by only looking at Ethereum's revenue is putting the cart before the horse. The true value of ETH lies in its role as the core of thousands of rollup ecosystems, which is the way forward.

ChainCatcher news, according to on-chain analyst @ai_9684xtpa's monitoring, a certain whale that accumulated ETH during the last bull market reportedly sold 2,000 ETH about 4 hours ago, with a cost as low as $272. If sold, it would yield a profit of $3.273 million, and after this sale, the position has been completely liquidated.This whale gradually built its position in batches during June 11, 2017, and after three years of dormancy, it awakened a month ago and has cumulatively sold 5,000 ETH, expected to profit over $8.678 million.

ChainCatcher news, according to OnchainLens monitoring, a certain whale sold 893,123 FET today at a price of $0.465 each after holding for 4 months, exchanging for 222 ETH (approximately $416,000), resulting in a loss of $2.29 million.This whale previously purchased a total of 1.49 million FET for $2.98 million, acquiring them by selling ETH and WOJAK. Currently, it still holds about 600,000 FET, worth approximately $274,000 at the current price.

ChainCatcher news, according to SoSoValue data, yesterday (Eastern Time April 1) the total net outflow of Ethereum spot ETFs was $3.5825 million.The Ethereum spot ETF with the highest net inflow yesterday was 21Shares ETF CETH, with a net inflow of $1.7158 million. Currently, the historical total net inflow of CETH has reached $13.3341 million.The Bitcoin spot ETF with the highest net outflow yesterday was Grayscale ETF ETH, with a net outflow of $2.6997 million. Currently, the historical total net inflow of ETH has reached $568 million.As of the time of writing, the total net asset value of Ethereum spot ETFs is $6.543 billion, and the ETF net asset ratio (market value as a percentage of total Ethereum market value) is 2.83%. The historical cumulative net inflow has reached $2.412 billion.

ChainCatcher message, according to Whale Alert monitoring, 4 minutes ago, USDC Treasury burned 60 million USDC on the Ethereum chain.

ChainCatcher message indicates that, according to SoSoValue data, the cryptocurrency market has seen a slight increase, with ETH rising 3.63% in 24 hours, briefly breaking through $1900. BTC increased by 2.96%, returning above $85000. Additionally, the AI sector rose by 2.60% in 24 hours, with Render (RENDER), Fartcoin (FARTCOIN), and ai16z (AI16Z) increasing by 5.89%, 11.31%, and 11.18% respectively.In other sectors, the Meme sector rose by 2.15% in 24 hours, with Dogecoin (DOGE) and Pepe (PEPE) increasing by 1.97% and 2.05% respectively; the RWA sector increased by 2.08%, with Maker (MKR), Ondo Finance (ONDO), and Pendle (PENDLE) rising by 4.47%, 5.24%, and 6.89% respectively; the PayFi sector rose by 1.34%, and the DeFi sector increased by 1.24%, with Ethena (ENA) and Sky (SKY) rising by 4.46 and 4.75% respectively; the Layer1 sector increased by 0.91%, with Sui (SUI) rising by 3.07%; the CeFi sector rose by 0.50%, with Cronos (CRO) increasing by 4.71%.Furthermore, the Layer2 sector fell by 0.41% in 24 hours, and the recently high-performing SocialFi sector experienced a correction, dropping by 2.29% in 24 hours.The cryptocurrency sector indices reflecting historical market trends show that the ssiAI and ssiMeme indices rose by 3.16% and 2.92% respectively in 24 hours.

ChainCatcher news, according to on-chain analyst Ali's monitoring, since February 25, the number of large transactions in Ethereum (ETH) has decreased by 63.8%. The analyst believes this may indicate a reduction in whale activity on the network.

ChainCatcher news, Synthetix founder Kain stated that the Ethereum mainnet is facing economic pressure from a sharp decline in gas fees and ETH burn due to L2 scaling diverting transaction activity and the introduction of blobs from EIP-4844, which reduces data availability costs.Kain believes that the rise of L2 has intercepted the profits that originally belonged to the mainnet, and a future shift towards Alt DA solutions like Celestia is likely to further weaken the profitability of the Ethereum mainnet. To address this issue, he suggested that in the short term, the mainnet could be supported by official L2 or rental mechanisms, while in the long term, new demands such as the tokenization of real assets are needed to enhance the overall utilization of L1/L2.He emphasized that the Ethereum community has advantages in coordination, but should decisively abandon unrelated projects and concentrate resources on breakthroughs at the application layer to cope with competitive pressures from L2 and other data availability solutions.

ChainCatcher message, OKX-ETH/USDT is currently at $1903.81, with a 24-hour increase of 2.99%.

ChainCatcher news, according to official information, the "TRON x HTX DAO 2025 Hong Kong Night" themed event, hosted by TRON and co-organized by HTX DAO, will be grandly held on April 8 at 18:00 in Hong Kong. At the event, users can take photos with a Forbes cover frame similar to that of Sun Yuchen and instantly produce stunning shots through an AI camera. By uploading the photos to Twitter, participants can join the selection event for a chance to win a total prize pool of 1,000 USDT.In addition, the event will feature multiple rounds of online and offline interactive blind boxes and quiz draws, with prizes including VIP customer black cards, cash rewards ranging from 88 to 888 USDT, limited edition exquisite merchandise, and a chance to win up to 1 ETH. It is worth mentioning that users holding VIP customer black cards can choose from three customized gifts; new VIP customers attending the event will also enjoy additional surprise privileges, so stay tuned.It is reported that industry leaders such as Kong Jianping, founder of Nano Labs, Molly (Huobi HTX Liu Ye), ambassador of HTX DAO, and Alec, head of HTX Ventures, will be invited to attend and share the latest developments of HTX DAO and trends in the cryptocurrency industry. Even more exciting, Sun Yuchen, founder of TRON and core supporter of HTX DAO, may make a surprise appearance and deliver a speech.

ChainCatcher news, according to on-chain analyst @ai_9684xtpa's monitoring, "the whale that ICO'd 100,000 ETH in 2015" is suspected to have sold another 1,000 ETH half an hour ago, worth 1.88 million dollars, with a cost as low as 0.31 dollars.Currently, this ancient whale still holds 34,000 ETH, distributed across three wallet addresses, with an unrealized profit of 63.91 million dollars; additionally, it has sold 5,000 ETH through address 0xF5E...Ee940 in the past three weeks, making a profit of 9.4 million dollars.