ChainCatcher message, the Bitcoin staking protocol Babylon announced on platform X that the governance proposal to modify the Babylon Genesis chain parameters has officially launched. This proposal aims to adjust the unbinding fee for the second phase of staking from 100 sats/vbyte to 30 sats/vbyte. Voting is now open, and the deadline is 7 AM UTC on Monday, April 21.

ChainCatcher news, according to official information, KiloEx announced that its partner SlowMist has prepared two audit plans:Complete audit by SlowMist before KiloEx goes live again: This audit is expected to take about 45 days to ensure comprehensive security guarantees.Preliminary permission audit by SlowMist: SlowMist will first audit the permission mechanism of the protocol to prevent similar attack incidents from occurring. KiloEx will decide whether to go live again based on the results of the preliminary permission audit, and then SlowMist will continue with a comprehensive audit of the protocol logic and economic model. The required time is still being assessed, but it will be significantly shorter than 45 days.KiloEx understands the community's urgent feelings about going live again, so it has decided to choose plan two—starting with the initial permission audit. Once the audit results are out, KiloEx will announce the timeline for going live again as soon as possible.

ChainCatcher message, KiloEx announced that they will work with the SlowMist team to provide a post-incident summary, which will disclose more details and future security plans. Thanks again to Zhao Changpeng, Binance, and BNB Chain for their immediate assistance in establishing the initial war room, contacting security companies and partners to jointly address this incident.

ChainCatcher news, Du Jun, co-founder of ABCDE, stated on social media that ABCDE has officially ceased new project investments and suspended the fundraising plan for the second phase of its fund. The original team will continue to be responsible for post-investment support and exit arrangements for existing projects, ensuring that commitments to entrepreneurs and LPs are fulfilled seriously.His personal work focus will also gradually shift from financial investments in the primary market to a strategy-led approach combined with deep incubation, with a greater emphasis on industrial synergy and long-term value creation.Du Jun added that he has launched a new incubator brand, Vernal, and will announce the incubator shareholders and incubation rules, as well as the first batch of incubated projects in May. In May, he will also release the first buying list, detailing how much was bought and the reasons for the purchases.

ChainCatcher news, Coinglass data shows that in the past 24 hours, the total liquidation in the cryptocurrency market reached 102 million USD, with long positions liquidated at 50.0433 million USD and short positions liquidated at 51.7178 million USD. The total liquidation amount for BTC was 13.8714 million USD, and for ETH, it was 13.6786 million USD.

According to ChainCatcher news, as shown on the Aptos governance proposal page, community member moon shiesty submitted the AIP-119 proposal, suggesting a monthly reduction of 1% in the staking annual yield over the next three months, to an eventual rate of approximately 3.79%. This proposal aims to serve as a preliminary attempt at restructuring the Aptos economic model, with plans for gradual implementation over six months to assess its potential impact.The proposal argues that the current ~7% staking yield is too high, reducing capital efficiency and encouraging the community to explore riskier or costlier opportunities such as restaking, DePIN infrastructure, MEV, and DeFi rewards. Although lowering staking rewards may reduce the incentives for holding APT, the proposal believes that the reduction in inflation combined with new reward mechanisms is expected to offset the impact.The proposal points out that this move may impact small validators and suggests considering support for validators holding less than 3 million APT through a community staking program, as well as discussing more efficient long-term incentive methods. The proposal is expected to undergo community and foundation review in the next four weeks, with a mainnet vote to be submitted in the fifth week.

ChainCatcher news, according to the Coingecko quarterly report, the total market capitalization of cryptocurrencies fell by 18.6% to $2.8 trillion in the first quarter of 2025. Bitcoin further solidified its dominance in the market downturn, with its market share rising to 59.1% (a new high since 2021), while altcoins generally performed poorly. The shares of stablecoins USDT and USDC increased, while Ethereum's market share dropped to a five-year low of 7.9%.​1. Bitcoin outperforms traditional risk assetsBitcoin broke through $100,000 in January, reaching an all-time high, but ended the quarter at $82,514 (a decline of 11.8%). Its performance outpaced the Nasdaq index (down 10.3%), but lagged behind gold (up 18%) and U.S. Treasury bonds. Analysts pointed out that the strengthening of the yen and euro, adjustments in monetary policy, and geopolitical uncertainties have intensified market volatility.​2. Ethereum and altcoins under pressureEthereum's price plummeted 45.3% to $1,805, erasing all gains made in 2024, with daily trading volume shrinking to $2.44 billion. Leading altcoins like Solana (SOL), XRP, and BNB experienced smaller pullbacks, highlighting Ethereum's relative weakness. Meme coins suffered a significant setback due to the exit of Argentine President Javier Milei's related project LIBRA, with daily token deployment on the Pump.fun platform dropping by 56.3%.​3. Changes in exchange landscapeThe spot trading volume of centralized exchanges (CEX) decreased by 16.3% to $5.4 trillion, with Binance maintaining a market share of 40.7%; HTX became the only platform in the top ten to see growth (+11.4%), while Bybit's trading volume was halved due to a hacking incident in February. Among decentralized exchanges (DEX), Solana led Q1 with a 39.6% share, but Ethereum briefly reclaimed the top spot in March. The total value locked (TVL) in DeFi fell by 27.5% to $12.86 billion, while the new public chain Berachain's TVL rose against the trend to $5.2 billion.

ChainCatcher news, according to official sources, PancakeSwap has announced that the CAKE Tokenomics 3.0 proposal has been approved.The official statement indicates that the new token economic model will drive PancakeSwap towards a sustainable, deflationary development path, focusing on long-term growth. Regarding the CAKE redemption mechanism and subsequent plans, the official source stated that more details will be announced soon.

ChainCatcher news, Matrixport weekly report points out that since the launch of the Ethereum spot ETF in the U.S., Ethereum's dominance has decreased by nearly 50%. The report states that various altcoin narratives have emerged and quickly disappeared over the past year, all showing a "rapid rise followed by a crash" pyramid price structure.Analysis suggests that Bitcoin may maintain a range of $80,000 to $90,000 in the short term, while the probability of a large-scale rise in altcoins is low, unless three liquidity catalysts occur: the Federal Reserve signals a dovish stance, stablecoin growth, or an increase in macro liquidity. The report also notes that, unlike previous bear markets, the regulatory risk for Bitcoin has significantly decreased, which explains why its current adjustment period is performing better than in the past.

ChainCatcher message, according to monitoring by The Data Nerd, a wallet suspected to belong to Sonic Labs deposited 11.78 million S to Binance 6 hours ago, worth approximately 5.55 million USD.

ChainCatcher news, according to official page information, the Binance Launchpool 68th phase Launchpool project Initia (INIT) mining pool has now deposited over 18.4 million BNB, 2.291 billion USDC, and 555 million FDUSD.This round of Launchpool opened today at 8 AM and will end on the 24th at 8 AM.

ChainCatcher message, recently, Galaxy Research submitted a new proposal to the Solana community aimed at reforming the network's inflation governance discussion through a method called Multi-Election Staking Weight Aggregation (MESA). This mechanism attempts to introduce a market-driven process to optimize the SOL emission curve without relying on a single outcome vote. The proposed method will not change Solana's ultimate goal of achieving a 1.5% final inflation rate, but it may significantly shorten the timeline to reach that goal based on community voting results.According to Galaxy's predictions, if the current 15% deflation rate is maintained, the network will reach its final inflation rate at epoch 2,135. Increasing the deflation rate will bring this point forward. In the current Solana system, inflation follows a fixed, time-related curve, aiming for a final inflation rate of 1.5%. However, Galaxy points out that previous votes indicated that while there is a general consensus that the inflation rate is above necessary levels, reaching an agreement on adjusting parameters has been challenging. Galaxy's new proposal offers an alternative that allows validators to choose from multiple predetermined deflation rates, with the result determined by the weighted average of these votes. MESA voting will not dynamically adjust inflation based on real-time metrics but will enforce a fixed anti-inflation trajectory, and once approved, the deflation rate will be adjusted according to the collective opinion of validators.It is reported that this mechanism is inspired by the previous proposal SIMD-228. Although the community generally supports lowering the SOL inflation rate, the binary voting mechanism has made it difficult to reach a consensus on specific parameters, resulting in the proposal's failure to pass.

ChainCatcher message, according to OnchainLens monitoring, in the past 10 hours, Alameda Research deposited 9.5 million USDT to Wintermute's OTC trading, likely to transfer it to Binance and Coinbase. Additionally, they sent 129,871 USDT to a wallet that may belong to B2C2.

ChainCatcher news, according to Bloomberg, the Slovenian Ministry of Finance is seeking opinions on a proposal to impose a 25% tax on profits individuals earn from the disposal of crypto assets. The proposal was published on Thursday and aims to address gaps in the country's tax system, which currently taxes commercial income from crypto asset trading but exempts individuals from taxation when buying and selling crypto assets as investors.The deadline for submitting opinions on the proposal is May 5. If approved by the parliament, it is expected to take effect on January 1, 2026.

ChainCatcher news, according to on-chain analyst @ai_9684xtpa, a giant whale that acquired 76,000 ETH during the 2015 Ethereum ICO has awakened after three years of dormancy, depositing 3,000 ETH (4.78 million USD) into Kraken 45 minutes ago, suspected of selling off, with an ETH cost as low as 0.31 USD.An hour ago, the whale transferred 6,000 ETH to a new address, worth 9.55 million USD, and is expected to sell off all soon.

ChainCatcher news, according to Onchain Lens monitoring, a certain whale has deposited 2 million USDC into Hyperliquid to purchase more HYPE.In the past 5 days, this whale has cumulatively deposited 7.99 million USDC into HyperLiquid, of which 5.99 million has been used to purchase 376,442 HYPE at a price of 15.9 dollars each, with an unrealized profit of 266,000 dollars.Currently, this whale has a pending order to purchase 100,000 HYPE.

ChainCatcher news, U.S. President Trump posted on social media: "The European Central Bank is expected to make its 7th rate cut, however, the 'always too late' Federal Reserve Chairman Jerome Powell------ this consistently slow-moving and misjudging individual, once again presented a typical 'chaotic' situation in the report released yesterday.Oil prices are falling, grocery prices, and even egg prices are also declining, and the U.S. is reaping substantial benefits from tariffs. Powell should have cut rates long ago like the European Central Bank, but even now he should be cutting rates. Terminate Powell's tenure as soon as possible!"

ChainCatcher news, monitored by The Data Nerd, suggests that GSR may be the market maker for WCT. 6 hours ago, GSR deposited 4 million WCT into Binance, approximately worth 1.61 million USD. Today, a total of 7 million WCT, approximately worth 3.46 million USD, has been deposited into Binance.

ChainCatcher news, the "Q1 2025 Cryptocurrency Industry Report" released by CoinGecko shows that Huobi HTX is the only Top 10 exchange to achieve growth in spot trading volume. The report states that the total market capitalization of cryptocurrencies fell by 18.6% in the first quarter of this year. Against this backdrop, Huobi HTX's spot trading volume still achieved a quarter-on-quarter growth of 11.4%; meanwhile, other Top 10 exchanges saw declines in spot trading volume, with decreases ranging from 1.8% to 34.0%.Additionally, according to the "Q1 2025 Report Card" recently released by Huobi HTX, several core indicators of the platform reached historical peaks in the first quarter, with new registered users increasing by 116% quarter-on-quarter and net deposit amounts soaring by 210%.

ChainCatcher news, according to the official announcement, Binance has added a new fiat channel ZEN.com, allowing users to deposit and withdraw Danish Krone (DKK), Swedish Krona (SEK), and Swiss Franc (CHF) through this channel. Users can deposit fiat using various payment methods including Visa/Mastercard, Apple Pay, Google Pay, Blik, bank transfer, Skrill, and more.