according to Cryptonews, Democratic Senator Adam Schiff of California proposed a bill on Monday called the "Cryptocurrency Openness in Negotiation Act" (COIN Act), which would prohibit the President, Vice President, and their immediate family members from engaging in cryptocurrency-related business activities during their tenure.

according to the official announcement, Binance is expected to suspend token deposits and withdrawals on the Sei (SEI) network on April 2, 2025 at 23:00 (UTC+8) to support its network upgrade. The project team will upgrade the network at block height 139,936,278 (expected on April 3, 2025 at 00:00 UTC+8).

On January 14th, the AIOS Foundation announced that it has completed the destruction of tokens held in its wallet. Previously, the AIOS Foundation issued a statement stating that in order to further enhance the transparency and fairness of the AIOS community, and to promote the AIOS project with the highest standards of integrity, it will destroy all AIOS tokens held by the foundation within the next 24 hours. Two addresses held by the foundation held 64.03% and 2.58% of the AIOS tokens respectively.

 The Data Nerd has monitored that Amber Group deposited 2.2 million VIRTUAL coins with a value of approximately 5.19 million US dollars to Gate 9 hours ago. On the other hand, 2 whales accumulated a total of 1.17 million VIRTUAL coins (approximately 3.03 million US dollars) from Gate 2 hours ago.

according to Lookonchain monitoring, trader 0x5966 has made 4 swing trades on WBTC in the past 50 days, with 3 ending in losses, totaling $2.387 million. If he had bought 54 WBTC at a price of $96,152 on May 1 ($5.18 million) and held on, he would now be making a profit of $483,000.

according to on-chain analyst @ai_9684xtpa monitoring, the high-winning wave whale ETH 5 hours ago directly recharged 18.04 million USDC collateral to Hyperliquid with a small account 0x655...1e0B8, and has not taken further action so far. He participated in ONDO's long positions in the past two days and lost $12,000.

Charles Hoskinson, the founder of Cardano, revealed that Cardano is discussing the possibility of integrating Ripple's new stablecoin, RLUSD. The aim is to strengthen Cardano's DeFi ecosystem and provide wider opportunities for the use of RLUSD.

 according to Mustafa Al-Bassam, co-founder of Celestia, despite the increasing FUD (fear, uncertainty, and doubt) targeting Celestia in the market, all founders, early employees, and core engineers are still holding their positions, maintaining the same enthusiasm for the project as when it started. Al-Bassam stated that Celestia currently has over $100 million in reserves and over 6 years of operating funds, and the team is prepared for long-term development. He also mentioned that he has been involved in the cryptocurrency field since 2010 and understands that all tokens will experience about a 95% drawdown in their lifecycle, so he is not surprised by the current market fluctuations.

Nick Timiraos, a spokesperson for the Federal Reserve, said that the central bank can cut interest rates based on good or bad news. Due to new inflation risks, the opportunity for a "good" rate cut is closing. I expect the Federal Reserve to maintain a wait-and-see attitude in the next six months and not take too much action.

According to JPMorgan's estimate, ETPs for XRP and SOL may attract nearly $15 billion in net inflows. Matthew Sigel, Director of Digital Asset Research at VanEck, said the forecast takes into account the market capitalization and ETP traffic performance of BTC and ETH.

Gryphon, a bitcoin mining company listed on NASDAQ, announced that its stock price rose by 20% on Friday after acquiring an 850-acre industrial site powered by natural gas from Canadian oil and gas company Captus Generation for $18.7 million.

WLFI official social media post stated that Sahara exclusively adopted USD1 stablecoin on the BuidlPad platform for IDO, contributing as much as 59 million US dollars, successfully achieving an important milestone. The total amount raised in this IDO reached 74.5 million US dollars, all completed with USD1 and BNB assets.

according to Lookonchain monitoring, a certain whale continues to short the ETH/BTC trading pair. The whale withdrew 3,644 cbBTC (worth $304 million) from Coinbase and deposited 3,034 cbBTC (worth $253 million) into Aave. Then borrowed 79,638 ETH (worth $152 million) from Aave and deposited it into Coinbase.

 in a public letter on January 12th, Warren asked incoming Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent if the Treasury Department should have more power to sanction the cryptocurrency industry. Warren wrote, "Should the Anti-Money Laundering/Counter-Terrorism Financing and Sanctions Programs include a well-designed, risk-based provision to prevent money laundering or terrorist financing involving digital assets?" He is about to become the chief Democrat on the Senate Banking, Housing, and Urban Affairs Committee.

according to the official page, Binance Alpha has launched TAG and Janitor.

Coinbase CEO Brian Armstrong revealed that Coinbase has launched a "Verified Pools" feature, aimed at bringing more assets into on-chain trading. Under U.S. law, certain assets can only be traded under specific verification conditions, such as the need to be accredited investors or complete identity verification (KYC). Through "Verified Pools," users can trade these restricted assets on-chain after completing verification.

According to official sources, Astar Network has announced that Astar zkEVM will be migrated to Soneium L2. Liquidity providers will need to withdraw assets and liquidity from DEX/DeFi projects on Astar zkEVM and transfer them to Ethereum using Astar Portal's native cross-chain bridge for ETH, DAI, MATIC, USDC, USDT, WBTC, or wsETH. vASTR holders will need to cancel their pledges through Omni and once the pledge period ends, ASTR tokens will automatically be transferred to Astar zkEVM. Other token projects should pay attention to relevant migration announcements. NFT holders do not need to take any action.

 Luo Zhuojian, a member of the National Committee of the Chinese People's Political Consultative Conference and a consulting expert of the Ministry of Finance, called for the active development of stablecoins to maintain Hong Kong's financial center advantages. He pointed out that Hong Kong can cooperate with financial institutions in other regions in the application of stablecoins, explore their potential in international settlement and cross-border application models, and also encourage traditional financial institutions, payment platforms, and technology companies to cooperate in promoting the application of stablecoins. In addition to cross-border and payment, stablecoins can also be used in fundraising and asset management, further expanding their application scope. In addition, it is necessary to expand the participation scope of the sandbox, relax the application conditions, and allow more start-ups and innovative projects to test new products in a low-risk environment.