Breaking News Preview:
- French President Emmanuel Macron will deliver a keynote speech at Paris Blockchain Week on April 15.
- The U.S. Senate Banking Committee will hold a hearing on April 16 to consider Kevin Warsh's nomination as Chairman of the Federal Reserve.
- Binance will launch a spot price range protection mechanism on April 14 to prevent abnormal price transactions;
- At 02:00 on April 16, the Federal Reserve released its Beige Book on economic conditions.
- Arbitrum (ARB) will unlock approximately 92.65 million tokens at 9 PM Beijing time on April 16th, representing about 1.75% of the circulating supply, with a value of approximately $10.3 million.
- deBridge (DBR) will unlock approximately 618 million tokens at 8:00 AM Beijing time on April 17th, representing about 12.90% of the circulating supply, worth approximately $9.2 million.
April 13
Exchange:
Binance Alpha will list Genius Foundation (GENIUS) on April 13.
Binance Alpha will list the Genius Foundation (GENIUS) on April 13th. Eligible users can claim an airdrop using Binance Alpha Points on the Alpha event page after trading begins. More details will be announced soon.
Bithumb will remove Nomina (NOM) from its platform on April 13th.
Bithumb will terminate trading support for Nomina (NOM) on April 13th, and the withdrawal channel will be closed at 14:00 on May 13th. After comprehensive evaluation, the official team believes that the explanatory materials submitted by the project foundation are insufficient to eliminate the specified reasons for the trading warning, and that the project fails to meet the standards for maintaining trading support in terms of timely disclosure of important matters related to virtual assets, transparency and reasonableness of procedures for changing important matters.
Binance has delisted the spot trading pairs ACA, CHESS, DATA, DF, GHST, and NKN. Withdrawal support will end on April 13th.
Binance suspended trading and delisted all spot trading pairs for Acala Token (ACA), Tranchess (CHESS), Streamr (DATA), dForce (DF), Aavegotchi (GHST), and NKN (NKN) on February 13. Trading on these spot pairs ceased and orders were automatically cancelled on February 13. Deposit services ceased at 11:00 AM on February 14, and withdrawal support will end at 11:00 AM on April 13. Delisted assets may be exchanged for stablecoins after April 14, but successful exchange is not guaranteed.
Token unlocking:
Cheelee (CHEEL) will unlock approximately 6.42 million tokens at 8:00 AM Beijing time on April 13th, representing about 0.82% of the circulating supply, with a value of approximately $2.7 million.
April 14
Macroeconomics:
At 20:30 on Tuesday, April 14th, the US will release its March PPI year-on-year rate and March PPI month-on-month rate.
Exchange:
Binance announced that it will gradually roll out the Spot Price Range Protection (PRER) mechanism starting April 14, 2026, to ensure that user orders are not executed at abnormal prices under extreme market conditions. This mechanism allows orders to be executed only within a dynamic price range, aiming to protect the market from significant price deviations caused by abnormal activity and maintain a fair and orderly market environment.
Key features include: canceling all order types with execution prices exceeding the specified range, with already executed portions settled as usual; protecting the market from rapid and significant price fluctuations; and ensuring trading fairness during periods of abnormal market volatility. Binance states that this mechanism will not affect daily trading under normal market prices.
Project Updates:
Meme Coin Trump: The luncheon leaderboard event has been extended by 4 days, ending on April 14th.
Meme coin's Trump official account announced that "the luncheon leaderboard event has been extended for four days, with the leaderboard closing at 12:00 PM Eastern Time on April 14th." Previously reported, Trump will host a grand luncheon for Trump token holders, with Trump himself attending alongside 18 "superstars." The top 297 holders will be granted access to the Mar-a-Lago luncheon on April 25th, and the top 29 holders will be invited to a special VIP reception and champagne toast, sharing the stage with President Trump.
Apple Business will launch on April 14.
Market sources indicate that Apple (AAPL.O) will launch Apple Business, a service that integrates device management, email, and calendar functions. Apple Business will include free connectivity, basic features, and administrator access. Apple Business will launch on April 14th.
April 15
Macroeconomics:
At 04:30 on Wednesday, April 15, the API crude oil inventory data for the week ending April 10 was released.
Project Updates:
AI model evaluation platform yupp.ai will officially shut down on April 15th. New registrations and chat logs have been discontinued; users can only view historical chat records and download data as instructed. Yupp stated that since its launch last June, it has provided multi-model comparison and evaluation services to over 1.3 million users and numerous paid AI labs, but failed to achieve a sufficiently strong product-market fit. Furthermore, with the rapid improvement of model capabilities and the migration of user workflows to agent systems that connect to tools, memory, and external services, the importance of chat-based crowdsourced model evaluation has declined, leading the company to decide to gradually cease operations.
Community activities:
French President Emmanuel Macron will deliver a speech at Paris Blockchain Week on April 15.
French President Emmanuel Macron will deliver a keynote speech at Paris Blockchain Week on April 15, becoming the first sitting G7 leader to attend a blockchain industry summit. The speech will be held in the Carrousel du Louvre and is expected to attract over 10,000 global policymakers. Macron will focus on the concept of "European digital sovereignty," emphasizing that the unified legal framework provided by the Crypto Asset Market Regulation Act for EU digital asset companies is Europe's core competitive advantage compared to the fragmented markets of the US and Asia.
Macron also plans to announce a series of national incentives for "deep technology" startups in fields such as zero-knowledge proofs and post-quantum cryptography, and calls for the establishment of a "unified European capital market" to reduce cross-border investment costs using distributed ledger technology. This appearance is seen as a strategic signal that France is integrating blockchain technology into the core of its national industrial policy.
Token unlocking:
Connex (CONX) will unlock approximately 1.32 million tokens at 8:00 AM Beijing time on April 15th, representing about 1.52% of the circulating supply, with a value of approximately $16.2 million.
Starknet (STRK) will unlock approximately 127 million tokens at 8:00 AM Beijing time on April 15th, representing about 4.22% of the circulating supply, worth approximately $4.3 million.
Sei (SEI) will unlock approximately 55.56 million tokens at 8 PM Beijing time on April 15th, representing about 0.97% of the circulating supply, with a value of approximately $3 million.
April 16
Macroeconomics:
At 02:00 on April 16, the Federal Reserve will release its Beige Book on economic conditions; at 17:00, the Eurozone will release its March CPI data; at 20:30, the US will release its initial jobless claims for the week ending April 11 and the Philadelphia Fed Manufacturing Index for April; and the European Central Bank will release the minutes of its March 19 policy meeting.
A source familiar with the matter told CNBC that the Senate Banking Committee will hold a hearing on April 16 to consider Kevin Warsh's nomination as Federal Reserve Chairman. Another criminal investigation surrounding the Fed is ongoing, examining whether current Chairman Jerome Powell made false statements to Congress regarding the expensive renovation of the Fed's office buildings. The fact that Warsh's nomination process is still progressing creates a potential conflict between the two parallel processes being pushed by the Trump administration. Banking Committee member Thom Tillis has already indicated that he will not vote to confirm Warsh until the investigation is complete, meaning Trump cannot proceed with both processes simultaneously. However, by continuing to hold the hearings, Trump is clearly still trying to achieve this goal. The Senate Banking Committee has not yet included the hearings in its public schedule.
Project Updates:
The NFT project Intergaze announced on the X platform that it is gradually shutting down, and all users must withdraw their assets within 14 days (before April 16). NFT holders' NFTs will be migrated to StargazeZone on Cosmos Hub in late May, and users need to register a Cosmos wallet before May 1 to be included in the migration.
Governance Voting:
Starknet v0.14.2 is now in the voting phase, with the voting deadline being April 16th.
Starknet tweeted that the Starknet v0.14.2 upgrade proposal is now open for voting by STRK holders, with a voting deadline of April 16th. This upgrade primarily includes the following: introduction of SNIP-36, SNIP-37, and SNIP-13; enabling in-protocol S-Two proof verification, significantly reducing costs for privacy use cases and zk-thread applications; adjusting the storage economics model to more accurately reflect network resource usage while maintaining a cost advantage for developers; upgrading the StarkGate token contract, optimizing ERC-20 event indexing, verification, and token processing; and other internal upgrades to prepare for the decentralized verification phase described in SNIP-33, including P2P improvements, weighted proposer sampling, and the concept of a virtual proposer.
Token unlocking:
Arbitrum (ARB) will unlock approximately 92.65 million tokens at 9 PM Beijing time on April 16th, representing about 1.75% of the circulating supply, with a value of approximately $10.3 million.
April 17
Project Updates:
Latin American e-commerce giant Mercado Libre announced the closure of its loyalty rewards program for its self-developed cryptocurrency, Mercado Coin. Starting April 17th, users will no longer be able to buy or sell or receive cashback through Mercado Coin, and its functionality within the platform's ecosystem will be removed. Mercado Coin launched in Brazil in 2022, based on the Ethereum ERC-20 standard, and was primarily used for shopping cashback and discounts. The company stated that token holders can sell their tokens through the Mercado Pago app, use them as shopping discounts, or wait for the system to automatically convert the tokens into local fiat currency. Mercado Libre retains stablecoin transfer and token trading functions, and holds over $38 million worth of Bitcoin on its balance sheet, while also issuing a US dollar-pegged stablecoin.
XChat, a social application under the X platform, will be launched on the App Store on April 17.
XChat, a social application under the X platform, announced that it will officially launch on the App Store on April 17. The application focuses on end-to-end encryption, no ads, and no tracking. Starting from its internal beta testing in May 2025, XChat has undergone nearly a year of testing and iteration; if we count from the moment Musk acquired Twitter in 2022 with the ambition to create a Western version of WeChat, it has been almost four years.
Osmosis's token portal platform, Polaris, has announced that it will close on April 17, 2026. Users must complete pending transactions and retrieve remaining assets through the recovery page before then.
Token unlocking:
deBridge (DBR) will unlock approximately 618 million tokens at 8:00 AM Beijing time on April 17th, representing about 12.90% of the circulating supply, worth approximately $9.2 million.
ZKsync (ZK) will unlock approximately 173 million tokens at 4 PM Beijing time on April 17th, representing about 2.88% of the circulating supply, worth approximately $2.7 million.
April 18
Token unlocking:
YZY (YZY) will unlock approximately 20.83 million tokens at 11:00 AM Beijing time on April 18th, representing about 4.67% of the circulating supply, with a value of approximately $6.3 million.
April 19
None available
Time to be determined
Project Updates:
World Liberty Financial (WLFI), a crypto project backed by the Trump family, responded to market FUD (Fear, Uncertainty, and Doubt) by clarifying that its lending positions are not at risk of liquidation. WLFI stated that as the largest supplier and borrower on WLFI Markets, the company borrows stablecoins using WLFI tokens as collateral, and can mitigate risk by replenishing collateral even during periods of significant market volatility. Its USD1 annualized revenue run rate reached $159.5 million. In the past six months, WLFI has repurchased 435 million WLFI tokens at an average price of $0.1507, totaling $65.58 million. USD1 has been upgraded to support gas-free transfers and AI-assisted payment protocols. A governance proposal for unlocking tokens for early retail buyers will be submitted next week, employing a long-term, phased unlocking arrangement.
