Golden Web3.0 Daily | Grayscale urges the US SEC to approve Ethereum ETF staking

DeFi data

1. Total market value of DeFi tokens: $96.116 billion

DeFi total market value data source: coingecko

2. The transaction volume of decentralized exchanges in the past 24 hours was 6.181 billion US dollars

Trading volume of decentralized exchanges in the past 24 hours Data source: coingecko

3. Assets locked in DeFi: 10.06 billion US dollars

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Top ten rankings of DeFi projects with locked assets and locked-in volume Data source: defillama

NFT data

1. Total market value of NFT: US$20.363 billion

NFT total market value, market value ranking of the top ten projects Data source: Coinmarketcap

2.24-hour NFT trading volume: 2.574 billionUS dollars

NFT total market value, market value ranking of the top ten projects Data source: Coinmarketcap

3. Top NFTs in 24 hours

The top ten NFTs with the highest sales growth in 24 hours Data source: NFTGO

Headlines

Grayscale urges SEC to approve Ethereum ETF staking, saying it has missed $61 million in gains

According to Bitcoin.com, asset management company Grayscale met with the SEC Crypto Working Group on April 21 to apply for permission for its Ethereum ETF (ETHE and ETH) to conduct staking operations. The company said that due to regulatory restrictions, the $8.1 billion in assets it manages has missed about $61 million in potential gains from the launch of the product to February 2025. Grayscale put forward three arguments: 1) Similar products in Europe and Canada have successfully implemented staking; 2) Staking can enhance the security of the Ethereum network; 3) Risk control plans including "liquidity reserves" have been developed. Coinbase Custody will provide technical support to avoid the risk of fines. At present, the US spot Ethereum ETP cannot fully reflect the value of the underlying assets due to the prohibition of staking. Grayscale called on the SEC to update regulatory rules with reference to traditional financial products.

MEME hot spots

1. AI concept Meme tokens generally rose, ZEREBRO rose more than 26% in 24 hours

2.TRUMP Dinner Ranking Top2 user MemeCore again proposed 191,000 TRUMP 2 hours ago, and the total holding has exceeded the user "Sun"

Golden Finance reported that according to @ai_9684xtpa monitoring, the current TOP2 institution MemeCore again proposed 191,000 tokens 2 hours ago, and the total holdings of 1.389 million have exceeded the user "Sun", but the time-weighted score still differs by 117,000 points. The latter is the HTX cold wallet but the community speculates that it belongs to Justin Sun.

DeFi Hotspots

1. PancakeSwap: Version v4 will be renamed PancakeSwap Infinity

Golden Finance reported that according to official news, PancakeSwap announced that version v4 will be renamed PancakeSwap Infinity. The new version will support multi-chain expansion, starting with the BNB chain, and more chains will be launched soon. It supports multiple pool types such as LBAMM and CLAMM, as well as custom fee structures and Gas optimization. The new version will save 99% of liquidity pool creation fees and reduce the Gas cost of native ETH/BNB exchanges by 50%.

2. Sign opens token airdrop applications and launches staking options

Golden Finance reported that Sign has now opened SIGN token airdrop applications. Users can choose to receive the income immediately, or pledge SIGN tokens to participate in the "OrangePill" plan. The pledge period is 6 months and unlocked once a month.

3. Ethereum Foundation Researcher: The current Ethereum execution layer expansion roadmap is progressing smoothly

On April 28, Ethereum Foundation researcher Toni Wahrstätter posted on the X platform that the current Ethereum execution layer expansion roadmap is progressing smoothly, including the continuous increase of the Gas limit (EIP-7935), historical data expiration (EIP-4444), delayed execution (EIP-7886), block access list (EIP-7928) and block-level preheating (EIP-7863). The Gas limit has recently been increased from 30M to 36M, and the future goal is to achieve 100M before the Glamsterdam upgrade. The Nethermind team also launched a new testnet, PerfNet, to test shorter time slots and higher Gas limits. The EIP-9698 proposal proposes to achieve exponential growth in the Gas limit within 4 years through default client voting.

4. Hyperliquid announced that the HyperEVM read pre-compilation function has been launched on the main network

Golden Finance reported that Hyperliquid officially announced that the read pre-compilation function has been successfully launched on the main network HyperEVM. This function allows developers to atomically read the HyperCore state from smart contracts on HyperEVM, providing more possibilities for DeFi applications. For example, lending protocols can now use HyperCore oracles to obtain reliable price data.

5. QuantMaster, a DeFi trading and asset management project, has been confirmed to have been stolen and has been reported to the police

Golden Finance reported that community members previously disclosed that a Web3 startup project contained a hard-coded authorized wallet address in the smart contract code, resulting in hundreds of thousands of USDT being transferred away. It is reported that the DeFi trading and asset management project QuantMaster has stated that it was a related project party that was stolen. The case has been successfully reported and the suspect has been basically locked. There is a clear GitHub record of the code submission (an employee), and the device that submitted the code is also unique. Cursor has a complete AI local record, which has been checked and the possibility of AI modifying the relevant code has been ruled out.

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