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Ethena Partners with TON Foundation to Bring USDe and sUSDe into the Telegram Ecosystem.
> Starting in May, Ethena will go live on TON with USDe and TON-native sUSDe (tsUSDe) on TON Space, alongside other major TON wallets.
> To earn rewards, users will need to stake USDe into tsUSDe and earn Ethena rewards👇
Source: https://x.com/ethena_labs/status/1917855295335981232
Gensyn Introduces RL Swarm 72B
Fully decentralised RL training of 72B-parameter models for anyone to join, with no whitelists.
> 8GB VRAM enough to run gensyn's testnet now
Source: https://x.com/gensynai/status/1917657023031767308?s=46&t=ywALktyM5ZCyt-zigN5Big
Bridge Partners With Visa to Launch Stablecoin Card Issuing Product
With these new cards, businesses and individuals can spend their stablecoin balance on everyday purchases, anywhere Visa is accepted.
Source: https://x.com/Stablecoin/status/1917650302339088870
Scroll Becomes the First zk-Rollup to Achieve Stage 1 Status
In this article, Scroll explain why building a Stage 1 zk-Rollup is uniquely hard, how they solved these challenges, and what’s next.
Source: https://x.com/scroll_zkp/status/1916871844151406649?s=46
Sandraaleow: TOP 10 Must-Try AI Tools
> Chatgpt
> Kaito
> Flora: workflows
> Heygen: voice translation
> Deepseek: chatbot
> Grok: chatbot
> Manus: agent
> Lovable: prompt -> app
> Bolt: prompt -> app
> Notebookllm
Source: https://x.com/sandraaleow/status/1917398641565917647
April 29th~ Rollup
🐚 Research and Ideation 💡
- Forbes: The Stablecoin Wars
🐚 Podcast 🎙️
- Dwarkesh Podcast: Interview With Mark Zuckerberg
🐚 News 📕
- Truth Social Explores Launch of Utility Token & Digital Wallet For Subscriptions And Rewards
- Trump: We Are Going to Make a Deal with China
🐚 Project Updates 🔔
- Hyperliquid’s New Fee System and Staking Tiers Will Go Live On May 5 ~03:00 UTC.
- DYDX Buybacks Program Has Started
- Ledger Live Enables Stablecoin Yields Directly From Self-Custody With New Kiln Integration
- Mastercard Unveils Agent Pay, Pioneering Agentic Payments Tech to Power Commerce in the Age of AI
- Prime Intellect Shares a Preview of Their Peer-to-Peer Decentralized Inference Stack
🐚 Raises 💰
- Unto Labs Raises $14.4M in Funding from Electric Capital & Framework Ventures to Build “Thru”
- Camp Network Has Raised $30 Million To Build the Autonomous IP Layer 1 Blockchain
Prime Intellect Shares a Preview of Their Peer-to-Peer Decentralized Inference Stack
Engineered for consumer GPUs and the 100ms latencies of the public internet—plus a research roadmap that scales it into a “planetary-scale decentralized inference engine.”
https://www.primeintellect.ai/blog/inference
Source: https://x.com/PrimeIntellect/status/1916993110418329739
Mastercard Unveils Agent Pay, Pioneering Agentic Payments Technology to Power Commerce in the Age of AI
Mastercard will work with Microsoft and other leading AI platforms to scale agentic commerce
Source: https://www.mastercard.com/news/press/2025/april/mastercard-unveils-agent-pay-pioneering-agentic-payments-technology-to-power-commerce-in-the-age-of-ai/
Ledger Live Enables Stablecoin Yields Directly From Self-Custody With New Kiln Integration
Users can now earn up to 9.9% APY on USDT, USDC, USDS & DAI with full self-custody.
Source: https://x.com/Ledger/status/1917215517447975315
Camp Network Has Raised $30 Million To Build the Autonomous IP Layer 1 Blockchain
Camp Network is a L1 blockchain built to modernize intellectual property infrastructure and power the next generation of AI Agents on verifiable IP.
Source: https://x.com/campnetworkxyz/status/1917227468458443116?t=3B04BdVh1EuPqNTgTSm3hQ&s=35
$DYDX Buybacks Program Has Started
Source: https://x.com/dYdX/status/1917203147178602749
April 28th~ Rollup
🐚 Research and Ideation 💡
- ZachXBT: $330M in Bitcoin Vanishes from Potential Victim’s Wallet in Suspicious Transfer
- Pine Analytics: Tracking bSOL - Adoption, Usage, and Ecosystem
- Ray Dalio: It's Too Late - The Changes Are Coming
- 0xIntuition: The Urgent Need for Decentralization in the AI Age
🐚 News 📕
- Microstrategy Acquires Another 15,355 BTC and Now Holds 553,555 BTC
- Galaxy $GLXY Is Preparing to List On Nasdaq
🐚 Project Updates 🔔
- Mastercard Unveils End-to-End Capabilities To Power Stablecoin Transactions
- Rice Robotics To Launch A Custom Floki AI-Powered Robot—“FLOKI Minibot M1”
- EigenLayer Partners with Lombard to Bring Bitcoin Restaking to EigenLayer Ecosystem
The Urgent Need for Decentralization in the AI Age - A Call to Save the Future
“Whoever controls the flow of information in this new era will effectively control the world”
“To preserve our freedom to know, think, and choose for ourselves, we must decentralize our information ecosystems”👇
Source: https://medium.com/0xintuition/the-urgent-need-for-decentralization-in-the-ai-age-fd098e20d3bb
Ray Dalio: It's Too Late - The Changes Are Coming
The post argues that U.S. tariff conflicts and unsustainable trade and capital imbalances have made de-globalization and reduced interdependence with the U.S. inevitable, forcing exporters, investors, and nations to reshape their plans now.👇
Source: https://x.com/raydalio/status/1916967796065423688?s=52&t=txFAbiSPTdLLDlAYj9X_AA
Rice Robotics To Launch A Custom Floki AI-Powered Robot—“FLOKI Minibot M1”
An AI-powered companion robot
> Rice AI will also launch the $RICE token as its main utility token👇
Source: https://x.com/RealFlokiInu/status/1916913017972834771
Alliance Cohort 14 Demo Day
Highlighting standout Crypto, AI, and Stablecoin startups from AllianceDAO’s ALL14 Demo Day👇
Source: https://x.com/kyparus/status/1917628529249833143?s=46&t=ywALktyM5ZCyt-zigN5Big
Ubisoft Announces the Launch of Decentralized Verification Network (DVN) With LayerZero
Available to All Applications Built With LayerZero
> Ubisoft is accelerating the shift toward a gaming landscape where asset ownership, protection, and interoperability are the standard.👇
Source: https://x.com/LayerZero_Core/status/1917583748427833412
Ripple Reportedly Made A $4–5 Billion Offer to Acquire Circle, Circle Is Said To Have Rejected The Bid As Too Low
Source: https://x.com/tier10k/status/1917643800077558102
Nillion x Meta: Introducing “Fission”
Distributed Privacy-Preserving LLM Inference
> Fission is a hybrid privacy-preserving compute framework that utilizes MPC nodes for linear operations as well as additional nodes that we call evaluators to speed up the computation of nonlinear functions.👇
nillion.com/news/fission-distributed-privacy-preserving-large-language-model-inference/
Source: https://x.com/nillionnetwork/status/1917549520801640749
FIFA is Set to Launch an EVM “FIFA Blockchain”
Source: https://collect.fifa.com/migration-faq
Forbes: The Stablecoin Wars
“The stablecoin wars end when no one notices the coins anymore—only the outlets”👇
Source: https://www.forbes.com/sites/christiancatalini/2025/04/29/the-stablecoin-wars/
Dwarkesh Podcast With Mark Zuckerberg
He discussed:
> Llama 4, benchmark gaming, open vs closed
> ntelligence explosion, business models for AGI
> DeepSeek/China, export controls, & Trump
> Orion glasses, AI relationships, and not getting reward-hacked by our tech
Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rYXeQbTuVl0
Trump: We Are Going to Make a Deal with China
Source: https://x.com/DeItaone/status/1917353076484120593
Truth Social Explores Launch of Utility Token And Digital Wallet For Subscriptions And Rewards
👉Shareholder letter
Source: https://www.globenewswire.com/news-release/2025/04/29/3070835/0/en/Trump-Media-Publishes-Letter-to-Shareholders.html
Unto Labs Raises $14.4M in Funding from Electric Capital and Framework Ventures to Build “Thru”
Thru is a next generation base layer blockchain. It introduces “ThruVM”, a smart contract runtime based on the RISC-V architecture👇
Source: https://x.com/thru_xyz/status/1917253740534624761
Hyperliquid’s New Fee System and Staking Tiers Will Go Live On May 5 ~03:00 UTC.
Source: https://x.com/HyperliquidX/status/1917107760694759920
1inch Now Live on Solana for On-Chain Swaps
Source: https://x.com/1inch/status/1917121714435101004
Galaxy $GLXY Is Preparing to List On Nasdaq
Source: https://x.com/galaxyhq/status/1916901175611343096
EigenLayer Partners with Lombard to Bring Bitcoin Restaking to EigenLayer Ecosystem
This brings LBTC into the heart of EigenLayer’s restaking ecosystem as the first BTC asset.
Source: https://x.com/eigenlayer/status/1916901496152805698
Mastercard Unveils End-to-End Capabilities To Power Stablecoin Transactions
Empowering consumers and businesses to use stablecoins as easily as their bank balances
Source: https://www.mastercard.com/news/press/2025/april/mastercard-unveils-end-to-end-capabilities-to-power-stablecoin-transactions-from-wallets-to-checkouts/