Ian's Intel #38
Ethena S2, Israel vs Iran, GCR Returns
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Airdrop Alpha
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3. SocialFi — Circle.Tech
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4. Airdrop check/claim link for $TNSR: https://claim.jup.ag/tnsr
Tensor ($TNSR) Tokenomics
Total supply: 1 billion tokens.
Distribution:
55% or 550,000,000 $TNSR to the community, of which 12.5% is the initial airdrop
27% or 270,000,000 $TNSR to core contributors
9% or 90,000,000 $TNSR to investors & advisors
9% or 90,000,000 $TNSR reserve for future fundraising & development
Vesting:
Core contributors, investors & advisors: 3 year linear vest with 1 year cliff
Half of community treasury: 3 year linear vest, no cliff
Half of community treasury and reserve: no vest
5. Elixir
A liquidity layer built to power orderbook liquidity. Elixir enables users to deploy liquidity to pairs and exchanges across the ecosystem like dYdX, Vertex, Hyperliquid, RabbitX, among others.
Raises:
Series A: $7.5M at $100m FDV, led by Hack VC
Series B: $8M at $800m FDV, led by Mysten Labs & Maelstrom
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Supply at least $100 in USDC to any Elixir-powered product or exchange, OR
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New Listings
$TNSR (Tensor) listed on Binance, Coinbase, OKX, Kucoin, Backpack
$SWELL pre-market perps listed on Aevo trading at $2.9b FDV
$TAO 0.00%↑listed on Binance
$PEPE will be listed on Coinbase on April 19, 2024
DeFi
dYdX chain-halt issue being debugged - The Block Pro
Ethena Labs announces $ENA locking for 50% boost in rewards and 30x points
AI Agents in Gaming — virtuals_io
MakerDAO raises debt ceiling to $1b for Dai allocations in Ethena's stablecoin markets on Morpho: TheBlock
Birdeye, a popular trading website on Solana, now supports Sui Network
Sanctum’s $INF now live on Kamino
Arch — The first Bitcoin-native application platform, now officially live on Bitcoin mainnet
Polymarket launches new market to bet on “friend.tech FDV one day after launch”.
OKX plans to become a validator on the Chiliz blockchain — DLNews
Model watermarking and fingerprinting for verifiable AI inferences — Bagel Network
Community Labs launches $35m incubator for building on AO. The program will start on April 23rd and participants will be able to pitch to funds like a16z, 1kx, and Coinbase Ventures
Omni Network announces $OMNI airdrop
Omni Network (OMNI) on Binance Launchpool
L1, L2, & Infrastructure
Rabby Wallet now supports Ronin Network with enhanced features
Ronin Wallet x Coinbase Pay
Paradigm leads $225 million round for Monad Labs, which is building a layer-1 blockchain to take on Ethereum and Solana: fortune
Monad raise participants
TON token distribution — michael_lwy
EigenLayer Announces Mainnet Launch
Circle Announces USDC Smart Contract for Transfers by BlackRock’s BUIDL Fund Investors
Berachain secures $100 million in funding — Bloomberg
Tether CEO Paolo Ardoino says Tether's tokenisation platform will soon be available to everyone, facilitating the tokenisation of anything from “bonds, stocks or funds to coffee shop reward points.” — paoloardoino
Bitcoin ETF
GBTC Witnesses Outflows While IBIT Adds to Bitcoin Holdings
Rules & Regulations
Uniswap Labs received a Wells notice from the SEC
Rugs & Exploitations
Be aware if you recently noticed weird things on Chrome extensions. Ongoing attack.
Withdraw your assets immediately if you have any funds in Glori Finance on Arbitrum
Reads & Tools
Binance will finally establish a global HQ — DLNews
Open Letter to CT — beniduboss
How Liquid Are Liquid Restaking Tokens? — Kairos Research
Blockcrunch is Hiring
Solana Summit, Kuala Lumpur, June 20-22 — See you there
Edgar, founder of Marginfi, resigns
$855 million liquidated from the crypto market in the past 24 hours on April 12, 2024 — WatcherGuru
Iran launches hundreds of missiles, drones in first direct attack on Israel
GCR is back
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