Highlights for next week
Solana network fix expected to roll out on April 15；
STEPN plans to make an important announcement on April 15；
EigenLayer: Deposit limits will be removed for all LST tokens on April 16；
Bitcoin is expected to have its fourth halving on April 20；
From April 15 to April 21, more noteworthy events in the industry are as follows.
April 15
According to Odaily, people familiar with the matter revealed that Hong Kong will approve Bitcoin and Ethereum spot ETFs as soon as next Monday. (Bloomberg)
Solana network fix expected to roll out on April 15
Odaily News Mert Mumtaz, CEO of Solana ecological development platform Helius, posted on the X platform that Solana’s current problems (network instability) are not due to protocol design flaws, but bugs in specific implementations.
Mert Mumtaz explained that the design of the protocol is like the general design of a car, while the specific implementation is similar to the car models of different brands. Just because there is a problem with a particular make or model does not mean that all cars have a design flaw. Solana uses the QUIC network protocol, but the currently used QUIC implementation version has some flaws and bugs. So Solana only needs to replace the problematic parts without changing the entire model.
He revealed that the implementation being developed by Firedancer does not have the same problem. The fix is expected to be rolled out on April 15, but if other issues are discovered during testing, the rollout may be delayed. In addition to technical issues, it believes that Solana also needs to consider long-term economic sustainability factors. After fixing the bug, it can more clearly plan the local fee market and economic incentives.
BNB Beacon Chain is expected to launch the mainnet Sunset hard fork upgrade on April 15
Odaily News BNB Beacon Chain released the mainnet Sunset upgrade announcement. The upgrade hard fork is expected to be April 15, 2024. Full node operators on the mainnet must upgrade to v 0.10.20 before April 15, BNB/BEP 2 Asset holders transfer assets from BC to BSC.
BNB Chain: The opBNB mainnet Snow hard fork upgrade will start at 14:00 on April 15
Odaily News BNB Chain posted on the X platform that the opBNB mainnet Snow hard fork upgrade will start at 14:00 on April 15. This upgrade aims to optimize the L1 gas price for all L2 transactions, reducing it to 1 gwei and setting up automatic adjustments.
Applications for Phase 3 of the Arbitrum Foundation Grants Program will open on April 15
Odaily News According to official news, the Arbitrum Foundation announced that the second phase of its funding program, the Arbitrum Foundations Grants Program, has ended, and applications will close on April 3, 2024. Phase 3 begins: New applications for Phase 3 will be open from April 15, 2024 until the end of June. This phase will continue to focus on dApps, but introduce a more standardized funding method, mainly covering games, NFT, social, DAO, DeFi and other vertical fields.
STEPN plans to make an important announcement on April 15
Odaily News According to a video released by STEPN on the X platform, the project plans to make an important announcement on April 15.
Odaily News was previously launched by 12 authors on the SafeDAO Community Governance Forum to enable SAFE token transferability. The proposal voting has been launched and is expected to end on April 15, 2024. If approved, transfer will be enabled on April 23, 2024. Function. According to previous news, SAFE token plans to call the unpause method of the token contract (using the SafeSnap module) to make the token transferable. Unlocked SAFE tokens will still remain in the lock-up contract. After enabling SAFE token transferability Non-transferable.
Everyworld: Season 1 airdrop applications are scheduled to open the week of April 15th
Odaily News Web3 rewarded advertising discovery protocol Everyworld posted on the X platform that applications for the Season 1 airdrop will be open the week of April 15th. The Everyworld airdrop will reward the participation and investment of the earliest members, and more updated information will be provided in the future.
April 16
EigenLayer: Deposit limits will be removed for all LST tokens on April 16
Odaily News Ethereum re-pledge protocol EigenLayer officially announced that it will cancel the deposit limits for all liquid pledge tokens (LST) on April 16 and reopen the deposit window.
Gitcoin: GG 20 application starts, ends on April 16th
Odaily News Gitcoin announced on the Developer tools; DApps and applications; Hackathon alumni.
It is reported that the G G20 will allocate a total of US$1 million in matching support funds.
SingularityNET, Fetch.ai and Ocean Protocol Token Merger Voting Launches, Ends on April 16
According to official news from Odaily, the voting for the token merger proposed by SingularityNET, Fetch.ai and Ocean Protocol has now started. This voting is scheduled to end at 12:00 noon UTC time on April 16 (20:00 Beijing time).
Dexalot will be deployed on Arbitrum on April 16
Odaily News Avalanche ecological DEX Dexalot posted on the X platform that it will be deployed to Arbitrum on April 16 and has been audited by Hacken.
April 17
The launch time of blockchain game Lumiterra Beta 2 is changed to April 17 at 3 pm
Odaily News Chain game Lumiterra announced on the X platform that due to plans to add some new elements to the Beta 2 version, the launch time has been adjusted to 3 pm on April 17.
Odaily News Swell released an update on Super swETH Vault on the X platform. Vault deposits are now closed, it said. Starting next Wednesday, users will be able to withdraw money without paying an early exit fee and Pearls winnings will not be clawed back.
April 18
Binance NFT will stop supporting Bitcoin NFT transactions and deposits on April 18
According to an official announcement from Odaily, in order to continue to simplify Binance NFT market products, after careful consideration and evaluation, Binance NFT will stop supporting the trading and recharge business of Bitcoin NFT at 14:00 on April 18 (Eastern Eighth District time). It is recommended that users withdraw their Bitcoin NFT from Binance NFT through the Bitcoin network before 08:00 on May 18 (Eastern Eighth District time).
Odaily News The referendum to launch Coretime on Kusama is open for voting. Among them, Kusama Referendum No. 372 will decide to register the Coretime parachain. Once the Coretime parachain is registered, the rest of the Kusama network can be upgraded to version v1.2.0, which will migrate all leases to the Coretime parachain. Additionally, after this, a separate referendum will be held to initiate the sale of Coretime through the Coretime parachain. Its all based on the Coretime runtime in Fellowship v1.2.0.
Kusama Referendum 373 aims to upgrade the Kusama system to Fellowship v1.2.0, which will migrate all leases to Coretime, with an effective date of April 18th.
Please note that once the runtime upgrade is implemented, the auction will be stopped immediately, existing leases will be automatically migrated to batch Coretime, auctions that have not yet started will be canceled, and locked KSM will be refunded. After these two proposals are passed, officials will launch another referendum to open the purchase of Coretime.
Parity developer joyce said that if the vote is successful, Coretime is expected to be launched on Kusama on April 18. (PolkaWorld)
SSV Network: Will stop supporting Goerli testnet from April 18
Odaily News According to official news, SSV Network announced that starting from April 18, support for the SSV Network Goerli test network will cease. Users will no longer be able to select related networks in the SSV WebApp, and any future updates will no longer support Goerli. operations on. SSV Network reminds users to transition to the Holesky test network as soon as possible. ssv.network DAO has deployed the necessary smart contracts on the network to ensure seamless integration of developers and operators.
April 19
Bloomberg: Nigeria postpones Binance executive lawsuit to April 19
Odaily News: A Binance Holdings Co., Ltd. executive has been detained in Nigeria for more than a month on tax evasion charges. After his first court appearance, the case was postponed to April 19.
Tigran Gambaryan, Binance’s head of financial crimes compliance, was charged alongside the company on charges including failing to pay value-added tax and corporate income tax, and conspiring to help customers evade taxes through its platform. He will remain in the custody of the Nigeria Economic and Financial Crimes Commission. Judge Emeka Nwite adjourned the hearing on the company to April 8. (Bloomberg)
April 20
Bitcoin is expected to have its fourth halving on April 20
Odaily News BTC.com data shows that there are currently less than 7 days left until Bitcoin’s fourth block reward halving occurs, with 996 blocks remaining, and the halving time is expected to be April 20, 2024.
So far, the Bitcoin network has experienced three halvings in 2012, 2016 and 2020.
Gala launches ecological block browser voting, scheduled to end on April 20
Odaily News According to official news, Gala has launched ecological block browser voting. The voting is scheduled to start at 2 pm Pacific time on April 12 (6 am on April 13, Beijing time), and will be held at the same time on April 19 (Beijing time). Ends at 6 a.m. on April 20). Candidates include: GalaChain Explorer, Gala Tracker, Gytrace, and Achis.
TON ecological Meme project Notcoin will release token NOT on April 20
Odaily News TON ecological Meme project Notcoin announced on the X platform that it will release token NOT on April 20. Users can obtain wNOT on Shardify and exchange it for NOT after TGE, or perform pre-market trading on getgems.
April 21
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Others (specific time to be determined)
Ripple may hold a settlement meeting with the SEC next week
Odaily news According to @RippleArchive on the X platform, a settlement meeting with the US Securities and Exchange Commission is expected to be held next week. According to analysis by XRP community member Ashley Prosper, the legal dispute between the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission and Ripple is likely to end in settlement, because the U.S. Second Circuit Court ruled against the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission’s request to confiscate Ripple’s illegal gains, which is worth Note that the court held that if the buyer suffered no financial loss, the SEC did not have the authority to recover the stolen money from the seller. Additionally, it was not possible to identify which institutional investor suffered financial losses as a result of purchasing XRP from Ripple.
Odaily News In response to the previously mentioned upgrade plan, Jupiter co-founder Meow posted on the We want a major update to address the oracle pain points currently plaguing our perpetual contract product. Radical steps are now absolutely critical at this time.”
Odaily News Solana ecological decentralized real estate market Parcl posted on the The permanent points leaderboard will be launched next week after the first PRCL distribution. Permanent points will undergo PRCL’s second community distribution share in the second quarter of 2024. This round of distribution will be the largest in the permanent points plan.
