Spencer Ventures Daily Newsletter Tuesday, April 15th

📰 News & Current Events 📰

• Markets Decline As Global Uncertainty Continues

  Stocks & crypto both see red days as U.S. blocks sales of Nvidia chips to China

• Tariff Negotiations Stall As U.S. Refuses To Budge on Deals

  Odds of a China deal before June hit 37% as E.U. says no deals are progressing

• Pudgy Penguins Introduce Pengu Validator on Solana

  Pudgy partners with SOL Strategies to offer 7-11% APY on staked Solana

• OpenSea Enables Solana Token Trading With NFTs Coming Soon

  Select users can now trade Solana tokens on OS2 with SOL NFT trading next

• OpenAI Begins Work on Social Platform To Rival X

  The company behind ChatGPT now hopes to build a social network similar to X

• Movement Labs Faces Investigation As Founder Temporarily Steps Away

  Movement founder takes indefinite leave as speculation of wrong-doing ensues

• Trump Proposes Several Ideas For Use of Tariff Income

  Trump administration says tariffs could help U.S. remove income tax or buy BTC

• AWS Outage Causes Binance, KuCoin, & More To Shut Down

  Binance briefly suspends withdrawals as AWS experiences network outage

• Oklahoma Bitcoin Bill Fails To Pass Committee

  Oklahoma denies strategic BTC Reserve as Senate Committee votes against bill

• Honda Shifts Manufacturing To U.S. From Canada & Mexico

  Major companies are responding to tariffs as Honda increase U.S. production

• Trump Looks To Create Monopoly-Style Crypto Game

  The Trump family now plans to launch a real estate game using the blockchain

• Vibes TCG Makes Several Exciting Announcements

  Vibes expands team with new hire as another sketch card hits eBay for auction

• ZKsync Loses $5M After Admin Account Gets Compromised

  All unclaimed tokens from the $ZK airdrop get stolen after admin gets hacked

• Janover Announces Second SOL Purchase of $10.5M

  “Strategy of Solana” adds 80,567 SOL to treasury & brings holdings over $21M

• SEC Closes Investigation Into NFT Collection CyberKongz

  The crypto space sees another win as Cyberkongz have SEC case thrown out

• Ark Invest’s Show Bitcoin Volatility At All-Time Low

  Cathie Wood’s Ark Invest notes Bitcoin’s risk-adjusted returns & falling volatility

• NFT Space Celebrates Moonbird’s 3-Year Anniversary

  It’s now been 3 years since Moonbirds minted for 2.5 ETH & ran to over $100K

• Galaxy Digital Withdraws $28M $SOL From Exchanges

  $28M $SOL gets taken off exchanges as Galaxy Digital shows no signs of selling

• KiloEX Gets Exploited For $7.5M Due To Manipulated Price Feeds

  DEX loses $7.5M after price feeds get manipulated on BNB, Base, & Taiko chains

• Data Shows Memecoin Trading Volume Still Miles Ahead of NFTs

  Solana memecoins now average $2B in daily volume while NFTs see $30M/week

• Restaking Protocol on Solana Launches Crypto Debit Card

  Solayer introduces Emerald Debit Card to easily make payments using crypto

‼️ Rewards, Events, & More ‼️

• ApeCoin NFT Staking Rewards Go Live on ApeChain

  Holders can unstake $APE tied to NFTs & bridge tokens to ApeChain for staking

• Towns Protocol Announces $TOWNS Coming in Q2

  Communication blockchain built on Base reveals upcoming $TOWNS token

• Kaito Updates Reward System For Yaps & Staked $KAITO

  Users can tailor their rewards by assigning yaps & sKAITO to specific projects

• Sophon Gives Final Claim Reminder To Partnered Communities

  Holders of 8 different communities have until April 20th to claim discord roles

• Yeet Teases Upcoming Airdrop For Active Gamblers

  Yeet users can now climb the leaderboard & claim their share of future rewards

• Phantom Sends MON Tokens To Testnet Users

  Phantom wallet sends 10 $MON on testnet to users who shared their usernames

• WalletConnect Enables Trading on $WCT

  $WCT settle around $300M FDV as token transfers & trading are now enabled

• Abstract Game From YGG Has Launch Delayed Till May 2nd

  LOL Land by YGG shares new gameplay footage as launch gets pushed back

• Beezie Introduces XP Quests To Earn Rewards

  Users can earn XP by playing the claw machine and redeem for weekly rewards

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