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⚡️ MegaETH Debuts Its MEGA Token and Progressive Tokenomics
MegaETH launched its native MEGA token on Thursday morning together with a really profitable airdrop and ICO unlock.
For these unfamiliar, MegaETH is an Ethereum Layer-2 community with the goal to be the quickest EVM-compatible blockchain ever constructed. The technical targets are 100,000 transactions per second, 10-millisecond block occasions, and sub-millisecond latency—roughly 5,000 occasions quicker than Ethereum mainnet. In reside mainnet situations since launching in February, the community has sustained throughput that backs up these claims.
It’s constructed for consumer-facing, real-time functions, theoretically the sort of issues which are not possible on slower chains as a result of customers gained’t watch for confirmations. Suppose onchain video games, social apps, high-frequency DeFi. The challenge has raised $470 million in whole funding and counts Vitalik Buterin, Joe Lubin, and Dragonfly Capital amongst its backers.
The token construction is value going into briefly as a result of it’s genuinely totally different. Of the ten billion whole MEGA tokens, 53.3% unlock solely when the community hits particular efficiency milestones, versus a set calendar. The primary milestone required 10 ecosystem apps to every report 100,000 on-chain transactions in 30 days. That was hit on April 23, triggering Thursday’s launch. The subsequent unlock requires $500 million in circulating provide of USDM, the community’s native stablecoin, which sat at $300 million at launch time. The concept is that almost all of provide can’t hit the market till MegaETH proves it has actual customers producing actual exercise.
At its present $1.7B FDV, anybody who participated within the ICO in 2025 hit a fast 70% return—not unhealthy for a bear market. And that valuation is backed by a hovering TVL (MegaETH has flipped Monad in DeFi TVL at $490M) sufficient to make its manner into the highest 15 chains. Plus, its mUSD market cap jumped 60% right now to $270M
Now all eyes flip to the brand new apps launching by the day and people upcoming KPIs…
🤐 Crypto Is the Most Muted Matter on X
X head of product Nikita Bier shared knowledge this week exhibiting that crypto is probably the most often muted matter on the platform’s “For You” feed, rating forward of politics and the Iran battle.
The information comes from X’s just lately launched snooze function, which lets customers cover undesirable subjects for twenty-four hours.
Probably the most snoozed (i.e., muted) subjects since launching the snooze function:
Nikita was clear the discovering doesn’t mirror shadowbanning. He claims he’s not anti-crypto (an extended dialogue for an additional time). And he’s an advisor to Solana and a enterprise accomplice at Lightspeed. Maybe it’s the shilling, token launches, and low-quality promo content material, or possibly it’s simply bear market issues. Or maybe each…
🏈 Kalshi Is Now a Prime-5 US Sportsbook
Analysis agency Eilers & Krejcik Gaming printed knowledge Thursday exhibiting that Kalshi ranked because the fourth-largest US sports activities betting operator in March, surpassing BetMGM, Caesars, Bet365, and BetRivers.
The metric is EKG’s proprietary measure of prediction market exercise, monitoring every day open curiosity actions, execution costs, and resolution-day exercise quite than conventional deal with. Sports activities prediction markets hit an estimated $2 billion in month-to-month handle-equivalent quantity in March, representing 11% of mixed US on-line sportsbook deal with.
The March Insanity match was the important thing driver. Kalshi recorded $13 billion in whole buying and selling quantity for March alone, an insane 15x year-over-year, with 86% of that quantity on sports activities occasion contracts. Solely DraftKings, FanDuel, and Fanatics have been bigger. EKG initiatives full-year 2026 prediction market quantity might hit $34 billion, approaching 20% of whole sportsbook deal with.
🚩 One other DeFi Protocol Drained as Exploit Tally Worsens
Wasabi Protocol was drained of roughly $4.5 million on Thursday morning after an attacker compromised its deployer admin key.
The assault ran for roughly two hours earlier than safety corporations flagged it. The mechanic was an identical to each the Drift Protocol exploit ($285M, April 1) and the Kelp DAO exploit ($292M, April 18)—a single externally owned account held sole admin management with no multisig, no timelock, and no governance delay. As soon as the attacker had the important thing, they granted themselves admin privileges immediately, upgraded Wasabi’s vault contracts to malicious implementations, and drained balances throughout Ethereum, Base, Berachain, and Blast.
DeFi losses in April have now surpassed $770 million throughout greater than 30 incidents, making it the worst month for crypto safety since February 2025. The issue continues to be tied to protocols that hand a single personal key unilateral management over consumer funds. Curve founder Michael Egorov and Flying Tulip’s André Cronje have each publicly known as for industry-wide safety requirements this month.
april 2026 was the worst month ever when it comes to defi exploits
~$635M misplaced in whole, 28 incidents in 30 days:
Crypto majors barely inexperienced as Might begins; BTC +1.9%% at $77.4k; ETH +1% at $2,285; SOL +1% at $84; HYPE +5% at $40.60
TAO (+5%), ZEC (+5%), and HYPE (+5%) led high movers
Oil flat at $105; Gold -2% at $4,580
Inventory futures are barely inexperienced after Apple beat earnings alongside different huge tech
Gemini secured a CFTC Derivatives Clearing Group license on Thursday, permitting it to clear and settle derivatives and prediction market trades solely in-house
Coinbase Asset Administration launched CUSHY Thursday, a tokenized credit score fund focusing on institutional yield from stablecoin lending, with shares accessible on Ethereum, Solana, and Base by way of Superstate’s FundOS platform
PayPal reorganized into three core enterprise segments, with crypto elevated to a top-3 division alongside its funds merchandise
Japan’s JPX is shifting ahead with preparations to record crypto ETFs as early as 2027, contingent on Japan clarifying its authorized framework and tax therapy for digital belongings
Sen. Elizabeth Warren attacked World Liberty Monetary after a WSJ investigation linked the Trump household crypto challenge to a Timor-Leste resort led by two males sanctioned with alleged ties to Cambodia’s Prince Group
Fact (+75x), Goblin (+300%), Zerebro (+46%) and unc (+55%) led notable movers; Playing cards +40% as effectively
UPEG jumped 90% to $16M, main movers on ETH; Asteroid +12% to $150M
💰 Token, Airdrop & Protocol Tracker
MegaETH flipped Monad in DeFi TVL ($490M) after its MEGA token debut (MEGA -15% to $0.15)
Polymarket partnered with Chainalysis to deploy real-time onchain surveillance detecting insider buying and selling and market manipulation
🚚 What is going on in NFTs?
NFT leaders have been inexperienced once more led by Bored Apes; Punks even at 30.8 ETH, BAYC +5% at 11.35 ETH, Pudgy +6% at 5.64 ETH; Hypurr’s +4% at 362 HYPE
VeeFriends (+7%), Nakamigos (+8%) and Deafbeef (+14%) led notable high movers
