MEV Bot Steals Airdrop Claims

️ On today's Top Picks:

Crypto News

• ⭐️ Vitalik Buterin shares his own Ethereum $ETH privacy roadmap; focuses on on-chain payment privacy, partial anonymization of in-app activity, privacy of on-chain reads, and network-level anonymity.

• Grayscale Investments & Osprey Funds reach settlement agreement on legal dispute over marketing practices; Osprey alleged Grayscale of deceptive marketing in January 2023.

• US SEC drops unregistered securities claims against Nova Labs; SEC sued Nova Labs in January alleging Helium-related tokens were unregistered securities.

• Jack Dorsey's Block Inc $XYZ agrees to $40M settlement with NYDFS; investigation found critical gaps in AML requirements.

• ICYMI First Digital $FDUSD files defamation claim against Justin Sun; Sun alleged First Digital was insolvent last week temporarily causing FDUSD to depeg.

Alpha

• Weekly Airdrop Recap by Earndrop.

• Arbitrum launches Land of Liquidity NFT mint; celebrates ArbitrumDAO's 2nd Anniversary.

• ⭐️ Rise launches testnet; Rise is an Ethereum Layer 2 that divides L2 blocks into finer units for faster processing & previously raised $3.2M in Seed funding.

• Treehouse launches Flower Bloom Bloom on Games Room; play to earn credits and exchange for Nuts.

Airdrops

• Babylon launches $BABY airdrop; automatically distributed so no claim necessary; Phase 1 stakers, Finality Providers, Pioneer Pass holders, & GitHub contributors are eligible.

• Mind Network launches $MIND airdrop claim; CitizenZ Passport holders, mainnet contributors, community contributors, & more are eligible.

• KernelDAO (KelpDAO) to launch $KERNEL airdrop claim on April 14th; airdrop eligibility & allocation checker already live.

• ICYMI Mass Airdrop Strategy by Earndrop.

Finance News

• ⭐️ US Federal Reserve says it is ready to help stabilize the market if needed.

• US March CPI Inflation falls to 2.4% for March, lower than expected 2.5%; US Core CPI Inflation falls to 2.8%, lower than expected 3.0%.

• China raises tariffs on the US to 125%; effective April 12th.

• EU pauses tariffs on the US for 90 days; agrees to negotiate new trade deal.

Security and Exploits

• ⭐️ MEV Bot frontruns Wayfinder $PROMPT airdrop stealing over ~$200K; TokenTable compensates affected users.

• Revokescout, a token approval tool by Blockscout, adds support for 13 more chains.

• AV-Comparatives releases results of its March 2025 Malware Protection Test for consumer security solutions.

Token Unlocks

• Aptos $APT / ~$54M / APR 12th
• Axie Infinity $AXS / ~$22M / APR 12th
• Starknet $STRK / ~$17M / APR 15th
Sourced from Tokenomist

Funding

• ⭐️ Meanwhile raises $40M in Series A funding led by Framework Ventures & Fulgur Ventures.

• Towns Protocol raises $10M in Series B funding led by a16z Crypto.

• OpenZK raises $6M in funding from several investors.

• Gunzilla Games $GUN raises an undisclosed amount in Strategic funding from 1kx.

• LiveArt raises an undisclosed amount in funding from Jets Capital.

• FastLane Labs raises an undisclosed amount in funding from Jets Capital.

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