The Daily Index — Friday, April 18, 2025 · TLDR Index

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VANECK ONCHAIN ECONOMY ETF RECEIVES SEC NOD

VanEck has secured SEC approval to launch the Onchain Economy ETF (ticker NODE), with a planned debut on May 14. The actively managed fund will hold 30-60 assets tied to the blockchain economy, including exchanges, miners, data centers, and firms with crypto assets. This offering joins a surge of digital asset ETF filings timed around the new pro-crypto administration and SEC overhaul.

decrypt.co · 2 min

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EIGENLAYER UNVEILS SLASHING

EigenLayer has activated slashing on mainnet, making the protocol feature-complete and enabling economic enforcement for Autonomous Verifiable Services (AVSs), where operators and stakers are rewarded for meeting commitments or penalized if they fall short. This milestone brings verifiable trust to decentralized services, with major partners like LayerZero and Infura integrating slashing to enforce service-level guarantees and increase reliability across blockchain infrastructure.

blog.eigenlayer.xyz · 8 min

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ELIZA LABS UNVEILS AUTO.FUN

Eliza Labs has launched auto.fun, a no-code platform that lets users deploy AI agents across Web3 services, supported by a token model that combines bonding curves and fair launch principles. The platform aims to democratize AI and Web3 access with transparent, open-source agents and sustainable tokenomics that align incentives between developers and users.

links.tldrnewsletter.com · 2 min

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CONVERGE: TECH SPECIFICATION & ROADMAP

Converge is an institutional-grade EVM chain with support for permissioned RWAs and permissionless DeFi from Ethena and Securitize. Its recently unveiled technical roadmap details a high-performance EVM chain with 100ms block times and novel security features through the Converge Validator Network (CVN) secured by staked ENA tokens. Partnering with Arbitrum and Celestia, Converge aims to offer frictionless usability and institutional-grade infrastructure, including support for stablecoins like USDe and USDtb as gas tokens.

threadreaderapp.com · 1 min

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WHERE IS ONCHAIN VOLUME ROTATING?

DEX trading hit an all-time high of $380 billion in January 2025 before plunging 35% by February. The top ten DEXs accounted for 80% of volume, with Uniswap and PancakeSwap driving 40% and five of the top ten being Solana-native. Base's DEX share is 7%, Ethereum's is 26%, and Solana's is 21%. Centralized exchanges captured 80% of spot volume at the January peak and Hyperliquid held 60% of the perpetuals market share.

links.tldrnewsletter.com · 6 min

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ARBITRUM INTRODUCES TIMEBOOST

Timeboost is a new optional transaction ordering system for Arbitrum chains that uses sealed-bid auctions to allocate short-term “express lane” privileges, allowing high-value transactions to bypass delays while preserving fast block times and privacy for all users. It helps chain owners capture some MEV revenue and reduces spam while protecting users from harmful MEV like front-running

docs.arbitrum.io · 12 min

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VERIFIABLE AGENTS AND THE COMING WAVE OF UNSTOPPABLE AI

Verifiable AI agents tackle both AI's trust problem and crypto's app problem by combining blockchain verifiability with domain-specific intelligence. OpenLedger trains specialized language models on high-quality, sector-focused data and uses Proof of Attribution to trace how individual data points influence outputs and detect bias. By layering this model-level verification with onchain execution checks from EigenLayer, agents become fully auditable from reasoning to execution.

links.tldrnewsletter.com · 3 min

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COINBASE IMPROVES SOLANA SUPPORT FOLLOWING USER COMPLAINTS

Coinbase has significantly improved its support for Solana, increasing transaction throughput fivefold and providing a smoother experience for Solana users on the platform.

links.tldrnewsletter.com · 2 min

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STABLECOIN TURF WARS: BANK OF AMERICA, TETHER, AND CIRCLE BATTLE TO SHAPE US RULES

A battle is unfolding over U.S. stablecoin regulation, with Bank of America pushing to limit issuance to banks, while Circle promotes itself as a compliant U.S. alternative to offshore Tether.

links.tldrnewsletter.com · 10 min

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SAFE'S INTERNAL RESTRUCTURING

Safe is undergoing a major internal restructuring and has parted ways with 14 team members as part of efforts to streamline operations and improve agility as the organization evolves.

threadreaderapp.com · 2 min