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TLDR CRYPTO 2025-04-18

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01MARKETS & BUSINESS

SWEEPING DOJ MEMO SIGNALS TURNING POINT

A new memo from the DOJ signals a shift away from prosecuting crypto intermediaries, narrowing enforcement to clear cases of fraud or national security risk and potentially leading to the closure or dismissal of ongoing investigations launched under the Biden administration. While industry advocates see this as a relief, critics warn it may weaken oversight and embolden misconduct, with civil agencies like the SEC and CFTC also adjusting their approach in response.

links.tldrnewsletter.com6 min read

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.co2 min read

02INNOVATION & LAUNCHES

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.xyz8 min read

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.com2 min read

03GUIDES & TUTORIALS

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.com1 min read

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.com6 min read

04MISCELLANEOUS

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.io12 min read

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.com3 min read