BlockBeats News: On April 2nd, Binance officially announced the launch of the Binance Seed Program, which aims to cultivate cryptocurrency talents through full-time positions and accelerator projects, including: The Pioneer Talent Program provides full-time positions and customized training for early career professionals with up to 5 years of experience; The Binance Accelerator Program offers 3 to 6-month fixed-term projects for students and graduates.

On April 2nd, according to DeFiLlama data, DEX on the Ethereum chain had a transaction volume of 1.643 billion US dollars in the past 24 hours, ranking first among all chains. Solana and BNB Chain followed closely behind with $1.37 billion and $978 million, respectively. In the past 24 hours, the DeFi protocol with the highest cost on Ethereum was Lido, with a fee of $1.45 million, followed by Sky, AAVE, and Uniswap, with fees of $950000, $710000, and $590000, respectively.

The VRC-20 standard aims to boost trust and transparency in the market for data-backed digital assets.

BlockBeats News: On April 2nd, according to Decrypt, cryptocurrency friendly Republican candidates Jimmy Patronis and Randy Fine won the Florida congressional special election on Tuesday night, with strong support from the cryptocurrency industry's super political action committee (PAC), allowing the Republican Party to maintain its slim majority in the House of Representatives. Fine defeated Democrat Josh Weil with 56.7% of the vote in Florida's sixth district, while Patronis defeated Gay Valimont with 57% of the vote in Florida's first district. Both campaigns received strong support from Defend American Jobs, a Republican focused cryptocurrency political action committee affiliated with the broader Fairshake political funding network.

According to Dune data, on April 2nd, the circulating supply of Coinbase Wrapped BTC (cbBTC), a packaged Bitcoin launched by Coinbase, reached 33038 units, with an increase of over 4500 units in the past month. The current market value of cbBTC is about 2.815 billion US dollars, ranking second in the market share of packaged Bitcoin with a market share of 18.8%, second only to wBTC.