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BlockBeats news, on April 18, according to Ember monitoring, after transferring the last 5,020 ETH (12.33 million USD) to an exchange 9 hours ago, all ETH obtained from last year's public sale by the Ethereum privacy L2 project Aztec has now been liquidated. It is reported that in December last year, the project team conducted a public auction of 15% of AZTEC (1.5 billion tokens), raising 19,388.4 ETH (59.13 million USD), with the AZTEC fundraising price at 0.0473 USD (now down 50%). In February this year at their TGE, they took 4,234.6 ETH (12.91 million USD) from the auction proceeds to provide liquidity. The remaining 15,154 ETH (37 million USD) were transferred to an exchange in batches over the past 3 months, with the final batch of 5,020 ETH transferred early this morning.

Golden Ten Data reported on April 18 that, according to the Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Affairs, the number of breeding sows nationwide has decreased for nine consecutive months since last July. In March this year, the number of newborn piglets saw its first year-on-year decline in 17 months, which is favorable for improving the supply and demand of live pigs and promoting a reasonable rebound in pig prices in the future. Relevant experts noted that, due to the relatively high production capacity and the inertia of increased market supply, current pig prices remain at a low level. As the effects of capacity reduction gradually become apparent, pig prices are expected to stabilize and rebound progressively, with the whole year likely to show a "low earlier, higher later, and narrow fluctuation" pattern.

According to ChainCatcher, Jiang Zhuoer, founder of B.TOP mining pool, stated that he sold 25% of his Ethereum spot position at $2,420. Together with the sale on April 8, he has now sold 50% of his position, with an average selling price of $2,331. Jiang Zhuoer also clarified that his previous statement on April 8 about "shorting Ethereum at $2,242" was a miscommunication.