Lido's governance token LDO has gained 30% in 30 days, driven by a $20 million buyback program, while major DeFi competitors declined. Despite the rally, LDO remains down 94% from its peak.

JustLend DAO completed its third JST token buyback and burn, destroying over 271 million tokens worth $21.3 million. Cumulative burns have now reached 1.36 billion tokens, or 13.70% of the total supply, with plans for ongoing quarterly cycles.

Sun Yuchen deposited 300 million JST tokens, worth around $22.8 million, to a centralized exchange, marking his second major JST transaction in a month. JST is the governance token of JustLend DAO on the Tron blockchain.

Ethereum Layer-2 network Scroll lost about $160 million in total value locked after Ether.fi migrated to Optimism, incurring $13 million in fee losses. Scroll plans to disband its security committee, reduce DAO members, and recently faced a spike in gas fees.

Gate News update, April 14, last December, a crypto community member @ufukless1 had to pay medical bills due to illness, and minted an NFT priced at $10 on OpenSea; 15k NFTs were fully minted. After that, Rave DAO air-dropped RAVE tokens to all minters. Currently, this airdrop is worth between $200 and $5,000, giving buyers returns of 20x to 500x.

Gate News message, April 13, according to Gate market data, as of the time of publication, DEXE (DeXe Protocol) is trading at $9.85. It is up 2.27% over the past 24 hours, with a high of $10.05 and a low of $9.53. The 24-hour trading volume is $76.8k. The current market cap is approximately $461 million. DeXe Protocol is the gateway to next-generation governance, providing innovative infrastructure to create and guide DAOs, empowered by the forces of a decentralized community. The protocol offers more than 50 smart contracts, including DAO contracts, governance contracts, treasury contracts, Launchpad contracts, delegation contracts, and Consuls contracts, among others, to support users in creating various Web3 products. DEXE is

Aave founder Stani announced on a social platform that Aave will pivot to $AAVE as its core token, with all revenue flowing back to the DAO treasury. In the future, it will launch a debit card and financial technology experience, aiming to increase the protocol’s scale from $40 billion to $1 trillion, positioning it as a foundational market for traditional financial assets.

Aave DAO recently passed a proposal supporting Aave Labs with a $25 million grant, with a voting approval rate of about 75%. The proposal includes an immediate allocation of 5 million aEthLidoGHO tokens and a staged release of 20 million tokens, and it also sets aside 75,000 AAVE tokens for ecosystem support.

A cryptocurrency project linked to Donald Trump, World Liberty Financial, has once again sparked controversy due to its collaboration with the Southeast Asian blockchain project AB DAO. Investigations show that AB DAO has ties to individuals who are subject to U.S. and U.K. sanctions. WLFI said it had completed due diligence, but was not aware of the resort project that AB DAO allegedly promoted.

Velora (formerly Paraswap) has released a new governance proposal. The main adjustments include refocusing on structural decisions regarding the VLR token, terminating the staking plan, closing the DAO treasury and paying for infrastructure services, and stopping fee routing. Going forward, governance will focus on decisions related to the VLR token, and protocol operations will be supported by the development team.