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While spot prices have fallen below the psychological threshold of 9 yuan and the industry remains deeply stuck in a loss-driven inventory reduction slump, live hog futures showed a significant rebound today. The new type of foot-and-mouth disease from South Africa has introduced unsettling uncertainties. Can pig prices finally reach a turning point?

Foresight News reports that the governance proposal FIP.16 for the XRP ecosystem DeFi project Flare will open for voting on April 17. The main objectives are to significantly reduce inflation, establish a revenue reinvestment mechanism, and enhance staking incentives, aiming to turn the FLR token from inflationary to potentially deflationary, thereby strengthening the network’s long-term sustainability and security. The proposal includes immediately reducing the annual inflation rate from 5% to 3% (a 40% reduction); establishing the Flare Income Reinvestment Entity (FIRE) to centrally collect and redistribute network revenue (including FDC fees, FAssets minting/redemption fees, FCC, MEV, etc.); significantly increasing the base transaction fee (from 25 gwei to 500 gwei) to boost FLR burn rate, with an expected annual burn of about 300 million FLR; adjusting the staking incentive mechanism to primarily support P-chain staking (with a weighting five times that of C-chain delegation), raising the maximum single validator staking limit to 300 million FLR, and mandating that entities receive at least 20% of the fees.

According to BlockBeats, on April 14, the prediction platform Kalshi released a video teaser announcing that it will launch a new product on April 27. The video shows a green spiral forming a perpetual loop, eventually displaying the word "Timeless". The community speculates that this update may introduce a perpetual prediction market with no expiration date, breaking through the previous contract duration limitations of Kalshi's event contracts and enhancing trading flexibility.