🇺🇸🕹 The #CBDC House Committee on Commerce voted 15 (YES) to 5 (No) to pass a bill blocking the use of the federally backed #CBDC under Florida law.
But Florida lawmakers may need to revisit this bill to avoid an inadvertent #BTC ban.

🇪🇺 #CBDC Ripple and the Digital Euro Association have released a white paper on CBDCs and digital assets.
The paper's main takeaway is that minimum standards need to be met globally, even if each central bank has different views and values ​​regarding privacy with respect to CBDCs and digital assets. It is possible that in the future, “state cryptocurrencies” will be able to increase global inter-jurisdictional data flows, despite different use cases and implementations, the authors of the text summarize.

👀 Polygon zkEVM is now fully open source with a $1 million bug bounty

🏎 F-1 Team Williams Racing has signed a contract with Kraken as a sponsor. coindesk

💰 #OP Crypto infrastructure startup Conduit (created with Optimism) has raised $7M in a seed funding round led by Paradigm. coindesk

🇰🇵 Mandiant: North Korean hacker group APT43 is believed to be using cloud mining services to launder stolen cryptocurrencies, and they use cybercrime proceeds to fund their operations against South Korean and US government organizations, academics and think tanks involved in the geopolitics of the Korean Peninsula.

📊 Messari:
- Ethereum and BNB Chain have the two largest cryptocurrency user bases, with #BNB observes an increase in the number of users as it falls #ETH. ETH's weak growth can be attributed to the growth of Arbitrum and Optimism, which are showing industry-leading user growth and retention rates;
- looking at the DEX sector, the long-term cohort of users have decreased on the DEX for mature EVM chains, which is likely due to a loss of trust in the crypto ecosystem. In addition, competition from emerging L2 DeFi ecosystems may have robbed the underlying chains of user market share;
#ETH among mature EVM chains, Ethereum tends to have about 5% higher long-term user retention, mainly due to higher liquidity among its native DEXs;
- #ARB #OP Arbitrum and Optimism support above average long-term user retention

📊 CryptoCompare: Binance's spot trading market share has dropped from 57% to 39% since early March, hitting a low of 30% on March 24.
Previously: A few hours before the CFTC indictment against Binance, $850 million was withdrawn from the exchange. An hour after the accusation, another $ 240 million.

📊 CryptoCompare: Binance's spot trading market share has dropped from 57% to 39% since early March, hitting a low of 30% on March 24.
Previously: Hours before the CFTC indictment against Binance, the exchange saw an outflow of $850 million. An hour after the announcement, another $240 million

🤝 MoonPay has partnered with the Latin American company Airtm

💰 EigenLabs Staking Protocol Closes $50M Series A Round Led by Blockchain Capital coindesk.com

💰 So-Col has raised $4.5M in two rounds from DWF Labs and Blockchain Capital. the block

🆕 #TON Bitfinex tomorrow will launch Toncoin trading

🔛 #FLOW launched the Metrika node monitoring platform
forum.onflow.org

⚠️ #RUNE Update: THORChain Unhalted developers and security teams have determined that statement is trustworthy (refers to TSS), but no host can exploit the current vulnerability. Outflow is disabled pending a fix. The Trading/LP/Savers vaults have been reactivated.

📊 Report CoinMetrics about mining data #BTC for the first quarter of 2023:
- Thanks to the rise in the price of BTC and the recovery of the fee market miners generated $1.8 billion in revenue, outperforming the third and fourth quarters of 2022;
- year to date miners were paid $42 million in commission income. This quarter is the first since the second quarter of 2021 when more than 2% of revenue comes from transaction fees;
- The 3 largest mining pools headquartered in the US - Foundry, Luxor and Mara Pool - by the end of the first quarter of 2023, together controlled about 40% of the network hashrate, which almost doubled their share compared to 2022;
- in terms of costs, miners remain at the mercy of increased energy costs. Besides miners in the US may soon face even higher electricity prices as part of an excise tax proposed by the Biden administration.

📊 CoinMetrics: Network Data Analysis:
Tether's free-float supply on Tron has surged to 43 billion, an increase of around 2 billion in the last week alone. Together with 35 billion #USDT on Ethereum Tether's market capitalization reached its highest level since last spring.

🗽 BlackRock warns investors are making the mistake of betting that the Fed will cut rates

“We think the Fed will only be able to deliver a market-calculated rate cut if a more severe credit crunch emerges and triggers an even deeper recession than we expect.” #macro

📝 MetaMask says the rumors swirling around the snapshot and airdrop are false.

📊 Sentiment:
- #ETH has been observed bearish divergence - the price is growing, and the activity in the network is falling;
- while #BTC, #BNB, #UNI and a number of other altcoins have increased activity in the network, forming a positive bullish divergence;
- sharks also actively accumulate #USDT and #USDC

📊 Deribit. Big options expire this Friday:
- 141k #BTC ($3.8 billion): Max. interest - $24,000; put/call ratio: 0.73
- #ETH for $3 billion: Main interest - $1,600; put/call ratio: 0.33