📊 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

🇺🇸🗣 Former CFTC Chairman Timothy Masad: The level of detail in the CFTC documentation is "really amazing." She suggests that the CFTC had some information from people inside.

Asked if the CFTC lawsuit against Binance will prompt congressional lawmakers to pass legislation to regulate the crypto industry in the US: “I don’t see movement towards a consensus on this issue in Congress”

🇧🇾 Lukashenka extended by his decree tax preferences in the cryptosphere until January 1, 2025

👀 In the lawsuit, the CFTC mentioned at least three US firms that were active on Binance. Chicago-based Radix Trading is one of these three firms.

Radix co-founder Benjamin Blender says his the company has been trading on Binance for several years through offshore affiliates and a prime broker: “We have received legal due diligence on everything we have done in terms of connecting to cryptocurrencies.” He also stated that his the firm was cooperating with the CFTC prior to filing the lawsuit, and he does not believe that Radix is ​​the subject of any investigation. coindesk

📊 #XRP Sentiment: Ripple has very high level of profit taking by traders, which is at its highest level compared to taking losses since August 2021.

🍒 Developments for tomorrow:

🔓 Unlock: Atlas Navi (#NAVI) - 1%
- Brokoli (#BRKL) - 7%
- Fantom Maker (#FAME) - 11%
- Euler (#EUL) - 0.4% ($311.3k)
🙅‍♂️ Coinbase suspend trading for #RLY, #YFII, #MIR, #OMG, #LOOM and #REP
- OKX remove 10 pairs
- Binance US removed 16 #BUSD trading pairs and will add more #TUSD trading pairs
- Bitfinex will list #TON
🙋‍♂️ MultiversX (#EGLD) - First look at XWorlds
🖼 Stratis (#STRAX) - NFT Ticketing Platform Launch
🔛 Tezos (#XTZ) - Launch updates Mumbai
🔄 Evmos (#EVMOS) - Update mainnet v12.0.0
📝 End of voting:
#AAVE MVP version of Aave V3 on zkEVM
Safe (#SAFE) - Redistribution unclaimed airdrop
- Uniswap (#UNI) - Uniswap V3 deployment on Gnosis Chain
- Kava (#KAVA) - Application Funds in Kava Land
🇩🇪 GfK Consumer Climate (Apr) - 09:00 Moscow time
🇺🇸USA - Pending Home Sales (Feb) - 17:00 Moscow time

Important for today

🇺🇸 Biden says the banking crisis is "not over yet."

👀 #VGX Network Data showthat Voyager Digital sent Circle 150 million USDC in exchange for US dollars.

👀 Wall Street Journal: Radix Trading is one of three quantitative firms mentioned in the CFTC lawsuit against Binance. coindesk.com

👀 Lido will issue NFTs tied to ETH withdrawal requests coindesk.com

👀 Voyager sends 150 million USD to Circle to be converted into USD etherscan.io

👀 FDIC requires Signature Bank crypto clients to withdraw funds by next week coindesk.com

👀 Galaxy Digital is still planning to become a public company in the US, SEC filings are pending. www.blockworks.com

👀 Canada requires federally regulated pension funds to disclose information about the risks associated with cryptocurrencies coindesk.com

👀 Blur: Season 2 staking pool and double listing rewards will be extended until May 1st. twitter.com

👀 UK Treasury: Cryptocurrency promotion rules could come into effect before the end of this year twitter.com