🐳👀 In the last 24 hours, the whale has changed 1.84 million #USDC to 1.57 million #MATIC at a price of $1.17. In addition to #MATIC , this whale has also accumulated some #LDO and #ARB.
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⚠️ #BNB Binance will perform maintenance on the BNB Beacon Chain (BEP2) wallet on April 18 at 10:00 a.m. PT.
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👀 Hong Kong branch of China Bank of Communications cooperates with a number of licensed crypto companies in Hong Kong
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📊 #ETH Top 20 #ETH staker addresses. In total, 158,592 #ETH ($333 million) have been withdrawn since the Shanghai update.

There are 13 addresses that have re-stake #ETH since the withdrawal, for a total of 34,198 #ETH ($72 million) staked.

💰 Latin American crypto company Galactic Holdings completes a $10 million Pre-A funding round led by BAI Capital.

🔄 #BNB On April 21, the Barral hard fork is scheduled on the BNB Beacon Chain, which will introduce several security improvements for the cross chain.
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📊 MEXC releases #MX buybacks and burns for Q1: Number of #MX burned - 2.115 million; MEXC's "Buy-Back and Burn" program means that 40% of profits are dedicated to burning #MX. The platform earned $11.7 million in Q1.
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📊 #HT Huobi Q1 Q1 Report: Burned 827,226 #HT (~$3.31M). Huobi used 20% of the platform's revenue for incineration, so Q1 revenue was ~$16.55M. Earlier, Justin Sun stated that the group's revenue for Q1, including TRON, was $150 million, so Huobi's revenue was less than 1/9.
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📝 #ARB The Arbitrum community is voting on two proposals (AIP-1.1 and AIP-1.2) to expand the oversight and powers of ARB token holders. Voting will end today, the two proposals currently have over 98% support:

— AIP-1.1 proposes to place the remaining #ARB 700 million of the Fund in the Administrative Budget Walle, which will be unlocked within four years.

— AIP-1.2 aims to amend several Arbitrum ecosystem guidance documents, including lowering the #ARB threshold required to issue network improvement proposals from 5M to 1M.

🙋‍♂️ #ETH May 19-23 in Montenegro will pass Ethereum's annual global conference - EDCON. Vitalik Buterin and eight other members of the Ethereum Foundation have confirmed their participation.

⛏ Hive Blockchain produced 282 #BTC in March, up 12.8% from the previous month.
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👀🕹 Bittrex may face possible action from US regulators despite preparations to shut down local operations.

The SEC's enforcement arm tends to recommend that the agency sue Bittrex for alleged violations related to investor protection.
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🇺🇸🏦 136 Insured Banks in the US Are Engaged or Plan to Engage in Cryptocurrency-Related Activities - FDIC

⚠️ BNB Chain updated their high-risk dApp list, with a total of 191 projects included.
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🇪🇺 #AI European lawmakers will add new provisions on AI to a pending bill and call on the EU and US to organize a global AI governance summit.
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🇮🇱 #CBDC The Central Bank of Israel is preparing to issue digital shekels.

🔛 Web3-project METABIT launched the main network.
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📊 Report CoinShares on financial flows in crypto for the last week:

Last week, the influx of investments in digital assets amounted to $114 million. This 4-week inflow period is now $345M, which has almost completely corrected the previous 6-week outflow period.

#BTC – $104 million inflow, #BTC short inflow was $14.6 million.

Despite the successful launch of Shapella, the #ETH inflow was only $0.3 million. Little activity in altcoins, with the exception of #MATIC, which outflowed $2.1 million.

Recent price increases pushed total assets under management (AuM) to $1.9 billion, the highest since October 2022

🔛 Bitfinity EVM launched by InfinitySwap has been launched on the Internet Computer Core Network (#ICP).
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📊 #BTC #TUSD It took less than 1 month for BTC-TUSD to become the largest #BTC market on Binance. The commission-free pair topped 50% of the market for the first time last week, beating BTC-USDT.

📊 #ETH Since the Shapella update, ETH withdrawals have been processed without any problems. On April 15 and 16 there was a high output:
- April 15 392,802 ETH
- April 16 240,400 ETH

With over 997K ETH withdrawn so far, Lido, RocketPool and Celsius are currently in the top 3 most popular withdrawal addresses.