🇬🇧 #macro England. Consumer inflation in March (CPI) above expectations:
month: +0.8% (prog +0.5% / pre -1.1%)
year: +10.1% (prog +9.8% /prev +10.4%)

Base CPI +6.2%

🇬🇧 The Russian authorities are developing a bill that will allow creating national crypto platform

🤷‍♂️ Former NFL Minnesota Vikings Minority Owner Must Spend Seven Years in Jail and Lose Over $740M After Admitting He Helped Crypto Exchanges Avoid Money Laundering Rules - bloomberg

📊 #ETH After the Etheruem Shanghai fork, 829,712 ETH ($1.65 billion) are waiting in line for withdrawal. In the most extreme case, a maximum of 1.54 million ETH can exit a week after the event. However, for scale, this remains within the range of typical weekly exchange inflow volumes - GN

🔛 Hedge fund Gotbit Hedge Fund launches Web3 Accelerator "Odyssey" program. glonewswire.com

🔛 #ETH Web3 infrastructure provider InfStones launches Ethereum validator service. prnewswire.com

🏦 The Bank of England and BIS are successfully testing the connection of financial settlement systems with DLT technology as part of a joint experiment /
coindesk.com

🔄 #AVAX Avalanche activates the Cortina update on mainnet on April 25th.
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👀💰#FTT Tribe Capital will raise $250M for potential FTX restart, $100M already secured.
bloomberg.com

🇪🇺 EU. Consumer inflation (CPI) (Mar):
- y/y 6.9% (prog 6.9%; pre 8.5%)
- m/m 0.9% (prog 0.9; pre 0.8%)

Core (CPI) (YoY): 5.7% (Prog 5.7%; Pre 5.6%)

🇯🇵 #AI In the city of Yokosuka (Japan), from April 20, software for ChatGPT will be integrated for government business projects. The city will be the first to adopt ChatGPT in government business.

🤝🇬🇪 Gate Pay partnered with CityPay.io, a startup specializing in crypto payments based in Georgia.
cointelegraph.com

🤝 #OAS Gaming blockchain Oasys, has announced a partnership with BlockPI, a global RPC service provider.
medium.com

👀🖼 Rebase NFT co-founder accused of stealing $2 million.
cointelegraph.com

🎮 #AXS Season 2 of Axie Infinity's Homeland has started, which will last 30 days.
axieinfinity.com

📊 #BTC #ETH After the option delivery ended today, BTC and ETH prices plummeted. Meanwhile, there were over 30,000 block puts on ETH, mostly OTM puts at the end of the month, accounting for 15% of daily volume. BTC was dominated by call selling, with overall IVs on major terms relatively stable and market sentiment calm.

⚠️ Binance will support the BNB Beacon Chain (BEP2) upgrade and hard fork on April 21st. The deposit and withdrawal of tokens will be suspended.
binance.com

📊 #BTC Halving progress 74%

🙋‍♂️ #ETH Binance has enabled the ETH 2.0 staking withdrawal feature.
binance.com

📊 #ETH Top 10 Ethereum beacon chain investors.

🇭🇰⚖️ The Hong Kong court recognized the cryptocurrency as property in the case of the closed crypto exchange Gatecoin. This gives Hong Kong liquidators more clarity on how to treat crypto assets that are in liquidation.
coindesk.com