📊 Top 15 blockchains by number of unique addresses.

🕵‍♂👀 #MNT Dragonfly Capital contributed 10.5 million MNT (~$13.86 million) to Bybit after announcing its listing on Upbit.
Fenbushi Capital also deposited 2.89 million MNT (~$3.78 million), held for 8 months, on Bybit 2 hours ago, and could earn $2.4 million (+157%) upon sale.

📈 Monthly active addresses of the Ethereum Layer 2 network reached a record 13.8 million, and TVL exceeded $32.8 billion.

👀 #JUP Jupiter invested 10 million USDC and 100 million JUP into the DAO wallet.  twitter

🇭🇰🕹 The Hong Kong Monetary Authority (HKMA) will issue guidelines for reviewing banks' applications for DLT in the coming weeks. source

💰Web3 gaming platform Elixir Games has raised $14 million in seed funding from Square Enix, Shima Capital and the Solana Foundation. the block

💰BOB, a hybrid L2 network based on the Bitcoin blockchain but compatible with Ethereum, has raised $10 million in seed funding. coindesk

📊🗣 TRM Labs: #USDT was the most commonly used stablecoin for criminal crypto activity last year (around 1.6% of transfer volume).
USDT was associated with $19.3 billion in illicit transactions in 2023, up from $24.7 billion in 2022.

🤝 #XCAD signed a Memorandum of Understanding with several governments to expand Web3 incentivized education. chainwire

🤝 #CGPT #MATIC ChainGPT partnered from Polygon.

🙋‍♂ #RARI Rarible added Base support.

👀 #ONDO Ondo Finance will reallocate a significant portion of #OUSG assets to the BlackRock fund - BUIDL

👀🗣 #KCS CEO KuCoin: It is with great gratitude that we will be launching a special giveaway of $10 million in KCS and BTC for users who have experienced longer than expected wait times in the withdrawal process over the past 2 days.
Details will be published in 3 days.

🤝 #LINA Linear Finance has partnered with #PLANET. twitter

🥳👀 Bitwise CIO: Professional investors are considering allocating 3% of their portfolio to investing in #BTC.

📊👀 Deribit: Validity record high number Open positions in #BTC and #ETH options on Deribit ($9.5 billion and $5.7 billion respectively) expire this Friday.

“The current situation means that a large number of options are profitable due to the recent rise in Bitcoin prices, which could lead to derivatives traders looking to hedge their positions or speculate on further price movements.”

🇺🇸👀 9 #BTC-#ETF today added 3,469 BTC ($240.12 million):
- Grayscale has outflows of 4,944 BTC ($342.22 million) and currently holds 342,608 BTC ($23.7 billion);
- Fidelity added 4,001 BTC ($276.9 million) and currently owns 143,721 BTC ($9.95 billion).

⚖🌪 #TORN Dutch prosecutors demand a 64-month prison sentence for Tornado Cash developer Alexey Pertsev
The judge will hand down the verdict on May 14.
coindesk

👀 BlackRock USD Institutional Digital Liquidity Fund (BUIDL) saw $160 million in inflows in its first week. bloomberg

📊 #APT 10 best TVL projects on Aptos.