🤝 #BSW Biswap has partnered with ApolloX to launch futures. medium

🇺🇸 CB Consumer Confidence (Mar) - 104.2 (pre 102.9)

📊 #MATIC dune: Nearly 24 hours after launch Polygon zkEVM more than 2500 users have made more than 2700 transactions for a total of $880,000 in cross-chain trading. Currently TVL Polygon is approximately $884,000

🥳 ConsenSys launches zkEVM public testnet, renaming it to "Linea" coindesk.com

🏦🇫🇷 5 major banks have been raided by the French authorities as part of a €100 billion fraud investigation.

• Societe Generale
• BNP Paribas
• Natixis
• HSBC
• Exane

⚖ #FTT SBF paid tens of millions of dollars in bribes to at least one Chinese government official to unfreeze an Alameda account in 2021 that held about $1 billion in crypto.

👀 #ETH Ethereum Beacon Chain previously promised rates of 5% per annum, now reports 5.22% launchpad.ethereum.org

🙋‍♂ #SOL DEX Mango Markets is considering raising interest rates on popular tokens.
The proposed changes will only affect the Solana Token Borrowing and Lending Pool. coindesk

🇺🇸🕹 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