🇺🇸 USA. GDP (Q1) (pre): 1.1% (prog 2%; pre 2.6%)

- Initial Jobless Claims: 230k (prog 248k; pre 245k)

🔛 Binance Futures to launch USDⓈ-M BLUR perpetual contract with up to 20X leverage
April 28th.

🥳 #BLUR

🏦🗣 Head of banking platform Onyx Digital Assets (JPMorgan) Tyrone Lobban: We think tokenization is a killer application for traditional finance.
coindesk.com

🖼 Top NFT marketplaces by the number of traders in the last 30 days

🤝 Crypto.com has announced a partnership with Samsung to expand the mobile app experience for the Galaxy Z Fold.
crypto.com

🔛 #FIL Filecoin launched Filecoin Web Services (FWS), an open source alternative to AWS.
twitter.com

👀 #EVMOS #ATOM Dymension and Evmos are testing an EVM rollup package for the Cosmos ecosystem.
theblock.com

📊 #BTC According to a new study, BTC-related transactions are outperforming the overall crypto sector.

In 2022, the volume of venture investments in cryptocurrencies increased by 1%, but the number of transactions involving companies focused primarily on BTC increased by 52.9%.
theblock.com

🤝#BABYDOGE #AI Baby Doge partnered with ChainGPT.
benzinga.com

🇨🇳 #CBDC Central Bank of China Business Administration Department: Since the launch of the digital yuan pilot project (March 2022), 191 digital yuan pilot events have been held with a total investment of 87.83 million yuan (~12.7 million dollars)

📊 Distribution of daily volumes of #BTC and #ETH futures by exchanges

🇬🇧The UK Revenue is seeking public opinion on a proposed change to the tax regime for lending and rates for DeFi.
coindesk.com

🔛 #ELXR Elixir launched Elixir v2 public testnet.
twitter.com

🇭🇰 The Hong Kong government is gathering opinions on changing the tax regime for DeFi lending and staking. The goal is to create a regime that better links the taxation of crypto assets used in DeFi lending and staking transactions.
gov.uk

🇺🇸🕹 A bill has been submitted to the US Senate and House of Representatives that calls on the government to explore options for using cryptocurrencies for illegal activities and provide recommendations on how to mitigate the consequences of such use.
coindesk.com

🤝 #DOT #ASTR #ATOM Injective has integrated Astar, bringing the Polkadot parachain into the wider Cosmos IBC ecosystem for the first time.
medium.com

🔄 #BAND Band Protocol held updating the main network to v2.5.

🔛 LayerZero is now available on the zkSync Era mainnet.
twitter.com

📝 #CAKE ~70% voted YES the 'Block Reward Cut' proposal initiated by the PancakeSwap DAO. According to the proposal, PancakeSwap's CAKE block reward in Syrup Pool will drop by 94%. Voting ends April 28th.
pancakeswap.finance