🧑‍💻💰 #OP Optimism allocates 850 million OP (~$3 billion) for grants to blockchain developers.

A portion of the 850 million OP will be distributed over four classified rounds, starting in May and continuing through 2024.

🙋‍♂👀 Insurance broker Marsh has introduced a digital asset storage insurance product providing capacity up to $825 million.
The new insurance product will support organizations whose digital assets are stored offline in cold storage, as well as other storage solutions such as Multi-Party Computation (MPC).
coindesk

🐳 CQ: Whale stocks are growing at the fastest monthly rate on record, at 11.8% for the month.
The previous high was 11.1% MoM in January 2021.

⚖👀 #FTT Investors in Serum, MAPS and OXY tokens (known as “Sam Coins”) are asking the judge overseeing the bankruptcy case to overturn the decision of the company’s experts, who say the coins are essentially worthless and want FTX to raise their valuation - Bloomberg

🥳👀 In the CFTC's complaint against KuCoin the regulator notes that #BTC, #ETH and #LTC are goods.

🔝 Today's leaders #CVC #OGV #SOIL

🇺🇸👀 9 #BTC-#ETF today added 2,637 BTC ($183.7 million):
- Grayscale has outflows of 2,700 BTC ($188 million) and currently holds 347,552 BTC ($24.2 billion);
- Fidelity added 3,695 BTC ($257 million) and currently owns 139,720 BTC ($9.7 billion).

Arkham: Grayscale transferred 1,735 BTC to Coinbase Prime today.

🇺🇸🍿#LTC #ETF FOX Reporter: At the institutional level, we are hearing rumors of possible interest in a Litecoin ETF. The logic is that due to LTE's functional similarity to BTC, the SEC may be more inclined to approve it, perhaps even more so than ETH.

📊👀 #KCS CQ: KuCoin's stablecoin reserves have dropped by >$100 million in the last 3 hours.

🇺🇸👀 #ETH US lawmakers have called on the SEC to review Prometheum's intention to offer institutional custody services for Ethereum.
In their opinion, this announcement contradicts the position of the Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC) on recognizing ETH as a “non-security digital asset” within its purview.
cointelegraph

🎮 TOP GameFi projects by active users over the last 30 days

🇺🇸🗣 SEC: Fines and penalties for Ripple are adequate. Ripple is well positioned to pay a significant civil fine. A firm needs an incentive to stop breaking laws beyond "the mere cost of doing business."

✅ #AAVE Aave DAO proposal to increase the #GHO borrowing rate from 7.48% to 15% approved

🔄 #FLR Flare Network hard fork successful activated.
Arweave also held hard fork v2.7.2 #AR

📰 Digest for today and events for tomorrow - https://t.iss.one/cryptoattack/20399

🤷‍♂👀 #BTC Nilam Resources CEO resigns the day after the company announced its acquisition of 24,800 BTC and accused the company of a “classic pump&dump” and also stated that “FINRA will be investigating Nilam Resources” - protos

The confusion surrounding the BTC acquisition is compounded by the firm's current financial status, which has expected profits of just $2 million.

💳📊 Mastercard released official document about money transfers in Latin America:
- The pace of remittances is growing faster than the global average in the region, and mobile phone and internet penetration will drive transition from cash to digital options;
- Latin America now receives 43% of its remittances digitally, compared to the global average of 52%;
- Digital remittances are expected to reach $20 billion by 2026.
- Ripple's #XRP is leading the way in developing promising use cases for central bank digital currency (#CBDC), as well as other more limited projects.

🏴‍☠💸 Munchables (GameFi project on Blast) hacked by 17.4 thousand ETH (~62.5 million $)

💰🥳 #ILV Illuvium completed Series A funding round for $12 million.

🇰🇵 ZachXBT declaredthat a North Korean developer is behind the Munchables exploit.