📊 DeFi Ecosystem Review: Liquid Restake

🇺🇸 #macroUSA. GDP (1Q) (prev): 1.6% (prev: 2.5%; pre 3.4%)

- Initial Jobless Claims: 207 thousand (prog 214 thousand; pre 212 thousand)

- Trade balance (March) (prev): -91.83 billion $ (prev -91.1 billion $; prev: -91.84 billion $)

💰 Animoca Brands Anichess gaming project received $1.8 million in funding led by Sfermion and Amber Group.
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👀 #MSTR MicroStrategy could be included in the S&P 500 index if it adopts new accounting rules. coindesk.com

📊 Top 10 TVL projects on Linea

👀🤝 #ARB #OP #MATIC #STRK #AVAIL Arbitrum, Optimism, Polygon, StarkWare and zkSync are planning integration with Avail.
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💰 Carv raises $10M in Series A to build the largest modular data layer for gaming and AI.

📊 Tokens that have shown the most significant growth from their lows over the past 30 days.

🇺🇸🙅‍♂ #BTC #ETF SEC delays decision on listing and options trading for spot Bitcoin ETFs until May 29

🖼 #NFT Crypto Punk 635 sold for 4,000 ETH (~$12.4 million).

🤝 #INJ XION announced about integration with Injective.

🙋‍♂ Anchorage Digital launched a global cryptocurrency settlement network - Atlas. forbes

📈 #ETH Monthly stablecoin trading volume on Ethereum nearly reached a record $1 trillion in April.

🕵‍♂👀 #ETH Justin Sun purchased another 21,547 ETH.

💰 Movement Labs raised $38 million to create the L2 blockchain on Ethereum. fortune

📊 #BTC #BRC20 C.Q.: As the RUNES hype died down, fees normalized, causing miner income to drop to around $50 million.

👀💰 #ZETA ZetaChain highlights 5% of the total supply of ZETA to developers and the decentralized application ecosystem development program, including 1% for projects on #BTC.

🗽 #BENJI #MATIC #XLM Franklin Templeton has enabled peer-to-peer transfer of tokenized shares of its US Treasury Tokenized Fund. the block

🎮💰 #IMX Immutable launched a gaming “rewards program” worth $50 million

🙋‍♂ #W Native W tokens are now available on Solana, Ethereum, Arbitrum, Optimism and Base through the Wormhole Native Token Transfer (NTT). wormhole