AI firm Anthropic completes $450M Series C funding led by Spark Capital with input from Google and others. twitter.com

📊 #OP Messari: Optimism user activity is correlated with each promotional campaign.

The network attracted a large number of users during its programs, but the users quickly dispersed after the end of each one.

📊 Kaiko: Market share in #BTC trading volume by country/region

💰 Dispersion Capital is launching a $40 million fund focused on decentralized infrastructure. techcrunch.com

🤝 #HBAR Red Swan, a commercial real estate company with $5 billion in assets under management, launches its RWA token studio on Hedera

🔝 Today's leaders

⚖👀 Coinbase Petitions Mandamus in Response to SEC Request.
If the SEC decides to dismiss Coinbase's petition, a mandamus (court order) may still require it to make a decision on regulating digital assets.

🥊 Binance refutes a Reuters report that the company pooled its funds and customers: Silvergate Bank accounts were not used to accept user deposits, but rather were used to facilitate user purchases of cryptocurrencies. "There has never been any mixing because these are 100% corporate funds"

💰 Num Finance raises $1.5M by expanding stablecoins in Latin America and the Middle East. coindesk.com

🇪🇺🕹 European Commission wants to make it easier for commercial lenders to hold stablecoins and tokenized assets after lawmakers opposed cryptocurrency holdings as part of a broader banking reform. coindesk

🖼🐧 #NFT Blur integrated Pudgy Penguins into Blend. twitter

📊 #MATIC DApps with the most users on Polygon

📊 Kaiko: 70% of #ETH liquidity is concentrated on just 5 exchanges, as measured by market depth

🤖 Microsoft introduced an AI-based chatbot for data analysis. #AI

🇺🇸 Florida Governor Ron DeSantis is the new US presidential candidate

🐳 Sentiment: Whales and sharks are actively accumulating stables and hodling #BTC

🤝 #GALA Gala Games launched awards for finding bugs in partnership with Immunefi

🙋‍♂ Brave launched the token lock feature in Brave Talk

👀 Events for tomorrow and digest:

🔓 Unlock: Moonwell (#WELL) - 7.5%
- Gamium (#GMM) - 4%
- Prometheus (#MGA) - 2%
- Euler (#EUL) - 0.5% ($248.8k)
🔛 NFTb (#NFTB) - Launch of Gaming Hub
- KyberSwap (#KNC) - Restart KyberSwap Elastic
📝 End of voting: ApeCoin (#APE) - Election of ApeCoin DAO discourse coordinators
🆕 Binance US Launches #BLUR
🇬🇧 Consumer inflation (CPI) (Apr) - 9:00 Moscow time
🇩🇪 IFO Business Climate Index (May) - 11:00 Moscow time
🇺🇸 Performance by J. Yellen - 17:05 Moscow time
🗽 FOMC minutes - 21:00 Moscow time

🐳 Whales are showing signs of accumulation of #QI, #PRO and #MKR.