Dapper Labs has announced a partnership with the celebrity-driven avatar technology company Genies to build a new marketplace on Flow blockchain.

The new platform will be called the “Genies Marketplace”, and it is aiming to become the “Amazon of Digital Wearable NFTs” where celebrities and, ultimately, all platform users can create and sell digital wearable NFT collections for their avatars, or digital alter-egos.

Dapper Labs and Genies hope to launch the beta version sometime in the third quarter.

https://www.forbes.com/sites/ninabambysheva/2021/04/28/dapper-labs-reveals-plans-for-next-nft-marketplace-after-nba-top-shot

FTX has listed the Block Collider's token EMB token.
The price has increased by about 4 times since yesterday.

https://ftx.com/trade/EMB/USD

Gitcoin raised $11.3 million in an investment round led by Paradigm.

Additional investors included 1kx, Electric Capital, IDEO, The LAO, and MetaCartel Ventures, as well as angel investors Naval Ravikant and Balaji Srinivasan.

https://decrypt.co/66541/ethereum-gitcoin-raises-11-million-spins-out-consensys

Bithumb has listed Rally, Chiliz and Ocean Protocol.

https://en.bithumb.com/trade/order/RLY_KRW

Coinbase is now offering a new way to buy crypto using PayPal.

https://blog.coinbase.com/a-new-way-to-buy-crypto-on-coinbase-using-paypal-e9162f735dcb

Option 2 of Covalent token sale on CoinList starts in 30 minutes.
$0.3 per token, 12 monthly releases, $1,000 maximum

Option 3 - April 30, 0:00 UTC.
$0.25 per token, 24 monthly releases, $1,500 maximum

https://sales.coinlist.co/covalent

CoinList has announced Round 4 of the Clover token sale.

Date: May 4, 17:00 UTC.
Price per Token: $0.20
Lockup: 12-month lockup
Release: 6-month post-lockup release
Purchase limit: $100 - $1,000

Round 4 will be available only to individuals/entities that 1) registered for the Clover sale prior to the sale launch; 2) have been KYC verified; and 3) were unable to successfully participate in Rounds 1, 2, or 3.

https://blog.coinlist.co/clover-token-sale-update-announcing-round-4-community-sale-on-coinlist/

Injective Partners with UMA to Launch Innovative Synthetic Products.

https://blog.injectiveprotocol.com/injective-partners-with-uma-to-launch-new-synthetic-products/

Ispolink Announces Triple Public sale.

DAO Maker - April 30, 12:00 UTC.
Gate - May 5, 2:00 UTC.
Ignition - May 6, 11:00 UTC.

https://ispolink.medium.com/ispolink-announces-triple-public-sale-a89a2f4b57bd

After the hack, EasyFi launches its new token - EZ.
EZ is now trading at ~$18, which is ~25% lower than EASY price before the hack.

https://www.binance.com/en/trade/EZ_BTC

DeFi lending startup Notional Finance has raised $10 million in a Series A funding round.

The round was led by Pantera Capital with participation from Parafi Capital, 1Confirmation, Spartan Group, Nascent, Nima Capital, and others.

https://twitter.com/NotionalFinance/status/1387820977233481729

Coinbase is acquiring skew, the leading institutional data visualization and analytics platform for crypto markets.

https://blog.coinbase.com/coinbase-to-acquire-leading-institutional-data-analytics-platform-skew-929e3882ef42

Bounce is set to become the first decentralized marketplace to host Polkadot and Kusama Parachain slot auction crowdloans.

https://bouncefinance.medium.com/polkadot-and-kusama-crowdloans-are-coming-to-bounce-ff-67bdfa7815c6

Gate has listed Chia Network IOU.
XCH is now trading at ~$1,000.

Chia is still in the pre-minting phase, where tokens are not transferable. The tokens in circulation are pre-deposit from miners, backed by their respective mining pools. When Chia mainnet tokens are live, these IOU tokens will be swapped for the mainnet tokens.

https://www.gate.io/trade/XCH_USDT
https://www.gate.io/en/article/20572

🔥UFC Files Trademark for Cryptocurrencies.
The Ultimate Fighting Championship has signalled their intent to get involved in NFTs.

https://decrypt.co/69556/the-ufc-might-be-the-next-company-to-jump-on-the-nft-bandwagon

Hotbit just suffered a serious cyber attack starting around 08:00 PM UTC, April 29,2021, which led to the paralyzation of a number of some basic services. Meanwhile, the attackers also tried to hack into Hotbit’s wallets (However, the attempt was identified and stopped by the risk control system).

In this case, Hotbit team has shut down all services for inspection and restoration immediately, and the overall recovery period is expected to be no less than 7 days.

The attacker has already gained access to the database. If your account and password on another website or app are the same as Hotbit's, it is safer to change the password now.

https://hotbit.zendesk.com/hc/en-us/articles/1500008915521-

🔥ETH continues to show new all-time highs - $2,848

Elrond has intoduced the MEX tokenomics.
The Maiar DEX will be a 100% community owned DEX.

https://elrond.com/blog/maiar-exchange-mex-tokenomics/

NAOS Finance has been listed on Uniswap.
NAOS trading has started at ~5.5x from the IDO price, and the token is now trading at ~3.6x

https://www.dextools.io/app/uniswap/pair-explorer/0x9b577e849b128ee1a69144b218e809b8bb98c35d

DFINITY will be launched on May 7.

CoinList intends to support $ICP trading and other network participation directly through CoinList Wallets.

ICP utility tokens will be distributed to over 50K community members on CoinList.

https://twitter.com/CoinList/status/1388232340497965058

Truebit has been launched.

Truebit is a blockchain enhancement which enables smart contracts to securely perform complex computations in standard programming languages at reduced gas costs.
https://truebit.io/

TRU is trading on Uniswap.
https://www.dextools.io/app/uniswap/pair-explorer/0x80b4d4e9d88d9f78198c56c5a27f3bacb9a685c5

Vitalik Buterin wrote an article on how to build an EVM optimistic rollup using Truebit.
https://ethresear.ch/t/evm-optimistic-rollup-using-truebit/9318

Also in 2017, Vitalik Buterin co-authored "Interactive Coin Offerings" with Truebit founder.
https://arxiv.org/abs/1908.04295