After the ETH growth, Vitalik Buterin's personal wallet has more than $1 billion.

https://decrypt.co/69745/vitalik-buterin-now-owns-more-than-1-billion-in-ethereum

Genies has raised $65 million.

The Series B was led by Mary Meeker’s Bond Capital with participation from Dapper Labs, Polychain, Coinbase Ventures, Hashkey and others.

The funding will be used to invest in the technology behind the Genies avatar system and to expand its digital goods and non-fungible token (NFT) marketplace on Dapper Labs’ Flow blockchain.

Dapper Labs, which was responsible for the highflying digital collectibles platform NBA Top Shot, will launch a “secondary digital products market” with Genies later this year.

https://www.coindesk.com/dapper-labs-coinbase-ventures-join-65m-investment-in-avatar-startup-genies

OKEx lists Chia Network.
Trading: today at 18:00 UTC.

https://twitter.com/OKEx/status/1389201705888276481?s=20

PlotX plans to launch on Binance Smart Chain.

https://t.iss.one/plotx_ann/310

Bounce partners with Automata Network to bring private community voting to the Bounce governance system.

https://bouncefinance.medium.com/announcing-bounce-x-automata-strategic-partnership-c77b7093d42e

Tether (USDT) is now available on Coinbase

https://blog.coinbase.com/tether-usdt-is-now-available-on-coinbase-214f075deaa2

PayPal is exploring the launch of a stablecoin

https://www.theblockcrypto.com/post/103617/paypal-has-held-exploratory-talks-about-launching-a-stablecoin-sources

Ebay exploring crypto payment options and NFT auctions

https://cointelegraph.com/news/ebay-exploring-crypto-payment-options-and-nft-auctions

The Casper and CoinList teams are planning on distributing CSPR tokens for Option 3 to the CoinList Wallets on or around May 5.

Deposit, withdrawal, staking, and trading support for CSPR are expected to be enabled by the end of next week.

After the start of trading on OKEx, Chia token reached $2,500 and is now trading at ~$650.

https://www.okex.com/trade-spot/xch-usdt

Burnt Finance, the first fully decentralized auction protocol built on Solana, has published an article about its project.

https://twitter.com/BurntFinance/status/1389384977142386696?s=20

Dogecoin is now in the top 4.

FEI stablecoin is trading at ~$1 again.

https://www.gate.io/trade/FEI_USDT

Drops, a groundbreaking project that unlocks additional value for nonfungible tokens, announces the closure of around $1 million from private investors.

This funding round was led by Axia8 Ventures, Bitscale Capital, Blocksync, AU21, X21, D64 Ventures, Genblock and Drops Ventures.

https://twitter.com/dropsnft/status/1389572496458805254
https://cointelegraph.com/press-releases/drops-closes-1m-private-funding-round-to-create-new-value-for-nfts

DFINITY (ICP) will be launching on Coinbase Pro and supported by Coinbase Custody.

https://blog.coinbase.com/the-internet-computer-icp-will-be-launching-on-coinbase-pro-and-supported-by-coinbase-custody-b15bf731c758

Cartesi (CTSI), iExec (RLC), Mirror Protocol (MIR) and Tellor (TRB) are launching on Coinbase Pro.

https://blog.coinbase.com/cartesi-ctsi-iexec-rlc-mirror-protocol-mir-and-tellor-trb-are-launching-on-coinbase-pro-cc2c0713891e

UFC & Chiliz partner to launch UFC fan token on Socios.com.

https://www.ufc.com/news/ufc-chiliz-partner-launch-ufc-fan-token-socios-com-read

Gemini has announced trading and custody support for Dogecoin (DOGE).

https://www.gemini.com/blog/gemini-now-supports-dogecoin-much-wow

Oiler Network Liquidity Bootstrapping Event (LBP) will occur on May 6 at ~13:00 UTC.
Starting price: $0.75.

https://lbp.oiler.network/
https://medium.com/oiler-network/oilers-liquidity-bootstrapping-event-109398d94c4b

The Structure Finance trading platform has published an article about its project.

The $SFT token will function as the default currency for the Structure Finance platform. Initially it will perform three main functions: a means of payment for platform fees, a governance token, and as a reward token to incentivize user adoption and liquidity provision.

Structure Finance is a cross-chain platform that will launch on Binance Smart Chain and Ethereum. Roadmap items include expansion to Huobi Eco-Chain and the implementation of Chromia as a Layer-2 enhancement for Ethereum.

https://medium.com/structure-finance/structure-finance-structured-financial-products-for-everyone-da02dde8c0a

ColdStack has announced its IDO on SuperFarm launchpad (Superstarter).

Whitelist Close: May 6, 20:00 UTC
IDO Date: May 10
Listing: May 12

Initial market cap on listing: $737,500

https://t.iss.one/coldstack_ann/51