The Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation (FDIC), a U.S. banking regulator, has asked banks to report on their “crypto-related activities”.

https://www.coindesk.com/policy/2022/04/07/fdic-asks-all-banks-to-report-crypto-activities/

Elon Musk suggests Dogecoin (DOGE) payments for Twitter Blue.

https://twitter.com/elonmusk/status/1512954808394731521

BreederDAO (BREED) has announced the public sale — Token Launch Auction (TLA) on Copper.

Start date: April 26, 14:00 UTC
End date: April 29, 14:00 UTC
Token Pool Allocation: 75,000,000
Starting rate: $1.5

https://medium.com/@breederDAOcommunity/breed-public-sale-token-launch-auction-tla-on-copper-51483a0197f9

The LEGO Group and Epic Games are entering a long-term partnership to build a place for kids to play in the Metaverse.

https://www.epicgames.com/site/en-US/news/the-lego-group-and-epic-games-team-up-to-build-a-place-for-kids-to-play-in-the-metaverse

Binance has received its In-Principle Approval (IPA) for a Financial Services Permission (FSP) from the Financial Services Regulatory Authority (the FSRA) of Abu Dhabi Global Market (ADGM) to operate as a broker-dealer in virtual assets.

https://www.adgm.com/media/announcements/binance-awarded-in-principle-approval-for-a-financial-services-permission-from-adgm

Binance Labs led the seed round for Sender Wallet, a non-custodial wallet built on NEAR Protocol.

In addition to Binance Labs, Metaweb Ventures also participated in this investment round.

https://www.binance.com/en/blog/ecosystem/binance-labs-leads-the-seed-round-financing-of-sender-wallet-421499824684903678

White Star Capital, a technology investment firm, has raised $120 million for its second crypto fund investing in companies developing the metaverse.

Ubisoft is the anchor investor for the crypto fund.

https://www.coindesk.com/business/2022/04/11/white-star-capital-raises-120m-crypto-fund-for-metaverse-investments/

Animoca Brands acquires Eden Games, developer of Need for Speed: Porsche Unleashed, F1® Mobile Racing, Gear.Club, and others.

https://www.animocabrands.com/animoca-brands-acquires-eden-games

Uniswap Labs has announced the launch of Uniswap Labs Ventures.

Uniswap Labs Ventures will invest in teams at different stages and levels of the web3 stack, from infrastructure to developer tools and consumer-facing applications.

https://uniswap.org/blog/ventures

Biconomy and Cere Network has announced their integration that will cut gas fees for Cere Network builders and users, as well as drive wider adoption of lower-priced NFTs.

https://cere-network.medium.com/cere-announces-gasless-integrations-with-biconomy-e31e0fdbbdc2

Meta is beginning to test tools for selling digital assets and experiences within its virtual reality platform Horizon Worlds, a key part of its plan for creating a metaverse.

https://www.reuters.com/technology/meta-start-testing-money-making-tools-its-metaverse-2022-04-11/

Sony has announced a strategic investment of approximately 1 billion U.S. dollars in Epic Games.

https://www.sony.com/en/SonyInfo/IR/news/20220411_E.pdf

Forbes expands into Metaverse with the launch of Virtual Billionaires NFT Collection on FTX.

Forbes has partnered with FTX to launch an ERC-721 token on April 13.

https://www.forbes.com/sites/forbespr/2022/04/11/forbes-expands-into-metaverse-with-launch-of-virtual-billionaires-nft-collection-on-ftx/

The IOST Foundation, a smart contract platform, has launched a 100 Million Dollar Exclusive Incentive Fund for EVM developers.

The leading investor of the fund is Big Candle Capital.

https://medium.com/iost/iost-unveils-a-100-million-dollar-fund-to-foster-the-growth-of-an-evm-multi-chain-ecosystem-b4b1d4748152

Coinbase has announced digital assets that are under consideration for listing in Q2 2022.

Some of them are Aleph.im, Arcblock, BiFi, Big Data Protocol, Binance USD, BitDAO, Botto, Chrono.tech, Coin98, DappRadar, DEXTools, DFX Finance, Dope Wars Paper, Gemini USD, Hopr Token, StackOS and others.

https://blog.coinbase.com/increasing-transparency-for-new-asset-listings-on-coinbase-e06f2edb095e

Circle announced it has entered into an agreement for
a $400M funding round with investments from BlackRock, Inc., Fidelity Management and Research, Marshall Wace LLP and Fin Capital.

The funding round is expected to close in the second quarter.

https://www.circle.com/en/pressroom/circle-announces-400m-funding-round

Genies, a non-fungible token (NFT) platform, raised $150 million in its recent funding round led by private equity company Silver Lake.

The investment values the company at $1 billion.

https://www.coindesk.com/business/2022/04/12/silver-lake-leads-150m-round-in-nft-platform-genies-report/

BloXroute, a company that facilitates faster decentralized finance (DeFi) transactions, completed a $70 million Series B funding round led by SoftBank Vision Fund 2.

Financial service provider Lightspeed, crypto investment firms Dragonfly and ParaFi Capital and digital asset trading firm GSR were among other investors that participated.

https://www.coindesk.com/business/2022/04/12/defi-firm-bloxroute-raises-70m-to-fund-expansion-in-softbank-led-round/

Rappi, a delivery app, begins accepting cryptocurrency in Mexico.

Rappi teamed with cryptocurrency platforms Bitpay and Bitso to back the new service, which will let users turn crypto into credits within the app to make purchases.

https://www.reuters.com/technology/delivery-app-rappi-begins-accepting-cryptocurrency-mexico-2022-04-11/

Nomad, a novel approach to blockchain interoperability that leverages an optimistic mechanism to increase the security of cross-chain communication, has raised $22M at a $225M valuation in its seed round.

The round was led by Polychain and with participation from 1kx, Ethereal, Hack VC, Circle Ventures, and others.

https://blog.nomad.xyz/nomad-raises-22m-seed-round-for-security-first-interoperability-5d6b15c96007

Roberto Campos Neto, the president of Brazil's central bank, suggested that Brazil's central bank digital currency will likely be piloted in the second half of 2022.

cryptobriefing.com/brazil-plans-cbdc-pilot-for-second-half-of-2022/