🎧 Today's Crypto highlights:

🇪🇺 ECB explores decentralized settlements for wholesale financial markets

🕹 FDIC takes over Cross River Bank

💳 Mastercard expands its crypto payment card program and merges with #APT , #SOL , #MATIC , #AVAX

🆕 #CYBER CoinList announced CyberConnect sale

🇯🇵 Binance JAPAN could open by July

🇰🇿 Binance will launch a branch in Kazakhstan this year

🤔 #ETHW EthereumPoW haven't made software updates to Geth on GitHub since launch

👀 KuCoin refuses to freeze the hacker's assets on the exchange

🆕 Binance has listed #EDU and will add futures later

🏴‍☠️ #MATIC Ecosystem project Polygon 0VIX Protocol hacked for ~$2 million

📊 #SUI Public Network Sui Releases Performance Update

🤝 PayPal partners with Venmo

🖼 #SOL Mad Lads is the #NFT best selling collection of the week

⛏ Block buys a lot of mining chips from Intel

🤝 Revolut integrates tax reporting service

🔛 #MTA #DHT dHedge acquires mStable

📈 Binance BTC Reserves Reach New ATH at 692,000 #BTC

📊 #BTC Trader sentiment is still bearish

🖼 Magic Eden launched AMM mining pool

⚖️ US Court Orders MTI Founder to Pay $3.4 Billion for Crypto Fraud

🐳 12 giant whales hold 9% of the #BLUR offer

🐳 Top 25 ZkSync Era whales account for ~32% of total ZkSync assets

✅ #LDO The Lido community approved the creation of a treasury management committee

🐳 The share of capitalization of the cohort of whales is declining

📊 #XRP Ripple brags about Q1 report

🔛 OKX integrated ZK-Starks into the reserve verification process

🎮 Binance Launches Crypto Gaming Affiliate Program

📈 Total trading volume on the top 15 exchanges increased by 40% in the quarter

🖼 #SAND Binance launches Sandbox NFT staking

🙋‍♂ Epic Games VP joins Yuga Labs

🤝 #T Threshold launched bug bounty program

🔛 Blockchain Capital transferred 18.2 million #MATIC to exchanges

🥳 #CRU Crust Network intends to send all of its #ARB to community members

📊 Most overbought and underbought assets

🤝 #DF dForce partnered with zCloak

🏦 BofA is bearish

🇺🇸 The Fed will create stricter rules for banks

💰 Fundraising:

- Secro - $3.6 million;

- #SUI SuiPad ~$1 million;

- NFTGo - $4 million

🍒 Weekend Events :

Saturday 29 April:

🔓 Unlock: HAPI ( #HAPI ) - 1%

🔛 Opulous ( #OPUL ) - New product launch

📝 End of voting: Celo ( #CELO ) - Transfer up to 120 million CELO from Mento Reserve to Celo Fund (102)

- Threshold Network ( #T ) - Helping tBTC Growth (TIP 48)

🙋‍♂️ BinanceUS will open withdrawal of #ETH staking rewards

Sunday 30 April:

🔓 Unlock: Ftribe Fighters ( #F2C ) - 1%

- Kaby Arena ( #KABY ) - 3%

- Snook ( #SNK ) - 5%

🙅‍♂️ Bittrex plans to wind down their US operations

- MakerDAO ( #MKR ) - Several core contributors to leave

🙋‍♂️ Synthetix ( #SNX ) - Synthetix committee nomination ends

📝 Voting ends: Synthetix( #SNX ) - Adding APT, LDO, ADA, GMX, FIL, LTC, BCH, SHIB and CRV to Synthetix Perps V2 (SIP 298)

- Celo ( #CELO ) - Carbon Offset Mechanism Update