​​Most popular assets available for staking on centralized exchanges. Staking on centralized exchanges is not the most decentralized decision but the easiest for the user.

​​Matic announced the final pre-mainnet stage. Matic has launched its public incentivized staking testnet event Counter Stake back in November 2019. And now it is entering the final stage when validators will essentially attempt to 'break' the network, in order to ensure with certainty that all bugs and issues have been identified and rectified during Stage 1. This is the final hurdle before the mainnet will be ready to launch.

​​Bitcoin has finally surpassed $8,000 level and is trading slightly above. This makes +34% growth during last 30 days. Bitcoin halving will happen in less than two weeks.

​​UMA (UMA) will be available for trading on Uniswap as of today. A Coinbase-backed startup developing a smart contract platform that allow you to create ERC-20 tokens that track the price of any price feed(gold, oil, S&P 500). UMA has a total supply of 100M tokens at launch.

The project will deposit 2M UMA tokens into the Uniswap market. 35M UMA tokens will be distributed to developers and users of the UMA network. An additional 14.5M UMA tokens will be reserved for future token sales.
48.5M UMA tokens are held by the founders, early contributors, and investors. These tokens are transfer-restricted until 2021.

​​xDai chain (STAKE) is already available for trading on BitMax. xDai has closed public auction on BitMax yesterday. Raised during auction: $0.22M USD. Raised in total: $0.945M USD. Initial circulating supply: $0.9M USD.
Final auction price: $0.55
Current price: $0.77

​​Coinbase Custody to support Celo Gold (cGLD), Filecoin (FIL), Keep Network (KEEP), NEAR Protocol (NEAR) & Polkadot (DOT).

​​Bitcoin price has surpassed the $9,000 level and is now trading at $9,4K. This makes +20% growth during last 24 hours.

​​Props project has raised another $2M USD during private fundraising round and will migrate to Algorand blockchain. The round was led by Union Square Ventures (USV) and Borderless Capital, with participation from GSR, Lvna Capital, SPiCE VC, CoinFund and the DatingCom Group. Props has raised around $22M USD in 2017. The token is not available for trading yet and the team intends to list it in 2020.

​​Bitcoin monthly price performance: 2018-2020.

​​Bitcoin ❤️ April. It was the fifth year in the row when Bitcoin price has shown positive returns in April.

​​April 2020 performance: Bitcoin vs exchange tokens.

​​April 2020 performance: Bitcoin vs privacy coins.

​​April 2020 performance: Bitcoin vs DeFi tokens.

​​Crypto heavyweight champions of the month. April’s 2020 best performing coins with market capitalization above $100M USD.

​​Matic will start its second DApp Week as of May 4. In preparation for upcoming Mainnet launch & Staking Matic will introduce new DApps that will become part of Matic ecosystem. During one year since the launch on Binance Launchpad Matic has shown tremendous results in terms of onboarding partners, validators and ecosystem growth.

​​RiveX released desktop version of its wallet. RX wallet will support a variety of assets including RVX, ETH as well as ERC-20 and WRC-20 tokens. It intends to bridge and integrate DAPPs not only from Wanchain but also from other ecosystems such as Ethereum, EOS, Binance Chain, Tron, etc.
RiveX has recently released its token metrics. According to the blogpost RVX token will get listed in May and will enter the market with one of the lowest initial circulating supply (0.2% from the total supply).

​​Comparison of the current stable coins market capitalization. Tether is still dominating the market despite the recent launch of several new stable coins and significant increase of market cap of competitors.

​​Tether is currently available on five different blockchains: Bitcoin (via Omni Layer and Liquid sidechain), Ethereum, Tron, Eos and Algorand. Tether on Algorand proof-of-stake blockchain has been launched in February this year. Algorand is the first platform for Tether with instant confirmation. Algorand leverages the speed and security of the protocol to give traders fast settlement and reduced counterparty risk in their fiat to digital asset transactions.

​​YTD growth of stable coins market capitalization. Most of the stable coins increased market capitalization year-to-date with BUSD taking the lead.

​​Near Protocol has closed another $21.6M USD private fundraising round. The token funding was led by Andreessen Horowitz’s a16z fund. Other investors included Pantera Capital, Libertus, Blockchange, Animal Ventures, Distributed Global and Notation Capital.
Including previous funding, Near has raised around $33M USD to date. In July last year Near closed its first known $12M USD fundraising round with participation from Metastable Capital, Accomplice, Electric Capital, Pantera Capital and Coinbase Ventures. The token sale details and prices are not available for public at the moment.

​​A short list of upcoming events and important development milestones you should know about:
Celo auction: May 11.
TomoChain: Excalibur Hardfork on May 12.
Polkadot mainnet: expected in May.
Harmony open staking: expected in May.
Matic Mainnet: expected in May.
Band Mainnet: expected in May.
Theta Mainnet 2.0: May 27.
KEEP: StackDrop as of June 8.
COTI: COTI-X launch in June.
Zilliqa: staking to be launched in Q2.
Kyber: staking to be launched in June.
Beam: Hardfork on June 28.
AVA Labs mainnet: expected in July.
Ethereum: PoS transition in June-July.
Last update: May 6.