The Bank of England is looking to build a team of as many as 30 people to develop a central bank digital currency (CBDC).

In February, the U.K.'s central bank and finance ministry said they were starting further research and development on a digital version of the pound sterling, and invited the public to weigh in on the plans. While the project has been dubbed Britcoin in the press, the bank is less keen on the moniker, saying no decision has been made on whether a digital pound would use distributed ledger technology.

The bank's website careers page lists positions for a Digital Pound Security Architect and Digital Pound Solutions Architect, both added toward the end of last month. Both pay as much as 80,000 British pounds ($99,000) in salary. The Treasury advertised for a Head of Central Bank Digital Currency in January.

https://www.coindesk.com/policy/2023/04/09/bank-of-england-targets-30-strong-team-for-digital-currency-report/

Instagram and Facebook will wind down the support for digital collectibles on April 11, 2023.

https://help.instagram.com/1824155514623095

Manta Network will make a big announcement in two days.

https://twitter.com/mantanetwork/status/1645064047241629696

The Arbitrum community proposes for returning 700 million ARB to the DAO treasury.

Current results:
For - 50%
Against - 48%

The proposal implies that in the case of a return, there will be more evidence that final decisions are made by the community and, therefore, that Arbitrum is decentralized.

https://forum.arbitrum.foundation/t/proposal-return-700m-arb-to-the-dao-treasury/13490
https://snapshot.org/#/arbitrumfoundation.eth/proposal/0x3ae4c725f7cb82d450b6fe8517178b2a0a51d1105beaad0adb421df1bc8f8cc4

Kraken, Binance and Coinbase jousting for deposit allocations across the Beacon Chain's early days.

It was Lido who emerged victorious, continuing to dominate deposit inflows as of present.

https://twitter.com/glassnode/status/1645048945876295682

The FTX’s current leadership has published a new report for the court.

The report says:
▫️FTX leadership regularly lost accounts.
▫️Alameda is not auditable.
▫️Bankman-Fried's internal confessions to his staff often directly contradicted his public statements made either via Twitter or to the press.
▫️FTX did not use two-factor authentication for its enterprise services, including Google Workspace and 1Password.
▫️FTX has always held the vast majority of its crypto-assets in hot wallets.
▫️FTX US Brett Harrison resigned in September 2022 because of "lingering disagreements" with Sam Bankman-Fried and members of his inner circle.

https://restructuring.ra.kroll.com/FTX/

There is a rising rate of a long term Bitcoin hodlers.

There was a similar trend from January, 2021 through April, 2021 when BTC rose above $64k for the first time.

https://twitter.com/santimentfeed/status/1645125995069046784

Co-founder and CPO of Mysten Labs (Sui Network) Adeniyi Abiodun spoke harshly on Twitter: "Stop spreading nonsense. There is no Sui Airdrop. No planed or ever will be."

https://twitter.com/emanabio/status/1645183702224506881

Tether Chief Technology Officer Paolo Ardoyno tweeted today that the company's Q1 earnings exceeded $700M.

https://twitter.com/paoloardoino/status/1645157072785342465

Cumulative minting volume of Bitcoin Ordinals records exceeded 1 million.

https://dune.com/dgtl_assets/bitcoin-ordinals-analysis

On April 7 the USDT price fell to $0.92 on the Bittrex exchange. The current price is $0.96. Perhaps the dump is related to Bittrex leaving the U.S. on April 30.

https://global.bittrex.com/trade/usdt-usd

Bounce Finance has announced its April roadmap: Enhanced Account System, Fixed-Price Auctions for NFTs, Real-World Collectible Auction, and more.

Bounce Finance has also introduced its revamped website.

https://twitter.com/bounce_finance/status/1645209253630603264
https://twitter.com/bounce_finance/status/1644475450457038850

For the first time, the amount of Open Interest in Bitcoin  Options contracts ($10.3B) has surpassed that held in Futures contracts ($10.0B).

Futures OI has been relatively flat in 2023.

This results from significant call option buys, as investors start to speculate on higher $BTC prices.

https://twitter.com/glassnode/status/1644517577090273281

Two days ago a number of Fan tokens significantly grew: OG, ALPINE, JUV, BAR, ATM, INTER.
The reasons for the growth are unclear. The prices of fan tokens have now corrected.

https://dropstab.com/categories/fan-token

The number of addresses holding more than 100 BTC reached a 3-month low and continues to decrease.

https://twitter.com/glassnodealerts/status/1644494143903629312

Google Trends chart shows that TRON has surpassed Ethereum (ETH) in search popularity.

https://trends.google.com/trends/explore?q=TRC20,ERC20

Ethereum supply has decreased by more than 80,000 ETH since the Merge update, and the annual deflation rate is 0.11%

In addition, Ethereum's pledge amount is about 18.03 million and APY's annual pledge yield is 3.77% There are still 2 days and 12 hours left before the Merge update.

https://www.oklink.com/cn/eth/shanghai-upgrade?tab=3

CZ: “Seeing some issues with Futures UM Rest service/API, affecting UI and API. Our team is on it. Announcement coming soon. Thank you for your understanding.”

https://twitter.com/cz_binance/status/1645312557069094912

UPD: “Systems should all be back to normal now. Some server issues before. Our team migrated off the affected servers. Thank you for your support!”

https://twitter.com/cz_binance/status/1645330769768792064