Binance is intriguing and has published a video with the word "evolve " and Binance logo.

https://twitter.com/binance/status/1250680479239434241

The next phase of China's digital currency public beta will begin in May.
The digital Yuan will replace half of state employees' transportation allowances. The test pilot will initially target employees in the city of Suzhou.

https://decrypt.co/25764/chinas-digital-yuan-to-go-live-in-may-for-government-employees

The U.S. state of Wyoming has amended its insurance code to allow domestic insurance companies to invest in “digital assets” such as bitcoin.

https://www.theblockcrypto.com/post/62059/wyoming-passes-law-to-allow-insurance-companies-to-invest-in-bitcoin-and-other-cryptocurrencies

With Cartesi being announced as the next project to be on Binance Launchpad, Binance and Cartesi are collaborating to give away 50,000 USD in CTSI tokens as rewards for users that compete in Cartesi’s Creepts game. Creepts is a decentralized tower defense tournament game built on top of Cartesi’s Layer 2 solution for blockchains.

https://binance.zendesk.com/hc/en-us/articles/360042358331-Play-Cartesi-s-Creepts-Game-to-Enter-a-50-000-CTSI-Token-Giveaway
💧 icodrops.com/cartesi

Libra now plans to develop a handful of stablecoins each representing a different fiat currency. Libra still intends to issue a multi-currency stablecoin, but it would be backed by the new stablecoins, rather than directly by fiat currencies held in a bank.

https://www.coindesk.com/libra-scales-back-global-currency-ambitions-in-concession-to-regulators
https://libra.org/en-US/blog/libra-developers-the-path-forward/

Asset management firm Grayscale reported record inflows in the first quarter of 2020.
Grayscale's Bitcoin Trust (GBTC) led the pack with inflows topping $388.9 million.

https://www.theblockcrypto.com/post/62032/grayscale-quarter-report-record-inflows-crypto

Binance will be adding support for Tomochain (TOMO) staking starting from 2020/04/18.

https://binance.zendesk.com/hc/en-us/articles/360042426811

Binance Chain Community Releases Whitepaper for Enabling Smart Contracts

🔸 Smart Contracts
🔸 $BNB Staking
🔸 Open Source
🔸 EVM Compatible
🔸 Fast Block Times
🔸 Low Transaction Costs

https://twitter.com/binance/status/1251058130428952576?s=21
https://www.binance.com/en/blog/421499824684900520/Introducing-the-Binance-Smart-Chain-for-Smart-Contracts

For the 11th quarterly BNB Burn, Binance burned 3,373,988 BNB, equivalent to 52.4 million $USD.

This is the biggest BNB burn ever recorded, in terms of both BNB and fiat volume.

https://twitter.com/binance/status/1251342636511715332
https://twitter.com/binance/status/1251342788223922176
https://www.binance.com/en/blog/421499824684900521/11th-BNB-Burn-%7C-First-Quarter-Highlights-and-Notes-from-CZ
https://www.binance.com/en/blog/421499824684900521/11th-BNB-Burn-%7C-First-Quarter-Highlights-and-Notes-from-CZ

Decentralized finance protocol dForce has lost over 99 percent of its assets ($25M) in an attack Saturday night.

https://defipulse.com/dforce
https://www.coindesk.com/attacker-drains-decentralized-protocol-dforce-of-25m-in-weekend-attack

Renaissance, which had nearly $166 billion in regulatory assets under management at the end of 2019, has “permitted” the Medallion fund to enter the Chicago Mercantile Exchange’s (CME) cash-settled bitcoin futures market.

https://www.coindesk.com/166b-asset-manager-renaissance-eyes-bitcoin-futures-for-flagship-fund

Central Bank of China claims that digital Yuan will not cause inflation.

https://cointelegraph.com/news/bank-of-china-says-digital-yuan-will-not-cause-inflation

Venture Smart Asia Ltd. has launched Hong Kong’s first approved cryptocurrency fund with a target first-year size of $100 million, offering an officially sanctioned window for institutional investors in Bitcoin.

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2020-04-19/hong-kong-s-first-approved-crypto-fund-is-targeting-100-million

Facebook is still actively hiring for hundreds of roles in Ireland and intends to create 50 new jobs by the end of 2020 for its financial services subsidiary Calibra.

https://www.irishtimes.com/business/technology/facebook-continuing-to-hire-for-hundreds-of-roles-in-ireland-1.4232703

Coinbase is making another big push into the institutional market – and it has hired former Barclays executive Brett Tejpaul.

https://www.theblockcrypto.com/post/62362/coinbase-taps-barclays-executive-to-lead-institutional-business

The People's Bank of China (PBOC), the country’s central bank, has said that its digital currency could be used in the 2022 Winter Olympics event.

https://www.theblockcrypto.com/linked/62418/chinas-central-bank-says-digital-currency-could-be-used-in-2022-winter-olympics

WTI futures are trading at a negative price for the first time.

https://twitter.com/business/status/1252298699792883713

The Ticket Claim period for Cartesi lottery on Binance Launchpad starts in an hour and ten minutes.

https://launchpad.binance.com/en/lottery/b135073088dd4ce7ae8c40a52a99628d
https://binance.zendesk.com/hc/en-us/articles/360041795572
💧 icodrops.com/cartesi

The team behind decentralized storage network Filecoin has again postponed its mainnet launch, looking ahead to a new window between July 20 to August 21.

https://www.theblockcrypto.com/post/62442/filecoin-mainnet-delay-launch-window-july-august

It seems that the lendf/dForce hacker is in the process of returning all the hacked funds to the admin.

$10M of ETH
$6.6M of USDT
$2.2M of HBTC
$750K of USDC
$381K of HUSD
$137K of DAI
$132K of MKR
$126K of PAX

Grand total of just over $20M.

https://etherscan.io/address/0xa9bf70a420d364e923c74448d9d817d3f2a77822#tokentxns
https://twitter.com/hosseeb/status/1252475721798352896
https://cointelegraph.com/news/dforce-hacker-attempts-to-negotiate-after-allegedly-leaking-his-identity

The Ticket Claim period for Cartesi lottery on Binance Launchpad is open.

https://launchpad.binance.com/en/lottery/b135073088dd4ce7ae8c40a52a99628d
https://binance.zendesk.com/hc/en-us/articles/360041795572
💧 icodrops.com/cartesi