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Chengdu is expected to announce the DC/EP pilot around May 1st, and the first batch of internal test merchants will gather online and offline integrated consumption

Chengdu is expected to announce the central bank's digital currency (DC/EP) pilot around the "May 1st", and merchants in its internal test application scenarios will focus on online and offline integrated consumption. Relevant sources revealed that according to the current information, the first batch of merchants to land in Chengdu are mainly strategic partners selected by the four major banks and the three major operators for their own in-depth cooperation, and each bank selects 2-3 merchants. The confirmed cooperative merchants include traditional online channel giants such as JD.com and Tmall, as well as practical application scenarios such as Cainiao Yizhan, Rainbow Department Store and Starbucks. In addition, the Taikoo Li commercial district is also expected to be selected as a commercial cluster due to its advantageous geographical location and commercial conditions. (Sichuan News Network)

Recently, the Tezos blockchain protocol has been particularly attractive to investors and has long surpassed previous staking leader EOS. According to data from the monitoring website Staking Rewards, on April 25, the value of locked assets in Tezos Staking once exceeded $1.912 billion, and fell back to $1.848 billion on April 26. The price of XTZ is temporarily reported at $2.77, and the total market value exceeds $1.964 billion, which means that more than 94% of the circulating XTZ is locked. (Cryptopotato)

digital currency

digital currency

Tokenview: Tether newly printed 264 million USDT in the past week

According to Tokenview stablecoin data monitoring, as of 14:00 today, the current circulation on the Tether chain is 8.072 billion. In the past week, Tether newly printed 264 million USDT, a month-on-month decrease of 26.67%; newly destroyed 220 million USDT. 392 million USDT was newly issued through Tether Treasury, a month-on-month increase of 32.61%.

Report: Binance and Coinbase are the most active crypto industry employers in Q1 2020

This quarter, crypto and blockchain companies posted more than 400 job postings in total, with January accounting for the highest proportion with 40% of job postings. The exchanges Binance and Coinbase are among the most active employers. These two exchanges have released at least 6 jobs this quarter, and the encrypted wallet Ledger, the custodian BitGo, and Ripple have also released at least 5 jobs each. (The Block)

Zilliqa plans to launch DEX in 2020

Singapore-based blockchain project Zilliqa (ZIL) will start work on their modular network in 2020, and by the end of this year, they plan to list the Zilliqa DEX exchange. (Cryptonews)

0x founder: 0x trading volume has surpassed the peak of the ICO bubble this year

Will Warren, founder of the decentralized exchange protocol 0x, tweeted today that DeFi and wider DEX adoption have pushed 0x's trading volume to exceed the peak of the ICO bubble. The pictures it shared show that the monthly trading volume of 0x once exceeded $100 million this year.

The Interim Governance Facilitator of the Maker Foundation launched a new executive voting proposal, as follows: 1. Reduce the USDC stability fee from 8% to 6%; 2. Reduce the USDC liquidation rate from 125% to 120%; 3. Add Set Protocol to the ETH/USD Oracle whitelist; 4. Create BTC/USD Oracle + Set Protocol and dYdX to add to the whitelist; 5. Create ETH/BTC Oracle + tBTC to add to the whitelist; 6. In single-collateral DAI Disable MKR Oracle; 7. Increase the governance security module delay from 4 hours to 12 hours; 8. Increase the debt ceiling of DAI from 90 million to 100 million.

Blockchain industry

Blockchain industry

Alipay uses blockchain to protect copyrights, serving more than 20 million small and medium-sized enterprises

4.26 is the World Intellectual Property Day. In the copyright protection scenario, Alipay’s blockchain technology has served more than 20 million small and medium-sized enterprises, which can greatly simplify copyright protection procedures and reduce the cost of rights protection.

Federated Co-operatives Limited (FCL), one of Canada's 50 largest companies, has partnered with Morpheus.Network, a blockchain-based supply chain middleware platform. FCL plans to integrate DLT technology and deploy it across its diverse supply chain, including 1,400 businesses and more than 23,000 employees in Western Canada. The two companies have signed a three-year agreement under which Morpheus.Network will provide optical character recognition, machine learning and blockchain technology to simplify FCL's complex supply chain. (Cointelegraph)

Investment and Financing

Investment and Financing

Finance officials in the “crypto valley” near Zurich, Switzerland, are in talks with the federal government to set up a CHF 100 million ($102.7 million) fund, according to a report in the Swiss newspaper Die am Sonntag. Zug cantonal finance chief Heinz Taennler said the fund would include private investment, local government contributions and federal guarantees. Only half of the region's 50 largest companies said in a survey that they would be able to survive the next 12 months under current conditions, the newspaper reported. Taennler said the Swiss government announced earlier this week that it would provide 154 million Swiss francs in credit guarantees for start-ups, but that would prove insufficient. (Bloomberg)

global policy

global policy

The recently held Shanxi Provincial Industry and Information Work Conference clearly stated that it is necessary to focus on the five major areas of "network, intelligence, data, devices, and cores" to promote China's Great Wall Intelligent Manufacturing (Shanxi) Base, Baidu Cloud Computing Center Phase II, and Baixinxin. The construction of key projects such as innovation base, Guoke Jinyun base, and China Electronics Technology Innovation Industrial Park, explore the application demonstration of "block chain + industry", and carry out pilot demonstrations of smart factories and digital workshops. (Shanxi Daily)

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V God: Ethereum's soon-to-be-obsolete mining machines can be used for zero-knowledge proofs

Vitalik Buterin was asked in the interview what people should do with these outdated Ethereum miners once the network switches from its current consensus algorithm (Ethash) to no longer needing the current custom miners. V God said that he hopes to see these mining machines can be used, but certainly not all of them can be used, at most there may be only a part, and zero-knowledge proof is an option. (Cointelegraph)

Vitalik Buterin was asked in the interview what people should do with these outdated Ethereum miners once the network switches from its current consensus algorithm (Ethash) to no longer needing the current custom miners. V God said that he hopes to see these mining machines can be used, but certainly not all of them can be used, at most there may be only a part, and zero-knowledge proof is an option. (Cointelegraph)

Forbes: Bitcoin will be the best performing asset in 2020