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Headlines
🚀 Liechtenstein’s government plans to accept Bitcoin for payments
🇨🇳 China launches national blockchain center to train half a million specialists
🇿🇼 Zimbabwe sets price to sell gold-backed digital tokens
🇰🇪 Kenya partners with Abu Dhabi's Venom Foundation to build Web3 hub
🦅 FedNow will connect with Metal Blockchain
🇰🇿 Kazakhstan collected $7M in crypto mining taxes in 2022
👉 BNP Paribas will link digital Yuan to bank accounts for promoting CBDC
⚖️ New York introduces bill to accept stablecoins as payment for bail
💳 Visa built a platform to help Brazilian farmers negotiate contracts using CBDC
💰 PayPal discloses nearly $1B of crypto assets on balance sheet
🚀 Xapo bank to enable Tether deposits & withdrawals
🖼️ New Yuga Labs CEO Daniel Alegre buys a Bored Ape NFT for $90,000
💄 Barbie & Boss Beauties to empower women via NFTs
🎵 Moonbirds has been selected to partner with Spotify
🚀 VC investments in European projects rise in Q1 2023
🐦 Twitter has a new CEO
⚖️ Texas lawmakers vote to include use of digital currencies in state's bill of rights
🌳 Texas embraces greener Bitcoin mining with approval of flare gas emission bill
Meme of the week
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Crypto Drama
🌪️ Tornado Cash dev Alexey Pertsev faces a hearing this month
🤣 Su Zhu obtains Singapore restraining order against Arthur Hayes over 'harassment'
🫶 Do Kwon pleads not guilty on fake document charges
👮 South Korea prepares for Do Kwon extradition
🤡 Do Kwon set to be released after Montenegro court accepts $436,000 bail
🎂 Terraform Labs moves tokens worth millions for crash anniversary
💰 Jump earned $1.3B by manipulating Terra
⚖️ Celsius will let users withdraw some funds
⚖️ QuadrigaCX will start interim distribution for some users
⚖️ BlockFi receives permission to return $297M to certain customers
👏 US house financial committee gives SEC Chair Gensler ultimatum to respond to inquiries
⚖️ Coinbase legal chief sends letter to US SEC on “Misguided” rulemaking
👉 MakerDAO unveils AI-fueled roadmap to new blockchain
🚫 Nexo shuts down 2 UK-based subsidiaries
⚖️ Europe’s rules for crypto wallets nears end
📊 IRS seized $10B worth of crypto using blockchain analytics
🚫 Binance is out of Canada
🎮 Assassin's Creed 'Smart Collectibles'
Insider News
🦊 MetaMask allow U.S. users to buy ETH with PayPal
📊 Uniswap trading volume outpaces Coinbase for 4th cConsecutive month
🦾 DFNS adds biometric support to wallet
🔥 Kakarot’s vision (EVM to starknet)
👉 Loopring using CEX liquidity for swaps
₿ Bitcoin Ordinals faces new challenge after developer inserts bug
🐸 You can now pay with $PEPE on OpenSea Pro
⚽ Chiliz launching the first sport blockchain (Not sure what that means?)
📉 Synthetix perps just increased OP trading rewards to a whopping 300K $OP
🤝 Compliance and privacy working together with Railgun
🥑 Instadapp announcing Avocado multisig!
👉 Worldcoin is going to Optimism
🖼️ Important changes are coming to Blur
📊 Arbitrum is making money
👉 Klaytn square is now live
₿ Unisat does not require users to buy points anymore
👉 Aegis Is Offering Free Services to Women-Led Companies
🪂 Is Sandeep bluffing Matic airdrop?
🌉 DeBridge launch trading infrastructure product without liquidity pool
👉 Prime Protocol launched on Moonbeam, Ethereum, Arbitrum and Avalanche
👉 Animoca Brands update on financial position
Reads
📚 The 1st dApp on zkRouter Goes live - Multichain
📚 zkEVM vs zkVM: a Single Letter Can Make a Big Difference! - Erik Kaneda
📚 An article to understand Bitcoin ordinals and BRC20 - Wu Blockchain