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⁠Korean Luxury Retail Clients To Manage Reward Points on Blockchain Blockchain-powered rewards startup MiL.k stikes a partnership with a retail cluster in Seoul downtown, brings the technology to “millions.”

⁠Vietnam Govt to Launch Crypto Research Group to Evaluate Policy Vietnam finance ministry has established a research group to develop and scrutinize digital currency-related policy proposals.

⁠Coronavirus Takes Toll on Bitcoin Halving, but Pandemic Won’t Steal the Show While miners took a double hit, the combination of the pandemic and halving could provide an unlikely tailwind to the crypto industry at large…

⁠Bitcoin Crosses $9K as Paul Tudor Jones Confirms 1% BTC Portfolio Bitcoin price action turns volatile once more as daily gains circle 4% despite bad news from traditional markets, which are tipped to open lower.

⁠Exchanges Bolster Their Bitcoin Insurance Funds After ‘Halving Dump’ After Bitcoin price plummeted on May 10, several exchanges scrambled to inject liquidity into their BTC insurance funds.

⁠Virtual Consensus 2020 Kicks Off with ECB Official Discussing CBDC Major crypto event, Consensus: Distributed, kicks off virtually, with ECB board member Yves Mersch discussing central bank digital currencies.

⁠Calm Before the Halving: Bitcoin Pending Transactions at Weekly Low Activity on the Bitcoin blockchain is slowing down as miners process almost all pending transactions in the mempool.

⁠Join Cointelegraph’s Bitcoin Halving Party, Less Than 3 Hours to Go As Bitcoin’s halving draws ever closer, Cointelegraph is going live with some of the biggest names in crypto, to celebrate the event.

⁠South Korea Sees Influx of Blockchain Platforms for Unlisted Stocks The South Korean blockchain space sees many new platforms trading for unlisted stocks, following an offering from state-backed Koscom last year.

⁠Four Ways to Pimp Your Wardrobe Ahead of the Bitcoin Halving Stand out from the crowd, with Cointelegraph’s guide to the Bitcoin halving-themed attire.

⁠Record Bitcoin Futures Gap: 4 Things to Know for BTC Price This Week What’s in a $1,200 drop? Bitcoin is serving up considerable volatility, but all factors point to business as usual as the third halving hits.

⁠Paxful P2P Trading Integrated Into Infinito Wallet Multi-crypto wallet Infinito is integrating Paxful’s P2P trading services into its platform.

⁠Bitcoin Block Size Sees New All Time High, Hash Rate Catching Up The average block size of the Bitcoin network peaked at 1.341 MB on May 2, with the mining hash rate approaching a new all-time high.

⁠DBS Bank Joins Global Blockchain Network to Digitize Trade Settlement Singapore-based DBS bank joins blockchain trade-finance network Contour to disrupt its letters of credit settlement process.

⁠Average BTC Transaction Fees Increased 300% Days Before Halving The average transaction fee for Bitcoin peaked at $3.19 on May 8, an increase of over 300% from the average fee of $0.62 on April 26.

⁠Litecoin Foundation Migrates to BitGo’s Multi-Signature Wallet The Litecoin Foundation announced on May 7 that it would migrate from the multi-sig Electrum-LTC wallet to BitGo’s multi-sig wallet.

⁠SBI Holdings CEO: Ripple Partners Could Help Pandemic Supply Chain SBI Holdings is proposing Ripple partner with multinational corporations to increase transparency and traceability across supply chains.

⁠Tokenized Real Estate Booms While Security Tokens Struggle Despite a nearly double-digit retraction in the combined capitalization of the security token sector, real estate tokens gain over 4% during April.

⁠Loom Network Responds to Rumors of the Project’s Demise Representatives from the Loom Network have clarified that, though they have pivoted to an enterprise solution, the project remains active.

⁠$270M in Longs Liquidated as Pre-Halving Hype Backfires 98% of liquidations on BitMEX yesterday were long positions, indicating over-exuberant pre-halving bullishness at $10,000.

⁠Bitcoin Price Volatile 24 Hours Before Halving, Key Indicators Bullish While the fear and uncertainty surrounding BTC has decreased quite substantially before the upcoming halving, experts have noted that the greed aspe…

⁠Bitcoin Tests $10,000, ‘Halving Dump,’ $1M BTC Predicted: Hodler’s Digest, May 4–10 Bitcoin suffers a “halving dump” after testing $10,000, what the event means for miners, and the latest predictions of where prices wil…

⁠Jenny Ta on Transitioning From Wall Street to Crypto Serial entrepreneur Jenny Ta shared insights into her transition from Wall Street to crypto.

⁠Celsius Targets New Users With Tokenized Gold and Commodities Alex Mashinsky revealed Celsius plans to list more tokenized commodities after launching support for Tether gold last week.

⁠Halving Hype Drives Second-Strongest Spot Volume on Record The run-up to Bitcoin’s halving has driven near-record volumes, with April 30 posting the second-largest daily trade on record.

⁠Bitcoin Halving Is Almost Here: Will Bitcoin Go to the Moon? Positive signs for Bitcoin have been increasing in different spaces, and the bullish trend seems to be more and more realistic.

⁠Traders Say Binance Cut Their Bitcoin Shorts: Here's Why It Happened Traders claim that their Bitcoin shorts were unfairly cut on Binance Futures, but the process is called auto-deleveraging, and here is why it happens.

⁠Token Sales Treated as Securities Offerings by Default in Gibraltar Gibraltar’s government is treating token sales as securities offerings by default unless the issuer can prove otherwise.

⁠Positive On-Chain Activities During Bitcoin Halving Countdown Looking at the Bitcoin Mayer Multiple, the Miner’s Position Index, Miner’s Rolling Inventory to provide fresh perspectives on what is going on with the marke…