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⁠Loopring DEX Quickly Fixes Major Bug Before It Can Be Exploited A security vulnerability on decentralized exchange, Loopring, was identified and quickly patched before it could be exploited.

⁠New Report Explains Why XRP Takes Weekends Off A report from Flipside Crypto delves into why XRP trading drops significantly on weekends.

⁠OKEx Executive: Digital Currency as a Basis of Post-Crisis World Order The world will not be the same after the COVID-19 pandemic with the necessity for the brand new global monetary system based on crypto.

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⁠Indian State Gov’t Partners With Blockchain Firms to Drive Tech Growth Indian state government-led blockchain accelerator T-Block partners with Aeternity, Harmony, and Matic Network to ramp up blockchain growth.

⁠US Debt Hits $25T — Stimulus Checks That Bought Bitcoin Now Worth $1.6K The Federal Reserve’s Zimbabwe-esque policy sees the country’s debt mountain reach unimaginable heights, adding $1 trillion under one month.

⁠African Bitcoin Trading Volume Breaks 2017’s Record Ahead of Halving Peer-to-peer Bitcoin trade in Sub-Saharan Africa has rallied, surpassing the previous combined volume record posted at the heights of 2017’s rally.

⁠Top Facts on China’s Crypto Yuan and Related Blockchain Projects As China stops the spread of COVID-19 inside the country, the government announced two of the largest crypto and blockchain-related developments.

⁠Crypto Price Oracles Are About to Become “Unstoppable” A Chainlink node operator has moved its data to a new "unstoppable" domain on the Ethereum blockchain.

⁠Tron Foundation Reportedly Tapped US COVID-19 Business Relief Program for $2M The Tron Foundation is once again mired in controversy over an unverified claim that it secured a $2 million grant from a federal relief prog…

⁠Bison Trails Announces Support for Celo Platform A founding member of the Celo Alliance for Prosperity has added the Celo protocol to their platform.

⁠TON Community Launches Free Version of Telegram Open Blockchain Free TON Blockchain and tokens are launching today by the decentralized community, which claims that Telegram needs to step away from the project.

⁠Report: Square’s CashApp and Grayscale Consumed Over 50% of Bitcoin Mined Q1 202 Square’s Cash App and Grayscale absorbed over half of the Bitcoins mined in the first three months of 2020, according to a May 7 report.

⁠Wall St Veteran Launches Crypto-Powered Social Network and Marketplace Serial entrepreneur Jenny Ta has launched a crypto-powered social media network and marketplace platform that promises it won’t sell users' data.

⁠CZ and Charles Hoskinson Take Down Serial Bitcoin Naysayer Peter Schiff Binance CEO Changpeng Zhao and Ethereum co-founder Charles Hoskinson have taken gold bug Peter Schiff to task for his professionalized Bitcoin crit…

⁠CFTC Charges Multiple Firms for $15 Million Crypto and Binary Options Scam U.S. and Israel-based firms were charged for promoting fake investment schemes and defrauding customers of $15 million.

⁠Warm-up? History Shows Bitcoin May See Epic Rally After 150% Gain Bitcoin price is preparing for a powerful mid-term rally and a new BTC price cycle, according to historical market data and previous halving events.

⁠Silvergate Bank Reports 75% Increase in BTC Trading Volume The crypto-friendly bank saw an increase in the number digital currency customers and Bitcoin trading volume in the first quarter of 2020.

⁠Trillions of Dai Required in Future to Maintain Maker's Current Value Crypto analysts AlfaBlock claim that the MakerDAO protocol will need to host several trillion Dai by 2040 to maintain its current market capitalizati…

⁠Sign Into Websites Using Your Crypto Wallet Instead of a Password You can now sign into websites using public keys derived from your crypto wallet — an order of magnitude more secure than using a password.

⁠‘Risky’ Tokenized Real Estate Platform Hits New Heights After Paypal Ban Ethereum-based tokenized real estate platform hits ATH after turning to crypto following a permanent ban by PayPal.

⁠A Single Chinese Region Accounts for One-Third of Global BTC Hash Rate Cambridge University has launched a ‘Bitcoin Mining Map’ that shows the distribution of hashing power worldwide as well as within China.

⁠Guide Highlights Patchwork of Crypto Tax Laws in Latin America New research has highlighted a patchwork of laws, confused regulations and unusual concepts governing crypto taxation in Latin America.

⁠Abra Garners $5 Million from Stellar Development Foundation Abra has received $5 million in funding from the Stellar Development Foundation.

⁠Novogratz Alludes Stimulus Causing Recent Bitcoin Uptrend Mike Novogratz suspects Bitcoin's recent upward price action is a result of the U.S. government's corrective economic measures.

⁠Bitcoin Is a Digital Asset Says Intermediate People’s Court in China A court dispute between an international couple and four Bitcoin robbers has come to an end.

⁠New Bill Would Presume Digital Assets Not to Be Securities in California New legislation in California may help establish definitions of digital assets as securities, though nationwide impact is uncertain.

⁠Most of Cash App’s $528M Revenue in Q1 Came From Bitcoin Square reports that Bitcoin composed the bulk of Cash App’s revenue in the first quarter, though it added much less to profit.

⁠Anonymous Crypto Payments Cause Problems for South Korean Child Porn Case Experts warned that South Korean authorities may struggle to identify all people who used crypto payments.