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⁠Sweden’s central bank completes first phase of digital currency pilot The Riksbank said that CBDC technology still requires further investigation.

⁠UK Bitcoin mining revenues soar but China hogs 75% of ‘blood coin’ production U.K.-based Argo Blockchain just did record revenues, but a new report suggests 75% of Bitcoin mining still takes place in China, where “blood…

⁠Goldman Sachs CEO believes Bitcoin regulations are set for a 'big evolution' Goldman Sachs CEO David Soloman has forecast a big evolution in how the U.S. government regulates cryptocurrency.

⁠Record first quarter for institutional crypto investment products: CoinShares Assets under management for institutional funds have hit a record high of $59 billion.

⁠Jeremy Allaire: 'USDC is halfway to flipping PayPal' USDC has seen huge growth and is gaining fast on Tether, the king of the stablecoins.

⁠Coinbase's first quarter revenue hits record $1.8B ahead of its Nasdaq listing Coinbase raked in $1.8 billion revenue in the first quarter of this year according to new figures released one week prior to the company’s p…

⁠Nifty News: Playboy's revealing tokens, SNL’s NFT skit sold as an NFT, and more ... Playboy bunnies are set to hop into the NFT market, Saturday Night Live sold that NFT sketch for more than $360,000 with all the procee…

⁠Encrypted messaging app Signal enables private payments using MobileCoin High-speed privacy payments using MOB available to UK users only.

⁠BitMEX's Arthur Hayes surrenders in Hawaii, released on $10M bond The former CEO of BitMEX surrendered in Hawaii and was later released after posting a $10 million bond.

⁠Ripple wins access to SEC discussions on defining crypto assets as securities Ripple’s lawyers will dig through the SEC's internal discussion on crypto for mention of XRP.

⁠New Kind of Network (NKN) gains 340% to become ‘the biggest blockchain in the world’ NKN price rallied to a new all-time high as the number of full consensus nodes on the network surpassed 67,000.

⁠Polkadot futures open interest hits $1B as DOT price reaches a new ATH The open interest of Polkadot futures soared to $1 billion, eclipsing Litecoin and XRP to make DOT the third-largest futures market.

​​‘No more rug pulls’: Project eliminates human involvement from token distributions In a landscape marred by rug pulls, scams and bad actors, a Polkadot project has built an escrow service that makes token distributions…

⁠Rewards system allows decentralized messaging app users to earn crypto The messaging app project was aimed at avoiding third-party data harvesting.

⁠Alameda Research invests $4M in Vietnamese DeFi project The DeFi market continues to heat up, with Alameda Research identifying Southeast Asia as a potential growth hub.

⁠Celer (CELR), Cartesi (CTSI) and Compound (COMP) rally as DeFi heats up Aiming to reduce the cost of transacting within DeFi is attracting developers and investors to Celer Network, Cartesi and Compound.

⁠Real-world data comes to NFTs as street artists geotag their work “Blockchain is not just a buzzword here, it legitimately enables something that used to be impossible.”

⁠Paxos applies for clearing license with SEC following successful pilot tests The stablecoin issuer completed a successful pilot test for same-day trade settlements with Credit Suisse and Instinet.

⁠CoinMarketCap removes South Korea crypto exchanges from Bitcoin price tracker “If the prices on South Korean exchanges stabilize, then we will add the data back in, but that hasn’t happened yet,” said a CoinMarketCap sp…

⁠$2.52B in bearish Bitcoin options signal pro traders are hedging their bets The open interest on bearish put options has risen to $2.52 billion as traders look for protection against a BTC price drop to the $40,000 to $…

⁠Can crypto trading and investing be taught in just one book? "Digital Assets" gives would-be investors and traders the basic tools and knowledge they need to enter the market with at least half an idea of what they are…

⁠Crypto lobby groups are gaining traction in Washington as the threat of regulatory bottleneck looms The blockchain industry is looking to shed the negative association between digital assets and crime as the threat of a…

⁠Russian lobby group launches new campaign against anti-crypto laws According to Russian crypto advocates, the existing laws “do not meet the needs” of the cryptocurrency market.

⁠NFTs are accelerating Topps' digital transition, says chair Michael Eisner said the trading card manufacturer is "25% digital" and growing due in part to blockchain technology.

⁠Prep time with Bitcoin: Students have fun new ways to study crypto Crypto education for K-12 students is underway, but current methods are not good enough at teaching management of personal finances, let alone Bitcoin.

⁠Coinbase and Square lead new crypto lobbying effort The Crypto Council for Innovation is looking to lead the charge for sensible cryptocurrency regulations around the world.

⁠After breaking $100 billion TVL, DeFi is now the equivalent of a top 40 U.S. bank It's a long road to the #1 spot, but some ecosystem players think we'll get there eventually.

⁠Bitcoin falls below $58K as Bloomberg eyes $80K BTC price in Q2 A comparatively modest price prediction comes as Bitcoin ranges, giving altcoins an opportunity to outperform.

⁠Buy more Bitcoin, analyst tells institutions as $257M in BTC leaves Gemini Stock-to-flow creator PlanB suggests that now is the time to continue accumulating with selling pressure fading fast.

⁠Indian IT giant Tech Mahindra to launch stablecoin tool for banks Tech Mahindra wants to provide U.S. banks with a stablecoin solution after the OCC authorized federally chartered banks to use stablecoins for settlement…