👀 #MATIC Polygon will help develop an immutable zkEVM protected by matic stakers

The immutable zkEVM will use ZK-Rollup technology for scalable Ethereum smart contracts and will be protected by validators that stake matic tokens in the future.
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🇦🇺🕹 Australian regulator has started asking banks to announce their risks - in some cases daily - for cryptocurrency-focused startups and businesses after the crash Silicon Valley Bank (#SIVB) and the volatility of global creditors.
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🗣 cz_binance: #BUSD, the most fiat-backed stablecoin audited by major accounting firms and regulated by the NYDFS, has been forced to wind down (no new minting). #USDC market capitalization is also shrinking due to bank closures. #USDT is rising.

🤑 The Bitcoin Fear and Greed Index hits a 16-month high of 68.

🥳 Tether Continues: Issued an Additional 1 Billion #USDT on the TRON Network

🇫🇬👀 #USDC Circle applies for French cryptocurrency license as stablecoin issuer expands in Europe and prepares for new requirements under EU MiCA law
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🥳 Solv protocol: Mainnet V3 and testnet deployed. During the beta testing phase, we allowed 4 network organizations to raise $40 million in liquidity. The next episode is scheduled for March 24th. twitter

🙋‍♂️ #GMX DEX GMX enjoys the support of its community in deploying the protocol on the recently announced Coinbase Second Layer Blockchain (COIN) Base.

💸👀 #ETH Over $1 billion in Ethereum was lost forever due to human error according to research by Conor Grogan, CEO of Coinbase
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💰👀 Gryfyn Crypto Wallet Completes $7.5M Financing, Animoca Ventures and Others Participate in Investments animocabrands.com

🥳 #ARB Bitget announces addition of Arbitrum (ARB) and ARB related airdrops

⛏📊 Bitcoin miner Bitfarms (BITF) reported a loss of 8 cents per share compared to a profit of 5 cents a year earlier. Mining gross margin fell to 33% from 52% in the third quarter according to data filed with the SEC today

💰👀 OP3N web3 AI platform completes $28M Series A funding led by Animoca Brands techcrunch.com

👀 #CEL Celsius legal and advisory fees could reach $144 million. cointelegraph.com

📊 #OP Santiment: Optimism has seen a surge in unique users since the beginning of the year, but the number of new addresses participating in daily #OP transactions has dropped 95% since February. Apparently, this is putting pressure on the price. Over the past month, while the rest of the crypto market has recorded price increases, OP has shown a double-digit decline.

🥶 Indian crypto exchange WazirX blocked over 2400 accounts in 6 months. The exchange also received 431 law enforcement requests for a total platform transaction volume of $390 million between October 2022 and March 2023. forcast

👀 #IOTX DAO IoTeX votes for supporting derivatives for staking #ETH. The proposal will add native support for representing staking segments as NFTs on the blockchain.
97% of token holders were in favor of this move.

🇺🇸 US Open S&P500: +1.00% Nasdaq: +0.90% Dow: +1.05%

📊 Report opencover:
- In 2022, the DeFi insurance industry paid out a record $34.4 million in claims;
- only 0.5% of the DeFi market value is insured

🇮🇳 The Central Bank of India is advocating a law that will allow users of its retail #CBDC to remove any transactions from the network's ledger to preserve anonymity. coindesk

🖼 Pudgy Penguins filed two new U.S. trademark applications