🇫🇷 The French Financial Market Authority said that MiCA will come into force in January 2025, AF will provide registered crypto firms with an accelerated transition to MiCA rules amf-france.org

🥳 OKX Web3 wallet already supports NFT based on the Bitcoin Ordinals #NFT protocol twitter.com

🇰🇬🌝 #LUNA The Seoul South District Court of South Korea rejected the prosecution's (Prosecution's Office) claim that Luna Coin is a security. In most previous lawsuits in South Korean courts, cryptocurrencies were not considered securities.

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👀 OKX Founder: All projects that stop development will be delisted in accordance with the OKX Listing Agreement twitter.com

💸 About $650 million of longs were liquidated on the crypto markets last week theblock.com

📊 CoinShares report on financial flows in crypto for the last week:

Products for investment in digital assets showed an outflow of a total of $30 million, ending a 6-week inflow.

The outflow began on Friday (April 14) when #BTC reached the $30,000 psychological level, suggesting that the recent selloff was the result of profit taking, especially in the absence of any macroeconomic triggers.

#ETH Last week, Ethereum received a $17 million influx, indicating an increase in confidence among investors following the implementation of Shapella.

📊 KaikoData: Rates on cbETH, Coinbase's staking utility token, have risen following the successful completion of the Ethereum Shapella upgrade. This suggests that traders are more likely to buy the token if it falls against #ETH.

🥳 #ETH Binance Introduces Wrapped Beacon ETH (#WBETH) for ETH Staking

WBETH will allow users to participate in DeFi projects outside of Binance while ensuring they are eligible to receive the corresponding accumulated ETH staking rewards.

👀 #SOL Floor app for NFT portfolio tracking now supports Solana NFT decrypt.com

🥳💰 #XLM Franklin Templeton announced that the AUM of the Franklin OnChain US Government Money Fund (FOBXX) (the first U.S. registered mutual fund to process transactions and register share ownership on the Stellar blockchain) has surpassed $270 million.

💰 Thetanuts Finance DeFi protocol completes $17M funding coindesk.com

⚖️ WSJ: First-Ever Trial Related to Alleged #NFT Insider Trading Begins in New York Federal Court Today former OpenSea employee

🗿 #BIT Bybit: Beginning May 8, 2023, identity verification at least level 1 will be mandatory for all Bybit products and services. Existing users who have not passed identity verification as of May 8, 2023 will only be allowed to close existing open positions or orders, repay loans or withdraw funds.

🇺🇸 US opening:
S&P 4,133.94 (0.01%)
NASDAQ 12,052.63 (-0.16%)
Dow 33,869.86 (0.18%)

💰👨‍💻 Katmai Virtual Office Platform Raises $22M Led by Starr Insurance Companies www.venturebeat.com

🤝 #CBDC The Hong Kong Monetary Authority (HKMA), China, Thailand and the UAE are planning to set up a cross-border project to "increase the efficiency and reduce the cost of cross-border transactions." cointelegraph

🇬🇧 #AI UK establishes £100m artificial intelligence task force. uktech.news

🇪🇺 #CBDC ECB: the digital euro will initially be available to eurozone residents, merchants and governments

🐳 BitInfoCharts: A BTC whale that has not been active for 12 years transferred 400 #BTC (~$11 million) today. He had 1,000 BTC on his wallet, bought first at $480 and later at $4,300

🥳 By the end of 2024, #BTC could reach $100,000 - Standard Chartered