📊 #BTC Bitcoin holders decreased by 8% over the past 2 years in the US, while growing by 7% in Asia - Valkyrie

🇨🇦 Coinbase (COIN) says the exchange likes Canada, where rules are in place and companies can interact with regulators, compared to the lack of clarity in the US

🇺🇸🍿 Fed Chair Powell's speech in an hour.

🇭🇰 #TRX #CBDC Tron and Justin Sun hint for partnership with Hong Kong on digital Hong Kong dollar (e-HKD)

🗽 Robert F. Kennedy, Jr. at a crypto conference in Miami raised the issue of the need for a free and fair cryptocurrency environment in the country and condemned the US administration's plans to impose a 30% tax on electricity used to mine cryptocurrencies: "When I become president, I will make sure that you (everyone) have your own wallet, and the government cannot interfere with it"

🙋‍♂TBD (Block) have launched a new set of open source tools for their Web5 project. The full Web5 platform is expected to launch later this year. coindesk

⚡️🇺🇸🗣 Powell:
- Fed firmly committed to 2% rate target
-failure to comply with this requirement will cause even more damage

🇺🇸🗣 Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen tells bank executives more mergers may be needed

⚖️👀 SEC vs. #XRP: The SEC and Ripple have jointly requested a one-week extension of the filing date for Hinman-related documents and other requested edited materials due to the “voluminous nature of the materials and corrections.” The new requested application date is June 13, 2023.

⚡️🇺🇸 Republicans: Debt ceiling talks on hold and at the moment they are not productive

🇦🇷 Tether partnered with KriptonMarket, to allow Argentine small businesses to accept #USDT. cryptoslate

🇺🇸 Bloomberg: After Powell's chatter, the futures and swaps markets began lowering bets on the Fed's rate hike in June and began to more heavily base on the Fed's rate cut later this year.

👀 #XRP Ripple CEO: Ripple is in no rush to go public, it doesn't need to raise more money. cnbc.com

🙋‍♂ #XRP Ripple appoints former Nielsen CFO Warren Jenson to its Board of Directors.
Jenson has held senior positions at Amazon, Delta Airlines, NBC, Electronic Arts and Nielsen. coindesk.com

👀 #AAVE blocksec: The latest ReserveInterestRateStrategy update in Aave V2 (Polygon) brought the protocol to a temporary halt, impacting approximately $110 million worth of assets. The main reason is that the new ReserveInterestRateStrategy is only compatible with Ethereum, not Polygon.

💰👀 MIAX completes acquisition of LedgerX, a subsidiary of FTX

🥳 CoinList will start the NEON sale on June 9, registration is already open blog.coinlist

📣 WordPress stores can now accept cryptocurrency with the Binance Pay plugin

🥳⚡️ US presidential candidate Robert Kennedy Jr. accepts Bitcoin Lightning payments for his campaign

📊 The New York Fed Innovation Center of New York (NYIC) and the Monetary Authority of Singapore (MAS) have published results of their joint project Cedar Phase II x Ubin+ (Cedar x Ubin+). The project explored the use of central bank digital currency for wholesale cross-border payments #CBDC

👀 Instagram may launch a Twitter equivalent in June - Bloomberg