💸 Raiffeisenbank introduces 50% commission for transfers in dollars to individuals from other banks (but not more than $500)

🗽 #macro Most economists expect the Federal Reserve to suspend interest rate hikes next week (June 14) for the first time in 15 months and leave policy unchanged until December, despite facing a resilient US economy and sustained inflation.

💰 Frank Schneider, former Luxembourg intelligence chief, fled when he was to be extradited to the US in the OneCoin case.

👀 Former Citi CEO Matt Zhang: With growing regulatory uncertainty in the US, crypto projects should carefully consider whether they need their own token.
theblock.com

👀 Hong Kong Monetary Authority (HKMA) prepares for CBDC

According to a Friday report, the regulator will begin conducting in-depth studies and pilot projects to implement the future of e-HKD.
#macro #CBDC #regulation coindesk.com

🕹🇪🇺 The European Union Crypto Asset Markets Act (MiCA) has been published in the Official Journal of the European Union (OJEU), marking the start of the countdown for important cryptocurrency licensing regulations to come into force.

🇪🇺🕹 The governments of the European Union seem to be backing new banking capital standards whereby assets like #BTC and #ETH will be given the highest possible risk weight in a long set of banking laws that could be agreed as early as next week. #coindesk regulation

🕵‍♂ #MASK Jump Trading accumulated 243,419 MASK (~$1.02M) in the last 2 days. 4 Jump Trading addresses hold a total of 3.86M MASK (~$16.17M)

Jump Trading has not translated MASK on a large scale for 4 months. The last transfer was on February 2, when the price of MASK reached its peak.

📊 Top 15 DeFi projects by active users in the last 30 days

⚡️👀 Robinhood will stop supporting #ADA, #MATIC and #SOL on June 28th #all robinhood.com

🗣 #ETH Vitalik wrote article that without completing three transitions, Ethereum will collapse, including:
- Transition to L2 scaling;
- transition to wallet security;
- transition to privacy

📊 #OP dune: The Bedrock update reduced transaction fees on the Optimism network by 56%. The average transaction fee on Optimism has dropped from $0.57 to $0.16.

🎮🌐 Perfect World integrates elements related to the Metaverse

🤝 #ROSE #CELR Oasis integrated Celer Messaging Bridge

🇺🇸⚡️ Russian citizens accused of hacking one cryptocurrency exchange and illegally operating another

The Justice Department has uncovered allegations related to the 2011 Mt.Gox hack and operation of the illegal BTC-e cryptocurrency exchange.
Aleksey Bilyuchenko, 43, and Alexander Werner, 29, both Russian citizens, are accused of conspiring to launder approximately 647,000 bitcoins from the Mt.Gox hack, according to court documents. Bilyuchenko is also accused of conspiring with Alexander Vinnik to manage BTC-e from 2011 to 2017.

🗣 Mike McGlone: #BTC shows weakness against the stock market in the second quarter

📊 dune: ~42% of initial #DAI use cases are in DEX

🙅‍♂Crypto.com will suspend the offer of an institutional cryptocurrency exchange in the US due to low demand in difficult market conditions. cointelegraph.com

📊 After the recent decline in the total market cap of stablecoins, #USDT now holds 64.2% market share. #USDC and #BUSD continue to decline. #GUSD is another winner with largest increase in market capitalization for the last 30 days.

🥳 Custody Bank has won a lawsuit with the Fed to get the main account. cointelegraph.com

🍿👀 Over the past 30 minutes, we have recorded many #MATIC transfers to exchanges
Binance US ~$58M
Binance ~$3M
Coinbase ~$2M