💰👀 Decentralized search startup Sepana raises $10M led by Hack VC and Pitango First theblock.com

🚀 Today's leaders.

🙋‍♂️ Nomura is gearing up for cryptocurrency trading, with a 45% staff increase planned.
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📊 Top CEX tokens by market cap.

📊 Kaiko: FTT open interest hit all-time highs, thanks in large part to the surge on Binance.

FTX open interest fell $40 million overnight as FTT fell 30% and positions were liquidated.

The question now is who was eliminated?

🎁 Shell Protocol plans to launch an airdrop.
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📊 After BTC started to fall below $20,000, traders lost $41.23 million on liquidating long positions (65.2%) .

📈 The Cardano network has set a new milestone with over six million NFTs.

🖼 Line launches NFT trading platform on its DOSI platform.
yahoo.com

🇩🇪 The German Financial Supervisory Authority has ordered local Coinbase to ensure effective risk management and internal controls after identifying "organizational weaknesses" in an audit of the firm's financial statements.
coindesk.com

💰 LeadBlock Partners completed the first $150 million fund close.
theblock.com

A judge appears ready to dismiss a lawsuit accusing celebrities including Kim Kardashian of misleading investors about EthMax.
beincrypto.com

🖼 Bandit Network launches "Minter SBT" in collaboration with Unstoppable Domain.
globenewswire.com

📊 Messari: Active borrowing on AaaveAave V3 has only increased on Arbitrum in the last 30 days compared to some L1 alternatives and competing L2s such as OptimismFND.

This suggests that the Arbitrum economy is expanding despite the lack of a liquidity mining program, indicating organic growth.

💰 Archax completes $28.5M Series A funding led by Abrdn. theblock.com

🙋‍♂️ Wintermute-backed DeFi exchange Bebop now runs on Ethereum, Polygon.
decrypt.com

🕹 The Anti-Money Laundering Task Force (FATF) plans to create a "grey list". It will be added by those countries that have not yet introduced measures to monitor the implementation of AML rules and regulate the cryptocurrency sphere.
ambcrypto.com

💰 Quona Capital invests $332 million in fintech startups.
techcrunch.com

🤝 Highstreet partnered with LayerZero.
medium.com

🖼 Yesterday BAYC traded 1160 ETH.

🕵️‍♂️ North Korean hackers used new methods to hack crypto in Israel.
protos.com