🙅‍♂️ Fireblocks are laying off 5% of their staff, about 30 employees.
calcalistech.com

👀🇰🇷 A South Korean Financial Authority official said, “If Binance starts a business in Korea, it will be difficult to properly manage and control it, there is a possibility of national wealth outflow through the distribution of several unconfirmed foreign coins listed on the exchange. We are considering regulating Binance's business in Korea." biz.chosun.com

📈 #FACTR Huawei recently released a commercial for Defactor, #FACTR 24-hour gain over 270%. twitter.com

🏴‍☠️🖼 A scammer has set up a fake Discord server for The Block and is impersonating several employees: “Hi, I'm Rammer. With theblock.commwhere I work as an article writer. Our team is intrigued by your NFT project and we would like to request permission to write an article about your project."
theblock.comm

⚠️ The pledge agreement of the DynamicFi project was attacked, the loss was about $23,000.

👀🇺🇸 #VGX #BNB SEC opposes Binance .US $1B Voyager deal, arguing that ban on selling unregistered securities could be violated. coindesk.com

🤝 #CCD Concordium will be used to launch the House of Rare NFT Market.
medium.com

Israeli blockchain chip company Chain Reaction raises $70M led by Morgan Creek Digital.
Reuters.com

🥳🇬🇷 Head of JPMorgan Onyx Platform, announced that JPMorgan is “opening an innovation lab in Greece with an initial focus on building blockchain-related capabilities to support Onyx.”

🇪🇺 CPI Consumer Inflation (Jan):
- m/m -0.2% (prog -0.2%)
- y/y 8.6% (prog 8.6%)
- Base CPI 5.3% (prog 5.2%)

🤝🏀 NBA partners with Ant Group for NBA-themed NFT release and content creation.
forcast.news

💃 The Ark Invest Fund bought more than $13 million worth of Coinbase shares again. coindesk.com

📊 Total TVL DeFi is up 37% since the start of 2023.

🔛 The Linux Foundation launches the OpenWallet Foundation, a new initiative designed to enable interoperability between digital wallets using open source software. techcrunch.com

🥳 Galaxy Digital completes $44 million acquisition of GK8 self-service platform.
coindesk.com

🚀 Today's leaders.

👀 #XRP Developers from the XRP Ledger (XRPL) and Ripple Development Labs RippleX have proposed a new XRPL cross-chain bridging standard that will enable interoperability between different networks. coindesk.com

⚠️🇦🇺 Binance Derivative is closing all open trading positions for Australian citizens.

🇹🇼🕹 Taiwanese legislators said the government has until May 16 to formulate a regulatory framework and roadmap for cryptocurrency, and appoint the relevant authorities.

👀 Cryptoanalytics firm Messari cuts 15% of staff as part of restructuring