🇧🇷 Coinbase (COIN) has integrated the state-owned Pix payment system and began to allow cryptocurrency purchases for Brazilian reals. coindesk

💰 Multi-asset investment platform eToro raises $250M at $3.5B valuation techcrunch.com

🇸🇪🏦 $FRC Sweden's largest pension fund sells all shares of First Republic Bank for a loss of $728 million.

🇺🇸🖼 IRS seeks to tax NFTslike other collectibles.

NFTs will be taxed as underlying assets until final rules are agreed on how to handle digital proof of ownership held in retirement accounts.
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🇪🇺 #CBDC ECB's Lagarde sees digital euro as key to payment autonomy - Bloomberg

💰 Seed Club, DAO focused accelerator program, launched own venture division with a fund of $ 25 million

💰 Crossover Markets has launched a new platform for trading CrossX cryptocurrency.
The firm has received $6.35 million in seed funding from trading giants such as Two Sigma, Flow Traders, Laser Digital and Wintermute Ventures.
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👀 #FTT FTX derivatives trading platform LedgerX attracts orders from companies including Miami Exchange

💰 Tomi, an anonymous group of crypto industry veterans who intend to create a version of the Internet run by the DAO, collects $40 million from DWF Labs, Ticker Capital and Piha Equities and others.
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⚖ #CEL Celsius depository account holders can receive 72.5% of cryptocurrencies in their depositary accounts after a federal judge today approved the bankruptcy settlement. the block

🤝🤖 #AI AWS and NVIDIA have partnered to build the world's most scalable on-demand artificial intelligence (AI) infrastructure optimized for training increasingly complex large language models (LLMs) and developing generative AI applications.

🕵‍♂ lookonchain: Dragonfly Capital transferred a total of 2M #LDOs ($5M) to Binance in the last 2 hours

💰 Turnkey, a project of former Coinbase executives, has raised $7.5M from Variant, Sequoia, Coinbase and more. the block

👀 #SUSHI Sushi say they were recently served with an SEC subpoena

🇳🇱 Central Bank of the Netherlands: Cryptocurrency will be classified as high-risk in the coming years, but it is not going anywhere.
The Financial Stability Board intends to publish its final global advice on regulating the crypto industry this summer.

🍿 #ARB An attacker is trying to use 2,400 compromised crypto wallets to receive an Arbitrum airdrop on his behalf.
If the plan is successful, it could net them around 3 million ARB tokens, which is 0.26% of the user airdrop.
Some community members called on Offchain Labs to blacklist these wallets to prevent an attacker from getting all the tokens. However, this may prevent legitimate users from getting them.
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📉 #SUSHI leaked on the SEC

🇬🇧 CryptoUK Self-Regulatory Trade Association stated that many banks in the UK have begun imposing a total ban on dealing with crypto-currency firms “instead of taking a risk-based approach on a case-by-case basis” and also suggested providing a “white list” of registered firms.
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🙋‍♂ #ACH Former White House Senior Counsel David Plouff has joined Alchemy Pay's advisory board. cointelegraph.com