💰 Institutional lending infrastructure provider Credora closes $6M funding round with S&P Global and Coinbase Ventures coindesk.com

👀 The biggest creditors of troubled Singaporean crypto lender Holdnaut (Samtrade Custodian Limited and Algorand Foundation) have said they want the company to be liquidated rather than restructured. coindesk

🕹 The CFTC commissioner said that the regulator is in talks with Binance and hopes to find a way forward in the legal battle with the crypto exchange, however, there is no progress at this stage. cnbc

🕵‍♂ CryptoQuant Data: #IOU Poolin, the firm that runs a crypto mining pool and wallet service, transferred 5,640 #BTC ($150M) from its main wallet on April 21st.

Poolin accounts still have 9,935 BTC. It is not clear if the $150 million was liquidated or simply transferred to another account.

🇬🇧 The UK Financial Conduct Authority (FCA) wants to partner with crypto firms to shape regulation coindesk

🔄 #AVAX Avalanche activated Cortina update on mainnet

🤝 #CRO Cronos Labs will use AWS Activate, an Amazon Web Services (AWS) program to help Web3 startups scale and grow with the Cronos Accelerator program.

🔛 #CELO #LINK Celo joins the Chainlink Scale program, giving developers access to data streams. coindesk.com

🤝 Nansen will provide real-time blockchain data services for Web3 entrepreneurial projects under the Google Cloud Startup Support Program

📈 #CRO on news

👀 Wintermute will act as the liquidity provider for the ETC group's new cryptocurrency ETP called DA20 or MSCI Digital Assets Select 20 ETP.  

The DA20 will be listed on the German Xetra stock exchange, followed by other listings across Europe.
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🙋‍♂ #VGX Voyager announces that it has received a letter from Binance US about the termination of the asset purchase agreement

📉 #VGX for news

🔛 #ZIL Zilliqa implemented EVM compatibility

📈 #UNI In April Uniswap's trading volume exceeded $1.5 trillion (overtakes Coinbase for the 2nd month in a row), A the number of daily active users has recently increased to nearly 85,000 (high since May 2021)

👀 #FTT FTX lenders agree to sell LedgerX to an affiliate of Miami International Holdings. theblock.com

🗣 elonmusk: I've seen quite a few technologies being developed, but none of them come with this level of risk. In my opinion, AGI poses a significantly higher risk than nuclear weapons. #AI

🍿🇺🇸 First Republic Bank may be nationalized by US government - FOX

🥳 #GOOGL Alphabet launches $70 billion buyback