๐ OpenAI has completed a $300 million funding at a valuation of $27 billion to $29 billion. techcrunch.com
๐ US FDIC Plans to Acquire First Republic Bank Immediately Reuters.com
๐ IRS Official: Cryptocurrency Tax Guidance May Arrive 'Within 12 Months' coindesk.com
๐Senior U.S. House official: Encryption bill to be passed within two months coindesk.com
๐ Swedish soccer team NTF Goals has completed $20 million Series A funding. sportpromedia.com
๐ WSJ: JPMorgan Chase, PNC, and others seek to acquire First Republic Bank wsj.com
๐ Optimism developer karl.floersch.eth to become CEO of OP Labs twitter.com
๐ OP Labs: The Optimism mainnet Bedrock update has entered the consensus and feature freeze phase. twitter.com
๐ Bankless Ventures received 75% of the allocated investment, with a16z Lianchuang and others acting as LPs. bankless.com
๐ 0VIX: Attackers issued an ultimatum and legal action will be taken if funds are not returned twitter.com
๐ MasterCard is partnering with Aptos, Solana and other public networks to develop new "encrypted certificate" standards. theblock.com
๐ Aave Community ARFC proposal to "drop the V2 AMM market" has been accepted via [snapshot.org](https://snapshot.org/
๐ PancakeSwap's "Cut Block Reward" offer has been approved pancakeswap.finance
๐ญ๐ฐ The Hong Kong Authority (HKMA) has released its 2022 Annual Report. Regarding the digital Hong Kong dollar, it is noted that the Hong Kong Monetary Authority will take a three-stage approach to prepare for the possible issuance of a digital Hong Kong dollar in the future and launch a second #CBDC pilot plan.
๐ฅณ Binance: Binance Labs Assets Reach $9B and Theoretical Return 10x Investment theblock.com
๐ค๐ Digital asset platform FalconX is developing a robot "Satoshiยป powered by ChatGPT #AI forbes.com
๐ญ๐ฐ๐ The Hong Kong Monetary Authority emphasizes that the first objects of regulation in 2023 will be those stablecoins that are pegged to the value of one or more legal currencies hkma.gov.hk
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๐ฃ cz_binance: There hasn't been a single futures trade since 2015, either on Binance or anywhere else. Also never participated in Binance Launchpad. My time is better spent on products and users.
๐ณ #BTC whales have been quietly piling up again since the price topped $30K on April 11th. Since that date, with prices fluctuating and dropping slightly, addresses holding between 100 and 10,000 BTC have collectively added 64,094 coins back into their bags.