🤝 #MAPO #ACH MAP Protocol partnered with Alchemy Pay.
medium.com

👀 #STRK Starknet: In the coming weeks, we will be deprecating the public Starknet API and removing it entirely in the future to promote decentralization, resilience and Starknet independence.
twitter.com

The Pudgy Penguins completed a $9 million funding round led by 1kx.

🤝 #OAS Oasys partnered with Red Kite to develop the accessibility of Web3 games.

👀 Bankrupt Canadian crypto exchange QuadrigaCX will begin a temporary distribution of assets for some users.
coindesk.com

🖼 #UNI Uniswap Labs has introduced a new feature: view and create NFTs directly in the Uniswap wallet.
Cryptosaurus.tech

📊 Top 15 stablecoins by market cap

🙋‍♂️ Cryptocurrency security firm Dfns is adding biometric support to its wallet development toolkit.
coindesk.com

💰 Web3 accelerator GRAVITON announces the first batch of finalists, each project will receive $50,000 investment.
yourstory.com

💰 Blockworks completes $12M funding at $135M valuation.
axios.com

🥳 Xapo Bank (Gibraltar), will allow customers to deposit and withdraw Tether (#USDT).
coindesk.com

🔛 Cross-chain Prime Protocol launched crypto-lending services without the need to transfer tokens across bridges.
coindesk.com

📊 Report Kaiko:

- Binance Suspends Withdrawals Due to Rising #BTC Fees

- #SUI price drops after launch

- The effects of Terra's collapse are still being felt a year later

- US-based exchanges lag behind in volume growth

- Uniswap average deal size drops as memcoin mania spreads

📊 #ETH gas fees are down slightly, the #PEPE mania pushed them to a yearly high last week. If there is another wave of growth, perhaps a return to 2021 and swap fees of $200.

Meanwhile, the BRC-20 meme coins are just starting to circulate on the Bitcoin network.

💰 MetaZ NFT trading platform completes $1 million funding.
businesswire.com

🙋‍♂️ PayPal discloses about $1 billion of crypto assets on its balance sheet in its 10-Q filing with the SEC.
blockworks.com

🇿🇼🕹 The IMF warned Zimbabwe against the use of a digital asset and recommended that the authorities of the South African country instead use traditional measures to solve economic problems. bloomberg

👀 #ANT Cryptocurrency investment fund Arca calls on DAO creator Aragon to buy back its ANT token

🇺🇸🗣 FOMC Member Williams:
- We didn't say we were done raising rates
- I don't see any reason in my baseline for lowering interest rates this year
- does not expect inflation to return to the Fed's 2% target until the next two years
- if inflation does not come down, the Fed always has the option to raise rates
- Unemployment is likely to rise to 4-4.5% from the current 54-year low of 3.4%

🇺🇸🗣 The White house:
- Short-term increase in the debt ceiling not included in our plans
- allow a possible default on the federal debt