💰 Indian crypto company Aqex Technologies India completes ~$7.5 million preliminary funding round.
vccircle.com

🐳SmartMoney hunter made 36x on #PEPE and 35x on #LADYS for meme-coins:

- Bought 108M #PEPE for 3.63 #ETH ($7531) on April 18, purchase price $0.00000006965. And sold for 135 #ETH ($255K) on April 30 and May 6, the average sale price is $0.000002358. Profit was 131 #ETH ($247k), 36x.

- Bought 2.15T #LADYS for 4.7 #ETH ($8679) before Musk tweeted the purchase price was $0.000000004035. Then sold 1.09T #LADYS for 84 #ETH ($153K) at $0.0000001404 and currently holds 1.06T #LADYS ($158K). Profit is $302k, 35x.

📊 Market

🗣 DWF Labs continues: 600 billion #LADYS will be transferred to Gate .io, assets will be used for market making.
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🗣 Justin Sun: I decided to start actively trading meme coins and promising projects through my public address. I will personally take all possible losses from these transactions, and any profit made will be completely donated to charity.

🤝 #UNI Market maker Wintermute announces it is joining the Uniswap Delegated Governance Competition, which will support Uniswap's multi-chain expansion, decentralization and long-term growth.
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🐳SmartMoney spent 10.45 #ETH ($19,569) to buy 11 trillion #LADYS at $0.000000001775 before Musk tweeted. And he sold 3 trillion #LADYS for 159.65 #ETH ($293k) at a price of $0.00000009689.

He currently has 8T #LADYS ($1.16M) and a profit of $1.43M (73x).

🇪🇺🕹 Central banks should have the right to veto the widespread adoption of stablecoins if they affect public policy goals, including financial stability or monetary policy, said the chairman of the European Banking Authority (EBA).
coindesk.com

🇬🇧 Great Britain. Central Bank rate (May): 4.5% (prog 4.5%; pre 4.25%)

📊 As of April 30, Animoca Brands had ~$3.4B in assets: $194M in cash, $566M in digital assets, and $2.7B in off-balance sheet token reserves for other Web3 subsidiaries.
cointelegraph.com

📊 Top 15 coins by market capitalization

🍿🇺🇸 I remind you that in an hour Prominflation (PPI) and Initial Jobless Claims

🇪🇺🕹 #AI The draft EU law on artificial intelligence is supplemented by a ban on public facial recognition.
cointelegraph.com

⛏🇺🇸 Reporting. Stronghold Digital Mining beat estimated earnings by 107.14%, reporting earnings per share of $0.01 vs -0.14 $ estimate
1Q REV. $17.3 million vs. $29.4 million
Expecting 4 EH/S by 3Q

📊 Long-term #BTC wallets show the fastest net accumulation since October 2021, with Nasdaq and #BTC correlation divergence.

💰👀 Crypto VC Behind 10T Wants to Create New $200M Fund bloomberg.com

🇺🇸 Reporting. Bakkt Hldgs beat its estimated earnings by 5.56%, reporting earnings per share of -0.17$ vs -0.18$. Revenue increased by $500,000 compared to the same period last year.

👀 The BIS Nordic Center and Consult Hyperion have published a detailed guide that looks at the key aspects of how #CBDCs can work for offline payments bis.org

🆕 Crypto.com too leaf through #LADYS, Bybit launch perpetual contract

🤝 #ENS #CAKE PancakeSwap announces integration with ENS twitter.com