🇺🇸 GThe Justice Department's head of digital assets has vowed to crack down on illegal behavior on digital platforms, saying the scale of crypto-related crime has increased "significantly" over the past four years.
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🐳 Top 10 #LADYS holders (excluding exchanges and contract addresses). They hold 180 trillion #LADYS, 20.3% of the total supply.

🐳 Whale exchanged 397,182 #APEs ($1.31M) for 748.2M #PEPEs, the purchase price is ~$0.000001754.

The whale previously spent 45,094 #APE ($151k) and 134.9 #ETH ($243k) to buy 4.53 trillion #LADYS at a price of $0.00000008686. Sold #LADYS for 267 #ETH ($479k) at $0.0000001058 for a profit of $86k.

📊 Markets mostly remain unchanged at the beginning of the week. Interest in stablecoins has skyrocketed, which usually indicates a lack of interest in the markets. #HEX and #PEPE have dropped a lot.

🗣 #CFX CSO Conflux: The last batch of early investors tokens were unlocked in April 2023.
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📊 Coinbase is seeing an influx of >53,400 #ETH (~$1 billion).

🗣 Director of Strategy and Policy at Circle EU: After the MiCA comes into force, the number of crypto-friendly banks in Europe may increase even more.
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📝 #UNI #GLMR The Uniswap community is voting on the proposal "Deploy Uniswap V3 on EVM-compatible Polkadot Moonbeam parachain". The current support level is 99.99. %. Voting ends May 17th.
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📊 Among the 9058 storage addresses of the current BRC20 #ORDI tokens, the address starting with “bc1pjd” ranks first with 480,000 #ORDI (2.3%).

💰 Dolomite Protocol (Arbitrum) receives $2.5 million in funding led by NGC et al.
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📊 #BTC intraday volatility spiked in 2023.

🇰🇷 Samsung, in partnership with the Central Bank of South Korea, conducted a #CBDC study for offline payments.
cointelegraph.com

🇪🇺 EU. Volume of industrial production (mar)
- m/m: -4.1% (prog -2.5%; pre 1.5%)
- y/y: -1.4% (prog 0.9%; pre 2%)

📊 Waiting time for #ETH validators is ~26 days.

📊 #SUI currently has a market depth of ~$3M on the top five exchanges. The market capitalization of the token is $650 million.

📉 Bithumb's Q1 operating profit dropped 80% year-over-year.
dart.fss.or.kr

🤖 #AI Amazon will use AI to improve logistics and delivery speed.
cointelegraph.com

💰 Crypto startup CryptoHub completes $6M funding led by Tectona.
calcalistech.com

📊 Report CoinShares on financial flows in crypto for the last week:

Digital asset investment products see $54M outflow for the fourth week in a row. The recent price decline has resulted in a 13% drop in total AuM from its peak in mid-April.

#BTC - $38 million outflow, and the outflow in the last four weeks was $160 million. Outflow in short positions $10.4 million

Minor inflows in altcoins, with the exception of #ETH ($0.1M outflow) and #BNB ($0.5M outflow).

🔛 Aevo options trading platform has begun providing option trading related to #LDO, #PEPE, #SUI, #ARB and more.
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