📊 Top 15 smart contract platforms by number of unique addresses

💰 Kosmos Ventures has launched a new blockchain-focused investment fund, Zero Age Ventures, which has raised $10 million.
chainwire.org

⛏🤝 BIT Mining Limited has announced a partnership with Chain Reaction to develop next generation mining systems.
bitcoinmagazine.com

🖼 Binance has launched the NFT lending feature on its NFT trading platform. The feature currently supports #ETH borrowing for blue chips such as BAYC, MAYC and Azuki.

👀 Coincheck's plans to enter the Nasdaq through a merger with a special purpose acquisition company (SPAC) Thunder Bridge Capital Partners IV may be delayed.
Thunder Bridge's Board of Directors believes there is not enough time before July 2 to complete the merger. It is proposed to extend the deadline by 12 months.
coindesk.com

🥳 The Open Network (#TON) Unveils DeFi and Data Analytics Hackathon in Collaboration with DWF Labs and Amazon Web Services

🔄 #LYRA #OP Lyra launched an updated version of the protocol on Optimism.
lyra.finance

👀 #AI OpenAI: ChatGPT website down, looking for an issue.

🔄 #ETH Ethereum client Geth releases version v1.12.0 which no longer supports POW.
github.com

🌐🤝 #SAND BBC Studios in collaboration with Reality+ launch new projects on The Sandbox platform.
medium.com

🗣 #MULTI Fantom Foundation Director Andre Cronje said the fund has withdrawn its funds from liquidity pools on SushiSwap due to the uncertainty around Multichain.
theblock.com

🇺🇸 USA. GDP (Q1) (pre): 1.1% (prog 1.3%; pre 2.6%)

- Initial Jobless Claims: 229k (prog 250k; pre 242k)

- Chicago Fed National Activity (Apr): 0.07 (prog -0.02; prev - 0.19)

👀 #AI OpenAI: ChatGPT website bug - fixed.

🇺🇸 Republican Congressman McCall: We are close to reaching an agreement on the debt ceiling, and now only the details remain.

Speaker of the US House of Representatives McCarthy: NOW has instructed negotiators to work 24 hours a day to reach an agreement on the debt ceiling. Not everyone will be happy with the debt ceiling agreement. There are still some outstanding issues with the debt ceiling agreement.

🚀 Today's leaders #KAS #IRIS #NUM

🤝 The #HNT Helium Foundation has partnered with Oxit to create the Oxtech Module, a product for connecting Internet of Things (IoT) devices to both the decentralized wireless network, Helium, and Amazon Sidewalk.
coindesk.com

💰 Worldcoin raises $115 million led by Blockchain Capital.

🔛 #AVAX Circle launches #EUROC stablecoin on Avalanche.
cointelegraph.com

🥳 #FLOKI Dwf labs partners with Floki to buy $5M worth of FLOKI tokens

📝 Phoenix Labs has submitted a proposal to upgrade the Spark Protocol, it is proposed to increase the D3M debt ceiling.
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