💰 Indian blockchain White Shark completes $16M funding.
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👀🕵️‍♂️ BKEX Exchange: Platform user funds have been involved in money laundering, we are currently cooperating with the police to collect evidence, due to which we will suspend withdrawals.
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🇺🇸⛏ #BTC One important piece of the US Debt Ceiling Agreement appears to have blocked some of the taxes proposed by the Biden administration, including a 30% tax on crypto mining. An energy tax for mining digital assets has reportedly been dropped from discussion.
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🙋‍♂️ #TORN Binance is resuming TORN deposits on ERC20 and BEP20 and will move TORN to the innovation zone by May 30th.
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🖼 The NFT lending protocol, Blend, showed ATH in daily volume yesterday, with over 14.5K #ETH (~$27.6M).

💃 #ASTR The demonstration day of Sony Network Communications and Astar Network's joint Web3 incubation program will take place on June 18.
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📉 Total stablecoin supply falls below $131 billion

👀 63,613,056 #USDT ($63,644,592) translated from JustLendDAO to Justin Sun's wallet address

📊 Report Kaiko:
- 72% of #ETH liquidity is concentrated on just 5 exchanges
- Stablecoins show little volatility amid debt ceiling drama
- #CRV and #SNX lead blue-chip DeFi this year
- #MKR depth drops after a major Binance transfer.

👀🔓 Wintermute Trading sold 2.65 million #OP tokens ($5 million) on Binance ahead of mass unlocks. 9% of the total number of Optimism (#OP) tokens will be unlocked on June 1, which is 386 million #OPs worth >626 million $.

✅ #INJ Injective will undergo Avalon update (v1.11) at block 34,775,000, which is estimated to happen on June 1, 2023

📈 #AI TrendForce: This year's AI server shipments are expected to increase by 38.4% year-over-year, with the cumulative annual growth rate of AI server shipments in 2022-2026 increasing to 22%.

📊 Top 10 Spring Fundraising Rounds

🎮 #CAKE PancakeSwap launched their own crypto game Pancake Protectors.
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👀 #ASTR Founder of Astar Network announced something “special” at the startup conference in Japan on June 18

🇬🇧👀 The Russian Federation will use crypto-exchanges for settlements on cross-border transactions.

🤖 #AI Hoskinson (CEO of Cardano) proposes “anti-AI generative watermarks” to prevent deepfakes.
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💊 #AI Scientists used AI to discover a new antibiotic that can fight a drug-resistant superbug that the World Health Organization considers a "critical" threat.

📈 glassnode: Number of addresses sent #ETH to exchanges hits a monthly high

📊 Glassnode report:
- #BTC looks increasingly poised to break out of current equilibrium given extremely low volatility and tight trading ranges
- expenses of long-term holders rose slightly this week
- network activity decreases
- BTC performance is weaker than Q1 peaks but remains strongest compared to major commodities