A collection of nine rare CryptoPunks sold for $16.9 million during an auction at Christie’s in New York.

https://decrypt.co/70609/cryptopunks-christies-sale

AscendEX has announced the Exclusive Primary listing of
Globe under the trading pair of GDT/USDT on May 12, 13:00 UTC.

https://twitter.com/AscendEX_Global/status/1392287042634199045

Globe trading has started. GDT is now trading at ~$1.8.
IDO price - $1, average LBP price - $2.

https://ascendex.com/en/basic/cashtrade-spottrading/usdt/gdt

⚡️Vitalik Buterin: "UNI should become an oracle token".

"Chainlink is great, but there’s room for a simple alternative specialized for high-value, okay-with-high-latency use cases".

https://gov.uniswap.org/t/uni-should-become-an-oracle-token/11988

AAVE is testing a private pool for institutions.

https://twitter.com/StaniKulechov/status/1392473417413271563

Vitalik Buterin dumped SHIB, AKITA, ELON tokens.
He sent $395 million worth of AKITA to Gitcoin and 500 ETH to the India Covid-Crypto Relief Fund.

https://twitter.com/FrankResearcher/status/1392532831889395713
https://twitter.com/lawmaster/status/1392533724814876680
https://etherscan.io/address/0xab5801a7d398351b8be11c439e05c5b3259aec9b

Coldstack LBB has started at ~$35. The current price is $17.
The auction ends in 1 day 18 hours.

https://lbp.coldstack.io/

Soon, projects launching their pre-IDO on Genesis Shards will also have the opportunity to stake and use flash loans via UniLend.

https://unilend.medium.com/unilend-partners-with-genesis-shards-to-become-a-genpad-lending-partner-for-all-upcoming-idos-68612ec83e22

Elon Musk posted on his Twitter account:

"Tesla has suspended vehicle purchases using Bitcoin. We are concerned about rapidly increasing use of fossil fuels for Bitcoin mining and transactions, especially coal, which has the worst emissions of any fuel.
Cryptocurrency is a good idea on many levels and we believe it has a promising future, but this cannot come at great cost to the environment.
Tesla will not be selling any Bitcoin and we intend to use it for transactions as soon as mining transitions to more sustainable energy.
We are also looking at other cryptocurrencies that use <1% of Bitcoin's energy/transaction."

https://twitter.com/elonmusk/status/1392602041025843203

Elrond has posted a video highlighting the project's important achievements.

https://t.iss.one/ElrondNetworkAnn/1077

Coinbase Custody now supports iExec RLC (RLC), Alpha Finance (ALPHA), Quant (QNT), Dia (DIA), Chromia (CHR), KeeperDao (ROOK).

https://custody.coinbase.com/assets

Microsoft has announced that the Azure Blockchain Service will be retired on September 10, 2021.

https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/blockchain/service/migration-guide

Injective Protocol has announced the commencement of the first phase of the Injective mainnet launch.

https://blog.injectiveprotocol.com/injectives-road-to-mainnet-phase-one/

Mercurial Finance IEO has started on FTX.

https://ftx.com/mer-ieo
https://help.ftx.com/hc/en-us/articles/360060696391-How-to-participate-in-the-Mercurial-Sale

Mercurial Finance IEO on Gate starts in an hour.

https://www.gate.io/en/startup/111

Tether Holdings Limited made available a breakdown of the categories of assets forming the basis of Tether’s issued token reserves at March 31, 2021.

Cash & Cash Equivalents & Other Short-Term Deposits & Commercial Paper - 75.85%
Secured Loans (none to affiliated entities) - 12.55%
Corporate Bonds, Funds & Precious Metals - 9.96%
Other Investments (including digital tokens) - 1.64%

https://tether.to/tether-releases-breakdown-of-its-reserves/

Multicoin Capital and YouTube megastar Mr. Beast (62M subscribers) are preparing to make fractionalized non-fungible token (NFT) bets through JennyDAO, a new decentralized autonomous organization with $7 million to splash on crypto collectibles.

https://www.coindesk.com/dao-raises-7m-to-acquire-and-fractionalize-nft-collections

DTrade announced the closing of its seed funding round, which saw $6.4 million in investment from Three Arrows, DeFiance, Huobi and Polychain.

DTrade aims to be the first derivatives exchange built on Polkadot.

https://www.theblockcrypto.com/linked/104623/polkadot-platform-for-defi-derivatives-lands-6-4-million-in-seed-funding

Elon Musk: "Working with Doge devs to improve system transaction efficiency. Potentially promising."

https://twitter.com/elonmusk/status/1392974251011895300

Binance will list Arweave (AR) and open trading for AR/BTC, AR/BNB, AR/BUSD and AR/USDT trading pairs at 2021-05-14 12:00 PM (UTC).

After the news, AR increased by 40%.

https://www.binance.com/en/my/wallet/exchange/deposit/crypto/AR

There has been stolen $156 Million in DeFi Hacks This Year.

https://decrypt.co/70690/defi-hacks-2021-ciphertrace-report