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🇭🇰 Hong Kong Reveals 17 Crypto Trading Platform Applicants as New Regulations Take Effect

Hong Kong’s Securities and Futures Commission (SFC) has published a list of two licensed crypto trading platforms and 17 pending applicants under the new regulations that went into effect on June 1. The financial regulator stresses that operating without a license is a criminal offense and commits to taking appropriate actions against any legal breaches.

💰 Tether purchases $100 million of shares in Bitcoin miner Bitdeer

Bitcoin mining and AI cloud solutions firm Bitdeer Technologies Group entered into an agreement with Tether for the private sale of up to $150 million of its shares on Thursday. The deal saw the Nasdaq-listed firm raise $100 million in gross proceeds for the private placement of 18,587,360 Class A ordinary shares, according to a statement.

🟠 Binance Kazakhstan Secures ISO Certifications for Security and Privacy

Binance Kazakhstan has been awarded the ISO 27001 and ISO 27701 certifications, marking significant recognition for its robust information security and privacy management systems. These certifications, issued by the British Standards Institution after a thorough audit, affirm Binance’s compliance with the highest industry standards.

🏦 Coinbase’s Appeal Request Now Opposed by SEC

The U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) has firmly rebuffed cryptocurrency exchange Coinbase’s plea for an interlocutory appeal regarding the application of traditional securities regulations to digital assets. Coinbase’s appeal request to the court, seeking a review of whether conventional securities rules, notably the Howey Test, are pertinent to cryptocurrencies, was dismissed by the SEC. The regulatory body contended that Coinbase’s aim was to manipulate the interpretation of the issue itself.

🇪🇺 EU securities watchdog to review crypto eligibility for UCITS investments

The European Securities and Markets Authority (ESMA) has initiated a review of the rules governing crypto asset investments by UCITS (Undertakings for Collective Investment in Transferable Securities) as part of a broader examination of the EU’s financial regulatory framework. The review comes in response to a request from the European Commission (EC) to ensure that UCITS rules keep pace with rapid market developments, including the burgeoning crypto sector.

🪙 Ethereum Proposal by Vitalik Buterin Introduces Advanced Account Abstraction Features

According to the Github summary, EIP 7702 emerges as a pivotal alternative to the existing EIP-3074, addressing key vulnerabilities by avoiding the use of soon-to-be obsolete opcodes and preventing ecosystem fragmentation. Designed to be forward-compatible with potential quantum computational advancements, it focuses on integrating seamlessly with EIP 4337, which is critical as quantum computing continues to evolve.

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💰 Terraform Labs' lawyers push back against 🇺🇸 SEC, argue token sales were mostly outside US

Lawyers for Terraform Labs pushed back against the Securities and Exchange Commission after the agency requested them to pay billions of dollars in fines. Terraform's offer and sales of tokens happened "almost entirely outside the U.S." the firm's lawyers argued in a brief filed on Wednesday. Meanwhile, the SEC has argued that the firm "targeted U.S. investors" and says they should pay $5.3 billion in fines, most of that being in disgorgement.

🇷🇺 Russia to Enact a Ban on Domestic Operations Of Cryptocurrency Exchanges

Russia is preparing to enact a ban on the organization of cryptocurrency exchanges in the country via the approval of a bill that regulates mining activities. According to statements made by Russian Duma Financial Market Chairman Anatoly Aksakov, digital financial assets like the digital ruble will be allowed to circulate.

🏦 Coinbase rolls out Lightning Network support in collaboration with Lightspark

Coinbase, the largest U.S. crypto exchange by trading volume, is rolling out support for the Lightning Network from today, enabling a faster and cheaper way for its users to send, receive or pay with bitcoin directly from their account. Previously, bitcoin transfers on Coinbase were processed on-chain, meaning transactions could take between 10 minutes and two hours, incurring high fees during periods of network congestion.

🪙 Transaction Fees Plunge to 35% of Bitcoin Miner Revenue Post-Halving: CryptoQuant

Transaction fees have fallen from $80 million on the halving day to $6 million as of April 26. The portion of Bitcoin miner revenue coming from transaction fees has fallen significantly after surging on the day of the last halving event. A CryptoQuant report revealed that transaction fees now represent 35% of total miner revenue, a significant decline from the 75% recorded on April

💰 Arkham Intel finds wallets associated with Wisdomtree's Physical Bitcoin ETP WBIT

The blockchain data tracking firm Arkham Intel found wallets associated with WBIT, a physical Bitcoin exchange-traded product (ETP) from the asset manager WisdomTree. "WisdomTree Physical Bitcoin is a physically backed exchange-traded product (ETP) designed to offer shareholders a simple, secure and cost-efficient way to gain exposure to the price of Bitcoin,” according to WBIT’s website. “The ETP provides for easy investor access, tradability, transparency and institutional custody solutions with a robust physically backed structure."

🪙 Grayscale, BlackRock Ethereum ETF applications updated amid SEC delays

Grayscale Investments and BlackRock have updated their spot Ethereum ETF applications despite the SEC delaying its decision on the matter in recent weeks and expectations leaning toward rejection. Grayscale filed an S-3 registration statement with the SEC on April 23. The submission marks the latest step toward the firm’s proposed conversion of its existing Grayscale Ethereum Trust to a spot exchange-traded fund (ETF). Grayscale referred to the submission as “another key filing,” along with NYSE Arca’s earlier Form 19b-4 filing.

💰 Bitcoin has room to trend higher in less leveraged market: Standard Chartered

Bitcoin, along with the rest of the cryptocurrency market, may trend higher following the liquidation of highly elevated leveraged positions before the halving, an analyst said Tuesday. The week leading up to last Saturday's bitcoin halving saw a flush-out of a substantial amount of leveraged long positions, when bitcoin fell to a recent low below the $60,000 level.

🟠 Binance unveils spot copy trading feature in automated strategy tools expansion

Binance, the largest crypto exchange by trading volume, is set to roll out a new spot copy trading tool — enabling users to follow and automatically execute the same trades as some of the platform’s top traders. “At Binance, we’re always listening to our users and incorporating their feedback into our products. Our users give us great ideas because, very often, they know what works best for them,” Binance CTO Rohit Wad said in a statement shared with The Block.

🇺🇸 US Presidential Candidate RFK Jr Unveils Plan to Put Entire US Budget on Blockchain

U.S. presidential candidate Robert F. Kennedy Jr. (RFK Jr.) has unveiled his plan to put the entire U.S. budget on a blockchain. “Every American can look at every budget item in the entire budget, anytime they want, 24 hours a day,” he explained, adding that if somebody is spending $16,000 for a toilet seat, everybody is going to know about it.

JUST IN: 🇦🇪 United Arab Emirates leads the Middle East in crypto adoption, with 72% of local users investing in Bitcoin

💰 Bitcoin miner Hut 8 receives 'buy' rating and new price target from Benchmark

Benchmark has initiated coverage of bitcoin miner Hut 8, giving the company a "buy" rating and a price target of $12. In its evaluation, Benchmark factored in the company's "diversified business model" following the completion of its merger with U.S. Bitcoin Corporation. This includes multiple new revenue streams from self-mining, managed services, hosting, high-performance computing and artificial intelligence.

💰 Scaramucci says Bitcoin is ‘still very young,’ predicts $200k long-term price after halving

SkyBridge Capital founder Anthony Scaramucci said that Bitcoin is “still very young” in terms of adoption and predicted significant long-term growth despite its current volatility and recent price fluctuations influenced by global events. In an interview focused on the flagship crypto’s trajectory, Scaramucci highlighted that Bitcoin is still early in its adoption curve, likening its current stage to the early days of the internet around 1999.

💰 Runes hype pushes transaction fees on Bitcoin higher

The bitcoin halving is almost upon us. While this is mostly exciting since it slows bitcoin's issuance, cutting the block reward down to 3.125 BTC, some people are excited about it because of Runes. Runes is a new protocol from Casey Rodarmor, the Bitcoin developer behind Ordinals. While the primary ideas behind Ordinals focused on bringing non-fungibility to Bitcoin, by differentiating specific satoshis by the order in which they were minted, the BRC-20 token standard also emerged, helping to bring new issuance of fungible tokens to the network.