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🟠 DOJ taps FRA over Sullivan & Cromwell for Binance's 3-year monitorship: report
The United States Department of Justice (DOJ) appointed Forensic Risk Alliance (FRA) to serve as the outside monitor over the crypto exchange Binance, reports Bloomberg citing people familiar with the matter. FRA, a London-based providing services in forensic accounting and compliance consulting services, beat out Sullivan & Cromwell to take on the position, Bloomberg adds. Binance must undergo a monitorship of three years as part of its plea deal with the DOJ related to money laundering violations.
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💰 Core Scientific reports $210.7 million in Q1 net income, 2,825 BTC production
Core Scientific reported a $210.7 million net income for the first quarter on May 8. The change represents an increase of $211.1 million from the first quarter of 2023, when the company reported a net loss of $0.4 million. The company also reported $179.3 million in first-quarter revenue, including $150 million from crypto mining and $29.3 million from hosting. The change in total revenue marks an increase of $58.6 million compared to the first quarter of 2023 when the company reported revenue of $120.6 million.
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⚪️ Robinhood's Q1 Crypto Trading Volume Surged 224% as SEC Action Looms
Robinhood (HOOD) saw a first-quarter notional crypto trading volume of $36 billion, up 224% from year-ago levels. That led to a 232% increase in crypto-related a revenue to $126 million, a primary factor, said the company, in driving overall first quarter transaction-based revenue up 59% year-over-year to $329 million.
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🇺🇸 SEC Chair Gary Gensler Calls Crypto 'Outsized Piece of Scams, Frauds, and Problems in Our Markets'
The chairman of the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC), Gary Gensler, has reiterated his view that crypto is a field full of noncompliance. While noting that crypto is a small piece of the overall U.S. financial market that his agency oversees, the SEC chair emphasized that it is “an outsized piece of the scams and frauds and problems in our markets.”
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🔵 Arbitrum surpasses $150 billion in total transaction volume on Uniswap
Ethereum Layer 2 protocol Arbitrum surpassed $150 billion in transaction volume on the decentralized exchange Uniswap. Arbitrum is the first Layer 2 to pass the threshold on the DEX, Uniswap Labs wrote in a social media post on Monday. Blockchain data tracker DeFiLlama shows Arbitrum's total value locked (TVL) as $2.64 billion, making it the largest Layer 2 by TVL and the fifth largest protocol by TVL behind the Layer 1s Solana, BSC, Tron and Ethereum.
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🟠 Binance Wallet Integrates 💰 Bitcoin Atomical ARC-20 Assets
Binance has announced the integration of ARC-20 tokens into its Inscriptions Marketplace, allowing regular users to join the cutting-edge Bitcoin tokenization. ARC-20 is a new token standard that enables the creation of fungible (interchangeable) tokens that can be held and transferred directly on the Bitcoin blockchain. This is made possible by the Atomicals Protocol which utilizes Bitcoin’s native satoshis and transaction tracking system.
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💰 Marathon Digital boosts Bitcoin production by 21% YoY in April, defies halving challenges
Marathon Digital reported a significant year-on-year surge in its Bitcoin production last month, defying expectations surrounding the halving event. In its April operational report, Marathon revealed that it produced 850 BTC, marking a notable 21% increase on the year-on-year metrics. This uptick is primarily attributed to the 15% boost in its operational hashrate, now standing at 21.1 exahash.
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🏦 Coinbase's Q1 earnings jump to $1.6 billion as transaction revenue soars
Coinbase had a bumper first quarter, reporting $1.6 billion in revenue, an increase of 72% from the previous quarter, the company said after today's closing bell. The company also reported a huge swing in net income, registering of $1.18 billion for the quarter, compared to a loss of $79 million in the same period of last year. Coinbase also generated $1.01 billion in EBITDA. Earnings of $4.04 per share beat the consensus estimate of $1.15 per share, according to MarketWatch data.
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🪙 Tether reports record $4.52 billion profit in Q1 despite shrinking market share
Stablecoin issuer Tether (USDT) achieved a historic net profit of $4.52 billion in the first quarter despite facing a significant drop in market share. According to the attestation report shared with CryptoSlate, the firm’s substantial profits chiefly originated from its US Treasury holdings, supplemented by gains from its Bitcoin and gold investments.
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🇷🇺 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.
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🪙 Tether invests $200 million to reach ‘ultimate’ goal of putting computers in people’s brain
Tether, the largest company in the digital asset industry, has announced a strategic investment of $200 million into Blackrock Neurotech, a leading pioneer in Brain-Computer-Interface (BCI) technology. This significant move marks the unveiling of Tether’s new venture division, Tether Evo, which CEO Paolo Ardoino describes as “the ultimate pillar of its long-term vision and strategy.”
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🇺🇸 DOJ challenges motion to dismiss Tornado Cash co-founder’s charges
The United States Department of Justice (DOJ) has opposed a motion to dismiss conspiracy and money laundering charges against Tornado Cash co-founder Roman Storm arguing that filing raised disputed facts for jury consideration, which is unsuited for early-stage motions. In the DOJ’s response, the prosecutors analyzed why the Tornado Cash co-founder should answer for the alleged crimes levied against him.
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💰 Bitcoin Cannot Grow Without the Spot Bitcoin ETFs: Report
Spot Bitcoin ETFs have been a major catalyst in driving BTC to establish an all-time high months before its fourth halving. According to a new report by Ecoinometrics, Bitcoin cannot grow further without those products. These funds appear to have “stopped accumulating coins” (in aggregate) for more than a month, which can be a cause of concern for the leading asset’s future price trajectory.
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💰 Franklin Templeton tokenizes $380 million US government money fund on Polygon, Stellar
Franklin Templeton has tokenized a $380 million treasuries fund on the Polygon and Stellar blockchains to enable peer-to-peer (P2P) transfers without intermediaries. The company has launched the Franklin OnChain United States Government Money Fund (FOBXX), offering shares as BENJI tokens. Each token represents a share of the FOBXX and is tradable on the public Polygon and Stellar blockchains.
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💰 'Buy Bitcoin' sign from Janet Yellen's 2017 speech sold for $1 million
A piece of notebook paper with the sign “Buy Bitcoin” — famous for appearing on broadcast behind then-United States Federal Reserve Chair Janet Yellen in 2017 — was sold for 16 , or about $1.027 million. The sign was handed over to the highest bidder, the pseudonymous “Squirrekkywrath,” after a week-long auction Wednesday at the Pubkey Bar in New York. The original “Bitcoin Sign Guy,” Christian Langalis — who posted the auction himself on auction platform Scarce City — also attended the event.
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💰 Bitcoin Advocate Says ASIC Devices’ Inflexibility Makes AI Involvement Unlikely for Bitcoin Miners
According to Joe Downie, the chief marketing officer at Nicehash, bitcoin miners struggling to stay afloat after the halving are unlikely to support or become involved with artificial intelligence (AI). This is because their application-specific integrated circuit (ASIC) miners now “only allow for mining on one algorithm.” Furthermore, Downie argued that bitcoin mining devices are not “designed for flexibility,” and hence, they cannot be used to support AI infrastructure.
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🟠 Binance Fired Investigator Who Uncovered Market Manipulation at Client DWF Labs: WSJ
Binance fired a member of staff who uncovered evidence of market manipulation at crypto investment firm DWF Labs, one of cryptocurrency exchange's clients, the Wall Street Journal reported on Thursday, citing interviews with Binance employees past and present, documents, emails and other industry participants. The former staffer and his colleagues on Binance's market-surveillance team had been hired to winkle out signs of market manipulation.
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💰 FTX plans to pay billions more to creditors for compensation
FTX plans to give 98% of its creditors at least 118% of allowed claims, the bankrupt exchange said in its reorganization plan released Tuesday. Other creditors will receive full repayment and billions more in compensation for the time value of their investments, the company said. “We are pleased to be in a position to propose a chapter 11 plan that contemplates the return of 100% of bankruptcy claim amounts plus interest for non-governmental creditors,” FTX CEO John J. Ray III said in the release.
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💰 Hightower Advisors, SouthState Bank disclose investments in spot Bitcoin ETFs
Hightower Advisors disclosed a $68 million investment in spot Bitcoin ETFs in a May 6 filing. The 13F filing indicates that the firm holds 709,956 shares of Grayscale’s GBTC worth $44.8 million, 200,084 shares of FBTC worth $12.4 million, 188,397 shares of BlackRock’s IBIT worth $7.6 million, and 23,964 shares of Ark Invest’s ARKB worth $1.7 million. It also disclosed two smaller investments: 25,449 shares of Bitwise’s BITB worth $988,000 and 19,129 shares of Franklin Templeton’s EZBC worth $788,000.
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🇰🇪 Kenyan President Requests 💰 Bitcoin Miner Marathon Digital to Review Nation’s Cryptocurrency Regime
Kenyan President William Ruto recently announced that his government has requested Bitcoin miner Marathon Digital to review the country’s cryptocurrency regime. Ruto stated that the U.S.-based Bitcoin miner will also discuss electricity usage in cryptocurrency mining with the Kenyan Energy Ministry. The apparent acceptance of crypto and Bitcoin mining by the Ruto-led Kenyan government seems to be a shift from the stringent approach previously adopted by the Central Bank of Kenya (CBK) and other government entities.
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🇺🇸 New York Resident Charged in $43 Million Crypto-Related Ponzi Scheme
The FBI apprehended Idin Dalpour for a $43M Ponzi scheme involving a Las Vegas hospitality enterprise and a crypto trading operation. The 39-year-old New York resident is accused of organizing a sophisticated Ponzi scheme that allegedly defrauded investors of $43 million. According to the indictment, he ran the Ponzi scheme from approximately 2020 through April 2024. He targeted investors in the United States and abroad, soliciting investments through an entity he controlled called “Entity-1.”
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💰 BitMEX co-founder Arthur Hayes believes Bitcoin may rally back toward $70,000 amid 'stealth money printing'
Arthur Hayes, the co-founder and former CEO of BitMEX who now manages a family office named Maelstrom, said he expects bitcoin to rally back to $60,000, then range between $60,000 and $70,000 until August. In a blog post early Friday, Hayes said the slow addition of billions of dollars of liquidity each month would dampen negative price movements going forward, reversing the common sentiment on the seasonality of markets by suggesting “buy in May, go away.”
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🇺🇸 Arkansas governor to reportedly sign two bills regulating crypto mining activities
Arkansas State Governor Sarah Huckabee Sanders is expected to sign two new bills regulating crypto mining activities within the state, according to various sources. The state lawmakers passed Senate Bills 78 and 79 on May 1 to tighten the regulations governing crypto miners in the state. These legislative initiatives respond directly to concerns raised following the passage of Act 851. Although Act 851 sailed through the 2023 regular session, it has faced backlash for its perceived lack of oversight regarding crypto mining activities.
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🇺🇸 US Spot Bitcoin ETFs Report 5 Straight Days of Outflows, Totaling $635 Million
Since April 24, 2024, U.S. spot bitcoin ETFs have experienced five straight days of net outflows totaling $635 million. The most significant reduction occurred last Thursday, when BTC-centric ETFs offloaded $217.6 million. Yesterday’s activity ranked as the second highest, with $161.6 million exiting the funds. Notably, GBTC has consistently posted outflows daily since it began trading on Jan. 11, 2024, shattering all previous ETF outflow records ever documented.
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💰 Ripple teams up with HashKey DX on blockchain-based supply chain finance in 🇯🇵 Japan
Crypto firm Ripple is expanding its XRP Ledger (XRPL) enterprise solutions to Japan through a strategic collaboration with HashKey DX, the Tokyo-based specialized consulting company of the HashKey Group, according to an April 30 statement. In this partnership, HashKey DX will work alongside Ripple and SBI Ripple Asia—a collaboration between SBI Holdings and Ripple—to develop and implement supply chain finance solutions tailored for the Japanese market.
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📊 Tether, USDC and DAI transaction volume surpasses Visa's 2023 monthly average: Nansen
Crypto's three largest stablecoins — Tether , USDC and DAI — have seen higher volumes in the past 30 days than Visa’s average monthly total from last year, according to onchain specialist Nansen. Nansen data showed that the largest stablecoin by market capitalization, Tether, processed $654 billion in the past 30 days, while DAI managed over $394 billion of flows and USDC saw $321 billion in trading volume.
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🇷🇺 Russian Duma considers exchange ban as Beribit clients demand crypto, receive chocolate
The troubles began with reports of a raid by Russian authorities on the offices of crypto exchange Beribit at the end of March, allegely in connection to the Crocus City Hall terrorist attack. Then, Beribit, which is an officially licensed exchange in Russia, announced on Telegram that during a change in leadership, discrepancies in the company's financials were found and an audit had to be undertaken.
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💰 Fidelity’s spot bitcoin ETF records outflow for first time
Fidelity’s spot bitcoin exchange-traded fund saw daily net outflows of $22.61 million on Thursday, becoming the first day the ETF saw more funds move out since its January listing, according to SoSoValue data. Several other U.S. bitcoin funds reported daily outflows, totaling a drainage of $217.58 million. Grayscale’s converted ETF lost $139.37 million, while Ark Invest and 21Shares’ fund saw $31.34 million move out, SoSoValue data showed. Valkyrie’s fund lost $20.16 million and Bitwise saw an outflow of $6 million.
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🇪🇺 EU's anti-money laundering bill passes final vote, here's what's next for crypto-asset service providers
The European Parliament adopted new rules that would formally put in place due diligence requirements for crypto firms in a bid to combat money laundering. The European Parliament voted on Wednesday to adopt a package of laws that would in part enhance "due diligence measures and checks on customers’ identity" including so-called crypto asset managers. They would also have to report suspicious activities to authorities.
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