More than 90% of stablecoin transaction volumes aren’t coming from genuine users according to Visa data filtering out bots and large traders.
*Out of about $2.2 trillion in total transactions in April, just $149 billion originated from “organic payments activity".
Bitfinex CTO: Potential database breach on bitfinex seems fake: 𝕏
*No breach was found currently.
*Also the KYC platform has heavy rate limiting that would disallow downloading in bulk.
*From leak data, 5k of 22.5k emails are matching with bitfinex users because some users used same email/password on 2 to 7 exchanges. ⚠️
[dear crypto degens pls use different passwords 🙏]
LayerZero: If you are a sybil, you have two options:
– Self-report sybil addresses for 15% of your intended allocation. Deadline is May 17th.
– Do not report & receive nothing.
*Sybil Self-Report:
sybil.layerzero.network
*Sybil Filter Process: details
If you think you are a sybil, you are most likely a sybil.
Dutch police arrested a man in investigation into gambling platform 'ZKasino' and 11.4M+ euros in assets seized: link
Investors were led to believe that they would get their investments back within 30 days. That did not happen. This could indicate a modus operandi called rug pull.Читать полностью…
FED says it has not seen further progress returning inflation to 2% target: reuters
Читать полностью…Investors in Gensler’s favourite crypto project 'Algorand' are the biggest losers — only 7% of them are in profit: link
Читать полностью…Tether sees record net profit of over $4.52 billion in first quarter of 2024: TheBlock | link
Читать полностью…MicroStrategy Announces First Quarter 2024 Financial Results:
*25,250 bitcoins acquired since the end of Q4 for $1.65 billion, or $65,232 per bitcoin.
*214,400 bitcoin holdings at a total cost of $7.54 billion, or $35,180 per bitcoin, as of April 26, 2024.
*MicroStrategy acquired an additional 122 BTC for $7.8M in April.
EigenLayer Tokenomics:
*Total supply at launch: 1.67b.
*Dynamic token supply and emissions not determined yet.
*Stakedrop: 15% (will be airdrop across multiple seasons, 5% in the 1st season)
*Community initiatives: 15%
*R&D & Ecosystem: 15%
*investors: 29.5%
*Early contributors: 25.5%
(1 year lock, followed by 4% per month over next 2 years).
*In the first season, 5% of the token supply will be Airdrop to users based on a snapshot of staking activities taken on March 15, 2024. 90% of the tokens will be claimable on May 10 . The final 10% will be claimable in a second phase of the first season.
*Airdrop for LRT users in Phase 2 of Season 1 after LRT projects submit wallet addresses list to Eigen Foundation.
*Airdrop is linear
*Initially, as the claims begin, the tokens will remain non-transferable for months to allow ample time for decentralization ⚠️
*Engaging in trading/creation of derivatives based on non-transferable $EIGEN, will impact your eligibility for future stakedrop seasons.⚠️
*Check eligibility: claims.eigenfoundation.org
*Claims window: Opens May 10, closes in 120 days on September 7, 2024.
https://docs.eigenfoundation.org/faq/eligibility
*Eigenlayer airdrop excludes USA, Canada, China, many other African, Asian countries and VPN users. ⚠️
Avalanche Integrates with Stripe for Crypto Onramping: link
*Retail users can purchase AVAX directly through Stripe.
Michael Saylor: Ethereum, BNB, Solana, Ripple, Cardano, everything down the stack is just a crypto asset security unregistered, none of them will ever be wrapped by a spot ETF, none of them will be accepted by Wall Street, none of them will be accepted by mainstream institutional investors in this decade.
Читать полностью…Fetch ai minted an additional 1.4 Billion $FET tokens to support the ASI Token Exchange Mechanism: link
Conversion ratio:
*$AGIX:$ASI — 0.433350:1
*$OCEAN:$ASI — 0.433226:1
*$FET:$ASI —1:1
Jack Dorsey’s Block to invest 10% of bitcoin Product profit into bitcoin.
*Under the DCA program, Block plan to purchase bitcoin on a monthly cadence utilizing TWAP orders, starting April 2024.
fyi: Federal prosecutors are examining financial transactions at Block. Block processed multiple cryptocurrency transactions for terrorist groups: link
⚠️ Spot Bitcoin ETF's net flow: -$560M
*$IBIT spot Bitcoin ETF Flow: -$36.9m.
[BlackRock ETF sees first negative flow]
*Record outflow for Fidelity $FBTC:191M
Aave Labs introduce Aave v4: Aave to 2030 and Beyond
Major upgrades & expansions proposed under this proposal are:
*Aave V4
*Aave Network
*Cross-Chain Liquidity Layer *Non-EVM L1 deployments
*A fresh new visual identity
*The Federal Reserve announced that starting in June, it will decelerate the pace of its quantitative tightening (QT) program by reducing the monthly redemption cap for Treasury securities from $60 billion to $25 billion, while maintaining the $35 billion cap for agency debt and mortgage-backed securities.
Читать полностью…Binance Labs Invests in Movement Labs: link
*6 days ago, Movement Labs raised $38M in Series A led by Polychain: link
*Movement is the first Move-EVM L2 on Ethereum.
CZ is the richest person ever to serve time in the US federal lockup since his ownership of Binance — and an estimated $43 billion personal fortune tied to it — remain intact: BBG
Читать полностью…Airdrop has geographic restrictions, but restaking via UI isn't, so users urged to deposit but discouraged from claiming tokens.
*If you hard block VPN use for Airdrop, hard block UI access also when they deposit.
*This goes for every project not just EigenLayer.
EigenLayer reveals plan for token airdrop with 15% allocation to stakers: TheBlock
Eigenlayer whitepaper: link
How Lazarus Group laundered $200M from 25+ crypto hacks to fiat from 2020 - 2023: ZachXBT
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