✅ Another red week for the crypto market, the fourth in a row. Ethereum is starting to show relative strength and is leading the growth over the last day 📈

Weekly news digest:

Fintech company Stripe will begin supporting transactions in USDC this summer

 

Ape Terminal stated that the ZKasino IDO has been canceled, and all participants will receive refunds

 

Metis announced the launch of Sequencer mining

 

BNB Foundation announced that a total of 1,94 million BNB was burned

Solana Saga Chapter 2 pre-orders have already received two airdrops that can offset the price of the phone

Thailand will block unauthorized crypto platforms

The bankruptcy estate of the FTX plans to auction an unknown number of Solana tokens this week

MtGox official website form has been updated It now contains the expected number of tokens and cash to be withdrawn and the status of payment

Binance exec arrested in Kenya, he faces extradition back to Nigeria

The US SEC will delay its decisions on the BlackRock and Grayscale applications for spot Ether ETFs

Republic First Bank collapsed and was seized by regulators

Franklin Templeton has tokenized a $380 million treasuries fund on the Polygon and Stellar blockchains ⛓

 

FBI warns Americans against using "unregistered crypto money transmitting services"

Consensys has filed a lawsuit against the US SEC for what the company calls an “unlawful seizure of authority” after the SEC accused MetaMask of acting as an unlicensed BrokerDealer

The Federal Trade Commission voted to ban noncompete agreements

New rules will allow UK police to seize crypto holdings without being required to make an arrest

🔸 China’s most prominent pro-blockchain official, Yao Qian, is under investigation by the Chinese government

🔸 US prosecutors want CZ to serve 36 months in prison

🔸 Federal prosecutors charged Samurai Wallet founders with conspiracy to commit money laundering

🔸 US Senator Elizabeth Warren wants 1% crypto wealth tax

🔸 US presidential candidate R.F. Kennedy Jr. wants to put the US budget on blockchain