● Hong Kong will release cryptocurrency trading platform licensing guidelines in May
Ruan Guoheng, deputy president of the Hong Kong Monetary Authority, published an article stating that he has actively discussed with banks in recent months and also stated that there are no legal or regulatory requirements prohibiting banks operating in Hong Kong from providing banking services to virtual asset-related institutions. It is expected that regulated virtual asset service providers Bank accounts will be successfully opened through reasonable procedures.
Earlier news, Hong Kong Securities and Futures Commission chief executive Leung Fengyi said that Hong Kong will release cryptocurrency trading platform licensing guidelines in May.
● The British tax authorities propose legislative changes to taxation of DeFi lending and staking
The official website of Her Majesty's Revenue and Customs (HMRC) stated that it is soliciting public opinions on proposed changes to the tax treatment of decentralized finance (DeFi) lending and pledges. The consultation will be open for 8 weeks and will end on June 22. The purpose of the consultation is to establish a system that better aligns the taxation of crypto-assets used in DeFi lending and staking transactions with the underlying economic substance, while reducing the administrative burden on users.
● The preliminary value of the annualized quarterly rate of real GDP in the United States in the first quarter was 1.1%, significantly lower than expected.
The initial annualized quarterly rate of real GDP in the United States in the first quarter was 1.1%, significantly lower than expected. Expected 2.00%, previous value 2.60%. The initial annualized quarterly rate of the U.S. core PCE price index in the first quarter was 4.9%, which was expected to be 4.70% and the previous value was 4.40%. The number of people filing for unemployment benefits in the United States in the week ending April 22 was 230,000, compared with the expected 248,000 and the previous value of 245,000. (Golden Ten)
● 125 projects received ARB from the Arbitrum Foundation, and 4 projects have sold most of the ARB received.
According to @BitcoinEmber monitoring, among the 125 projects that have received ARB from the Arbitrum Foundation, 4 have currently directly sold all/most of the received ARB (instead of using these ARB to incentivize their own project users), namely: The Damned Pirates Society (150,000), Trident (257,540), xToken Terminal (35,000), Rice Wallet (12,500).
● Head of Binance Global Sanctions: The number of compliance employees has increased from 100 in 2021 to 750 now
Chagri Poyraz, Binance’s head of global sanctions, said in an interview that Binance has made significant progress in controlling illegal activities and providing services to terrorists and criminals because the number of full-time compliance personnel at Binance has increased from 100 in 2021. The number of people increased to approximately 750, a 650% increase.
Poyraz said Binance is working hard to eliminate compliance lapses and is committed to being transparent. (The Block)
● Security team: Recently, Google search advertising phishing incidents have occurred frequently, resulting in more than 4 million US dollars being stolen.
Web3 anti-fraud tool Scam Sniffer posted that it has received multiple cases of users being phished by Google search ads in recent weeks. According to statistics, these Google search ad phishing has resulted in the theft of $4.16 million, with more than 3,000 victims, most of whom The theft occurred in the last month or so.