The TON Foundation announced that its standalone digital wallet, TON Space, was launched on #Telegram and is now available to approximately 800 million messenger users.

In addition, the fund said that projects built on TON will receive priority access to the advertising platform of the messaging application Telegram Ads.

Today at the TOKEN2049 exhibition #Zilliqa announced a multi-year strategic partnership with Google Cloud.

The collaboration will improve the scalability, resiliency and data availability of Zilliqa's Layer 1 blockchain protocol.

With Google Cloud's participation, businesses both within the Zilliqa Group and the broader ecosystem will benefit from a more robust platform underpinning the range of #Web3 services and decentralized applications (dApps) built on the Zilliqa blockchain.

The Consensys team introduced #MetaMask Snaps, a platform that allows third-party developers to customize the MetaMask wallet.

Using the platform, any team can create and deploy their own add-ons to MetaMask, even when working with assets on blockchains that do not use the #Ethereum (EVM) virtual machine.

Brazilian crypto asset management firm Hashdex has filed to launch a spot exchange-traded fund (#ETF ) at #Ethereum in the US.

The move is a response to growing demand for cryptocurrency-based investment products, the company said.

Project #LayerZero has entered into a partnership with cloud solutions service Google Cloud, in which the latter will verify the accuracy of data transferred between blockchains using LayerZero.

Note that LayerZero has previously used other oracles, such as Chainlink or Polyhedra, and Google Cloud will complement their list and become the default oracle.

Ethereum-based decentralized exchange (DEX) SushiSwap has announced support for the Aptos network.

The Sushi team believes that the #Aptos integration will open up deeper cross-chain liquidity and improve the quality of cross-chain trading.

The Aptos integration marks the first time #Sushi a blockchain has been added that is not compatible with the Ethereum Virtual Machine (EVM). According to (https://defillama.com/protocol/sushi) DefiLlama, Sushi was previously available on Ethereum, Arbitrum, Base, Polygon, Fantom, BNB Chain.

An enterprising drop hunter created 21,877 wallets on the second-level Ethereum network #zkSync to participate in a possible token distribution.

To do this, he created his own coin, which he traded on his own DEX, where he poured more than 80,#ETH liquidity.

As a result, the user generated $10,000 in volume and 10 transactions for each of 21,877 wallets, hoping to meet the minimum criteria for a future distribution, spending $1.5-2 on commission per wallet.

The unfortunate user made a mistake when setting the transaction fee, costing just over $510,000 for transferring 0.074 BTC.

F2Pool, which processed the transaction, intends to return the bitcoins to the owner if he contacts within 3 days.

#ICP -3.31 million coins ($10.27 million)
#BMEX- 18.53 million coins ($6.4 million)
#APT- 4.54 million coins ($23.76 million)
#ALICE- 2.85 million coins ($2.15 million)
#BIT- 187.51 million coins ($78.51 million)
#SNX- 3.16 million coins ($6.81 million)
#CYBER- 1.14 million coins ($5.63 million)
#UNI- 8.33 million coins ($35.04 million)
#GRT- 89.4 million coins ($7.51 million)

The Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC) has charged DeFi protocols Opyn, ZeroEx and Deridex for illegal derivatives trading and operating without a license.

The regulator accuses them of “using blockchain-based protocols and smart contracts to operate as trading platforms.”

Arkham Intelligence analysts were able to identify more than 1,750 addresses belonging to the Grayscale Bitcoin Trust.

On each wallet, the company stores no more than 1,000 #BTC , and their total amount is about $16.1 billion. Also in Grayscale wallets there are 3.03 million #ETH for $4.9 billion.

The former head of the Thodex crypto exchange Faruk Fatih Ozer and two of his relatives received 11,196 years in prison, Bloomberg reports.

A court in Istanbul found them guilty of aggravated fraud, leading a criminal organization and money laundering.

The total amount of losses suffered by investors as a result of Thodex's collapse has not yet been determined. The prosecutor's indictment estimates them at 356 million liras ($13 million), with Turkish media reporting figures as high as $2.6 billion.

Mirae Asset Securities, the largest investment banking and brokerage firm by market capitalization in South Korea, is partnering with Polygon Labs to create a network of tokenized securities.

The goal of this alliance is to accelerate the adoption of #Web3 technologies and establish global leadership in the field of tokenized securities.

Grab, the largest Uber analogue in Southeast Asia with more than 180 million users, has added a crypto wallet on the Polygon blockchain.

According to Scam Sniffer, the user accidentally signed a malicious transaction that allowed the waste of tokens, as a result of which he lost $24.23 million in stETH and rETH.

An interesting fact is that the victim’s wallet has been active since 2017 and has constantly interacted with DeFi protocols such as Uniswap, Aave, 1inch, Curve, OMG, EOS, etc.

The personal bank accounts and real estate of Alex Mashinsky, who headed the bankrupt crypto lender #Celsius , were frozen by a court decision in connection with a criminal case against the company and its top management.

US prosecutors accuse the former CEO of Celsius Network of defrauding investors, laundering illegal proceeds, embezzling $42 million and other crimes that led to the bankruptcy of the company with debt of more than $1 billion.

There are 22 people in the world whose cryptocurrency assets are valued at at least $1 billion. Six of them hold assets in Bitcoin (BTC), analysts at Henley & Partners report.

According to its experts, crypto assets worth $1 million are owned by 88.2 thousand investors, that is, approximately 0.02% of the total number of cryptocurrency users (425 million people). About 40.5 thousand of them keep their investments in bitcoins.

Visa has announced the expansion of its stablecoin settlement capabilities to include the Solana blockchain in addition to its existing Ethereum capabilities. The company said it is partnering with merchant acquirers Worldpay and Nuvei to implement pilot programs.

Kai Sheffield, head of cryptocurrency at Visa, said the move is aimed at speeding up cross-border settlements and allowing customers to pay with stablecoins.

#NEAR -7.75 million coins ($8.76 million)
#WRX- 30 million coins ($2.91 million)
#TKO- 12.17 thousand coins ($2.71 million)
#BLOK- 3.67 billion coins ($5.13 million)
#GMT- 87.92 coins ($13.62 million)

The meme cryptocurrency Dogecoin, which was promoted several times by Elon Musk, was secretly developed with the money of a businessman. The publication Coingape writes about this with reference to an excerpt from the biography of the billionaire authored by Walter Isaacson, which was posted on The Wall Street Journal.

Elon’s brother Kimbal spoke about the connection between Musk and #Dogecoin . It was with him that the businessman discussed the idea of ​​​​creating a social network based on blockchain, where you can not only exchange messages, but also make payments using cryptocurrencies. At the same time, Elon suggested using Dogecoin, which, according to Kimbal, he secretly finances.