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Early Friday, Friend.Tech airdropped its native token, FRIEND, while debuting version 2 of the platform.

The payments firm announced the news alongside its first quarter earnings report on Thursday afternoon.

The monitoring system would help Tether identify risky crypto addresses that could be used for bypassing sanctions or illicit activities like terrorist financing, the company said.

Crypto markets have seen significant profit taking in recent weeks with retail investors playing a bigger role than institutions, the report said.

Once they reach a certain level of sophistication, there’s a clear trend for Web3 asset holders to transition their digital asset wealth to self-custody.

U.S. Sen. Elizabeth Warren (D-Mass.), one of the most prominent critics of cryptocurrency hazards, warned the top military and financial officials that Iran relies on digital assets mining as a source of revenue that can lessen the pressure from U.S. sanctions.

MicroStrategy has already built one application using its service. “Orange For Outlook” integrates digital signatures into emails to enable recipients to verify the identity of the sender.

Private credit has been at the forefront of crypto’s asset tokenization trend with over $600 million outstanding on-chain assets.

The interoperability protocol indicated that there will be a series of airdrops.

The miner is looking at options including sale of all or part of the company and other strategic transactions.

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Mirror and Paragraphs are rivals in the Web3 publishing space, and their deal allows Mirror’s team to operate as an independent company focused exclusively on social media.

Ironlight, helmed by the former global head of trading of Schroeder and Abu Dhabi’s sovereign wealth fund ADIA with the ex-CEO of TD Bank as an adviser, aims to be a premier tokenization, listing and trading ecosystem for real-world assets targeting big investors.

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Binance’s lawyer needed more time to look at evidence, outlets reported.

The latest price moves in bitcoin (BTC) and crypto markets in context for May 2, 2024. First Mover is CoinDesk’s daily newsletter that contextualizes the latest actions in the crypto markets.

The cryptocurrency is already showing signs of maturity as its volatility drops to all-time lows on a yearly scale, the report said.

The asset manager has been helping educate pension funds, endowments and sovereign wealth funds about the new spot bitcoin ETF products, the firm’s head of digital assets said.

Recently, traders have sold $80,000 BTC call options expiring at the end of May to generate additional yield, one observer said.

Patrick Gruhn, the former head of FTX Europe, has paid nearly $1.5 million for a gold pocket watch recovered from the body of the Titanic’s richest passenger, The Wall Street Journal has reported.

Ukrainian national, Yaroslav Vasinskyi, also known as Rabotnik, has been sentenced 13 years and seven months in prison for his role in conducting over 2,500 ransomware attacks and demanding over $700 million in ransom payments, the Department of Justice announced Wednesday.

Fidelity’s FBTC, not GBTC, let outflows on Wednesday in what may be an alarming development for the bulls.

His four-month sentence was vindication for the Binance founder’s legal strategy.

Hopes for a series of interest rate cuts in 2024 have been quickly vanishing over the past few weeks as both the economy and inflation exhibit unexpected strength.

Much-hyped restaking project EigenLayer’s 43-page whitepaper about its now-revealed EIGEN token has raised lots of questions. They may not matter initially, because much of the promised functionality won’t be ready when the token launches.

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An SEC approval for spot ETH ETFs looks unlikely but even if the SEC approves exchange traded funds for Ether, investors should learn about total return ETH investment products. That way, they can gain from staking rewards as well as the underlying asset, says Jason Hall, the CEO of Methodic Capital Management.

The summer months, between June and September, have historically brought significantly lower investor returns than other months of the year, says André Dragosch, head of research at ETC Group.

The cryptocurrency is now trading below the average spot ETF purchase price of about $58K, and this could trigger liquidations, the report said.

BlackRock and Securitize last month teamed up to create the BlackRock USD Institutional Digital Liquidity Fund, which may prove to be geared toward RWA tokenization.