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Circle launches euro-based stablecoin on Avalanche blockchain

Circle launched EUROC last year as a regulated stablecoin, which means that each token is fully backed by euro reserves held at United States-regulated financial institutions.

Germany's recession triggers responses from the crypto community

A member of the community thinks that, in this case, all speculative markets including crypto will lose ground.

Chinese state media removes video on crypto after Binance CEO calls it 'big deal'

Although China has maintained a hostile stance against crypto, the recent developments in Hong Kong got many to speculate about its impact on China.

Fahrenheit wins bid to acquire assets of crypto lender Celsius

The Arrington Capital-backed consortium outbid NovaWulf to acquire Celsius Network’s assets, while the Blockchain Recovery Investment Consortium serves as a backup bid.

Gaming is the 'largest scale opportunity' for crypto: Polygon co-founder

Polygon co-founder Sandeep Nailwal said growing industries “invites a lot of speculation early on” but the genuine use cases will eventually rise to the surface.

Jump Crypto finds double-voting vulnerability in Celer’s SGN

The bug would have allowed malicious validators to compromise the network and applications that rely on it, including Celer’s cBridge.

Multichain token plunges 30% on backend upgrade delay

The MULTI protocol's TVL remains largely unchanged at $1.6 billion despite a large selloff in the token price.

Project takes off with $31.6M in alleged exit scam

On-chain detective ZachXBT believes that the project has “likely exit scammed” after bridging $31.6 million to multiple addresses on Tron and Ethereum.

Ethereum is ‘woefully undervalued’ but growing more powerful: DeFi Dad, Hall of Flame

DeFi Dad says he’d be shocked if Bitcoin doesn’t hit $500K within 10 years, but he thinks Ethereum is getting more powerful all the time.

Financial surveillance, privacy and CBDCs: Why are governments going cashless?

Attorney Marta Belcher joins The Agenda podcast to unpack financial surveillance’s vast infrastructure and warn of the potential ramifications of central bank digital currencies.

Foresight Ventures pledges additional $10M for Web3 accelerator

The venture capital firm will allocate up to $200,000 to blockchain projects that it deems promising.

Web3 threatened by Web2.5 and regulations, exec warns

Outlier Ventures founder Jamie Burke warns that as projects compromise with products that are not interoperable, the vision of Web3 goes further from becoming realized.

Ledger key recovery service paused amid backlash, will open-source code

In a May 23 Twitter Space, Ledger CEO Pascal Gauthier said the past week has been a “humbling experience.”

Dispersion Capital launches $40M venture fund to ‘bring Web3 to the masses’

The firm aims to fund startups building infrastructure for Web3 and other decentralized technology projects.

Solana integrates AI into blockchain, raises grants fund to $10M

The ChatGPT plugin integrated into Solana is open source and can be downloaded from GitHub.

CBDCs on the horizon: The current state of CBDC initiatives around the world

Central bank digital currencies gain traction as countries worldwide engage in their development despite skepticism from the crypto community.

NFT ticketing dishes out a punch at mixed martial arts league

The mixed martial arts organization, Professional Fighters League, will use NFT tickets, becoming the latest sports body to explore the Web3 ticketing functionality.

Crypto City: Guide to Osaka, Japan’s second-biggest city

Osaka may or may not have been Satoshi’s home, Binance has moved in, the city hosted Devcon 5, and there’s finally a Bitcoin ATM again!

Portfolio management provider GoodCrypto joins Cointelegraph Accelerator

GoodCrypto joins a dedicated Cointelegraph support program for Web3 innovators to increase its brand value and scale up marketing efforts.

Bitget secures regulatory license in Poland, reserve funds up $80M in Q1

The cryptocurrency exchange secured VASP licensing in Lithuania in April.

Dash blockchain down for hours after hard fork fail, devs to try upgrade again June 14

The v19 hard fork didn’t go as planned for the privacy coin, but a fix has been released; v18 had experienced a few kinks, too.

Rising BTC transaction fees are a good thing, Bitcoin educator shares

Dan Held, the chief marketing officer at Trust Machines, believes that rising Bitcoin transaction fees may encourage users to look at other layer-2 solutions.

Korean crypto executives allegedly profited $2.3M from coin listing scandal

Projects were allegedly swayed into signing contracts with dubious market makers as consideration for listing on crypto exchange Coinone.

TON Foundation launches $25M accelerator program

The accelerator will invest between $50,000 to $250,000 per project that builds on TON and has an MVP.

When pizza became the unsung hero of Bitcoin’s history: A cheesy celebration

Join the cheesy celebration and learn how Bitcoin Pizza Day shaped the adoption of cryptocurrencies.

Illuvium controversy, Aurory Prologue review, Fornite CEO salty, Assassin’s Creed NFTs: Web3 Gamer

Illuvium’s many marketing controversies, Assasin’s Creed’s NFT cubes, Fortnite CEO salty about death of metaverse, Aurory Prologue review.

GameFi developer Gala Games to launch Web3 poker platform with PokerGO

“Players will soon realize the heightened entertainment that comes with playing poker in an immersive Web3 environment,” said Eric Schiermeyer, founder of Gala Games.

Responsible AI can create policies to help ‘better serve society’

Sabin Dima, the CEO and founder of Humans.Ai, said that with the right implementation, governments could use AI to enhance public services and policies.

Gemini considers forbearance after DCG defaults on a $630M payment

Gemini is planning to file a new motion with the court seeking the return of $1.1 billion of digital assets from DCG-owned Genesis.

Ordinals sends LTC and DOGE network activity surging for 3 straight weeks

Move over Bitcoin, Ordinals on Litecoin and Dogecoin have unleashed a frenzy of transactions.

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