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Cosmos introduces Hydro
Hydro is a bidding & governance platform for the efficient deployment of liquidity across the interchain ecosystem.
https://blog.cosmos.network/hydro-the-interchain-auction-platform-for-liquidity-exports-88fa1368d763
SEC Chair Gary Gensler pushed back against the FIT21 bill.
FIT21 is a joint bill produced by the House Agriculture Committee and the House Financial Services Committee, and is intended to clarify how the SEC and Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC) oversee crypto. It creates a "digital commodity" term for digital assets that do not meet the bill's definition of a security, placing those assets under the CFTC's purview.
https://www.coindesk.com/policy/2024/05/22/secs-gensler-says-house-bill-would-undermine-regulators-crypto-capital-markets-oversight/
Clearpool is launching a yield vault for Hex Trust’s new stablecoin USDX on Flare.
https://x.com/ClearpoolFin/status/1792844655543115963
Taiko announced an airdrop
No details yet
Website: https://taiko.xyz/
https://x.com/taikoxyz/status/1792947662519443491
Donald Trump's presidential campaign officially accepts Bitcoin and crypto.
https://x.com/watcherguru/status/1793007848353345591 https://www.donaldjtrump.com/crypto#crypt-form
Fantom introduces Meme Season Competition
Meme Season aims to bring in new users and developers, providing them with the opportunity to experience its innovative technology.
Meme Season will be held in multiple rounds, the first of which will run from June 1–June 30 and offers a prize pool of up to 1 million sFTMx.
https://blog.fantom.foundation/introducing-meme-season-competition-up-to-10-million-sftmx-in-prizes/
ZkSync is planning a token generation event this week with a total token supply of 21 billion tokens, two sources told The Block.
The ZkSync token airdrop is expected to occur around June 13, according to an internal message screenshot seen by The Block.
https://www.theblock.co/post/295670/zksync-token-launch-airdrop
Phantom, the crypto wallet in the Solana ecosystem, has made its first acquisition by buying out Bitski, a wallet-as-a-service platform backed by high-profile investors, including Andreessen Horowitz (a16z) and Galaxy Digital.
https://www.theblock.co/post/295620/solana-wallet-phantom-bitski
deBridge introduces DBR
DBR is the governance token of the deBridge ecosystem, an SPL token on Solana.
DBR distribution breakdown:
▫️Community & Launch: 20%
▫️Core Contributors: 20%
▫️Strategic Partners: 17%
▫️Ecosystem: 26%
▫️deBridge Foundation: 15%
▫️Validators: 2%
Maximum supply: 10B
https://x.com/debridgefinance/status/1792876828052627522
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Nyan Heroes (NYAN) trading has started on ByBit and Gate.
NYAN is now trading at $0.28.
FDV: $280M
https://www.bybit.com/en/trade/spot/NYAN/USDT
https://www.gate.io/trade/NYAN_USDT
With ETH on the rise, TVL EigenLayer hit an all-time high of $18bn.
https://defillama.com/protocol/eigenlayer#information
Coinbase Derivatives Expands Futures Offering to Include Oil and Gold
On June 3rd, Coinbase Derivatives will launch retail-sized futures contracts for oil and gold.
New products to complement the existing complex of CFTC-regulated crypto futures on BTC, ETH, BCH, LTC, and DOGE.
https://www.coinbase.com/blog/coinbase-derivatives-expands-futures-offering-to-include-oil-and-gold
The U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) asked aspiring ether exchange-traded fund exchanges to update 19b-4 filings ahead of a key deadline this week.
The SEC had previously been expected to reject the ether ETF filings.
The SEC is expected to make a decision on VanEck spot ether ETF on May 23rd.
https://www.coindesk.com/policy/2024/05/20/ether-etfs-filing-process-sees-abrupt-progress-though-approval-not-guaranteed-sources/
The Rewards Eligibility checker is now live on the IOG Foundation website
Checker: https://t.co/oJn2wbW8cf
https://x.com/ionet/status/1792646233594405142
Richard Teng continues CZ tradition and celebrates Bitcoin Pizza Day.
https://x.com/_RichardTeng/status/1792975616230199607
Hong Kong’s privacy watchdog has ordered the Worldcoin Foundation to cease all operations in the region.
https://www.theblock.co/post/295910/hong-kong-orders-worldcoin-halt-operations
Mocaverse announced MOCA airdrop details:
▫️Moca NFT has 10% of total MOCA supply allocation (i.e. 31.7% within entire Network Incentives allocation), and 1/3 will be unlocked at TGE (more details to be disclosed)
▫️Moca ID airdrop will be rolled out in 2 separate phases
▫️Increased TGE unlock of “Network Incentives” from 15% to 20%
▫️Maximum of total airdrop amount will be capped by the first 2 tranches of Network Incentives allocation unlock (1st - TGE unlock, 2nd - TGE + 1 month unlock)
▫️Considering to include external communities in airdrop distribution, including but not limited to strategic partnerships and marketing incentives
https://x.com/mocaversenft/status/1793142237397922140
Jupiter is kicking off the Giant Unified Market initiative to bring all assets into a single atomic market.
Whether it is memecoins, RWAs, stocks or forex, Jupiter wants to bring all these assets to Solana and index them on Jupiter.
The alliance includes 10 different projects/funds.
Over the next few months, Jupiter will be working with these partners to do 3 main things:
1. Onboard more assets onto Solana
2. Create liquid markets for these assets
3. Integrate these markets into Jupiter and encourage adoption
https://x.com/jupiterexchange/status/1792971740458693020
VanEck’s proposed spot ether ETF added to DTCC website
A total of 6 issuers have filed updated 19b-4 filings for the spot ether ETFs: VanEck, Fidelity, Franklin, Ark Invest, Grayscale, Invesco Galaxy.
Valkyrie decided not to apply for a spot ETH-ETF due to the ban on staking.
https://www.theblock.co/post/295863/vaneck-spot-ether-etf-dtcc
https://www.dtcc.com/charts/exchange-traded-funds
CryptoPunk #8796 was sold for 52 ETH ($191,596).
https://cryptopunks.app/cryptopunks/details/8796
Farcaster has announced a new $150M fundraise led by Paradigm with participation from a16z crypto, Haun, USV, Variant, Standard Crypto and others.
https://danromero.org/farcaster-update/
The U.S. securities regulator asked Nasdaq, CBOE and NYSE to fine-tune their applications to list spot ether exchange-traded-funds (ETFs), signaling the agency may be poised to approve the filings, four people familiar with the process told Reuters.
https://www.reuters.com/markets/us/us-sec-asks-exchanges-fine-tune-ether-etf-filings-positive-sign-approval-say-2024-05-21/
Fidelity has removed the possibility of staking rewards from its S-1 registration statement for its prospective Ethereum ETF.
Prior to this, ARK Invest and 21Shares also removed staking rewards from prospective Ethereum ETF.
https://www.theblock.co/post/295605/fidelity-ethereum-etf-staking-amendment
https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/2000046/000119312524143277/d759655ds1a.htm
Vitalik Buterin: “We need an open decentralized (operator-free, governance-free) protocol for quickly moving assets from one L2 to another, and for that to be integrated into wallets' default sending interface.”
He also says that ENS is their most successful app.
https://x.com/VitalikButerin/status/1792793075007500350
Arthur Hayes has introduced a new article "The Easy Button"
https://cryptohayes.substack.com/p/the-easy-button
Linea has launched a dashboard to check points and early user status of the Linea Surge campaign
Checker: https://www.openblocklabs.com/app/linea/dashboard
Nyan Heroes introduces its angel investors
https://x.com/nyanheroes/status/1792646420287127895
GALA hacked for $200 million, the team freezes hacker's wallet
A compromised or rogue Gala Games admin address minted 5 Billion GALA ($200M) and has been systematically selling the tokens.
https://x.com/0xQuit/status/1792672497957302686
Bloomberg analyst Eric Balchunas: “James Seyffart and I are increasing our odds of spot Ether ETF approval to 75% (up from 25%), hearing chatter this afternoon that SEC could be doing a 180 on this (increasingly political issue), so now everyone scrambling (like us everyone else assumed they'd be denied). See Nate's tweet below for probably order of events (but again we capping at 75% until we see more, eg filing updates).”
https://x.com/ericbalchunas/status/1792636523050906102