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Dolce & Gabbana Files Lawsuit for Inadequate NFT Delivery: Bloomberg

According to Bloomberg, Dolce & Gabbana USA is being sued for allegedly making mistakes with the non-fungible token (NFT) delivery process. The asset was purchased by the customer for $6,000. According to the story, Luke Brown filed a lawsuit in the Southern District of New York on behalf of other people who purchased digital assets from the NFT initiative after losing $5,800 on the NFTs he purchased. According to the complaint, the business advertised the NFTs by informing consumers that purchasing DGFamily NFTs would give them access to a variety of digital incentives, tangible goods, and special events. On the other hand, the NFTs arrived later than expected. The buyer claimed that the NFTs included clothing for wearing in the metaverse, however the report stated that the digital clothing that arrived 20 days later than expected “could be used only in a metaverse platform with barely any users.” According to the complaint, Dolce & Gabbana did not obtain prior consent from the NFT marketplace UNXD, which prevented the digital costumes from being used for an additional 11 days after their release. When CoinDesk asked for comment, Dolce & Gabbana and UNXD—an additional defendant in the case—did not get back to us right away.

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Blockchain

Subsquid Data Indexer Is Set to Release SQD Token on Friday

According to co-founder Marcel Fohrmann of CoinDesk, the native token of blockchain indexing provider Subsquid, or SQD, is scheduled to go live this Friday and be listed on many cryptocurrency exchanges.With the help of their combined processing capacity, Subsquid’s network of autonomous node operators is able to interpret massive amounts of on-chain data thanks to the utility token. As per a news release, Subsquid offered $6.3 million worth of tokens for sale to the general public via CoinList in January. That brings the project’s lifetime fundraise to $17.5 million across multiple funding rounds featuring Blockchange, Hypersphere, Zee Prime, DFG, and Lattice, the release said. Among the few groups indexing on-chain activities to provide blockchain developers with meaningful data is Subsquid. From its beginnings in the Polkadot space, it has expanded into the Ethereum realm and most recently launched a beta for Solana.Analysts and academic researchers are among Subsquid’s clientele, according to CEO Dmitry Zhelezov. As the on-chain engines powering NFT exchanges and Perps DEXes, the majority of users are developers who use the tool to monitor activity on their smart contracts. In an interview, Fohrmann said Subquid knew early on that it needed a token in order to “incentivize people to run these nodes, to participate in this network” of

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Blockchain

Early investors can sell without having to wait thanks to an oxymoronic blockchain feature called “liquid vesting.”

There are customs aimed at safeguarding the little investor even in the wild and unpredictable world of cryptocurrency trading. One of these is the vesting period, which is the period of time after an airdrop or sale of digital tokens during which early investors—founders, project contributors, and venture capital backers, for example—are prohibited from selling their stakes.Projects usually take this action to prevent the token’s price from plunging too quickly after listing, for example, in the event that significant investors decide to sell their tokens at once. Ensuring insiders and early donors maintain a stake in the project is another objective—a kind of pledge of good faith. Now comes a new feature from Colony Lab, a developer and project incubator in the Avalanche blockchain ecosystem, called “liquid vesting.” It is essentially a workaround, which explains why it sounds that way. Take your luggage and hold on to them. You don’t have to wait for the vesting period to end to take advantage of liquidity. “Liquid vesting allows early investors to trade their tokens before they invest without impacting the projects, without impacts in the secondary market, ” said Wessal Erradi, co-founder of Colony Labs. The positive

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Tech Africa

Kenya and the Bitcoin Miner Marathon are in talks to support Kenya’s green energy goals.

One of the biggest bitcoin mining firms, Marathon Digital (MARA), is in discussions with Kenya to assist in developing the nation’s cryptocurrency regulations and managing its renewable energy resources through mining. Vice president of government affairs at MARA Jayson Browder told CoinDesk, “We’ve been working closely with the Kenyan government on how to optimize and monetize renewable energy assets.” The Marathon team recently met with Kenyan President William Ruto at an American Chamber of Commerce event held in Kenya. Data from 2022 showed that over 80% of Kenya’s electricity came from renewable sources; President Ruto stated that he intends to increase this to 100% by 2030.The International Renewable Energy Agency states that Kenya is almost at the level of nations like Uganda and the Congo, which rely almost exclusively on renewable energy. Together with wind and solar energy, geothermal energy from the earth’s crust powers Kenya. While geothermal energy remains consistent and unaffected by seasonal variations, the power supply of Kenya may face challenges from other renewable energy sources. Here comes Marathon, which thinks its technology can assist Kenya in resolving this power management issue. The fact that electricity is only generated when the sun is shining and the wind is blowing presents one of the biggest obstacles to renewable energy, since it causes issues for users with consistency and storage. A power management system is required to balance the grid since, in order to utilize various energy sources as efficiently as possible, the power must either be wasted or saved. Businesses such as Marathon have the ability to configure their bitcoin mining activities to function as a power management system by utilising the surplus energy produced by these sustainable sources. In order to maintain grid balance, miners can also cease operations to minimize consumption and allow other customers to continue receiving electricity uninterrupted.Companies are able to set up sites wherever they are needed to assist balance the power grid because bitcoin mining activities can be relatively flexible. “The technology is modular, we can co-locate these really anywhere, and if they’re an intermittent source, like wind or solar, we’re able to turn off our machines when the grid needs it, so we can balance the grid,” Browder said. The company also started a similar project in Paraguay last year

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Crypto Blockchain

Coinbase, according to the SEC, “just does not like the answer.”

The cryptocurrency exchange Coinbase has asked for an interlocutory appeal on a “controlling question” in the ongoing lawsuit, but the United States Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) has rejected the request, claiming that Coinbase is trying to alter the interpretation of the question itself. In a document filed with the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of New York on May 10, the SEC stated that “Coinbase’s attempts to manipulate the question for appeal to shoehorn it into a certifiable question under 28 U.S.C. § 1292(b) are self-defeating.” The SEC additionally stated that Coinbase “does not like” the Howey test, which is the agency’s criterion for defining what constitutes a security, and the present securities regulatory framework, alleging that Coinbase has structured its operations in a way that could “make it costly” to abide by the law as it is. “Coinbase just does not like the answer. Having made the weather, Coinbase cannot now complain that it is raining.” That follows Coinbase’s April 12 interlocutory appeal, in which the company claimed that the absence of a post-sale obligation was incompatible with the existence of an investment contract. The SEC contests this, and Coinbase argues that whether it does so or not is a controlling question, a crucial legal matter that could significantly impact the case’s conclusion. However, the SEC argued that Coinbase is only claiming this to be a controlling question as the exchange can’t provide a clear explanation of what constitutes a “contractual undertaking.” “Coinbase remains unable to advance

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Blockchain

Zilliqa is battling consecutive network outages as the most recent update is being released.

 The Zilliqa network has had some operational disturbances lately, which have affected the creation of blocks on its mainnet. Though the problem is still being looked into, as of May 10, complete network functionality has been restored.After “temporary disruptions to block production on mainnet,” the Zilliqa team informed the community that the network was back up and running. The infrastructure team is keeping an eye on the network’s stability while attempting to identify the root cause of the recent outages, even after the network’s functioning has been restored. Following the discovery of a block generation slowness on May 8, the Zilliqa network technical team has been working nonstop for nearly 48 hours in an effort to avert additional disruptions. The Zilliqa technical team found a bug on May 9 at approximately 9:30 am UTC that resulted in a null value being returned “instead of a node’s RLP following a possible invalid database lookup.” “The team has created internal rehearsal networks to recreate this issue and trial bug fixes, allowing for possible solutions to be tested within an isolated environment before progressing to Testnet and mainnet deployments.” Together with the release of the Zilliqa version 9.3.4 network upgrade, the team had fixed all functionality by approximately 2:30 pm UTC on May 9. The developers expressed their regret for any inconvenience the update may have caused to users and the Zilliqa community, noting that it will provide “a number of enhancements to EVM compatibility.” But even after the update and patch were implemented, on May 9 at roughly 7:05 PM UTC, there was still another production disruption that affected the Zilliqa mainnet.Now, in order to more accurately identify the problem and deal with the underlying cause of the disturbance, the team improved the debugging procedures. Technical problems have previously caused production interruptions in the Zilliqa block. The number of daily Zilliqa blockchain transactions dropped by over 50% in December 2023 due to a “interruption to block production,” from nearly 61,000 to 30,906. The community is thanked for their “patience and support during the course of resolving” the issue, and the Zilliqa team is still looking into the root cause of the recent network outages.

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Crypto Ethereum

The first time since Merge that ether becomes inflated

Ever since Ethereum launched the much awaited Dencun upgrade two months ago, the supply of Ether has not been deflationary.According to data from CryptoQuant, the total amount of ether supply rose to 120.1 million on May 7 from 120 million on March 12 prior to the Dencun update being sent out on mainnet.Although it is a slight increase, this is the first time since September 2022, when the much-awaited Merge moved Ethereum to its present proof-of-stake consensus process, that the supply of Ether has been inflationary. According to the founder and CEO of Cryptoquant, Ether’s temporary loss of its deflationary status is not catastrophic for the Ethereum network because its primary advantages are more closely linked to decentralized applications (DApps).Ki Young Ju posted on May 9th, X. “Post-Dencun upgrade, $ETH lost deflationary status with reduced fees, departing from “ultrasound money.” Ethereum’s strength lies in DApps; it’s wiser not to compare it to Bitcoin’s sound money narrative.” Following the Merge on September 15, 2022, a mechanism was introduced that permanently burnt transaction fees on the network, causing a decrease in the amount of Ether available. This is when the Ether supply first become deflationary.According to ultrasound.money, more than 419,713 Ether tokens have been destroyed, or taken out of circulation permanently, since the Merge. With the same level of network activity, Ether’s inflationary trend has come to a halt thanks to the Dencun upgrade, which has made median transaction costs up to four times less than they were previously.Although this is an important development for the Ethereum network and its users, a May 8 report by CryptoQuant suggests that Ether’s standing as ultra-sound money may be jeopardized. “The Dencun upgrade has made ETH inflationary again, potentially killing the narrative of “Ultra sound” money as a structurally lower amount of

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Blockchain Defi

AgriDex, a Solana-based marketplace, raises $5 million to tokenize the agriculture sector.

The Solana-based tokenization platform AgriDex reported that it has raised $5 million to put agricultural commodities on the blockchain.The South African wine organization Oldenburg Vineyards, the sub-Saharan African agricultural group African Crops, and Endeavour Ventures were among the investors in the pre-seed funding round, the company announced via email on Thursday.On its marketplace, AgriDex offers a variety of crops for purchase.Deals are safeguarded once they are completed by minting a non-fungible token (NFT) that contains all of the important transaction information. In recent months, there has been a growing trend in the cryptocurrency sector related to the tokenization of real-world assets (RWAs).Although they came in second to meme coins’ 1,313% yield, RWAs were the second most lucrative story in the first quarter, according to a CoinGecko report, with returns of 286%.RWA tokenization has typically concentrated more on assets like bonds, stocks, and precious commodities like gold.AgriDex is making an effort to expand this story to include the $2.7 trillion global agriculture market.

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Blockchain

According to a JPMorgan executive, public blockchain ledgers are “not fit for purpose.”

According to a JPMorgan analyst, public blockchains are still insufficient for carrying out substantial volumes of transactions.On May 7, Umar Farooq, CEO of JPMorgan’s blockchain-based Onyx payment platform, spoke at the BIS Innovation Summit. “I think you almost need something like [a Unified Ledger]. I mean, it’s actually almost a necessity because if you look at […] public blockchain ledgers, they are not fit for purpose for large transactions today.” The CEO made these remarks in reaction to the Unified Ledger, an idea that the Bank of International Settlements (BIS) unveiled last year with the goal of facilitating digital assets, tokenized deposits, and money flows across central banks on its network.Farooq went on to say that public blockchain validators cannot be held responsible if a $100 million transaction fails. stated Farooq. “Who do I sue? […] You need to get somewhere where people can do trusted transactions

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Defi Nft's

Galaxis raises $10 million and increases its conviction that NFTs will offer genuine value everywhere.

Galaxis, a Singapore-based Web3 platform, revealed on Tuesday that it has received $10 million from investors, including Chainlink, Ethereum Name Services (ENS), Rarestone Capital, Taisu Ventures, and co-founder Nick Johnson of ENS, in preparation for the token launch.The entire investment was also aided by profits from the company’s node sale of over 11,000 “Galaxis Engines.”DJ Steve Aoki, actor Val Kilmer, and NBA personality LaMelo Ball are just a few of the celebrities that the platform has collaborated with. It assists creators and brands in introducing collections of non-fungible tokens (NFTs).With over 225,000 NFTs sold over the past several years, the company has made over 32,000 ETH ($100 million) from secondary NFT sales. It is currently getting ready for “mass distribution,” according to the corporation. “The next step is to see the use of our native GALAXIS token supercharge the ecosystem,” said CEO and co-founder Andras Kristof, who also installed the first bitcoin ATMs in Singapore. He also said that as a post-hype NFT utility platform, “we believe the use of this new technology will go beyond the hype”

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Crypto Blockchain

Sui Network clarifies any confusion on the availability of tokens.

Sui Network, a layer-1 decentralized network, has addressed and clarified frequent misconceptions regarding the amount of tokens it issues.This X platform statement addresses issues around founder control and token distribution, specifically addressing criticisms of the company’s tokenomics.With respectable third-party custodians handling locked tokens, the site believes that its token economics are sound.The public can access and release tokens in accordance with a prearranged emission schedule.The foundation makes it clear that the treasury and tokens given to investors, including the community reserve, are not under the founders’ authority. According to feedback from the Sui Network, the Sui Foundation manages the primary wallet holding locked tokens, which are released under specific conditions to enhance the ecosystem. These allocations support various projects, including Move programming language development, network security enhancements, hackathons, and developer grants. Sui Network went on to describe the system’s staking reward distribution in more detail.These benefits include network commissions and stake derivatives, both of which are given back to the community.Sui’s economic model, which strives to preserve justice and balance, heavily relies on this strategy. Justin Bons from Cyber Capital voiced worries regarding the founding team’s token ownership notwithstanding Sui Network’s explanations.According to Bons, there is a risk of centralization because the founders can hold a sizable percentage of the tokens that have been staked.This led to demands for increased responsibility and transparency from the network administration, which the Sui team has subsequently addressed.Sui Network, on the other hand, refutes this claim as untrue in regards to token administration and distribution and highlights their dedication to openness.They have shown that all tokens—distributed or not—are handled in accordance with legal and regulatory requirements, under the supervision of trustworthy custodial services like Coinbase Prime, BitGo, and Anchorage. Bons, however, disputed the Sui Network’s transparency claim, asking them to show that the founders are unable to change or access the allocated stake and to appropriately depict its current state.Bons stressed that he is a critic driven by a desire to see SUI succeed.He said that falsely claiming that these tokens are transparent is insufficient and that genuine transparency necessitates unambiguous proof that the allotted tokens are safely stored and unchangeable. Sui Network simplified Web3 logins for users on its apps in September 2023 by implementing Zero Knowledge login (zkLogin), which allowed users to log in using their Twitch, Facebook, and Google credentials.renowned for having a large transaction volume and inexpensive launch fees.It has established a reputation for managing large transaction volumes with affordable prices ever since its start.

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Blockchain Crypto

Base from Coinbase might become the NVIDIA of DeFi.

According to Coinbase’s first-quarter earnings report, which was published on May 2, the company has been doing well as a result of the growing Bitcoin and Ethereum markets in recent months.The data, however, suggests that the Base platform has much more promise, which might make Coinbase the NVIDIA of decentralized finance (DeFi).Base, an inexpensive, safe Ethereum layer-2 solution, was introduced in August 2023 with the goal of growing Coinbase’s user base on-chain to expedite transactions.The goal of Coinbase’s aim is to decentralize Base and establish an open, worldwide cryptocurrency ecosystem by utilizing the public, secure Ethereum mainnet. According to Coinbase’s Q1 report, volume on Base has surged past its competitors, particularly after the rollout of Ethereum’s Dencun upgrade. DeFi crypto exchanges on Base saw daily trading volume surpass $1 billion per day, narrowing the gap between Coinbase’s main centralized exchange trading volumes, where almost 250 cryptocurrencies are traded. Activity on Base was considerably increased with the Dencun renovation.Base quickly outpaced competitors like Optimism and Arbitrum in terms of daily transaction volume and income.The update increased user engagement and transaction volume while lowering costs for layer-2 scaling chains like Base. Since the

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Blockchain

Untangled, a tokenized private credit platform, launches its first USDC lending pool on Celo.

Thursday saw the opening of Untangled Finance’s first private credit pool on the Celo (CELO) network, a tokenized real-world asset (RWA) platform supported by Fasanara Capital, in partnership with French fintech lender Karmen.Karmen, which specializes in providing instantaneous loans and working capital to small and medium-sized digital enterprises in France, will receive capital from the pool, which is structured under Luxembourg’s securitization regulations and has a debt ceiling of $6 million at the beginning. Accredited investors can deposit the USDC stablecoin into the pool.Early investors in the facility included the ecosystem development group managed by the Celo community, The Credit Collective, and institutional asset manager Fasanara Capital. Untangled stated that the new pool is a part of a possible, as-yet-unfinalized, larger senior facility agreement for 100 million euros ($107 million) with Karmen. The asset-tokenization trend in the cryptocurrency space, which takes traditional assets like bonds, credit, and funds to the blockchain for improved efficiency and transparency, quicker settlements, and wider access, has put private credit at the forefront. Based on data from rwa.xyz, the on-chain private-credit industry is valued at more than $600 million.For the worldwide private credit market, which the Financial Times reports the IMF values at slightly over $2 trillion, that’s chump change.The newspaper’s internal investigation yielded an even higher number. “By bringing fintech lending on-chain with an innovative credit assessment models, Untangled showcases the potential of tokenized real-world assets to improve access to funding and risk management for entrepreneurs and businesses worldwide,” Isha Varshney, head of ecosystem at network development organization Celo Foundation, said in a statement.

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Blockchain

Tokenized Asset Issuer Backed Raises $9.5M Amid Increasing Competition in Crypto’s RWA

A funding round headed by Gnosis has raised $9.5 million, according to a statement released on Tuesday by tokenized asset issuer Backed.Along with them are Exor Seeds, Cyber Fund, Mindset Ventures, Blockchain Founders Fund, Blue Bay Capital, and Nonce Classic.The company’s news statement states that the investment is intended to accelerate the rollout of its private tokenization product and bring asset managers on board with blockchain technology. The investment took place at a time when tokenization of real-world assets (RWA) has emerged as one of the most exciting areas of the digital asset market, with major asset management companies, cryptocurrency companies, and international banks vying to introduce conventional financial instruments like bonds, money, and loans to blockchains. In comparison to conventional financial railroads, tokenization may provide advantages including better trade settlement efficiency, more investor access, and less administrative work.The asset manager 21.co predicted in a research last year that the RWA market may reach $10 trillion by the end of the decade.According to its website, the company, which is headquartered, regulated, and backed by Switzerland, has issued over $50 million worth of tokenized RWAs, including ERC-20 compatible token versions of individual stocks like Tesla (TSLA) and Coinbase (COIN) and exchange-traded funds (ETF). “Global financial markets are fragmented, hindering accessibility and efficiency,” said Youbin Kang, chief executive of Nonce Classic, one of the investors in the round. “Backed aims to solve these issues by bringing RWAs on-chain.”

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Ethereum

For at least a year, the SEC and Gensler thought Ether was secure.

A deeper look into the SEC’s position on ether has been provided by Consensys’ lawsuit against the US Securities and Exchange Commission.According to a story by Fox Business producer Eleanor Terret, the SEC and its head, Gary Gensler, thought Ether was a security for a while.The SEC and Gensler “seem to have believed for at least a year” that Ether was a “unregistered security trading out of compliance with current federal regulations,” according to Terret, who cited court filings from Ethereum software company Consensys on April 29. The fresh details surfaced just days after Consensys on April 25 filed an unsealed lawsuit against the SEC in a federal court in Texas.The filing was made in response to a warning that the securities commission had sent to Wells, outlining the plans to sue the company for violating federal securities laws. In line with the updated document, on March 28, 2023, Gurbir Grewal, the director of the SEC’s Division of Enforcement, authorized a formal order of investigation over Ether’s securities classification.Investigating and subpoenaing people and organizations involved in the purchase and sale of cryptocurrencies is what the “Ethereum 2.0″ inquiry purportedly gave enforcement personnel permission to do.The SEC told subpoena recipients to keep the probe under wraps if they wanted more information about it, according to Terret, who cited anonymous people with firsthand knowledge of the situation. The SEC allegedly believed that possible unregistered offerings and sales of Ether had been going on since at least 2018. This belief served as the foundation for the “Ethereum 2.0″ inquiry.It will go against previous SEC recommendations issued by former Chair Jay Clayton if the Gensler SEC determines that Ether qualifies as a security.In a speech given in June 2018, Bill Hinman, the Director of Corporation Finance at the time, outlined the SEC’s stance that Ether and Bitcoin were not securities. According to the latest documents, on April 13, 2023, the five-member commission authorized the Division of Enforcement’s “Ethereum 2.0″ investigation. This was merely five days prior to Gensler’s appearance before the House Financial Services Committee, during which he declined to respond to inquiries regarding the SEC’s belief that Ether was a security.The announcement was made a few days after companies and applicants for a possible spot Ethereum exchange-traded fund in the United States stated that the SEC would probably postpone making a decision on whether to approve the product in May.Given that Gensler declined to say last year whether Ether was a security or not, Bloomberg ETF analyst Eric Balchunas thinks that Gensler’s position on Ether may have an effect on the choice.

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Nft's

Launch of Google Cloud’s Web3 gateway ignites discussion in the cryptocurrency space

A new Web3 page from Google Cloud contains resources for blockchain developers, like as data sets and how-to guides for making nonfungible tokens (NFT). But there has been a mixed response in the bitcoin sector. “No built-in support for Lightning and Bitcoin? “Seems like a mistake to overlook the most significant cryptocurrency,” Unchained vice president

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Blockchain Technology

Will AI cryptocurrency tokens follow Nvidia’s 15% share price increase in just five days?

One of the largest manufacturers of graphics processing units (GPUs), Nvidia, has seen a 15% increase in share price this week. This has analysts wondering if other “bottomed out” artificial intelligence (AI) cryptocurrency tokens would follow.“This is completely crazy,” the trade resource said.In a report published on April 27, The Kobeissi Letter said, highlighting the significant increase in Nvidia’s market capitalization over the previous trading week: “From a low of $756 to $880+, the stock has jumped, adding ~$320 BILLION in market cap,” it continued. Despite the fact that the prices of AI crypto tokens have decreased overall, analysts believe that Nvidia’s robust performance will benefit the market, as they did during the last cycle.The performance of Nvidia is the “basis assumption” that pseudonymous cryptocurrency trader Crypto Stream used to justify his AI token investments on April 26 in a post on X.On May 22, the company is expected to make public its Q1 2024 financial report. “Many TradFi investors are probably waiting for this data before making their next move. Don’t forget they felt a lot of FOMO when NVIDIA pumped non-stop,” they explained. As for the cryptocurrency trader CryptoGodJohn, he went on to say on April 27 to his 668,100 X followers that it “should be an exciting few weeks leading into the Nvidia earnings.”CryptoGodJohn continued, “A lot of AI coins looking bottomed out here.”According to CoinMarketCap data, during the last 24 hours, Render (RNDR) has decreased 6.89%, Fetch.AI (FET) has decreased 6.12%, and SingularityNET (AGIX) has decreased 5.47%. Since the close of business on April 19, when the stock ended at $762, NVDA has recovered by 15%.As of April 26, the last day of trade, the share price was $877.NVDA increased 6.18% just in the last day, based on data from Google Finance. After Nvidia’s impressive performance was revealed in its fourth quarter 2023 earnings report in February, the price of AI cryptocurrency tokens surged.Cointelegraph reported on February 26 that AI cryptocurrency tokens saw a spike in value when Nvidia revealed profits that exceeded expectations.With respect to Q4 2022, the company reported revenue and earnings of $22.1 billion and $12.3 billion, respectively. These figures indicate rises of 265% and 769%.A few days prior, on February 22, it was announced that since Nvidia’s quarterly earnings announcement, the total market capitalization of AI-based tokens has increased by almost 9% to $17.8 billion, from $7 billion earlier in the month.

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Ethereum

Using Facebook’s Move Language, Movement Labs Raises $38M for Rollup

Led by Polychain Capital, Movement Labs is a blockchain startup that wants to transfer Facebook’s Move Virtual Machine to Ethereum. The business has raised $38 million in initial capital.With the debut of Movement L2, their new layer-2 Ethereum blockchain based on the Move programming paradigm, Rushi Manche, 21, and Cooper Scanlon, 24, who dropped out of Vanderbilt college, launched the company. They claim to be on a mission to “make blockchain security sexy”. Manche claimed that while still in college a few years ago, he read a piece about Facebook’s blockchain initiatives, which piqued his interest in Move. “Security has never been a priority for the industry,” Manche said in an interview. “It’s always, like, ‘$100 million hack,’ ‘$20 million attack’ – we’re so succumbed and numb to the attack issue when in reality, that’s a huge issue for retail.” These days, Move is most recognized for its connections to layer-1 blockchains, like as Aptos and Sui, which prioritize cheap costs and high throughput.The Movement team intends to outperform layer-2 incumbents in terms of security and transaction speed by expanding the technology to an Ethereum layer-2, which is a blockchain that writes data to Ethereum but provides quicker and less expensive transactions. Participating in Movement’s funding round were venture capital firms Aptos Labs, which is the company that created Aptos, Hack VC, Placeholder, Archetype, Maven 11, Robot Ventures, Figment Capital, Nomad Capital, Bankless Ventures, OKX Ventures, dao5, and others. “Between 2022 and 2023, hackers exploited smart contracts for

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Defi Blockchain

A new protocol introduced by Chainlink aims to improve cross-chain interoperability.

In an effort to promote greater cross-chain communication, Chainlink’s Cross-Chain Interoperability Protocol (CCIP) has become generally available.Developers can utilize CCIP for arbitrary smart contract messaging across several blockchain networks and cross-chain token transfers permissionlessly thanks to this protocol.To further improve interoperability, developers will have the ability to initiate and transmit function calls to smart contracts that are deployed on different blockchains.Sergey Nazarov, co-founder of Chainlink, claims that CCIP’s mainnet general availability will accelerate and simplify development and strengthen cross-chain connection. In an announcement shared, Nazarov wrote, “CCIP is now starting to become the standard for both capital markets blockchain transactions across banks, as well as the way that secure Web3 cross-chain value and data is moved across public chains.” Users can facilitate transactions between several blockchain networks with the aid of cross-chain bridges.They stand for some of the biggest weak spots in the cryptocurrency industry.One of the most urgent issues facing the industry is cross-chain interoperability, which Chainlink is one of the biggest companies working on. Without interoperability solutions, separate blockchain networks would not be able to communicate with one another. With the goal of promoting more safe cross-chain cryptocurrency transfers with an intuitive user experience, Chainlink introduced Transporter, a cross-chain messaging tool for bridging tokens, at the beginning of April.According to a Chainlink representative, CCIP is “the only cross-chain protocol that achieves level-5 security” and is the foundation of Chainlink’s Transporter.With plans to incorporate additional networks, CCIP is accessible on nine blockchains: Ethereum, Kroma, Optimism, Polygon, WEMIX, Arbitrum, Avalanche, Base, BNB Chain, and Kroma. CCIP aims to help financial institutions unlock the $500 trillion opportunity in tokenized

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Ethereum

May Is Not a Good Month to Approve Ether ETFs: Standard Chartered

Investment bank Standard Chartered predicts that U.S. regulators will likely not authorize exchange-traded funds (ETFs) that allow investors to access Ethereum’s ether (ETH) in May, despite earlier expectations that the Securities and Exchange Commission would grant approval at that time.The largest cryptocurrency saw a surge in value in January with the approval of spot bitcoin (BTC) exchange-traded funds.Despite this, Standard Chartered is not pessimistic about the future of an ether ETF.In recent weeks, digital assets have faced a perfect storm of unfavorable headwinds, but Standard Chartered stated in a research paper on Tuesday that the worst is behind us and the industry is well-positioned to rebound. “Bitcoin exchange-traded fund (ETF) inflows have stalled, and ether ETFs now look unlikely to be approved in May as expected,” analyst Geoff Kendrick wrote. The analyst had previously said that ether spot ETFs would likely gain approval on May 23, according to a March 18 report. The “U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) has

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Crypto Blockchain

Shiba Inu Secures $12 Million Through a Token Offering to Develop a Blockchain with a Privacy Focus

According to a press release on Monday, Shiba Inu, an Ethereum-based ecosystem symbolized by the second-largest dog-themed token SHIB, raised $12 million in a token sale round to construct its blockchain with an emphasis on privacy.Investors that bought the upcoming utility and governance token TREAT for the new network, including Comma 3 Ventures, Big Brain Holdings, Cypher Capital, Shima Capital, Hercules Ventures, Animoca Brands, Morningstar Ventures, Woodstock Fund, DWF Ventures, Polygon Ventures, Stake Capital, Illuminati Digital Capital, Primal Capital, Mechanism Capital, and Spirit Dao, are listed as participants in the round. The press announcement also stated that Shiba Inu Mint S.A., an ecosystem development company registered in Panama, closed the acquisition.The fundraising was prompted by a February CoinDesk story that revealed Shiba Inu developers were collaborating with cryptography startup Zama on a new, privacy-focused network atop Shibarium, the ecosystem’s layer-2 blockchain running on Ethereum.Fully Homomorphic Encryption (FHE), a privacy technique that enables developers to use data on untrusted domains without requiring it to be decrypted, will power the network. Over the last day, SHIB increased 2.2%, matching the rise of the CoinDesk 20 Index as a whole.Its market capitalization is close to $16 billion, making it the 12th largest cryptocurrency.

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Ethereum

Users of ZKasino Ask for Refunds After $33 Million in Bridged Ether Is Sent to Lido

The weekend saw the inauguration of the cryptocurrency casino ZKasino, but investors were not impressed. They are accusing the company of mishandling $33 million in user deposits to the staking platform Lido. To maintain fairness, ZKasino is an on-chain gaming platform that makes use of EigenDA, zkSync, Chainlink, and Randomizer’s Verifiable Random Functions.It raised $26.2 million at a $350 million valuation in March. Before the site went online, ZKasino made its token bridge available to investors, enabling them to deposit Ethereum (ETH) and earn ZKAS, the native token of the network.The website’s original language, which said that bridged ether would be “returned” when the bridging time ended, has since been changed. In a blog post on April 20, ZKasino wrote that “all bridged ethereum has been converted to our native gas token, ZKAS, at a discounted rate of $0.055.” “This conversion was done as a favor to our users who have bridged to participate in the ecosystem,” it added. More than 10,000 individuals contributed $33 million worth of ether, which ZKasino then transferred to the restaking platform Lido, according to blockchain data.Depositors are vocally demanding a return on social networking site X, and ZKasino has not yet responded to this outpouring of criticism.

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Ethereum

The price of Ether (ETH) is rising; why?

The price of ether increased today, gaining 4.25% to over $3,200 on April 21. The coin’s gains are consistent with positive trends observed in the cryptocurrency industry as a whole, which saw a 3.5% increase in market capitalization during the same time period. The current increases in Ether relative to the US dollar are mostly

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Blockchain

Telegram promises to embrace tokenized emojis and NFT stickers, and it is committed to the TON blockchain.

Pavel Durov of The Open Network pledged to employ blockchain technology to power Telegram’s messaging software in the future. He revealed ambitious plans to tokenize features, give users a cut of ad revenue, and integrate Tether’s stablecoin at Token2049.Speaking to a crowded audience in Dubai, Durov extolled the virtues of blockchain technology’s capacity to uphold privacy and freedom before laying out ambitious ambitions to expand The Open Network’s (TON) functionality. “The reason we love blockchain. It’s a technology of freedom. We care about freedom. Even our logo, the paper airplane symbolizes freedom to move in three dimensions,” Durov said. The startup aims to enable its users to create tools, apps, and businesses on Telegram, according to the app’s founder. The app is believed to have over 900 million monthly users. According to Durov, unlike other significant messaging and social media companies that sell user data to advertising, Telegram has taken a different tack when it comes to monetizing its user populations.Recently, Telegram revealed plans to use its Ad Network to split platform revenue with content creators.According to Durov, the change represents one of the most advantageous revenue-sharing schemes in social media history.He added that channel owners and content producers using TON’s network would get 50% of Telegram’s revenue from broadcast channels and ad displays. “All these transactions, the payments for ads, withdrawals of ads are powered by blockchain. We will use the TON blockchain exclusively for that.”

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Blockchain

Growth in Tokenization Relies on Creating Blockchain-Powered Secondary Markets, Says Moody’s

In a research released on Thursday, Moody’s Investors Service analysts stated that tokenized assets can find a wider audience through secondary markets driven by blockchain technology. Real-world assets are represented on a blockchain through tokenization, and financial institutions all across the world are investigating how this can enhance the effectiveness, affordability, and accessibility of financial markets.As per a previous analysis by the ratings business, tokenization facilitates the division and representation of sizable assets like real estate or private equity into many tokens, hence expanding the investor base. According to Moody’s analysts, while governments and financial institutions have begun experimenting with the issue of tokenized assets, such as Hong Kong’s $100 million green bond last year, there aren’t many secondary markets where these assets may be exchanged after the initial offering.According to the latest analysis, this restricts the adoption of tokenization, although it also notes that secondary markets powered by blockchain are growing significantly. According to the paper, creating secondary markets for blockchain-based securities might boost market data accessibility, improve liquidity management, and speed up settlements. Blockchain and tokenization provide “significant innovations to secondary market structures.” “These blockchain-powered secondary markets address several perceived drawbacks of traditional secondary markets, including limited accessibility of certain asset classes, inefficiencies in settlement processes, and high operational costs,” the report said. The research notes that while these blockchain markets offer the possibility of innovation, there are also legal and technological obstacles. “The technology underpinning these markets, primarily smart contracts, is susceptible to risks such as bugs, rug pulls, price manipulations, and

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Crypto Blockchain

Executive of the Solana Foundation: “The Solana network is nowhere near where we expect it to be.”

According to Austin Federa, head of strategy at the Solana Foundation, the Solana project’s objective of creating the fastest open, permissionless, and decentralized network in the world is still a ways off. “From a user experience perspective, the network is nowhere near where we sort of hope and expect it to be,” Federa told Cointelegraph during an interview on the sidelines of Paris Blockchain Week.  Federa claims that Solana’s popularity, which has resulted in an unforeseenly large volume of traffic on the network, is what has caused the congestions that have beset the service.He stated, “The charitable view of this is a failure of success, this huge demand for the Solana block space,” noting that Solana is processing more transactions per second than the total layer-1 and layer-2 transactions on Ethereum. However, he acknowledged that Solana developers ought to have been able to foresee the spikes in demand that would have an impact on the network and made the required changes ahead of schedule. “The estimation between what the demand for Solana would be versus when this thing needed to be upgraded and

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Blockchain

Worldcoin debuts its own blockchain network that is “human-centric.”

Sam Altman, the CEO of OpenAI, launched the identity coin firm Worldcoin, and with its new blockchain network, World Chain, it is advancing its “human-centric” approach to the Web3.A new blockchain project called World Chain, which aims to prioritize human users, improve efficiency, and promote practical utility in Web3 apps, was unveiled by Worldcoin on April 17. Worldcoin’s quick growth is demonstrated by the fact that it has created more than 10 million World IDs and executed 75 million transactions.In order to suit the objectives of the project, its own specialized network has been created to scale alongside the larger Ethereum network as a layer 2.To learn more about Worldcoin’s network strategy and approach to keeping people at the center, Cointelegraph spoke with Tiago Sada, the organization’s chief of operations. According to Sada, World Chain will function technically like any other L2 and Ethereum, but it differs in that it gives humans priority over bots, since bot activity frequently causes blockchains to get congested. “Usually, the way it works is that every account is fighting for block space. Usually, since bots can move faster and they can outbid humans,” he said, “the networks get saturated with all the transactions for bots, and humans have whatever is left — many times, they can’t even get in.” In an attempt to address this, World Chain’s solution favors transactions carried out by confirmed World ID holders.

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Blockchain

Due to a private key leak, the base asset tokenization system loses $1.7 million.

After a private key compromise, Grand Base (GB), a real-world asset tokenization technology that runs on Coinbase’s native layer-2 blockchain, lost $1.7 million. “On April 15 at 03:01:27 AM +UTC, an exploit happened on our contracts,” wrote an admin in the protocol’s Telegram chat. “For this specific reason, we urge all our community members to stay away from this contract as it is not safe anymore.” PeckShield, a blockchain analytics company, claims that a $1.7 million worth of tokens were stolen from its liquidity pools as a result of the private key leak. These tokens have now been exchanged for ether on the blockchain and delivered to an external address.The event also caused the native token of the protocol to lose 99% of its value in the last 24 hours. The Grand Base Telegram admin reiterated that “this token contract

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Crypto Tech Africa

Double crypto licenses are awarded to South African exchange VALR.

The Financial Sector Conduct Authority (FSCA) has issued new crypto asset service provider (CASP) licenses to South African cryptocurrency exchange VALR in accordance with new regulations for businesses in the sector.VALR obtained Category I and II CASP licenses from the FSCA after obtaining $55 million in equity capital from Coinbase Ventures, Pantera Capital, and other sources.VALR is now among the first bitcoin businesses in the nation to hold both licenses.Farzam Ehsani, the CEO and co-founder of VALR, told Cointelegraph that the exchange has reached a major milestone with the FSCA’s granting of a CASP license. In order to create and execute a regulatory framework that protects investors while promoting the expansion of the blockchain and cryptocurrency industries, the business has been actively collaborating with South African regulators. “Our license underscores our unwavering dedication to compliance, security, and providing a trustworthy platform for the crypto community. We welcome this regulatory milestone for South Africa and applaud the regulators for taking this important step for the nation,” Ehsani said. In order to comply with South African rules, crypto asset service providers have six months from the date the FSCA opened licensing applications in June 2023 to submit an application.Businesses were need to apply by November 2023 and would be subject to the Financial Advisory and Intermediary Services Act of the nation. Ehsani went on to describe the distinctions between the two types of licenses.In South Africa, a CASP needs a conventional financial service provider (FSP) license known as a CAT I license in order to offer advise or exchange services to its clients. “A CAT II license, or discretionary mandate license, enables customers to

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Crypto Blockchain

$1M is shifted to Blast by a blockchain fraud gang for new schemes.

New schemes are being launched on Blast by a group that has a history of blockchain fraud on sites including Magnate, Kokomo, and Lendora. Recently, they have transferred about $1 million in money that has been laundered to support their fraudulent operations. The money was originally transferred from an Ethereum address connected to earlier scams

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