▫️ The Federal Reserve recently released a report on tokenization.
▫️ Taiwan is issuing crypto guidance as it begins to set regulatory rules in place.
▫️ Hong Kong is also set to issue guidance on tokenizing stocks in the near term.
▫️ The US Treasury pursued a Sinaloa Cartel ETH wallet linked to the trafficking of fentanyl.
▫️ The CFTC charged Mosaic and its founder over a “digital asset commodity scheme.”
▫️ UBS is piloting a tokenized money market fund on the Ethereum blockchain.
▫️ Bank of International Settlements Project Mariana: a proof of concept for cross-border exchange of wholesale CBDCs using AMMs on Sepolia testnet.
▫️ The Mixin Network, a decentralized wallet service, recently lost approximately $200 million in funds due to a security breach.
▫️ FTX hacker moved over $38 million in the past few days.
▫️ Curve’s founder settled his entire debt position on Aave.
▫️ VanEck is preparing to launch its Ethereum Strategy ETF (EFUT), focusing on ether futures contracts.
▫️ Circle, the issuer of the stablecoin USDC, has expressed its perspective on the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission’s (SEC) lawsuit against Binance.
▫️ Binance has decided to fully exit the Russian market due to ongoing legal challenges.
▫️ Coinbase granted a full license in Singapore.
▫️ Buenos Aires digital identity: QuarkID wallet can be used to claim birth and marriage certificates, utilizing zkSync Era.
▫️ Su Zhu, the co-founder of the defunct crypto hedge fund Three Arrows Capital, was detained at an airport in Singapore while attempting to leave the country.
▫️ In a separate incident, crypto influencer Ben Armstrong, also known as Bitboy Crypto, was arrested while trying to confront a former business associate.
▫️ ERC4337 (account abstraction) adoption analysis: 687k wallets, 2M UserOps, majority of wallets used 5 times or less.
▫️ Alchemy recently acquired Satsuma, a data indexing platform.
▫️ Arbitrum Odyssey relaunched, featuring a 7-week campaign for users to try apps and collect badges.
▫️ Pudgy Toys: physical Pudgy Penguin plushies, sold in Walmart, with licensing royalties shared with NFT holders; purchasers can claim a Forever Pudgy on zkSync.
▫️ Nouns DAO burn proposal: incentivizing spending the treasury, otherwise excess ETH can be burnt.
▫️ Paris Hilton is promoting MareBear NFTs, which are Tamagotchi-like pets.
