Cryptocurrency exchange Kraken is acquiring TradeStation Crypto, the digital asset-focused division of online brokerage TradeStation, to expand its regulatory license in the United States. "We can confirm that Kraken recently purchased TradeStation's crypto business," a Kraken spokesperson said via email. "This transaction is part of our efforts to accelerate our business in the United States and will provide Kraken with further growth and new product opportunities in the United States." The company declined to disclose the amount paid. The acquisition has not been previously disclosed publicly. #opbnb

A Manhattan jury in New York has found cryptocurrency trader Avi Eisenberg guilty of fraud and market manipulation for stealing $110 million from decentralized finance protocol Mango Markets in October 2022. Eisenberg was arrested in Puerto Rico in December 2022 and charged with commodities fraud, commodities manipulation, and wire fraud. New York District Court Judge Arun Subramanian will sentence him on July 29. Eisenberg faces up to 20 years in federal prison for his crimes. #feedfeverchallenge

Cape, a mobile messaging service, has raised $61 million in total funding, including $21 million in seed and Series A rounds (while the company was still stealth), and $40 million in Series B. The round was co-led by A-star and Andreessen Horowit, with participation from XYZ Ventures, ex/ante, Costanoa Ventures, Point72 Ventures, Forward Deployed VC, and Karman Ventures.
Cape is a Washington, D.C.-based startup founded by former Palantir executives. They announced a mobile service designed to provide a more secure communications experience. The service will be sold in a prepaid model, with the primary goal of providing users with eSIM. The company's CEO John Doyle said they will launch commercial services in June. #crypto2023A

According to Meta's AIatMeta official post on the X platform, Meta officially released Llama 3, including 2 models with 8 billion parameters and 70 billion parameters. The model implements new features such as improved reasoning capabilities and sets a new state-of-the-art level for specific models. In the coming months, we expect to launch new features, longer context windows, additional model sizes and enhanced performance + Llama 3 research papers for the community to learn from our work. #ETHFI🔥🔥🔥

The XLayer-based meme project MUKI, initiated by @muki_world, launched a fundraising campaign on the X platform. Within 2 hours, more than 3,000 addresses participated, exceeding the fundraising by 5 times. The project Twitter stated that the over-raised part will be returned by the original route, so please do not continue to interact. #PEPE✈️

Avail announced the airdrop details on the X platform and opened the airdrop query website. The total amount of airdrop is 600 million AVAIL. The airdrop targets and the number of AVAIL tokens are as follows:
- Ecosystem developers: developers who have made significant contributions to Github repos - 90 million AVAIL;
- Incentivized testnet contributors: winners of the collision node incentive leaderboard and light client challenge - 49.5 million AVAIL;
- Ethereum L2 users: Highly active users of Arbitrum One, OP Mainnet, Polygon zkEVM, Starknet, and zkSync — 380 million AVAIL;
-Polygon PoS Stake: Polygon PoS stakers - 70 million AVAIL;

The latest news is that according to SolanaFloor’s post on the X platform, 87.4% of Solana network validators have updated to V1.17.31. The completion of this update will help solve the ongoing congestion problem on the Solana network. Earlier news, Anza, who is responsible for handling Solana’s congestion problem, posted on the X platform that MainnetBeta validators generally use version V1.17.31. This version contains improved features that will help alleviate the ongoing congestion problem on the Solana network; and will continue to be improved in version V1.18. #BNB小餅

Coinbase is moving to a new office in Manhattan, New York, and in the process abandoning its previous Hudson Square workplace. It was revealed that Coinbase has signed an eleven-year lease for 67,208 square feet at One Madison in Manhattan's Flatiron District. The office is about twice the size of the original Hudson Square space, but the company has neither changed its remote work policy nor indicated that it will expand its team in New York. According to sources, the number of employees at the trading platform has remained relatively unchanged this year. (TheBlock) #opbnb

Combining spring imagery and simple tailoring, this season's agnès b. printed clothing exudes a fresh and bright seasonal atmosphere. It includes the classic Photoprints series, which interpret Ms. Agnès's unique photography works into clothing; and the newly created jungle prints and geometric patterns, all of which give a poetic and leisurely atmosphere to spring and summer looks. #crypto2023A

Jamie Dimon, CEO of JPMorgan Chase, said Bitcoin is a fraud and a Ponzi scheme. JPMorgan Chase is reportedly an authorized participant in BlackRock's spot Bitcoin ETF. #zachxbt

Ethereum protocol Heroglyphs announced the release of white paper V0, intending to use new tokens to incentivize ETH independent stakers, while also adding some PoW (proof of work) elements to Ethereum's PoS (proof of stake). It is reported that Heroglyph mining will ensure that all complete validators can receive participation rewards, regardless of the size of their stake or whether they are selected as block proposers. In addition, Heroglyphs white paper V1 is scheduled to be released this Friday. (TheBlock) #ETHFI🔥🔥🔥

Adam, a researcher at Greeks.live, posted on social media that although Bitcoin fell below the $60,000 mark and Ethereum fell below the $3,000 mark yesterday, and market panic spread extremely, the IV of major maturity options has declined significantly. This is mainly due to the sharp drop in the price of call options. The current monthly skew has hit a new low since this round of bull market, that is, the price of put options is much higher than that of call options, and at the same time, the medium and long-term options have fallen to near the zero axis. Judging from the option indicators, Ethereum's bulls are relatively fragile and have limited ability to lead the market. Bitcoin's bullish power still exists, and the halving will be this Saturday. This month's bull market still needs Bitcoin to lead. #DYOR42711

Artificial intelligence startup Stability AI has laid off more than 20 employees to adjust its business scale. It is reported that Stability AI's layoffs account for about 10% of its more than 200 employees worldwide. Previously reported, Metaverse and digital media tool development company Stability AI completed a $101 million seed round of financing. (CNBC) #BinanceStrongestReferralCode_A9VD4338

Coin Telegraph explains that due to the upcoming fourth Bitcoin half-life, the Bitcoin mining industry is going to see major seismic shifts, and miners will need to find cheaper energy sources to adapt to the new environment and upgrade their mining equipment to high-efficiency. #SEC上诉

Ordz Games said that its new GameFi and DePIN handheld Web3 physical game console "BitBoy One" was launched in Paris, Hong Kong and Dubai, and the first batch of 1,000 units were sold out within two minutes of the public sale. (CoinDesk) #feedfeverchallenge

Official data from BlackRock shows that as of April 17, the Bitcoin holdings of its spot Bitcoin exchange-traded fund IBIT reached 272,844.7185 BTC, with a market value of approximately US$16,668,010,186.27, and the current number of outstanding shares has risen to 478,520,000.
#DYOR42711

According to The Data Nerd, 30 minutes ago, whale 18oPt withdrew 100 BTC (about 6.16 million US dollars) from OKX. In two weeks, the whale accumulated 536 BTC (about 34.16 million US dollars) from Binance and OKX, with an unrealized loss of about 1.1 million US dollars.
#比特币减半

On the afternoon of April 17, at the Token2049 "AI and Crypto Integration Development" themed conference hosted by IOSG, five AI projects attended the event and conducted in-depth discussions on topics related to the future prospects of AI and GPU computing power. The roundtable forum was hosted by Raullen, the founder of IoTeX, and the co-founders of Gensyn, Render Network, io.net and Aethir attended and expressed their insights.
The five founders all expressed great optimism about the future development of AI and DePIN, and pointed out that the current problem of insufficient computing power also has certain limitations on the development of the industry.

According to on-chain analyst @ai_9684xtpa, 2 hours ago, an early GMT investor or contributor transferred 30 million GMT to Binance, about 6.79 million US dollars.
This address received 18 million tokens distributed by the StepN TokenTimeLock contract a week ago, and currently still holds 77.6 million GMT, with a total value of $17.67 million. #BitcoinETF领域的先驱。此举超出了行业对今年晚些时候推出的预期。”

TON X platform issued a statement saying that it will release a major announcement soon. Its accompanying pictures include the logos of projects such as Tether, AMM protocol STON.fi, staking protocol Tonstakers, and Fanzee Labs, a network studio that provides sports and entertainment gaming experience. #crypto2023A