✨ Aptos Labs partners with Microsoft, Brevan Howard and SK Telecom to build the Aptos Ascend organizational platform
💠 Aptos Ascend is a digital asset management platform for financial institutions. The product will use Microsoft Azure, a cloud computing platform, as well as Azure OpenAI Services, a large language model that can support synthetic AI applications.
➡️ Aptos Labs has also chosen Boston Consulting Group, a company with global revenue of 12.3 billion USD by 2023, as its consulting partner. The institutional platform intends to popularize decentralized finance to institutional capital through the Aptos network and enhance the liquidity of tokenized assets globally among other efforts.
➡️ Aptos Labs also partnered with Microsoft in August 2023 with the aim of further developing digital payments, tokenization and the combination of AI and web3.
🔥 SEC Charges Justin Sun with "Excessive Travel" to the US to Sell Unregistered Securities
💠 The US Securities and Exchange Commission has restarted its case against Tron founder Justin Sun, claiming that he has “traveled extensively” around the country – thus giving the commission jurisdiction board.
➡️ The SEC said Sun spent a total of more than 380 days in the US from 2017 to 2019 on business trips to New York City, Boston and San Francisco.
➡️ The SEC reiterated allegations from last month's original lawsuit that Sun and his businesses sold unregistered securities through Tron and BitTorrent (BTT); and Sun engaged in “money laundering transaction manipulation.”
💵 Tether announced plans to reorganize and establish four new divisions
💠 The company's USDT stablecoin will be managed by a team called “Tether Finance”, while another division, called “Tether Power”, will manage the company's investments in mining operations. bitcoin waterfall. The third division, “Tether Data,” will oversee strategic investments in technology, including artificial intelligence (AI). Finally, a division called “Tether Edu” will house various educational initiatives.
➡️ Tether CEO Paolo Ardoino said the company's evolution beyond its traditional stablecoin offering allows the company to support the invention and deployment of technology "to empower individuals, communities, and more." Communities, cities and nations become self-sustainable, independent and free.”
💵Tether brings USDT and XAUT gold stablecoin to 💵TON Blockchain
💬Mr. Paolo Ardoino - CEO of Tether said that USDT on TON will launch on April 20 and XAUT on TON will launch in the coming months. Although USDT is available on many different blockchains already, TON is the second blockchain that XAUT is expanding after Ethereum.
➕He Yi confirmed the positive situation for CZ in the United States
💬He Yi - Binance co-founder dispelled concerns about the legal status of Changpeng Zhao (CZ) in the United States, during the Binance Chinese Meetup held in Dubai.
🫶Yi further explained that CZ's current position in the US is largely peaceful and that past regulatory pressures were expected internally. She believes that the current situation is the most optimal outcome under the circumstances.
⌛️MyShell is a Web3 AI-powered platform that allows users to create personalized chatbots, called "Shells". Creators can build AI chatbots, while consumers can find and use these chatbots.
🔗MyShell connects users, creators and researchers of open source AI models, ensuring security from OP Stack, using modular rollup technology from#Optimismand #EigenDA, making distributed applications easy Build and inherit data security from #Ethereum.
💵MyShell has collected a total of 16.6 million USD through 2 successful funding rounds.
📈Miner revenue benefits when Runes minting activity is trending
🌐According to Glassnode, affected by Runes minting activity, on April 20, Bitcoin miners' revenue reached 106.7 million USD, of which 75.44% came from network transaction fees, both reaching record highs.
💠Pontem announced a partnership with Alibaba Cloud to promote Lumio L2 technology in Asia
➡️Pontem, a product studio known for projects such as Aptos and EVM wallets, Liquidswap DEX decentralized exchange, and Lumio rollup technology, has just announced a significant partnership with Alibaba Cloud, in part of Alibaba Group and is the largest infrastructure-as-a-service provider in Asia.
✔️The main goal of this partnership is to provide developers in the Asia Pacific region with the best technology, including Lumio - a revolutionary L2 chain capable of supporting any blockchain virtual machine (VM). The first version of Lumio is available and compatible with EVM and Move VM.
The total value locked (TVL) of Bitcoin restaking protocol BounceBit has exceeded $1 billion. These assets include 796 million USD in Bitcoin and 87.63 million USDT.
⚙️ Instructions for those who haven't done it yet
👉 Prepare a minimum of 10$ BTC or FDUSD on BEP20 network Metamask wallet
👉 Visit bouncebit.io and enter Invite Code
Invite Code: U8MEV - E383B - W5820
👉 Visit bouncebit.io/deposit to connect your wallet and Deposit BTC or FUSD
Note: You can withdraw only in May
👉 Claim Point every 24 hours
👉 You can deposit 1000$ or 0.1 BTC here
💠 Experience BounceBit Club Testnet
👉 Join Discord BounceBit
Faucet BB and BBTC at room testnet-faucet
👉 Go to app.bouncebit.io/claimClub and connect your wallet
👉 Select Create to create a Club -> then update club information
👉 Go socialize and experience the apps
Coin Addiction Club for you to exchange: app.bouncebit.io/club/9096
📗 Read more: What is BounceBit? Bitcoin staking infrastructure protocol
🔥 ZKasino caused outrage when accused of detaining 33 million USD of ETH from investors
💠 At first glance, ZKasino looks like any other cryptocurrency project. The project announced a $350 million valuation for its Series A round, backed by $26 million from investors including cryptocurrency exchange MEXC. ZKasino's smart contracts have been audited by the famous security company Certik (after being passed the first time by ChatGPT). The project's testnets are also active.
➡️ And so, at the time of the project's launch, more than $33 million in ETH was connected to ZKasino's network by more than 10,000 participants, hoping to earn more $ZKAS when the protocol launched.
➡️ When ZKasino finally launched after many delays on April 20, investors were stunned to learn that plans had been changed. Instead of being able to redeem their ether as planned, the funds were automatically converted into $ZKAS tokens, as an “incentive” intended to “provide a seamless transition and superior user experience,” according to the announcement. project report.
⚙️ ZachXBT has previously made allegations of mismanagement of the development team. A user representing the ZigZag exchange also alleged that the team behind ZKasino stole the initial funds for the project from ZigZag's coffers. Among other allegations of unpaid contractors and shady business practices.
👉 Omni Network (Omni) is a Layer 1 blockchain designed to integrate Ethereum's aggregate ecosystem into a single unified system. By using Omni, developers can build global applications that have access to all of Ethereum's liquidity and users by default.
👉 The project has raised 18.1 million USD through 2 Private Sale rounds with the participation of Pantera Capital, Coinbase Venture, Two Sigma Ventures, Jump Crypto, Hashed, The Spartan Group and many other investors.
2️⃣ Listing
⏰ Binance will list OMNI at 19:00 on April 17, 2024 (Vietnam Time)
⚙️ Trading pairs: OMNI/BTC, OMNI/USDT, OMNI/BNB, OMNI/FDUSD and OMNI/TRY
🟧Register an account to join Launchpool at Binance.com
3️⃣ OMNI Launchpool details
👉 Token Name: Omni Network (OMNI)
👉 Max Token Supply: 100,000,000 OMNI
👉 Launchpool Token Rewards: 3,500,000 OMNI (3.5% of total token supply)
👉 Initial Circulating Supply: 10,391,492 OMNI (10.39% of total token supply)
👉 Smart Contract Details: Ethereum
4️⃣ Instructions for joining Launchpool
Stake BNB and FDUSD into separate pools to farm OMNI tokens within 4 days, from 07:00 April 13, 2024 (Vietnam Time).
ZachXBT exposed a group of scammers specializing in "rug pulling" the community
💠 ZachXBT has published its investigation into Leaper Finance, a lending protocol on Layer 2 Blast. According to analysis, the Leaper Finance development team is also the organization behind many recent rug pull cases including Magnate (6.5 million USD), Kokomo (4 million USD), Solfire (4.8 million USD), Glori Finance and Lendora.
➡️ ZachXBT said: “This fraud group often fakes KYC documents and uses low-level auditing units, waiting until the TVL reaches 7 figures before stealing money. They have launched scams across blockchains such as Base, Solana, Scroll, Optimism, Arbitrum, Ethereum, Avalanche, etc.
➡️ In the latest move, the criminal group invested nearly 1 million USD (money from previous scams) to a Leaper Finance wallet address, to increase liquidity and attract new prey.
⚙️ The scammers' tricks are extremely sophisticated, please be very careful, we are only at the beginning of the wave.
Hong Kong approves first batch of Spot Bitcoin ETF
China Asset Management, a major Chinese asset management company, said its Hong Kong unit has received approval from the Hong Kong Securities and Futures Commission to provide asset management services. retail products involving spot cryptocurrency ETFs. It plans to issue spot bitcoin and ether ETFs in collaboration with OSL and BOCI International.
➡️ The company said in a statement that two Harvest Global Investments spot cryptocurrency ETFs have also received in-principle approval from the SFC.
➡️ Bosera and HashKey will also work together to launch a spot bitcoin ETF, Bosera HashKey Bitcoin ETF, and a spot Ether ETF, Bosera HashKey Ether ETF. These two ETFs are expected to allow investors to subscribe to ETF shares directly with bitcoin and ether. They did not reveal the launch date.
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✔️Swell is delegating up to $500 million Retaked ETH to NEAR!
🔒The Retaken ETH will be used to secure the Super Fast Finality Layer of NEAR Protocol for Ethereum Layer 2, promising to significantly reduce transaction times and costs.