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1. British digital bank Monzo received US$190 million in financing;
2. Encryption startup Lagrange Labs raised $13.2 million;
3. Telos announced a US$1 million strategic investment from Presto Labs; 4. Privacy solution NuLink completed US$1.6 million in strategic financing; 5. General proof aggregator Electron completed a US$1 million seed round of financing;
6. Web3 entertainment company Imaginary Ones completed an oversubscribed round of financing;
7. Bitcoin mining service provider GoMining received US$3 million in financing;
8. Entertainment blockchain ecosystem Sophon raised US$60 million through node sales;
9. Crypto market trader Arbelos completed US$28 million in financing, led by Dragonfly;
10. Liquidium announced that it has completed a new round of financing and has purchased 1 DeGod, 1y00t and 1 BTC DeGod;
11. Web3 infrastructure startup Hemera completed a $2.6 million seed round of financing, led by LIF Capital and others;
12. Owlto Finance, a cross-chain interoperability protocol, completed a US$8 million strategic round of financing, led by Bixin Ventures and others;
13. Web3 community-driven game ecosystem SlingShot DAO completed US$3 million in financing, with Alphabit Fund participating;
14. Web3 incubation service provider BlockBooster completed a US$1.5 million seed round of financing, led by OKX Ventures;
15. SCION software supplier Anapaya Systems completed 10 million Swiss francs in financing, with Cape Capital and others participating in the investment.

1. Biden promises to veto the House encryption policy repeal bill;
2. BitMEX launches options trading platform PowerTrade;
3. VanEck Research Director: MEMECOIN index has been launched;
4. JPMorgan Chase: Public blockchain ledgers are not suitable for large transactions;
5. Coinbase: NEON token trading has been opened to German users; 6. The U.S. House of Representatives passed a resolution to overturn the SEC Cryptocurrency Accounting Standards Announcement;
7. Robinhood’s crypto trading volume surged 224% to $36 billion in the first quarter;
8. Pantera Capital: Plans to raise US$1 billion for Pantera Fund V to be launched in 2025;
9. The U.S. SEC refutes Ripple’s claim to reduce the US$2 billion fine to US$10 million.
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Alan Scott Jr., a contributor to Ethereum privacy protocol Railgun, said U.S. regulators and government agencies don’t get enough credit for actually “trying to understand” cryptocurrencies.
In an interview with Cointelegraph at ETH Global in Sydney on May 2, Scott said that based on his conversations with Washington, D.C. senators and the FBI, he had seen no signs of crypto privacy protections.

He said there are many people at the top of government who are "generally smart and want to do the right thing and protect people."

Railgun is a privacy-focused protocol that leverages smart contracts to ensure private transactions for decentralized finance (DeFi) users on the Ethereum network and its multiple layer 2 networks, including Polygon and Arbitrum.
However, Railgun is often lumped together with other crypto privacy protocols such as Tornado Cash, which has met a legal wrong end in recent years.

On April 17, an X account claiming to be an official Railgun account denied being used by North Korea and other U.S.-sanctioned entities to launder ill-gotten gains — specifically referring to an FBI statement claiming Railgun was used to launder more than $60 million in 2022 1 million Ethereum (ETH) worth during the Harmony Bridge exploit.
Railgun says its zk-proof technology and "private innocence" system prevent bad actors from exploiting its protocol.

Scott said cryptocurrency users should remember that the FBI is a large, multifaceted organization and that the people he has spoken to at the bureau are less concerned about privacy protocols and more about bad actors trying to commit financial crimes.

"Their concern is that potential problems will hamper their ability to catch bad actors."
"It's a good thing for them," Scott said, explaining earlier that other privacy technologies, such as

Scott said his conversations with U.S. politicians and regulators have been largely positive, with many of them appearing to be sincere in their efforts to understand new developments in cryptocurrency more broadly.

“Whenever we talk about cryptocurrencies, or we talk about DeFi, they ask informed questions and try to understand what the technology looks like, how it works, and why people like us are so like it.

23,000 BTC options are about to expire, the Put Call Ratio is 0.49, the biggest pain point is US$61,000, and the nominal value is US$1.4 billion. 330,000 ETH options are about to expire, the Put Call Ratio is 0.36, the biggest pain point is US$3,000, and the nominal value is US$1 billion. Adam, a macro researcher at GreeksLive, said that the crypto market continued to fall this week, with BTC breaking through the $60,000 integer mark, hitting a new low since March, showing its weakness. The listing of Hong Kong ETF failed to bring much increment, and the US stock BTC ETF continued to outflow. The weakness of the market led to the weakening of market confidence. The IV of all major periods also continued to decline. The current IV level is the average water level of the winter bull market, which has certain support. The current price-performance ratio is good. It is unlikely that the current point will continue to trade sideways. If it does not rebound, it will inevitably be a relay of decline. The giant whale lacks confidence in the market outlook, and large transactions deserve closer attention.

1. Fidelity: Bitcoin has been less volatile than Netflix over the past two years;
2. As of May 1, 2024, BlackRock CEO’s net worth is US$1.1 billion;
3. BNP Paribas reported having Bitcoin ETF exposure in its 13F filing;
4. The FBI uncovered a Ponzi scheme that used crypto investments as bait, involving a total amount of US$43 million;
5. Yaroslav Vasinskyi, a member of the REvil ransomware group, was sentenced to 13 years and 7 months in prison;
6. BlackRock: Sovereign wealth funds, pension funds, etc. will buy Bitcoin ETFs in the next few months;
7. Klumi Ventures plans to launch two emerging technology and blockchain investment funds with a total size of US$115 million;
8. BDE Ventures CEO: The size of spot Bitcoin ETFs will exceed US$100 billion by the first quarter of 2025;
9. HKVAEX is officially closed. Users who still have asset balances after April 30 will have their 20 USDT custody fee deducted.
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According to Whale Alert monitoring, around 07:50:50 Beijing time today, 800,000,000 XRP ($414,180,999) was locked in Ripple custody.
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1. Standard Chartered Bank: Bitcoin price may further fall to US$50,000; 2. Tether’s first-quarter net profit exceeded US$4.5 billion, a record high; 3. Securitize completed US$47 million in strategic financing, led by BlackRock;
4. Reuters: Bitcoin’s plunge may be affected by the Federal Reserve’s tightening interest rate outlook;
5. Riot produced 1,364 Bitcoins in the first quarter, with total revenue of $79.3 million;
6. The total market value of cryptocurrency fell below US$2.3 trillion, with a 24-hour drop of 7.8%;
7. Bloomberg ETF Analyst: Hong Kong’s cryptocurrency ETF raised more than HK$2 billion on its first day, which has offset the net outflow from the U.S. market.

Number of addresses holding $1,000 Bitcoin rising, calling it 'positive growth trend'

1. The Bitcoin developer community has added 5 new BIP editors;
2. Tesla’s Bitcoin holdings did not increase or decrease in the first quarter;
3. Kinto Lianchuang: RWA is an opportunity worth trillions of dollars;
4. Franklin Bitcoin ETF application to modify the cash subscription deadline;
5. Two U.S. encryption dealers sued the SEC to challenge its new “dealer” rules;
6. The U.S. SEC postpones its decision on converting the Grayscale Ethereum Trust into an ETF;
7. BRICS countries explore the creation of cryptographic stablecoins for global trade settlement;
8. The U.S. SEC seeks opinions on BlackRock’s revised spot Ethereum ETF proposal;
9. Brazilian digital bank Nubank supports deposits and withdrawals in Bitcoin, Ethereum and Solana;
10. Encrypted wallet developer Turnkey raised US$15 million in funding, led by Galaxy Ventures.

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