Donald Trump Set to Speak at Bitcoin 2024 in Nashville, and BitMEX Admits Guilt in Bank Secrecy Act Violation!

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Donald Trump will speak at the Bitcoin 2024 conference in Nashville later this month. BitMEX pleads guilty to violating the Bank Secrecy Act in an anti-money laundering case. Goldman Sachs will launch three new tokenization products this year. Biden advisers, crypto leaders, and lawmakers discuss the industry's future at an exclusive D.C. roundtable.

BTC $58,145 (-1.48%), ETH $3,115 (+0.64%), SOL $142.19 (-1.12%)

Crypto News 📰

• Jump Trading drags FTX estate to court over a $264M Serum token loan

• CFTC Chair reiterates BTC and ETH are commodities in testimony

• Goldman Sachs to launch 3 new tokenization products this year

• Sen. Stabenow, lawmakers look to forge ahead on legislation that will give the CFTC authority over crypto citing urgency

• Uniswap urges the SEC to leave DeFi alone following the Supreme Court decision

• German government continues bitcoin transfers, moves $638 million to various entities, and receives back $141M in bitcoin from exchanges and entities

• Jack Dorsey’s block strikes a deal to supply bitcoin mining chips to Core Scientific.

• US lawmakers meet with crypto advocates in DC roundtable

• Terraform Labs to sell 4 companies as part of wind-down

• Vitalik Buterin pushes for Ethereum to respond to 51% attacks in a more automated way

• Elliptic exposes $11B scam network via Huione Guarantee

• Malaysian crypto miners stole $722M worth of power: energy official

Project Updates 🔥 

• Blast Foundation will enable 2X Points for all BLAST holders

• Introducing Kaito's AI copilot

• Miden alpha testnet just got even better

• Omni announces streams

• STRK staking is coming to Starknet

• Pacifica V3 - the next evolution of SKALE

• Mind Network launches Alpha Mainnet

Threads 🧵 

• Crypto industry trends: H1 2024

• The rise of AI agent infrastructure

• Multiple concurrent leaders

• BGT and me

• How to grow and monetize your audience

• Jupiter risk monitoring and alerting platform

• LayerZero and Initia are developing an interoperability standard for Cosmos

Launches 🚀 

• NAVI Pro: early access phase 1 live

• Announcing @UsualMoney public mainnet launch

• TGE time confirmed for tonight

• Sei v2 mainnet beta

• Optimism Superfest

• Limitless v2 is live now on @base

• Notcoin, 1inch, and Sign launch accelerator for Telegram and TON ecosystems

Fundraise 💰

• Lemniscap has co-led the $5.5M funding round

• Crypto VC Hypersphere opens $130M liquid fund, seeks $75M for new VC fund

• @RomeProtocol announces $9M in funding

• @SearchOnDora $5.5M early stage fundraise

• @idOS_network announcing $4.5M round

• Satoshi Protocol closed a $2M seed funding round

• ThirdFi has raised $2M in token financing investments

• BOB raises $1.6M

• Tread.fi has received a $3.5M pre-seed investment

Airdrops 🪂

• Lava launches $LAVA Airdrop eligibility & allocation checker

• Q Blockchain launches $Q Airdrop eligibility checker

• Mocaverse launches $MOCA Airdrop eligibility & allocation checker

• Kroma unveils surprise airdrop for Kroma NFT holders

That's a wrap for today!

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