PLUS: Western crypto innovators with great ideas are eying the East for tech-embracing governments and fresh opportunities. A West-East partnership may be crypto’s model for the future, the co-founder of Taipei-based Woo Network, Jack Tan, writes.Source
BTC’s price had dropped from well above $29,000 since Sunday evening. Investors await Wednesday’s FOMC decision.Source
Amid BTC’s big rally, the company’s impairment loss narrowed to $18.9 million in the first quarter from $197.6 million in the fourth quarter.Source
Crypto exchange Poloniex will remit $7.59 million to settle sanctions violations allegations with the U.S. Treasury Department’s Office of Foreign Asset Control (OFAC), the sanctions watchdog announced Monday.Source
Sotheby’s Metaverse will now offer fully on-chain secondary transactions via Ethereum and Polygon.Source
Short for Blur Lending, Blend will allow collectors to buy blue-chip NFTs with a smaller up-front payment, similar to a down payment on a house.Source
The fundraise was led by C Squared Ventures and Goat Capital, the firm co-founded by Twitch founder Justin Kan.Source
The bitcoin kiosk company, its subsidiary Up Global and the CEO of both entities were accused of conducting “unregistered offers and sales of securities.”Source
The regulator is considering applications for digital asset exchanges on a trial basis.Source
ALSO: Five CoinDesk journalists offer their takeaways from Consensus 2023. They found an industry still filled with optimism but also realistic about the challenges ahead, most notably, regulatory uncertainty.Source