First Mover Asia: We’re Still Missing Good Web3 Games; Bitcoin Swoons Below $29K
The TradGaming world has tentpole franchises that have drawn large audiences, but Web3 games have yet to connect meaningfully with gaming enthusiasts.Source
Trezor Model T Gets Bitcoin Privacy Upgrade With New CoinJoin Feature
CoinJoin increases privacy by combining multiple bitcoin payments from multiple spenders to produce a single transaction whose history and ownership are obfuscated.Source
Tesla Made No Changes to Bitcoin Holdings in First Quarter
The company booked a gain of $XX million on its bitcoin holdings.Source
Crypto Lender Maple Finance Opens U.S. Treasury Bill Pool for Cash Management
Maple’s new lending pool offers accredited investors, crypto firms and DAO treasuries a way to earn yield on their idle stablecoin holdings by investing in one-month U.S. Treasury bills.Source
Bitcoin Hovers Near $29.3K After Binance Sell Order, UK Inflation Data
BTC fell as low as $29,045 earlier Wednesday. ETH dropped below $2,000 for the first time in almost a week.Source
Starbucks Odyssey Brews Smoother Second Serving of NFTs With ‘First Store’ Collection
Members of Starbucks Odyssey who had two unique stamps (NFTs) in their wallet were able to access a pre-sale before it opened to the rest of the beta group.Source
SEC Chair Gensler Declines to Say if Ether Is a Security in Contentious Congressional Hearing
Securities and Exchange Commission Chair Gary Gensler refused to say whether ether, the second-largest cryptocurrency by market cap, was a security during a nearly five-hour hearing Tuesday.Source
MicroStrategy’s Bitcoin Holding Doesn’t Necessarily Pose a Concentration Risk: Bernstein
Rising bitcoin prices mean a stronger balance sheet, higher stock prices and easier debt repayment, without the company needing to sell its holdings, the report said.Source
Central Banks Successfully Test DLT in Linking Financial Settlement Systems
The experiment, called Project Meridian, shows it’s possible to settle large synchronized transactions in central bank money, a report said.Source
Ethereum Fees Spike as Bots Spend Millions to Frontrun Punters of PEPE, CHAD
An entity connected to a wallet named “jaredfromsubway.eth” is sandwiching crypto traders, mainly those betting on tokens such as pepe and chad.Source