Here’s your recap of top 15 industry news and insights from last week:
- Paxos, who paid approximately $500,000 for BTC transaction fee, receives it back from miner (CT)
- Visa adds support for users to send or receive USDC settlement payments through Solana (Paypers)
- Deutsche Bank to offer crypto custody and tokenization services in partnership with Taurus (D)
- Ethereum launches new testnet, Holesky on the Ethereum Mainnet (Bitcoinist)
- The sale of FTX digital assets worth $3.4 billion approved by court in weekly batches (CT)
- CEO of Binance US steps down amid another round of layoffs (D)
- Crypto trading platform BitGet is launching $100M fund to invest in exchanges (CD)
- Swiss-based Freename AG receives $2.5M in its seed round to transform the Web3 domain naming system (F)
- SWIFT announced 3 central banks testing CBDCs, including Hong Kong Monetary Authority and National Bank of Kazakhstan (DH)
- CoinEx cryptocurrency exchange drained of $53M in crypto hack (BD)
- Cathie Wood’s ARK Invest files for first Spot Ether ETF (Reuters)
- Ethereum network gas usage and transaction fees decreased to 2023 lows (D)
- Bitcoin now uses more than 50% clean energy for crypto mining operations (Bitcoinist)
- Boerse Stuttgart Digital planning to roll out a fully insured crypto staking service in 2024 (Bitcoinist)
- Billionaire Mark Cuban loses $870,000 in crypto scam (D)
- Germany, Poland and Spain were the most popular countries using Swapin’s crypto-to-fiat payment solutions last week
- The most popular cryptocurrency transacted with last week using Swapin - USDT for individual and BUSD for business customers
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