Market
Tokenization
Polkadot ecosystem thrives with significant growth in Q1, reaching $12.7 billion market cap: Messari
Polkadot witnessed a surge in its daily active addresses during the first quarter.
Regulation
Crypto market unsure as Maxine Waters nominates Kristin Johnson for key Treasury position
CFTC Kristin Johnson has consistently urged players in the crypto sector to embrace regulatory compliance.
Crypto
Moralis adds support for Moonbeam Network to boost Polkadot development tools
The collaboration would further enable developers' access to Polkadot's ecosystem.
Technology
Polkadot’s canary network Kusama achieves milestone with first Agile Coretime sales
Observers explained that Agile Coretime would enable amore efficient and flexible access to Polkadot's computational resources.
Crypto
Arkansas governor to reportedly sign two bills regulating crypto mining activities
Locals have complained about the loud noises of crypto mines and their high energy consumption.
Technology
MicroStrategy decentralized identity solution leveraging Ordinals attracts criticism from core Bitcoin proponents
MicroStrategy says its Orange solution would "deliver trustless, tamper-proof, and long-lived decentralized identities."
Stablecoins
Tether reports record $4.52 billion profit in Q1 despite shrinking market share
Tether's USDT market share on centralized exchanges (CEXs) has fallen to 69% year-to-date.
Regulation
Changpeng Zhao says crypto has entered new phase where ‘compliance is super important’
Binance's former head sentenced, stresses compliance as crypto's future priority.
Crypto
Bitcoin begins May with plunge to two-month low as crypto market sees widespread losses
Polkadot was the only top 20 digital asset that recorded a modest gain during the reporting period.
Hacks
Crypto scams hit historic low in April, plummeting 68%
The reduced theft was attributed to the absence of significant private key compromises during the month.
Tokenization
Aevo and Pyth lead May’s $3 billion crypto token unlock wave
The significant crypto unlocks scheduled for May could have significant impact on the market.
Investments
Matera raises $3.6 million to boost creator economy by fusing DeFi with social media
Matera hopes its solution would push the creator economy to over $1 trillion by 2030.