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Markets
Crypto Markets Stabilize After $693B Sell-Off
Crypto markets have stabilized, ending a market free-fall that erased $693B from crypto’s market capitalization from May 5 to May 12. Crypto’s market capitalization fell from $1.81T on May 5 to lows of $1.12T on May 12. The market started to rise on Friday, and now rests at $1.28T, data from CoinMarketCap shows. The crash…

DeFi
Norway’s Central Bank Taps Ethereum Layer 2 For CBDC Trial
Norway’s central bank is embracing Ethereum’s Layer 2 for its central bank digital currency (CBDC) pilot. On May 16, Nahmii, an Ethereum L2, announced it had been tapped by Norges bank to host the sandbox for the country’s national currency, the krone. Nahmii said in a statement that it will “build, maintain, and train Norges…

CeFi
Stablecoin Wars, Where Is the Smart Money Going?
After UST’s fall, we are starting to see a shift in preference between stablecoins. In this video we take a look into where the big players are allocating their capital.

DeFi
VillageDAO Aims To Decentralize Customer Service
ConsenSys-backed VillageDAO will provide customer care services to other web3 projects – with the first client being Metamask.

CeFi
Robinhood To Launch Non-Custodial Web3 Wallet
Robinhood will launch a Web3 wallet and plans to cover gas fees for users.

DeFi
Coinbase Rolls Out Ethereum Dapp Wallet
On May 16, Coinbase shared a wallet for its mobile app that lets customers access Ethereum-based dapps.

DeFi
Aurora+ To Offer 50 Free Monthly Transactions and Airdrop For Early Users
Aurora+, a Near Protocol EVM platform, offers 50 free transactions a month, a staking interface, airdrops and NFTs.

CeFi
Terra Classic, What the Fork?
Tuesday, normally a day for a tutorial but as you know, there’s only one story we’re concerned about right now and it’s the ongoing saga of whether anything of Luna or UST or Terra in general can be salvaged from all this. ‘Terra is more than $UST’ says Do Kwon. But is he right?

DeFi
UK Proposes Regulations That Would Recognize Stablecoins As A Form Of Payment
“Legislation to regulate stablecoins, where used as a means of payment, will be part of the Financial Services and Markets Bill which was announced in the Queen’s Speech,” a spokesman for Her Majesty’s Treasury told The Telegraph.

Blockchains
Luna Foundation Guard Spent $3B In Unsuccessful Bid To Defend UST Peg
LFG burned through its Bitcoin reserves in an attempt to shore up UST. Some of its swaps are raising eyebrows.



