Bitcoin is up slightly at $30,092
Ethereum is up slightly at $1775
and Binance Coin is up slightly at $290

Terra luna classic, up 56%
IoTeX up 22%

SEC investigates terraform labs

Jay-Z & Jack Dorsey launch Bitcoin Academy in Brooklyn

Mastercard announces partnership with NFT gateways

PartyDAO raises $16.4m in a round led by a16z.

Bloomberg expands terminal data coverage from 10 cryptos to 50.

Bitcoin is down slightly at $39,792
Ethereum is down slightly at $3,017
and Binance Coin is down slightly at $413

MoonPay’s Series A round saw 87M in funds from over 60 celebrities

Nexo has partnered with Mastercard to offer a crypto-backed card with no selling of digital assets.

Funds from The Ronin exploit are on the move.

Binance announces a 100M Euro investment in France.

Bitcoin is up .5% at $38,509
Ethereum is up slightly at $2,618
and Binance Coin is up slightly at $376

Mir coin up 28%

Paypal, Visa and Mastercard have all suspended operations in Russia

A bug in Convex Finance caused the CVX token to drop.

Brazil’s central bank has picked nine CBDC projects for next step in innovation challenge.

Genesis digital assets plans a 100% clean energy mining center in Sweden.

Bitcoin is up slightly at $46,435
Ethereum is up slightly at $3,412
and Cardano is down slightly at $2.49

Tezos up 30%
Luna up 28%
Avalanche up 15%

Mastercard acquires crypto tracing firm ciphertrace

A bug on OpenSea destroys $100k worth of NFTs.

Steph Curry joins Tom Brady as an FTX ambassador.

La Liga partners with Sorare as first top soccer league to offer NFTs of all the players.

The Algorand foundation launches $300M DeFi innovation fund

Links:

• OpenSea bug destroys $100,000 worth of NFTs, including historical ENS name
• CoinDesk: Bitcoin, Ethereum, Crypto News and Price Data
• LaLiga partners with Sorare to enter the world of NFTs
• Mastercard Acquires CipherTrace to Enhance Crypto Capabilities | Business Wire
• Algorand Foundation Launches $300 Million USD Viridis Fund to Support DeFi Innovation | Algorand Foundation

Bitcoin is up slightly at $57,900
Ethereum is up .5% at $2880
and Binance Coin is up .5% at 627.61

OKB up 48%
DigiByte up 23%
Dogecoin up 15%

BaFin said Binance stock tokens may violate European securities laws.

Ex-Florida tax collector Joel Greenburg allegedly offered Roger Stone Bitcoin for a pardon.

Mastercard is exploring applications on top of CBDCs.

Coinbase is set to acquire Skew.

Links:

• Joel Greenberg Offered Roger Stone Bitcoin in Hopes of a Trump Pardon - CoinDesk
• Binance's Stock Tokens May Violate Law, Germany’s Financial Watchdog Says - CoinDesk
• Mastercard to Explore Applications It Can Build on Top of CBDCs - CoinDesk
• Coinbase set to acquire data and analytics platform Skew for undisclosed sum

Bitcoin is up slightly at $51,397
Ethereum is down slightly at $1901
and Cardano is up .5% at .92

Top gainers in the last 24 hours:
Binance Coin up 33%
Huobi Token up 17%
Elrond up 16%

Ethereum finds new all time high above $1900.

Coinbase is valued at $77B ahead of its IPO

Kia Motors America is apparently the victim of a ransomware attack

Mastercard partners with Island Pay & Bahamas central bank for prepaid card linked to the Sand Dollar.

Sweden’s Riksbank will extend its pilot project for a CBDC for another 12 months

Links:

• Kia Motors America suffers ransomware attack, $20 million ransom
• Coinbase, Readying for Public Listing, Gets $77B Valuation From Nasdaq Private Market - CoinDesk
• Swiss canton of Zug starts accepting tax payments in cryptocurrency
• Mastercard inks partnership for prepaid card linked to Bahamas CBDC
• Riksbank extends test of technical solution for the e-krona | Sveriges Riksbank

Bitcoin is up 1.5% at $46,525
Ethereum is up 1.7% at $1778
and Cardano is up 1% at .91

Top gainers in the last 24 hours:
Iota up 57%
TheGraph up 47%
VeChain up 17%

Amazon hires for digital currency project in Mexico.

Mastercard to support crypto before 2022.

Jack Dorsey donates $1M to Coin Center.

Nouriel Roubini tired of market shenanigans.

Links:

• Amazon Preparing to Launch a 'Digital Currency' Project in Mexico - CoinDesk
• Jerry Brito on Twitter: "Coin Center has received and incredibly generous gift of $1 million from @jack — we’re speechless. 😮 We were almost to our goal for the matching campaign when he put us over the top and then some. Your confidence in our work is incredibly humbling." / Twitter
• Why Mastercard is bringing crypto onto its network
• SEC Should Monitor Tesla's Elon Musk for Market Manipulation: Roubini - CoinDesk

Bitcoin is down 1% at $32,354
Ethereum is down slightly at $1325
and Polkadot is down 1% at $17.64

Top gainers in the last 24 hours:
Golem up 35%
Aave up 17%
Uniswap up 16%

Mad Money’s Jim Cramer tells lottery winner to buy Bitcoin.

Crypto exchange LVL is opening pre-orders for a MasterCard debit card.

Samsung eyes a $10B nanochipmaking facility in Austin Texas

iSTOX raised $50M in a series-A funding round.

Links:

• How Jim Cramer would invest the $731 million Powerball jackpot
• iSTOX closes Series A funding round with USD 50 million raised
• Bitcoin Exchange LVL Launches Mastercard Debit Card - CoinDesk
• Samsung Is Said to Mull $10 Billion Texas Chipmaking Plant - Bloomberg

PoB Says CBDC "New Battleground"

USA Number One in Blockchain Patent Applications

Iran Power Plants to Sell Juice to Crypto Miners

Links:

• Beijing sees digital currencies as ‘new battlefield’ in global finance
• The US is number one...in blockchain patents
• Three Iranian Power Plants Plan to Sell Electricity to Crypto Miners - CoinDesk

Bitcoin is up 1% at $10,326
Ethereum is up 6.5% at $369
and XRP is up 2.5% at 24 cents

Top gainers in the last 24 hours:
Algorand up 20%
Synthetix up 18%
and Yearn Finance up 18%

Kraken has returned to Japan after two years away.

California judge has dismisses a $200 million damages claim against AT&T in ongoing SIM-swapping suit.

Mastercard launches customizable Central Bank Digital Currency sandbox.

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Links:

• 暗号資産交換業登録完了のお知らせ
• Judge Dismisses $200M Damages Claim in AT&T Crypto Hack Lawsuit - CoinDesk

MasterCard Reaches Out to Crypto

Coinsquare Accused of Wash Trading

Barry Silbert Says Bitcoin Beat the Ban

Links:

• Mastercard Expands Cryptocurrency Program for Crypto Card Issuers
• Canada Crypto Exchange Coinsquare Accused of Wash Trading by Watchdog - CoinDesk
• Wash Trading Definition
• Grayscale CEO: US Regulators Can’t Shut Down Bitcoin

Max Raskin: No to US Fed CBDC

VeChain, MasterCard and Alipay Back APAC Provenance Council

Devs at Ghost Foil Mining Hack

Links:

• VeChain, Mastercard and Alipay Join Australia-China Supply Chain Consortium
• Devs at Blogging Platform Ghost Take Down Crypto-Mining Malware Attack
• Digital Dollars Give the State Too Much Control Over Money - CoinDesk

Top gainers in the last 24 hours:
Centrality up 16%
Dentacoin, up 15%

Mercado Pago, Visa, eBay, Stripe and Mastercard have all officially left the Libra project.

Facebook and Calibra are facing a lawsuit in the state of New York over an alleged trademark infringement

The chairman of the CFTC confirms that the ethereum cryptocurrency is a commodity

Links:

• CFTC Chairman Confirms Ether Cryptocurrency Is a Commodity - CoinDesk
• Mercado Pago, Visa, eBay, Stripe, and Mastercard drop out of Facebook's Libra - The Block
• Facebook and Calibra sued in NY federal court in trademark case involving logo design - The Block

MasterCard Wants Wallets

IBM Adds Big Names For New Chain

Bitmain Reports Big Loss Q1 2019

Links:

• Mastercard Hints at Future Crypto Wallet Product with New Job Listings
• Search for Jobs
• Lenovo, Glaxo, Nokia: Big Names Join New IBM Blockchain - CoinDesk
• The Block - Crypto simplified