Bitcoin is down 1% at $31,232
Ethereum is up slightly at $1310
and Polkadot is down 1% at $17.08

Top gainers in the last 24 hours:
Dogecoin up 49%
Elrond up 27%
Cosmos up 16%

GME Frenzy highlights centralization in status quo.

The Federal Reserve keeps things loose.

BIS' Agustín Carstens is not a fan of bitcoin.

Blockstream picks up $25M worth of mining rigs from MicroBT.

Links:

• Blockstream Purchase $25M of Bitcoin Mining Hardware from MicroBT
• Wall Street, Big Tech Clamp Down on GameStop-Style Pumps; Biden Admin 'Monitoring' Situation - CoinDesk
• BIS Chief Blasts Bitcoin's Viability, Prompting Blowback From Advocates - CoinDesk
• Fed Holds Policy Steady as Economy Stumbles - WSJ

Bitcoin is up slightly at $7,112
Ethereum is up 2% at $174
and XRP is up 1% at 19 cents

Those are your leaders by market cap

Top gainers in the last 24 hours:
Digibyte up 28%
Loopring up 24%

Todays headlines:

Switzerland based crypto firm Finance AG raised a 14.5m series B to expand into Asian markets.

Binance has completed its 11th quarterly burn of its BNB tokens

The crypto custody firm BitGo has laid off 12% of its workforce

Mining gear manufacturer MicroBT is launching 3 new bitcoin miners.

Links:

• Bitmicro leads the industry into the 3X era
• Crypto custody firm BitGo has laid off 12% of its workforce - The Block
• After record Q1, Binance has cumulatively burned 10% of BNB's supply - The Block
• Swiss crypto asset manager raises $14.5M Series B to expand into Asia - The Block

MicroBT Founder Arrested

Coincheck Halts Leveraged Trades

TaTa Announces QuartzDevKit

Links:

• Founder of Bitmain Rival MicroBT Arrested for Alleged Embezzlement - CoinDesk
• Cryptocurrency Exchange Coincheck to Halt Leveraged Trading in Q1 2020
• Tata Consultancy Services Launches Blockchain App Deployment Kit

Bitcoin is up 0.5% at $8,850
XRP is up 1.5% at 28 cents
and Ethereum is up 1% at $184

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

The US Customs and Border Protection is set to track Canadian oil and natural gas imports using blockchain.

Chinese police have arrested former Bitmain employee Yang Zuoxing—who is the CEO of its rival company MicroBT.

MoneyGram processes 10% of its transactions between the US and Mexico using XRP.

A vietnam based crypto exchange called VinDax was hacked late this week and lost around 500k in cryptocurrencies.

Hugh Haney, who is associated with the silk road, pled guilty in New York for laundering $19 million in Bitcoin in early 2018.

Links:

• US Customs agency to track oil imports using blockchain tech - The Block
• Little-known Asian crypto exchange VinDAX got hacked; lost ‘half a million USD’ worth of tokens - The Block
• Chinese police arrest former Bitmain employee, who is now CEO of its rival MicroBT - The Block
• MoneyGram processes 10% of US-Mexico transactions via Ripple solution that uses XRP - The Block
• Silk Road Seller Pleads Guilty to Money Laundering $19 Million With Bitcoin - CoinDesk