- Bitcoin hit $41,000 as the fear and greed index hit its lowest level since March 15.
- Earlier this week, developers began testing the impact of the Ethereum merger on a mainnet “shadow fork”. According to the developers, the Ethereum 2.0 update, which will allow the network to move to proof of work, will take place "in the months following" June 2022.
- Luna Foundation Guard (Terra) purchased an additional $100 million worth of Bitcoin, making it the 18th largest holder in the world. (twitter)
- Dogecoin transactions could soon be done offline thanks to technology from Starlink and the RadioDoge project. (foundation.dogecoin)
- According to Bloomberg News, Ava Labs is in the process of completing a $350 million seed round, which would bring its valuation to $5.25 billion.
- With a fortune amounting to 274 billion dollars, Elon Musk proposed the acquisition of "100% of Twitter at a price of 54.20 dollars per share in cash", or 43.4 billion dollars. The majority shareholder of Twitter (Alwaleed_Talal) rejected Elon Musk's offer and precisely the founder of Cardano, Charles Hoskinson, proposed to Elon Musk to launch a decentralized social network in case his takeover offer is rejected.
- Sony has invested an additional $1 billion in Epic Games to strengthen its relationship in the metaverses. Epic Games' valuation is now at $31.5 billion. (Gamekult)
- According to Messari, the market capitalization of Web3 suffered a loss of 12.57%. It is the sector that has had the most losses among all the other sectors (Top assets, DeFi, Smart Contract platforms, currencies and gaming) in recent weeks.
- Swissborg has announced that it has obtained the approval of Digital Asset Service Provider (PSAN) from the AMF in France. (Swissborg)
- "France will be the leader in crypto adoption in Europe and one of the best places to be for this sector." CZ, CEO of Binance at the PBWS (Paris Blockchain Week Summit) and he announced the opening of a web 3.0 space with 50 people in France to support start-ups in the ecosystem. (Coinacademy)
- Bison Bank becomes the first bank to receive a digital asset service provider license from the Bank of Portugal.
- The US Treasury Department has said North Korean hacking group Lazarus is responsible for stealing $625 million from the sidechain used by the game Axie Infinity. (Blockworks)
- Montenegro offers citizenship to Vitalik Buterin to become one of the leading Blockchain countries.