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🇮🇹 Italy’s Securities Regulator Blocks Illegal Crypto Trading Platforms Italy’s securities regulator, Consob, reinforced its measures to safeguard Italian investors by expanding its list of banned websites engaging in illegal trading activities. In its latest move, Consob has targeted several FX platforms for illegally promoting trading products within the country. Notable additions to the blacklist include domains such as Luno Invest, Vantage Global Limited, and Capital4it Ltd. Source 📌 Best Crypto News

💰 Internet Computer founder says crypto has 'snake-oil’ problem Dfinity Foundation's Dominic Williams doesn't pull any punches when asked to give his thoughts on the world of crypto and blockchain, an area he's been working in for roughly a decade. "It's gotten to a place where people actually invest in snake oil. Like, 'who's got the best snake oil, I'm going to invest in that because their marketing is better,'" Williams recently told The Block. "Today there's a lot of confusion and people are just buying into these narratives. Source 📌 Best Crypto News

🟠 Binance’s defense against SEC could be aided by Mango Markets case Binance could strengthen its defense against the US Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) by drawing on an unrelated case. On April 26, Binance and related parties filed a government document from an unrelated case against Mango Markets exploiter Abraham Eisenberg, who was convicted by a jury on April 18. Binance’s defense team drew attention to a specific paragraph in which the US government expressed its position on whether a particular stablecoin, USDC, is a security. Source 📌 Best Crypto News

💰 Bitcoin halving was 'not priced in' despite recent correction, analyst says The bitcoin halving that occurred this past Saturday has not yet resulted in the expected price increase stemming from the subsequent supply crunch. Instead, the world's largest digital asset by market cap has fallen by over 7% in the past seven days, according to The Block's Price Page. The core U.S. Personal Consumption Expenditures (PCE) Price Index, which excludes volatile food and energy prices, held steady at 2.8% on an annual basis, surpassing analysts' estimate of also 2.6%. Source 📌 Best Crypto News

💰 Franklin Templeton tokenizes $380 million US government money fund on Polygon, Stellar Franklin Templeton has tokenized a $380 million treasuries fund on the Polygon and Stellar blockchains to enable peer-to-peer (P2P) transfers without intermediaries. The company has launched the Franklin OnChain United States Government Money Fund (FOBXX), offering shares as BENJI tokens. Each token represents a share of the FOBXX and is tradable on the public Polygon and Stellar blockchains. Source 📌 Best Crypto News

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💰 High Bitcoin fees push active addresses down to 3-year low Bitcoin network experienced a substantial shift. As the halving event reduced miner rewards, transaction fees skyrocketed to 1,257.71 BTC, marking the highest level since December 2017 and accounting for over 75% of miner revenue for the day. This spike in fees coincided with significant network congestion, particularly exacerbated by new protocols like Runes. Source 📌 Best Crypto News

💰 FTX to Auction Off Remaining 💰 Solana (SOL) Tokens: Report Bankrupt cryptocurrency exchange FTX is looking to offload its remaining Solana native tokens, SOL, via an auction this week. According to a Bloomberg report, people familiar with the matter said the bankruptcy estate would auction an unspecified amount of SOL in the hopes of receiving a higher price than that which they would have gotten through direct sales. Source 📌 Best Crypto News

🇭🇰 Hong Kong's 'in-kind' spot bitcoin and ether ETFs to start trading April 30 Hong Kong has officially cleared the way for six crypto-based spot ETFs to begin trading on April 30, according to Bloomberg analysts. Initially, three spot bitcoin and three spot ether exchange-traded funds will become available, allowing investors to wager on the price of the two dominant cryptocurrencies without having to buy them directly. Earlier this month, Hong Kong approved several spot bitcoin ETFs and spot ether ETFs managed by China Asset Management, Harvest Global, Bosera and HashKey. Source 📌 Best Crypto News

🪙 Tether commits to freezing addresses linked to sanctions as scrutiny over USDT misuse grows Stablecoin issuer Tether the firm would freeze any addresses linked to sanctioned entities. This decision comes in response to reports indicating that some state actors were leveraging Tether’s USDT tokens to circumvent US sanctions. Over the past year, the company has proactively frozen addresses, holding significant amounts of its digital assets involved in unlawful activities. For example, the firm froze 32 addresses holding $873,118.34 connected to illicit activities in Israel and Ukraine last year. Source 📌 Best Crypto News