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💰Stablecoin issuer USDC raised $440 million and plans to enter the stock market. Circle payment company, the main activity of which is the issue of stablecoin USDC, announced the closure of a new investment round for $440 million. Among others, investors were Fidelity, FTX, Digital Currency Group, Marshall Wace, Valor Capital Group, Pillar VC, Intersection Fintech Ventures, Atlas Merchant Capital and Willett Advisors. Circle now plans to enter the stock market with a specialized targeted mergers and acquisitions company (SPAC), according to The Block. The firm is targeting a $4 billion valuation for its listing.

⚡️Changpeng Zhao: "No one can destroy bitcoin and blockchain." The founder of the Binance exchange, Changpeng Zhao, said that no amount of regulatory action will be able to destroy Bitcoin and the blockchain. It is much more effective to work out a clear regulation of cryptocurrencies. “Cryptocurrency firms shouldn't fight regulators, it's better to work together. You still cannot destroy bitcoin, because it is in the heads of 500 million people, "said the head of Binance.

BEAM/USDT is bouncing off a strong support level and is ready to bounce in the short term to at least $0.1. We expect good news from the developers, so now is the time to build a position. Purchase area: $0.065-0.07 Target: $0.078-0.085-0.1-0.125

🔥 Cardano Launches First Alonzo Testnet Cardano smart contracts are expected to launch in September 2021. The fourth largest blockchain is making significant progress in launching Plutus smart contracts, which will enable the deployment of a wide range of decentralized financial applications. The Alonzo Blue testnet will initially be available to a limited number of equity pool operators, Plutus pioneer program members, and multiple partners.

🤓 Investors at Shiba INU have created two petitions asking to add a token to Robinhood and Coinbase On the Change.org website, two petitions appeared at once, where investors and the Shiba INU community are asked to list a meme coin on the Coinbase and Robinhood platforms. The petition in favor of listing the token on Robinhood was created by investor Tristan Luke, who believes in the potential of the coin and believes that SHIB can repeat the success of Dogecoin. To date, the petition has been supported by over 63 thousand users. The second petition, published by user Caleb Schricker, is directed to the management of the cryptocurrency exchange Coinbase. Holders of the meme coin are asked to include the token in the listing of this crypto exchange. Over 10 thousand people signed the petition in a week. Most likely, users expect that after the listing of the token on Coinbase, the price of the asset will go up sharply, as was the case with other cryptocurrencies. In the cryptocurrency community, this is called the "Coinbase Effect."

🔥 Coinbase Crypto Exchange Will Track Media Misinformation Coinbase, one of the largest cryptocurrency exchanges, has decided to declare war on disinformation. Now, in the new heading Fact Check, the company's analysts will identify fake messages and refute them. In this way, the exchange plans to increase public and potential investors' confidence in cryptocurrencies and avoid panic in the market, which is often supported by unverified media reports. The first exposure from Coinbase was the long-standing myth about the unsustainability of bitcoin mining. As experts explain, miners mainly consume excess power from power plants.

🤓 Polygon and Offchain Labs Developers Launch New Ethereum Scaling Solutions The developers of the second level protocol Polygon MATIC, have launched an SDK toolkit that allows you to build your own chains over the Ethereum blockchain. This opens up possibilities for the release of autonomous corporate networks or for building bridges to other blockchains. The new SDK tool stack works in two iterations to deploy sidechains based on the Polygon protocol consensus or connect directly to the Ethereum blockchain. Offchain Labs has teamed up with startup Alchemy to offer Ethereum smart contract owners the ability to launch their Dapps on the Arbitrum tier 2 network. She came out yesterday after a year of testing and has already received 150 applications for such a transfer. The popularity of Arbitrum is due to the support of the Rollup technology, which accumulates transactions in the second level, verifying them in the process of synchronizing consensus with Ethereum blocks. This allows transfers to be as secure as on the main network.

🤓🤣 Advertising campaign "it's time to buy bitcoin" in the UK was declared illegal The owner of the cryptocurrency service Luno must change the advertising materials presented to them on the London transport network. They were considered "misleading" by the local regulator. Last year, Luno posted posters on buses, stops and metro stations with the text “If you see bitcoin in the subway, it's time to buy”. The Advertising Standards Office saw a mismatch, as such ads "give the impression that Bitcoin investments are open and available," when in reality the tool is "complex, volatile and can expose investors to losses»

⚙️The Binance NFT Marketplace will launch on June 24th.

Study: The coronavirus pandemic has accelerated the adoption of digital currencies. According to the Economist Intelligence Unit, the COVID-19 pandemic has accelerated the development of government cryptocurrencies, as well as increased adoption of digital assets among ordinary people and institutions. “Money is developing rapidly. Just a few years ago, the idea of ​​a digital currency had little commercial support and low popularity. Over the past year, we've seen governments stepped up their efforts to create government-owned cryptocurrencies, ”said co-author Jason Vinquinas.

💰Billionaire Carl Icahn spoke about plans to invest up to $1.5 billion in the cryptocurrency market. Billionaire investor Carl Icahn, in an interview with Bloomberg on Wednesday, spoke about his interest in cryptocurrencies and admitted that he could enter the market "on a large scale" by investing over $1 billion. Icahn said that he has not bought cryptocurrencies yet, but is studying Bitcoin, Ethereum and the cryptocurrency sector in general in search of opportunities.

🔥PayPal will allow customers to withdraw cryptocurrency to third-party wallets. The PayPal payment service will provide customers with the ability to withdraw cryptocurrencies to third-party wallets. This was announced by the Vice President and General Manager of Blockchain and Cryptocurrencies at PayPal Jose Fernandez da Ponte during the virtual conference Consensus 2021.

🔥Finally🔥 Apple is looking to hire a business development manager with experience in the cryptocurrency industry to lead its “alternative payments” partnership program. In a Wednesday job posting, Apple said candidates should have five years or more “working in or with alternative payment providers, such as digital wallets, BNPL [buy now pay later], Fast Payments, cryptocurrency and etc.” The Cupertino tech giant said the manager would be Apple’s chief negotiator for the alternative payments space

🔥 Mark Cuban invested in the Polygon network. MATIC token soared by 30% in a day Mark Cuban has invested in the Polygon (formerly Matic) network, a second-tier solution for the Ethereum blockchain. She joined the list of projects supported by the billionaire Mark Cuban Companies. The amount of the investment has not been disclosed. Cuban will add Polygon support to its NFT monitoring platform Lazy.com. According to CoinGecko, MATIC has risen in price by 30% over the past 24 hours. At the time of writing, the token is ranked 12th with a capitalization of $14 billion

Iran has introduced a complete ban on cryptocurrency mining until the end of September. The mining of cryptocurrencies has been banned for several months in Iran, the Iran Front Page news agency reported, citing a statement from the country's President Hassan Rouhani. “Authorized cryptocurrency mining does not consume a lot of electricity and only requires about 300 MW,” he said. - However, a lot of electricity is consumed by unauthorized miners. They account for about 2,000 MW. From now on, a ban on the extraction of cryptocurrencies even for authorized miners comes into force. "

GameStop will enter the crypto market with an NFT platform and its own token. American game and console retailer GameStop is launching its own non-fungible token (NFT) platform. Information about this was published in a new section of her website, The Block drew attention.