The Hashgraph Association (THA) has announced a strategic partnership with the Qatar Financial Centre (QFC) to establish a $50 million digital asset venture studio called Digital Assets Venture Studio, which will support the development of decentralized finance (DeFi) solutions that comply with regulations and digital assets based on the Hedera distributed ledger technology (DLT) network. They will also invest in Web3 startups and DeFi projects supported by Hedera.

According to Coinglass data, there were liquidations of $159 million across the entire network in the past 24 hours, with long positions being liquidated for $44.75 million and short positions being liquidated for $114 million. Bitcoin liquidations were approximately $58.41 million and Ethereum liquidations were approximately $21.29 million.

According to DeFiLlama data, the current TVL of Ethereum liquidity re-staking protocol is 10.177 billion US dollars, of which the top five protocols ranked by TVL are:

Bitget Wallet announced the launch of a $10 million ecosystem fund in collaboration with Onchain Layer. The ecosystem fund is denominated in Bitget Wallet's native token BWB, which is planned to be released this quarter. It is reported that BWB is the native token of the exchange's self-hosted wallet with the same name, similar to Trust Wallet's token (TWT). The new fund will accelerate the development of Bitget Onchain Layer and support project construction.

According to ChainArgos monitoring, on May 14th, Tether issued a total of 110 million USDT and redeemed 23 million USDT.

As monitored by HODL15Capital, the value of Bitcoin held by US Bitcoin ETFs is currently close to $60 billion. This week, a total of 2,667 Bitcoins were purchased. Grayscale GBTC is the only ETF with net outflows.

The latest data from cryptocurrency research and analysis company Kaiko shows that miners are facing huge selling pressure as Bitcoin mining revenue and transaction fees decline. Bitcoin miners' income mainly comes from two aspects: mining rewards and transaction fees. However, affected by the halving of Bitcoin rewards in April (block rewards dropped from 6.25 BTC to 3.125 BTC), miners have to sell Bitcoin to pay for costs. Kaiko researchers pointed out in the report that the halving event usually prompts miners to sell BTC because the mining process requires a lot of expenses.

According to official data reported , as of April 25th, Circle has issued a total of 3.8 billion USDC and redeemed approximately 3.5 billion USDC in the past 7 days, with an increase in circulation of approximately 300 million US dollars. The total circulation of USDC is 33.3 billion US dollars, with a reserve of 33.5 billion US dollars, of which approximately 3.4 billion US dollars are in cash, and the Circle Reserve Fund holds approximately 30.1 billion US dollars.

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Circle issued 2.4 billion USDC and redeemed 3.2 billion USDC within the past 7 days, resulting in a decrease of 800 million in circulation. The total circulation of USDC is 32.1 billion US dollars, with reserves of 32.2 billion US dollars, of which 3.3 billion US dollars are in cash and the Circle Reserve Fund holds 28.9 billion US dollars.