According to market data, BTC has fallen below $57,000 and is currently trading at $56,999.99, with a daily decline of 5.48%. The market is volatile, so please be prepared for risk control.

Former Binance CEO Changpeng “CZ” Zhao was sentenced to four months in prison for violating U.S. money laundering laws.

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The SEC proposed that Do Kwon and Terraform pay roughly $5.3 billion in disgorgement, prejudgment interest and civil penalties, while the firm’s team suggested only $1 million.

Golden Finance reported that according to OKX market data, BTC briefly touched $57,700 and is now trading at $58,581.53, with a daily decline of 7.15%. The market is volatile, so please be prepared for risk management.

Data suggests that newer investors are behind Bitcoin’s sell-off, but sell-side exhaustion will eventually mark BTC’s price bottom.

It took less than six weeks for the BlackRock USD Institutional Digital Liquidity Fund to surpass Franklin Templeton’s one year old tokenized treasury fund.

The recent approval of Bitcoin spot ETFs and bullish BTC price action have become a catalyst for heightened interest in the Bitcoin ecosystem. A myriad of projects aiming to improve Bitcoin’s scalability have been introduced in recent times, the most exciting of them being BitVM.

With over $100 billion of assets stored in 8+ million deployed smart accounts, Safe is one of the go-to solutions for smart contract wallets. Previously called Gnosis Safe, Safe aims to create the standard for ownership with smart accounts.

Though blockchains are designed to be secure, it is difficult to communicate securely between networks. LayerZero is an interoperability protocol that allows secure communication between over 60 networks.