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Idin Dalpour was arrested for allegedly orchestrating a $43 million Ponzi scheme, falsely promising high returns from his hospitality and crypto trading businesses but using investor funds to cover personal expenses. The FBI indictment detailed Dalpour's misuse of funds, including $1.7 million for gambling debts, and charges of wire fraud. This could lead to up to 20 years in prison.
Block reported first-quarter revenues of $5.97 billion and an adjusted profit of 85 cents per share, surpassing expectations. It announced plans to allocate 10% of gross profit from bitcoin transactions into bitcoin each month and is open-sourcing its "crypto treasury blueprint" to help other companies manage its crypto assets.
Privy is launching a new cloud-based recovery system that enables users to secure their embedded wallet recovery shares on Google Drive. This should improve the user experience by offering a simpler, more secure method of wallet recovery without the need to remember passwords.
Royco enables efficient liquidity coordination for crypto, which today is inexact and done through airdrops, liquidity mining, and other un-optimized methods. Royco's Liquidity Coordinator allows programmability and order books to create liquidity negotiation, allowing providers to know exactly what they will get in return. Since every position is tokenized, users can sell or exchange positions, providing flexibility for locked assets.
Solana influencer and CEO of Helius Labs, Mert, has curated a list of high-quality articles about Solana. The list provides a comprehensive overview of Solana's history, investor theses, tech deep dives, and programming.
Blast points are earned passively through liquidity provision or holding certain tokens. Blast Gold, which may be worth $10 to $60 each, is farmed by actively interacting with protocols or games. This thread lays out three strategies for various capital and time commitment levels to maximize airdrop distribution.
Though the data availability cost has been alleviated through Ethereum's blobs and special-purpose protocols like Celestia, inefficient computation and state access remain bottlenecks. There are multiple paths to improving execution performance, including parallelization, state expiry or statelessness, and sharding. Each L1 and L2's decisions about these improvements will impact the design of their execution layer, the value proposition of blockspace, and the competitive moat of its chain.
Solana's revival after the FTX collapse and bear market has solidified its spot as the third major crypto asset behind BTC and ETH. Its recent run began in Q3 2023, when Jito and Pyth started the modern airdrop wave, driving the ecosystem to new highs in various metrics, supported by an explosion in memecoins. Its network effects and performance are expected to grow further and host the next “big thing in crypto.” Though the network is congested, development is actively solving this problem, and the Firedancer validator client by Jump Crypto should drastically improve Solana's throughput.
Paragraph will take ownership of Mirror and progress towards a shared commitment to enhance the monetization and distribution model for a wider range of creators.
Anthony Scaramucci's son's investment fund, SALT, led a $1.4 million strategic funding round for Hinkal, a zero-knowledge protocol valued at $70 million, which enables confidential on-chain trading for institutional investors.
The Eigen Foundation is allocating an additional 100 EIGEN tokens, worth about $1,000, to over 280,000 users to improve the accessibility of the token to early adopters and address community concerns about the distribution model of its airdrop.
Starting in July, Otherside monthly events will feature low-latency, action-packed gameplay for over 3,000 players, including weapons and mayhem, with a unique project codenamed Project Dragon.