🗞 Here are the news over the last 24 hours!
• Sen. Roger Marshall will not offer credit card swipe fee amendment during the Senate Agriculture Committee crypto market structure bill markup, per Politico.
• Patrick Witt and the US Marshals Service are officially investigating the $40M+ US govt crypto theft, per ZachXBT.
• HIP 3 open interest hits all time high of $790M, up from $260M a month ago, driven by surge in commodities trading activity.
• Tom Lee says gold and $XAG surge is overshadowing crypto's strengthening fundamentals, notes financial institutions are set to build on Ethereum and smart blockchains.
• Meta faces a multi country lawsuit in the US over WhatsApp privacy leaks; Meta calls the case frivolous.
• Arthur Hayes says Bitcoin will pump if the Fed intervenes in yen and JGB markets through balance sheet expansion in his latest essay Woomph.
• Ethereum transaction fees drop to their lowest level since May 2017, per Glassnode.
• Polymarket enters prediction markets deal with Major League Soccer as the league's exclusive prediction market partner.
• #GOLD hits a new all time high of $5,300.
• Stablecoin market cap drops $2.24B in 10 days as capital rotates into gold and silver, per Santiment.
• Tether has officially launched USA₮, a US regulated, dollar backed stablecoin built for the American market.
• A researcher uncovered a 149 million credential infostealer data dump, including about 420,000 logins linked to #Binance .
• The U.S. dollar hits its weakest level in four years.
• South Dakota has introduced a bill that would allow the state to invest in $BTC .
• Tether is now the largest known gold hoarder outside banks and nation states, with over 140 tons worth around $23B stored in a Swiss nuclear bunker, per Bloomberg.