Hakan Ateşler 
A California federal judge in the US has ruled that a lawsuit against Ripple and CEO Brad Garlinghouse should proceed through the court process and not on “summary judgment”. The judge noted that XRP’s sales to small investors were likely to fall within the statute of a securities sale.
Following the adoption of Bitcoin and Ether spot ETFs in the US, one of the most talked about topics in the crypto world was Solana ETFs. Canadian digital asset management company 3iQ made the official application for the ETF, which will be called the Solana Fund, and took a big step forward.
The crypto world continues to support Donald Trump, who is running for the US presidency again. The Winklevoss twins, founders of the Gemini exchange, announced that they donated $1 million in Bitcoin each to Donald Trump’s campaign. The Winklevoss brothers also harshly criticized the Biden government.
While the crypto markets are still in a dilemma about the rise and fall, it did not go unnoticed that a whale known for buying at the bottom and selling at the top bought for the first time in 1.5 years.
One week before the airdrop of Blast, created by the founder of NFT marketplace Blur, the project team shared important warnings. In order to qualify for the two-part airdrop known as Blast Gold and Blast Points, some users need to log in to the Blast dashboard.
LayerZero (ZRO), one of the most talked about airdrop projects, will also be listed by Binance. Following Kucoin, Upbit, Bithumb and Poloniex exchanges, Binance announced today that it will list ZRO on 4 trading pairs.
CertiK, one of the companies providing services on blockchain security, claimed that it detected major vulnerabilities in the US-based exchange Kraken, which could lead to losses of hundreds of millions of dollars. CertiK stated that the vulnerabilities were shared with Kraken’s relevant unit and that the unit accepted these errors and vulnerabilities. Kraken announced that the bug was fixed shortly after it was discovered, but CertiK claimed that its employees also stole millions of dollars from the exchange.
Pantera Capital, one of the leading companies investing in cryptocurrencies and blockchain technology, will launch a new $1 billion crypto fund. The fund is expected to invest $200 million in artificial intelligence-related crypto projects.
On-chain tracking and analytics firm Arkham labeled the account as the “German government’s crypto wallet”, and today, 6500 BTC outflowed. Holding more than 50 thousand Bitcoins, some of the BTCs in the account were sent to centralized exchanges.
The LayerZero Foundation has launched a site to check if you have qualified for the airdrop. Bryan Pellegrino, CEO of Layer Labs, also stated that a total of 1.28 million wallets qualified for the airdrop.