Hakan Ateşler 
In the case between Ripple and the SEC, which has been going on for more than 3.5 years, the SEC made its last general assessment of Ripple to the court. After the “legal settlement process”, which is one of the last stages of the litigation process, the court will decide what kind of sanctions will be imposed against the defendant, Ripple, if necessary.
Rostin Behnam, chairman of the US Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC), said in his latest speech that he thinks that small investor interest in cryptocurrencies will increase in the next 1.5-2 years, and as a result, enforcement actions by regulatory agencies will come to this area.
Bryan Pellegrino, one of the founders and CEO of LayerZero Labs, who recently announced that company employees would not be entitled to receive airdrops, gave another new information. Pellegrino gave details via Telegram, stating that approximately 10% of the company’s employees are likely to qualify for the airdrop, while the remaining millions of addresses are “not real”.
Vitalik Buterin and a number of developers signed a recent paper proposing EIP-7702 as an alternative to EIP-3074. The new proposal envisions regular Ethereum user addresses, also known as EOAs, temporarily acting as smart contracts for account abstraction.
The number of people making million dollars from tokens issued on the Solana network is increasing every day. People who are almost certainly part of the project team bought as soon as liquidity was added by the developer and were rewarded with a profit of $1.5 million in as little as 10 hours.
A new payment plan has been developed for creditors of the FTX exchange. According to the new plan, people with less than $50,000 in claims will receive a payment of 118% of their assets. Although the new decision requires court approval, the plan is expected to be given the green light.
Tensions between the Nigerian government and Binance have led to the arrest of two of the exchange’s executives, Tigran Gambaryan and Nadeem Anjarwalla, and the escape of one of them. Gambaryan, a Binance executive who is currently detained in a prison in the country, is said to have received a payment request from Gambaryan, which Gambaryan took as a bribe offer, and after informing Binance management, he was arrested along with the other executive.
Apu Apustaja, who once reflected the internet meme culture and won the love of millions, has now come to win the hearts of the cryptocurrency world. Known as the internet’s No. 1 meme character, Apu has now stepped into the cryptocurrency world with all his charm.
The person or persons who hacked the Poloniex exchange about 6 months ago sent a total of 1100 ETH to the mixer application Tornado Cash early this morning. The hacker, who had not moved the Ether for a long time, thus laundered 3.3 million dollars worth of money.
On April 20, the Bitcoin reward halving cut the system’s rewards to miners in half, but interest in the Runes protocol and its transaction fees made up for the shortfall. However, by May, Runes interest, and therefore transaction fees, returned to normal levels. For miners who earned an average of 6 million dollars per day in the first 4 months of 2024, this figure is now below $3 million…