GameStop-Inspired Solana Memecoin Soars Over 80% as Roaring Kitty Flashes $586M Worth of GME Position Shares of GameStop closed the Thursday session 47% higher as the retail trading fame provided an update of his position and announced a livestream for Friday.

Saudi Arabia Joins BIS’ CBDC Project mBridge as a Full Participant

Medical Device Maker Semler Scientific Buys $17 Million More Bitcoin and Is Raising Money to Purchase More The firm currently holds 247 bitcoins and plans to expand its crypto treasury

NYAG Sues 2 Crypto Pyramid Schemes, Promoters Targeting Haitian-Americans in $1B Scam New York Attorney General Letitia James has filed suit against two purported crypto companies and their top promoters, a married couple, for allegedly operating two consecutive pyramid schemes that predominantly targeted Haitian immigrants to the U.S.

Bitcoin Falls Back After Attempt at $72K, but Fed, U.S. Data and Global Rate Cuts May Bring New All-Time Highs Upcoming consumer price index and labor market data releases in the next few days could be key for what’s next for bitcoin’s price.

U.S. Charges Three in Connection With Evolved Apes NFT Scam Evolved apes was a $3 million NFT rug pull that lured investors in with the promise of developing a video game.

Bitcoin Mining Stocks Soar Amid Takeover Frenzy The stocks are undervalued, so miners with attractive power contracts could become M&A targets, according to Wall Street analysts.

Kraken Said to be Raising Over $100M Pre-IPO Funding: Bloomberg Kraken is looking to raise more than $100 million and this may be completed by the end of this year, Bloomberg reported.

Iggy Azalea’s MOTHER Meme Coin Turned $3K Into $9M for One Lucky Crypto Trader The raunchy rapper’s token has spawned fortunes and furor over celebrity cryptocurrencies.

Crypto for Advisors: Layer 2s and the Evolution of Bitcoin The Bitcoin community has developed various layer-2 blockchains that enhance the network’s efficiency and functionality without altering its core software.

Coinbase Wallet Adds Crypto Trading Alerts From Notifi Notifi will deliver notifications to users of the Coinbase wallet.

Franklin Templeton Weighs New Crypto Fund Investing in Tokens Beyond Bitcoin, Ether: Report The private fund targeting institutional investors would offer exposure to a range of cryptocurrencies beyond bitcoin and ether, The Information reported.

Decentralized Exchange SushiSwap Goes Live on Bitcoin Sidechain Rootstock Rootstock’s goal is to combine the security of the Bitcoin network with the smart contract capabilities of Ethereum.

Cathie Wood’s Ether ETF Pullback Is Likely Due to Fee War Cathie Wood’s Ark Invest was the first company to seek permission to create a spot ether ETF in September, a pioneer who blazed the trail before a wave of other high-profile applicants. It has since dropped out of the race, likely because of the incoming intense fee battle, experts say.

U.S. Crypto Regulations Are Moving Against a CBDC and Non-Compliant Stablecoins Like Tether: JPMorgan Out of four recent crypto regulatory initiatives, the stablecoin bill has the highest chance of being passed before the U.S. presidential election, the report said.

The Sandbox Raises $20M at $1B Valuation, SAND Rises 4.5% Metaverse platform The Sandbox has raised $20 million at a $1 billion valuation as it looks to enhance its user-generated multiplayer gaming platform.

Bitcoin Could Hit $150K by 2024-End on Hopes of Donald Trump Being Re-Elected: Standard Chartered Favorable payroll data could open the way to $80,000 per bitcoin by end-June, Standard Chartered’s Geoffrey Kendrick said in a Thursday note.

Core Scientific Rejects CoreWeave’s $1B Buyout Offer Core Scientific’s board believes that CoreWeave’s offer to buy the bitcoin {{BTC}} miner for $5.75 per share significantly undervalues the firm.

Bitcoin Miner Bitdeer to Buy ASIC Chip Designer Desiweminer for $140M in All-Stock Deal Bitdeer received an investment worth $150 million from stablecoin company Tether at the end of last month.

Binance Resumes Mastercard Payments for Crypto As well as Mastercard payments, the Binance-branded Visa card, which was also switched off last year, has restarted functionality on the exchange.