• Prices today - Bitcoin price $40000 and Ethereum price $2800

• Ukraine legalizes crypto by passing the Virtual Assets law. This law allows International and Ukrainian crypto exchanges to operate legally. Also allows Crypto companies to open bank accounts for smoother operations. This law will support the crypto industry in Ukraine.

• EU Regulators warn crypto investors not to invest in too good to be true crypto assets, and not to fall for misleading advertisements on the web or social media, because crypto investments are Highly Risky and the investors might lose all their funds and the EU would not be able to help or protect the investors.

• The metaverse token SAND's price goes up after HSBC bank bought a plot of land in the virtual world and Paris Hilton began her partnership with The Sandbox with a special DJ set at this year's SXSW festival.

• Dominic Williams, the founder of Internet Computer blockchain, proposes a way to end the Ukraine War quickly. 

         The Russian government is portraying the war as help to Ukraine, which is not the case and this is why most of the Russian citizens are in favor of the war versus being against it.

         Dominic plans to stop the war by convincing the Russian citizens that the war is a crime against humanity and Russian citizens must raise their voices against the government to stop the war.

• Ripple will give out 1 billion XRP tokens to developers who create projects based on their Ripple blockchain. 1 billion XRP tokens are worth $794m in today's market and they will be distributed over the next 10 to 20 years.

• Buyer of "Pepe the Frog" NFT files $500,000 lawsuit after creator releases identical NFTs for free.

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• Prices today -  Bitcoin price $39000 and Ethereum price $2600

• ConsenSys Raises $450M in funding, valuing the company at over $7b, their products include Infura, Metamask and more. ConsenSys makes software that runs on the Ethereum blockchain and it was founded by Ethereum co-founder Joseph Lubin.

• PayPal CEO, Dan Schulman is more hopeful and optimistic about cryptos changing and improving the financial system and less excited about the prices of the crypto going up.

• U.K's National Crime Agency, NCA is concerned about Crypto being used for criminal activities, money laundering and sanctions evasion.
• Thus, they want regulation for the Crypto Mixers or Crypto Tumbler. A crypto Mixer is a tool used to make a crypto transaction untraceable, which otherwise is traceable on the blockchain.

• Kazakhstan shuts down over 100 Crypto mines in the country. Well-known Politicians and Business people were behind these including the brother of the former President of Kazakhstan.

• Fake news circulated yesterday that crypto exchange PancakeSwap was hacked, but it was hacked exactly one year ago, in 2021, not in 2022. But some people retweeted this fake hack news without even seeing the post date, creating confusion and panic among the PancakeSwap users.

• Singapore-based exchange Crypto.com is now available in the US to selected institutional investors and will be available to most of the users in the next few months.

That's all for today, see you in the next one.

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