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1. Mainstream Exchange Trends:

• OKX Simple Earn launches a USDC bonus APR campaign with a total prize pool of 200,000 USDC.
• Coinbase proposes charging a 0.1% fee for converting USDC above $75 million to USD.
• Mainstream Exchange Listings (CEX: Token — Time of Listing in UTC)
  • Coinbase: Render (REDNER) — listed on roadmap.
  • Bitget: Dmail (DMAIL) — listed.

2. Cryptocurrency Trends:

• U.S. Bitcoin spot ETF ads now displaying normally in Google Search.
• BLAST futures on Aevo approach $5, up over 48% in 24 hours.
• LSD protocol Swell Network launches liquid restaking token rswETH.
• Nous Research, an open-source AI research organization, announces a subnet on Bittensor (TAO);
• Starknet announces a partnership with Celestia to enable high-throughput Layer 3 networks.
• Binance Labs invests in Puffer Finance, an Ethereum liquid staking protocol.
• ether.fi forms an advisory board and commits to donating 1% of TGE token supply to the Protocol Guild.
• Standard Chartered Executive: The SEC may approve Ethereum spot ETFs on May 23.
• Lyve Finance: Developing a program for PYTH and LYVE stakers to improve synergy between communities.

3. Financing Trends:

• Portal, a Bitcoin DEX project, raises $34 million in seed round funding with participation from Coinbase Ventures, OKX Ventures, an others.
• BBO, a DEX protocol, raises $2.7 million in pre-seed round funding led by Hashed and Arrington Capital.
• Binance Labs makes an undisclosed investment in LSD protocol Puffer Finance.

4. Regulatory Trends:

• X obtains a money transfer license for payment services in Nevada, USA.
• The Central Bank of the UAE completes its first cross-border CBDC transfer via the mBridge platform.
• The Italian Data Protection Authority says OpenAI violates its data protection laws.