Alex Harutunian

Bank of Japan is advancing with its CBDC project. The central bank reported on the Phase 2 and moved to the pilot experiments.

Amid the growth of TrueUSD stablecoin, the community is puzzled by its ongoing support from Binance. Also, rumors are spread about the project's possible connections with Tron's Justin Sun. TrueUSD says the latter is not True.

The Central Bank of Russian Federation has been developing the country's first central bank digital currency – the Digital Ruble for several years. There have been announcements by authorities that it might be launched soon.

Tether continues to expand the list of exchanges where users can access gold-referenced XAUT and Euro-referenced EURT. BitMart and MEXC Global exchanges have announced the listing of stablecoins.

A new blockchain called Sui performed token distribution on Binance’s crypto crowdfunding platform. It would probably have gone unnoticed if there had not been an incident with Justin Sun.

Sotheby's auction house expanded its NFT art offerings through the release of a curated, peer-to-peer secondary marketplace.

The migration of the Helium project to Solana, despite a slight delay, was successful. The price of the new IOT token has rocketed by more than 600%. Nevertheless, ‘hotspot’ node operators are yet to accommodate the new rules.

Meta reported a nearly $4 billion loss from its metaverse unit with Reality Labs in what was otherwise a solid first quarter for Meta that posted a final profit of $5.7 billion.