Alex Harutunian

The US Court of Appeals ruled that Apple’s 30% tax on in-app purchases of NFTs was illegal, a decision that could have major implications for the crypto industry.

Leading NFT marketplace Blur rolled out a a peer-to-peer NFT lending protocol that allows collectors to buy blue-chip NFTs with a smaller upfront payment. And it has surpassed all of its peers in loan volume over the past week.

The crypto industry has lost over $100 million due to scams and hacks. Apart from that, exploiting the recent popularity of meme-coins, someone single-handedly created 114 scam meme tokens.

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.