Also, Syhthetix surged 70% in value
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Celsius warned that stabilizing liquidity would take time, while its largest investor offered a recovery plan. Celsius has established "an open dialogue with regulators and officials" to "find a resolution." More: - Celsius' lead investor BnkToTheFuture has proposed a plan to save the crypto exchange from liquidation.
- BnkToTheFuture CEO Simon Dixon said he would not provide details of the recovery plan before Celsius' board is ready, but he did say it would involve innovative ideas, as did the plan that saved Bitfinex from liquidation in 2016 after it was hacked for $72M.
- The 2016 Bitfinex plan involved issuing tokens to customers representing the money they lost. The customers could either redeem them for $1 per token at a later date or sell them on the open market, allowing them to speculate on the company's recovery.
- Later that month, customers gained the ability to convert their BFX tokens into equity in the company.
- Seven months later, BnkToTheFuture reported that Bitfinex customers had recovered between 75% and 100% of their funds.
- A community-led unofficial recovery plan is also circulating on Twitter under the #CELShortSqueeze hashtag. This plan would involve the mass purchase of CEL tokens on various exchanges, driving up the price and forcing short sellers to cover their positions.
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Binance announced that it has suspended withdrawals and direct deposits in Brazil due to a partner change. This company is taking legal steps against its Brazilian partner bank, which responded by saying Binance had not provided the "know your customer" information Brazil's central bank now requires. More: - Capitual, the partner bank, explained that the Central Bank of Brazil had imposed new requirements on its Pix payment system.
- As a result, Capitual upgraded its technological platform to adapt to the new requirements and has asked all of its partners to do the same.
- The bank said exchanges Kucoin and Huobi had made the required changes and are not facing issues. It also said the new requirements have no workaround.
- Binance will soon work with a new partner to offer its users services and has asked them to use alternative withdrawal and deposit methods in the meantime.
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The government of Ukraine sold a donated CryptoPunk NFT for $100,000 to support its war against Russia. Cryptopunk #5364 was donated to the country back in March and recently sold for 90 ETH to an anonymous buyer. More: - Ukraine started accepting crypto donations in early February and so far has raised over $135M in NFT and crypto donations.
- An NFT of a Ukrainian flag was sold for $6.7M in March. More recently, Ukrainian rap group Kalush Orchestra sold their Eurovision championship trophy to raise another $1M worth of ETH for the fund.
- The crypto funds are used to buy non-lethal supplies for Ukraine's military, such as bulletproof vests and medical supplies.
- The funds are managed by the Ukrainian crypto exchange Kuna and not the government.
- Ukraine's use of crypto during the war has highlighted the potential benefits of crypto in geopolitical conflicts where fiat currency is hard to move around. The drawback of crypto, in this case, is that Russia could escape economic sanctions by mining cryptocurrency.
- The crash in crypto prices has taken a major bite out of the fund's value. The sale price of 90 ETH is worth around $100,000 today, but that same 90 ETH was worth about $267,000 in March.
Zoom out: - Ukraine also announced joining the European Blockchain Partnership (EBP) to extend its interstate blockchain networks.
- The EBP has 27 members, mostly EU member states. Ukraine is the third non-EU nation, joining Norway and Lichtenstein.
- Ukraine is joining as an observer at first but eventually aims to link its digital economy with other members in the EU.
- The move will also strengthen the country's ties with the EU. For example, Ukrainian driver's licenses will be accepted in other parts of Europe when they seek asylum or become refugees there.
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Syhthetix surged 70% as it became the third-largest cryptocurrency protocol by trading fee consumption. The SNX token rose by as much as 100%, from $1.57 to $3.16, before settling at $2.88 at the time of writing. More: - Synthetix is one of the earliest DeFi protocols; it is a decentralized platform for minting and trading synthetic assets. Users can trade tokenized financial instruments by tracking the price of other assets such as stocks and gold.
- The surge in price can be linked to an increase in crypto trading volumes and revenues and the introduction of the SIP-120 proposal, a new atomic swap function that may improve the overall user experience.
- The new feature will allow users to trade at a larger scale between different asset classes with minimal slippage.
- The company has averaged over $100M in daily trading volume over the past week and reached an all-time high of $396M on Sunday.
- Aave and MakerDAO are the other DeFi protocols often known as "blue chips." Both have also announced double-digit gains as the markets show some stability.
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Vitalik Buterin criticized the stock-to-flow (S2F) model popularized during the crypto bull run. The model gained momentum due to its "accurate" price predictions; however, it also deviated during a bull market. More: - The 2SF model was popularized by a dutch institutional investor that goes by the name PlanB. The model quantifies an asset's price, such as gold and silver, based on its scarcity. PlanB predicted that Bitcoin would offer tenfold returns every four years.
- Buterin wrote on Twitter criticizing the model by saying: "Stock-to-flow is not looking good now. I know it's impolite to gloat, but financial models that give people a false sense of certainty and predestination that number-will-go-up are harmful and deserve all the mockery they get."
- Others also shared their opinions on Twitter by saying: "The 'Stock to flow' model is such an epic failure that PlanB should just delete his account. He won't, though, because he sadly still has 1.8 million followers who eat up all of his hopium garbage daily."
- The problem with the 2SF model is that it takes a one-sided approach, assuming that Bitcoin prices will always rise and the demand will continue to grow while ignoring macroeconomic factors that may affect the market.
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A Bank of International Settlements report reveals that over 90% of central banks worldwide are researching the feasibility of adopting central bank digital currencies. More: - The report also highlighted fiat money in terms of price stability and criticized crypto's inability to perform "basic fundamental functions of money."
- The report did highlight the benefits of crypto's programmable nature and decentralized finance's borderless elements.
- There are three dominant CBDS in the market, with China's digital yuan taking the dominant position with 261 million users.
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