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🇺🇸👀 #макро #FOMC Federal Reserve Meeting Minutes:
- Only one Federal Reserve Chair advocated for a rate cut;
- Short-term inflation expectations have increased;
- Staff forecasts for economic activity were less optimistic than those prepared for the January meeting;
- Uncertainty regarding economic prospects remains high;
- Most participants expected the unemployment rate to remain relatively unchanged, with low rates of new job creation and labor force growth.

🖼🤝 #NFT Yuga Labs settled a lawsuit against artists Ryder Ripps and Jeremy Cahen regarding alleged copying of NFTs from the Bored Ape Yacht Club collection.

🇺🇸🥶 #USDT #USDC The FinCEN and OFAC divisions of the U.S. Department of the Treasury will jointly develop regulations to establish compliance procedures for the GENIUS Act passed last year, including the creation of control mechanisms to prevent illegal transactions and the ability to freeze and reject suspicious operations.

Axios, citing an American official: The attack on the oil refinery in Iran was not carried out by the U.S. or Israel!
It is likely an operation by the UAE.

🔴Iran is preparing a strong response to today's attack by the regime in Lebanon.
🔴Sardar Musavi wrote about the violation of the ceasefire by the Zionist regime:
An attack on Hezbollah is an attack on Iran. The field is preparing a powerful response to the regime's brutal crimes. My dear ones, the real fuel for the rockets is your unity in the streets.

$UNITAS
Investors in the Unitas project
include several venture funds and investment companies that participated in the seed round of financing (seed round)
Among the investors, the following were named:
Amber Group — a crypto-native investment company.
Bixin Ventures — a venture fund specializing in blockchain projects.
SevenX Ventures — a venture fund working with cryptocurrency projects.
Taisu Ventures — an investment company from Singapore.
Blockchain Builders Fund — a fund focused on blockchain projects.
Awaken Foundation — also took part in the funding round.

A source in the Iranian Navy stated: we have closed the Strait of Hormuz, and currently passage is only permitted for Iranian vessels and ships heading from Iran.

🕵️‍♂️ #ETH The Ethereum Foundation announced that it converted 5,000 ETH into stablecoins using the TWAP CoW DAO function to fund research and development, grants, and donations.

🇮🇷👀 #BTC Iran will charge transit fees for tankers in BTC - FT

Iranian National Security Expert Mustafa Najif stated:
The ceasefire was broken as a result of the attack on the oil refinery in Lavan and Israel's brutal attacks on Lebanon. Iran is currently assessing the situation and preparing to suspend the ceasefire and resume the war.

Financial Times:
Iran has set a fee of 1 US cent per barrel of oil passing through the Strait of Hormuz, and Tehran confirms that payments will be made in cryptocurrencies 🪙
Financial Times: Iran has set a fee of 1 US cent per barrel of oil passing through the Strait of Hormuz, and Tehran confirms that payments will be made in cryptocurrencies

💰 #POL Polygon Labs is in talks to raise up to $100 million for its payments business.

The USA and Israel violated the ceasefire
Iranian channel Press TV reports an attack on an oil refinery in southern Iran.

🍿 #DRIFT American law firm Gibbs Mura announced the start of an investigation into a possible class-action lawsuit related to the Drift Protocol hack. The investigation will focus on whether Circle took timely measures to freeze the funds. The firm stated that it is currently gathering information from affected investors and assessing the feasibility of filing a lawsuit against Circle for failure to take action to prevent the loss of funds.
#DRIFT pumped over 100% on the news. Since morning, it has been topping the charts for spot and futures purchases on all CEXs. Notably, large purchases on

🤔 #BTC The New York Times published an investigation suggesting that Blockstream founder Adam Back may be Satoshi Nakamoto, citing similarities in handwriting.
At the same time, Back consistently denies the claim that he is Satoshi.

🇰🇷🕹 #RWA South Korea plans to include tokenized assets and stablecoins in existing financial regulations. #Regulation