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🔴 CNBC: Brent crude oil futures price increased by more than 5% and reached $118.5 per barrel.

🤝⁠⁠‌‌​‌​​‌‌​‌​‌​‌​​‌​‌​​‌​​‌​​​​​​⁠⁠👀 #XRP #RLUSD Ripple partnered with a former Western Union division to "enhance global payments using stablecoins and blockchain infrastructure." theblock

🙅‍♂👀 #USDT Tether is firing lead gold traders a few months after hiring them from HSBC - Bloomberg

👍 #TON Dynamic has added an integrated wallet infrastructure for TON, enabling developers to automatically deploy TON wallets within Telegram mini-apps without the need to create their own wallet systems. cointelegraph

💳 #AVAX South Korean company KB Card has chosen Avalanche to create a "hybrid" credit card with a stablecoin. theblock

🇦🇪🕹 Dubai establishes official rules for cryptocurrency exchange derivatives. cointelegraph #regulation

🇺🇸🕹 #BTC Senator Lummis will introduce a bipartisan "Mining in America Act" to help stimulate BTC mining in the U.S. The bill also includes the sale of cryptocurrency by miners to the government for tax benefits on capital gains. #regulation

🇺🇸🗣 #макро Пауэлл ('s speech may be supplemented by):
- The Federal Reserve is in a position to adopt a wait-and-see stance;
- Пауэлл and the ФРС are in a favorable position;
- The economy is stable;
- Buying long-term assets will lower interest rates and support the economy;
- There are no signs that previous Fed bond purchases had an inflationary nature;
- He is optimistic about the medium- and long-term outlook

🔥🔥 #AMORE #TON AMORE burned 11 million tokens (>1% supply) after the launch of AmoreSZI in early March, with proceeds going towards buyback and burning.
More than 5,000 people have already joined AMORE SZI, which helps solve the problem of access to slowed-down services.

🔓👀 #ASTER Aster announced the transition from the previous linear monthly ecosystem token unlock mechanism to a new "staking-only emission" model, where tokens are issued exclusively as staking rewards. As a result, the number of ASTER tokens circulating each month will be significantly reduced.

🥳 #AAVE The Aave v4 mainnet has been launched.

💰 Midas raised $50 million in a Series A funding round led by RRE and Creandum, with support from Framework Ventures, Franklin Templeton, and Coinbase Ventures. coindesk

🔍 Ethereum Foundation staked #ETH worth approximately $46.2 million.

Bloomberg:
"The energy industry warns that the crisis is just beginning.
In conversations with more than thirty oil and gas traders, company executives, brokers, transportation companies, and consultants last week, the same message was repeated: the world has not yet realized the full severity of the situation.
...If the Strait remains closed, the world will have to significantly reduce oil and gas consumption — but not before prices rise to levels that will force consumers and companies to drastically cut back on air travel, car trips, and expenses."