Cartier founder descendant Maximilien de Hoop Cartier was arrested and accused by the US DOJ for attempting to import 100kg of coke and launder hundreds of millions of dollars through OTC USDT, per Protos.

$14.5m USDT was successfully laundered before the arrest.

Here are the top 10 funding rounds last week:

1. Optimism - $90m
2. Securitize - $47m
3. Kiosk - $10m
4. Backed - $9.5m
5. Mitosis - $7m
6. X10 - $6.5m
7. paragraph.xyz - $5m
8. Agora - $5m
9. BAXUS - $5m
10. SHADOW WAR - $5m

Other…

#PEPE founder lost almost $70m to address poisoning.
#pepecoin
twitter.com/Pauly0x/status…

#USDD turns 2 years old and now has almost 0.65% of #USDT 's $113bn total supply.

Despite the new class-action lawsuit, Coinbase continues to fight the SEC, saying ETH wasn't a security and that it can't suddenly become a security now.
link.medium.com/0MLHj4TKmJb

#Bitcoin network has surpassed its one billionth transaction 5,603 days since its creation, per Clark Moody.

Coinbase and CEO Brian Armstrong faces a new class-action lawsuit alleging investor deception into purchasing securities.

The following were named illegal securities:
🔹SOL
🔹MATIC
🔹NEAR
🔹MANA
🔹ALGO
🔹UNI
🔹XTZ
🔹XLM

Singaporean crypto poker players were targeted by a robbery, with one person losing 3.58m SGD ($2.65m USD) in crypto. Multiple suspects were arrested in Malaysia, per SG ZaoBao.

Data shows HK asset managers, specifically the two below, bought US spot #BitcoinETFs :
🔵Yong Rong Asset Management - $38m worth
🔵Ovata Capital Management - $74m worth

USDt-TON reached $100m in issued and circulating USDt in under two weeks.
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Apple competitor? Tether CEO Paolo Ardoino says they'll eventually build an Android-compatible phone with P2P and no Google apps by default.

'Pear phone' could refer to Nickelodeon's fictional iPhone parody.

Russia's Beribit crypto exchange introduces complex compliance process for frozen customer funds. Owners are required to verify the source and legality of their funds. Could this be an exit scam tactic?
t.me/telonews/10484

PRICE ALERT 🔺 #BTC surpasses $61,000.

PRICE ALERT 🔺 #BTC is back at over $60,000.

Eigen airdrop issue explained.

Attack on DeFi?
Was it really an #EIGENSCAM ?

telonews.medium.com/eigenlayers-ai…