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● Binance announces agreement with a new fiat partner for EUR payments, deposits, and withdrawals. The fiat services offered to users via the fiat partner will include EUR deposits and withdrawals via open banking and SEPA/SEPA Instant; crypto purchases and sales via SEPA/SEPA Instant; crypto purchases and sales via bank card; crypto purchases and sales via fiat balance; and EUR spot trading pairs for all users.

● Coinbase announces Ireland as the location of its EU MiCA entity. MiCA regulations will apply to crypto asset service providers from the end of 2024. Coinbase will be able to offer its services to one of the world's largest economies (450 million inhabitants in 27 countries and regions) under one regulatory framework and country-level regulator.

● Chainlink announces the upcoming release of Chainlink Staking v0.2. The staking pool is capped at 45 million LINK.

● Fed mouthpiece Nick Timiraos weighs in on Jerome Powell's rem arks, suggesting that he was pleased with the decline in inflation and that the Fed is unlikely to raise interest rates again unless there is clear evidence of stronger economic activity that would jeopardize progress.

● VanEck Ethereum Strategy ETF (EFUT) opens for trading.

● Runa Digital Assets raises US$42.5 million to invest in cryptocurrencies and digital assets.

● Circle launches two updates to Web3 Services, Gas Station and Smart Contract Platform, which are designed to provide developers and enterprises with solutions to simplify blockchain interactions.

● Crypto miner Bitdeer announces a US$2 million share buyback program.

● Aptos experiences a five-hour outage during its one-year mainnet launch anniversary.

● Coin Metrics, a crypto data company, raises around US$6.7 million in funding.

● Beluga, a crypto investing platform, raises US$4 million in seed round funding led by Fin Capital.

● Ryder, a hardware crypto wallet startup, raises US$1.2 million in a funding round with participation from SBX Capital and others.

● SynFutures, a decentralized derivatives protocol, raises US$22 million in a funding round led by Pantera Capital.

● U.S. federal court may make a final ruling in the Grayscale v. U.S. SEC case as soon as this Friday.

● U.S. SEC drops all charges against Ripple's CEO and Executive Chairman.

● Gemini, Genesis, and DCG indicted by the state of New York for allegedly defrauding customers out of US$1.1 billion.