Odaily Morning News

1. Bloomberg: The U.S. Department of Justice is seeking $4 billion from Binance to end related criminal charges; 2. The U.S. SEC filed a lawsuit against the exchange Kraken; 3. Kraken responded: It disagrees with the SEC’s assertion and will continue to provide users with Services; 4. Bittrex Global is about to cease operations, urging customers to withdraw assets as soon as possible; 5. Analyst: ARK Invest once again updates its spot Bitcoin ETF application S-1 filing; 6. Ark 21Shares Bitcoin Spot ETF will charge 0.8% management fee; 7. Blur opens applications for the second quarter airdrop, and starts the 6-month third quarter airdrop; 8. Blast, the L2 network launched by the founder of Blur, completed US$20 million in financing, with participation from Paradigm and others; 9. Founder of Blur People: The NFT field needs L2, and US$40 million has been raised to promote the development of the Blur ecosystem; 10. People familiar with the matter: Celsius’ bankruptcy restart plan has encountered obstacles in the SEC, and more information may be required for evaluation; 11. Bloomberg: Spot Bitcoin ETF market The scale may reach US$100 billion, and Galaxy Digital is already discussing allocation matters; 12. WSJ: Cryptocurrency exchange Bullish acquired 100% of CoinDesk; 13. OKX has submitted a virtual asset trading platform license application to the Hong Kong Securities and Futures Commission; 14. DeFi protocol Panoptic completed a US$7 million seed round of financing, led by Greenfield Capital; 15. Web3 gaming protocol Saga completed a US$5 million seed round of financing, led by Placeholder; 16. Pyth Network: Retrospective airdrops are open for applications; 17. Blur Season 2 After the airdrop was opened for redemption, Wintermute transferred 8.7 million BLUR to OKX; 18. President of 21 Shares: The increase in revised documents indicates that the approval of spot ETFs may increase.