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Uphold , a UK-based platform offering crypto trading and digital asset debit cards, is closing its Venezuela operation due to “the increasing complexity of complying with US sanctions,” the company said .

Canada's Ontario Securities Commission (OSC) announced that a panel of the Capital Markets Tribunal approved a settlement agreement between the OSC and crypto exchange Bybit for failing to comply with Ontario securities law.

Binance announced a multi-year NFT partnership with Portuguese footballing legend Cristiano Ronaldo, through which the platform will launch a global promotion aiming to give Ronaldo’s fans an introduction to web3 and an entry point into NFTs. Binance and Ronaldo will be creating a series of NFT collections for sale exclusively on the Binance NFT platform, with the first to be released later this year.

Decentralized lending and staking protocol Parallel Finance announced the launch of their Omni NFT Money Market on Ethereum (ETH) , which is meant to provide lending and borrowing services for various assets on the Ethereum blockchain.

The US National Hockey League Players’ Association (NHLPA), the National Hockey League (NHL), the National Hockey League Alumni Association (NHLAA), and NFT platform Sweet announced a multiyear partnership naming Sweet the Official NFT Digital Collectibles Marketplace and an Official NFT partner of the NHL, NHLPA, and NHLAA.

The full content of the bill is available on the hosting platform GitHub. Chen Boliang, a former senior manager at crypto exchange Huobi , is being prosecuted in Hong Kong after accusations that he made USD 5m by secretly trading against a company account he controlled, per the Financial Times.

Gaming blockchain Oasys announced a strategic partnership with blockchain technology company ConsenSys to build a better network infrastructure for blockchain-based gaming .

Bitcoin miner Bit Digital mined BTC 194.48 and ETH 189.26 in the first quarter of 2022, bringing in USD 8.6m in revenue, which is down from USD 43.95m in revenue for the same time in 2021, according to its unaudited quarterly earnings report filed with the US Securities and Exchange Commission.

Blockchain and crypto company DMG Blockchain Solutions announced the launch of Terra Pool, a renewable energy bitcoin mining pool, which is the result of a partnership between DMG and crypto miner Argo Blockchain.

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