The Ethereum Foundation sold 10,000 ETH to SharpLink Gaming at a steep discount just before Ether briefly surpassed $3,000.
Adrian Zmudzinski
Adrian Zmudzinski is a cryptocurrency journalist who wrote over 4,000 articles and first started working at Cointelegraph in 2018. He also contributed to Benzinga, crypto.news, and CoinMarketCap. Adrian specializes in technical articles as well as old school crypto topics in line with the cypherpunk aspects of the industry. His focus is on cybersecurity, digital rights, privacy, decentralization, cybercrime and permissionless systems. Adrian has no crypto holdings above Cointelegraph’s disclosure threshold of $1,000.
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Euro stablecoin by DWS and Deutsche Bank gets regulatory approval AllUnity, a stablecoin joint venture by Deutsche Bank and DWS, has received a BaFin license in Germany to issue a MiCA-compliant euro stablecoin, EURAU.
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