Tornado Cash developer Alex Pertsev tweeted on Friday after his release from a Dutch prison, "Sorry I was away for a while, what did I miss?" Pertsev was arrested in August 2022 when the U.S. government sanctioned Tornado Cash. He was released from prison on April 26 and will await trial at home with an ankle monitor. Pertsev's arrest and subsequent incarceration drew some criticism, with some arguing that Pertsev should not be punished for developing open source code.

According to the official announcement, Bitget will list Sui (SUI) in the Innovation Zone and launch a free airdrop plan for the entire network. There are two ways to participate in the airdrop event, namely SUI official Discord certification and net deposit, with a total prize pool of 35,000 SUI. After opening the SUI transaction, a special session will be opened for subscription, with a maximum of 500% APR.

The Web3 social graph protocol Lens Protocol rebranded the Optimistic L3 extension solution Bonsai to Momoka. Currently, Momoka has started testing in Lens ecological applications Lenster, Lenstube, orb, Buttrfly, and Phaver.

Her Majesty's Revenue and Customs (HMRC) today issued a public consultation on proposed changes to the tax treatment of decentralized finance (DeFi) lending and staking. The consultation will last for eight weeks from April 27, 2023 to June 22, 2023. The goal of the consultations is to create a system that better aligns the taxation of crypto assets used in DeFi lending and staking transactions with the underlying economic substance while reducing the administrative burden on users. Under the proposed changes, the use of crypto assets in DeFi transactions will no longer be considered a disposal for tax purposes. Conversely, tax dispositions arise when crypto assets are economically disposed of in non-DeFi transactions.

DEX infrastructure Native announced the completion of a US$2 million seed round of financing led by Nomad Capital. The funds raised will be used for product development to achieve modularity and interoperability.

Circle today announced the launch of the USDC Cross-Chain Transfer Protocol (CCTP) between Ethereum and Avalanche, which will destroy tokens on the original chain and mint new tokens on the target chain when users cross-chain. Circle said that cross-chain projects including Celer, Hyperlane, LayerZero, LI.FI, MetaMask, Wormhole, etc. will use the protocol in the future.

At the Ant Digital Developers Conference held today, Jiang Guofei, senior vice president of Ant Group and president of the digital technology business group, further proposed a summary of "Industrial Web3" under the framework of industrial collaboration and digitalization. Jiang Guofei said that industrial Web3 may be faster than consumption. The web3 of the Internet runs faster. Jiang Guofei believes that the main feature of industrial Web3 should be to allow technology to exert real value in the industry, create real benefits, and help the real economy. "Industrial Web3 is one in which real participants have gained real benefits, and it may even be built earlier than Web3 in the consumer Internet," he said.

U.S. Bankruptcy Judge Martin Glenn issued a legal document regarding Celsius Network and established a timetable, including an estimate for certain intercompany contract claims between Celsius Network LLC and Celsius Network Limited, Celsius Network LLC and Celsius Network Limited's substantive mergers, etc. Among them, the deadline for the debtor or the Commission to file a motion for substantive consolidation is May 1, 2023; the deadline for the parties to provide written findings is May 4; the deadline for responding to written findings is May 8; The deadline for testimony is June 15.

The liquidators of bankrupt cryptocurrency trader Globix have obtained a court order to freeze digital assets and force Globix to hand over customer information as it searches for $43 million in missing funds, the Financial Times reported. The court also ordered rival exchanges including Crypto.com, Bitstamp and Kraken to disclose the identities behind certain crypto wallets associated with the Globix platform.