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Quick Take

• The lending arm of the European Union recently issued a €100 million bond using the Ethereum public blockchain.
• The transactions were settled with the help of a short-lived supply of digital euros issued by France’s central bank.
• Two officials from the EIB spoke with The Block about how they designed the bond — and what it implies for the future.

On May 10, the Coinbase app topped the U.S. Apple App Store, a position the crypto exchange hasn’t seen since late 2017.

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While dogecoin got name-dropped on Saturday Night Live last weekend, another dog-themed cryptocurrency is making the waves this week.

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Block.one, the developer of the EOSIO blockchain, has unveiled a new crypto exchange subsidiary that has raised nearly $10 billion in funding.

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The data analytics company is also considering adding bitcoin to its balance sheet.

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Quick Take

• Celo is a blockchain project that uses a mobile-first approach to empower individuals worldwide through access to financial services and the ability to send money to anyone with their mobile phones
• At the center of Celo’s network includes two native stablecoins, Celo Dollar and Celo Euro, which can be used for payments, savings, and the usage of decentralized finance (DeFi) applications
• In total, The Block has identified 151 projects and companies across 15 different verticals currently expanding on Celo’s ecosystem

Boxing champion Floyd Mayweather is releasing non-fungible tokens (NFTs) on May 26.

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Quick Take

• Ethereum transaction fees remain the main issue for crypto gaming.
• Dapper Labs, the team behind CryptoKitties, tried to solve this issue with their Flow blockchain.
• Although the current Flow version is ambitious, it remains highly limited in functionality and centralized.

Tesla CEO Elon Musk has just posted a poll on Twitter, asking users whether the electronic car maker should accept Dogecoin (DOGE).

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Indonesia, Southeast Asia’s biggest economy, plans to tax profits on cryptocurrency trades.

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