Hello, ApolloXplorer!Have you seen today’s key headlines yet?<h2 id="header-0">#1. Tornado Cash developer Alexey Pertsev remains detained</h2>Alexey Pertsev, the developer behind Tornado Cash, will remain detained until his next hearing scheduled for April 21.A pre-trial review will take place on May 24.Authorities in the Netherlands first <a href="https://www.theblock.co/post/163206/suspected-tornado-cash-developer-arrested-in-amsterdam" rel="noopener noreferrer nofollow">arrested</a> Pertsev in August, days after U.S. authorities placed sanctions on Tornado Cash and accused the protocol of money laundering by cybercriminals.Source: <a href="https://www.theblock.co/post/211965/tornado-cash-developer-alexey-pertsev" rel="noopener noreferrer nofollow">The Block</a><h2 id="header-1">#2. Blur advises NFT creators to block OpenSea</h2>Upstart NFT marketplace Blur announced that it will enforce full creator royalties for any collection that blocks trading on OpenSea.Blur currently enforces a 0.5% minimum creator royalty, with the option for traders to pay more.Last fall, OpenSea had rolled out a blocklist tool allowing creators to prohibit their NFTs from being traded on any marketplace that didn’t honor creator royalties.Blur’s leadership framed this policy change as a purely defensive survival tactic, forced by OpenSea’s own non-competitive practices.Source: <a href="https://decrypt.co/121450/blur-advises-nft-creators-to-block-opensea-in-royalties-battle" rel="noopener noreferrer nofollow">Decrypt</a><h2 id="header-2">#3. Release of identities of guarantors behind SBF bail</h2>A federal judge has allowed the identities of guarantors behind former FTX CEO SBF $250 million bond to be made public.Court documents show that the two other unidentified individuals are Andreas Paepcke, a senior research scientist at Stanford University, and Larry Kramer, a former dean of Stanford Law School.SBF’s criminal trial is scheduled to begin in October, while FTX’s bankruptcy case is ongoing. FTX co-founder Gary Wang and former Alameda Research CEO Caroline Ellison have already pleaded guilty to certain charges.Source: <a href="https://cointelegraph.com/news/judge-allows-release-of-guarantors-identities-behind-sam-bankman-fried-s-bail" rel="noopener noreferrer nofollow">Cointelegraph</a><h2 id="header-3">#4. Mango Markets exploiter seeks to keep ‘bug bounty’</h2>Avraham Eisenberg, the alleged exploiter of DeFi protocol Mango Markets, wants to keep his share of crypto gained from the attack.Attorneys for Eisenberg filed an opposition in a New York District Court to a lawsuit from Mango that asked for $47 million in damages plus interest. The attack drained around $117 million from the protocol.The lawyers argued that Eisenberg shouldn’t need to pay back the funds as he had reached a settlement with Mango DAO.Source: <a href="https://cointelegraph.com/news/mango-markets-exploiter-seeks-to-keep-disputed-funds-paid-as-bug-bounty" rel="noopener noreferrer nofollow">Cointelegraph</a><h2 id="header-4">#5. Lido granted 1M OP tokens </h2>Liquid staking protocol Lido Finance has been awarded 1 million OP tokens to help scale the adoption of wrapped staked ETH (wstETH) across the Optimism ecosystem.Lido and Optimism plan to distribute these OP tokens as rewards for liquidity providers on decentralized exchanges Beethoven X, Curve, KyberSwap, Uniswap and Velodrome.Additional rewards are planned for wstETH usage on lending and borrowing such as Aave.Last year, Lido said it will reward stETH liquidity providers on Arbitrum and Optimism with a cumulative 150,000 LDO tokens.Source: <a href="https://www.coindesk.com/markets/2023/02/15/ether-staking-service-lido-gets-1m-optimism-token-grant-to-incentivize-wrapped-stake-ether-adoption/" rel="noopener noreferrer nofollow">CoinDesk</a>--The ApolloX app is available on Apple Store or Google Play <a href="https://apollox.onelink.me/rf4R/cmccommunity" rel="noopener noreferrer nofollow">here</a>.Stay up to date with ApolloX!<a href="https://t.me/ApolloX_Finance" rel="noopener noreferrer nofollow">Telegram</a> |<a href="https://twitter.com/ApolloX_Finance" rel="noopener noreferrer nofollow"> Twitter</a> |<a href="https://www.facebook.com/ApolloXFinance" rel="noopener noreferrer nofollow"> Facebook</a> |<a href="https://www.instagram.com/apollox_finance/" rel="noopener noreferrer nofollow"> Instagram</a> | <a href="https://apollox.link/blog-discord" rel="noopener noreferrer nofollow">Discord</a> | <a href="https://coinmarketcap.com/community/profile/ApolloX" rel="noopener noreferrer nofollow">CMC</a>

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