BlockBeats news, on June 1st, according to a report by CoinDesk, a report released by the Financial Action Task Force (FATF), a global anti-money laundering regulatory agency, showed that Qatar banned cryptocurrency providers in 2019, but the country has taken almost no action against cryptocurrency companies that violate the ban announced in 2019. FATF urged the Qatar Central Bank (QCB) to more actively identify and sanction virtual asset service providers (VASPs) that violate its cryptocurrency ban.

BlockBeats News, June 1st, Lido officially announced that it has no affiliation with Lybra Finance, regardless of how its brand implies it. "Although the constantly developing LSD DeFi environment is exciting, please be cautious and do due diligence when interacting with new protocols."

According to BlockBeats news on June 1st, Bitcoin Magazine Ventures, managed by David Bailey and Tyler Evans, is launching the world's first Bitcoin ecosystem fund. According to internal sources, the venture capital fund, which specializes in investing in the Bitcoin ecosystem, raised $30 million and has oversubscribed by $90 million. The new fund emphasizes the development of the Bitcoin ecosystem and mainly invests in new applications, tools, and infrastructure such as Ordinals, Lighting, BRC20, DLC, and other UTXO-related elements. These innovations allow Bitcoin to adopt more flexible functions similar to Ethereum. Well-known venture capital firm Sora Ventures invested $3 million in the fund.

BlockBeats reported on June 1st that OPNX officially announced the launch of Celsius claims trading. Users can now log in to Celsius and tokenize their own claims, immediately releasing liquidity.

According to BlockBeats news on June 1st, Ethereum liquidity staking protocol Rocket Pool has been deployed on the zkSync Era network, as reported by The Block. By running on zkSync Era, Rocket Pool users will be able to transfer their Token rETH faster and cheaper, thereby achieving a more user-friendly experience in DeFi applications. Rocket Pool has previously been launched on Ethereum Layer 2 networks Optimism and Arbitrum.

According to BlockBeats news on June 1st, OKX has officially released the BRC-30 standard, which allows users to earn rewards by staking BRC-20 assets without selling them. The launch of this standard makes on-chain asset staking in the BTC ecosystem possible. OKX Web3 wallet has already synchronized with the Ordinals market on both the app and web platforms. It is reported that the BRC-30 staking feature will soon be launched on OKX Web3 Earn section. This standard has been released on the Bitcoin ecosystem page of the OKX developer center, which can be used by all projects and developers. Previously, OKX had established the BRC-20 industry double verification and parsing standards and launched the first BTC browser for BRC-20.

BlockBeats reported on June 1st that Circle will launch native USDC on Arbitrum starting from June 8th, 2023. Arbitrum stated that this token will become the official version of USDC recognized within the Arbitrum ecosystem and will eventually replace the current bridged version of USDC from Ethereum. Before the launch of native USDC on June 8th, Arbitrum announced that it will rename the Ethereum bridged version of USDC to "USDC.e" on the blockchain explorer.

On June 1st, BlockBeats reported that the Ethereum Foundation announced the opening of applications for the fourth batch of Ethereum Protocol Grants (EPF). Users can submit applications before June 16th. This program provides researchers with a four-month scholarship to advance Ethereum technology, including developing client implementations, testing and specifications, and participating in the latest core protocol research. The fourth batch of EPF will run from July 2023 to November 2023, with a final live event held at Devconnect in Istanbul.

BlockBeats news on June 1st, Chiliz, a sports and entertainment blockchain solution, announced that Ankr was selected as the main RPC provider for Chiliz Chain. Chiliz Chain will introduce a system consisting of 11 active Proof of Stake Authority (PoSA) validator nodes, with Ankr, Jump Crypto, Paribu, and Meria (formerly known as Just Mining) being the first four validator nodes for the chain.