PEPE $PEPE , which was previously riding the crest of a bullish wave, is now in a perilous situation as the market is affected by Bitcoin's $BTC price fall.

The indicators of tiredness have become more obvious over the previous 24 hours, raising some concerns about the recent progress made by PEPE.

In an interview with the Digital Pound Foundation, Susan Friedman, head of policy at Ripple $XRP , expressed her support for London's potential as a centre for the crypto hub and emphasised the city's commitment to creating ecosystems for both crypto assets and Central Bank Digital Currencies (CBDCs).

In response to allegations of unlawful conduct made by plaintiffs in a class action lawsuit by Dogecoin $DOGE investors, Elon Musk's legal team urged a federal judge to dismiss the complaint. The proposal, according to Musk's attorneys, is a "insult" and a waste of the court's time.

After the ADP Research Institute reported the biggest annual growth in the U.S. employment sector for the month of June, reiterating the market's anticipation of an interest rate hike in July, Bitcoin ($BTC) fell below $30,000 on Friday morning.

Stablecoin giant Tether saw its flagship token, USDT, grow by nearly $1 billion in the aftermath of a regulatory crackdown against one of its rivals, BUSD.

Zero-knowledge proofs, when created, are linked to a wallet address through a signature. These proofs are not publicly discoverable by design. Yet when a blockchain address interacts with a public smart contract that requires such a proof, the proof’s existence becomes public, negating the privacy benefits of a zero-knowledge proof. It is due to the design of smart contracts running on public blockchains that create a publicly discoverable list of all interacting wallets.

Know Your Customer, or KYC, is a set of processes and procedures businesses use to verify their customers’ identities. It is also used in the financial sector to assess any potential risks for money laundering or terrorism financing. It is a requirement for businesses to diligently understand their customers before establishing a relationship with them.

ZK stands for zero-knowledge, a cryptography term used to create cryptographic proofs without revealing the underlying confidential information. Z-based solutions are pioneering privacy across the web. The blockchain industry fueled the innovation of ZK technologies due to their minimal transaction size and privacy-preserving nature.

#Web3 gaming accounted for almost half of all blockchain transactions in 2022, according to a report from DappRadar. This demonstrates that gaming is the fastest-growing sector in the blockchain space at this point, well ahead of decentralized finance (DeFi) and nonfungible tokens (#NFTs).

El Salvador, a country that adopted #Bitcoin as legal tender in 2021, is expanding its Bitcoin strategy in a new partnership with the government of Texas. The intergovernmental collaboration aims to set up a Bitcoin Embassy, or El Salvador’s representative office, in Texas to work on new joint projects to promote Bitcoin adoption.

The world’s biggest cryptocurrency, #Bitcoin  is connecting more countries as the government of El Salvador 🇸🇻 is opening a “Bitcoin Embassy” in the United States.