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One of America's largest hedge funds, Elliott Management, has made a multibillion-dollar investment in software giant Salesforce. "We look forward to working constructively with Salesforce to realize the value befitting a company of its stature," said Elliott Managing Partner Jesse Cohn, who has previously served on the boards of such companies as Citrix, eBay Inc., and Twitter. Last year, Salesforce announced the launch of its NFT Cloud platform. In 2019, the developer marketed its own blockchain development tool.

Genesis filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection on Thursday. Now the major creditors started to become known and ready to comment. - The Gemini Exchange is the bankrupt's largest creditor. Its losses total more than $750 million. - Investment fund Mirana. Genesis owes the fund (which invested in platforms like Bybit and BitDAO) $151.5 million. - Decentraland. According to its representatives, it had a credit against Genesis of $7.8 million. - Stellar Blockchain has a claim for $13 million against the bankrupt company. - Coincident Cap confirmed that Genesis has $110 million in debt to them. All the creditors claim that Genesis' troubled liabilities won't affect their current operations and that any potential losses will be covered. However, they don't specify at whose expense. Genesis owes a total of $3.4 billion to its creditors.

Although the Waves blockchain explorer shows that transactions in USDT and USDC are in order, Twitter users are complaining en masse about the inability to withdraw stablecoins. All funds from the exchange bridge wallet were transferred to an unknown destination. The balance of the wallet is $144, although there should be over $40 million in USDC and USDT. The exchange representatives have not provided any official comments yet

According to the press release, BMW is going to use blockchain technology to reduce paperwork and integrate a loyalty program in Thailand. BMW has chosen the Coinweb platform as a provider of decentralized infrastructure and the BNB Chain blockchain for transactions. Through the new loyalty program, BMW customers will be able to receive blockchain rewards for purchases and completing various tasks. Users will be able to exchange tokens for BMW and third-party companies products and services. Token transactions will take place on the BNB Chain.

The Stellar Development Foundation has announced that it joins an advisory committee of the U.S. Commodity Futures Trading Commission. Blockchain company Stellar will join representatives of traditional financial markets such as J.P. Morgan, Goldman Sachs, and BlackRock and get a say in institutional-level issues. SDF representatives noted that they will primarily focus on the use of Layer 1 protocols in government agencies and bank transfers in stablecoins.