Welcome back to your Proactive Crypto Report with Natalie Stoberman!

From back-to-back lawsuits, asset freeze requests and other intimidation tactics, Binance is clapping back against the SEC and its allegations this week with bold movements and revelations.

The American arm of the global crypto trading platform has announced that it will be pausing U.S. Dollar transactions as early as June 13th as it will strictly deal with crypto to mitigate issues with American banking partners.

As if the battle between the regulatory body and the crypto exchanges isn't heating up enough, Binance lawyers revealed an intriguing past connection between SEC Chair Gary Gensler and the Binance platform.

Share your thoughts on this unfolding mess in the U.S. in the comments below. Stay tuned and join us for the next Proactive Crypto Report!

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OptionsDesk broker Simon Hanouka speaks to Thomas Warner from Proactive after another intriguing week in the markets.

Hanouka highlights the limited effect of the Opec+ group production cuts on oil prices, increasing interest in tech stocks and the historically low level of volatility being recorded by the 1-day VIX index.

He describes the current period of low volatility as an "opportunity" for options market participants.

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Leo Lithium Ltd (ASX:LLL, OTC:LLLAF) managing director and CEO Simon Hay speaks to Thomas Warner from Proactive about progress on the Goulamina Lithium Project in Mali.

The company recently announced an A$106m placement and comprehensive cooperation agreement with existing joint venture partner Ganfeng Lithium. Hay gives an overview of the new deal, describing at as a "fantastic and transformational opportunity" for Leo Lithium.

He also reiterates that the company remains "on schedule" to make first spodumene production at Goulamina in "late Q2 2024"

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Ananda Developments (AQSE:ANA) co-founder and CEO Melissa Sturgess visits the Proactive London studio to speak with Thomas Warner about the work the cannabinoid medicine development company is doing to help develop treatments for patients suffering from complex, chronic inflammatory pain conditions.

Sturgess says that cannabinoid-based medicine will ultimately become "completely ubiquitous" and highlights the various fronts that Ananda is currently pushing forward on, including two upcoming phase II randomised controlled clinical trials.

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Altona Rare Earths Plc (LSE:REE) incoming chief executive Cédric Simonet speaks to Proactive's Thomas Warner after announcing the completion of a switch from Aquis to the main market of the London Stock Exchange.

Simonet explains the rationale for the switch, saying that it marks a "new chapter" for the explorer, which is currently working on a maiden JORC-compliant Mineral Resource Estimate at the Monte Muambe Rare Earths mining project in northwest Mozambique.

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The FTSE 100 is down this morning fell on Friday morning, after some troubling signals from mortgage lenders overnight.

HSBC and Nationwide have both shaken up their mortgage offerings over the last day, with HSBC withdrawing new deals for buy-to-let and residential products and Nationwide bumping their rates – all in anticipation of a further interest rate rises from the Bank of England.

Turning to equities now, Tesco shares have slipped this morning after consumer group Which? complained to regulators that the lack of unit prices on Clubcard deals could be illegal.

Shell and BP stocks are also down as the Treasury announced the windfall tax on North Sea oil and gas would remain in place until March 2028 as planned and then only be removed if prices stay low for a sustained period.

Payment solutions firm Network International jumped meanwhile, after announcing it had accepted a £2.2bn takeover bid from Canada’s Brookfield Asset Management.

And in small caps, European Metals have announced this morning that they’ve secured the land they need to build the lithium processing plant for their Cinovec mine in the Czech republic. And you can watch my interview with Executive Chairman Keith Coughlan later today.

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Dynamic Metals Ltd (ASX:DYM) managing director Karen Wellman tells Proactive’s Elisha Newell about the company’s maiden drill program at the Lake Percy Nickel project in WA. Initial assays point to a fertile nickel sulphide system, giving the company confidence to generate, refine and prioritise targets over the high-priority LP1 and LP2 prospects. Wellman says there’ll be more drilling at Lake Percy this year, but in the meantime the team has set the rig spinning over the Widgiemooltha Project’s best targets.

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Surefire Resources NL managing director (ASX:SRN) Paul Burton sits down with Proactive’s Elisha Newell to chart growing high purity alumina (HPA) potential at the flagship Victory Bore Vanadium Project in WA. Surefire has just released a 38-million-tonne aluminium oxide resource, indicating the ore could add to the company’s vanadium vision and underpin a dual commodity strategy. Burton says the resource will feed into an upcoming pre-feasibility study, expected in Q4 this year.

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OD6 Metals Ltd (ASX:OD6) managing director Brett Hazelden walks Proactive through the company’s return to drilling in search of the “best of the best” rare earths at Splinter Rock. A comprehensive phase three program, spanning 188 holes and 10,000 metres, will keep the field team busy over winter as the explorer drill tests its primary clay-hosted targets. Hazelden says the program nearly doubles the amount of drilling conducted so far, priming OD6 to expand its rare earth discovery in Western Australia.

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Solis Minerals Ltd (ASX:SLM) executive director Matt Boyes briefs Proactive on the company’s A$8 million raise, which fully funds it for exploration drilling at the Jaguar and Borborema lithium projects in Brazil. In a vote of confidence in Solis’ strategy, major shareholder Latin Resources also chipped in, increasing its shareholding to just under 18%. Boyes says the funding runway will help get boots on the ground as the explorer prospects for battery metals in some of South America’s most iconic provinces.

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