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Ellie Goulding, 36, is squashing those years-long rumors that she cheated on her alleged ex Ed Sheeran with former One Direction member Niall Horan. The singer took to TikTok to share a video of herself dancing to “As It Was” by Harry Styles, another One Direction member, and responded when a fan accused her of the infidelity in the comments section. “can’t believe u cheated on ed with niall but slay fr,” the comment read.

@elliegoulding

Quick boob check then we’re birthday groovin 🤣🖤

♬ As It Was – PREP

Ellie, who was wearing a black sleeveless jumpsuit with a plunging neckline and matching open-toe heels in the clip, clapped back with a strong denial. “False!!!! But also slay,” she wrote. The response received a lot of likes and although she didn’t elaborate, it seemed to put the speculation to rest.

Ellie and Ed first sparked romance rumors in 2013, when they were seen holding hands while sitting in the audience together at that year’s MTV Video Music Awards. Shortly after the appearance, Ellie denied they were dating. “I love that holding hands with my friends means we’re an item,” she wrote on Twitter. “In that case I am in many relationships. Lover not a hater. #whatthef*ck.”

Ed seemed to disagree, however, and later claimed they had briefly dated. “I mean, normal people don’t hold hands if they’re just friends, ”he said in an interview with Washington radio station Click 98.9. “It was going on. And now it’s not.”

In Aug. 2013, Ellie and Niall were then reportedly seen packing on PDA at the V Festival, leading some of believe the “Slow Hands” crooner could have been the reason she and Ed didn’t work out romantically. Ed also released the song “Don’t,” which included lyrics about an unnamed female cheating on him, in 2014, and many believed it could have been about Ellie and her alleged romance with Niall.

Ellie again responded to rumors when she did an interview with Elle U.K. “I did go on a few dates with Niall, but I was never in a relationship with Ed,” she said. “I have absolutely no idea where that came from and why it was turned into such a big thing.”

Ellie is now married to Casper Jopling, whom she wed in 2019, and they had a son, Arthur Ever Winter less than two years later. Ed also got married to Cherry Seaborn in 2019 and they share two children.

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Solana’s ecosystem found itself in knee-deep trouble caused by fear, uncertainty and doubt over its connections with disgraced crypto exchange FTX.

Since after the collapse of the exchange, the ecosystem has been trying to distance itself from FTX former CEO Sam Bankman-Fried, with Messari even releasing a detailed overview of the ecosystem and how it was impacted by the implosion back in December 15. 

But a new project called Bonk has been making headlines these past days, shooting up in price and giving Solana some welcome respite from the troubles it had to endure.

What Is BONK And What It Can Bring To The Solana Ecosystem

According to Bonk’s official website, Bonk stands for the Solana community who made the Solana ecosystem great in the first place. It is the first Solana dog coin “for the people, by the people.”

“The Bonk contributors are tired of toxic ‘Alameda’ tokenomics and wanted to make a fun memecoin where everyone gets a fair shot,” the official website says.

This certainly hit a spot on the Solana community and the crypto world as a whole as the token is now up 214% in the past 24 hours.

Solana ripping at 3.3k TPS despite an absolute tsunami of transactions around $BONK and a number of over tokens pic.twitter.com/BXXUFmKpmz

— Solana Legend 🎒 (@SolanaLegend) January 4, 2023

A recent tweet made by Solana Legend, co-founder of Frictionless Capital shows that the memecoin is driving the usage of Solana up with the blockchain registering 3,300 transactions per second.

The metric proves that Solana, the “Ethereum killer”, is not dead and has a bullish community supporting it. 

With the token having an impressive burn rate and major exchanges listing it for open trading, Bonk is now making a name for itself. The expectations are high for the dog meme coin.  For instance, many are asking: Will it save Solana from extinction?

Vague Whitepaper & Extreme Yields

Although the hot new memecoin is leading the charge for Solana in 2023, it isn’t without confusion. Their whitepaper itself is very vague, only detailing the distribution of the 100 trillion tokens to different parties. 

According to data from Orca, a Solana on-chain liquidity automated market maker (AMM), Bonk has a very unsustainable rate of over 1% per hour just for providing liquidity.

Although this might only be in the short-term for it to attract additional capital from investors in the community. 

Crypto total market cap at $778 billion on the daily chart | Chart: TradingView.com

Although 50% of the total BONK token supply has been airdropped, investors might be wary of the remaining half being held by the early contributors.

To counter this fear, early contributors to the project have a vesting period of three years, meaning that the tokens allocated to them are locked until the three-year period is done. 

It is important to acknowledge the contributors’ drive to give the power back to the community of Solana.

However, how they will do that has not been clearly stated in the whitepaper. Although Bonk certainly has a positive effect on the price of SOL, it remains to be seen whether this project would actually live up to the hype surrounding it. 

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Setting goals? Katie Maloney shared a message about her plans for the new year after finalizing her divorce from Tom Schwartz.

The “You’re Gonna Love Me” podcast host, 35, recently reposted a quote from Gary Janetti that read, “For me 2023 is going to be all about revenge.” In her Instagram Story, the Vanderpump Rules added her own caption with a laughing-crying emoji, writing, “Done. It’s over for these hoes.”

The quote attracted plenty of attention from Maloney’s fellow Bravolebrities, including Erika Jayne, Lisa Rinna and Leah McSweeney. The Real Housewives of New York City star, 40, replied, “SAME” in the comments section of Janetti’s original post, while Rinna, 59, quipped, “Me too Gary.”

Maloney and Schwartz, 40, announced their split in March 2022. The former couple tied the knot in 2016, then legally wed in 2019 after realizing their first union wasn’t official.

“I never thought I would have to make an announcement like this,” Maloney wrote via Instagram at the time. “After 12 years on an adventure through our life together, Tom and I are ending our marriage.”

The Schwartz & Sandy’s owner, for his part, revealed that his wife was the person who initiated the split. “I’m not the victim. Not gonna write too sad a song,” the bartender shared in his own Instagram post. “Fully respect Katie’s decision and we’ve had healthy, productive conversations about it. It would be far sadder if she decided to stay with me whilst not happy.”

The duo finalized their divorce less than one year later, agreeing in October 2022 to split the profits from the sale of their California home. That same month, Maloney revealed her romance with Satchel Clendenin, who is 10 years her junior.

“Tom is happy for Katie if she’s happy,” an insider told Us Weekly at the time. “Her dating life is not his concern.”

Schwartz, for his part, was briefly linked to VPR costar Raquel Leviss after Us broke the news that the pair hooked up at Scheana Shay‘s August 2022 wedding to Brock Davies. The twosome later insisted they’re just friends.

“I don’t want it to be anti-climatic, but me and Raquel have forged a really solid, deep friendship now. It’s so burgeoning,” Schwartz exclusively told Us in October 2022 at BravoCon. “We’re tight now. [In the past], I would just say, ‘Hi Raquel’ [and] she’d say, ‘Hi Tom.’ And then we would walk by each other for like two seasons. And then now it’s like we have an awesome relationship — not relationship-relationship. Platonic.”

After Leviss, 28, wore a Tom Tom sweatshirt to the event, Maloney made headlines for calling her costar a “fan girl” in an Instagram comment. “Started as a fan of the show and now a fan of the tom’s,” the Utah native wrote in October 2022.

Leviss was quick to respond, writing: “I admit… I am a fan of the Tom’s. I’m definitely a fan of the restaurant… best vibe, food and drinks in WeHo in my opinion. But I’m also a fan of Tom Schwartz and Tom Sandoval!! 🎉 Here to support their business endeavors 💞.”

Fiat-to-crypto on-ramp solution provider Juno has urged its users to sell or self-custody the crypto on its platform citing “uncertainty” with its crypto custodian partner Wyre.

In a Jan. 4 tweet, the platform explained it that it doesn’t hold any of its customer’s crypto, and relies on its “crypto partner” for those services.

“Due to uncertainty with our crypto partner, we have taken preemptive action in the interest of our customers,” it wrote, adding it’s also actively reaching out to customers to ask them to self-custody.

2/ Juno as a platform doesn’t custody crypto assets & relies on our crypto partner for these services.

Due to uncertainty with our crypto partner, we have taken preemptive action in the interest of our customers.

— Juno (@JunoFinanceHQ) January 4, 2023

The “crypto partner” in question is understood to be Wyre, a regulated Money Service Business in the United States.

Earlier this week, Wyre CEO Ioannis Giannaros reportedly told employees that the firm “will need to unwind […] over the next couple of weeks.”

In the email seen by Axios, Giannaros said the firm was “still operating” but would be “scaling back to plan our next steps.”

Juno in its latest Twitter thread said there was still $1.25 million worth of crypto assets held on the platform and it has been reaching out to customers to encourage them to self-custody their holdings

Other safeguards employed by Juno for users include temporarily disabling crypto buying on its platform and converting stablecoins to U.S. dollars into users’ government-insured accounts “which are FDIC Insured up to $250,000 via our partner bank.”

It also increased daily withdrawal limits five-fold for all “metal” account holders, its highest tier account.

Cointelegraph contacted Juno for comment but did not receive an immediate response. Wyre did not respond to multiple requests for comment.

Related: US federal agencies release joint statement on crypto asset risks and safe practices

At the time of writing, Juno users were seemingly able to withdraw funds without issue and the platform claimed its services unrelated to crypto were similarly unaffected.

Juno said it plans to “transition to a new crypto partner” but is yet to release information on what partner and when the transition will be finalized. It added it was working to restart crypto buying and deposits “as soon as possible.”