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🔥 BREAKING: Citadel Securities, one of the largest players in the US stock market, plans to become a liquidity provider for the crypto market.
The company aims to join the market maker lists of exchanges like Coinbase and Binance, potentially setting up market maker teams outside the U.S. in the initial phase.
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🔥BULLISH: Hong Kong investment firm HK Asia Holdings Limited board has approved the company to increase its Bitcoin purchase for its balance sheet after its first buy on Feb. 13.
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Strategy's Michael Saylor hints at resuming Bitcoin buying spree
The company continues progressing with its 21/21 plan to purchase more BTC following its most recent $2 billion convertible note offering.
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In pictures: Bybit’s record-breaking $1.4B hack
From rapid withdrawals to social media’s real-time breakdown, here’s how Bybit’s record-breaking $1.4 billion hack took shape.
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📉JUST IN: Bitcoin and Ether prices dipped following a nearly $1.5 billion hack of the Bybit exchange.
While major tokens like Bitcoin remained within their recent trading ranges, smaller tokens such as $XRP, $SOL, and $DOGE experienced deeper losses.
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🚨 BREAKING: North Korea’s Lazarus Group is responsible for the $1.4 billion hack of ByBit, according to @zachxbt.
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🇰🇬 BULLISH: Kyrgyzstan rejects CBDCs, doubles down on a gold-backed stablecoin instead.
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🔥 NEW: VanEck’s latest research suggests that a US Bitcoin Strategic Reserve with 1 million $BTC by 2029 could offset around $21 trillion of national debt by 2049.
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🔥 LATEST: US Senate has confirmed Kash Patel as the next Director of the FBI.
Patel currently owns over $100,000 in #Bitcoin.
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🇺🇸 JUST IN: The #Bitcoin Strategic Reserve Act gains momentum in the US, with 20 states initiating legislation, and 15 bills now in House committee review.
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🚨 JUST IN: 86% of crypto traders who invested in a memecoin endorsed by Argentine President Javier Milei lost money, totaling $251 million in losses, while insiders made $180 million, according to Nansen.
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🗞 Catch up on the news over the last 24 hours!
🇦🇷 Argentina’s President Milei denied promoting LIBRA and said, “I didn’t promote it, I shared it.”
🇺🇸 Elon Musk tweeted about looking for gold at Fort Knox and Michael Saylor said, “Bitcoin fixes this.”
🇭🇰 Hong Kong investment firm HK Asia Holdings Limited shares surge nearly 93% after disclosing its purchase of just 1 Bitcoin.
🚨Elon Musk’s xAI just launched Grok 3, revealing that it outperforms Gemini 2 Pro, Deepseek V3, Claude 3.5 and OpenAI's GPT-4o in multiple benchmarks.
🇬🇳Tether signs agreement with the Republic of Guinea to explore the adoption of blockchain and peer-to-peer tech.
🚨 Tether plans to acquire a 51% stake in South American energy firm Adecoagro in a deal worth $1.24 billion.
🔥Google exploring ways to simplify Bitcoin adoption.
🚨Multiple Reddit users report receiving FTX payments on Kraken.
🔥 FTX users received $800 million today across 162,000 accounts.
🚨 BitGo is launching a global OTC trading desk for spot, options, and lending.
🚨 The SEC has acknowledged the filing for a Bitwise Spot XRP ETF.
⚡️Tether Co-Founder Brock Pierce is allegedly working on a yield-bearing stablecoin, attempting to challenge dominant players.
🚨 Strategy raises $2B to purchase more $BTC.
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🚨 BREAKING: The SEC has acknowledged the filing for a Bitwise Spot XRP ETF.
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🇺🇸 TODAY: Elon Musk tweeted about looking for gold at Fort Knox and Michael Saylor said, “Bitcoin fixes this.”
Do you agree? 👀
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⚡️ JUST IN: Binance co-founders CZ and Yi He deny rumors of a sale, calling them baseless, and reaffirm focus on growth through strategic partnerships.
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🇺🇸 JUST IN: MicroStrategy acquires 20,356 #Bitcoin at an average price of $97,514 per $BTC.
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🚨 NEW: Only 44% of US Bitcoin ETF buying has been for long-term holding, while the rest majority is likely tied to arbitrage strategies according to 10x Research.
10x Research’s Markus Thielen said that it means that the actual demand for Bitcoin as a long-term asset in multi-asset portfolios is significantly smaller than the media portrays.
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Security execs weigh in on ‘staggering’ scale of record Bybit hack
The record-breaking $1.4 billion Bybit hack displays the “increasingly creative exploits” seen in the crypto industry, Halborn’s co-founder told Cointelegraph.
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Bybit hack, withdrawals top $5.3B, but ‘reserves exceed liabilities’ — Hacken
Bybit’s assets fell by more than $5B after its $1.4 billion hack on Feb. 21, but independent audits confirm its reserves still exceed liabilities, ensuring full backing for user funds.
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🔥 NEW: AI models are now recommending #Bitcoin as an “asset to own.”
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🚨 BREAKING: Bybit confirms its $ETH cold wallet was compromised due to a UI spoofing attack.
Hackers altered the smart contract logic, gaining control and drained $1B+ of funds.
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🇺🇸 NEW: Silk Road founder Ross Ulbricht calls for 'Bitcoin Jesus' Roger Ver to be freed next in his latest X post.
Roger Ver was arrested in Spain last April, facing a possible decades-long prison sentence for alleged tax evasion charges.
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🔥NEW: Pro-crypto President Javier Milei gifts DOGE’s Elon Musk a “Chainsaw for bureaucracy.”
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⚡️ @MANTRA_Chain x Google Cloud Announce RWA Accelerator!
At Consensus, John Patrick Mullin (CEO, MANTRA) & Rich Widmann (Head of Web3 Strategy, Google Cloud) introduced a new RWA-focused accelerator to support builders in the Monterey ecosystem.
• Capital & technical resources for Web3 projects
• Google Cloud credits & infrastructure support
• A strong foundation for real-world asset innovation
Big things are coming—who’s ready to build?
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🇧🇷 LATEST: Hashdex receives approval for the world’s first $XRP spot ETF in Brazil.
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⚡️ NEW: Blockstream CEO Adam Back claims “we’re certainly in the early stages of a bull market.”
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🚨 NOW: Strategy raises $2B to purchase more $BTC.
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🚨 JUST IN: Elon Musk’s xAI just launched Grok 3, revealing that it outperforms Gemini 2 Pro, Deepseek V3, Claude 3.5 and OpenAI's GPT-4o in multiple benchmarks.
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🇦🇷 JUST IN: Argentina’s President Milei denied promoting LIBRA and said, “I didn’t promote it, I shared it.”
He also said, “Those who got involved knew very well what they’re getting into – they’re volatility traders.”
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🇦🇷 JUST IN: Argentine lawyers charge President Milei with fraud for promoting a crypto token that turned into a rug pull, according to AP.
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