📊 VanEck CEO Says Transaction Fee Is Bigger Story Than Bitcoin or Ethereum ETFs
The CEO of VanEck – the global investment firm whose Bitcoin Trust (HODL) is among the almost dozen spot bitcoin ETFs – thinks the cryptocurrency industry should focus more on transaction fees and not so much on Bitcoin (BTC) and Ethereum (ETH) or their related exchange-traded funds. Jan van Eck said on CoinDesk's "Markets Daily" that the transaction fees on the Bitcoin and Ethereum blockchains are unpredictable, making it harder to build applications in those ecosystems.
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💰 Bitcoin’s latest rally driven by ‘huge accumulation’
Bitcoin’s (BTC) latest rally was driven by “huge accumulation” as investor appetite remains high despite five days of trading in the red over the past week, according to CryptoQuant research. Just three days ago, Bitcoin was trading at roughly $65,500 as markets closed on Friday. However, a sustained rally over the weekend took prices to $72,500 before US markets opened for trading on Monday.
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⬜️ Ripple CEO expects crypto market cap to double by year-end: CNBC
Ripple CEO Brad Garlinghouse said the entire cryptocurrency market capitalization will likely double by the end of 2024, according to a CNBC report on Sunday. The current global crypto market cap stands at around $2.59 trillion, CoinMarketCap data showed. Garlinghouse told CNBC that he is “very optimistic” about macroeconomic trends in crypto such as the emergence of spot bitcoin exchange-traded funds (ETF), which he said has brought forth “real” institutional investments in crypto for the first time.
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💰 World’s First Bitcoin ETF Has Lost 20% of Assets Since BlackRock Approval
The Purpose Bitcoin ETF (BTCC) – the world’s first Bitcoin exchange-traded fund – has struggled to compete with its U.S. counterparts since its January debut. The Canadian fund has lost 20% of its Bitcoin (BTC) under management over the past three months, despite rising demand and record-high prices for the asset during that time. In BTC terms, the amount is fairly average by historical standards. Since launching in February 2021, the firm’s holdings have mostly oscillated between 20,000 and 40,000 BTC, remaining relatively stagnant throughout 2023 at around 23,000.
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💰 Terraform co-founder Do Kwon found liable for civil fraud: reports
A jury has found that both Terraform Labs and its cofounder, Do Hyeong Kwon, misled investors and are found liable for civil fraud, according to multiple reports. Deliberations began Friday afternoon after both sides made closing arguments in the morning, according to reporting from Coinage. The trial lasted two weeks. The Securities and Exchange Commission charged Terraform and Kwon in February 2023 over the algorithmic stablecoin Terra USD, which collapsed in a dramatic fashion a year earlier.
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💰 Bitcoin Adds 4.5% as Stocks Reverse Lower on Hawkish Fed Commentary
It was a day of positive divergence for crypto bulls as stocks tumbled late in the U.S. trading session while bitcoin (BTC) managed to erase most of the week's losses. In late afternoon action, the S&P 500 and Nasdaq were each lower by nearly 1% – not a huge loss, but about a 2% reversal off of earlier session highs. Behind the moves lower were hawkish comments from Minneapolis Fed President Neel Kashkari.
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🥇 Spot Bitcoin ETF flows turn positive this week as Grayscale’s GBTC outflows slow
This week’s flows into the combined U.S. spot Bitcoin exchange-traded funds turned positive on Wednesday, eclipsing the net outflows witnessed on Monday. Wednesday’s $113.5 million worth of net inflows, following the $40.3 million added on Tuesday, were enough to surpass the $87.5 million in net outflows registered on Monday, according to CoinGlass data. Fidelity’s FBTC spot Bitcoin ETF led yesterday’s inflows, adding $116.7 million, with BlackRock’s usually dominant IBIT fund second, bringing in $42 million.
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📊 Crypto exchange monthly spot volume doubled in March, reaching nearly $2.5 trillion for first time since 2021
Cumulative monthly spot volume on centralized crypto exchanges more than doubled in March to reach nearly $2.5 trillion. Monthly spot volume had been gradually increasing since bottoming out at around $324 billion in September 2023, tracking at just over $1 trillion in December and January and reaching $1.2 trillion in February. However, it remains 40% lower than the all-time high monthly spot volume of $4.2 trillion recorded in May 2021.
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💰 Bitcoin Dips Below $66,000 Ahead of Fourth Halving, Loses Over 5% in 24 Hours 📉
The price of bitcoin experienced a decline on Monday, near 10:00 p.m. Eastern Time (ET), tumbling to a position slightly over the $66,000 mark. By 6:30 a.m. the following day, it had edged down further to reach its intraday low of $65,480 per unit. In the wake of this downturn, the crypto derivatives markets saw the liquidation of bitcoin long positions amounting to $135.3 million wiped out.
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🪙 FTX bankruptcy estate aiming to begin repaying creditors by the end of 2024
The FTX bankruptcy estate has set a goal to begin repaying customers by the end of 2024, according to notes from a meeting of FTX Digital's Joint Official Liquidators in the Bahamas. To that end, both the Chapter 11 Debtors and the Joint Official Liquidators "have a shared goal to make the first interim distribution by the end of 2024 to creditors with admitted claims and satisfactory KYC documentation," the notes, from the meeting on Mar. 15, read.
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📣 Google now allows wallet address searches for Bitcoin, Fantom, Arbitrum and others
Google now allows users to search balances of wallets on Bitcoin, Arbitrum, Avalanche, Optimism, Polygon and Fantom blockchain. The search results when typing in wallet addresses display the remaining token balance in the wallet per network and the time the balance was last updated. “Balances show only the native token for each network. Last updated timestamp shows balance as of last external transaction. Updates are not instantaneous,” Google noted in its search results.
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💰 Bitcoin options open interest for March expiry on Deribit hits record levels
Over $9.5 billion worth of bitcoin options open interest is set to expire this week on the Deribit cryptocurrency derivatives exchange. This makes Friday's end-of-month expiry one of the largest the leading crypto derivatives exchange has ever seen. "This Friday marks one of the biggest expiries in Deribit's history as $9.5 billion bitcoin options open interest out of $26.3 billion will expire, or 40%," Deribit analysts said in a note sent to The Block.
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🇵🇭 Phillipines regulators take steps to block 🟠 Binance
Regulators in the Philippines are taking steps toward blocking local traders’ access to Binance. The Philippines Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) said Monday in a statement that it has worked on obstructing access to the world’s largest crypto exchange by daily trading volumes because the platform does not have the required regulatory license to operate within its jurisdiction. The agency two weeks ago asked the National Telecommunications Commission (NTC) to help block Binance-linked web pages.
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🚨 Heco Bridge Hacker Moves $137 Million in Stolen ETH to Tornado Cash
In a recent development observed by onchain alerts, the entity responsible for exploiting the Heco bridge and siphoning off millions in ethereum late in November 2023 from the conduit bridge connecting Ethereum and the Heco blockchain, transferred 40,391.8 ether to the mixing platform Tornado Cash.
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🇦🇷 Argentinians Turn to 💰 Bitcoin Amid Increasing Inflation Rates: Report
Argentina’s 276% inflation drives Bitcoin buying frenzy: 34,700 BTC purchased in March’s first week, the highest in 20 months. In the face of relentless inflation and economic instability, Argentinians are increasingly turning to Bitcoin as a refuge, with recent data indicating a surge in purchases of the cryptocurrency. This trend comes as Bitcoin has experienced a remarkable rally in recent months, hitting record highs and outpacing traditional hedges against inflation, such as the U.S. dollar.
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🪙 Ether outperforms bitcoin and sustains rally, amid surge in short liquidations
Ether has maintained its rally while outperforming bitcoin as market volatility prompts a surge in short liquidations. Ether short positions bore the brunt of market volatility damage as the digital asset rose above the $3,600 mark on Monday. According to Coinglass data, there were over $27 million in ether short liquidations in the past 24 hours. In the wider cryptocurrency market, there have been over $204 million in liquidations over the past 24 hours.
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🪙 Ether options point to bullish market sentiment for end of April
The options market seems to have taken on more bullish positions in the largest cohort of ether options open interest by expiration date, contracts for the end-of-April expiry. Some $3.3 billion of notional ether options set to expire, according to Deribit data, and roughly two-thirds of that amount have been placed on calls, or bullish bets on price. "Call strikes are clustered between $3,700 - $4,000, showing an upside bias and underlying bullish sentiment in the market," Wintermute OTC Trader Jake Ostrovskis told The Block.
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🪙 Ethereum’s Q1 2024 Revenue Soars to $1.2 Billion, Marking 155% YoY Increase
Ethereum posted an impressive performance in the first quarter of 2024. As per Coin98’s Ethereum Q1 2024 Financial Report, the blockchain network clocked in a massive surge in income statement metrics. Fees and revenue witnessed a 1.8 times increase quarter-over-quarter (QoQ), while earnings tripled over the same period. This financial momentum is essentially aligned with significant advancements in network and ecosystem metrics.
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💰 BlackRock Adds Goldman Sachs, Citigroup, UBS as APs for Bitcoin ETF
BlackRock (BLK) has added five additional authorized participants (APs) to the iShares Bitcoin Trust (IBIT), bringing the total number to nine as the fund continues to attract billions of dollars from investors. The new APs include Wall Street banking giants Goldman Sachs, Citadel Securities, Citigroup and UBS as well as clearing house ABN AMRO, according to a prospectus filed with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC). They join Jane Street Capital, JP Morgan, Masquarie and Virtu Americas.
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🪙 Uniswap hits a historic $2 trillion in trading volume
The world's most popular decentralized exchange by trading volume announced it has passed a whopping $2 trillion in total trading volume. Uniswap Labs announced that the cumulative trading volume transacted using its protocol had hit the historic mark. Since its founding in 2018, Uniswap has been one of the most used DeFi applications on the Ethereum blockchain and the leading decentralized exchange, or DEX, by trading volume.
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🥇 Bitcoin Investment Products Ended March With Inflows of $865M Amid Renewed Interest
Digital asset investment products experienced a positive shift in sentiment during the last week of March, with inflows reaching $862 million, nearly recovering from the previous week’s record outflows of $931 million. Despite this encouraging rebound, CoinShares revealed that ETF activity appears to be slowing down. In fact, the latest data shows that the daily trading turnover now stands at $5.4 billion, representing a 36% decline from its peak three weeks ago.
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🪙 Vitalik Buterin Says Layer 3s Won’t Magically Increase Throughput
Ethereum co-founder Vitalik Buterin has re-upped his post from 1.5 years ago on “Layer 3s”, saying that L3s won’t magically increase throughput. Still, they can reduce certain fixed costs associated with batch publishing and deposits or withdrawals. In one of them, Layer 2 is responsible for scaling, while Layer 3 focuses on customizing functionality. While this doesn’t directly enhance scalability, it allows applications to scale through L2s while dissecting layers to meet specific operational requirements for diverse use cases.
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🚨 Crypto thefts fall 48% month over month to $79 million in March 📉
Crypto hacks saw a consecutive monthly decline, with malicious players stealing roughly $79 million from decentralized finance projects in March. A breakdown of the incidents showed that targeted exploits on protocols resulted in the highest losses, totaling $52.1 million. This was followed by flash loan attacks and phishing incidents, which resulted in cumulative losses of approximately $43 million.
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💰 Bitcoin Futures Open Interest Hits Record $37.55 Billion With CME Leading the Pack
On Friday, March 29, 2024, the combined open interest in bitcoin futures reached a new all-time peak of $37.55 billion. This uptick occurs amid buoyant bitcoin markets and a growing attraction from institutional investors. Since the close of 2023, interest in bitcoin (BTC) derivatives has escalated, reaching new peaks. As of 1:25 p.m. Eastern Time on Friday, data from coinglass.com reveals that BTC futures boast an open interest (OI) of $37.55 billion, equivalent to approximately 539,430 BTC.
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💰 Ripple needs to pay $1.95 billion in fines, SEC says in proposed final judgment
The Securities and Exchange Commission wants Ripple Labs to pay close to $2 billion and asks a New York court to weigh the "severity" of the firm's misconduct. In a proposed final judgment filed on Monday, the SEC asked Judge Analisa Torres to approve the fine, which includes $876 million in disgorgement, $198 million in prejudgment interest and a civil penalty of $876 million.
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🟠 Binance ends Tron USDC support as it faces blockade in the Philippines
Crypto exchange Binance said it would end support for Tron network-based USD Coin (USDC) stablecoins by April 5, according to a March 25 statement, following recent news Circle is pulling out of the Tron blockchain entirely. Consequently, Binance users have less than two weeks to withdraw their assets or convert them to USDC on alternative networks. Notably, transactions involving USDC via other supported networks like Ethereum remain unaffected.
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💰 9 New Bitcoin ETFs Accumulate $1.3B in BTC in 6 Days as Funds Near the 500,000 Milestone
In the span of just six days, the nine freshly launched spot bitcoin exchange-traded funds (ETFs) have gathered 20,859.57 bitcoins, valued at over $1.3 billion. Holding 474,363.55 bitcoins worth $30.6 billion, these new ETFs are short of 25,636.45 coins to hit the 500,000 milestone.
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💰 BlackRock sees Bitcoin as integral part of financial system – little interest in other crypto
BlackRock believes that Bitcoin (BTC) will become an integral part of the financial system over the coming decade as it increasingly melds with the best parts of the traditional financial system. The asset manager’s Head of Digital Assets, Robert Mitchnick, made the statement during Reflexivity Research’s Bitcoin Investor Day on March 22. FOX Business reporter Eleanor Terrett reported his comments via X.
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