BlackRock has 238,501 BTC ($15.44 billion) on its balance sheet.
https://www.ishares.com/us/products/333011/ishares-bitcoin-trust
Top 100 losers in 24h: JUP -14%, AVAX -13%, THETA -11%, SOL -10%.
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Netherlands indictment alleges Alexey Pertsev aided in laundering $1.2 billion through Tornado Cash.
Pertsev awaits trial for charges related to money laundering and other financial crimes on March 26 in the Netherlands.
https://www.theblock.co/post/283515/netherlands-indictment-alleges-alexey-pertsev-aided-in-laundering-1-2-billion-through-tornado-cash-report
Immutable, King River Capital, Polygon Labs set up $100M Web3 gaming fund «Inevitable Games Fund».
Immutable and Polygon Labs will identify investment opportunities while King River will manage the investment process and deploy the capital across game studios and web3 infrastructure firms.
https://www.coindesk.com/web3/2024/03/19/immutable-king-river-capital-polygon-labs-set-up-100m-web3-gaming-fund/
Fox Business discussing the Bitcoin halving.
https://twitter.com/BitcoinMagazine/status/1769794594588270811
Nyan Heroes has introduced its newest Pre-Alpha Gameplay Trailer.
Early Access through Epic Games on March 26th.
https://twitter.com/nyanheroes/status/1770073573970878606
MANTRA raised $11M, led by Shorooq Partners, a venture and technology investor in the MENA region.
Shorooq Partners is backed by heavyweight sovereign funds like Mubadala, JADA, Saudi Venture Capital, ADQ and others.
- Mubadala manages assets worth $275bn
- ADQ's investments include key projects like Etihad Airways, Emirates Steel, Abu Dhabi Airport.
- JADA and SVC have invested over 1bn SAR and $2.2bn in startups
Investors: Three Point Capital, Forte Securities, Virtuzone, Hex Trust, GameFi Ventures, Caladan, Token Bay Capital, BlackPine, Mapleblock, Fuse Capital, 280 Capital and others.
The project seeks to be a hub for RWAs in the Cosmos ecosystem.
https://x.com/mantra_chain/status/1770065553253929290
https://www.coindesk.com/business/2024/03/19/mantra-chain-raises-11m-for-rwa-tokenization-with-middle-east-tint/
The Solana network is currently experiencing congestion and issues with fees.
https://twitter.com/Ledger_Support/status/1770065855503647006
MicroStrategy has acquired an additional 9,245 BTC for ~$623.0M using proceeds from convertible notes & excess cash for ~$67,382 per bitcoin. As of 3/18/24, MSTR hodls 214,246 BTC acquired for ~$7.53B at average price of $35,160 per bitcoin.
https://x.com/saylor/status/1770061111146033385
Polyhedra (ZK) trading has started on OKX.
ZK is now trading at $2.9.
FDV: $2.9B.
1 Legendary Pandra NFT airdrop was 120 ZK.
https://www.okx.com/trade-spot/zk-usdt
Crypto Market Daily Review ☀️
The market is down. Market cap is $2.47T. Bitcoin is trading at $65.4K
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Changpeng Zhao, co-founder and former CEO of Binance, announced on X that he's hiring for his next project named Giggle Academy.
He described it as a “gamified, adaptive” platform that aims to provide free basic education for all.
https://twitter.com/cz_binance/status/1769877743607448029 https://www.theblock.co/post/283244/changpeng-zhao-announces-project-involving-nfts
Ripple is FinTech Breakthrough Award Winners for 2024 for Best Cross-Border Payments Platform and Best DeFi Infrastructure Platform.
https://x.com/ripple/status/1769822104134750406
Binance launched an ad featuring Cristiano Ronaldo and Anna Markovic.
https://twitter.com/binance/status/1770393113980186929
Avalanche partners with Alipay.
Alipay is one of China's largest payment apps, used by more than 1.6 billion people.
https://www.avax.network/blog/avalanche-powers-web3-enabled-voucher-program-on-alipay-d-store
Crypto Market Daily Review ☀️
The market is down. Market cap is $2.33T. Bitcoin is trading at $61.7K
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BlackRock creates a $100M fund with Securitize, a big player in Real-World Asset Tokenization.
https://www.coindesk.com/policy/2024/03/19/blackrock-creates-tokenized-asset-fund-sec-filing-shows/
Genesis and Gemini’s Earn program closure leads to $2 billion settlement offer for affected users.
Genesis asked a bankruptcy court to approve a settlement in principle, while Gemini submitted a statement in support of the plan.
The request will be considered during an upcoming hearing on April 16.
If the settlement is approved, Earn users who had their accounts suspended should receive 100% of their assets — with 97% of the amount expected to be reimbursed within weeks of court approval.
The remaining funds will be distributed as they are obtained from Genesis’ parent, Digital Currency Group.
The latest update suggests that Earn users will collectively receive $2 billion of crypto at current prices — $900 million higher than it was when the service was halted in 2022.
https://cryptoslate.com/genesis-and-geminis-earn-program-closure-leads-to-2-billion-settlement-offer-for-affected-users/
SEC delays making a decision on the Hashdex and Ark 21Shares Ethereum ETFs.
In a notice filed, the SEC said it would be extending its time to make a decision to May 30, 2024.
https://www.theblock.co/post/283519/sec-delays-making-a-decision-on-the-hashdex-and-ark-21shares-ethereum-etfs
Arthur Hayes: “Are the BTC ETF hodlers diamond or paper hands? We gonna find out shortly.”
https://twitter.com/CryptoHayes/status/1770017114499219807
Trust Wallet adds BRC-20 Token support.
https://trustwallet.com/blog/trust-wallet-adds-brc20-token-support
BNB Chain has announced the details of its recently launched “Airdrop Alliance Program.”
Participating members include:
1. Ultiverse – Crafting AI-driven gaming worlds beyond imagination with VR and NFTs
2. Web3Go – Data intelligence Network
3. KiloEx – Next generation of user-friendly perpetual DEX on BNB Chain
4. GombleGames – Strategic casual game studio
5. Cellula – Fully on-chain autonomous life simulation strategy game offering composability
6. StarryNift – Co-creation metaverse platform, bringing immersive 3D virtual experience to play, create and socialize
7. zkPass – Liberating zero-knowledge attestation of web private data using 3P-TLS and affordable hybrid ZK
In addition to the program roster, BNB Chain has announced the snapshot time for the Airdrop Alliance Program which encompasses retroactive users of BSC and opBNB as:
8:00 UTC on August 1, 2023 to 8:00 UTC on March 19, 2024
https://chainwire.org/2024/03/19/bnb-chain-announces-program-list-and-snapshot-time-for-airdrop-alliance-program/
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Polyhedra has released airdrop checker.
Claim: today at 9:00 UTC.
https://twitter.com/polyhedrazk/status/1769967047297970507
https://polyhedra.foundation/airdrop
Binance tasks Prime Brokers with checks to root out US investors.
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2024-03-19/binance-tasks-prime-brokers-with-checks-to-root-out-us-investors
A United States district court has imposed sanctions on the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) for acting in "bad faith" in a lawsuit it brought against Debt Box.
The SEC initially filed a motion to dismiss without prejudice but that was denied by Judge Robert J. Shelby, who slammed the regulator for intentionally lying to the court about evidence it obtained to secure a temporary restraining order (TRO) and freeze of Debt Box's assets last August.
https://cointelegraph.com/news/sec-s-conduct-in-debtbox-case-constituted-a-gross-abuse-of-power
Impossible Finance will relaunch the Aethir node sale due to problems encountered during the sale.
https://twitter.com/impossiblefi/status/1769722808429584882