⚪️ Worldcoin-compatible wallet surpasses 10 million users
Tools for Humanity’s Worldcoin compatible wallet has acquired more than 10 million users. The World App wallet boasts users in more than 160 countries, including 2 million daily active users, its maker Tools for Humanity (TFH) said Thursday in a statement. The uptick in users dovetails with the rollout of new data management tools for users of Worldcoin, the iris-enabled biometric cryptocurrency project founded by OpenAI CEO Sam Altman.
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🇪🇺 EU watchdog warns of high concentration in crypto markets, notes minimal euro usage
The European Securities and Markets Authority (ESMA) warned that crypto markets are highly concentrated on April 10. ESMA said concentration is a concern because a single asset or exchange failure could broadly impact the crypto ecosystem. According to the agency’s findings, market capitalizations and trading volumes are “significantly concentrated” in a small number of assets across the crypto market.
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🟠 Binance Has Matured Since DOJ $4.3B Settlement: CEO Richard Teng
Teng said Binance is now looking at sustainability and more compliance; hence the company’s focus on building a robust compliance program. Richard Teng, CEO of the world’s largest cryptocurrency exchange, Binance, believes the trading giant is past the cultural issues after it settled criminal charges from the United States Department of Justice (DOJ) with a $4.3 billion fine. During an interview with CNBC, Teng said Binance had moved past the early stage of its development, where there were no clear rules, and it had to operate in a certain way to stay relevant.
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💰 Sora Ventures, Metaplanet bet $6.5 million on Bitcoin to create ‘Asia’s first MicroStrategy’
Metaplanet, a Tokyo Stock Exchange-listed company, announced on April 8 that it has embraced Bitcoin as a core treasury asset. In an April 8 statement on social media platform X (formerly Twitter), Metaplanet said it was allocating ¥1 billion, approximately $6.56 million, to the flagship digital asset as part of its groundbreaking shift in its financial strategy. It added that it achieved this milestone through partnerships with venture capital firm Sora Ventures, Mark Yusko, the CEO of Morgan Creek Capital, Jack Liu, and others.
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🪙 New users flock to Ethereum while long-term holders are less active than ever
Long-term holders of ether, the currency of the Ethereum blockchain, appear to be holding on tighter than ever before. According to data from The Block, the active supply of ether, or the supply that has been moved from one wallet to another within certain time periods, is currently at a historical low point for periods of one year or longer. The active supply over 30- and 90-days is also near all-time lows, having fallen over half from their peaks.
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💰 Fantom CEO defends Solana amid network woes
Fantom creator Andre Cronje has shown support for the Solana network, amid the recent transaction failures on the network. Cronje is considered one of the most influential thought leaders in decentralized finance (DeFi). According to a post on the X social platform by the co-founder, some critics view the ongoing congestion as Solana’s flaw, yet it stems from the ecosystem’s rapid growth, which has increased demand for block space. Cronje stated that performance issues are technical challenges, not consensus mechanism flaws.
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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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💰 Morgan Stanley, UBS on the verge of approving Bitcoin ETF exposure
Morgan Stanley and UBS are actively competing to become the first major banks to offer their clients access to spot Bitcoin exchange-traded funds (ETFs), according to people familiar with the matter. Sources said that Morgan Stanley wants to be the first major bank to offer its clients full access to spot BTC ETFs and will try to frontrun UBS by making an announcement a few days earlier. Arch Public co-founder Andrew Parish shared the development on social media, citing sources.
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⚪️ US PayPal customers will be able to use stablecoin for international payments
Silicon Valley-based payments giant PayPal is again looking to expand the use of its PYUSD stablecoin. The company announced that starting Thursday, U.S. clients will be able to send international money transfers using the company's PYUSD stablecoin. Through its cross-border payments service, Xoom, U.S. customers can now convert PYUSD to USD and then send money to "recipients in approximately 160 countries" without being charged transaction fees, PayPal said in a statement.
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🇺🇸 SEC asks for public comment for Grayscale, Bitwise and Fidelity spot Ethereum ETFs
The Securities and Exchange Commission is soliciting comments for a handful of spot ether exchange-traded funds, according to filings. On Tuesday, the agency asked for public comment on three proposed ETFs: the Fidelity Ethereum Fund, Grayscale Ethereum Trust and Bitwise Ethereum Trust. "The Commission is publishing this notice to solicit comments on the proposed rule change, as modified by Amendment No. 1, from interested persons," the agency said in the filing about Bitwise.
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💰 Spot Bitcoin ETFs return to net daily outflows; Grayscale’s GBTC total outflows eclipse $15 billion
The combined U.S. spot Bitcoin exchange-traded funds returned to net outflows on Monday, having recorded net inflows every trading day last week, totaling $860 million. Inflows of $165.9 million from BlackRock’s dominant IBIT ETF were not enough to help overcome $302.6 million in outflows from Grayscale’s converted GBTC fund, leading to a total net outflow of $85.7 million yesterday, according to CoinGlass data.
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🇰🇷 Trading Volume on South Korean Crypto Exchange Upbit Crashes 75% 📉
Daily trading volume on South Korea's biggest cryptocurrency exchange has tumbled 75% from this year's high in a sign that frenzied trading in alternative cryptocurrencies (altcoins) has fizzled and digital assets other than market leaders bitcoin (BTC) and ether (ETH) may struggle to maintain lofty valuations. Upbit, which lists 192 cryptocurrencies and offers trading in 309 pairs, registered just $3.79 billion of volume in the past 24 hours, according to data source CoinGecko.
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💰 Spot bitcoin ETFs see fourth consecutive day of net inflows to end the month
Flows into spot bitcoin exchange-traded funds remained net positive on Thursday for the fourth consecutive day — closing the month on a strong note. The daily total net inflow for the spot bitcoin ETFs in the United States was $183 million as of March 28 — bringing the cumulative total net inflow to about $12.13 billion — according to data from SoSo Value.
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🪙 Ether spot ETF's chance of May approval dropped to 20% by GSR
Crypto market maker GSR has lowered its estimate of the likelihood of a spot Ether ETF approval in May to 20%. This is a drop from GSR's January estimate of a 75% likelihood of a May spot ether ETF approval. GSR Research Analyst Matt Kunke had attributed the former optimistic outlook to Grayscale's Court of Appeals victory and the approval of Ethereum Futures ETFs in October.
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🟠 Binance's successor in 🇷🇺 Russia, CommEx, halting deposits and undergoing phased closure
CommEx, which previously acquired Binance's Russian business in an undisclosed deal, has halted deposits and is closing down. The Russian crypto exchange is undergoing a phased closure, beginning with today's suspension of new user registrations, per an announcement on its official Telegram channel. Asset transfers from Binance have also been suspended, as have fiat and cryptocurrency deposits
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🪙 Ether options imply increased price volatility ahead of May's ETF decision deadlines, analyst says
The positioning of ether options for May's end-of-month expiry shows investors have a lack of confidence in the chances for an imminent approval of a spot ether exchange-traded fund and anticipate significant price swings, an analyst said. In January, Bloomberg Intelligence analyst James Seyffart set the chances of a May approval at 60%, then dropped his expectations to 35%, but finally decided that the applications would ultimately be denied.
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🇭🇰 Hong Kong Said Likely to Approve Spot 💰 Bitcoin ETFs Next Week: Reuters
Hong Kong regulators are likely to approve the first set of applications for spot bitcoin exchange-traded funds (ETF) next week, making it possible that the products could be ready to start trading in April, Reuters reported, citing two people familiar with the matter. Australia and Hong Kong are the two jurisdictions that could become the first in Asia to offer spot bitcoin ETFs, with Singapore and the UAE not reflecting immediacy just yet.
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💰 Solana 'leads the battle' for blockchain payments, Bernstein says
Looking back at recent stablecoin metrics, Solana is "leading the battle" for blockchain payments amid growth in market liquidity and improved investor sentiment, according to research and brokerage firm Bernstein. “The big change this cycle has been the dominant market share of Solana (43% highest share) in value of stablecoins transferred vs. prior cycle market leader Ethereum,” Gautam Chhugani and Mahika Sapra wrote in a note to clients on Tuesday.
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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 and 💰 Polygon Attract Majority of New Users: Flipside Report
Ethereum and its Layer 2 scaling solution, Polygon, attracted the most new users by far in the first quarter of 2024. The latest report by Flipside revealed that these two blockchain platforms have garnered the most cumulative new users among observed EVM chains since the beginning of the year. Polygon boasted 12.3 million new users, and Ethereum had 13.4 million – roughly 70% of new users this year across all observed chains as of March 27. Next up was Arbitrum, recording the most new users (4.7 million) during the same period.
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💰 US Bitcoin ETFs Bounce Back With $569.4M in Net Inflows After Initial Dip
U.S. spot bitcoin ETFs experienced a streak of four days of net inflows. The influx began modestly with $39.5 million on April 2, escalated to $113.5 million the next day, and soared to $213.4 million on April 3. The week’s culmination saw Friday pulling in an impressive $203 million, as reported by coinglass.com figures. Despite overall market positivity, Grayscale‘s GBTC encountered the day’s largest outflow among the ETFs. Trading volume for the ETFs on Friday summed up to approximately $2.37 billion, marking a 31.5% decrease from Thursday’s $3.46 billion.
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🇧🇷 Brazil Eyes Crypto Taxation Changes in New Bill
Brazil is planning to change the way how cryptocurrencies are being taxed. A new bill that deals with investment taxation for individuals will propose to change how crypto is considered, allowing it to be taxed similarly as shared and capital instruments with a variable exchange rate. According to the proposal to be presented in the coming days to the National Congress, crypto investors will have to pay 15% of the income of the operations made with cryptocurrency.
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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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📊 Grayscale falls behind in ETF outflows first time since launch as ARKB loses $87.5 million
Grayscale Bitcoin Trust (GBTC) recorded lower outflows for the first time since the launch of spot Bitcoin ETFs on April 2, after ARK 21Shares (ARKB) posted outflows amounting to $87.5 million, according to Coinglass data. Comparatively, GBTC recorded the lowest outflows since March 12 at $82 million. The data for the other ETFs, including IBIT and FBTC, was not public as of press time. GBTC’s currently low outflows are notable because the fund consistently sees high outflows.
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💰 Bitcoin falls over 4% to retest $68k support as Q2 starts 📉
Bitcoin fell over 4.5% to a local low of $68,000 on April 1, marking a red start to the month after seven consecutive monthly closes in the green. While there has been some recovery in the past hour, the immediate fallout saw a staggering number of traders caught in the downturn. The decline comes after the flagship crypto climbed to $71,500 over the weekend to close a monthly candle at the highest price in history.
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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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🪙 Spot Ethereum ETF approval has 'no positive signs,' says ETF expert
While the prospects of a spot ether exchange-traded fund receiving approval from the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission are up for debate, one ETF expert remains largely pessimistic. Bloomberg Senior ETF Analyst Eric Balchunas posted on X today their belief that the odds of an ether ETF garnering approval are "a very pessimistic 25%." "Personally hope they do approve it but it just ain't looking good," he added.
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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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