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- The court’s latest ruling rejected Coinbase’s motion, stating: the SEC has sufficiently pleased that Coinbase operates as an exchange, as a broker, and as a clearingagency under the federal securities laws, and, through its Staking Program, engages in the unregistered offer and sale of securities.
https://plum-harrietta-82.tiiny.site/
- Just In: The OKX API suddenly failed, and the account balances were displayed in confusion. Some accounts showed zero, and some soared to tens of millions of dollars, affecting thousands of users. Affected areas include Si
https://t.me/OKXAPI
- Arbitrum Foundation, Azuki and Weeb3 Foundation are teaming up to launch a blockchain-powered anime network. Dubbed AnimeChain, the new project aims to onboard fans of anime to web3 with a mix of content, games, merchandise, and NFTs.
https://www.theblock.co/post/284896/arbitrum-and-azuki-join-forces-to-launch-anime-based-web3-network
- According to SoSoValue, the Bitcoin spot ETF had a total net inflow of $ 417 million yesterday. Grayscale ETF GBTC experienced a net outflow of $ 212 million in a single day, with the current historical net outflow of GBTC at $ 14.36 billion. The Bitcoin spot ETF with the highest single-day net inflow was Fidelity's ETF FBTC, with a net inflow of about $ 279 million.
https://sosovalue.xyz/assets/etf
- QCP: We see consistent demand for BTC calls >100k out to Dec and large buyers of ETH puts around 2800 for Apr (up to about 20k ETH). This has caused ETH risk reversals to go to -5% to the downside again which was the early signal for the previous dip. The option market is structurally bullish BTC and fearful of ETH downside.
https://t.me/QCPbroadcast/1177
- Assets added to the Coinbase's roadmap today: Shadow Token (SHDW) and Neon EVM (NEON). Both are SLP tokens. SHDW is the utility token that powers the Shadow dePIN ecosystem. Neon EVM is a smart contract on Solana.
https://www.coinbase.com/blog/increasing-transparency-for-new-asset-listings-on-coinbase
- Vitalik published an article that proposes to extend a similar sort of anti-correlation incentive to more “mundane” failures, such as missing an attestation. He said that one tactic for incentivizing better decentralization in a protocol is to penalize correlations. Try to find the ideal reward/penalty scheme to minimize the average big validator’s advantage over little validators.
https://ethresear.ch/t/supporting-decentralized-staking-through-more-anti-correlation-incentives/19116
- According to Bloomberg, Jihan Wu’s crypto mining company Bitdeer is negotiating with private credit companies to raise US$ 100 million in financing, which will be used to increase its Bitcoin mining capabilities. Bitdeer has just released its latest chips and mining rigs to compete with Bitmain’s Whatsminer.
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2024-03-26/crypto-miner-bitdeer-in-talks-with-private-credit-for-capital
- The Blast Big Bang award-winning project Munchables suffered a hacker attack, and ZachXBT monitored the hacker (0x6e…09c5) to make a profit of 17,400 ETH, worth $ 62.5 million. This is currently the largest security breach on Blast. Munchables said it was tracking the transaction and trying to block it.
https://debank.com/profile/0x6e8836f050a315611208a5cd7e228701563d09c5
- Ankr announced Neura blockchain, which is a dynamic marketplace that empowers developers with scalable access to GPU resources. Neura will use ERC-404 tokens to enables fractional ownership of projects and use ERC-7641 tokens to share profits from AI usage automatically.
https://www.ankr.com/blog/introducing-neura-a-new-era-of-ai-x-blockchain-innovation/
- Tether announced a strategic expansion of its AI focus. Tether data plans to pioneer the development of open-source, multimodal AI models to set new industry standards. Tether data is also announcing a global recruitment drive for top-tier talent to contribute to its burgeoning AI division.
https://tether.to/en/tether-expands-ai-focus-welcomes-top-talent-to-fuel-innovation/
- Binance will open spot trading for the BONK/USDC, FLOKI/USDC, FTM/USDC, MKR/TRY, RAY/TRY, and RNDR/BRL trading pairs at 2024-03-27 13:00 (UTC), showing higher trading volume for these coins on the Binance exchange.
https://www.binancezh.info/support/announcement/notice-on-new-trading-pairs-trading-bots-services-on-binance-spot-2024-03-27-0f3ce0f5305e47659ca47d42d0c5cd91
- a16z Crypto announced that the Crypto Startup Accelerator (CSX) Spring 2024 program launched in London this week, with 25 startups joining: AminoChain, Collar Networks, Compass Labs, Hungry Cats Studi, Launcher, MagicBlock, NEBRA Labs, Neynar, NodeKit, Nosh, OpenLayer, OpenTrade, Playmint, Roux, Sablier, Scrypted, Spire, Strobe, taralli labs, Tata Bazaar, Tranched, Valyu Network, zkPassport.
https://a16zcrypto.com/posts/article/crypto-startup-accelerator-csx-spring-2024-cohort/
- A Coinbase report shows that the cryptocurrency market has recently focused more on the flow of funds into spot Bitcoin ETFs rather than others. The recent outflow may be related to the liquidation of bankruptcy assets of Genesis Global, involving the sale of approximately 35.9 million GBTC shares.
https://www.coindesk.com/markets/2024/03/25/crypto-market-remains-focused-on-spot-bitcoin-etf-flows-over-fundamentals-coinbase/
- The Metaplex Foundation announced the launch of a new NFT standard for Solana: Metaplex Core. This standard reduces minting costs and network requirements by over 80% compared to the existing Token Metadata standard on Solana. Additionally, the Metaplex Foundation has pledged to donate 50% of all protocol fees to the DAO.
https://decrypt.co/223245/metaplex-solana-core-nft-standard-fees-mplx-dao
- The SEC has asked a New York judge to fine Ripple Labs $ 2 billion in documents that will be made public on Tuesday as part of Ripple’s years-long case with the SEC. Ripple’s response, due to be filed next month, says the statements issued by the SEC are false and that the SEC is not faithfully enforcing the law.
https://www.theblock.co/post/284538/sec-plans-to-ask-judge-for-2-billion-in-fines-and-penalties-from-ripple-labs
- The London Stock Exchange has announced that it will accept listing applications for Bitcoin and Ethereum crypto ETNs from April 8, 2024. The first cryptocurrency ETNs will begin trading on May 28, 2024, subject to approval from the Financial Conduct Authority.
https://docs.londonstockexchange.com/sites/default/files/documents/n0324.pdf
- CommEx, the exchange that undertakes Binance’s Russian business, suddenly announced today that it will gradually cease operations. It will suspend new user registrations from 18:00 on March 25 and stop fund transfers from Binance. The official website will be closed at 18:00 on May 10. Officials did not disclose the reason.
https://telegra.ph/CommEX-soobshchaet-o-postepennoj-priostanovke-operacij-s-25-marta-03-25
- Autism Capital calls for Vitalik to return to X (Twitter), rather than isolating himself on an island with his peers, where a larger community will have greater influence. Elon Musk also responded and asked why Vitalik left X. Vitalik currently speaks mainly on the decentralized platform Farcaster, after his Twitter account was hacked and phishing links were posted.
https://www.premiumtimesng.com/news/top-news/680511-exclusive-detained-binance-executive-escapes-from-custody-in-nigeria.html
- Binance revealed that it has recently added a large number of "smart retrieval" coins. After the user deposits an unsupported token (smart retrieval), the retrieval fee is also greatly reduced, only 5 USDT is charged. In the past this amount was as high as $ 500.
https://www.binance.com/en/blog/community/incorrect-deposits-of-crypto-assets-how-to-retrieve-your-funds-2581603470758819561
- Singapore-licensed institution DigiFT announced the launch of the first ever U.S. Treasury Bill depository receipt tokens that represent direct beneficial ownership in the underlying U.S. Treasury Bill. Tokens issued under DigiFT’s DR structure offer a much more straightforward legal framework.
https://www.digift.sg/announcements/first-rwa-depository-receipt-tokens.html
- Previously, the Polygon zkEVM mainnet beta version had sequencer issues due to L1 reorganization. Polygon stated that the Polygon zkEVM mainnet test version has resumed operation and necessary repairs have been made to the system. After completing this upgrade, the state of emergency has been lifted.
https://twitter.com/0xPolygon/status/1772069585602195586?s=46&t=1Cu5A_OpPATuclDg6W9hzQ
- Chainlink CCIP (Cross-Chain Interoperability Protocol) core data has grown significantly since March, with $ 207k in fees captured and 48,000 requests accepted this month, both hitting record highs. The current Chainlink CCIP capture fee exceeds US$ 470k, and the cumulative number of requests exceeds 81,000.
https://dune.com/linkpool/chainlink-ccip?NETWORK+INCREMENT+PERIOD_ef982e=
- Uniapt, a game project claiming to be on Blast, has caused some people to be deceived, using traditional methods to trick others into downloading game files (actually Trojans) on their computers to steal private keys. Uniapt successfully applied for the Twitter Gold Mark, leading to users trusting it.
https://twitter.com/shenboo/status/1771697948650356803?s=46&t=1Cu5A_OpPATuclDg6W9hzQ
- According to the FT, Iceland plans to redistribute renewable electricity from data centers to housing and other industries such as agriculture, criticizing Bitcoin for consuming large amounts of energy. Dozens of Bitcoin teams in Iceland consume 120 megawatts, more than the country’s household electricity consumption.
https://www.ft.com/content/6432a24b-b7c4-4c2f-85a8-79108dbe0644
- The European Union now bans the use of unidentified self-hosted cryptocurrency wallets for cryptocurrency payments of any size, according to Finbold. A majority of the EU Parliament's leadership committee approved the ban on March 19. The new anti-money laundering law prohibits any anonymous cryptocurrency payments
https://finbold.com/eu-bans-anonymous-crypto-payments-to-hosted-wallets/
- Glassnode: Traders should prepare for potential volatility around the halving, keeping an eye on ETF activity as a key indicator of market sentiment in the short term. The effect of the halving during this cycle will likely be diminished due to the introduction of new institutional demand from Bitcoin ETFs. Read more:
https://insights.glassnode.com/trading-strategies-for-bitcoin-halving-2024/
- Ava Labs founder Emin Gün Sirer warned that there are many trash L2s to fill the void left by SBF. They use centralized sequencers without fraud proofs and their Founders dumping personal tokens pre-launch with very low float tokens are similar to the manipulation games played by SBF
https://twitter.com/el33th4xor/status/1771658050228617428?s=46&t=1Cu5A_OpPATuclDg6W9hzQ
- There are rumors in the Chinese community that StarXu, the founder of OKX, the second largest cryptocurrency offshore exchange, is under investigation by the United States. Star posted three tweets to refute the rumors. Similar rumors often arise after CZ was criminally prosecuted by the United States.
https://twitter.com/star_okx/status/1771219639315386563?s=46&t=1Cu5A_OpPATuclDg6W9hzQ
- The U.S. SEC once again delayed its decision on whether to approve Grayscale’s Ethereum futures ETF application in a filing on Friday. The new deadline is May 30. The SEC said it needs sufficient time to consider the proposed rule changes and the issues they raise
https://www.sec.gov/files/rules/sro/nysearca/2024/34-99842.pdf
- SEC Chair Gary Gensler said on Friday: There are participants in crypto securities markets that seek to avoid these registration requirements,no registration means no mandatory disclosure. Many would agree that the crypto markets could use a little disinfectant. TheBlock
https://www.theblock.co/post/284208/sec-chair-gary-gensler-says-crypto-markets-could-use-a-little-disinfectant
- According to Fox reporter Eleanor Terrett, BlackRock’s Head of Digital Assets Robert Mitchnick said that Bitcoin is overwhelmingly the number one priority and then a little bit ethereum, and very little everything else. BlackRock has no focus on other cryptocurrencies.
https://twitter.com/EleanorTerrett/status/1771188774606676164?s=46&t=1Cu5A_OpPATuclDg6W9hzQ
- Defillama shows that the Ethereum re-staking protocol Renzo TVL exceeded $ 1.279 billion, becoming the second largest re-staking protocol. In the past month, Renzo’s TVL has increased by 215% monthly, and a seven-day increase of more than 33%.
https://defillama.com/protocols/Liquid%20restaking
- Montenegro’s Supreme Court placed a pause on Terra founder Do Kwon’s pending extradition from the Balkan country, issuing an order on Friday that overturns earlier decisions from two lower courts to extradite Kwon to his native South Korea.
https://www.coindesk.com/policy/2024/03/22/do-kwons-extradition-to-south-korea-postponed-by-montenegrin-supreme-court/
- Worldcoin is implementing Personal Custody. Personal Custody involves four components: device, the orb, a data package containing images and a temporary backend storage for transit. The backend cannot decrypt your data package.
https://worldcoin.org/blog/announcements/worldcoin-implements-personal-custody
- AIOZ Network announced that it has been positioned as the blockchain partner in China’s largest cloud service provider Alibaba Cloud’s Innovation Accelerator initiative. The collaboration will extend to establishing a DePIN Alliance in Southeast Asia (SEA) to bolster AI, storage, and streaming infrastructure services.
https://aioz.network/blog/aioz-network-x-alibaba-cloud-collaboration-announcement
- Web3 wallet Bitget Wallet announced the launch of the BWB partner program. The first list of partners included Avalanche, Taiko, Babylon, Near, etc. The relevant airdrop activity will start on March 25 and last until April 28. Users can obtain BWB Points through activities and exchange them for BWB in the future.
https://twitter.com/BitgetWallet/status/1771069055900008473?s=46&t=1Cu5A_OpPATuclDg6W9hzQ
- According to technology blog Ars Technica, a newly discovered vulnerability in Apple's M-series chips could allow attackers to extract users' crypto private keys on Macs. Because this vulnerability stems from the microarchitectural design of the chip itself, it cannot be directly fixed through patches and can only be mitigated by building defenses into third-party encryption software.
https://arstechnica.com/security/2024/03/hackers-can-extract-secret-encryption-keys-from-apples-mac-chips/
- Blast chain game Super Sushi Samurai was attacked due to a token contract vulnerability and lost 1,310 wETH, worth approximately US$ 4.6 million. Fortunately, the attacker was a white hat hacker and this was a white hat emergency rescue operation and would be reimbursed to users.
http://blastscan.io/tx/0xda2ca81e2b89ce1ac5d1faeb331cd715af3902246d62195f7d9a95bd20e2abc1
- Frax released a roadmap, aiming to achieve more than $ 100 billion in Fraxtal TVL by the end of 2026; launch 23 officially provided L3s in the next 365 days; new assets such as frxNEAR, frxTIA and frxMetis may be launched this year; 50% of the revenue flows to veFXS , and the other 50% is used to buy back FXS and other Frax assets.
https://gov.frax.finance/t/frax-singularity-roadmap-part-1/2987
- Succinct announced it has received $ 55 million in funding led by Paradigm. Succinct’s Prover Network & SP1 make general-purpose ZK performant and easily deployable w/o complex infra. SP1 is Succinct’s next-generation zkVM, enabling developers to use ZKPs with Rust without sacrificing performance.
https://twitter.com/SuccinctLabs/status/1770843544388771914?s=46&t=1Cu5A_OpPATuclDg6W9hzQ
- Espresso Systems announced it has received $ 28 million in funding led by a16z. Espresso Systems is the lead developer of Espresso, a shared sequencing marketplace for rollups. Shared sequencers can offer economically bonded promises to users, including atomic execution of transactions across rollups.
https://twitter.com/EspressoSys/status/1770842658887373058?s=46&t=1Cu5A_OpPATuclDg6W9hzQ
- According to Arkham, at 21:15 UTC+8 on March 21, Grayscale transferred 3190 BTC to the address of Coinbase Prime Deposit, worth approximately US$ 216 million.
https://platform.arkhamintelligence.com/explorer/tx/6524ae6630922c51302cdff9823d6cc8f164a9d13da54f2762afb9458c55bdf8
- OKX, the second largest offshore exchange, notified its Indian users on March 21, asking them to close their accounts and redeem funds before April 30, nearly three months after the Financial Intelligence Unit (FIU), an arm of the Indian Finance Ministry, issued a notice of non-compliance to nine foreign crypto exchanges.
https://cointelegraph.com/news/okx-terminates-services-india-tells-users-withdraw-funds
- The AirDAO team stated that 35.2 million AMB tokens and 125.51 ETH were stolen from its AMB/ETH Uniswap pool. The hackers gained access to LP through a social engineering scam that included a malicious attachment in an email purporting to be from a partner.
https://twitter.com/airdao_io/status/1770713655530651687?s=46&t=1Cu5A_OpPATuclDg6W9hzQ
- OpenSea has announced the launch of Seaport 1.6, a new generation NFT marketplace protocol in the EVM ecosystem, introducing a new feature called Seaport hooks. Similar to Uniswap v4 hooks, Seaport hooks allow developers to build applications that extend the utility and liquidity of NFTs. It is expected to launch its first Seaport hook app in April.
https://twitter.com/opensea/status/1770465624017219606?s=46&t=1Cu5A_OpPATuclDg6W9hzQ
- According to SoSoValue data, on March 20, the total net outflow of Bitcoin spot ETFs was $ 261 million, marking three consecutive days of net outflows.
The ETF GBTC had a single-day net outflow of $ 386 million, with GBTC's total historical net outflow reaching $ 13.27 billion. The Bitcoin spot ETF with the highest single-day net inflow was the BlackRock ETF IBIT, with a single-day net inflow of $ 49.28 million, bringing IBIT's total historical net inflow to $ 13.09 billion.
https://sosovalue.xyz
- The U.N. Security Council says North Korea earns 50 percent of its foreign exchange earnings through cyberattacks. The United Nations is investigating North Korea's cyberattacks on crypto companies that collectively caused an estimated $ 3 billion in losses.
https://www.nikkei.com/article/DGXZQOGN204N60Q4A320C2000000/
- According to Slowmist, the project Temple Pharmacy (44N1BQ…KbMUBN), which raised 32,097 SOL (approximately $ 6.2 million) in pre-sale, transferred all the funds raised to several addresses, which was questioned by RugPull. Temple Pharmacy said it was transferring money for CEX listing and market-making liquidity.
https://solscan.io/
- QCP analysis: FOMC was clearly dovish (and bullish). In Powell's press conference speech, he was not concerned about the high inflation numbers in Jan and Feb and even highlighted weakness in the labor market. BTC ETH then surged higher. Demand seems to be largely spot driven with little change in funding rates.
https://t.me/QCPbroadcast/1170