BlackRock: if Ethereum is a security, this does not prevent approval of our ETF.
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 US Senate Candidate Calls for Resignation of SEC Chair Gary Gensler.
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 Fetch.ai, SingularityNET and Ocean Protocol agreed to combine their crypto tokens into one and create an alliance for decentralized AI.
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 SWIFT Plans to Launch CBDC Interconnection System in Next Two Years.
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 Ondo Finance to Move $95M to BlackRock's Tokenized Fund for Instant Settlements for Its T-Bill Token.
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 JUDGE SENTENCES SAM BANKMAN-FRIED TO 25 YEARS IN PRISON FOR MULTI-BILLION DOLLAR FTX FRAUD.
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 Starting today, Safes are natively supported and will be the default smart wallet for new users, introducing greater compatibility, enhanced security and improved UX.
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 BlackRock's Fink Says an Ether ETF Is Possible Even if ETH Is a Security.
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 Canada Province Steps Up Probe of Gold, Rolexes in Crypto Case. Officials aim to force QuadrigaCX co-founder to explain wealth. 
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 $4.5 trillion asset manager Fidelity filed for a Spot Ethereum ETF with staking included. 
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 A judge ruled that Coinbase engages in the “unregistered state and offer of securities” under US law, allowing a lawsuit by the SEC to go forward against the company.
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 BlackRock Tokenized Fund Draws $160 Million In Week Since Debut.
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 A total of 48 members of Congress signed a letter to Gensler, expressing concerns about how listing ETH as a security could threaten the crypto industry.
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 Blockchain sleuth ZachXBT linked the attacker to North Korea, with the hacking group allegedly stealing $3 billion worth of tokens since 2017.
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 HSBC’s Gold Token Goes Live for Retail Investors in Hong Kong.
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 Top Crypto Exchange Binance Spins Off $10 Billion Venture Unit.
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 Vitalik Buterin Takes a Dig at the Metaverse, Calls It a Branding Ploy.
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 Crypto exchange KuCoin and two of its founders were charged with violating anti-money laundering laws by U.S. federal prosecutors.
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 Borderless Capital acquires quant firm CTF Capital, plans LatAm HQ in Argentina.
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 BlackRock last week unveiled its first tokenized fund on a public blockchain.The investment manager has involved key institutions from both the TradFi world and the crypto sector.
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 Base saw a significant increase in total value locked (TVL), reaching nearly $1 billion.
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 The U.S. SEC has asked a New York judge to impose a fine of $1.95 billion on Ripple Labs.
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 Crypto project Pixelmon, once dubbed the “worst NFT project ever,” — is turning to fractionalized nonfungible tokens (NFTs) to make its return from the dead. 
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 DAO Treasuries See Over $20 Billion Growth in 4 Months Amid Crypto Market Boom.
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 China Could Be Hoarding Over 5,300 Tonnes of Gold, Might Create Price 'Perfect Storm'
Nieuwenhuijs stated:“Strong covert purchases by the PBOC reflect hidden de-dollarization. Although the dollar is still the world’s premier reserve currency, China and other countries are trying to move away from it."
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 A top regulatory official noted increased foreign asset manager interest in Japan, driven by the government's push to make Tokyo a major financial hub.
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 How Do Kwon Went From Crypto King to Fugitive to Jail.
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 TUSD's Supply Halves as It Drops to 8th Rank Among Stablecoins.
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 Hospitality worker caught with $2.5B Bitcoin found guilty of money laundering.
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 Pixels Crypto Game Fuels Resurgent Ronin Blockchain.
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 FTX will sell its Anthropic shares, valued at US$1 billion, to pay off debts from the exchange's bankruptcy.
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 Furrever Token (FURR) Presale Reaches $400K Milestone Amid Rising Shiba Inu (SHIB) Burn Rate and Dogecoin (DOGE) Price High Predictions.
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 Ethereum Foundation Faces Inquiry From a Government; Fortune Says SEC Investigating ETH.
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 The development team behind the dog-themed memecoin Floki Inu has unveiled its roadmap for 2024, revealing several upcoming features and utility-focused initiatives. This includes regulated digital banking accounts, enabling users to create and fund bank accounts using FLOKI tokens.
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 The United States securities regulator has postponed its decision on approving Grayscale's Ethereum Futures Trust ETF product until the end of May.
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 Crypto Fund Hack VC Looks to Raise Even More Capital for Seed Stage Digital-Asset Bets.
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 SEC's Gensler Says Crypto Firms Skip Public Disclosures by Dodging Registration.
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 A recent research paper on SSRN by legal scholars scrutinizes the ethical quandaries and potential conflicts of interest surrounding Sullivan & Cromwell LLP’s involvement in FTX’s Chapter 11 bankruptcy filing.

Study Highlights Legal Ethics From FTX Bankruptcy Proceedings
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 Fantom’s FTM token has rallied over 190% in four weeks.
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 AIOZ Network Partners With Alibaba Cloud to Boost AI, Storage and Streaming Services.
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 A crypto analyst known as DonAlt predicted that Dogecoin could potentially reach a price of $1, a 554% increase from its current price of $0.153. 
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 3AC’s Kyle Davies tried to lure LayerZero to entrust entire treasury days before collapse, CEO Pellegrino claims.
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 🚀 What is anti-dumping policy in crypto? 
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 UN says half of North Korea’s foreign currency gains came from hacks, crypto attacks. The UN Security Council’s assessment stated that North Korean attacks on cryptocurrency firms caused losses equivalent to $3 billion from 2017 to 2023.
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 Meet The Woman Behind Solana Hit Meme Coin ‘Doland Tremp’.
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 Conflux aims for Q2 launch of HKD-pegged stablecoin with AnchorX.
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 UK Woman Guilty of Laundering Bitcoin Linked to $6 Billion China Fraud.
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 Trezor X account shills fake presale tokens in suspected hack.
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 Findings come from survey by investment firm Dragonfly Capital. Crypto pay in US exceeds overseas salaries by 13% on average.
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2024-03-20/us-crypto-firms-paying-300-000-wages-leave-foreign-peers-behind?utm_content=crypto&utm_medium=social&utm_source=twitter&utm_campaign=socialflow-organic 

 Under California law, Bankless officially changed its name to Bonkless.
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 Lure of Quick Money Sees $100M Flow to Solana Meme Coin 'Presales'
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 Influential Trader GCR Buys Original Dogwifhat Meme for $4M.
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 Nearly $100M Wagered on U.S. Presidential Election on Polymarket.
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 Changpeng Zhao, co-founder and former CEO of Binance, announced on X on Tuesday morning in Asia 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.

The concept paper for Zhao’s new platform said that the project's main target is to educate underprivileged children in developing nations by providing content covering education from grades one to 12.
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 CZ BINANCE NET WORTH HITS $33 BILLION USD.
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 Morgan Stanley Warns US Stocks at Risk in ‘Dollar Regime Shift’.
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 A Mini-Me ETF Is Coming to Crypto.

Grayscale plans a sibling for GBTC.

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 Solana network activity surpassed Ethereum over the weekend amid a scramble for Solana-based memecoins — causing the network to struggle to keep up.
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 DeFi on Ethereum is seeing a big resurgence, with the familiar promise of high yields returning thanks to a new breed of crypto asset: the "liquid restaking token." What Are They and Why Do They Matter?
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 Dubai International Financial Centre Enacts Digital Assets Law.
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 *Prediction Market Kalshi to Take Bets on Crypto (Settled in Dollars).
*The CFTC-regulated platform will let traders bet on whether BTC will outperform ETH this year and other price outcomes amid renewed interest in both crypto and prediction markets.
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 Franklin Templeton Digital Assets believes that meme coins have a strong relationship with their native networks.
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 Phase 2 of the e-HKD pilot will be supported by the recently launched regulatory sandbox for testing wholesale CBDCs and tokenization, the Hong Kong Monetary Authority said.
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 Justice James Mellor ruled that Craig Wright is not Bitcoin creator Satoshi Nakamoto.
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 Shiba Inu’s Market Resurgence Brings Meme Coin to 12th Largest Position in the Crypto Economy.
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 Ethereum's much-anticipated Dencun upgrade was completed this week.
Dencun will introduce the process of Proto-Danksharding, something long theorized (it was first mentioned by Buterin in 2019) which changes how Ethereum stores data. Instead of keeping all data directly on the Ethereum mainnet’s immutable execution layer, which is expensive and computationally heavy, Dencun will introduce a new, temporary way of storing “blobs” of data, which is cheaper. 
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 U.S. prosecutors urged a federal judge to sentence Sam Bankman-Fried to 40-50 years in prison and $11 billion in fines and forfeiture.
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 Starbucks Odyssey Beta will close on March 31.The company's nonfungible tokens, called Stamps, will remain accessible on Nifty Gateway, a curated NFT platform. Its Odyssey marketplace will transition to the Nifty marketplace, but Stamps can be — like other NFTs — transferred to external wallets and traded on other marketplaces.
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 Nigeria’s Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) has proposed an amendment to the rules guiding platforms offering crypto services, suggesting a hike in the registration fee for crypto exchanges from 30 million naira ($18,620) to 150 million naira ($93,000).
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 A federal appeals court ruled last week that Binance needs to face a putative class-action lawsuit from a group of U.S.-based crypto investors who allege the exchange allowed them to buy and trade unregistered securities in the form of certain cryptocurrencies. The ruling doesn't make a determination on whether the tokens are indeed securities or not, but it's significant in broader securities cases nonetheless.
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 US Bitcoin ETFs are a ‘monumental milestone’ says Coinbase UK CEO, while ETNs in the UK are a ‘positive step’.
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 America’s largest bank, JPMorgan (JPM), said the Ethereum network and its token ether (ETH) could be a notable contributor to the wider cryptocurrency ecosystem and a positive driver of Coinbase (COIN) earnings.
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 Upland, a popular Web3 metaverse and crypto game, unveiled the inaugural chapter of its “Share and Build” airdrop series on Friday. This initiative is designed to reward players with tokens for their participation.
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 Sens. Laphonza Butler of California and Jack Reed of Rhode Island said the SEC should limit future crypto ETF applications in a letter sent to SEC Chair Gary Gensler this week. This come as attention has turned to whether the agency could next approve spot Ethereum ETFs.
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 The team from Betmax Entertain is thrilled to announce the launch of a new crypto casino – Bombastic, a next-generation online crypto casino that brings together the dynamic world of cryptocurrencies with thousands of games including Slots, Blackjack, Poker, Roulette, and more.
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 Banco do Nordeste (BNB) announced that it has joined the project to develop Brazil's digital currency, Drex. The institution became part of one of the consortia created by the Central Bank (BC) to carry out tests using financial system tools with the aim of evaluating the security of operations.
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 When compared to Bitcoin, the ETH futures and spot markets demonstrate EXACTLY the same type of high and consistent correlation that would enable market oversight.
Coinbase Chief Legal Officer Paul Grewal criticized a letter from two US senators calling for the SEC to more strictly regulate Bitcoin ETFs and reject approval of any other cryptocurrency ETFs.
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 The Hong Kong's Securities and Futures Commission warned the public that MEXC had been operating without a license.
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 Hong Kong regulator lists Bybit as ‘suspicious’ crypto trading platform in latest alert.
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 Banker Pay Soars in India, Outpacing Gains in Hong Kong and Singapore.
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 DeFi Borrower Behavior Key to Gauging Tokenization Risks: BIS Study.
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 Crypto.com faced a $3.1 million fine from the Dutch central bank for operating in the country without registration. The regulator said it hit the platform with an increased fine for multiple reasons, including serving a "significant number" of customers in the Netherlands and not paying supervisory fees. The platform is now registered with De Nederlandsche Bank (DNB) and is appealing the fine.
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 The Hong Kong Monetary Authority (HKMA) has launched what is being referred to as a stablecoin issuer sandbox arrangement. This arrangement is designed to communicate the HKMA’s supervisory expectations to parties interested in issuing fiat-referenced stablecoins. The sandbox is also expected to serve as a channel for stablecoin market participants to relay their feedback on proposed regulatory requirements.
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 Nigeria’s Binance Impasse: Senior Executives Detained at Government ‘Guesthouse’ for 14 Days.
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 The Hong Kong Monetary Authority, the de facto central bank, said the second phase of the pilot will focus on exploring new use cases and delving into select cases from the previous phase. The second phase of the e-HKD pilot is expected to last until mid-2025.
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 Robinhood rose over 11% in premarket trading after reporting a large increase in user activity during February. Crypto trading volumes grew 10% month-on-month to $6.5 billion.
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 The average transaction costs on layer solutions like Optimism and Base slide after Ethereum’s Dencun upgrade. The upgrade allows layer 2 solutions to store data in “blobs” instead of the expensive call data.
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 Australian court sides with Finder Wallet in lawsuit brought by country’s financial regulator.
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 BNB Chain introduces rollup-as-a-service solution to expand its Layer 2 ecosystem.
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 Genesis, Gemini Must Face SEC Suit Over Crypto ‘Earn’ Program.
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 Elon Musk says Tesla will enable $DOGE payments "at some point, Dogecoin to the moon."
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 Thailand regulator enables access to US-listed Bitcoin ETFs for institutions and high-net-worth individuals.
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 US ETFs to be offered to institutional and retail investors across India by cryptocurrency platform Mudrex. Mudrex will initially list four spot ETFs – BlackRock, Fidelity, Franklin Templeton and Vanguard.
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 Roman Sterlingov, a dual Russian-Swiss citizen, was found guilty on Tuesday of four charges related to money laundering for his role in setting up the bitcoin mixing service Bitcoin Fog.
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 Grayscale’s slice of the Bitcoin ETF pie has fallen below 50% for the first time since it was converted alongside the launch of nine new ETFs in January.
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 Ethereum Blockchain Counts Down to 'Dencun' Upgrade, Set to Reduce Fees.The upgrade is designed to usher in a new era of cheaper fees for the growing array of layer-2 networks that operate on top of Ethereum.
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 Yuga Labs requests court sanction on Ryder Ripps for destroying private keys in ‘bad faith’.
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 👀Coinbase proposes private offering of $1.0 billion of convertible senior notes due 2030.
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 MetaMask is testing a Mastercard payment card, which it says is the first entirely on-chain card.
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 Ethereum El Salvador 2024 is crowded! 
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 Wyoming Grants DAOs New Legal Structure. The governor signed a law setting up a legal status – "decentralized unincorporated nonprofit associations" – for DAOs there, and one investment firm called Wyoming an "oasis."
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 Bitcoin Miners Are Devouring Energy at a Record Pace During the Crypto Runup.
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