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DOJ: Two men were sentenced for manipulating the price of a security and scheming to defraud investors in connection with the purchase of Hydrogen Technology’s cryptocurrency, HYDRO. “In this case, for the first time, a jury in a federal criminal trial found that a cryptocurrency was a security and that manipulating cryptocurrency prices was securities fraud. ”
According to Axios, former US President Trump is in talks to speak at the Bitcoin 2024 conference in Nashville at the end of July. The Bitcoin 2024 conference will be hosted by Bitcoin Magazine and is scheduled to be held from July 25 to 27.
Mt. Gox issued an official announcement stating that relevant preparations have been completed and that it will begin repaying creditors in BTC and BCH in early July 2024. To ensure compliance, relevant technical and financial regulatory measures have been implemented. The repayment will be completed with the cryptocurrency exchange to complete the necessary transactions and verifications, and the specific implementation details will take some time to wait.
SlowMist warns that there are many phishing attacks in the TON ecosystem now. Many phishing links (or bots) are spread through groups, using fake airdrops and other methods to hack assets in users' TON wallets, especially Anonymous Telegram Numbers. Many people use it to create Telegram accounts, and if it is stolen, it means that the corresponding Telegram account may also be stolen unless a separate password is enabled.
On June 22, the median Ethereum mainnet gas fee was 2.95 gwei, the first time it has been below 3 gwei since late January 2020, and the third lowest daily gas fee in the past five years. The current Ethereum mainnet gas fee is only 2.3 gwei.
QCP: Price to be capped in the near-term but explosively bullish into year-end. Our desk has seen large selling of calls for expiries under 1-month and aggressive buying of calls for September into December. Vols are pricing a summer consolidation and fireworks into the US elections. ETH bullishness persists with ETH vols trading at an 18% premium to BTC in expectation of an imminent ETH spot ETF launch.
ETHEREUM SURVIVES THE SEC. Today we’re happy to announce a major win for Ethereum developers, technology providers, and industry participants: the Enforcement Division of the SEC has notified us that it is closing its investigation into Ethereum 2.0. This means that the SEC will not bring charges alleging that sales of ETH are securities transactions.
According to Fortune, Farcaster will launch a token, but investors are unsure whether Farcaster can provide a sufficiently differentiated user experience to sustain growth. Farcaster received $150 million in a round led by Paradigm in May.
Coinbase has added support for Pirate Nation (PIRATE), and trading will begin later today. The PIRATE-USD trading pair will be launched in phases. Pirate Nation is an on-chain role-playing game based on Ethereum and supported by a16z, emphasizing a fully on-chain RPG experience.
U.S. President Biden's campaign is discussing with cryptocurrency industry participants about accepting cryptocurrency donations through Coinbase Commerce, hoping to attract voters who are interested in cryptocurrency and replenish campaign funds.
Binance: Based on our most recent reviews, Binance will remove and cease trading on the following spot trading pairs: At 2024-06-14 03:00 (UTC): ALPACA/BTC, MDX/BTC, NFP/TUSD, QUICK/BTC, XAI/BNB.
The third largest offshore exchange Bybit suddenly opened up registration and authentication for users in China. Bybit has long strictly prohibited the registration and use of all Chinese users. The management team has been very cautious about this.
Bitcoin spot ETF had a total net inflow of $ 105 million on June 3, continuing its net inflow for 15 consecutive days. Grayscale ETF GBTC had a net outflow of $ 0.00 per day. Fidelity ETF FBTC had an inflow of $ 77.0482 million, and Bitwise ETF BITB had an inflow of $ 14.3145 million.
OKX announced the official launch of a local trading platform and Web3 wallet in the Netherlands. CEX enables Dutch customers to trade approximately 150 cryptocurrencies and offers at least 60 trading pairs with the euro, and Dutch customers can deposit euros into their accounts for free.
Matter Labs, the corporate entity behind zkSync, suddenly announced: As a result of these conversations, we decided to drop all trademark applications for the term “ZK”. On May 31, Matter Labs stated: Like it or not, trademarks are the only legal tool available for this today.
A Hong Kong legislator published an article criticizing Hong Kong's cryptocurrency licensing system for shaking market confidence. Not only are large exchanges such as Binance OKX unable to obtain licenses, but companies that obtain licenses also find it difficult to make a profit.
U.S. President Joe Biden on Friday vetoed a congressional disapproval of the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission's accounting bulletin on crypto assets. "By virtue of invoking the Congressional Review Act, this Republican-led resolution would inappropriately constrain the SEC's ability to set forth appropriate guardrails and address future issues".
The Uniswap Foundation stated that due to new issues raised, further review and verification are required, and the proposal vote for Uniswap protocol governance originally scheduled to go live today (Friday) will be postponed. Due to the immutable nature and sensitivity of our proposed upgrade, the Foundation have made the difficult decision to postpone posting this vote.
According to CoinPost, DMMBitcoin, a cryptocurrency exchange under Japanese securities company DMM, was suspected of being hacked, and $ 300 million worth of Bitcoin may have been stolen. DMMBitcoin said it would purchase Bitcoin equivalent to the outflow amount and guarantee the full amount of Bitcoin held by customers.
The Luna Foundation Guard address suddenly had a large amount of transfers. Between 11:29 and 11:33 UTC+8, 1.974m AVAX (about 71.2 million USD) and 39.499k BNB (about 23.5 million USD) were transferred to the unmarked address: 0x13...2e27.
BlackRock filed an amended S-1 registration statement for SPOT ETH ETF, disclosing information about seed capital investors. Bloomberg ETF analyst Eric Balchunas expects other companies to file similar documents soon, and trading could begin around the end of June or July 4.
BlackRock filed an amended S-1 registration statement for SPOT ETH ETF, disclosing information about seed capital investors. Bloomberg ETF analyst Eric Balchunas expects other companies to file similar documents soon, and trading could begin around the end of June or July 4.
ARK Invest CE Cathie Wood said that the Ethereum spot ETF application was approved because cryptocurrency is an election issue. The early interpretation was that it would definitely not be approved. She also said that the Solana ETF might be approved, but funds focused on memecoins are unlikely to be approved
The second largest offshore exchange OKX announced the 19th proof of asset reserves (snapshot date 5-20). The user's BTC is 147k, an increase of 2.62%, the user's ETH assets are 1.67 million, an increase of 39k ETH, the user's USDT assets are 6.51 billion, an increase of 4.26%
The Bernstein report predicts that the total Bitcoin and Ethereum ETF market will grow to US$ 450 billion, and more than US$ 100 billion will flow into crypto ETFs in the next two years. The Bitcoin cycle high in 2025 will be US$ 150,000, and the target price by the end of this year will be US$ 90,000. Solana (SOL) could benefit from ETH ETF.
The Mt. Gox cold wallet transferred another 14.05k BTC (worth approximately $ 965 million) to the unmarked address: 1JbezD...KLAPs6 at 10:35 UTC+8. https://platform.arkhamintelligence.com/explorer/tx/afd9f5be7feed1b78267ea19f8d815fc4340e53e1d4f216165935a889230efb2
Just In: Mt. Gox cold wallet transferred 12.24k BTC (about $ 840 million) to the unmarked address: 1JbezD...KLAPs6 today. The Mt. Gox address currently holds 137.892k BTC. Mt Gox will distribute its holdings of 142,000 BTC and 143,000 BCH to creditors before October 31, 2024. https://platform.arkhamintelligence.com/explorer/entity/mt-gox
Elon Musk’s xAI Secures $ 6B Funding from Valor, a16z, and Sequoia ! Elon Musk's AI startup, xAI, has raised $ 6 billion in a Series B funding round, valuing the company at $ 18 billion pre-money. The round included investors like Valor Equity Partners, Vy Capital, Andreessen Horowitz, Sequoia Capital, Fidelity, Prince Alwaleed Bin Talal, and Kingdom Holding.
Well-known trader GCR X’s account was stolen. Hackers released bullish and heavy position information on ORDI, causing ODRI to rise from around 38 USDT to 44.5 USDT in the short term. The hacker established positions on OKX and Binance 6 minutes in advance
Daily active accounts on @Aptos are showing good tendency📈 🌐 Over the past 20 days, we've seen nice growth, with an average of over 100,000 accounts and a peak of 168,000
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Ethereum core developers are targeting to launch Pectra, the next upgrade for Ethereum, by the end of the first quarter of 2025. The inclusion of EVM Object Format (EOF), which is a set of about 11 EIPs that introduce an opt-in container for EVM code. Developers also agreed to replace the account abstraction EIP-3074 with a newer proposal, EIP-7702, introduced by Vitalik. It may postpone Verkle to the Osaka hardfork.
Consensys: Today’s approval of SPOT ETH ETF signals that the SEC views that ETH is a commodity and not a security - contrary to the position it continued to take prior to the events of this week, as described in our recent lawsuit against the SEC. We are pleased to see the tremendous bipartisan Congressional effort seeking to provide clear and sensible regulation.
According to Spot On Chain, Jeffrey Wilcke, the former Ethereum co-founder who has transferred 10,000 ETH to Kraken, worth about $ 37.38 million. Since the beginning of 2024, he has transferred 24,300 ETH to Kraken. He currently still holds 126,000 ETH, worth about $ 473 million
The Block: Two weeks ago the SEC had no interest in approving, but suddenly it was ready to approve SPOT ETHETF. There was not even coordination within the SEC. This is likely a political decision because Biden and the Democratic Party desperately need young people to vote.
According to CNBC, the Trump campaign announced on Tuesday that it will begin accepting cryptocurrency donations, accepting "any cryptocurrency" donations through Coinbase Commerce, which will be reported as in-kind donations, just like stocks.
Fox reporter Eleanor Terrett said that spot BTC ETF issuers CoinShares and Valkyrie will not apply for spot ETH ETF, mainly because there is no staking function. The company believes that without the staking function, there is no value for investors, especially in a crowded market with 9 issuers
GALA suffered a hacker attack and an additional 5 billion GALA were issued, worth approximately US$ 236 million. The hacker exchanged GALA for ETH on the chain, and has so far exchanged 5,913 ETH. The GALA seems to have blocked the hacker’s address. The hacker still holds 4.4 billion GALA worth $ 186 million.
Three people familiar with the matter told CoinDesk that the SEC asked the exchange to expedite its updated 19b-4 filing. Bloomberg IETF analysts Eric Balchunas and James Seyffart said the chances of a spot ETH ETF being approved increased from 25% to 75%. ETH rose by more than 20% in 24 hours.
Deezy founder Danny discovered that Magic Eden, Bitcoin’s largest NFT trading market, is using Coinbase to help it process small outputs. Instead of using their own address to receive utxos, Magic Eden used their Coinbase account, so Coinbase pays for integrating these outputs
Vitalik: I'm really proud that ethereum does not have any culture of trying to prevent people from speaking their minds, even when they have very negative feelings toward major things in the protocol or ecosystem. Some wave the ideal of "open discourse" as a flag, some take it seriously
Cryptocurrency funding increased significantly in the first quarter of 2024, with startups raising $ 2.4 billion across 518 deals, with a median pre-seed and seed-stage pre-money valuation of $ 21.8 million, according to crowdfundinsider
The Fantom Foundation has announced the details of its new L1 blockchain Sonic Network, which will be connected to Ethereum through a native cross-chain bridge. FTM token holders will migrate to Sonic's token S at a 1:1 ratio, which can be understood as Fantom 2.0
On May 17, the total net inflow of Bitcoin spot ETFs was $ 222 million. Grayscale ETF GBTC inflow was $ 31.6116 million, Fidelity ETF FBTC inflow was $ 99.4283 million, BlackRock ETF IBIT inflow was $ 38.0829 million, and the total net asset value of Bitcoin spot ETFs was $ 56.263 billion.
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Last week, the Web3 project team of the ruling Liberal Democratic Party of Japan released the 2024 Web3 white paper. Calls to make Japan the center of Web3, give DAOs legal status, consider issuing a local Bitcoin ETF, promote permissionless issuance, stablecoins and tax reform, etc.
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The Solana network currently has a non-vote transaction failure rate of 76.8%, according to @scarn_eth Dune data. Because many bots engaging in arbitrage generates spam transactions. Solana foundation said a patch will be released soon.
According to the Core Foundation, ZAN, a Web3 brand owned by Alipay, China’s largest Internet financial group, has become a Core chain verification node. By delegating their hashrate to Core validating nodes, Bitcoin miners receive bitcoin rewards and CORE tokens.
Mining company Bitfarms announced a $ 240 million investment in upgrading its Bitcoin mining equipment, with the goal of maintaining profitability after the Bitcoin halving in 2024, and will purchase 88,000 high-efficiency Bitcoin mining machines.