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Major cryptocurrency asset manager Grayscale Investments announced two new Bitcoin outcome-oriented exchange-traded funds (ETFs). According to an April 2 announcement, the new products are the Grayscale Bitcoin Covered Call ETF (BTCC) and the Grayscale Bitcoin Premium Income ETF (BPI). According to an email sent to Cointelegraph, the two new Bitcoin (BTC) funds are meant to … Read more
In a troubling indication for the AAVE community, a number of the cryptocurrency’s large holders, commonly called “whales,” have recently sold off substantial portions of their holdings. This is prompting some in the community to worry about a potential downturn for the decentralized finance (DeFi) token. The latest sell-off seems to be part of a … Read more
In a recent development that has caught the attention of the cryptocurrency community, #PumpFun, a well-known individual in the Solana (SOL) ecosystem, seems to have quietly sold a large amount of SOL tokens in recent days. The latest transactions indicate that #PumpFun has offloaded 65,284 SOL, worth a remarkable $8.22 million. This has sparked concern, … Read more
In a strange occurrence, a hacker was able to capture 2,930 ETH (worth about $5.5 million at the time) from zkLend but has now lost all that money due to falling for a phishing website. The hacker, who was trying to be a “good actor” and not too different from a law enforcement agency that … Read more
Synthetix’s stablecoin, sUSD, has dipped yet again—this time by 4.6%—in just the last 24 hours, and is now sitting at a value of $0.916. With this new significant drop, sUSD is now pegged over 8% off where it should be. With this new serious stability issue that sUSD is dealing with, many Twitter Communities and … Read more
Jetking Infotrain Limited, a Mumbai-based IT education firm, announced plans Wednesday to raise ₹6.6 crore ($793,000) through a preferential share issue to expand its bitcoin reserves and fund cryptocurrency-related initiatives, Chief Financial Officer Siddarth Bharwani confirmed. Jetking Doubles Down on Bitcoin With Preferential Share Issue for Crypto Acquisition The board-approved “Strategic Fund Raise” aims to … Read more
In just 10 days from launch, PumpSwap—a decentralized exchange (DEX) on the Solana blockchain—reached $10 billion in transaction volume, thanks to impressive growth and market demand. This unfathomable rise has seized the attention of the DeFi community and raised questions about what it means for Solana-based DEXs to compete with already established platforms like Raydium. … Read more
The crypto industry’s sway in Washington DC has made it more likely that the industry will get beneficial legislation, but it’s also creating problems. Concerns of regulatory capture — a situation in which regulators or lawmakers are co-opted to serve the interests of a small constituency — have grown as crypto lobbying gains influence in … Read more
Social messaging apps tend to make major news headlines a few times per year for either their use in planning some sort of crime or, more routinely, for users’ privacy concerns over how companies like Meta — which owns WhatsApp, Instagram and Messenger — handle user data. In a somewhat separate event, the Trump administration … Read more
DNA testing firm 23andMe is bankrupt, and now the genomic data of its 15 million users is up for sale to the highest bidder. Could that data end up on the blockchain? The company announced on March 23 that it had filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection and that its CEO, Anne Wojcicki, had stepped … Read more
