Bitcoin Falls Below $69K Ahead of U.S. CPI; Cardano, Dogecoin Lead Losses in Altcoins

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Crypto Miners Run Down Bitcoin (BTC) Holdings to 3-Year Low in a Strategic Pre-Halving Move

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New Zealand Crypto Policy Should Support Industry, Minister of Commerce Andrew Bayly Says

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Meme Coin Indexes Are Here

Crypto exchange WOO X has introduced a set of index perpetual contracts linked to meme coins, the top 30 cryptocurrencies and layer-2 (L2) tokens in partnership with market maker Wintermute and index provider GMCI. WOO X closed a $9 million funding round in January with participation from Wintermute and Amber. The firm is offering traders … Read more

Bitcoin Price (BTC) Lower After U.S. Inflation Data

A series of Fed members have made clear they’re not inclined to begin easing monetary policy until seeing a sustained path, i.e., more than just one monthly report, of inflation trending downward. Traders, meanwhile, have quickly whittled away their expectations of rate cuts, and prior to this morning’s report had priced in just two or … Read more

Patrick McHenry Still Thinks U.S. Legislation Governing Tether (USDT), USDC, Other Stablecoins Is Possible

McHenry has been negotiating stablecoin legislation with members of his party and House Democrats for months, and when a bill cleared his committee, it did so with the support of several Democrats. But there has been some resistance from the administration and from the panel’s top Democrat, Rep. Maxine Waters (D-Calif.), about the role of … Read more

DeFi Platform Zeta Markets Announces Governance Token Z

“Zeta’s vision from day one has been to make decentralized finance a viable alternative to centralized, black-box financial systems. With a platform that has already stood the test of time and facilitated billions in volume for tens of thousands of traders, we’re excited to launch Z, the governance token of Zeta, to closely align the … Read more

Is the Sam Bankman-Fried Story Over?

“He spent his customers’ money and he lied to them about it. Where did the money go? The money went to pay for investments, to repay loans, to cover expenses, to purchase property, and to make political donations,” Roos said last year. During the sentencing hearing, he went further, saying, “the fact that Mr. Bankman-Fried … Read more