📊 #LDO Sentora: Liquid staking TVL sits at $82 billion, with Lido representing an impressive 44.3% of the total liquid staking TVL.
📊👀 #BTC CQ: Large investors are not dominating the sell-off. The pressure is coming from smaller cohorts of wallets
💰 Today's fundraisers:
- CipherOwl completed a $15M seed round of funding with participation from Coinbase Ventures and others;
- LAB raised $5M with participation from Animoca Brands, Amber Group, Lemniscap, et al;
- Fanable (Ethernal Labs), a Web3 marketplace for Pokémon, comics and digital collectibles raised $11.5 million.
- CipherOwl completed a $15M seed round of funding with participation from Coinbase Ventures and others;
- LAB raised $5M with participation from Animoca Brands, Amber Group, Lemniscap, et al;
- Fanable (Ethernal Labs), a Web3 marketplace for Pokémon, comics and digital collectibles raised $11.5 million.
🇺🇸🤝 Roger Ver struck a deal with the Justice Department. His fraud and tax evasion charges will be dropped in exchange for a $48 million fine - NYT
🤝💳 #COIN Coinbase and Mastercard in advanced talks to acquire stablecoin startup BVNK for $2 billion. #stablecoin fortune
🇺🇸📈 #BTC The volume of Bitcoin, bought by corporates, has multiplied since Trump won the election in November 2024.
🗽👀 #ETF There are over 90 crypto ETF's waiting to be approved in the US.
📊👀 #BTC The average buying price of Bitcoin is around $86,417, which is about 40% higher than the current BTC price.
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🇺🇸👀 #BTC CQ: Coinbase Premium has stayed positive for 42 consecutive days. That’s sustained buying pressure.
🇺🇸 Democratic U.S. Senators, have introduced a proposal under which DeFi protocols could be placed on a "restricted list" if they are deemed too risky and a U.S. citizen who uses the protocols and derives "regular income" from them could also be penalized. cointelegraph #regulation
🇪🇺🍿 EU considers issuing euro stablecoins to fight dollar monopoly. cointelegraph
🇬🇧 Bank of England calls for tighter regulation of stablecoins. #regulation
🔍🐳 Whale Transactions:
1. Bitcoin OG increased its short to 3,600 #BTC ($438 million). It may be linked to Trend Research;
2. Bitmine continue to accumulate #ETH - they received another 23,823 ETH ($103.68 million) from BitGo;
3. 0x882E deposited 14,275 #ETH ($62.48 million) on Binance. Two years ago, he bought 64,400 ETH ($121 million) at $1882 and sent it to staking. Since March 20, 2024, he has been selling ETH for a profit, selling 23,365 ETH ($97.64 million) at an average price of $4179. Total profit: more than $156 million.
1. Bitcoin OG increased its short to 3,600 #BTC ($438 million). It may be linked to Trend Research;
2. Bitmine continue to accumulate #ETH - they received another 23,823 ETH ($103.68 million) from BitGo;
3. 0x882E deposited 14,275 #ETH ($62.48 million) on Binance. Two years ago, he bought 64,400 ETH ($121 million) at $1882 and sent it to staking. Since March 20, 2024, he has been selling ETH for a profit, selling 23,365 ETH ($97.64 million) at an average price of $4179. Total profit: more than $156 million.
🇺🇸 #BTC Jack Dorsey calls for tax exemption for "everyday" BTC payments. cointelegraph
🤔 #BTC Deutsche Bank said in a new report that growing institutional adoption and continued dedollarization could lead global central banks to include BTC and gold as primary reserve assets by 2030. bloomberg