🤔 Where will we see Bitcoin price by the end of the week?

🔥 Above $30K

🐳 Pinned to $28K

💔 Drop to $25K

👀 Crypto investment products see the largest inflows since July

According to CoinShares, the volumes of crypto exchange-traded products (ETPs) surged by 37% last week, reaching $1.1 billion. 📈
$BTC volumes rose 16% on trusted exchanges, the report notes. $SOL — the eighth-largest cryptocurrency by market capitalization — has continued to assert itself as the "altcoin of choice," as its weekly inflows reached the highest level since March 2022. 💪🏼

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⁠3Commas on ‘heightened alert’ after several user accounts hacked

The firm has implemented additional security measures following an investigation that found “only a few” 3Commas user accounts were compromised.

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📈 Latest crypto prices 📉

BTC $27,655 - 0.03%

ETH $1,589 - 0.51%

BNB $209 - 0.98%

XRP $0.50 - 1.38%

ADA $0.252 - 0.47%

SOL $22.27 - 0.85%

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👀 Binance users in Hong Kong lose $450K in wave of fraud texts

The phishing scheme has seen 11 Hong Kong-based Binance customers report combined losses of more than $446,000 (3.5 million Hong Kong dollars) in the last two weeks. 💸

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🇿🇼 Zimbabwe turns gold-backed digital token into payment method

The mission behind freshly introduced Zimbabwe Gold ($ZiG) is to persuade local investors to put their money into national assets and not American dollars.

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🇦🇪 At the recent Blockchain Economy Summit held in Dubai, Cointelegraph spoke with Lennix Lai, the global chief commercial officer at crypto exchange OKX.

According to Lai, crypto is “a lot more fun” than traditional finance. Lai, who previously worked in traditional firms, said there are many processes in the old finance world that he believes are inefficient. 🔥

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⚡️Caroline Ellison blames Sam Bankman-Fried for misuse of FTX user funds at trial

The former Alameda CEO and ex-girlfriend placed the blame for misuse of FTX user funds directly on SBF, claiming he “set up the systems” leading to Alameda taking roughly $14 billion from the exchange. 👀

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👀 Binance freezes accounts linked to Hamas following Israeli request

Crypto exchange Binance has frozen accounts associated with Hamas militants in response to requests from Israeli law enforcement. Noted that this freeze does not impact ordinary Palestinian civilians, as confirmed by Yi He, the exchange’s co-founder.

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⁠US Stocks rise for third straight day as bond yields fall

Treasury yields declined, giving stock market bulls new momentum.

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Opinion: The economy is refusing to die — which may mean it’s time to go risk-on

The economy is refusing to go down. If the trend continues, cryptocurrency prices are going to start rising — especially with Bitcoin's halving.

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⁠Bitcoin needs Ethereum VM to reach its full potential — Web3 exec

Botanix Labs founder Willem Schroé argues a “huge amount of value” from real-world assets will be captured on Bitcoin, provided it connects to the Ethereum Virtual Machine.

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⁠📈 Bitcoin Lightning Network growth jumps 1,200% in 2 years

A report from the Bitcoin-only exchange River suggests increased Lightning usage will play a key role in Bitcoin becoming a better medium of exchange.

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⁠Securities regulators oppose special treatment of crypto in Coinbase case

A body representing North America’s state securities regulators took aim at arguments made by crypto exchange Coinbase in its defense against the SEC.

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📈 Latest crypto prices 📉

BTC $27,107 - 1.56%

ETH $1,563 - 1.01%

BNB $206 - 1.34%

XRP $0.48 - 2.82%

ADA $0.246 - 1.79%

SOL $22.19 - 0.01%

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🤔 Will Bitcoin print pre-halving "macro low?"

$BTC price wiping out this month's gains has traders eyeing a swift drop from $27,000. 📉 Growing concerns surround Bitcoin’s performance, with some setting a $20,000 target, 🎯anticipating new macro lows, and awaiting Bitcoin to copy behavior from last cycle’s pre-halving year. 👀

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⁠JPMorgan debuts tokenization platform TCN with BlackRock among key clients: Report

The platform enables the conversion of traditional assets into digital assets and makes way for faster and more secure settlements on-chain.

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👀 ⁠Caroline Ellison provided 7 'alternative' balance sheets hiding Alameda's exposure to FTX

The former CEO testified that she had provided SBF seven options for spreadsheets with misleading information on Alameda's financials to present to Genesis lenders.

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⁠💬 Sam Bankman-Fried considered selling FTX equity to Saudi crown prince, says Caroline Ellison

Testimony from the former Alameda Research CEO continued on the sixth day of Sam Bankman-Fried’s criminal trial, delving into potential investments prior to FTX’s bankruptcy.

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