Bitcoin is Pricing in Two Fed Rate Cuts For 2024, Trader Says Bitcoin is stable as Asia begins its trading day, but crypto quant shop sees risk assets pricing in two, not three rate cuts.

Hong Kong’s Incoming Spot Bitcoin ETFs Could Be ‘Big Deal.’ Here’s What Analysts Say Massive demand for a China-listed gold ETF sent its premium soaring to 30% earlier this week.

Former Ethereum Adviser Intends to Sue U.S. Government for $9.6B Over Dropped Extortion Charges The former Ethereum adviser has retained well-known civil liberties lawyer Alan Dershowitz to serve as a consultant on constitutional issues in the case.

Bitcoin Rebounds to $70K, Shrugging Off Hot U.S. Inflation Print Major U.S. equity indices closed the day lower as faster CPI reading for March, will BTC was up 1%.

The Protocol: How to Engineer Harder Money, or Just Make Your Own Bitcoin’s supply growth is set to automatically drop by 50% when next week’s “halving” arrives, Ethereum is pondering a cut in ETH issuance, and meme coin issuers are just no-holds-barred spinning up new ones. Blockchain tech is enabling all sorts of monetary strategies.

NEAR to Hire Artificial-Intelligence Engineers as Part of AI Roadmap The company will begin its AI initiative in the next 3-6 months according to a document reviewed by CoinDesk.

DeFi Exchange Uniswap Receives Enforcement Notice from the SEC Decentralized crypto exchange Uniswap received a notice from the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) that it intends to pursue an enforcement action, the company disclosed on Wednesday.

EigenLayer, Crypto’s Biggest Project Launch This Year, Is Still Missing Crucial Functionality The “restaking” protocol with $15 billion in deposits won’t pay rewards to depositors and is missing its mission-critical “slashing” feature.

Binance ‘Working Collaboratively’ With Nigerian Government to Free Detained Executive, Compliance Chief Says Binance is “working as collaboratively as we can” with the Nigerian government to secure the release of its jailed financial crimes investigations chief, Tigran Gambaryan, the exchange’s chief compliance officer Noah Perlman said Wednesday.

BTC Halving: Sell-The-News or Buy-The-Alt-Rotation Contrasting Bitcoin derivatives with Ethereum’s tells us a story around the potential opportunity for a post-halving rotation.

The Rise of Crypto Options and Structured Products Retail dominance of crypto trading and the lack of institutional infrastructure and participation has led to imbalance in the structure of the options market. Here’s how we can address these challenges, says Abdulla Kanoo, Co-Founder of ARP Digital.

Alpen Labs Looks to Scale Bitcoin With Zero-Knowledge Proofs Using $10.6M Funding Alpen Labs has emerged from stealth mode following the funding round, having spent the last year developing Bitcoin rollup infrastructure to bring smart contract functionality to the network.

‘What Are We Waiting for’? SEC Commissioner Hester Peirce Discusses Moving Crypto Regulation Foward Known for her fiery dissenting opinions, “Crypto Mom” discusses how the SEC operates, why she wants to see crypto thrive and her “Safe Harbor” proposal to allow projects to decentralize.

EU’s MiCA Rules Have Had Little Influence on the European Crypto Market, Regulator Says The rules, which take effect at the end of the year, have yet to spur increased euro-based transactions in crypto markets.

Ripple-Owned Metaco Sees Most of Execs and Marketing Teams Depart: Source

Half of Solana Pre-Sales Are Scams, Blockaid Says Blockchain security firm Blockaid said 50% of recent pre-sale token launches on Solana have been malicious.

Crypto Derivatives Exchange Stream Trading Raises $1.5M in Seed Funding The funding round values the company at $20 million.

How the Halving Will Impact the Bitcoin Market While speculators will likely position themselves in advance of the halving on April 20, long- term investors should pay minimal attention to the halving itself, and rather focus on the demand side of the market, says Torbjørn Bull Jenssen, CEO of K33.

Ordinals Defy Bitcoin’s Design Principles but Offer Miners Huge Post-Halving Advantages Ordinal inscriptions and BRC-20 tokens are controversial for using up valuable space on the Bitcoin network. But, with rewards set to be cut in half, they offer a lifeline for miners as they adapt to new blockchain economics.

U.S. CPI Comes in Faster Than Hoped, Rising 0.4% in March, 3.5% Y/Y Stubbornly high inflation has shattered Wall Street expectations for a long series of rate cuts in 2024.