Staking Provider P2P Launches Staking-as-a-Business for Institutions The platform also recently surpassed $7.4 billion in total value locked, or TVL.

Crypto Miners Run Down Bitcoin Inventory to 3-Year Low in a Strategic Pre-Halving Move Bitcoin miners have been running down inventory in a rising market, moving away from the accumulation strategy seen ahead of prior halving in May 2020.

New Zealand Crypto Policy Should Support Industry, Minister for Commerce Says The country’s “wait and see” approach to regulating crypto could risk New Zealand missing out on the benefits of industry developments, a government inquiry found.

First Mover Americas: Meme Coin Indexes Are Here The latest price moves in bitcoin (BTC) and crypto markets in context for April 10, 2024. First Mover is CoinDesk’s daily newsletter that contextualizes the latest actions in the crypto markets.

Bitcoin Falls Below $69K Ahead of U.S. CPI; Cardano, Dogecoin Lead Losses in Altcoins One analyst said profit taking by long-term holders spiked meaningfully into the $73,000 level and has cooled down in recent weeks, supporting a bullish bias in the future.

WOO X Introduces Meme Coin, Layer 2 Index Perpetuals in Partnership With Wintermute, GMCI Indices provider GMCI’s MEME index includes top meme coins like SHIB, PEPE and DOGE, while the L2 index monitors leading blockchain scaling tokens like MATIC, IMX and OP.

Bitcoin’s Bullish Quarter Eases Retail Skepticism: Deutsche Bank While 40% of respondents to the German bank’s survey said bitcoin will thrive in the coming years, 38% said they expect the cryptocurrency to disappear.

Hong Kong Likely to Approve Spot Bitcoin ETFs Next Week: Reuters Hong Kong regulators are likely to approve the first set of applications for spot bitcoin exchange-traded funds next week, making it possible that the products could be ready for an April launch, Reuters reported on Wednesday, citing two people familiar with the matter.

Grayscale CEO Says Bitcoin ETF Outflows Are Reaching Equilibrium: Reuters Sonnenshein said that some of the selling connected to settlements of bankrupt crypto companies like FTX are “largely behind us.”

Friend.Tech Money Metrics Surge Ahead of Potential Airdrop, V2 Release The social application was one of the biggest blockchain-based platforms by revenue for a short period last year before usage dropped off. A new version is bringing the hype back.

Hong Kong-Based First Digital’s $3B Stablecoin Arrives to Sui Network in DeFi Push FDUSD has quickly become the fourth-largest stablecoin since its launch in July under Hong Kong’s digital asset regulations, benefitting from crypto exchange giant Binance’s trading promotion.

Is the Sam Bankman-Fried Story Over? Last month, I attended Sam Bankman-Fried’s sentencing hearing. Not that anyone asked, but I have some thoughts.

VanEck CEO Says Transaction Fee Is Bigger Story Than Bitcoin or Ethereum ETFs Jan Van Eck told CoinDesk TV’s Jen Sanasie that not hearing back from the SEC is a sign that ETH exchange-traded funds likely wont make the May deadline.

Why Christie’s First Bitcoin Inscriptions Auction Matters With the halving and new tech set to give Ordinals a further lift, Bitcoin-based inscriptions are demonstrating staying power and some advantages over NFTs. Christie’s is taking notice with a new initiative.

EigenLayer and EigenDA Launch on Ethereum Mainnet The launch comes after $12 billion has already been deposited into the protocol.

DeFi Trader Eisenberg ‘Wasn’t Borrowing, He Was Stealing,’ Prosecutor Says in Opening Argument The defense countered that Eisenberg “risked 13 million of his own dollars” to net $110 million from Mango Markets.

Republican Sen. Tillis Calls for ‘Light’ Crypto Regulatory Framework Ahead of Presidential Election Lawmakers on both sides of the aisle urged the need for new crypto laws on Tuesday, as Deputy Treasury Secretary Wally Adeyemo asked for “additional tools” to effectively crack down on illicit crypto financing.

Blockchain Developer Monad Labs Raises $225M Led by Paradigm The company is looking to offer an Ethereum-compatible environment that’s faster than the original.

Bitcoin Buckles Below $69K as Crypto Bulls Endure $175M Liquidations Bitcoin is showing resilience despite the slip, but the corrective period might continue for a while before a return to growth, one observer noted.

Venture Firm A16z Releases Jolt, a ‘Zero-Knowledge Virtual Machine’ The release is the product of a16z’s first foray into deep tech research.