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Wu said that Bitwise President Teddy Fusaro cited Maelstrom data and said that the net profit of stablecoin issuer Tether in 2023 will be about US$6.2 billion, reaching 78% of Goldman Sachs ($7.9 billion) and 72% of Morgan Stanley ($8.5 billion). However, Tether has about 100 employees, while Goldman Sachs and Morgan Stanley have 49,000 and 82,000 employees respectively.
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Wu said that he learned that the NEAR Foundation launched the Infrastructure Committee, a new initiative aimed at strengthening NEAR's critical infrastructure. The program allocates $4 million to support infrastructure projects, aiming to support the success of NEAR ecosystem projects in an open and transparent manner, and allocate funds and find projects. It is reported that critical infrastructure includes RPC nodes, relayers, indexers, bridges, wallets, load balancers, and oracles. In addition, NEAR should be properly listed on all available DEX tools; accidents and outages need to be easily reported and fixed.
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Wu said that Bloomberg ETF analyst James Seyffart tweeted that Defiance Investments has submitted an application to the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) to issue a 2x leveraged Ethereum futures exchange-traded fund (ETF), and plans to list it for trading under the code $ETHL, which may start trading as early as late June. In addition, Defiance Investments recently applied to issue a 2x leveraged ETF to short MicroStrategy ($MSTR) stock. According to the application, the daily return rate of the short ETF will be -2 times the return of MicroStrategy's stock price.
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Wu said that according to documents filed on April 8, the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) postponed its decision on Bitwise and Grayscale Bitcoin ETF options. The SEC said it needed more time to consider the rule change proposal, and the next decision deadline was set for May 29.
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PYUSD circulation dropped 39% to $188.5 million in March
Wu said that Paxos released the PYUSD transparency report for March 2024. As of March 29, 2024, the total amount of PYUSD in circulation (Total Tokens Outstanding) was US$188,485,924, down about 39% from February. The current market value of the collateral in the U.S. Treasury bond-collateralized reverse repurchase agreement is approximately US$177,991,076, and the nominal position value is approximately US$174,501,000; the market value and nominal position value of the collateral in other cash deposits deposited in insured depository institutions are both US$1552; the current market value of the collateral in the total net assets is approximately US$192,863,328, and the nominal position value is approximately US$189,303,301.
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The criminal fraud and manipulation trial of cryptocurrency trader Avi Eisenberg opens on Tuesday, and the trial is expected to last two weeks and will determine whether Eisenberg broke the law when he deployed a self-proclaimed “highly profitable trading strategy” in October 2022. Eisenberg is accused of illegally gaming his position by manipulating the price of the MNGO token and then effectively borrowing all of Mango’s deposits, taking out $110 million in cryptocurrency that others had deposited on the platform.
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According to Blockworks, dYdX Chain is back up and producing blocks after a major outage caused by a planned v4 upgrade that lasted nine hours and thirty-two minutes. The outage was caused by a software release that included a fix for the wrong version of the Cosmos IAVL library, which corrupted the network state. dYdX said the released fix does not corrupt the state, ensuring software compatibility with earlier versions of the blockchain.
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a16z Science: Imagine Ethereum as a highway, 4844 is a "bus lane"
Description | Noah Citron、Valeria Nikolaenko,a16z Crypto
Compiled by Kate, Mars Finance
Last week, Ethereum just went through its biggest upgrade since The Merge. “Dencun” is a portmanteau of “Deneb” and “Cancun,” and in keeping with the tradition of naming upgrades after stars and cities — “Dencun” bundles together nine proposed network changes.
Of these proposed changes, known as Ethereum Improvement Proposals (EIPs), the most anticipated is EIP-4844 — which is considered a major milestone on the road to scalability. EIP-4844 is also known as “protodanksharding” (after developers Diederik Loerakker aka protoolambda and Dankrad Feist).
Compiled by Kate, Mars Finance
Last week, Ethereum just went through its biggest upgrade since The Merge. “Dencun” is a portmanteau of “Deneb” and “Cancun,” and in keeping with the tradition of naming upgrades after stars and cities — “Dencun” bundles together nine proposed network changes.
Of these proposed changes, known as Ethereum Improvement Proposals (EIPs), the most anticipated is EIP-4844 — which is considered a major milestone on the road to scalability. EIP-4844 is also known as “protodanksharding” (after developers Diederik Loerakker aka protoolambda and Dankrad Feist).
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Venture capital firm Sora Ventures announced the successful raising of $3 million to launch the Runes Liquid Fund, a new investment tool focused on investing in liquid assets on the Runes protocol. Investors include Bankless Ventures, SpaceshipDAO, Bitcoin Magazine, etc. Jason Fang, managing partner of Sora Ventures, said that it will continue to work hard to support the development of the Ordinals ecosystem. (CryptoSlate)
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Wu said that according to @BTC__options, Bitcoin broke through the $70,000 volatility zone without warning, and is just one step away from its all-time high. The rapid rise has led to a significant increase in the IV of all major maturities. Currently, BTC Dvol has exceeded 78%, and market sentiment has rapidly reversed, with a strong bullish atmosphere. Just now, more than 600 call options with an exercise price of $100,000 were traded in bulk, with a nominal value of up to $45 million, and the premium alone is worth $8.5 million.
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Wu says daily selected crypto news + this week's macro indicators
1. HashKey will launch HashKey Global offshore exchange, targeting overseas Chinese and Southeast Asian customers
In the first phase, more than 20 currencies can be provided to qualified retail investors, and futures and other products are expected to be launched within a quarter. The main customers are expected to be overseas Chinese and users in Southeast Asian countries. Services are not provided to mainland China, Hong Kong, the United States and other regions. Hashkey said in an interview with Wu that the goal is to surpass Coinbase within 5 years, and that non-compliant exchanges such as Binance and Huobi are not considered as competitors; there are multiple plans for listing, including A shares, Hong Kong stocks, STO, etc.; the two platforms share a platform currency, and HSK points will be used to promote trading mining.
In the first phase, more than 20 currencies can be provided to qualified retail investors, and futures and other products are expected to be launched within a quarter. The main customers are expected to be overseas Chinese and users in Southeast Asian countries. Services are not provided to mainland China, Hong Kong, the United States and other regions. Hashkey said in an interview with Wu that the goal is to surpass Coinbase within 5 years, and that non-compliant exchanges such as Binance and Huobi are not considered as competitors; there are multiple plans for listing, including A shares, Hong Kong stocks, STO, etc.; the two platforms share a platform currency, and HSK points will be used to promote trading mining.
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Blockchain analysis company Chainaanalysis has hired Jim Lee, the former head of the IRS-Criminal Investigation (IRS-CI) division, to a newly created position responsible for liaison with regulators, tax agencies and law enforcement. It is reported that Lee will help the agency better use Chainaanalysis' data and tools to combat cryptocurrency crimes. He previously served as the director of IRS-CI for three years and worked at the agency for 29 years. (CoinDesk)
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DEX aggregator 1inch has partnered with payment giant Mastercard and crypto card developer Baanx to launch a Web3 debit card. The 1inch card will be available in both physical and virtual form, allowing users to use cryptocurrencies for online and offline transactions and withdraw cash at supported ATMs with seamless conversion of crypto to fiat. (CoinDesk)
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Wu said that the TON Foundation announced that the TON Society, a community of developers and contributors, and HumanCode have collaborated to launch an incentive program of 1 million Toncoin (about 5 million US dollars) to introduce palm print scanning technology to verify digital identity. It aims to provide Telegram users with secure digital identities within five years and encourage the TON community to adopt the verification standard.
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The decentralized AI network project Ritual received millions of dollars in investment from Polychain Capital. Polychain declined to disclose the specific investment amount. Ritual completed a $25 million financing in November 2023, led by Archetype, with participation from Accomplice and Robot Ventures. Ritual aims to solve the centralization problem of artificial intelligence systems. (CoinDesk)
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Wu said that Sora Ventures founder Jason Fang announced that Sora Ventures is working with Metaplanet, a Tokyo Stock Exchange listed company, to create the first "Asia Microstrategy". This product enables Japanese with Tokyo Stock Exchange accounts to gain exposure to Bitcoin without regulatory risk and without paying a 55% unrealized gains tax. He will also join the board of directors of the listed company. Previously, Metaplanet announced that Bitcoin would be the company's core financial asset in the future.
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According to DL News, Nigerian judge Emeka Nwite rejected the defense arguments raised by Tigran Gambaryan, Binance's head of compliance in the United States, and ruled that he had traveled to Nigeria in the past as a representative of Binance to train officials on how to detect cryptocurrency fraud. Tigran Gambaryan pleaded not guilty to money laundering charges and will be held in prison until at least April 18 to determine whether he can be released on bail. Binance has also been accused of money laundering and tax violations in Nigeria.
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Wu said that according to Wanxiang, Ethereum co-founder Vitalik Buterin will appear at the second venue of the Hong Kong Web3 Carnival at 10:15 am on April 9 and deliver a keynote speech titled "Reaching the Limits of Protocol Design". At 13:45 in the afternoon of the same day, he will also give a live sharing at the main venue titled "Building on Ethereum in the 2020s". This speech seems to be a temporary decision and was not included in the earlier promotional posters.
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WOOX announced the launch of FLC, the native token of the NFT liquidity platform Floor Protocol, and launched a trading competition, NFT yield farming and airdrop activities worth US$1.29 million. Including trading rankings, staking NFT, staking WOO, receiving NFT certificates, etc.