According to SoSoValue, Bitcoin spot ETFs saw a total net inflow of $213 million yesterday, marking the third consecutive day of net inflows. The Grayscale ETF, GBTC, experienced a net outflow of $79.3 million in a single day, with GBTC's historical net outflow now at $15.31 billion. The Bitcoin spot ETF with the highest single-day net inflow was BlackRock's ETF, IBIT, with a net inflow of approximately $144 million, bringing IBIT's total historical net inflow to $14.4 billion.

BlackRock today updated the list of authorized participants (APs) for its spot Bitcoin ETF IBIT, adding new institutions including Citadel, Goldman Sachs, UBS and Citigroup. The expansion of the total number of APs from four to nine is expected to enhance IBIT’s liquidity and accessibility to investors.

Bloomberg: FTX estate sold between 25 million and 30 million locked Solana (SOL) coins to companies including Galaxy Trading and Pantera Capital for $64 each ($174 now). Galaxy raised $620 million to buy discounted SOL. Pantera Capital raised $250m.

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The U.S. announced that the seasonally adjusted non-farm payrolls increased by 303,000 in March, significantly exceeding market expectations of 200,000. The U.S. unemployment rate was 3.8% in March, with 6.4 million unemployed. The unemployment rate has been in a narrow range of 3.7% to 3.9% since August 2023.

Binance Web3 Wallet announces the completion of 35 new dApp integrations. The additions include: Aevo, Ambient Finance, BAC Games, bevm io/bridge, Blast Off, Blaster Swap, Celluar, CryptoMaze, Cyber8Ball, Ethena, ether fi, FBPAY, Jumper Exchange, Kinza, LayerSwap, LifeForm, Link3, Lista DAO, MonoSwap, Mute io, OmniBTC, Particle, Puffer fi, Satori Perp, Satoshi Protocol, Syclub, SyncSwap, SynFutures, Thena Finance, Ulti-pilot, Whales Market, XY Finance, Zerolend, zkSwap, Zorro.

According to news1, South Korea's financial authorities will issue new guidelines to impose stricter regulations on tokens listed on CEXs. Tokens that have been hacked and have not yet resolved security issues may be blocked from listing, and may be forced to design specific white papers for the local market.

Binance announces strengthened KYC standards: Only verified and compliant users will be granted access to their sub-accounts. By 2024-05-20, sub-accounts holders that have not provided the necessary KYC information will have their accounts fully restricted and will no longer have access to the Binance Link Program services.

5 April Options Data 18,000 BTC options to expire with a Put Call Ratio of 0.64, Maxpain point of $68,000 and notional value of $1.2 billion. 270,000 ETH options are due to expire with a Put Call Ratio of 0.38, Maxpain point of $3,400 and notional value of $890 million.

The Solana network currently has a non-vote transaction failure rate of 76.8%, according to @scarn_eth Dune data. Because many bots engaging in arbitrage generates spam transactions. Solana foundation said a patch will be released soon.

Bybit, the third largest offshore exchange, released its ninth reserve certificate (April 3). Users' BTC assets increased by 16.44% from February 1, adding 6,273 BTC; users' ETH assets increased by 15.95%, adding 47,700 ETH; users' USDT assets increased by 10.62%, adding 226 million USDT; Bybit's net inflow in the past month was 534 million Dollar.

The Solana community Superteam produced a promotional video attacking Ethereum and criticizing ETHMAXI. The official Solana account and the chairman of Solana Foundation also retweeted. The video says that millions of developers are being suffered from ETHMAXI and call on them cross-chain to Solana through Wormhole.

In alignment with current market trends and to better meet users’ needs, the second largest offshore exchange OKX has decided to phase out the generation of EOS and ETC USDT-margined and crypto-margined expiry futures.

Google filed a lawsuit against two Chinese nationals in the Southern District of New York on Thursday, accusing them of using its Google Play store to scam more than 100,000 users globally out of money through fraudulent cryptocurrency investment apps.

LeverFi announced the release of the OmniZK Protocol, a secure validation protocol that expands scalability, logic construction and interoperability for Bitcoin. OmniZK is modularly designed for developers to construct conditional, non-custodial Discreet Log Contracts on Bitcoin that are secured by event proofs generated by zkOracles.

Xoom Finance, PayPal’s cross-border remittance service, now allows U.S. Xoom users to convert their holdings of PayPal’s stablecoin PYUSD into U.S. dollars and use it as a source of funds to send money to recipients in approximately 160 countries around the world.

Ripple is introducing its own stablecoin pegged to the price of the U.S. dollar, which will be 100% backed by U.S. dollar deposits, short-term U.S. government Treasuries and other cash equivalents. The stablecoin will be deployed onto Ripple's institution-focused XRP Ledger along with the Ethereum blockchain to start out, and it will be based on Ethereum's ERC-20 token standard.

OKX announced that it will list the Zeus Network token ZEUS and open the ZEUS/USDT trading pair. This is also the first project of the Jupiter LFG Launchpad. The Zeus Network is a permissionless layer that combines the Solana with Bitcoin blockchain.

Greekslive: Tomorrow there is the important macro data of the US unemployment rate in March, strong US economic data makes the Fed's May rate cut possibility drop significantly from 90% last month to 50% currently. Recent Block trading has been weaker, mainly buying call options after the halving of Bitcoin.

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