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2024-04-10 10:45:16 VanEck CEO Says Transaction Fee Is Bigger Story Than Bitcoin or Ethereum ETFs

The CEO of VanEck – the global investment firm whose Bitcoin Trust (HODL) is among the almost dozen spot bitcoin ETFs – thinks the cryptocurrency industry should focus more on transaction fees and not so much on Bitcoin (BTC) and Ethereum (ETH) or their related exchange-traded funds. Jan van Eck said on CoinDesk's "Markets Daily" that the transaction fees on the Bitcoin and Ethereum blockchains are unpredictable, making it harder to build applications in those ecosystems.

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2024-04-09 20:50:25 Uphold adding Bitcoin support to its new Vault wallet

After launching a self-custody wallet at the end of last year, Uphold is now adding Bitcoin support, the company said in a statement. "Many of us are familiar with the challenges users face in managing their bitcoin keys and wallets,” said Uphold CEO Simon McLoughlin in a press statement. “As bitcoin ownership expands, the need for enhanced security combined with trading convenience becomes ever-more apparent.".

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2024-04-09 09:34:52 Sora Ventures, Metaplanet bet $6.5 million on Bitcoin to create ‘Asia’s first MicroStrategy’

Metaplanet, a Tokyo Stock Exchange-listed company, announced on April 8 that it has embraced Bitcoin as a core treasury asset. In an April 8 statement on social media platform X (formerly Twitter), Metaplanet said it was allocating ¥1 billion, approximately $6.56 million, to the flagship digital asset as part of its groundbreaking shift in its financial strategy. It added that it achieved this milestone through partnerships with venture capital firm Sora Ventures, Mark Yusko, the CEO of Morgan Creek Capital, Jack Liu, and others.

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2024-04-08 22:39:53 Hong Kong subsidiaries of Chinese asset managers apply for spot bitcoin ETFs

The Hong Kong subsidiaries of two China-based asset management firms have submitted applications to offer spot bitcoin exchange-traded funds in the administrative region. Harvest Fund and Southern Fund, both located in Hong Kong and each managing assets worth more than $200 billion, filed requests on Monday to offer the funds, Bitcoin Magazine reported, citing the state-owned Securities Times. Due to severe restrictions on cryptocurrency trading and mining, asset managers cannot offer ETFs in mainland China.

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2024-04-08 09:54:53 Base hits $4B TVL as monthly txs outstrip Ethereum and Arbitrum

Crypto exchange Coinbase’s Ethereum layer-2 blockchain Base has seen its total value locked (TVL) surge by over 13.2% in the past week to surpass $4 billion for the first time as its 30-day transactions beat out Ethereum and its top rival Arbitrum. L2BEAT data updated on April 7 shows Base’s total TVL at $4.15 billion, including $1.45 billion of canonically bridged value — assets locked on Ethereum to be represented on Base — and $2.7 billion in natively minted assets.

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2024-04-07 22:49:54 Ethereum and Polygon Attract Majority of New Users: Flipside Report

Ethereum and its Layer 2 scaling solution, Polygon, attracted the most new users by far in the first quarter of 2024. The latest report by Flipside revealed that these two blockchain platforms have garnered the most cumulative new users among observed EVM chains since the beginning of the year. Polygon boasted 12.3 million new users, and Ethereum had 13.4 million – roughly 70% of new users this year across all observed chains as of March 27. Next up was Arbitrum, recording the most new users (4.7 million) during the same period.

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2024-04-07 12:24:54 US Bitcoin ETFs Bounce Back With $569.4M in Net Inflows After Initial Dip

U.S. spot bitcoin ETFs experienced a streak of four days of net inflows. The influx began modestly with $39.5 million on April 2, escalated to $113.5 million the next day, and soared to $213.4 million on April 3. The week’s culmination saw Friday pulling in an impressive $203 million, as reported by coinglass.com figures. Despite overall market positivity, Grayscale‘s GBTC encountered the day’s largest outflow among the ETFs. Trading volume for the ETFs on Friday summed up to approximately $2.37 billion, marking a 31.5% decrease from Thursday’s $3.46 billion.

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2024-04-06 22:14:54 Genesis purchased 32,041 bitcoins to repay customers after selling GBTC shares: Bloomberg

Genesis purchased 32,041 bitcoins using the proceeds from the completed sale of nearly 36 million Grayscale Bitcoin Trust shares. A New York bankruptcy court granted Genesis permission to sell the GBTC shares — in addition to shares in Grayscale Ethereum trusts — on Feb. 14. When the bankrupt crypto lender applied for said permission, its GBTC shares were valued at nearly $1.4 billion, and its Grayscale Ethereum Trust shares were valued at $165 million. (Its Grayscale Ethereum Classic Trust shares were valued at $38 million.)

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2024-04-06 13:34:55 FTX estate sells $1.9 billion worth of locked up SOL for $64 per token: report

The FTX estate sold around $1.9 billion worth of SOL in a bid to clear the collapsed crypto exchange of debt. FTX's estate sold off roughly two-thirds of SOL lot worth around $2.6 billion, reports Bloomberg, citing people familiar with the matter. The lot contained up to 30 million SOL valued at $64 each. The tokens were discounted because they're locked up, meaning it will take a while before they're sellable.

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2024-04-05 20:54:55 Brazil Eyes Crypto Taxation Changes in New Bill

Brazil is planning to change the way how cryptocurrencies are being taxed. A new bill that deals with investment taxation for individuals will propose to change how crypto is considered, allowing it to be taxed similarly as shared and capital instruments with a variable exchange rate. According to the proposal to be presented in the coming days to the National Congress, crypto investors will have to pay 15% of the income of the operations made with cryptocurrency.

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