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Crypto Exchange OKX Says Its Ending Services in India in Response to Regulation

March 21, 2024

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First Mover Americas: Crypto Market Volatility Heats Up

March 21, 2024

The latest price moves in bitcoin (BTC) and crypto markets in context for March 21, 2024. First Mover is CoinDesk’s daily newsletter that contextualizes the latest actions in the crypto markets. Source

Web 3 Startup Tensorplex Labs Raises $3M Seed Funding to Decentralize AI

March 21, 2024

Tensorplex said decentralization is an antidote to the risk of tech giants monopolizing artificial intelligence, making them prone to biases or censorship. Source

Selling on Rise? Crypto Whale Transfers $42.8M ETH to Binance

March 21, 2024

Roughly 18 hours ago, an investor holding a large amount of ether transferred 12,000 ETH worth $42.8 million to Binance, according to Lookonchain. Source

TREMP’s Caretaker Says The Hit Solana Meme Coin Is More About Fun, Than Politics

March 21, 2024

3fn, B’s partner in the TREMP project, explains that these meme tokens use Solana because of its low transaction fees, fast speeds, and community. Ethereum won’t work because of its high fees – something that was the genesis for Solana and its competitors in the first place. Source

BlackRock Enters Asset Tokenization Race with New Fund on the Ethereum Network

March 20, 2024

“This is the latest progression of our digital assets strategy,” said Robert Mitchnick, BlackRock’s Head of Digital Assets. Source

FTX Was Down to Last 105 Bitcoins When Bankruptcy Rescue Crew Arrived: John Ray

March 20, 2024

John J. Ray III Fires Back Against SBF’s ‘Delusional’ Claims Customers Lost No Money in FTX Collapse Source

Morph EVM Raises $19M in Seed Round Led by Dragonfly

March 20, 2024

March 21: Morph, a fully permissionless Ethereum Virtual Machine (EVM) layer 2 for value-driven dApps, announced the close of a $19 million seed round, led by DragonFly Capital with additional participation from Pantera Capital, Foresight Ventures, The Spartan Group, MEXC Ventures, Symbolic Capital, Public Works, MH Ventures, Everyrealm, with an additional $1MM raised in an angel round. According to the press release: “The innovative technology is built within three key pillars – decentralized sequencer, optimistic zkEVM integration and modular design.” Source

Why the SEC Shouldn’t Classify ETH as a Security

March 20, 2024

Reports suggest the SEC may be about to categorize ETH as a security, with huge implications for the blockchain’s future. Here’s why the SEC would be wrong. Source

Coinbase’s Base Chain Warns of ‘Stuck’ Transactions Amid Traffic Surge

March 20, 2024

“Due to high network traffic on the Base network, transaction fees increased over the last 24 hours. Some user transactions that were submitted with lower fees may be stuck in a ‘pending’ state,” a representative for Coinbase told CoinDesk in an emailed statement. “If possible, users with pending transactions should cancel their transaction and resubmit with the latest estimated gas fee. If you are unable to cancel your pending transaction, the transaction will complete once traffic subsides.” Source