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Ether Has Underperformed, but Total Value Locked on Ethereum Is Rising: Citi

Ether has dropped over 20% this year, but fundamentals are improving, the report said.

Citi bank and HSBC skyscrapers at night (Miquel Parera/Unsplash)

Markets

Hedge Funds Are Short Ether CME Futures Like Never Before. Is It Carry Trade or Outright Bearish Bets?

The record short interest is led by carry trades and some amount of outright bearish bets on the second-largest cryptocurrency.

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Markets

Analysts Give XRP, Dogecoin, Litecoin ETFs ‘High Odds’ of Approval

There’s a 90% chance Litecoin ETFs are approved, followed by 75% odds for a dogecoin ETF.

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Markets

Grayscale ETF Application Helps Cardano's ADA Outshine Bitcoin and Ether

The CME has not yet listed ADA futures, which is widely considered a prerequisite for gaining approval for a spot ETF

ADA token's price chart. (CoinDesk)

Finance

European Payments Giant Klarna Says It Will Look To Integrate Crypto

The “buy now, pay later” company is backed by venture capital firm, Sequoia Capital, which has a 22% stake.

Klarna co-founder and CEO Klarna Sebastian Siemiatkowski in London in 2015. (John Phillips/Getty Images)

Policy

North Carolina Joins Growing Number of States Pursuing Crypto Investments

Nineteen U.S. states are weighing bills to put public money into digital assets, some of them similar to the federal pursuit of a Strategic Bitcoin Reserve.

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Finance

Digital Identity Startup Holonym Acquires Gitcoin Passport

The cash and token deal scales up a Worldcoin "alternative."

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News Analysis

2 More U.S. Regulatory Dominos May Have Fallen for Crypto: OCC and CFPB

FDIC Acting Chairman Travis Hill said the agency is overhauling its crypto approach, just as U.S. senators examine regulators keeping banks out of crypto.

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Policy

Alabama Man to Plead Guilty in Bitcoin-Focused SEC X Account Hack

According to the charges, Eric Council Jr. used a fake ID to gain access to a device with SEC account credentials and then falsely said spot bitcoin ETFs had been approved..

The headquarters building of the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) stands in Washington, D.C., U.S., on Monday, May 10, 2010. The chief executive officers of the biggest U.S. stock markets were called to a meeting at the SEC today to discuss last week�s selloff in equities, according to four people familiar with the situation. Photographer: Joshua Roberts/Bloomberg via Getty Images

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Hong Kong’s Patient Approach to Regulating Crypto Will Pay Off: LegCo's Duncan Chiu

Devising clear rules for the industry is important, but it can also help to wait for others to move first, argues Chiu.

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Finance

Binance Bitcoin Reserves Slumped $355M in January as User Balances Rose by $4.4B

The ratio of Binance USDT reserves to user balances also dropped significantly.

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Opinion

Why Trump Is Right on a Digital Currency Reserve

Holding BTC is not necessarily an endorsement, but it’s definitely in the interests of the United States as it looks to become a fintech powerhouse, argues Chip Daniels, chief executive officer of Salomon Brothers.

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Finance

U.K. Man Wants to Buy Landfill Site in Search for Lost $784M of Bitcoin: Report

He tried to sue the local council for not responding to his requests to search the site, but the case was dismissed by a judge in January.

Landfill site (Getty Images / Unsplash)

Opinion

Why We Need a Bipartisan Stablecoin Bill – Gillibrand

The new Guiding and Establishing National Innovation for U.S. Stablecoins (GENIUS) Act lays the groundwork for a new era of American exceptionalism, says Senator Kirsten Gillibrand, of New York.

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