Bitcoin Halving, AI and Gary 🤡

GM anon☕🌗 

Welcome to today’s Alpha Bytes!

We cut through the noise to bring you crypto updates that matter.

Let’s dive in👇

Money seems to be flowing from shitcoins to Bitcoin before the halving.

Are people playing it safe? What is your play? ♟️

BTC $62,391 (+0.2%), ETH $3034 (-0.3%), SOL $134 (-0.4%)

Crypto News 🗞️📰

• Bitcoin dominance increases as halving nears 

• Worldcoin is building a Layer-2 chain

• Binance set to return to India as FUI-registered entity 

• Binance gets Dubai crypto license following CZ departure 

• Tokenized asset market could hit $16T on public blockchains 

• Bitcoin must clear $57k liquidity for post halving rally

• Gary Gensler’s troll thread disappoints crypto community 

• Tether announces restructuring 

• OKX, Binance, Bybit monthly volumes have tripled since late 2023

• Pricing aggregators cause PAX Dollar to depeg

• Arkansas passes bill to restrict crypto mining 

• Pompliano predicts Bitcoin will be bigger than gold 

• Sweden demands $90 million in outstanding taxes from crypto miners 

• Binance’s emergency SAFU fund now makes up 3% of USDC supply 

• Yuga Labs offloads 2 NFT games 

• Former ETH dev asks for resentencing in North Korea case 

• Crypto.com CEO predicts price dip post halving 

• Binance CEO discusses stablecoin regulation at Token2049

• QCP Capital announces partnership with Further Ventures to expand services in Abu Dhabi

• US Senators reveal new stablecoin bill 

• Ava Labs CEO refutes claims Avalanche was marketed as ETH Killer 

• Ex Coinbase global expansion lead joins a16z-backed Matter Labs 

• Uniswap under SEC gaze

• Filecoin and Injective face losses as RECQ rises 

• Stacks (STX) and MicroStrategy (MSTR) are excellent Bitcoin leverage plays 

• Can UKGC-licensed casinos use cryptocurrency?

• IRS expecting surge in crypto tax crimes 

• PayPal removes NFT protection 

• Trump (MAGA) bucks meme coin trend

• Will Bitcoin halving drive Solana back to $100

• EigenLayer launches on Ethereum amid centralization and security concerns 

Project Updates 🔥👷🏼‍♂️

• Jupiter Exchange Announces JUPSOL LST 

• Magic Eden now supports RUNE

• Zignaly announces launch of Layer-1 chain, ZIGChain

• Lido Finance announces launch of Simple DVT Module 

• Worldcoin launches World Chain

• Netmind updates tokenomics 

• RiscZero to launch R0 zkVM 1.0 

• ZTX launches ZTX ecosystem chain 

• Maverick Protocol introduces v2 Module 2

• BytePlus announces partnership with Sui 

• Ronin Network partners with Ragnarok 

• ScrollZKP announces loyalty program 

• Merlin Chain announces TGE date and releases 

• Arbitrum BOLD: Permissionless validation on Arbitrum 

• Jupiter announces Metropolis Part 1 

• Drift to airdrop 10% of token supply to early users 

• Coinlist resets Karma 

• Pixelverse announces partnership with Mon Protocol 

• Backpack Parcl drop goes live

• Taiko Genesis NFT whitelist 

• Coinlist announces analog incentivized testnet 

• Memeland introduces the premier project on Stakeland, Runecoin

Interesting Threads 🧵

• Thread on UTXOs

• Placeholdervc article about what next 

• Thread on 20 innovative on-chain experiments 

• Decentralizing the electric grid 

• Understanding Jolt 

Launches & Opportunities🚀

• FomoBase 

• xMaquina Demo 

• Omni Claims and TGE 

• 1intro TGE 

• Fantasy Airdrop 

• Nuklai TGE 

• Bool Network

• Volcano 

• NeuroNest

• Priva

• Igloo

• Swan

• Icebreaker

• PistachioFi 

• Zulu Network

• Heroglyphs 

• Sphinx Protocol

• Hylo 

• Merlin Airdrop Checker 

Let’s share some life-changing alpha🫂