Bitcoin Halving Completed; ZKasino Controversy Erupts with $33 Million Missing

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In today’s Alpha Bytes

ZKasino's mishap (rug) highlights the risks of centralized platforms as users lose ETH to an unexpected token swap.

Despite recent halving, Bitcoin remains a safer bet, emphasizing the value of true decentralization.

BTC $66,069 (+1.65%), ETH $3205(+1.3%), SOL $154.56 (+2.8%)

Crypto News 🗞️📰

• The 4th Bitcoin halving is officially in the books

• Bitcoin miners upgrading power centers, getting into AI as they brace for slashed revenue

• Meme coin mania: Dogecoin, Shiba Inu, Floki surge, outperform broader crypto markets 

• Bitcoin will power next DeFi summer 

• Ethereum founder Vitalik Buterin reminds everyone about main goal of crypto 

• Bitcoin halving gets mixed reactions from analysts and enthusiasts 

• Halving done, what next for Bitcoin?

• Bitcoin miners reap windfall as Runes debut sends transaction fees skyrocketing 

• Hong Kong investment firm Victory Securities reveals Bitcoin and Ether ETF fees. 

• Pavel Durov reveals new Telegram blockchain features 

• Crypto regulations: How MiCA affects you 

• Terra says yes to crucial proposals but what about LUNC?

• The state of Ethereum after the Bitcoin halving

• EY launches Ethereum-based OpsChain Contract Manager

• ETH price surges amid ancient wallet activity 

• BlockDAG’s moon keynote teaser shoots presale past $19.3 million

• Bitcoin generates 24 times more fees compared to Ethereum 

• Polkadot 2.0 refines blockchain scalability and interoperability 

• EigenLayer on brink of potential yield crisis 

• Bitcoin fees crash after record daily average on halving day.

• BTC trading at deep discount post halving 

• Penny hasn’t dropped for Australia’s next crypto unicorns 

• Why is the crypto market up today? 

• Bitcoin halving shows users that code is ultimately law

• Thailand will block unlicensed crypto exchanges to solve online crimes 

• RFK Jr wants to put the entire US budget on a blockchain 

• Memes are creating a “Cambrian Explosion” of crypto onboarding 

• Tether issued on TON blockchain off to a great start 

• 12 Solana presale meme coins abandoned just after a month 

• Sam Bankman-Fried to aid class action lawsuit targeting FTX celebrity endorsers. 

• Ark-Invest makes bullish move pre-halving 

• DUKO thrives as major currencies stumble 

• Bitcoin ransomware defrauds over 250 companies 

• Over $26 million SOL lost in Rugged presales 

• Solana devs deploy series of fixes to address congestion 

• Melania Trump unveils Solana NFT

• FTX to drop claims against SBF, eye bigger legal targets 

• FTX estate plans to auction for locked Solana tokens 

• Avi Eisenberg convicted 

• Tether announces plans to reorganize into four new divisions 

• Binance gets full Dubai permit after Zhao cedes control of unit

Project Updates 🔥👷🏼‍♂️

• Hedgey Finance exploited for $1.3 million 

• Introducing GM ID 

• Aptos Labs announces collaboration with Microsoft, Brevan Howard, and SK Telecom 

• Blast Layer2 gold distribution done 

• ZKasino rugpulled users 

• ZKasino founder exposed 

• Introducing Myshell AI 

• Singularity DAO announces partnership with Ledgity 

• Overlay, only perp DEX for Ordinals 

• PoolTogether new version now live on Optimism 

• MagicEden Runes platform to go live on April 23 

• Pixelverse announces play-to-airdrop campaign 

• OG’s Newton testnet is now live 

• Lido dual governance 

• Introducing rgUSD

• Layer2 restaking

• Introducing the Starknet Paymaster by AVNU

• Credit Guild is now live on Arbitrum

Interesting Threads 🧵

• Ethereum All Core Developers Consensus Call

• Greco: Fast Zero-Knowledge proofs for valid FHE RLWE Ciphertexts formation

• Gasp: Enabling lightning-fast cross-rollup liquidity beyond Layers 

Funding🤑

• Lambda Finance raises $1.8 million in Angel Round 

• VC Roundup: Centrifuge, Crypto Valley Exchange, Nebra, lock in funding rounds 

Security👮

• StarWallets exploited 

• Concentrated Liquidity Manager Vulnerabilities, Invariants, and Heuristics 

• Detecting incorrect Interface definitions 

• Finding losses in gains

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