Crypto + China = Interesting Developments👇

Today’s Alpha Bytes 🐺☕

Hong Kong has greenlit Bitcoin and Ethereum ETFs, hinting at potential new capital inflows 🏦

This development comes alongside key updates, including the upcoming Bitcoin halving and enhancements to Solana's network amidst global tensions.

Let’s dig in 👇📰

BTC $65476 (+2.00%), ETH $3182 (+5.1%), SOL $147.77 (+7.7%)

Crypto News 🗞️📰

• Hong Kong Approves spot Bitcoin, Ethereum ETFs. 

• What to expect from Bitcoin and altcoins this week.

• Bitcoin halving could deal a $10 billion blow to crypto miners

• Germany’s largest federal bank to offer crypto custody services

• Bitcoin halving highlights why the cryptocurrency must upgrade 

• Bitcoin, other cryptocurrencies spooked amidst escalating Middle East tensions. 

• JPMorgan flags downside risks in crypto markets. 

• Former security engineer jailed for stealing $12.3 million from crypto exchanges.

• Solana meme coins suffer as crypto plunges. 

• Key events that could signal a Bitcoin bull run. 

• Crypto is making a lot of noise. 

• The week in crypto games 

• ETH reclaims $3K but can it go higher?

• Solana rolls out significant update to tackle network congestion 

• Solana developers testing congestion fixes. 

• Solana open interest sheds $440 million as price slumps 11%

• Is Solana primed for recovery?

• Crypto community furious as SEC goes after Uniswap 

• What are crypto airdrops?

• Bitcoin miners could liquidate $5 billion post halving 

• US government tops global Bitcoin holdings with $15 billion in assets. 

• Grand Base token sees nearly 100% drop in value, sparks rug pull concerns.

• Solana sees 7% spike following update 

• Spot Bitcoin ETFs see $55 million net outflow 

• Dogwifhat sees significant price drop 

• NEAR, XRP enjoy considerable gains as attention for Milei Moneda spikes 

• Fazoo’s exchange platform attracting attention from ThorChain, Fantom investors. 

• Amidst market downturn, Bittensor bucks trend

• Coinbase files to seek interlocutory appeal towards SEC

• Circle launches USDC smart contract support for BlackRock BUIDL holders. 

• Binance announces 52nd project on Binance launchpool 

Project Updates 🔥👷🏼‍♂️

• OLNetwork team blacklisting wallets 

• Pac Finance incident causes $26 million in liquidations. 

• EigenLayer announces AVS mainnet launch. 

• Omni Network shares airdrop details 

• IPOR Labs announces launch of IPOR Fusion. 

• Aevo adds $ZERO to prelaunch 

• Chainlink announces launch of Transporter bridge 

• Binance adds $OMNI to launchpool 

• AltLayer unveils dual staking 

• Mocaverse announces tokenomics 

• Cartesi to deploy rollup contracts on Base 

• X Layer announces collaboration with Moby 

• TON Foundation airdrops 300K TON to most active meme coin traders on DeDust and Ston.fi 

• LineaBuild Easter surprise 

• SkyBridge announces partnership with Parcl 

• Introduction to Arch 

• Orange Layer announces testnet launch 

Funding 💶

• Berachain announces $100 million Series B funding

Threads 🧵

• Updates on Ord

• Explainer thread on $PUPS by DeFi_Monk 

• EigenLayer and its ecosystem 

• Are meme coins a trojan horse for Web3

• Cross chain intents proposed by Across Protocol and Uniswap 

• Blockworks research by Arweave 

• Mechanism design for zk-rollups prover markets