Robinhood acquires Bitstamp and Kraken Eyes $100M pre-IPO raise!

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In today’s Alpha Bytes👇

Robinhood to Acquire Bitstamp Crypto Exchange in $200M All-Cash Deal. GameStop-Inspired Solana Memecoin Soars Over 80% as Roaring Kitty Flashes $586M Worth of GME Position. Crypto exchange Kraken eyes $100M pre-IPO raise.

BTC $71,105 (+0.26%), ETH $3,810 (-0.86%), SOL $171.84 (-0.31%)

Crypto News 📰

• ECB just cut interest rates for the first time since 2019 

• US spot bitcoin ETFs achieve record-breaking 18-day streak of net inflows18-day streak of net inflows

• Binance Resumes Mastercard Payments for Crypto

• Solana memecoin dev sets self on fire 

• Medical Device Maker Semler Scientific Buys $17M More Bitcoin  

• Fleek and Polygon Labs Join Hands 

• Telegram launches in-app currency ‘Stars’ for digital purchases 

• Bitcoin Bull Run Poised for Boost as Global Liquidity Hits Record $94 Trillion 

• Hulk Hogan denies memecoin shilling posts on X — ‘not from me’ 

Project Updates 🔥 

• The Cosmos Hub is experiencing a temporary chain halt 

• Ongoing supply chain email breach attack 

• Entangle's E-bridge now supports @solana 

• WayFinder Foundation announce that the ability to cache $PRIME tokens 

• Introducing $CLOUD, the @sanctumso token 

• Paxos International Introduces Lift Dollar (USDL) 

• Spectra is live @spectra_finance 

• Nocturne decided to wind down @nocturne_xyz 

• Injective is releasing a paper on the Injective Token: $INJ  

• Season 1 of $MASK staking 

• Soft-launch Bolt 

• Introducing IO.NET (IO) 

• Alchemy launches rollup tool 

• One Frequency  @polkadot  

Threads 🧵 

• Owning Your Liquidity on the Chain of Liquidity 

• lagrange zk prover 

• Decentralized data 

• Syscoin: Bitcoin Ultimate Layer Zero 

• How I attracted over 2.5M users 

Launches 🚀 

• ✨IOTA’s #EVM Mainnet Unleashed✨ 

• Stake For Governance for W token holders  

• SelfChain @selfchainxyz 

Fundraise 💰

• $8M Series A led by @multicoincap @MountainUSDM 

• Sandbox [SAND] has raised $20M  

• @Tether_to strategic investment of $18.75M in XREX Group   

• GoPlus Security raised $10M  

Airdrops 🪂

• Aethir Airdrop Details  

• Swell  $SWELL airdrop 

• Kelp DAO (Limited time campaign; June 3-16) 

Videos 🎥

• When Will These Cryptos PUMP?! Altcoin Season Update!

• Why I Sold All My ETH 

• How Crypto Could Influence the 2024 U.S. Presidential Race 

Analysis 📈

• GOLD CHART ROUTE MAP UPDATE 

• New Volume Footprint option on TradingView 

• Predicting Bitcoin's Cycle Using the Elliott Wave Theory 

That's a wrap for today!

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