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Hong Kong’s financial regulator has officially approved the first batch of spot Bitcoin and Ether ETFs for trading.

Hacken’s Luciano Ciattaglia said that new crypto users should not immediately jump into decentralized finance or decentralized exchanges.

Microsoft intends to use services like Azure OpenAI Service and Copilot for Microsoft 365 to help drive AI innovation for the Coca‑Cola Company and its network of independent bottlers worldwide.

Lazarus group first surfaced in 2009, and since then, it has primarily targeted crypto firms, stealing billions of dollars worth of assets.

The United States hosted its first 1,000 crypto ATMs in November 2017, while Canada achieved the same in January 2021.

The CBN, through the circular, also stated that regulated financial institutions dealing in crypto or facilitating payments for crypto exchanges are prohibited.

Coinbase has surpassed EPS estimates for the last four quarters, and crypto analysts expect this trend to continue next week.

Crypto whales are a key supporting element, offering retail crypto audiences much-needed intel on price action.

Binance founder and former CEO Changpeng Zhao is expected to be sentenced on April 30 after pleading guilty to money laundering in November 2023.

Elon Musk hinted at what Tesla’s long-awaited robotaxi experience could look like during Q1 earnings, while the firm’s Bitcoin holdings remain unchanged.

A widely misinterpreted announcement from the HBAR Foundation has sparked confusion among crypto influencers and sent the price of HBAR token soaring.

Bitcoin bulls are closing in on ask liquidity, which, if taken, would overcome key resistance and unlock BTC price discovery.

Dogecoin has “historical heritage” but whether it hits a one-dollar price target is still a risky bet.

Worldcoin will be selling up to 1.5 million WLD tokens to select trading firms outside of the United States every week for the next six months.

“Mt. Gox coins could become a relevant negative price contributor in the next weeks,” say K33 Research analysts.

IBC has always had the bug but it only recently became exploitable due to developments in the protocol’s codebase, Asymmetric Research said.

Amendments are slowing down the SEC in both cases, although observers say the agency is not really engaged with them.

The question of Tigran Gambaryan’s bail in Nigeria was expected to be addressed in an April 22 hearing, which has reportedly been pushed back to May 17.

Kinto co-founder Victor Sanchez says real-world asset tokenization could be the future of finance and explains why BlackRock has decided to get in on the action.

In the last known communication in 2011, Satoshi Nakamoto disclosed they had moved on to other things, handing over Bitcoin to the community.

The Block — then Square — CEO initially suggested the idea of a collaborative approach to decentralize Bitcoin mining in October 2021.

Airdrop squatters are creating fake accounts on platforms for the sole purpose of farming airdrop tokens, thus taking away share from loyal users.

Ether faces subdued demand as investors’ expectations of a spot ETH ETF approval continue to slump.

Financial advisers Legacy Wealth Management and United Capital Management of Kansas have each invested $20 million in shares of the Fidelity Wise Origin Bitcoin Fund (FBTC).

The commission will have until June 11 to decide on the Cboe BZX Exchange listing and trading shares of the Franklin Ethereum Trust.

Bitcoin price has gained 58% since January, but Unchained researcher Joe Burnett says there are plenty of reasons for investors to keep buying BTC.

Bitcoin price is outperforming Tesla stock for the first time since 2019, though the EV giant still maintains a sizeable BTC stash.

ChainLinkGod — the reason many invested their net worth into LINK in 2021 — was started by Zach Rynes when he was still in high school.

USDT-issuer Tether says it will block payments made to OFAC-sanctioned entities after sources claim Venezuela’s state-run oil company is using USDT to facilitate oil exports.

The New Hampshire duo uses cracking techniques to access lost wallets.