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This week’s Crypto Biz explores crypto exchanges renewed challenges, BlackRock’s Bitcoin ETF inflows, Goldman Sachs’ clients returning to crypto, and Mastercad’s forecasts for remittances in Latin America.

Mysterious withdrawals from LENX’s treasury have raised concerns about an ongoing slow rug pull on the protocol.

Two U.S. financial regulators cannot seem to reach a consensus on how to treat certain cryptocurrencies as securities or commodities.

The real-world asset tokenization trend is heating up, fueled by BlackRock’s first tokenized asset fund, “BUIDL,” which joined 16 other tokenized government securities funds in the last week.

Can BNB break past $620? On-chain and derivatives metrics hint positvely.

This edition of Cointelegraph’s VC Roundup highlights Borderless Capital’s recent acquisition, along with new funding raises by Keyring Network, Morph, Rails, BOB, FLock and Race.

After Microsoft, all that’s left is gold. But Bitcoin will need a price point north of $800,000 to climb that mountain.

Will the former FTX CEO actually be in federal prison until he’s 57 years old? Will anything change in regard to FTX users getting their funds?

Bitcoin is struggling to sustain above $70,000, indicating that the long-lasting rally could be tiring out.

The software development kit allows Solana games to settle "millions of requests" during game sessions and settle them back to Solana L1 for faster processing.

Bitcoin exchange withdrawal trends are clear as “pent up institutional demand” from the spot ETFs combines with the upcoming halving to squeeze the available BTC supply.

Onboarding the next 500 million users will require simple apps with “actual usability,” Justin Hyun told Cointelegraph.

The largest stablecoin issuers are non-European, but they will have to get compliant fast if they don’t want to lose ground on the continent.

Bitcoin remained above the key $69,000 mark following the quarterly expiry event, suggesting the pre-halving retracement may be over.

Only 19% of gamblers betting on the outcome of a decision on whether to approve or deny spot Ether ETFs by the U.S. SEC are putting their money on a positive result by the May deadline.

While some applaud the move toward mainstream adoption, privacy-centric Bitcoin supporters have raised concerns about centralized data aggregation.

The exploit on the copy-cat token occurred hours after Ethena’s new ENA token was launched for farming on Binance.

While there are reasons to be “very bullish” on Q2, the sheer speed of the Bitcoin and crypto bull market may be cause for concern, says QCP Capital.

The SFC website confirms that HKVAEX withdrew its license application nearly three months after the filing on Jan. 4, 2024.

Bitwise’s Matthew Hougan said the best advice he could give traders is to “keep calm and take the long view.”

Gambaryan’s lawyer requested an adjournment for the NSA and EFCC to respond, which was granted by the judge, who postponed the case to April 8.

Former FTX and Alameda executives agreed to share information to aid in the class group’s legal fight against other alleged FTX promoters.

Bitcoin Cash hasn’t seen open interest at this level since May 2021, when its price was nearly 2.5 times higher.

The newly launched spot Bitcoin ETFs, excluding Grayscale have now amassed $35 billion worth of Bitcoin in just 54 days of trading.

Ethereum network standards should increase when considering layer-2 scaling solutions, suggested Ethereum co-founder Vitalik Buterin.

Kerrisdale Capital claims MicroStrategy’ is no longer a “unique way to gain access to Bitcoin” but Michael Saylor has long argued his firm will remain an attractive option to investors.

Malware database vx-underground has warned of a new info-stealing malware in cyberspace that is targeting video gamers, especially those who use cheating software.

The hacker’s on-chain message came approximately six hours after the hack occurred. However, blockchain security firms noted the hacker had also started swapping the stolen funds for Ether.

Memecoins based on Sam Bankman-Fried rocketed and then crashed as a U.S. court handed down more than two decades of jail time for the former FTX CEO.

With a market capitalization of $4.2 billion, a $800 million stock offering would effectively dilute CLSK shares by 19%.