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Binance determined the application was not necessary "when assessing [its] global needs." The move is unrelated to the exchange's legal settlement in the U.S.

The U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ) argues that Binance's former CEO should remain free until sentencing – but only in the U.S.

The Department of Justice wants him to stay in the U.S. prior to sentencing.

After the first gold ETFs were approved in 2003, the price of gold increased by 420% in the following 10 years. And that's for the old and traditional asset, gold. Imagine what the ETF impact could be for Bitcoin?

A white paper titled: "BitVM: Compute Anything on Bitcoin", Stirring up widespread interest

Despite a very cold market overall, Friend.tech has shown no signs of fading. Several strategy has been proposed to profit from this social application.

FTX intends to sell billions of dollars crypto asset holding, $MATIC, $TRX, and $DOGE would be the most impacted tokens, according to Messari.

While SEC could pick a different reason to deny Grayscale again, it is also possible the SEC could take the new court decision as a graceful exit from their anti-ETF position.

Don't ready too much into the move, said one observer, calling it a typical position reset.

HashKey Exchange obtained approval HK SFC to become the first cryptocurrency exchange to offer retail services in Hong Kong. The registration process indicates that non-Hong Kong residents can also apply for registration.
- 01:389 million UNI transferred from an unknown wallet to Coinbase Institutional, valued over $53.8 millionAccording to on-chain data tracking service Whale Alert, around 9:18 AM Beijing time, 9,000,000 UNI ($53,800,111) were transferred from an unknown wallet to Coinbase Institutional.
- 01:23Possibly influenced by the Bitcoin Thunderbolt, Bitcoin transaction fees soar by 12 timesApril 24 news, chain data shows that in the past 12 hours, the average transaction fee on the Bitcoin mainnet has surged from about 2 sats/vByte to 25 sats/vByte, with a short-term peak once reaching 120 sats/vByte. On-chain monitoring has found that a large number of P2SH UTXO Bundling transactions are being initiated, attributed to the Bitcoin Thunderbolt “Boostpad” limited-time airdrop event and Alkanes inscription release that went live last night, causing a significant increase in miner fee bidding. Previously, on April 15, HSBC's official press release first disclosed that Bitcoin Thunderbolt introduced UTXO Bundling and OP_CAT instructions through a mainnet soft fork, supporting on-chain native asset issuance, transaction acceleration, and smart verification. The network's tested efficiency is improved by 100–200 times compared to the original chain.
- 01:23A whale made a quick in-and-out trade of TRUMP after the TRUMP dinner plan announcement last night, earning $732,000According to on-chain analyst Yu Jin, a savvy whale bought TRUMP after the TRUMP dinner plan was announced last night and sold it half an hour later, earning $732,000 USDC (+14.6%). 00:16 – Bought 407,467 TRUMP with $5,000,000 USDC at a price of $12.27; 00:45 – Sold them all at $14.06, converted into $5,732,000 USDC. In half an hour, they made $732,000 USDC (+14.6%).