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Well the 4th Bitcoin halving block was officially transacted on Friday, April 19. And an individual transferred $.70 in the transaction, but paid fees of $507k for the block inscription 🤯 Plus Katie Haun is stepping down from the Coinbase Board; RFK Jr. wants to put U.S. budget on-chain; Arbitrum hit by $44M exploit; and information on Bitcoin miners post-halving is wild 🚀 Keep on Scrolling for the most relevant headlines across crypto, web3, and blockchains!

  • Bitcoin halving is complete, so what’s supposed to happen? (F)

  • Magic Eden launched a platform specifically for Bitcoin Runes (BLOCK)

  • Kathryn Haun is stepping down from the Coinbase Board of Directors after 7 years (@katie_haun)

  • RFK Jr. wants to put the entire U.S. budget on-chain (TH)

  • Google search for Bitcoin halving hit all time high (TD)

  • Whales buy $1.2B of BTC during price dip (CD)

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  • Hidden Roads Partners, digital asset investment startup backed by Citadel, is seeking $1B valuation in new fundraise (DH)

  • Shiba Inu collects $12M investment from token sale for building a real use case around privacy (CD)

  • Nebra closes $4.5M seed round co-led by Bankless and Nascent (BLOCK)

  • Only1, a Solana-based version of OnlyFans, raises new round of $1.3M from Newman Group (BLOCK)

  • Hong Kong-based Merkle 3s Capital receives strategic backing from HTX Ventures for new fund (NW)

  • TradeTogether receives strategic investment from XVC Tech for web3 wealth management (AW)

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  • Crypto trader found guilty of 3 charges of fraud (BW)

  • Memecoin shark cat is in murky legal waters (D)

  • Japan government eye DAO support to boost sector (CCN)

  • Thailand releases strict regulation guidelines for ‘unauthorized’ crypto platforms (CGP)

  • The SEC is investigating ETH (CD)

  • Senators to outlaw algorithmic stablecoins (P)

  • Filings show crypto lawyer John Deaton to represent more than 4,000 Coinbase customers in case vs. SEC (BLOCK)

  • The $110M scheme that shut down mango markets (A)

  • $44M exploit on Arbitrum from missing validation (CS)

  • ZKasino, a decentralized gaming network, leaves investors outraged with misplacement of $33M (BLOCK)

  • $2M exploit on Grand base (S)

  • Filecoin Liquid Staking platform STIFL under investigation as tokens moved to unknown external address (CD)

  • Large Nakamoto-style blockchains do not necessarily offer the best security (ARXV)

  • ETH on track for $1B annual profit (CT)

  • ETH generated $370M in profit in Q1 (CP)

  • Ethereum whale with $405M in possession is slowly withdrawing from Binance (DH)

  • Could EigenLayer be facing a major yield crisis? (@chudnovglavniy)

  • Ethereum fees generate 20x less revenue than Bitcoin (TV)

  • GatlingX comes out of stealth building the ‘most performantEVM (BLOCK)

  • Ragnarok monster world is coming to Ronin (@RagmonNFT)

  • A BitcoinDeFi Summer’ could be here as miners pull $100M post-halving (BLOCK)

  • Bitcoin miners collected 860.2 BTC in the first 60 blocks following the 4th Bitcoin Halving (@lopp)

  • Crypto markets to be drive by macro factors after halving (CD)

  • Global crypto investment funds see $206M outflows last week due to interest rate concerns (BLOCK)

  • Ethereum stays above $3k and Bitcoin fluctuates around $66k post-halving

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  • Why there will never be another Bitcoin (K)

  • What is the bitcoin halving? (TG)

  • How are crypto miners affected by bitcoin halving (FY)

  • Hack VC partner Roshun Patel discusses the current evolution of crypto since 2022 (BLOCK)

  • Consensus 2024 in Austin, TX is just 1 month away (C)

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