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DePIN project on the Solana blockchain raises $30 million in Series A funding

Projects on Solana, the most talked about asset of the last period in the cryptocurrency industry, have also started to enter the radar of VCs. Solana-based IO Research received $30 million in investment from companies including crypto giants such as Solana Ventures, OKX Ventures, Aptos Labs, and Sandbox. The token value of the company, which will issue its token at the end of April and distribute it to investors, has reached $1 billion.

The real rise in Bitcoin has not started yet, says Goldman Sachs Manager

Bitcoin spot ETFs continue to receive billions of dollars of investment, while the digital assets manager of the major US investment bank Goldman Sachs made a comment contrary to the general point of view. The manager stated that the rise in Bitcoin came through small investors, not institutional purchases.

Do Kwon appeal on extradition to South Korea denied by Montenegro Court

Do Kwon, the founder of the collapsed crypto project Terra LUNA, has been in dispute between judicial institutions in Montenegro. In a statement made by the Prosecutor General’s Office of the Supreme Court of the country, it was stated that the decision of the Supreme Court exceeded the authority and the decision was appealed.

Bitcoin is still in middle of bull market, says CryptoQuant CEO 

Ki Young Ju, CEO of on-chain data platform CryptoQuant, said that the bull season is in no way close to the peak of the bull season and that he thinks the decline is temporary. Young Ju stated that it will be very difficult to predict how the halving effect will be.

Is the NFT world revitalising: Another CryptoPunks NFT just sold for $16M in Ethereum

After the level of craziness it reached in the 2021/2022 period, there was another sale that can be considered as a sign of vitality in the NFT market, which fell into a great silence. Following a $16 million CryptoPunks NFT sale in recent weeks, yesterday, Punk NFT #7804 was sold for 4850 ETH. The $16.4 million sale was also the second largest sale of all time in both ETH and dollars.

SEC investigating Ethereum Foundation: Fortune

While the cryptocurrency markets were shaken by the investigation into the Ethereum Foundation, Fortune from the US media wrote that the SEC was behind this investigation.

Ethereum Foundation faces inquiry from a government

The Ethereum Foundation, which is based in Switzerland and supports developments in the Ethereum network, has been investigated. There is currently no detailed information about which government agency opened the investigation.

BlackRock launches $100M crypto fund on Ethereum

BlackRock, which entered the crypto industry with the Bitcoin spot ETF move, has now stepped into the Real World Assets (RWAs) category of this field, which has been much talked about recently. The company applied to the US Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) for the USD Corporate Digital Liquidity Fund. BlackRock will work with Securitize, known for its expertise in asset tokenisation, for the fund.