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In 2021 and early 2022, NFTs, which were snapped up at the craze level, tried to recover with the rise in the price of Ether, but it seems that collections such as BAYC, MAYC and Otherdeeds released by Yuga Labs could not keep up with this output in any way. Yuga NFTs hit an all-time low in ETH as of last week.
Bitcoin miners, whose rewards will be halved with the halving, increased their income with the surge in price. Miner revenues reached an all-time high over the weekend.
Crypto research company Kaiko published a report explaining the record level in Bitcoin last week and its effects on the market. In the report, where many issues ranging from meme coin craze to spot and derivative volumes on centralised exchanges were detailed, the market volume of USDT was questioned, while whales were still waiting.
Michael Saylor, the founder and executive chairman of MicroStrategy, whose number of Bitcoins in his hands reached 205,000 with his announcement today, conveyed both his new purchases and his opinions on Bitcoin in a programme he attended. Saylor said, “Bitcoin is certainly at least digital gold, it’s going to eat gold, it’s got all of the great attributes of gold and it’s got none of the defects of gold.”
Vitalik Buterin, one of the founders of Ethereum, proposed a solution for a possible attack with quantum computers. Buterin stated that quantum attacks can be prevented by introducing account abstraction through a hard fork.
The MicroStrategy company completed the purchase of $800 million in bonds, while purchasing 12 thousand Bitcoin with the income from the bonds.
While the demand of institutional investors in the world for crypto-supported products, especially Bitcoin, is increasing, a new step came from the UK. The FCA, the country’s financial regulator, made a statement claiming that it will not object to requests from licensed investment exchanges for cryptocurrency-backed bonds. The FCA also stated that it will not allow individual investors to access these bonds.
Elon Musk, who lost his leadership as the richest person in the world to Jeff Bezos last week, made a new announcement about the artificial intelligence company xAI and stated that Grok, the company’s application, will be made open source. After the announcement, both xAI and Grok started to rise. The two tokens have no relation to Elon Musk’s companies or projects.
Bitcoin took its recent rise movement to another dimension on Monday morning and surpassed $70,000 for the first time in its history. The largest cryptocurrency also managed to surpass $ 72 thousand.
Bitcoin spot ETFs received a net investment of $472 million yesterday. In ETFs, where BlackRock generally received the most investment, the leader of the day was Fidelity with a surprising difference. Grayscale also saw $374 million in sell-off.