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BlockFi, the crypto-lender company that almost went bankrupt twice during the crypto crises in 2022, reached an agreement in principle with FTX and Alameda for a payment of $875 million. The agreement was also officially stated in court documents. If BlockFi can get this payment from FTX and Alameda, it will also have the opportunity to pay its customers in full.
Cosmo Jiang, portfolio manager of cryptocurrency investment management company Pantera Capital, said he thinks that a period has entered when altcoins can perform much better than Bitcoin.
Binance, which opened its Japan subsidiary last year and implemented an aggressive growth strategy in the country, announced that it will open three crypto trading parities for the Japanese yen on its globally serving exchange. Bitcoin, Ether and BNB can now be traded in Japanese yen.
Fed chair Jerome Powell stated that they have set this year as a target for interest rate cuts, but that they “would like to see more data” in order to proceed with the cuts.
In the cryptocurrency industry, while the meme coin craze that PEPE started about 2 weeks ago continues, the star of yesterday and today was dogwifhat (WIF), which Binance announced the listing of dogwifhat (WIF). The increase of more than 100% in the coin brought a peak in price.
ARK Invest, a fund firm known for heavily purchasing Coinbase shares at levels between $30 and $50, made a new $24 million sale on Monday. The firm’s sales since October have almost halved the number of COIN shares it holds.
Binance announced AEVO as the 48th Launchpool project. Users will be able to start earning AEVO with their BNB and FDUSD from 8 March. The general list will start on 13 March.
This year, especially in Solana, where the meme coins in the network made very serious profits, some movements that smell of “insider trading” were seen again. A trader managed to turn his investment of only $205 into $225 thousand in 3 days.
Bitcoin reached the $69,000 level once again yesterday after 2.5 years, while BlackRock received a net investment of $788 million. Daily total net inflows also saw the second-largest inflow with $ 648 million.
The total value of locked assets in the decentralised finance ecosystem surpassed the $100 billion for the first time since May 2022. It is thought that the restaking and real-world assets (RWAs), as well as the surge in prices, have increased interest in this market.