Bitcoin Roars Past $50K ($)
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- 📲 Solana phone momentum surges. Solana Mobile now has more than 100,000 pre-orders for its “Chapter 2” smartphone.
- 👮♂️ NY State AG expands DCG/Gemini lawsuit. The Attorney General’s office in NY expanded the billion-dollar anti-fraud civil lawsuit against DCG and Gemini to $3B.
- 👜 FTX unloads custody unit. FTX Holdings is selling off the custody unit it spent $10 million acquiring to CoinList for just $500k.
📊 BTC roars to $50,000. The total crypto market cap (TOTAL) broke above $1.8T resistance as Bitcoin battled $50k, setting a new cycle high! How much higher can we go?
| Prices as of 6pm ET | 24hr | 7d |
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Crypto $1.88T | ↗ 3.3% | ↗ 14.6% |
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BTC $50,140 | ↗ 3.2% | ↗ 17.8% |
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ETH $2,669 | ↗ 6.2% | ↗ 16.1% |
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Everyone seems to be talking about Stride.
The staking platform for Cosmos chains just unveiled stTIA, a liquid staking token (LST) for Celestia’s TIA. stTIA allows holders to earn Celestia staking yields passively while still maintaining a liquid position that can be used in other DeFi projects.
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