Surprise Ethereum ETF Approval?
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- 🎉 Ethereum ETF Approval Incoming? After months of bearishness, is an eleventh-hour reversal coming from the SEC?
Read more on Bankless. - 👋 Michael Sonnenshein Out as Grayscale CEO. The crypto ETF giant is getting a new leader.
Read more on Bankless. - 🧑⚖️ Genesis $2B Settlement Approved by Judge. It's the largest settlement against a crypto company in New York's history.
Read more on Bankless.
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📊 Don’t Ape That. Prolific pseudonymous crypto trader “Cobie” has been largely absent from industry discourse in recent months but returned yesterday, publishing a lengthy screed to his blog discussing the issues and misconceptions surrounding new token launches. Why does Cobie think new tokens are going down-only from here?
Prices as of 6pm ET | 24hr | 7d |
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Crypto $2.56T | ↗ 6.0% | ↗ 11.3% |
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BTC $69,612 | ↗ 5.0% | ↗ 10.7% |
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ETH $3,630 | ↗ 18.3% | ↗ 23.1% |
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It’s memecoin season, and we’ve seen a rise in “memecoin launcher” projects. The idea? These do-it-yourself platforms make it easy to create and deploy your own memecoins.
I’ve covered a couple of these projects so far, like Pump.fun and Party, and more are launching every week. A new one that caught my eye this month is Basecamp. It's a 1-click memecoin deployer with no launch costs except the ETH you need for gas.
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Kraken is one of the largest and most secure crypto platforms in the world. They've been in the crypto game for over a decade, and now they're inviting us all on a journey to see what crypto can be.
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Are we being watched? That’s the question we ask Byron Tau, an investigative journalist and author of “Means of Control,'' which dials into the U.S. surveillance state.
It turns out the government has a digital dossier on every citizen – but how? How do they collect the data? How are they using it? Can we ever get back our digital privacy?
Bankless Citizens get an exclusive Debrief of the episode 👇
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Thousands of Bankless Citizens scored an average of $3,500 worth of tokens after Ether.fi's airdrop. Did you miss out again?
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