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On April 9, the US Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC), the same folks who brought you the thrilling saga of Bitcoin ETF options, decided to let exchanges list options contracts tied to spot Ether (ETH) ETFs. Issuers, however, are still waiting for the SEC to allow Ether ETFs to offer staking, because why make things easy when you can make them complicated? 🎢
Bitcoin, that digital chimera, roared past $83K late Wednesday, spurred by President Donald Trump’s declaration of a 90-day pause on all global U.S. tariffs. Simultaneously, he, with a flourish, slapped China with a 125% tax, ostensibly “based on the lack of respect that China has shown to the world’s markets.” One wonders if markets even possess the capacity for respect! 🤔
Though initial sentiments were, to put it mildly, dubious – owing to recent market calamities and a general aversion to financial frivolity – state sponsor Webster Barnaby, with the silver tongue of a seasoned charmer, and his fellow proponents, managed to turn the tide. One imagines much persuasive rhetoric and, perhaps, a surreptitious wink or two 😉.
Ethereum, that plucky underdog of the crypto world, has recently shed over 5% of its value, sparking a cacophony of debate. Mow, ever the contrarian, insists that ETH remains as overvalued as a Picasso in a thrift store. 🎨
Blackrock, a financial leviathan 🐳 with $11.7 trillion – a sum so vast it could make Midas blush – has deigned to notice cryptocurrencies. Besides running the biggest crypto ETFs, like a digital petting zoo 🐒, they’ve also plunged into the Real World Asset Tokenization (RWA) game. Their BUIDL token, a name only a committee could love, has amassed over $1 billion. Astounding! So, which RWA tokens might bask in the Blackrock afterglow? Pendle (PENDLE), Mantra (OM), Ondo Finance (ONDO), and Chainlink (LINK). Names that sound like characters from a half-forgotten Russian novel, no? 📚
Just yesterday, MSTR was gallivanting about, trading at nearly $300, as Bitcoin decided to play the hero and soared above $82,000, up more than 7% in 24 hours. It was all very dramatic, like a scene from a particularly thrilling penny dreadful. 📈
Ah, the winds of change! Pakistan, once a bastion of anti-crypto sentiment, is now embarking on a grand policy overhaul, as if awakening from a long slumber, rubbing its eyes and declaring, “Why not?”
According to CNBC, Hoskinson reckons that the growing flirtation between Bitcoin and tech giants like Apple Inc (NASDAQ: AAPL) and Microsoft Corp (NASDAQ: MSFT) could be the rocket fuel needed to propel Bitcoin to new heights. 🚀💻
Oh, how the stars have aligned! The illustrious XRP has catapulted—nay, rocketed!—a breathtaking 9.29% in the last 24 hours. 🌠
Our intrepid U.S. bitcoin miners are in a veritable tizzy, scrambling to import ASIC hardware before the new tariffs from the Trump administration send equipment costs soaring into the stratosphere. With prices expected to rise by a jaw-dropping 22–36%, firms are chartering flights costing between $2 million and $3.5 million each, as they rush deliveries from the far-flung corners of China and Southeast Asia. One can only imagine the in-flight meals! 🍽️✈️