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What will happen after the Bitcoin halving? Experts weigh in on historic moment

Experts contribute their opinions to predict and decipher what will happen after the Bitcoin halving next month. As the 2024 Bitcoin halving approaches, crypto.news asked Kurt Wuckert Jr., Chief Bitcoin Historian at CoinGeek, and Joshua Petty, CEO of Ordinals Wallet, what they believe will occur post-halving. How does the Bitcoin halving event affect the Ordinals market? Wuckert Jr.: It doesn’t. In fact, Ordinals volume, value, and trading are completely separated from the halving, and makes any chain with an Ordinals market fundamentally stronger because it brings commerce onto the chain regardless of the price of the base asset. Petty: Halving…

Bitcoin

Stablecoin Project Gyroscope to Conduct Points Program, Launch High-Yield Liquidity Pools

Gyroscope is debuting a high-yield liquidity pool that seeks to generate returns from trading, rehypothecation of assets and loyalty points. Backers call the new product extremely capital efficient. Stablecoin project Gyroscope is out with a new piece of trading infrastructure that its developers say will improve capital efficiency for crypto users seeking yield. The new liquidity pool product is called Rehype – short for rehypothecation, the practice of lending out the collateral backing a loan. Doing this can compound risks of a lender default, but also compounds the rewards generated by loans. Gyroscope's Rehype liquidity pools are long on yield…

Altcoins

Solana Shooter 'Nyan Heroes' Boosts Airdrop Rewards in Epic Games Demo

Solana-based shooter Nyan Heroes is offering double the “MEOW” points in its current play-to-airdrop campaign this weekend, 9 Lives Interactive said on Friday, providing added incentive for players to check out the current pre-alpha PC demo on the Epic Games Store. Gamers looking to participate in the boosted play-to-airdrop event have from March 30 until April 1 to earn double the standard rewards points for playing the game and completing missions, the company said. Nyan Heroes players can earn MEOW points for playing the game until the pre-alpha demo is removed from Epic Games on April 9, and those points…

GameFi

XRP Community Reacts as Flare Begins Trading on Largest Dutch Exchange

Bitvavo, the largest exchange based in the Netherlands, has added support for Flare (FLR), sparking a reaction from the XRP community. The Flare Network community, which largely comprises XRP holders who received the token as airdrops last year, has witnessed a pivotal development that could help bolster adoption and demand for the FLR token. Bitvavo Lists Flare Bitvavo, one of the leading global exchanges and the largest Dutch crypto exchange, recently revealed that it has added support for FLR. The listing, which occurred on March 27, also involved three other crypto assets, Wrapped BTC (WBTC), Big Time (BIGTIME), and MANTRA…

Exchanges

Ripple Named Best Platform for Cross-Border Payments in 2024

Ripple’s role in the payments sector cannot be overstated. Since its launch in 2012, the California-based company has provided enterprise-grade infrastructure allowing businesses to use blockchain to send and receive cross-border payments cheaper, faster and more efficiently. Due to its expertise in the global payments sector, Ripple was recognized as the Best Cross-Border Payment Platform and Best DeFi Infrastructure Platform in the 2024 Fintech Breakthrough Award program. The leading cryptocurrency payments company wrote about this on X, highlighting that it was among the “Fintech Breakthrough Award winners for 2024.” Ripple also expressed gratitude to the award organizers for the recognition.…

Altcoins

Crypto Community Shows Discontent Over Sam Bankman-Fried's 25-Year Sentence

In a packed courtroom, Sam Bankman-Fried, the founder of the cryptocurrency exchange FTX, was sentenced to 25 years in prison by Judge Lewis A. Kaplan. The sentencing follows a landmark trial that has captured widespread attention for its revelations of financial misconduct within the cryptocurrency industry. Crypto Mogul Sam Bankman-Fried Handed 25-Year Sentence; $11 Billion in Restitution The sentencing hearing, detailed meticulously by Matthew Russell Lee of Inner City Press, thoroughly examined Sam Bankman-Fried’s (SBF) actions and their extensive impact on investors, customers, and the broader financial landscape. Overseeing the case, Judge Kaplan rejected the defense’s arguments concerning the calculation…

Regulation

Arrow Markets launches crypto options trading platform for non-US markets

Arrow Markets has launched a new platform for trading non-U.S. crypto options, aiming to simplify the trading process for users internationally. The initiative seeks to fill a gap in the market, akin to the role Robinhood plays in the U.S. for stock options trading, but focusing on the defi sector. Supported by Framework Ventures, Delphi Ventures, and Blizzard the Avalanche Ecosystem Fund, Arrow Markets is aiming to capture a significant portion of the defi options market. The platform operates on Avalanche’s C-chain and introduces a Request-for-Execution (RFE) system that enhances the traditional Request-for-Quote (RFQ) approach by leveraging blockchain technology to…

Exchanges

Fed Rate Cuts Hold the Key to Decoding Bitcoin’s Cyclical Behavior, Analyst Suggests

On March 28, Into The Cryptoverse CEO Benjamin Cowen postulated whether the current Bitcoin market cycle is normal or a “left-translated” one, where the peak occurs earlier than usual. Bitcoin has already notched up a new all-time high and it is still three weeks to go until the halving. This has introduced the possibility of this cycle peak coming much earlier than previous ones, which happened in the year following the halving event. Fed Rate Cut Influence If Bitcoin markets pull back after any Federal Reserve rate cuts, it could put it back on track with prior cycles, potentially peaking…

Bitcoin

Australia And New Zealand Banking Group (ANZ) Has Showcased How Suitable Avalanche Is In Tokenization And Settlement

Australia and New Zealand (ANZ) Banking Group, in collaboration with Chainlink, has unveiled the results of an initiative aimed at bridging the gap between Avalanche and Ethereum for global asset settlement. In a recent announcement published on X, ANZ and Chainlink showcased the results of their collaboration, which focused on using the Cross-Chain Interoperability Protocol (CCIP) to facilitate settlement of tokenized assets across disparate blockchain networks. The joint effort between the banking group and Chainlink aims to demonstrate the ability to access, trade and settle tokenized assets across multiple networks and currencies using delivery versus payment (DvP). This settlement method,…

Altcoins

Statement of U.S. Attorney Damian Williams on the Sentencing of Sam Bankman-Fried

Damian Williams, U.S. Attorney for the Southern District of New York, released this statement on social media platform X (formerly twitter) after Sam Bankman-Fried was sentenced to 25 years in prison: Samuel Bankman-Fied orchestrated one of the largest financial frauds in history, stealing over $8 billion of his customers' money. His deliberate and ongoing lies demonstrated a brazen disregard for customers' expectations and disrespect for the rule of law, all so that he could secretly use his customers' money to expand his own power and influence. The scale of his crimes is measured not just by the amount of money…

Regulation