Bitcoin
ViaBTC has auctioned one of four “epic sats” for $2.1 million on the crypto exchange CoinEx Global.
Ethereum
Consensys has filed a lawsuit against the SEC and five of its commissioners, including Chair Gary Gensler, over the regulator’s “overreach” and the attempt to classify ether as a security.
Tech
Defined as having massive market caps with little usage, zombie blockchains have gigantic valuations for reasons other than their fundamentals.
Business
Better-known for its crypto derivatives trading business, Cboe on Thursday moved to shut down its spot trading lines.
Regulation
Changpeng “CZ” Zhao had an impressive array of family members, friends, crypto execs, and Binance employees write to the presiding judge on his behalf.
Many large mining pools aren’t actually independent, but seem to be proxies for AntPool, according to Casey Rodarmor.
Changpeng Zhao apologized for not “implementing compliance changes at Binance from the get-go” in a letter to the court on Tuesday.
DeFi
ezETH, which had been trading above $3,000, plunged to $688 on Uniswap as it lost its ether peg. The token is still trading at a discount to ETH.
The move is expected to make it easier for developers to create cross-chain smart contracts.
The Hong Kong Bitcoin and Ethereum spot ETFs will reportedly begin trading on April 30, using an in-kind redemption mechanism.
