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🗞 Gold-backed token PAX Gold (PAXG) temporarily jumped to $3,295 on Binance after Iran's attack on Israel.

UPDATE ON THE IRAN/ISRAEL SITUATION 🇮🇷🇮🇱 (Solid Intel / BRICS News) 🇮🇷 Iran launched 4 waves of suicide drones towards Israel. 🇾🇪 Yemen has also launched drone attacks against Israel. 🇺🇸 The White House said the United States will stand with the Israeli people and support their defense against threats from Iran. 🇰🇼 Kuwait announced that it had severed relations with Israel. 🇺🇸 According to the United States, Iran is preparing to launch up to 500 drones and missiles from Iran, Iraq, Syria, Lebanon and Yemen. 🇮🇱 Israeli Prime Minister: "Don't expect mercy to be given to any Iranian." 🇮🇷 Iranian Defense Minister: “Any country that opens its airspace or territory to attack us will receive our decisive response.”

🗞 $550 million was liquidated in the crypto market in the last hour following Iran's attack on Israel. (Coinglass)

🗞 Flash-New: Iran launched an attack against Israel using dozens of drones, reports Axios journalist Barak Ravid.

🚨Bitcoin falls back below $64,000.

BREAKING: 🇮🇷🇮🇱 Iran and Israel are on the brink of all-out war. Multiple governments, including Russia, India, the UK, the US, and France, have warned their citizens to steer clear of the Middle East, especially Israel, until further notice. U.S Officials warn that an Iranian attack on Israel could happen as early as today, and is expected to include an attack by more than 100 drones and dozens of missiles on military targets in Israel. The United States is preparing its defenses and moving additional military equipment to the region. Crypto Market is dumping because of these events ⚠️

🗞 $830 million was liquidated in the crypto market in the last 12 hours. (Coinglass)

🗞 Hong Kong could approve Bitcoin and Ethereum spot ETFs as early as Monday. (Bloomberg)

🗞 Flash-New: The SEC plans to take legal action against Uniswap. 🇺🇸 (Fortune)

🗞️ Inflation in the United States stood at 3.5% for the month of March, compared to 3.2% in February.

📊 One in five Americans under the age of 42 owns cryptocurrencies. A survey by Policygenius reveals that Generation Z prefers investing in crypto over stocks. Regarding NFTs, only 9% of Gen Z individuals would own them. 🗞️ Blockworks

💬🪙 Jan van Eck, CEO of VanEck, stated that it is unlikely for the Ethereum ETF to be approved before the May deadline. Unlike the Bitcoin ETF approval process, the SEC has not responded to the documents submitted by potential issuers. The lack of response from the SEC is a sign that spot ETH ETFs will likely not meet the deadline. "We've filed our S1, and we haven't heard anything. So, it's a sign. It won't happen without the prospectus being in order." 🗞 coindesk

💬🪙 The halving may have a limited impact on the price. According to Fred Thiel, CEO of Marathon Holdings Inc. He estimated that after the halving, the break-even point for the company would be around $46,000 per bitcoin. "I think the approval of the ETF, which was a huge success, has brought capital into the market and essentially front-ran what could have been price appreciation we typically would have seen three to six months after the halving." "The halving will reduce the supply of bitcoins by about 450 per day, which will likely have a slight impact on prices." "But as miners, we are very excited about the halving, as for once prices have not dropped before but have actually risen, so everyone is obviously maximizing this situation." 🗞 Bloomberg

🗞 The Hong Kong SFC (Securities and Futures Commission) is reportedly planning to announce the listing of the first batch of Bitcoin Spot ETFs in Hong Kong on April 15. (Tencent)

💬🪙Roger Ver accuses Adam Back of hijacking Bitcoin by not allowing for larger blocks to benefit from the Lightning Network. "He fears the revelations in my new book and wants to prevent people from finding out how he and his company hijacked Bitcoin." He has challenged Adam Back to engage in a debate and is willing to give $100,000 to the charity of his choice if he agrees to debate. "If he accepts the debate, I will donate $100,000 worth of cryptocurrency to the charitable organization of his choice." "I have called Adam Back an intellectual coward. He then blocked me to prove me right."

💸Monad Labs has closed a $225 million funding round. Led by Paradigm, the raised funds will be used to build an L1 blockchain to challenge competitors like Solana and Sui. Monad aims to roll out its mainnet by the end of the year and launch a test network in the coming months. Monad Labs also plans to introduce a native token. 🗞️Fortune

The U.S. Treasury urges policymakers to strengthen law enforcement powers against crypto exchanges in pursuit of national security protection. Adewale O. Adeyemo, U.S. Treasury Deputy Secretary, states that Hamas and Palestinian Islamic Jihad have received crypto from Iran. "Our challenge is that actors are finding increasingly sophisticated ways to conceal their identities and move resources using virtual currencies." 🗞 Bloomberg

🗞 Several large Chinese equity funds have reportedly filed applications for a Bitcoin Spot ETF. (Global Times)

🚨 HashKey Group, a digital asset financial services company based in Asia, is launching a new exchange called HashKey Global. "HashKey Group aims to establish one of the largest licensed exchange groups in the world within the next 5 years, surpassing all current regulated exchanges." 🗞 theblock

Recap of the latest crypto news 🗣 🗞 FTX sold 25-30 million SOL at $64 per token, a 60% discount to the current price. The tokens will be released gradually over 4 years. (Cointelegraph) 🗞 Terra Luna founder Do Kwon was found guilty of fraud during his SEC trial. (CoinDesk) 🗞 Binance will no longer support Bitcoin NFTs starting April 18. (Binance) 🗞 JPMorgan predicted that the SEC will eventually approve Ethereum Spot ETFs. (The Block) 🗞 Anonymous crypto investigator ZachXBT revealed he was “borderline harassed” by US law enforcement on 4 or 5 occasions to help them solve blockchain investigations. (Tweet) 🗞 BlackRock has added new authorized participants for its Bitcoin ETF, including Goldman Sachs, Citigroup, UBS and Citadel. (Co-tribune) 🗞 The financial markets authority stressed that Bitget is blacklisted in France because the exchange does not have a PSAN registration. (AMF) 🔜 There are less than 15 days until the next Bitcoin halving.