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Full withdrawals are also being processed, but the market impact is partially offset by a “healthy number of new entrants in the validator entry queue” — a digest of this week’s top stories.

BTC dominance climbed to 49.06% at the beginning of the 12th before falling to 48.12% as ETH price rose. According to TradingView, BTC dominance was above 49% for the first time in about 21 months since July 2021.

Meanwhile, ETH dominance rose to 19.87% on the 13th, its highest level in a month.

The so-called Quantitative Tightening (QT) has recently ended and the balance sheets of major central banks – the US Federal Reserve (Fed), the European Central Bank (ECB), the Bank of England (BOE) and the Bank of Japan (BOJ) (according to data from macroeconomic research firm TS Lombard, published in the newsletter The Market Ear).

“It could be a tailwind for the market,” The Market Ear wrote in its April 13 newsletter.

Bank of America (BAC) said the market capitalization of tokenized gold topped $1 billion last month as the tokenization of real world assets (RWA) accelerates. ) announced in a research report on April 13.

Solana Mobile (Solana Mobile) announced on April 14 that it will start general sales of cryptocurrency compatible smartphone “Saga” on May 8. Pre-orders are shipping now.

In its April 14th research report, Coinbase said Ethereum (ETH) price was resilient after last week’s “Shanghai” upgrade (aka Chapera).

A successful upgrade to the Ethereum blockchain has pushed ETH’s price higher than expected, and Coinbase says this could continue until the end of April.

Crypto lending firm Amber Group is considering selling its business in Japan as part of a plan to focus more on institutional investors than individual clients. The company’s managing partner, Annabelle Huang, told Bloomberg Television on April 14.

According to documents filed on April 14, Trump has taken on “manager, president, secretary and treasurer” positions at CIC Digital LLC and CIC Ventures LLC, earning CIC Digital LLC $100,011. ~ $ 1 million (about 13.4 million to 134 million yen) “NFT” is listed. Also, CIC Ventures LLC has earned over $5 million for speaking.

Russia’s central bank is working on a bill to introduce an “experimental legal regime” for crypto-assets (virtual currencies) used only for import and export transactions, Governor Elvira Naiullina said on April 17. said on the day. State news agency TASS reported.

Crypto funds saw net inflows of $114 million last week, of which Bitcoin (BTC) funds closed most at $104 million, according to data released by CoinShares on April 17. . Inflows for the past four weeks have now reached $345 million.

The crypto-asset (virtual currency) exchange saw a net inflow of 179,500 Ethereum (ETH), worth about $375 million, in four days after the completion of the Ethereum blockchain “Shanghai” upgrade. Recorded. Data from crypto asset data company CryptoQuant revealed.

Between April 13 and 16, 1,101,079 ETH was deposited on the exchange and 921,579 ETH was withdrawn. It was the largest net inflow in four days in a month.

Nike will soon announce its first NFT sneaker collection on the Web3 platform “.Swoosh” launched in November 2022. The virtual sneaker named “Our Force 1 (OF1)” was inspired by Nike’s representative sneaker “Air Force 1”.

Intel, a major semiconductor company, will end the production of Bitcoin (BTC) mining chip “Blocksale”. The company told CoinDesk in a statement on April 18. Blocksale production was announced just over a year ago.

Coinbase CEO Brian Armstrong said the firm could consider moving out of the US if industry regulations were unclear.

According to official data from the Chicago Mercantile Exchange (CME), the number of active or open Ethereum futures contracts trading on the CME has increased 39% to 6,248 since April 10.

European Union (EU) lawmakers voted 517 to 38 (18 abstentions) on April 20 to pass the Markets in Crypto-Assets Act (MiCA), a new crypto-asset licensing regime. It will introduce the world’s first comprehensive crypto asset regulation law.

SG Forge, the cryptocurrency arm of Societe Generale, has launched a euro-pegged stablecoin on Ethereum. SG Forge claims to be the first such asset to be deployed on a public blockchain.

The queues are getting longer — Validators who requested withdrawals after last week’s “Shanghai” upgrade waited more than 17 days to withdraw staked Ethereum (ETH), according to blockchain analytics firm Nansen. There must be. Last weekend was around the 14th.

According to the Dune dashboard compiled by NFT researcher SeaLaunch, the number of daily users for major NFT marketplaces, including OpenSea, Blur and LooksRare, has remained consistent over the past seven days. The number has been declining since then, dropping to 7,805 on April 19. This number is the lowest since July 31, 2021 when a record 7,455 people were recorded.

The Institute for International Business Communication (IIBC) announced on April 20 that it will start providing digital official certificates using blockchain technology for the TOEIC Program public tests that will be held from April onwards. It is the first time in Japan that a digital official certificate is issued for a large-scale certification exam.

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