Ark Invest’s Cathie Wood expects Bitcoin to ride ‘financial superhighway’ to $3.8m

ARK Invest CEO Cathie Wood expects Bitcoin’s value to soar on “financial superhighway” toward $3.8 million. “If institutional investors were to allocate a little more than 5% of their portfolios to bitcoin, as we think they will over time, that alone would add $2.3 million to the projection I just gave you,” Wood said at Friday’s Bitcoin Investor Day conference in...

SEC postpones decision on Grayscale Ethereum ETF again

The U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) has once again delayed approving the Grayscale Ethereum (ETH) Futures Trust exchange-traded fund (ETF). The postponement, disclosed in an SEC filing on March 22, extends the deadline from March 31 to May 30. The decision has sparked significant interest and speculation within the cryptocurrency community, since it directly affects the status of...

Avalanche Foundation launches Memecoin Rush, injecting $1m into ecosystem

The Avalanche Foundation kicked off phase one of Memecoin Rush, a $1 million liquidity mining incentive program to catalyze the community coin ecosystem on the Avalanche (AVAX) blockchain. This initiative, announced in a blog post, will begin with SteakHut and Trader Joe — two prominent platforms native to Avalanche — to incentivize trading and provide liquidity for selected community tokens....

Bitcoin ETFs see a fifth consecutive day of net outflow

Spot Bitcoin exchange-traded funds (ETFs) reported total net outflows of $51.6 million on Friday, marking the fifth day of consistent withdrawals. Among these, the Grayscale ETF (GBTC) experienced a substantial single-day net outflow of $169 million. In contrast, the BlackRock ETF (IBIT) and Fidelity ETF (FBTC) saw modest single-day net inflows of $18.89 million and $18.13...

Sovereign funds circle FTX’s $1b stake in Anthropic

Investment giants and sovereign wealth funds are showing a keen interest in acquiring FTX’s shares in Anthropic, an artificial intelligence startup rivaling OpenAI. FTX invested $500 million in San Francisco-based Anthropic three years ago, securing an 8% stake. The value of that stake has since doubled to over $1 billion. Class B shares, which lack voting rights, are now...

Mercury rising: 2024 high of 36.3 degrees C recorded in Singapore’s Choa Chu Kang on March 24

SINGAPORE (The Straits Times/ANN): The mercury hit 36.3 degrees C in Choa Chu Kang on March 24, the highest temperature Singapore has experienced so far in 2024. According to information available on the Meteorological Service Singapore (MSS) website, the sweltering record-high heat was recorded in the north-western estate at 2.41pm. Before this, the highest temperature of 2024...

Greater Bay Airlines launches Singapore-Hong Kong flights, one-way fares from RM288

SINGAPORE (The Straits Times/ANN): Hong-Kong based Greater Bay Airlines (GBA), a low-cost carrier, will launch flights between Singapore and Hong Kong on April 26. One-way fares will start at HK$480 (S$82 - RM288). Founded by Chinese property mogul Wong Cho Bau, who also owns the Shenzhen-headquartered Donghai Airlines, GBA joins carriers Singapore Airlines, Scoot and Cathay...

Floki unveils plans for digital banking, debit card, crypto university

Floki’s roadmap reveals plans for launching digital banking accounts that can be topped up with FLOKI tokens. The accounts aim to allow transactions in major currencies such as dollars, euros, and sterling. Floki will introduce debit cards and staking services as a critical component of its expansion, marking its transition from a meme coin to a comprehensive cryptocurrency...

Solana meme coin costs trader $46k in 3 minutes

Meme coins on Solana continue to epitomize crypto’s infamous gambling aspect, where participants may make or lose a fortune with a few clicks. Lookonchain highlighted a trader’s loss of 263.5 Solana (SOL) valued at $46,000 after investing in meme coin LADYF on March 22. The crypto user bought over $50,000 worth of the meme token shortly...

BlackRock increases Bitcoin holdings to 242k despite record ETF outflows

The world’s largest asset management company, BlackRock, has increased the amount of Bitcoin on its balance sheet. According to the website, BlackRock has increased the amount of Bitcoin (BTC) in its iShares Bitcoin Trust (IBIT) to 242,829. The volume of assets under management in the fund’s spot Bitcoin ETF reached $15.5 billion at the current exchange rate. Source: iShares Fox...