A Closer Look At Micro and Macro Crypto Market Over The Last 24H

Micro News

🔸 $BTC - Bitcoin drops to ~$60K, and altcoins bleed as tensions escalate between Israel and Iran. Market capitalization stands at $2,320B.

🔸 $GBTC - On Apr 18th, $4M left #ETFs - for the 5th consecutive session, Grayscale sold $90M of GBTC while funds received nearly $86M.

🔸 $BNB - Binance is launching Binance Megadrop, a new token launch platform. The first project will be Bouncebit $BB, a #BTC🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥 restaking chain.

🔸 $AVAIL - Avail announced an airdrop plan to distribute 600 million tokens to 354,605 ​​wallet addresses.

🔸 $MERL - Merlin Layer 2 Chain's People's Launchpad shares will be available for claiming at 12:00 today.

🔸 $APT - Aptos Labs collaborates with Microsoft, Brevan Howard and SK Telecom to build out the institutional platform Aptos Ascend.

🔸 $XCH - The Chia project has made progress towards an IPO, according to Coindesk.

🔸 $ONDO expands #RWA! to Cosmos through the Noble asset issuance chain.

🔸According to Google Trends data, the search interest level for the term " #bitcoinhalvingn " has reached a score of 45. Countdown: 20 hours before the #Halving2024.

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Macro News:

🔸#Israel Vows Response to Iran as US and Allies Urge Restraint

🔸Tesla will lay off more than 10% of the global workforce.

🔸Boeing defends 787 Dreamliner safety after whistleblower allegations

🔸EU Set to Launch China Probe on Medical Device Procurement

🔸Hong Kong crypto ETFs will be 'lucky' to attract $500 million in total AUM: analyst

🔸'China Is Xenophobic & Cheating': Biden Ramps Up Anti-Beijing Rhetoric On Campaign Trail

🔸FED's Kashkari warns that interest rate cuts may not happen until 2025.