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The global crypto market cap is $1.62T -7.40%▼ with a 24hr market volume of 170.17B 36.81%▲. Bitcoin's dominance is currently 60.15% 0.33%▲. Don’t defy DeFi. CURRENT PRICES BY MARKET CAP | # | Name | Price | 24h % | | 1 | Bitcoin BTC | $51,815 | -7.52% ▼ | | 2 | Ethereum ETH | $1,608 | -5.77% ▼ | | 3 | Binance Coin BNB | $ 234.70 | -10.06% ▼ | | 4 | Cardano ADA | $1.14 | 0.48% ▲ | | 5 | Polkadot DOT | $30.29 | -13.63% ▼ | * Prices as of 2:30 p.m. ET.
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 TIME magazine net $500K on the sale of four NFT magazine covers. The third cover reads, “Is Fiat Dead?” and is set to be published on March 29. More: - The collection began with the 1966 cover “Is God Dead?”, which was the first TIME magazine cover without an image.
- TIME is just the latest company to capture the hype around NFTs. Artists on the NFT marketplace SuperRare have reportedly sold over $40M worth of NFTs just in 2021.
- TIME magazine is currently looking to hire a new CFO who has “comfort with Bitcoin and cryptocurrencies.”
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 Fidelity FNF 2.37%▲ is seeking to create a bitcoin exchange-traded fund (ETF). Fidelity's filing with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission reflects the increasingly wide range of investors seeking access to digital assets. More: - The filing listed FD Funds Management LLC as the fund's sponsor, with Fidelity Service Company, Inc. serving as an administrator.
- With Canada's recent acceptance of three new ETFs, fans of digital asset funds are hopeful that U.S. regulators will change their stance on bitcoin ETFs and implement the country's first bitcoin ETF.
- Fidelity's effort represents the sixth of its kind within the U.S., joining WisdomTree Investments, VanEck Associates Corp., NYDIG Asset Management, First Advisors/SkyBridge, and Valkyrie Digital Assets.
- The SEC acknowledged VanEck's bitcoin ETF proposal late last week and has 45 days to accept or deny the submission.
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Fresh Funding for Cryptocurrency Projects: - Former director of data science and risk at Coinbase, Soups Ranjan, secured $4.6M for his fraud prevention-as-a-service platform, Sardine.
- Lukka, a crypto data provider startup, received $53M in Series D funding from George Soros’s fund.
- Bitcoin web browser-based coupon app Lolli fundraised $5M from Serena Williams, Mr. Beast, and others.
- The Solana Ecosystem received a $40M investment from partners OKEx and MXC to support the growing number of teams building on the Layer 1 chain. Solana’s SOL token currently has a market cap of $3.5B, making it the 29th biggest cryptocurrency.
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▲ TOP GAINERS | # | Name | Price | 24h % | | 1 | Cardano ADA | $1.14 | 0.39% ▲ | | 2 | Tether USDT | $1.00 | 0.00% ▲ | ▼ TOP LOSERS | # | Name | Price | 24h % | | 1 | Polkadot DOT | $30.45 | 13.35%▼ | | 2 | Crypto.com CRO | $0.2051 | 12.00%▼ | | 3 | VeChain VET | $0.08173 | 11.94%▼ | | 4 | Uniswap UNI | $27.49 | 10.28%▼ | | 5 | Binance Coin BNB | $235.26 | 10.01%▼ | * Limited to cryptocurrencies with a market cap > $4B. Prices as of 2:30 p.m. ET.
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- An NFT self-portrait created by humanoid robot "Sophia" sold today for $700K
- Cryptocurrency lending and borrowing platform Celsius now offers users the ability to purchase cryptocurrency directly from the app using Apple Pay
- Crypto Briefing announced that it is appointing former editor-in-chief Mitchell Moosa as the new CEO of the publication.
- Cboe Global Markets CBOE -2.62%▼ is planning to relist its bitcoin futures after it stopped offering them in June 2019
- THETA -3.82%▼ lost a quarter of its value after the Theta team announced it would be delaying the mainnet launch until late June.
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 |  | Griffin McShane is a J.D. candidate currently living in Portland, Maine. He is a graduate of Providence College, where he studied both computer science and business. Griffin aspires one day to go to the moon and bring some of his altcoins along for the ride. |   | | Editor | Charlotte Hayes-Clemens is an editor and writer based in Vancouver. She has dabbled in both the fiction and non-fiction world, having worked at HarperCollins Publishers and more recently as a writing coach for new and self-published authors. Proper semi-colon usage is her hill to die on. | |
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