PoW avoids EU ban, two DeFi protocols suffer a combined $11M hack and BAYC does an ApeCoin airdrop: Hodler’s Digest, March 13-19

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Coming each Saturday, Hodler’s Digest volition assistance you way each azygous important quality communicative that happened this week. The champion (and worst) quotes, adoption and regularisation highlights, starring coins, predictions and overmuch much — a week connected Cointelegraph successful 1 link.

Top Stories This Week

Ukraine’s president signs instrumentality establishing regulatory model for crypto

Crypto regularisation has received support from Ukrainian president Volodymyr Zelenskyy. The bill, titled “On Virtual Assets,” was signed by the president, opening the doorway to authorities oversight of the home cryptocurrency industry.

Ukraine’s Ministry of Digital Transformation said: “The signing of this instrumentality by the president is different important measurement towards bringing the crypto assemblage retired of the shadows and launching a ineligible marketplace for virtual assets successful Ukraine.”

Among different details, the measure specifies that Ukraine’s National Securities and Stock Market Commission volition govern the manufacture connected aggregate levels, specified arsenic integer asset-related licensing.

European Parliament votes against PoW ban, providing immense alleviation to the crypto industry

A important European Union (EU) regulatory measure known arsenic Markets successful Crypto Assets (MiCA) has moved forward, leaving down wording that fundamentally would person barred proof-of-work (PoW) crypto assets successful the region.

An extended measure pertaining to crypto regularisation successful the EU, MiCA had 2 drafts up for statement — 1 mentation that would fundamentally prohibition PoW mining and related cryptocurrencies, and different that hosted much favorable connection concerning the technology. Long communicative short, the European Parliament’s Committee connected Economic and Monetary Affairs voted for the enactment that did not prohibition PoW. The measure volition present proceed done further support processes.

It’s official: Binance secures a licence to run successful Dubai

It was a engaged week for cryptocurrency exchanges, which earned regulatory approvals successful aggregate jurisdictions. Binance secured licensing successful Dubai and Bahrain. FTX besides received a Dubai license.

Thanks to the Virtual Asset Service Provider (VASP) licence it secured successful the region, Binance tin present found an bureau successful Dubai, among different rights recently afforded by the license. Additionally, Binance received a virtual plus speech (VAX) licence successful Dubai. FTX besides unveiled that it received Dubai’s VAX this week.

ApeCoin announcement surges BAYC level terms to near-ATH earlier correction

Owners of Bored Ape Yacht Club (BAYC) NFTs basal to person a sizeable sum of ApeCoin (APE) — a caller governance and inferior token for the project. APE is an ERC-20 token.

If they bash truthful wrong 90 days of March 17 (12:30 p.m. UTC time), BAYC owners tin assertion 10,000 APE, which totaled $72,000 successful worth astatine the clip of Cointelegraph’s sum successful the nonfiction linked above. FTX, Gemini and different exchanges program connected listing APE.

Trading measurement and pricing for BAYC NFTs saw turbulence surrounding the APE token news. Among other reported details, the token volition person a proviso of 1 billion.

Diem squad members rise $200M to motorboat blockchain derived from it

Avery Ching and Mo Shaikh, 2 erstwhile Meta crypto part leads, are gathering a layer-1 blockchain with immoderate of its roots based connected Move — the Diem project’s programming language. Known arsenic Aptos, the task led by Ching and Shaikh precocious announced securing $200 cardinal worthy of funding, with names specified arsenic Coinbase Ventures and Andreessen Horowitz contributing. Aptos aims for its mainnet to spell unrecorded successful the second fractional of 2022.

Publicized earlier successful 2022, Facebook-turned-Meta’s stablecoin Diem fundamentally saw an extremity to its journey, with Silvergate Capital Corporation buying the project’s nuts and bolts (intellectual property, etc.) from Meta.

Winners and Losers

At the extremity of the week, Bitcoin (BTC) is astatine $41,727, Ether (ETH) astatine $2,936 and XRP astatine $0.79. The full marketplace headdress is astatine $1.87 trillion, according to CoinMarketCap.

Among the biggest 100 cryptocurrencies, the apical 3 altcoin gainers of the week are ApeCoin (APE) astatine 1,338.31%, Aave (AAVE) astatine 38.53% and THORChain (RUNE) astatine 37.67%.

The apical 3 altcoin losers of the week are Anchor Protocol (ANC) astatine -19.20%, Stacks (STX) astatine -9.20% and Kadena (KDA) astatine -9.18%.

For much info connected crypto prices, marque definite to work Cointelegraph’s marketplace analysis.

Most Memorable Quotations

“If you are an avid crypto trader similar me, I americium definite that the thought of who volition inherit your crypto has travel to mind.”

Jeetu Kataria, CEO of Digital Financial Exchange (DIFX)

“Orange pill your neighbor, your favourite shop, bar, cinema, commencement sharing your sats. It’s casual for them to larn from a known look similar yours. Be that small pebble that you propulsion successful the lake, and it volition make ripples that coming generations volition benefit.”

Paco de la India, Bitcoiner and runner

“Our anticipation is that erstwhile the authorities does this survey [as established by the enforcement order], […] the decision they volition scope is we volition not vie against China — an authoritarian dictatorship — by besides acting similar an authoritarian dictatorship. Instead we volition empower our backstage assemblage to travel up with competitory solutions.”

Jake Chervinsky, caput of argumentation for the Blockchain Association, regarding a United States cardinal slope integer currency

“The creator is wherever the powerfulness begins, and that’s wherever the powerfulness should stay.”

Darryl McDaniels, founding subordinate of Run-DMC

“My bureau has received galore tips from crypto and blockchain firms that SEC Chair @GaryGensler’s accusation reporting ‘requests’ to the crypto assemblage are overburdensome, don’t consciousness particularly… voluntary… and are stifling innovation.”

Tom Emmer, United States congressman

“There is nary uncertainty that blockchain gaming is simply a revolutionary concept, but astatine the moment, I don’t deliberation it volition beryllium capable to enactment maine financially by itself. […] I deliberation I volition person capable courageousness to permission my occupation to prosecute blockchain gaming erstwhile the P2E ecosystem has go mature and sustainable.”

Jesus Dawal Jr., Filipino gamer

“With due probe and understanding, regulators volition find a overmuch easier clip regulating DeFi and preventing malicious behaviors compared to the bequest fiscal infrastructure.”

Eric Chen, co-founder and CEO of Injective Labs

“You should ne'er specify immoderate exertion by its worst uses. […] There’s much to crypto than ransomware, conscionable similar there’s much to wealth than wealth laundering.”

Ritchie Torres, United States representative

Prediction of the Week

Bitcoin faces caller ‘milestone’ successful 2022 arsenic caller forecast predicts BTC terms ‘in the millions’

This past week, crypto’s largest asset, Bitcoin, traded some beneath $38,000 and supra $41,000 wrong the seven-day period, according to Cointelegraph’s BTC terms index.

Based connected planetary conditions, Bloomberg Intelligence’s Mike McGlone and erstwhile BitMEX brass Arthur Hayes some spot Bitcoin yet coming retired connected top.

McGlone sees the existent scenery arsenic 1 that whitethorn assistance BTC along. “Facing the #FederalReserve, ostentation and war, 2022 whitethorn beryllium primed for risk-asset reversion and people different milestone successful #Bitcoin’s maturation,” McGlone tweeted.

Meanwhile, Hayes sees Bitcoin taking connected a worth of much than $1 cardinal per coin based connected the events presently unfolding, though helium noted a decade-long clip skyline with BTC suffering downward terms enactment first.

FUD of the Week

Blockchain forensics steadfast finds millions successful sanctioned crypto wallet

Blockchain analytics outfit Elliptic has travel crossed a crypto wallet that could beryllium of peculiar involvement that could perchance beryllium connected to salient sanctioned Russians. The wallet’s contents full millions of dollars successful value, though further specifics were not given.

“It’s not proving retired realistic that oligarchs tin wholly bypass sanctions by moving each their wealthiness into crypto,” Tom Robinson, Elliptic’s co-founder, told Bloomberg. “Crypto is highly traceable. Crypto tin and volition beryllium utilized for sanctions evasion, but it’s not the metallic bullet.”

Millions of crypto addresses person been traced to transgression associated with Russia, with hundreds of integer plus services facilitating anonymous crypto swapping via the Russian ruble, based connected Elliptic’s sleuthing.

RBI seemingly wants to prohibition cryptocurrencies, but not for the reasons you mightiness think

India’s cardinal bank, the Reserve Bank of India (RBI), expressed a tendency to prohibition crypto assets, arsenic per a connection published this week. The RBI fears that crypto adoption could undermine the usage and dominance of the rupee, India’s nationalist currency, and origin different issues.

“Historically, backstage currencies person resulted successful instability and therefore, person evolved into fiat currencies implicit centuries,” the RBI said successful the statement. “The retrograde measurement backmost to backstage currencies cannot beryllium taken simply due to the fact that exertion allows it […] without considering the dislocation it causes to society’s legal, societal and economical cloth of society.”

‘Unlucky:’ Agave and Hundred Finance DeFi protocols exploited for $11M

Decentralized concern (DeFi) solutions Hundred Finance and Agave were exploited for $11 cardinal by an attacker who managed to exploit a wrapped Ether (WETH) declaration relation connected Gnosis Chain, a unchangeable payments platform. Put simply, the attacker was capable to drain much funds by continually borrowing against the aforesaid collateral they were posting.

The $11 cardinal sum was stolen via a fig of antithetic crypto assets, including the aforementioned wETH, but besides wrapped BTC (WBTC), Chainlink (LINK) and USD Coin (USDC). Agave and Hundred Finance some halted their protocols successful tandem amid the investigation.