💰 Bitcoin miner manufacturer Auradine raises $80 million Series B ahead of halvingAuradine, a web infrastructure startup that also manufactures Bitcoin miners, has raised $80 million in a Series B funding round. Several investors, including StepStone Group, Top Tier Capital Partners, MVP Ventures, Maverick Capital, Celesta Capital, Mayfield Fund and Marathon Digital, joined the "oversubscribed" round, Auradine said Wednesday. Auradine began raising Series B earlier this year and closed it last week, he said.

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🇺🇸 US senator claims Biden administration uses crypto as ‘scapegoat’ to mask failures in halting illicit financeIn a pointed critique during a Senate hearing on April 9, Senator Tim Scott accused the current US administration of making digital assets the “scapegoat” in efforts to combat terrorism financing, ignoring more significant, more traditional sources of such funding, particularly those benefiting Iran. Addressing Deputy Treasury Secretary Adewale Adeyemo, Scott voiced concerns over the Treasury’s exclusive requests for expanded authority over cryptocurrencies to the Senate Committee on Banking, Housing, and Urban Affairs.

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💰 Solana 'leads the battle' for blockchain payments, Bernstein saysLooking back at recent stablecoin metrics, Solana is "leading the battle" for blockchain payments amid growth in market liquidity and improved investor sentiment, according to research and brokerage firm Bernstein. “The big change this cycle has been the dominant market share of Solana (43% highest share) in value of stablecoins transferred vs. prior cycle market leader Ethereum,” Gautam Chhugani and Mahika Sapra wrote in a note to clients on Tuesday.

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🏦 KuCoin market share halves alongside $1.2 billion in outflows after DOJ indictment and CFTC chargesCrypto exchange KuCoin has seen its market share by daily trading volume drop by over 50% following charges from the DOJ and CFTC last week, according to Kaiko data. Following charges from the U.S. Department of Justice and Commodity Futures Trading Commission last week, crypto exchange KuCoin has seen its market share by daily trading volume halve, according to a report from blockchain research and analytics firm Kaiko.

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📊 Crypto Venture Capital Fundraising Jumped Over 50% in March Amid RallyVenture capitalists increased their investments into crypto projects by over 52% in March, spurred by a new all-time high for bitcoin and continued success from the spot bitcoin exchange-traded funds (ETFs). Investors allocated more than $1.16 billion into the industry in March, the second-highest amount in the past 12 months, according to data released by RootData.

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🪙 TRON Foundation, Justin Sun Ask U.S. Court to Dismiss SEC LawsuitThe TRON Foundation and Tron founder Justin Sun asked a New York court to dismiss a lawsuit from the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC), saying the regulator failed to establish that the court has jurisdiction over the foreign defendants, a March 28 filing shows. "Its efforts to leverage highly attenuated contacts to the United States, to extend U.S. securities laws to cover predominantly foreign conduct, go too far and should be rejected.".

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🪙 USDT stablecoin issuer Tether hiring for AI divisionUSDT issuer Tether Operations Limited said it is trying to expand its AI capabilities by building up its AI division. Tether announced Tuesday that it is looking to hire "top talent" in AI. The goal is "to pioneer the development of open-source, multimodal AI models to set new industry standards, driving innovation and accessibility within AI technology," the company's announcement said.

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💰 BlackRock’s ETF could flip GBTC in Bitcoin holdings within 3 weeksThe amount of Bitcoin in BlackRock’s spot Bitcoin ETF could overtake crypto asset manager Grayscale’s GBTC within the next three weeks, assuming no drastic changes in current flows. As of March 22, BlackRock’s iShares Bitcoin Trust ETF held 238,500 Bitcoin on its books — worth $15.5 billion at current prices — and has seen average daily inflows of approximately $274 million, with around 4,120 in new Bitcoin entering the fund every day.

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💰 Do Kwon Out of Jail, Under House Arrest Pending Extradition DecisionMultiple sources have reported that Do Kwon, the ex-chief executive officer of Terraform Labs, was set free from jail on Saturday while the high court in Montenegro decides on two separate extradition requests submitted by South Korea and the United States. According to various sources, Do Kwon has regained his freedom, having been discharged on Saturday. In a conversation with Bloomberg journalists Jasmina Kuzmanovic and Misha Savic, Montenegro’s prison chief Darko Vukcevic confirmed Kwon’s release, stating that he is currently under the custody of the police authority.

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⚪️ Robinhood rolls out crypto wallet to Android users globallyRobinhood has officially rolled out its cryptocurrency wallet for Android users, expanding access to millions of potential crypto users worldwide. The Android expansion comes a year after Robinhood Wallet was launched to iOS users globally. The Android app was in beta until now, with a public waitlist open for registrations. Now with the general release, all customers who previously joined the waitlist can now download the Android wallet and get started, Robinhood said Wednesday.

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