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Circle’s USDC stablecoin spiked down to as low as $0.74 on three occasions today following a marketwide sell-off spurred by a report casting doubt over whether a spot bitcoin ETF will be approved this month.

ENS, the governance token of the Ethereum Name Service project, surged after Ethereum cofounder Buterin posted on X that the service is “super important.”

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“SEC Chair Gensler is not embracing crypto in the U.S., and it might even be a very long shot to expect that he would vote to approve bitcoin spot ETFs,” Matrixport said.

Bitcoin slid 8% from a 20-month high on Wednesday as jitters around the anticipated approval of a spot BTC ETF began to enter the market.

Analyst Markus Thielen argued the applications still fall short of a critical requirement that must be met before the SEC can approve them.

Some 324,000 users fell victim to crypto phishing scams in 2023 and lost nearly $300 million, according to blockchain security firm Scam Sniffer.

BRC-20 marketplace UniSat said it would follow a proposed fork in the network’s token standard, which was met with opposition from Domo, the pseudonymous creator of BRC-20.

Transaction volumes on the network overtook those for Solana-based applications, which boomed after a meme coin-led frenzy in December.

The European Banking Authority (EBA) will take additional steps to anticipate how strains in non-bank financial institutions (NBFIs), including cryptocurrency-related entities, will affect banks.