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As of today, Ethereum's active addresses are about 95 percent profitable, surpassing bitcoin's.

As crypto fund EMC Labs reports via X, "As of February 21, the percentage of ETH addresses that are profitable was 94.8%, surpassing the percentage of BTC profitable addresses (92%). ETH balances on centralized exchanges (CEXs) continue to shrink. Currently, only 13.2 million ETH, or about 11% of the ETH supply in circulation, are on exchanges. ETH balances on exchanges are lower than at the peak of the previous two bull markets. It is at a similar level to the July 2015 low. In terms of supply fundamentals, ETH is in unprecedented good shape."

Binance WBTC plunges to $5200, then recovers

Cointelegraph reports, “A flash crash in the price of WBTC occurred on Binance on Nov. 23 (local time). This caused WBTC to briefly drop from $98,000 to $5,200, but has since recovered. The cause of the error is still unknown.

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Trump nominates 'Crypto Proponent' Howard Lutnick as Commerce Secretary, while US SEC chairman struggles to narrow down candidates to four.

US President-elect Donald Trump has nominated US investment bank Cantor Fitzgerald CEO Howard Lutnick to serve as Secretary of Commerce, according to the Wall Street Journal (WSJ). Lutnick is an avid supporter of Bitcoin and Tether (USDT), with Cantor Fitzgerald reportedly serving as Tether's U.S. Treasury bond

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BlackRock IBIT Options Hit $1.9 Billion in First Day of Trading, Grayscale Begins Trading on November 20th.

Bloomberg ETFs analyst James Seyffart reports via X that “Options volume on BlackRock's bitcoin spot ETF IBIT, which began trading today (Nov. 19), was about $1.9 billion. A total of 35.4 million contracts were active, of which 28.9 million were calls (82%) and 65,000

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