Digital Asset Will Start Global Blockchain Network With Deloitte, Goldman Sachs and Others

Financial technology company Digital Asset has announced it will be launching a privacy-enabled interoperable blockchain network designed for institutional assets to provide a decentralized infrastructure, it announced Tuesday.Source

Crypto Trader Pays $120K in Fees to Buy $156K of Meme Coin Four

The move worked out in the end as the entity is sitting on a fat profit of several hundred thousand.Source

FTX’s Sam Bankman-Fried Moves to Dismiss Most Criminal Charges Against Him

FTX founder Sam Bankman-Fried filed pretrial motions to dismiss a majority of the charges he faces on various grounds late Monday.Source

Crypto Options Liquidity Provider OrBit Markets Offers Bitcoin and Gold-Hybrid Derivative

The company said the product’s finalized payoff depends on the joint performance of both BTC and its gold-backed token XAUT.Source

First Mover Asia: Binance Congestion Chaos Weighs Heavy on Bitcoin

ALSO: A crypto market analyst calls bitcoin’s travails of the past two days “growing pains,” and says the largest crypto by market cap “will be fine in the long run.”Source

Bitcoin’s ‘BRC-20’ Explosion Sends Users Scrambling for Options, Including Lightning

The effects of the BRC-20 mints range from halting of bitcoin withdrawals on Binance to frustration with the sudden high costs of making bitcoin payments in places like Africa and South America.Source

Ordinals Upend Bitcoin Mining, Pushing Transaction Fees Above Mining Reward for First Time in Years

Several mining pools such as Luxor Technologies and AntPool mined blocks on Monday where fees exceeded Bitcoin’s block subsidy of 6.25 BTC.Source

Meme Coin Trading Volume Surges to Two-Year High, Signals Caution for Bitcoin Bulls

Speculative mania in meme coins has historically presaged bearish reversals in bitcoin.Source

South Korea Authorities Investigate Lawmaker Over Suspicious Crypto Transfers: Report

Democratic Party lawmaker Kim Nam-kuk had reportedly co-sponsored a bill seeking to defer taxation on crypto profits.Source

Crypto Options Exchange Deribit’s Ether Volatility Index Hits Record Low

Deribit’s forward-looking ether volatility index (ETH DVOL) hit lifetime lows over the weekend. Expectations for price turbulence appear underpriced considering the lingering macroeconomic uncertainties.Source