Immutable, King River Capital, Polygon Labs Set Up $100M Web3 Gaming Fund

Immutable and Polygon Labs will identify investment opportunities while King River will manage the investment process and deploy the capital across game studios and web3 infrastructure firms.Source

Ether ETFs Likely Won’t Get Approved in May, Bloomberg Analyst Predicts

Odds that spot ether ETFs will get approved in May have gotten slimmer, according to a Bloomberg ETF analyst who cited U.S. regulators’ seeming lack of engagement with potential issuers over the products.Source

The Bitcoin Halving Really Is Different This Time

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BlackRock Creates Fund With Securitize, a Big Player in Real-World Asset Tokenization

The fund was seeded with $100 million in USDC stablecoin using the Ethereum network, blockchain data shows.Source

Bitcoin Rebounds to $65K as Investors Weigh Looming Fed Decision Risk

Disappointing flows into bitcoin ETFs over the past days partly resulted from investors trimming risks ahead of Wednesday’s FOMC meeting, one market observer said.Source

Polygon Labs Paid $4M to Host Starbucks’ Failed Foray Into Crypto: Sources

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Lorraine Marcel: Bringing Bitcoin to African Women

The founder of Bitcoin Dada, a virtual education program and sisterhood started in Kenya, on how she’s getting African women involved in the Bitcoin space.Source

Spot Bitcoin ETFs Are Just the Beginning for Wall Street

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Bitcoin Halving Is a ‘Show Me the Money’ Moment for Miners

With April’s “halving” set to cut mining rewards by half, Bitcoin miners are upgrading to more efficient mining machines, cutting costs, finding cheaper sources of power and exploring mergers and acquisition opportunities.Source

Optimism Finally Starts Testing ‘Fault Proofs’ at Heart of Design – and of Criticism

A version of the new proof system, which will help secure withdrawals from Optimism and other networks based on its tech, will be deployed to Ethereum’s Sepolia test network on Tuesday.Source