COINDESK DAILY: Bitcoin, Ether Rise Amid ETF Steam in Hong Kong; Solana's Latest Update
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4.7 • 698 Ratings
🗓️ 15 April 2024
⏱️ 3 minutes
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| 0:51.7 | After a turbulent weekend, Bitcoin and Ether, the two largest cryptocurrencies by market cap are up this morning. |
| 0:58.4 | As Hong Kong Bitcoin ETF applicants say that they've been approved by the region's regulator, China asset management, Bocera Capital, and other applicants posted to WeChat that they had been approved to list spot Bitcoin and ether ETFs in Hong Kong. |
| 1:14.6 | But some of those announcements have since been deleted. |
| 1:17.4 | No official statement has been released from the Securities and Futures Commission. |
| 1:21.6 | The commission also did not respond to CoinDesk's calls or emails asking for comment. |
| 1:26.5 | Bitcoin was at around $66,100 as of 9.30 a.m. Eastern |
| 1:31.3 | time and ether was at around 3,200. Meme coins and AI linked tokens saw significant sectoral gains |
| 1:39.8 | in the past 24 hours outperforming major tokens like Bitcoin. According to Coin Gecko category data, |
| 1:46.6 | Solana meme coins, dog-themed meme coins, and base network meme coins jumped over 15% on average, |
| 1:53.2 | while AI tokens zoomed over 17%. There were no apparent catalysts for the jumps. The Broadbase Coin Desk 20, a liquid index of major tokens minus stable coins, was up almost 5%. |
| 2:07.4 | And Solana is rolling out a new software update to tackle the congestion problem on the popular blockchain. |
| 2:14.0 | In the next post, Solana status said the release is now recommended for general use and it |
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