Intern note:
Rereading the roadmap, a lot of the thinking around products and coordination across the Astar Collective starts to connect more clearly with how ASTR is meant to capture value.
Interesting to see how those pieces line up.

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Bithumb, one of South Korea's largest cryptocurrency exchanges, has just shaken the market with a serious internal incident related to the distribution of rewards...

A Bithumb exchange employee accidentally 'gifted' 2,000 Bitcoin to a user, causing the price of BTC on the exchange to suddenly drop by 10%.

BitMEX co-founder Arthur Hayes wrote that the recent Bitcoin crash may stem from traders' concerns about IBIT (BlackRock) […]
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Arthur Hayes speculates that the reason for the BTC crash is "institutional hedging operations": IBIT options saw a surge of $900 million.

Bitcoin ($BTC) has recently gone through a sudden shift on Bithumb, a well-known South Korean crypto exchange. In this respect, the $BTC/KRW trading abruptly plummeted over 10% below the worldwide ave...