OVERVIEW

SOL Airdrop On Epic Games?! 🤩

The crypto market is slowly returning to its highest close: $2.834 trillion—another $285 billion (11.21%), and it’ll be there. The altcoin market though? Oof. It needs another $420 billion (35.69%). 👽

In today’s Litepaper: a new heatmap of the entire crypto market and one for the memecoin market, as well as an update on how much BTC BlackRock and Fidelity are holding.

Also on deck: Epic Games’ new game featuring a Solana airdrop and other crypto news in three sentences.

Here's how the market looked at the end of the trading day:  

STOCKTWITS CRYPTO TRENDS
Trending Tickers 📊

Here’s a collection of what crypto assets are trending on Stocktwits:

Shiba Inu ($SHIB), Kryll ($KRL), Dogecoin ($DOGE), Internet Computer Protocol ($ICP), JasmyCoin ($JASMY), Aerodrome Finance ($AERO), Civic Token ($CVC), Ethereum ($ETH), and Ripple ($XRP).

Lots of memecoins are trending because, well, who the hell knows why—that’s probably why you see Doge, Shiba, and some others on the list. And as you read today’s Litepaper, you’ll see why Ethereum and XRP are trending.

HEATMAP
Total Crypto Market 🌡️

Biggest movers from today: MoneyToken ($IMT), Telegram ($TON), NewYorkCoin ($NYC), Populous ($PPT), and DigixDAO ($DGD).

Memecoin Market 🤑

Biggest movers from today: Bald, HarryPotterObamaSonic10Inu ($HPOSS10I), Wen ($WEN), Real Smurf Cat ($SMURFCAT), and dogwifhat ($WIF).

ON-CHAIN ANALYTICS
Institutional BTC Hodlings 💰

BlackRock ($BLK) keeps adding to its Bitcoin ETF ($IBIT) war chest, but Fidelity’s ETF ($FBTC) is showing itself to be the institutional version of weak hands:

Since the beginning of the month, BlackRock’s $BTC holdings have increased from 151.5k to 242.8k. On the other hand, Fidelity dropped their holdings from 18.5k to 12.6k.

COMPANY NEWS
Epic Games AND A SOL Airdrop?! Give Me My MEOW Point 🎮

"Nyan Heroes" has just dropped its early access demo on the Epic Games Store, blending elements from iconic shooters like Overwatch with the charm of feline pilots in mech suits. 😺

This unique offering from 9 Lives Interactive isn't just about battling it out in a cat-themed universe; it's also your ticket to earning future crypto rewards. Until April 9, you can rack up MEOW points, a pathway to securing a slice of the NYAN token airdrop on $SOL. 🙀

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RECAP
News In Three Sentences 📰

🤯 CFTC calls Ethereum a commodity: The Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC) has filed a complaint against KuCoin, charging the crypto exchange with illegal dealings in commodity futures transactions, including $BTC, $ETH, and $LTC, without proper registration. The crypto community is happy because the CFTC is peeing in Gensler’s Cheerios and reinforcing legal arguments that neither the CFTC nor SEC should regulate crypto. WatcherGuru has more.

🚫 Another exchange stops TRON USDC trading: Changelly is discontinuing $USDC on $TRX support, following Binance and other exchanges after Circle’s decision to stop supporting their stablecoin on TRON. The reasons behind ending Tron's support remain undisclosed but might have something to do with Justin Sun being a shady mother-effer. From Changelly’s X Account.

📈 The Mad Lads NFT collection: The daily NFT market is being led by $SOL’s Mad Lads NFT collection, which has seen a 166% increase in sales and reached $1.62 million in 24 hours. The $ETH-based Pandora and Bitcoin's LIGO BRC-20 collections also see significant sales, but Bitcoin's network leads the day's total NFT market sales, thanks to its diverse collections. Forkast has more.

💰 OrdinalsBot secures $3 million in seed funding: The funding will be used to expand the team, simplify the NFT inscription process, and develop tools for managing $BTC inscriptions and BRC-20 tokens. This growth is attributed to OrdinalsBot's user-friendly solutions, which have facilitated significant inscriptions and contributions to Bitcoin's evolving data layer. More from Coinspeaker.

⚖️ The DeFi Education Fund and Beba sue the SEC: They’re seeking clarification that their BEBA token airdrops are not securities. This lawsuit challenges the SEC's token regulation approach, hoping to set a legal precedent for crypto token classification under the Howey Test. Bloomberg has more.

Links That Don’t Suck 🔗

💲 SEC demands $2 billion from Ripple Labs

🪙 Coinbase to introduce dogecoin futures trading

💯 'Decentralized GitHub' Radicle launches the first version of its platform

🐉 Dragon's Dogma 2 entrepreneurs are already gaming the RPG’s economy

🤖 MIT scientists have just figured out how to make the most popular AI image generators 30 times faster

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