Higher fees from Ordinals and BRC-20 may be good for miners but they risk pushing activity to the fragmented world of L2s and harming adoption of Bitcoin around the world. Proposals for “OP_CAT” and CTV would upgrade the network and allow more innovation at the chain-level, says Bob Bodily, CEO of Bioniq, an Ordinals marketplace. […]

Ordinals and Runes are both projects by long-time Bitcoin developer Casey Rodarmor, which has created trust and lent an idea of authenticity among users. Author: Shaurya Malwa

The U.S. congressional effort to establish regulations for stablecoins has become an increasing longshot for passage this year, but the lawmakers who’ve pushed legislation the farthest reportedly had a meeting with Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer about it, Punchbowl News reported. Author: Jesse Hamilton

Nearly 25 million of locked-up APT tokens will be released Friday including to early investors, TokenUnlocks data shows. Author: Krisztian Sandor

There will probably be litigation against the SEC after May if ether ETFs aren’t approved, the report said. Author: Will Canny