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Due to the firm's previous work for rival exchange FTX, the Department of Justice (DOJ) is apparently rethinking its decision to award a significant assignment pertaining to Binance to a well-known New York legal firm.

The only spot Bitcoin fund in the US to have inflows on the first day of the week is BlackRock's Bitcoin exchange-traded fund (ETF); other ETFs have reported either withdrawals or zero inflows.

With the crypto market downturn continuing and digital assets continuing to dump, the bull market exuberance seems to have abruptly stopped. The well-known market expert "Cold Blooded Shiller" said on X on April 16 to his 269,000 followers that Bitcoin is "still the cloud that hangs over crypto."

Whales of Ethereum (ETH) have started buying in bulk, with huge wallet holders amassing sizable holdings of the cryptocurrency. This action is a reaction to the recent decrease that most cryptocurrencies had over the weekend, including ETH.

DOT, Polkadot's native token, fell precipitously during the most recent market downturn. Weekly, its price has dropped by 20%, momentarily falling below $6. But during the past few hours, it has begun to rebound, and as of right now, it is trading at about $7, up 7% over the previous day.

The Financial Services Commission of South Africa (FSCA) has granted licenses to 59 bitcoin establishments that want to cater to the local populace. Only 199 of the 493 license applications that the FSCA received were complete, according to reports, leaving 262 pending.