Planet Morning News

1. Hong Kong Monetary Authority: Explore new digital currencies available to individuals and businesses and launch the second phase of the Digital Hong Kong Dollar Pilot Program; 2. Bitfinex Alpha: BTC may enter a consolidation phase after the Fed cuts interest rates; 3. Fed Kashkari: It is expected that interest rates will be cut by another 50 basis points in 2024; 4. Vitalik responded to the photo of the two with the lyrics of JJ Lin's famous song: I believe that love for one day is worth forever; 5. Ondo Finance and BlackRock jointly proposed to Sky to introduce the former's US Treasury bond fund OUSG; 6. Coinbase will launch Moonwell (WELL); 7. BlockFi received about 250 million USDC from Coinbase Prime and may start to repay customer funds; 8. Celestia Foundation announced the completion of a $100 million financing, led by Bain Capital Crypto; 9. Artificial intelligence startup Anthropic proposed a $40 billion valuation in early negotiations for new financing; 10. People familiar with the matter: Elon Musk is in talks with Twitter Lost the lawsuit against the former employee and was ordered to pay the full severance pay; 11. OpenAI news account was hacked and published false cryptocurrency news; 12. People familiar with the matter: Polymarket is seeking to raise $50 million and considering issuing coins; 13. BlackRock runs its own blockchain node to verify IBIT's Bitcoin holdings and displays them to institutional clients on demand; 14. Coinbase International will launch CATI perpetual contracts; 15. Aave V3 has been deployed to the ZKsync Era mainnet; 16. Bernstein: Any loose monetary policy and a weakening dollar signal are good for Bitcoin.