$BTC

🔥🔥🔥 Market Brief Tuesday - 01/04

+ BTC recovered to $83K, altcoins have yet to show signs of improvement, panic in the market continues, and the "fear" index remains unchanged from yesterday.

+ Strategy accumulated an additional 22,048 BTC over the past week, bringing the total BTC held to 528,185 BTC ($43.4B). Tether also purchased an additional 8,888 BTC in Q1, increasing its holdings to 92,647 BTC (~$7.64B) [CT].

+ Vitalik Buterin donated 274 ETH ~$500K to Switzerland, a simulation project to test ideas about future civilization.

+ The hacker from the zkLend incident in February lost all 2,930 ETH due to phishing while trying to launder money through Tornado Cash.

+ Privacy Pools launched on Ethereum, allowing private transactions and verification of funds unrelated to illegal activities [CT].

+ a16z CSX - the start-up program of the a16z fund invested in 2 crypto AI projects, Cambrian ($5.9M) and Mahojin ($5M).

+ OpenAI completed a funding round of $40B with a valuation of $300B.

+ The Trump family has increased its control to 60% in the DeFi project World Liberty Financial.

+ CZ calls for an end to sending tokens to charity wallets, burning millions of dollars in memecoins as he does not want to affect these projects.