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Headlines
🇪🇸 Mastercard launches Bitcoin and crypto rewards card in Spain
🇨🇳 China to launch national blockchain research center
🇫🇷 Bitstamp registers in France
💳 Revolut to offer crypto staking
💳 Visa’s crypto strategy targets stablecoin settlements
📱 Nokia uses the metaverse to connect remote breweries
🇸🇦 Saudi Arabia, The Sandbox agree to collaborate on metaverse projects
🎵 Def Jam Creates NFT Band With Solana’s Catalina Whale Mixer
⚔️ MMA bruiser Jon Jones gets cuddly with cute panda NFTs
🧡 CZ loves Ray Dalio
🚫 Dubai prohibits privacy coins like Monero
Meme of the week
Crypto Drama : The SEC is Mad!
😡 US authorities allegedly using banks to crack down on crypto
⚖️ Kraken is under investigation by the SEC
⚖️ Paxos faces SEC lawsuit over BUSD
💲 Paxos to stop issuing BUSD
⚖️ Nexo stop his “earn” product for US citizens
👉 Coinbase’s staking services are not securities
🦄 A16z votes against proposal to deploy latest Uniswap iteration on BNB Chain
🏈 Crypto Super Bowl advertising will be absent this year
💸 Umami Finance CEO dumps all tokens
👉 Three Arrows’ founder refused to comply with subpoena
👉 Arthur Hayes on 3AC
🤡 Justin Sun backs FTX Debt token ‘FUD’ in possible securities law breach
⚖️ Craig Wright loses Bitcoin copyright claim in UK court
Insider News
🖼️ Ordinal Punk sold for 1.93 BTC (29.7 ETH) - See entire collection
🐋 Hayes is a GMX whale
💲 Aave's GHO stablecoin goes live on Ethereum's Goerli testnet
⚡ Lightning Network reaches all-time high in bitcoin capacity
👉 Starkware is big
👉 StarkWare partners with Chainlink Labs to expand StarkNet capabilities
🔺 Trader Joe integrates LayerZero
💲 MakerDAO contributors propose first native liquidity market focused on DAI
🪂 Optimism second airdrop is live
🔥 Dopex launches on Polygon
👉 Silo and Lyra are live on Arbitrum
🛠️ Acala EVM+ is live on mainnet
⚗️ Alchemix approves ALCX token buyback plan
🐕 Shiba Inu-themed Floki to release Chinese version of its upcoming valhalla game
Reads
📚 Messari Crypto Theses 2023
Data
📊 State of Harmony Q4 2022
📊 Bitcoin Mining Stocks: January 2023 Production Updates
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