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Bixin Daily 📰 - a daily roundup of crypto thoughts and happenings

5 April 2023

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Opinions 🧠
Analysis on LSD Providers that will benefit from Shanghai upgrade
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How NFT compression on Solana will allow the real world to merge into web3
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Mainnet/L2 🌐
Boba Network’s bug bounty is live
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Aleo introduces testnet phase III
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General 📝
Mask Network acquires social curation protocol RARA
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Gaming/NFT 🎮
Gucci and Otherside introduce KodaPendants
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DeFi 💱
Aliquo introduces ASSET, an ERC721-based reserve asset
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OPNX is live
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Manifold Finance to build its own liquid staking platform following acquisition of Cream Finance
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Funding 💵
Blockchain-powered wealth management system Swissborg raises $23M in Series A funding
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Interoperability protocol LayerZero raises $120M in Series B funding
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Derivatives exchange Bitget raises $10M in funding
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Crypto payroll platform Franklin raises $2.9M in Seed funding
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Web3 infrastructure provider Polyhedra Network raises $15M in pre-Series A funding
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Football metaverse TOPGOAL raises undisclosed amount
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Delphi Labs raises $13.5M in funding for Web3 accelerator
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Blockchain data indexing platform Satsuma raises $5M in Seed funding
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Bixin Daily 📰 - a daily roundup of crypto thoughts and happenings

4 April 2023

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Opinions 🧠
Why aggregators are necessary at EIP 4337
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Q1 2023 on-chain statistics
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A thread on the game theory of airdrop and decentralization
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An analysis on how zkEVMs will grow
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NFT primary market has been quietly growing
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Mainnet/L2 🌐
UniDex launches Magma testnet
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Internet Computer issues ckBTC
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Astar Network to support two virtual machines on its mainnet
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General 📝
Seedify launches ChainGPT, an AI solution for crypto and blockchain
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BNB Chain identifies Allbridge’s $570K exploiter
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MEV bots lose over $25M in sophisticated attack
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Dogecoin surges as DOGE’s symbol replaces Twitter’s original icon
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KuCoin Wallet rebrands as Halo Wallet
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Gaming/NFT 🎮
Huobi partners with Gala Games to support users impacted by pGALA with $50M compensation
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DeFi 💱
Unbound Finance to allow stablecoin borrowing against Uniswap LP positions
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PancakeSwap launches v3 on Ethereum and BNB Chain
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Kokomo Finance rugs for $5.5M through modifying implementation contract
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Former Gemini executives launch tokenised T-Bill vault OpenEden
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Coinbase Ventures joins Rocket Pool's Oracle DAO
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Funding 💵
Re7 Capital and Republic Crypto launches RxR Opportunities Fund
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Alchemy Pay raises $10M in strategic funding
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Bixin Daily 📰 - a daily roundup of crypto thoughts and happenings

3 April 2023

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Opinions 🧠
Developer considerations when deciding between Account Abstraction and MPC
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The NFT MEV Landscape
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UGX: user generated experiences
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The number and amount of Crypto-related projects financing declined sharply in March
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Arbitrum's first governance proposal turns messy
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Mainnet/L2 🌐
Evmos upgrades to v12
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Sui launches permanent testnet
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General 📝
SushiSwap governance proposal suggest removing Jared Grey as Head Chef
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CZ and crypto influencers face a $1B lawsuit for promotion of unregistered securities
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Gaming/NFT 🎮
Donald Trump indictment breathes life into his NFT trading card collection
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DeFi 💱
Aori launches seat auctions
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ZKX public testnet live on Starknet
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SithSwap live on Starknet alpha mainnet
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Mugen Finance introduces cross-chain swaps v1
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Compound launches risk dashboard
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Derivio testnet launch
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Upcoming Stakewise v3 introduces Vaults
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Funding 💵
Bridge and DEX aggregator Li.Fi raises $17.5M in Series A funding
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Lending protocol Granary Finance raises $6.2M in community funding
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PoseiSwap raises $1.5M in strategic funding
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Bixin Daily 📰 - a daily roundup of crypto thoughts and happenings

31 March 2023

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Opinions 🧠
Bitcoin: this is the moment you've been waiting for
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IBC outside of Cosmos: the transport layer
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Circle’s USDC stablecoin sees market cap plunge $10 billion over past two weeks
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LSDs to see continued growth and stability throughout the year
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Mainnet/L2 🌐
TRON releases TRON stake 2.0
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ssv.network introduced Jato, the latest iteration of the public testnet
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General 📝
Gnosis launches Hachi bridge aggregator to help prevent hacks
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Alchemy Pay partners with OKX
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Gaming/NFT 🎮
Unstoppable Domains offers AI-generated avatars that can turn into Polygon NFTs
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DeFi 💱
Injective launches Cascade, the first ever interchain Solana SVM Rollup for the IBC ecosystem
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Yama Finance now live on Arbitrum
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Sentiment launches Makima
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Numoen announces Liquid Staking Boost
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Notional Finance announces v3
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Nuon is live on Arbitrum
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Funding 💵
Hardware wallet provider Ledger raises $109M in Series C funding
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Polytrade raises $3.8M in Seed funding to improve global trade
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Bixin Daily 📰 - a daily roundup of crypto thoughts and happenings

30 March 2023

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Opinions 🧠
Six major catalysts in 2023 that will bring Ethereum and its L2s closer to mass adoption
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Relays are a Latency Game
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State of DAO funding
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Mainnet/L2 🌐
Iota releases Shimmer public testnet
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Iron Fish released tokenomics
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General 📝
Crypto exchange Gemini is looking to launch an international cryptocurrency derivatives exchange
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U.S. and South Korea requests extradition of Terra co-founder Do Kwon
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USDC outflows surpass $10B as USDT's dominance reaches 22-month high
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Gaming/NFT 🎮
Otherside introduces Legends of the Mara
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Andy Warhol artworks to be offered as tokenized investments
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DeFi 💱
Lido to sunset on Polkadot and Kusama
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Funding 💵
Orderbook protocol Econia Labs raises $6.5M in Seed funding
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AI-focused crypto protocol Fetch.ai raises $40M in funding
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Investment DAO Hydra Ventures raises $10M in funding
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Bixin Daily 📰 - a daily roundup of crypto thoughts and happenings

29 March 2023

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Opinions 🧠
What NFTs need to unlock true mass adoption
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The difference between Farcaster and Lens protocol
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Most important takeaways from co-founder of Tangent Ventures
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Mainnet/L2 🌐
ConsenSys launches zkEVM public testnet Linea
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Noble is live on Cosmos
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Saga testnet Cassiopeia is live
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General 📝
Voyager Digital's sale to Binance.US halted by District Court
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Voyager Digital sends $150M USDC to Circle to redeem for U.S. dollars
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Gaming/NFT 🎮
Huobi launches Dominica Metaverse Bound Token
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DeFi 💱
Developers will be free to fork Uniswap v3 after April 1
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Polynomial introduces Polynomial Trade
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Safemoon liquidity pair compromised in $8.9M hack
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Funding 💵
Restaking protocol EigenLayer raises $50M in Series A funding
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Web3 social platform So-col raises $4.5M in funding
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Trading infrastructure protocol Orderly Network raises fresh funding
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Metaverse construction firm LandVault raises $3M in extended Series B funding
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Crypto infrastructure startup Conduit raises $7M in Seed funding
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Bixin Daily 📰 - a daily roundup of crypto thoughts and happenings

28 March 2023

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Opinions 🧠
Restaking can be the Mycelial networks at the root of the MEV dark forest
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Exploring the scalability needs for blockchain apps
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Decentralizing machine learning
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Mainnet/L2 🌐
Polygon Labs unveils zkEVM Layer 2 to help scale Ethereum
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DYDX to launch private testnet of its Cosmos-based blockchain
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General 📝
Binance and its CEO sued by CFTC over US regulatory violations
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CZ’s response to the CFTC complaint
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Introducing hackathon project Opclave
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Gaming/NFT 🎮
Gucci and Yuga Labs partner to bring luxury digital fashion into the metaverse
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Ticketmaster's latest widget gives NFT holders early ticket access
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DeFi 💱
RookDAO proposes dissolving the DAO
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Primitive introduces Arbiter
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MakerDAO 'Endgame Plan' ratified in new 'Constitution'
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Funding 💵
Solana-based derivative protocol Cega raises $5M in Seed funding
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Bixin Daily 📰 - a daily roundup of crypto thoughts and happenings

27 March 2023

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Opinions 🧠
Hitchhiker’s guide to Rollups-as-a-Service
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Will Polygon be the next bull run's biggest narrative
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Understanding Arbitrum's valuation based on sequencer margin
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Mainnet/L2 🌐
All Shapella-related bugs now have a 2x multiplier of up to $500K per bug
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zkSync Era mainnet launch
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Base publishes a Request for Builders
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General 📝
Bloomberg: Chinese banks court crypto firms in Hong Kong after mainland ban
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Gaming/NFT 🎮
Sony eyes NFT transfers across multiple game platforms
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y00ts will migrate to Polygon on March 27th
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Yuga Labs' Otherside saw over 7.2K voyagers in second metaverse trip
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DeFi 💱
Euler Finance exploiter returns over 58K stolen ETH
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Cryptex Finance announces v2
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Goldfinch announces a $2M deal to launch callable loans
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FastLane Labs introduces the FastLane ClearingHouse
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Thala Labs announces THL Token Generation Event
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Funding 💵
Decentralised cross-market perpetual trading platform Narwhal Finance raises $1M in Seed funding
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Animoca Brands cuts target for metaverse fund to $800M
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Middleware platform Particle Network raises $7M in Seed funding
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Bixin Daily 📰 - a daily roundup of crypto thoughts and happenings

24 March 2023

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Opinions 🧠
Navigating the potential impact of the Shanghai Upgrade on LSD MEV
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Fuel: Supercharging modular execution
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Exploring NFT Compression on Solana
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Mainnet/L2 🌐
A comparison between DA layers
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zkSync released security mechanisms, including execution delay
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General 📝
Do Kwon now faces criminal fraud charges from U.S. prosecutors
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Exercise Caution with Crypto Asset Securities: Investor Alert
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BlockFi to sell $4.7M of physical mining assets amid bankruptcy
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Mysten Labs to buy back equity, token warrants from FTX bankruptcy estate for $96M
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Gaming/NFT 🎮
Aeropostale launches their own NFT collection
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DeFi 💱
Solv Protocol announces v3
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Equalizer Exchange announces v2
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Funding 💵
Radix raises $10M in new funding
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Quasar raises $11.5M in funding to optimise asset management
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Hadean raises $5M in funding to create metaverse infrastructure solutions
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Bixin Daily 📰 - a daily roundup of crypto thoughts and happenings

23 March 2023

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Opinions 🧠
Advanced analysis for Arbitrum airdrop
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Analyzing Solana's downtimes, statistics, and ecosystem development
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No, Bitcoin isn't pumping because it's a "safe haven" from banks
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Policy Paper Series (Part 1): Reframing How We Look at a Crypto Legislative Solution
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Mainnet/L2 🌐
Taiko alpha-2 testnet is live
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Lighthouse released v4.0.0
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EOS EVM Mainnet Beta to launch on April 14
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General 📝
Nimiq wallet integrates gas-abstracted USDC transactions on Polygon
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MetaMask Instituitional unveils staking marketplace
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SEC charges Tron's Justin Sun and celebrities including Lindsay Lohan and Jake Paul
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SEC investigating Coinbase for its Earn product, wallet service and exchange activity
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Circle sidesteps SWIFT after bank collapses, turns to Gibraltar's Xapo Bank
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Gaming/NFT 🎮
Aavegotchi to launch its own blockchain Gotchichain
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DeFi 💱
IDEX v4 to launch May 22
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Funding 💵
Multichain wallet BitKeep raises $30M at $300M valuation
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Immersion cooling firm LiquidStack raises Series B funding
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Perpy Finance raises $5M in public token sale
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Carbon tracker Carbonable raises $1.2M in Seed funding
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Megaton Finance raises $1.5M in Seed funding
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Race Capital raises new $181M fund
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Bixin Daily 📰 - a daily roundup of crypto thoughts and happenings

22 March 2023

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Opinions 🧠
Current solutions to the MEV issue
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How did Blur turn the tables on the largest NFT marketplace
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A complete guide to privacy
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Ethereum's Cancun upgrade will offer potential investment opportunities
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Mainnet/L2 🌐
SushiSwap CEO proposed establishing Sushi DAO Legal Defense Fund
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Sui Mainnet will launch in Q2 of this year
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General 📝
Privacy-focused Wasabi wallet reinstates 'coin control' feature
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Gaming/NFT 🎮
Magic Eden releases Bitcoin NFT marketplace
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Sony to introduce NFTs into PlayStation games
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DeFi 💱
DeFi insurance payouts amounted to $34.4M in 2022
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IoTeX blockchain's DAO votes to add ETH liquid staking derivatives
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Funding 💵
Seed Club Ventures raises $25M to invest in DAOs
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Web3 AI-powered platform OP3N raises $28M in Series A funding
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Alternative internet developer tomi raises $40M in funding
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CCP Games raises $40M in funding for upcoming Web3 game
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Custodial wallet solution Gryfyn raises $7.5M in funding
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Mysten Labs acquires SuiNS assets
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Bixin Daily 📰 - a daily roundup of crypto thoughts and happenings

21 March 2023

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Opinions 🧠
Bitcoin has its moment this time
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Is the big decorrelation finally happening?
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ABCDE: 9 future directions of NFTs
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Exploratory analysis of public blockchains and their ecosystem valuation models
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Mainnet/L2 🌐
Render Network eyes potential Solana migration
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Fuel Labs announced the launch of the beta-3 testnet, adding P2P networking on Fuel
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General 📝
DefiLlama dispute resolved
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Gala sues pNetwork on behalf of pGala Victims
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Starknet Foundation announced the appointment of five committees
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Gaming/NFT 🎮
Immutable adds two token utility upgrades, including fee and $IMX gas
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Immutable and Polygon Labs announce strategic partnership to accelerate development of Web3 gaming
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Bitcoin NFT marketplace Gamma presents Bitcoin ordinals marketplace
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DeFi 💱
Camelot Exchange surpasses $100M in TVL ahead of ARB airdrop
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Endgame: A simple overview of MakerDAO’s governance revamp
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Funding 💵
Auros Global receives $17M investment
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Metatime raises $11M in Seed funding
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Pixelcraft Studios, the creators of Aavegotchi, raises $30M in multiyear token sale
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Synthetix raises $20M in strategic investment
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Bixin Daily 📰 - a daily roundup of crypto thoughts and happenings

20 March 2023

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Opinions 🧠
The next wave of game-changing infra that will unlock new user behaviors and business models
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The launch of Arbitrum governance
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Banks are insolvent: BTC will be worth $1m due to hyperinflation
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3 major effects of the upcoming $ARB airdrop
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Mainnet/L2 🌐
Stacks 2.1 activated, including decentralized mining and better bridges
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Succinct introduces Teleopathy, the first decentralized and secure zkSNARK interoperability protocol for Ethereum
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General 📝
Analytics dashboard DefiLlama forked due to internal dispute
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Former Coinbase CTO and a16z partner makes bet on Bitcoin's performance
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SPACE ID airdrop is live
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Microsoft reportedly testing Edge browser Web3 wallet integration
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Gaming/NFT 🎮
Formfunction to shut down at the end of March
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DeFi 💱
Radiant v2 is live
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Uniswap v3 to be deployed on Avalanche
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Thala Labs partners with LayerZero
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Funding 💵
Onchain Trade raises $745K in IFO
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Bravo Ready receives strategic investment from Aptos Labs
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Bixin Daily 📰 - a daily roundup of crypto thoughts and happenings

17 March 2023

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Opinions 🧠
A bird's eye view of the entire Arbitrum ecosystem
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Scaling Ethereum with the OP stack
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The current development of Base
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How can bonding curves help align DAO stakeholders?
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Mainnet/L2 🌐
Ethereum Shanghai hard fork has official target date
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Cosmos introduces Twilight v0.47
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Avail is no longer with Polygon
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Arbitrum announces ARB
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General 📝
Nym announces zk-nyms
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Tari Labs wins restraining order against Lightning Labs over Taro
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Gaming/NFT 🎮
NounsDAO approves proposal for NFT movie
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DeFi 💱
MakerDAO passes proposal for a $750M increase in US Treasury investments
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Nexus Mutual v2 is live on Ethereum mainnet
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Funding 💵
Saudi Arabia's first NFT marketplace Nuqtah raises Seed funding
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Smart contract auditor Code4rena receives investment from Paradigm
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Soul Wallet raised $3 million in a seed funding round to offer an online, self-custodial Ethereum wallet built on top of ERC-4337
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16 March 2023

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Opinions 🧠
The different zkVM tech stack of Starknet
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Why Optimism Bedrock upgrade will come to fruition in the near future
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Solving the DAO data problem
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Mainnet/L2 🌐
Starknet launches decentralized governance with first vote for protocol upgrade
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KYVE mainnet launched
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Cosmos Hub introduces Replicated Security to safeguard Cosmos ecosystem
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General 📝
Gensler suggests proof-of-stake tokens are securities
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Circle has cleared substantially all of the backlog of minting and redemption requests for USDC
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Europol seizes $46M from crypto mixer after $2.88B is allegedly laundered
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Gaming/NFT 🎮
Salesforce taps into NFTs through suite of new Web3 products
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Fortnite’s Epic has ‘close to 20’ crypto games in store pipeline
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DeGod will be launching a first-of-its-kind minting experience on Bitcoin
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NFT trading activity at the lowest since 2021
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DeFi 💱
Osmosis v15 is live
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Uniswap v3 live on BNB Chain
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Claiming for Sturdy Finance's token airdrop is live
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Funding 💵
Stablecoin issuer CNHC raises $10 million in funding led by KuCoin Ventures
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NFT portfolio management and social platform Metalink raised $6M seed round
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Bixin Daily 📰 - a daily roundup of crypto thoughts and happenings

15 March 2023

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Opinions 🧠
App-specific rollups help Ethereum to become the global Internet of value
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The introduction of Interchain Security v1
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Analyzing Optimism's 10th grants cycle finalists
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A list of questions about Web 2.5 gaming
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Mainnet/L2 🌐
The Filecoin Virtual Machine has launched on Filecoin mainnet
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Shanghai upgrade finalized on Ethereum Goerli Testnet
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General 📝
Santander, HSBC, Deutsche Bank, others still willing to serve crypto clients after banking failures, DCG says
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Unstoppable Domains and Polygon Labs release .polygon domains
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USDC reaches record burn numbers
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Gaming/NFT 🎮
Speculations surrounding Amazon's rumored NFT platform continue
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Web3 data warehousing platform Space and Time partners with gaming firm Wemade
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Limit Break has acquired FreNFT to make FreeNFT a legitimate brand to new users
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DeFi 💱
RockX unveils its new liquid staking platform
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MakerDAO voting to limit DAI volatility during market emergencies
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Funding 💵
A16z invests in crypto wallet infrastructure startup Capsule
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Blockchain infrastructure developer Orbs to raise up to $10M
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Smooth Labs raises $2M in Seed funding round to build blockchain infrastructure
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DressX raises $15M in Series A funding round to further digital fashion
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Bitcoin DEX Alex raises $2.5M in strategic funding round
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Bixin Daily 📰 - a daily roundup of crypto thoughts and happenings

14 March 2023

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Opinions 🧠
Solidity developer survey 2022 results
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DeFi implications following USDC depeg
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A few statistics on MEV on Ethereum during the USDC depeg
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Revisiting aggregation theory
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Mainnet/L2 🌐
Sei's final testnet Atlantic-2, is live
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Iron Fish Mainnet launch is delayed until April 20th, 2023
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General 📝
Binance to convert $1B worth of its Industry Recovery funds into native crypto
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US prosecutors probe into Jane Street, Jump, and Alameda about Terra bailout
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Gaming/NFT 🎮
Meta announces plans to stop working on NFTs
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NFT artist Beeple opens a digital art gallery
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DeFi 💱
Euler Finance exploited for close to $200M
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dYdX passes vote to reduce trading rewards by 45%
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New stablecoin HOPE confirmed
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Funding 💵
Jungle raises $6M in Seed funding to deliver the best Web3 gaming experience
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Bixin Daily 📰 - a daily roundup of crypto thoughts and happenings

13 March 2023

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Opinions 🧠
Top 5 tech trends to watch in 2023
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Inscriptions: a Bitcoin renaissance
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How will the Verge and the Purge solve the centralization issue of Ethereum validators
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Cross-domain MEV with EigenLayer
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One new risk factor from SVB collapse
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Mainnet/L2 🌐
Shibarium early Beta test is live
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Aztec Connect will close free withdrawal approximately on March 21st, 2024
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General 📝
Joint Statement by the Department of the Treasury, Federal Reserve, and FDIC
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Circle CEO: 100% of USDC reserves are safe and secure, and they will complete their transfer for remaining SVB cash to BNY Mellon
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Gaming/NFT 🎮
MapleStory announces MapleStory Universe
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Starbucks Odyssey releases its first limited edition NFT collection
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Animoca Brands and Planet Hollywood launch Club3
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DeFi 💱
Astroport launches on Injective
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MUX Protocol airdrop is live
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Synthetix announces v3
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USDC and DAI depeg with Circle's disclosure of exposure to SVB
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RabbitX mainnet launches on Ethereum and Starknet
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Funding 💵
Matchday raises $21M in Seed funding to blend Web3 and soccer games (read more
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