5th March — 12th March
▫️ Global crypto investment products saw $2.7 billion record inflows last week.
▫️ ShapeShift settles with SEC for $275K over unregistered securities dealer charges.
▫️ SEC delays decision on BlackRock’s spot Ethereum ETF proposal, seeks public feedback.
▫️ Grayscale and Coinbase meet with SEC to discuss spot Ethereum ETFs.
▫️ Wyoming enacts a law allowing DAOs to establish legal entities.
▫️ Thailand permits asset firms access to spot bitcoin ETFs for professional investors.
▫️ South Korea plans a crypto management system to combat tax evasion.
▫️ OrdiZK, a Bitcoin bridge, experiences a $1.4M rug pull.
▫️ WOOFi faces $8.75M exploit on Arbitrum via price manipulation.
▫️ MakerDAO implements temporary fee hikes in anticipation of a potential demand shock.
▫️ Avalanche unveils Durango upgrade, introducing features like the “Teleporter” for subnet interoperability.
▫️ Gnosis announces the third version of its platform.
▫️ Kwenta Perps v3 goes live on Base, beta version released.
▫️ zkLink Nova platform announced for aggregating Ethereum Rollups onto one L3 network.
▫️ Injective’s inEVM L2 launched on the mainnet.
▫️ Blobs deployed on Gnosis Chain ahead of Ethereum’s Dencun upgrade.
▫️ Fellowship of Ethereum Magicians proposes new standard ERC-7647 for fungible NFTs.
▫️ Base announces support for EIP-4844 after Dencun upgrade.
▫️ Revolut introduces direct crypto purchases into MetaMask wallets for simplified web3 usage.
▫️ Tether to launch USDT stablecoin on Celo blockchain.
▫️ MIT and Harvard alumni launch startup accelerator to support web3 founders.
▫️ Eclipse Labs raises $50M in Series A funding ahead of expected Q2 mainnet launch.
▫️ Utila, an institutional crypto platform, secures $11.5M in seed funding.
▫️ Mirana Ventures partners with TON, including an $8M funding round.
▫️ NFT lending protocol NFTfi raises $6M in series A1 funding.
▫️ Firewall, a security insurance firm, closes a $3.7M pre-seed funding round.
▫️ Slack, an on-chain points startup, raises $3M in seed funding.
▫️ Scallop Protocol, a project on Sui, announces a $3M funding round.
