Infancy #Day131
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5 min readFeb 9, 2023
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A featured crypto industry brief, with a focus on DeFi and MEV.
Weekly Hot Words
- Bitcoin, NFT, Ethereum, ftx, 2023
Today’s Numbers
- Bitcoin ATM Operator Coin Cloud Files for Bankruptcy With Liabilities of $100M-$500M from CoinDesk
- Coin Cloud crypto ATM operator files for bankruptcy, owes over $100M to Genesis from Cointelegraph
- EminiFX CEO Eddy Alexandre Set to Plead Guilty to Role in Alleged $59M Ponzi Scheme from CoinDesk
- UK blockchain carbon offset platform raises $45M in seed funding from Cointelegraph
- Robinhood’s Crypto Revenue Declined 24% to $39M in Q4 from CoinDesk
- FTX Lawyers Sullivan & Cromwell Bill $7.5M for First 19 Day’s Bankruptcy Work from CoinDesk
- ConsenSys adds 7.03M votes to Uniswap BNB Chain migration proposal amid VC battle from Cointelegraph
- India in ‘no hurry’ for CBDC as digital rupee pilot onboards 50K users from Cointelegraph
- First Mover Asia: Bitcoin Flirts With $23.4K as Fed’s Powell Repeats Comment About Waning Inflation; Market Weighs DCG-Genesis Deal With Creditors from CoinDesk
- Bitcoin bulls stumble at $23.4K as Fed’s ‘disinflation’ sparks BTC price rally from Cointelegraph
- BTC price metric that cued biggest Bitcoin bull runs breaks out at $23K from Cointelegraph
- Bitcoin NFTs Explode in Popularity as BitMEX Research Shows 13,000 Ordinals from CoinDesk
- Cointelegraph launches the Top 100 list of crypto heroes and villains, 2023 edition from Cointelegraph
- End of bull run? The Graph awaits correction after a 200% GRT price rally from Cointelegraph
- Indian Web3 Social App Chingari Partners With Aptos Blockchain; GARI Token Surges 48% from CoinDesk
- Blur NFT Volume Beats OpenSea Again, With 30% of the Traders from Blockworks
- Ethereum gas price spikes 29% in January as user activity grows: Report from Cointelegraph
- Fan Token Project Chiliz Rolls Out Layer 1 Blockchain; Token Surges 20% from CoinDesk
- YouTuber baits MMA fighter to promote fake NFTs: Nifty Newsletter, Feb. 1–7 from Cointelegraph
- 5 high-paying careers in data science from Cointelegraph
- Deutsche Bank’s DWS eyes 2 German crypto firms for investment: Report from Cointelegraph
- Deutsche Bank in Talks to Invest in 2 German Crypto Firms: Bloomberg from CoinDesk
MEV Daily
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Risk Alerts
- DeFi securitization of real-world assets poses credit risks, opportunities: S&P from Cointelegraph
- Morpho PYTs: risk-adjusted P2P interest rates from Stories by Idle on Medium
Hot Topics
- Crypto Long & Short: Bitcoin’s ‘Golden Cross’ Explained from CoinDesk
- Craig Wright Loses Bitcoin Copyright Claim in UK Court from CoinDesk
- Happy Bitcoin anniversary, Tesla — Elon Musk firm still hodls 9.7K BTC from Cointelegraph
- Bitcoin Miner Digihost Completes Controversial Power Plant Acquisition, Doubling Energy Capacity from CoinDesk
- Here’s Why Artificial Intelligence Focused Cryptocurrencies Are Vastly Outperforming Bitcoin from CoinDesk
- Bitcoin Price Dollars Away From First Ever Weekly ‘Death Cross’ from Blockworks
- NFL Rivals Game Adds QBs Hurts, Mahomes to NFT Lineup Ahead of Super Bowl from CoinDesk
- Bitcoin’s Newfound NFT Hype Attracts Interest of BSV Developer Twetch from CoinDesk
- Hermès Wins Trademark Lawsuit Against MetaBirkins NFTs, Setting Powerful Precedent for NFT Creators from CoinDesk
- Justin Aversano makes a quantum leap for NFT photography from Cointelegraph
- Network Activity on Ethereum Is Up, With Uniswap Leading the Charge from Blockworks
- ConsenSys founder ‘bullish’ on Ethereum following crypto winter performance from Cointelegraph
- Robinhood Board Authorizes Purchase of Shares Bought by FTX’s Sam Bankman-Fried, Gary Wang from CoinDesk
- FTX debtors can issue subpoenas to company ‘insiders,’ says court from Cointelegraph
- FTX Bankruptcy Judge Allows Company to Subpoena Founder Bankman-Fried, Other ‘Insiders’ from CoinDesk
- Voyager subpoenas FTX and Alameda execs as judge orders fee examiner from Cointelegraph
Industry Tracer
- 📌Bitcoin Optech Newsletter #237 from Bitcoin Optech
- ⚡Bitcoin Resilient at $23,000 from Trustnodes
- ⚡Did China Print Half a Trillion? from Trustnodes
Deep Dive
- Crypto Chaos Matrix, TempleDAO SubDAO Token Model, Ondo Finance & On-Chain Bonds from Kerman Kohli
- The Seventh Bull Cycle from Stories by Pantera Capital on Medium
- [Podcast] Web3 Scalability and the User Experience with Mo Shaikh (Aptos Labs) from The TIE Research
- Value comparison using Proof-of-Sacrifice from Ethereum Research — Latest topics
- Axelar to Expand Cross-Chain Capabilities from Messari Crypto News Feed
- State of Aave Q4 2022 from Messari Crypto News Feed
- State of Harmony Q4 2022 from Messari Crypto News Feed
- WAX Museum of Blockchain Gaming from Messari Crypto News Feed
- Aave V3 Goes to Market on Ethereum from Messari Crypto News Feed
Podcast
Project Tracer
- SNXweave Weekly Recap 75 from Synthetix Blog
- Interest Rates and Recursive Borrowers from Gauntlet — Medium
- Interest Rates in Highly Shorted Tokens from Gauntlet — Medium
KOL’s Opinion
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Other Topics
- Crypto Exchange Kraken Facing SEC Probe, Settlement Could Come Soon: Bloomberg from CoinDesk
- Binance APAC Head Suggests Full Audit of the Crypto Exchange Isn’t Happening Soon: Bloomberg from CoinDesk
- Crypto Exchange Bitstamp Registers in France from CoinDesk
- Revolut Doubles Down on Crypto With Staking Rewards — But Not in US from Blockworks
- Crypto Council for Innovation GC to testify at US Senate ‘crypto crash’ hearing from Cointelegraph
- NYU to launch Web3 learning workshop in partnership with Near Protocol from Cointelegraph
- Algorand to drive Web3 adoption in India through key partnerships from Cointelegraph
- After AWS Deal With Ava Labs, Web3 at ‘Inflection Point’ from Blockworks
- Fujitsu launches Web3 acceleration platform for startups and partner companies from Cointelegraph
- A Pragmatic View of ChatGPT in a Web3 World from CoinDesk
- Ex-JPMorgan Banker Hired as Swiss Crypto Bank’s APAC Head from Blockworks
- Aspiring Crypto Bank’s Plight Shows Binance’s Issues Are Just Part of the Story from CoinDesk
- Digital pound could co-exist with private stablecoins — UK central bank from Cointelegraph
- The Bank of England is Looking to Build a Digital Pound from Blockworks
- Cardano DEX SundaeSwap Floats First On-Chain Governance Proposal from CoinDesk
- Cross-Chain Protocol Stargate Finance’s Token Surges by Double Digits on Trader Joe Partnership from CoinDesk
- Binance Is Organizing a Consortium to Try to Rebuild Trust in Crypto: Source from CoinDesk
- DeFi securitization of real-world assets poses credit risks, opportunities: S&P from Cointelegraph
- Contentious Uniswap Vote Highlights the Opaqueness of Decentralized Governance from CoinDesk
- Uniswap’s BNB deployment should use multiple bridges, claims LIFI CEO from Cointelegraph
- Coinbase’s CEO Cites ‘Rumors’ the SEC May Ban Crypto Staking for Retail Customers from CoinDesk
