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First Mover Asia: Crypto VC Funding Was Resilient in the Bear Market. It’s Now Powering Through This Mini-Bull Cycle
A Crypto Rank team of analysts wrote that “despite the inherent volatility of the cryptocurrency market, venture capitalists…continue to pour significant investments into the industry.”
U.S. Supreme Court to Hear First Crypto Case Tuesday
Coinbase is asking the high court to pause a pair of class-action lawsuits as the exchange attempts to force the plaintiffs into arbitration.
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Crypto Trading Firm Auros Secures $17M Investment as It Recovers From FTX Woes
Auros, the trading firm that lost $20 million in FTX’s implosion, was released from provisional liquidation by a British Virgin Island court after major debt restructuring and the investment led by TradFi trading firm Vivienne Court and bitcoin miner Bit Digital.
Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis Proposes Law to Ban CBDCs
The Biden administration is studying the possibility of introducing a central bank digital currency.
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Culture Week 2023
Culture Week investigates the fascinating world of cryptocurrency and culture. Learn about the people, communities, and values that are shaping the future of money.
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Discovery
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Was UBS Buying Credit Suisse Just ‘Soft Nationalization’?
The Credit Suisse saga comes to an end with UBS acquiring its biggest competitor.
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Russians Use Tether to Send Money to the West, Evading Sanctions and KYC – Transparency International
Russian banks may currently be cut off from the SWIFT international payments network. But, despite wide-ranging international sanctions against the Kremlin, money keeps flowing between Russia and the West, and a range of brokers are ready to turn Russian rubles into foreign currency abroad, in cash.
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Balaji's $1M Bitcoin Bet; Sen. Warren Calls Fed Chair Powell a Failure
The most valuable crypto stories for Monday, March 20, 2023.
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NBA vs NFL: What Dapper Labs’ Big-League Collectibles Say About Launching NFTs for Sports
Dapper’s NBA Top Shot experienced a wild price bubble during the NFT boom. The followup NFL All Day collection has had a more modest rollout - and collectors think that's good news for the nascent hobby.
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Hedera's Chief of Staff and CFO Discuss the Importance of Blockchain and the Freedom It Provides
Regulation, innovation, and the government's role in blockchain. Will decentralized finance empower financial inclusion?
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Is This a Crypto Banking Bailout?
As the wreckage that started inside crypto banking threatens financial institutions beyond the sector’s border, the federal government is eager to make it clear that it’s not going to let it get out of hand. But is it a bailout?
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Markets
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First Mover Asia: Crypto VC Funding Was Resilient in the Bear Market. It’s Now Powering Through This Mini-Bull Cycle
A Crypto Rank team of analysts wrote that “despite the inherent volatility of the cryptocurrency market, venture capitalists…continue to pour significant investments into the industry.”
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Finance
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Crypto Trading Firm Auros Secures $17M Investment as It Recovers From FTX Woes
Auros Global, the trading firm that reportedly lost $20 million on FTX’s implosion, was released from provisional liquidation of British Virgin Island court after major debt restructuring and a fresh $17 million investment led by TradFi trading firm Vivienne Court and bitcoin miner Bit Digital.
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Technology
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EOS Network Ventures Commits $20M to Build Dapps and Games on EOS Blockchain
The commitment comes ahead of next month's launch of EOS Ethereum Virtual Machine (EVM).
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