💰 A16z invests in crypto wallet infrastructure startup Capsule. theblock.com

🇬🇧⛏ The Moscow City Court ordered a resident of the capital to pay almost 870 thousand rubles in the case of cryptocurrency mining in the village of Ust-Ordynsky. The reason for going to court was the huge energy consumption.

The defendant's representative tried to justify the high consumption by the work of four electric boilers with a capacity of 100 kilowatts, which are allegedly used to heat the outdoor pool, but the attempt was unsuccessful. irk

🇨🇭 Global fashion brand GUESS now accepts crypto in Lugano

📊 #MATIC Sentiment: Polygon's social volume hasn't been this positive since August 2022, when MATIC jumped 20% before undergoing a 34% correction.

📊 #BTC Sentiment: Whales make the highest level of transactions of over $1 million in 4 months after breaking a 9-month price high.

🏦 #USDC Xapo Bank has allowed its users to make payments in British pounds sterling (GBP) and USDC. coindesk

🏦 Goldman Sachs filed a patent with the US Patent Office for a piece of blockchain technology that he hopes to integrate with his settlement engine. cryptoslate

📊 glassnode: The surge in #BTC price action resulted in over 2.7M coins profitability. This indicates that ~20% of the adjusted circulating supply was purchased in the range of $20K to $26K

📊 Sentiment: The average number of unique active #BTC addresses is back to May 2022 levels.

🤝 #FIL Cryptio is partnering with Protocol Labs, the company behind Filecoin, to help Filecoin miners meet their audit obligations. coindesk

🏦 NYDFS described Signature as a bank with far more significant operations than just the digital asset business that formed part of the bank's overall operations, and also said the decision to acquire Signature Bank on Sunday was unrelated to the bank's cryptocurrency business. the block

🇺🇸 US closure: S&P500: +1.70%; Nasdaq: +2.10%; Dow: +1.05%

🇺🇸 The US Department of the Treasury is close to publishing a risk assessment examining the criminal use of DeFi.

The department has considered the role of decentralized finance in incidents such as North Korean ransomware attacks and will release a risk assessment, the senior official said.
coindesk

🍿 Digest and events on Tomorrow:

🔓 Unlock: Convergence Finance (#CONV) - 2%
- DragonSB (#SB) - 5%
- MOCHI (#MOMA) - 2%
- BitDAO (#BIT) - 2% ($91.5m)
- Euler (#EUL) - 0.4% ($647.4k)
🔄 Optimism (#OP) - Bedrock Upgrade
- Aleph Zero (#ZERO) - Mainnet update v9.0
- Cosmos (#ATOM ) - Cosmos Hub will updated to V9 Lambda
🔁 MultiverseX (#EGLD) - Ad-Astra portal will become MultiversX Bridges
🙋‍♂️ Stargate (#STG) - Migration #STG to a new address
- Seedon (#SEON) - Upcoming fiat deposit release
🔛 Bitindi Chain (#BNI) - Launch of Bitindi Multichain NFT Platform
- Punchy Token (#PUNCH) - Launch of Punchword 1.0 for Android
🧯 Mindsync (#MAI) - Token burning
🛠 Bitstamp will hold Maintenance
📝 Voting ends: Osmosis (#OSMO) - Codebase update to v15.0.0
🇺🇸 Speech by FOMC member Bowman - 0:20 GMT
🇨🇳 Industrial production (Feb); Unemployment rate (Feb) - 5:00 Moscow time
🇪🇺 Industrial production (Jan) - 13:00 Moscow time
🇺🇸 Prom Inflation PPI (Feb); NY Empire State Manufacturing Index (Mar); Retail sales (Feb) - 15:30 Moscow time

👀 Cryptocurrency platform Anchorage Digital lays off 20% of employees: Bloomberg
The firm said U.S. regulatory uncertainty played a role in its decision.
coindesk.com

🦊📈 Metamask saw a record number of swaps over the weekend as the demise of Silvergate, SVB and Signature unfolded.
the block

🙋‍♂️ #STG Stargate DAO accepted a proposal to cancel the reissue of the STG token.

🧯 #USDC Circle had the largest ever burn of $723.5 million

More than 6.2 billion USDC has been redeemed since Friday, with about 1.66 billion minted, bringing net redemptions to just over $4.5 billion.

👀 Fed will consider tougher rules for mid-sized banks after SVB and Signature #regulation wsj

🥳 “We think the Fed is close to its peak.” He speaks SEB strategist
#macro

🥳 #ETH Ethereum Shapella Upgrade activated on the Goerli testnet