🔄 #OP Optimism will host the Optimism Goerli Regolith hard fork on March 17th.
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📊 Report Kaiko:
- Record high dominance of Tether (#USDT) / $.
- Growing interest in altcoins as measured by trading volume.
- Coinbase is suffering from connection issues due to high volumes.
- Strong inflows into crypto ETFs.

Scroll raises $50M in new funding and is now valued at $1.8B
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🐶 WazirX lists #FLOKI

🔛 #BOBA Tenderly is now fully integrated with the Boba Network. zycrypt

📊 The Block Research: Last year, investors raised $99.3 billion for crypto funds. Yet a few leading firms have committed less than 50% of their multi-million or billion-dollar funds.

🇺🇸 SEC files emergency action against Miami-based investment advisor BKCoin for $100 million cryptocurrency fraud scheme.

🕹 AXIOS: Currently, there are only nine crypto companies registered with the US SEC, and many of them have disappeared or suspended their activities. The current known operating ones are Blockstack (STX) and Enigma MPC (SCRT).

⚖ Rejection of FTX Bankruptcy Expert Appealed by the US Government.
An independent investigation could cost up to $100 million, a Delaware federal court has previously warned.

🥳 #ASTR Joint Web 3.0 Incubation Program of Sony Network Communications, Microsoft, Astar Network and others has received over 150 registrations
dailyhodl.com

🇳🇬 #CBDC Nigerians are protesting the African country's digital currency and demanding the resumption of access to fiat money despite government incentives. coindesk.com

👀 #GBTC discount reduced to 42% ahead of hearings on the Grayscale ETF on Tuesday.

👀 #LDO Lido: The staking and withdrawal feature has been temporarily suspended for troubleshooting due to a bug affecting stMATIC withdrawals.

📊 Sentiment: Crypto is still lagging behind stocks

🆕 Huobi lists #TRU

👀 Startup Eco, backed by a16z, Coinbase and others, claimed to have lent money to Fidelity and Goldman. In reality, user funds went to risky crypto lenders (like Alameda, FTX and Genesis) and DeFi protocols (MakerDAO and Compound)
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🇧🇷 The Central Bank of Brazil launched an experimental CBDC

📊 Glassnode report:
#BTC prices have been rejected due to a series of on-chain psychological levels associated with both older hands from the 2021-2022 cycle and a cohort of whales. Profit-taking and capital outflows have begun, although they remain low by historical standards.

🇺🇸 The White House has been monitoring the Silvergate situation and compared it to other crypto companies that have been having trouble lately. coindesk.com

#FTT Alameda Research has filed a lawsuit against crypto asset manager Grayscale Investments and DCG seeking an injunction to enforce what it claims is more than $250M for debtor FTX's clients and creditors. coindesk.com