⚽️🚀 #CHZ Chiliz partnered with Grintafy, the largest platform for finding football talent in the Middle East (~2 million users).

👀🗣 #CELO Fortune: a16z invested $100 million on Kickstarter in 2021 and tried to push them to launch on Celo, but that effort ultimately failed.

💰 Blockus completed a $4 million pre-seed funding round led by Maple VC. www.venturebeat.com

📊 #BTC CQ notes the growing influx of BTC to savings addresses.

📊 Top 15 bridges by volume in the last 30 days.

🎁👀 #ZEND #STRK zkLend will launch ZEND airdrop on March 14th: Will distribute approximately 3.89 million ZEND tokens to 42,695 early backers.  twitter

🎮📈 CoinGecko: The GameFi sector is up more than 6% in the last 24 hours, outpacing the rest of the cryptocurrency sector, which is up 2.2% over the same period.
The total value of tokens associated with Web3 games is now $32.7 billion.

👀🚀 #BAND The founder of Band Protocol proposed rebranding into a memcoin on Cosmos, removing the oracle function.

🎮👀 #STRK The Starknet Foundation has announced the formation of a gaming committee to promote the development of its gaming ecosystem system. starknet.io

🕵‍♂🐶 #FLOKI Justin Sun transferred 7 billion FLOKI to Poloniex.

🇺🇸 #macro Consumer Inflation Expectations (Feb):
- 1-year consumer inflation expectations: +3% (prev: +3%);
- 5-year consumer inflation expectations: +2.9% (prev: 2.5%)

🇺🇸👀 #ETH #ETF Bloomberg analysts have reduced their forecasts for the likelihood of ETH-ETF approval in May to 30% from 60-70%

💰 #NFT NFT Lending Protocol NFTfi has completed $6 million in Series A1 funding led by Placeholder VC. twitter.com

🤝 #YGG Yield Guild Games have partnered with LongHash Ventures. medium

🍿 #FUN FUNToken intrigues

🤷‍♂ #BAND Band Protocol calms down

👀🚀 #XRP and #XLM buy

🇺🇸🕹 Biden again offers tax on cryptocurrency mining.

Biden unveiled a proposed fiscal year 2025 budget that includes an excise tax on cryptocurrency mining and the inclusion of cryptocurrencies in “wash sale” rules. These are taxes similar to those that were proposed last year but ultimately failed to pass Congress.

🙋‍♂ #ETF BlackRock has hired former GSR analyst Matt Kuhnke as director and product strategist focused on ETFs.
The analyst previously predicted a 75% chance of a spot ETH-ETF being approved by May 2024.
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🇺🇸👀 #macro CNBC: Long-term inflation expectations are rising, creating potential problems for the Fed. The central bank may policy tightening will have to be maintained for a longer period of time.