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⁠Coinbase handled trades and custody for Meitu's $90M crypto investment Meitu CFO Gary Ngan said the firm would have faced difficulties acquiring crypto on its own as a listed company.

⁠VCs bet big on layer-two as StarkWare raises a staggering $75 million Scalability is a hot investment as VCs and retail pour into rollup and sidechain solutions

⁠Tether market cap surpasses $40B, growing 10x over 12 months The market’s leading stablecoin, USDT, reached another major milestone as crypto demand continues to grow.

⁠Strong fundamentals push Dent, Arweave (AR) and Enzyme (MLN) price higher The growing need for data privacy and a renewed interest in the DeFi sector back the strong rallies seen in Dent, Arweave and Enzyme.

​​New NFT platform returns power and autonomy to photographers A new decentralized NFT platform enables photographers to prove ownership of their work, and get fairly paid for its use. #Sponsored

⁠Marshall Islands digital currency would 'raise risks,' says IMF Thanks to COVID measures, the local economy may not recover until 2022.

⁠NYDIG cuts Bitcoin fee to 0.3% for investors as Morgan Stanley opens floodgates Competition among institutional Bitcoin services continues to heat up as fees are slashed in time for a fresh herd of investors entering.

⁠Milking the cash cow: NFTs seen as investment opportunity by VCs The NFT sector is growing rapidly, with NFT marketplaces seeing a huge increase in volume. Investors and analysts explain what’s coming next.

⁠Covalent raises $2M to build a decentralized blockchain data provider The blockchain data space is getting more and more heated.

⁠Microsoft president says fintechs should leave currency to central banks Microsoft president Brad Smith is not keen on the idea of technology companies issuing private stablecoins.

⁠Waves Enterprise expands to Singapore to pursue hybrid blockchain adoption Asian markets are much friendlier to enterprise blockchain adoption, says Waves's founder.

⁠German federal bank runs successful blockchain system without a CBDC Executives at the Deutsche Bundesbank are eager to launch a blockchain-based system without the need for a CBDC — and they just might succeed.

​​Peer-to-peer ecosystem champions censorship resistance with new features A decentralized peer-to-peer ecosystem ensures financial transactions, user data and personal communications are kept strictly confidential. #Spo…

⁠BTC rewards app Lolli raises $5M from Reddit founder, Serena Williams, and more The freshly raised capital will go toward expanding Lolli’s BTC online shopping rewards internationally.

⁠Bank of International Settlements head says cryptos require more regulation Agustín Carstens has called for cryptocurrencies to be subject to more regulations while arguing that virtual currencies have not made a signif…

⁠Wirex halts UK signups after consultation with financial regulator Wirex has temporarily halted signing up new U.K. customers following what it called “constructive dialogue” with the Financial Conduct Authority.

⁠Blockchain.com raises $300M in crypto industry's third-largest capital raise The investment round was led by DST Global, Lightspeed Venture Partners and VY Capital and gave Blockchain.com a $5.2 billion valuation.

⁠Russia's money laundering watchdog monitoring crypto to ruble transactions Rosfinmonitoring has informed the Russian parliament that it is paying close attention to transactions involving the conversion of crypto to rub…

⁠Most asset managers still in ‘education mode’ on crypto, says Fidelity Michael Derbin, head of Fidelity Institutional, says that while some wealth managers are by now “sophisticated” and “comfortable” with crypto, many…

⁠Vitalik Buterin: NFTs can be a social good, not just a casino for rich celebrities There's little social value in helping make Elon Musk another $1 million in the NFT market, but the technology can still be put to good…

⁠Hermes Network launches zk-rollups on Ethereum mainnet to process cheap payments Hermez users will be able to transact with ETH, USDT, WBTC on a scalable layer-two network.

⁠South Korea faces strict crypto regulation and fears of centralization The growing cost of compliance in South Korea could push smaller crypto businesses out of the country.

⁠Elon Musk says Tesla now accepts Bitcoin from US customers Tesla initially hinted at accepting Bitcoin for payments in an SEC filing earlier this year.

⁠‘Castle’ production company’s new TV crypto comedy to drop an ep as an NFT A crypto-funded TV comedy series intends on releasing a full episode as an NFT.

⁠Coinbase's Reddit AMA: ‘It’s like Amazon in the early days’ Brian Armstrong compares Coinbase to Amazon in the early days in terms of innovations that will benefit customers.

⁠'No loss' lottery protocol PoolTogether among most utilized protocols in DeFi: Messari Since launching its V3 iteration in October, PoolTogether has paid out more than $750,000 in risk-free lottery returns.

⁠Jeff Garzik’s DeFi protocol Vesper Finance tops $1B TVL in six weeks Within six weeks of launching, Vesper Finance, a DeFi yield platform co-founded by former Bitcoin Core developer Jeff Garzik, has amassed a $1 billion…

⁠Nifty News: NFT searches at ICO-mania levels, a robot and Snoop Dog drop NFTs, plus more NFT Searches are on track to surpass the levels last seen for ICO searches in 2017, as Snoop Dog, Aston Martin, and an autonomous…

⁠Ethereum's high gas fee crisis won't be solved by EIP-1559: Coin Metrics report Consistently full blocks are the primary reason that gas prices have reached all-time highs.

⁠FTX set to secure naming rights to Miami NBA stadium until 2040 Cryptocurrency exchange FTX is on the brink of securing naming rights to Miami Heat’s stadium until 2040.