Bitcoin Market Cap Passes Visa

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• Bitcoin's market cap once again surpasses Visa (@WatcherGuru)

• Japan CBDC pilot program scheduled for April (WG)

• Polygon to deliver ZK-rollup in march (TD)

• Binance moved $400M to a firm owned by Binance CEO, CZ (Reuters)

• Web3 startups bagged $185 million last week in funding (BW)

• Amazon takes $20 million chance on web3 studio, Superplastic (CREP)

• A16Z Crypto and DFW Labs back Yield Guild Gaming with $13.8 million for P2E game (CSAUR)

• Unagi raises €4.7MM seed round from Binance to expand its NFT fantasy sports operations (TC)

• GloryFinance and top Korean VC firm collaborate on $3.5 million seed round to make DeFi more accessible (BTC)

• Sony and Astar partner to launch web3 incubation program (TD)

• Luna founder charged by SEC for securities fraud (Pymnts)

• New York Department of Financial Services orders Paxos to stop minting BUSD (DFS)

• Judge threatens SBF with jail time if SBF doesn't limit internet  (NYT)

• Unknown consequences from SEC's staking crackdown for 9 figure DeFi market (CT)

• US Government is 'pedal to the metal' with actions against crypto (NYT)

• $3.1M exploit found on Beanstalk logic with 181k bug bounty payout (Medium)

• $1.5M exploit on Dexible (@BeosinAlert)

• Platypus works on recovering $8.5 million in DeFi funds (CT)

• NameCheap email hacked to send MetaMask phising email (BC)

• New ransomware named "MortalKombat" and clipper malware called "Laplas" observed scamming small businesses in U.S., U.K., & Turkey (THN)

• Q&A with Forta executive about web3's future and cybersecurity in 2023 (CMO)

• Optimism delays bedrock upgrade (@optimismfnd)

• Blur airdrop surged gas prices (@Mega_Fund)

• The Shanghai Upgrade will likely bring volatility to ETH pricing (CD)

• South Korean business executive arrested due to mishandling Ethereum funds (CN)

• OpenSea tries to maintain marketshare against Blur by dropping fees temporarily and cutting creator royalty protections (DT)

More on the OpenSea situation:

• Paul Pierce pays $1.4M to SEC for crypto violations (CBSnews)

• YouTube new CEO is Web3 friendly (CT)

• BTC whale moves $135M (DailyHodl)

• Women are being left out of Web3 - which hurts adoption (FNT)

• Why ZK-rollups have the advantage (@_bfarmer)

• What is Web3 gaming? (mobidictum)

• Ethereum Shanghai upgrade explained (CT)

• What you need to know on crypto taxes (CNBC)

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