Crypto Crosses $1 Trillion Again

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• Crypto market crosses $1T for the first time in months (Forbes)

• Silvergate Capital announces a $1B loss in Q4 '22 (FC)

• 196 Congress members received funding from FTX executives (CD)

• Shiba Inu Devs reveal a look at Layer 2 blockchain Shibarium (CD)

• Ondo is planning to tokenize treasuries and bonds (Ondo)

• Binance is looking to hire amongst rivalry job slashes (CNBC)

• Web3 startups funding plummets to 74% in Q4 (CB)

• Hashkey Capital closes third fund at $500M (TheBlock)

• 3AC founders raising $25M to build new cyrpto exchange GTX (WG)

• Framework Ventures leads Pafrin's $15M raise for web3 rails (TB)

• Blockchain-enabled luxury marketplace platform Syky secures $9.5M from 776 Ventures, Polygon Ventures, and additional notable Web3 investors (FINS)

• Diva closes $3.5M seed round for staking protocol (TheBlock)

• A16Z participates in Carry1st's $27M round for Web3 gaming in Africa (CT)

• Stablecoin regulation is top priority for congress (BW)

• Binance receives regulatory clearance to offer crypto exchange services in Poland (@thecryptoscroll)

• Avraham Eisenberg charged with fraud by CFTC (Decrypt)

• European Union postpones MiCA vote to April (CD)

• Congress create first digital assets subcommittee (Bitcoin)

• Crypto custodians are required to hold contingency plans by the Thai SEC (CT)

• $41K of ETH from North Korean hacking group gets moved (CD)

• NFT influencer wallet drained through Google-Ads (CT)

• Over 800 victims will receive over $17M for losses to Bitconnect ponzi (Justice.gov)

• NFT influencer @NFT_GOD loses nearly entire networth to malware delivered through Google-Ads (CT)

• Why ETH bulls are turning to liquid staking derrivatives (LSDs) (Decrypt)

• ETH hits 500,00 validators before Shanghai upgrade (Decrypt)

• Yuga Labs launch dookey dash, skill-based NFT game (TD)

• Ethereum network activity happens less on Ethereum and more on side-chains and layer-2 protocols (L2B)

• Binance is allowing investors to keep collateral off their exchange (CD)

• Vice Prime Minister of Ukraine says he wants to make Ukraine a leading jurisdiction for crypto (WG)

• Saudi Arabia willing to utilize other currencies, including crypto, in trade settlements (WGURU)

• Polygon did a hard-fork (Polygon)

• McDonalds partners with NFT artist Karen X Cheng for a Chinese New Year metaverse experience (prnewswire)

• Filecoin to test IPFS-based communication in space (TB)

• How Microsoft is leveraging Blockchain (Anchor)

• App-chains could be the leading scalable solution for DApps (CT)

• Creator of MetaMask, ConsenSys, laying off 100+ workers - 11% of total headcount (CN)

• Tech joins crypto in a "winter" as planning for a recession is leading to thousands of job cuts (BBG)

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