⛓Crypto Q1 2023: Billions Made. Billions Lost. Billions Ready To Be Taxed & Shut Down.

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Q1 finished off with an emphatic bang - especially for those at Miami NFT Week. We hope those of you that traveled to Miami for NFT week enjoy all of the cool events, meet tons of new people, make some money, spend even more, and have safe travels back. Let's dive right into it ⛓👇🏼

• MicroStrategy bought another 6455 BTC (CD)

• Binance gave an edge to "VIP" users (PYMNTS)

• Senator Elizabeth Warren has started an anti-crypto campaign (CD)

• US Space Force says to mine Bitcoin (BW)

• Bitcoin closed out Q1 2023 as the best performing asset, gaining 70% (BiC)

• Hong Kong announces ProDigital Futures, a new $100M fund for web3 startups - the fund has currently raised $30M (TKN)

• Hydra Ventures announces a new Fund of Funds DAO with $10M in committed capital for backing other investment DAOs (@HydraVentures_)

• Ledger raises $108M (TC)

• Polytrade secures $3.8M in hope to improve world trade via blockchain technologies (TC)

• Web3 platform 'Lisk' opens a new accelerator program for web3 developers (CCX)

• SEC charges Beaxy for unregulated securities (SEC)

• SBF pleads not guilty in Chinese bribe case (PYMNTS)

• Regulators crackdown is hindering innovation (CD)

• Maximal Extractable Value bots were outsmarted by a malicious validator attempting "sandwich trades" leading to a $25M loss (CT)

• Following a $573k hack, Allbridge offers hacker bounty with zero legal ramifications if the individuals comes forward (CT)

• 1 year following the $625M Ronin Axie Infinity hack, the gaming leader plans to "upgrade" its tech for gaming studios (CT)

• De.Fi reports crypto theft & losses down significantly in Q1 2023, netting around $322M (CT)

• Aave to launch on Polygon zkEVM (TD)

• Metamask is not doing an airdrop (@MetaMask)

• Shiba Inu most goolged crypto of march (TCB)

• Pancake Swap launches V3 of the Decentralized Exchange (DEX) on Binance's BNB Chain (CD)

• Ethereum investors bullish ETH will reach $2k in Q2 (CT)

• Crypto casino made $2.6B last year (BW)

• Ledger valued at $1.4B (PYMNTS)

• Ticketmaster debuts NFT ticket sales (TM)

• Kraken partners with Williams Racing (@krakenfx)

• Analytics firm IntoTheBlock reports long-term Bitcoin investors bagged $13.4B worth of BTC in Q1 '23 (DH)

• The Algorand web3 algokit (CD)

• Governance tokens and their legal liability (TD)

• Are DAOs dead? (DECRYPT)

• Dynamic NFTs: use cases & examples (CT)

• Sandwich trading bots are making billions of dollars in crypto (FTN)

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