Crypto's Newest Victim: Silvergate Bank

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• Silvergate Bank is being shut down and liquidated (PYMNTS)

• Coinbase launches wallet as a service (CB)

• Jack Dorsey's company Block plans to launch a mining development kit (DT)

• JPMorgan cuts ties with Gemini (CD)

• A 30% excise tax on crypto mining firms was proposed by the U.S. Treasury Department yesterday (CD)

• Bitcoin and crypto markets slide to 7 week low due to Silvergate and bearish activity (BLOCK)

• Alpha Sigma Capital and Transform Ventures work together to raise $100M for two funds: Blockchain Innovation and 'Decentralized Web3 Ventures' (REUT)

• Kresus raises $25M to bridge consumers to blockchain (CT)

• Matchday, a soccer game startup, is backed by Lionel Messi's Play Time VC with $21M (DT)

• Crypto payroll startup Toku raises $20M (CD)

• EtherMail gets $4M backing from infamous investor Tim Draper (BLOCK)

• Diagram Ventures leads web3 analytics startup, Helika's $4M seed round (BK)

• Esports giant TSM enters into web3 gaming partnership with Avalanche (CD)

• US lawmakers to reintroduce crypto tax reform bill (CD)

• SEC accuses Utah of fraudulent $18M crypto mining scheme (CT)

• SEC shuts down '$100M Fraud' in Miami (DECRYPT)

• CFTC chair says ETH and stablecoins could be commodities (BW)

• Michael Barr's speech suggesting severe caution and government supervision for crypto (FRB)

• KuCoin sued by New York Attorney General for being an "unregistered" broker (BLOCK)

• Hacked Coinbase user sues crypto exchange for $96K lost (BI)

• Hedera reportedly experiencing technical irregularities regarding the smart contract services (TB)

• How a hardware wallet company was hacked in just seconds by a cybersecurity firm (CS)

• Algorand's ongoing issues with wallet draining hack (CS)

• Web3 security training initiative launched by SecureWeb3 (EIN)

• Ethereum Naming service unveils subdomain feature (TD)

• Ethereum mining whale from 2017 transfers 10,266 ETH (DH)

• Ethereum smart accounts are here, and this is what they do (CT)

• 92% of hackers are focused on Ethereum (YF)

• Missouri is moving closer to legally protecting crypto mining (BW)

• Australia announces CBDC pilot (DECRYPT)

• WeChat is integrating digital yuan into its payments platform (CT)

• Alibaba Cloud gets involved with web3 through partnership with Sui blockchain creator (CD)

• Esports giant TSM enters into web3 gaming partnership with Avalanche (CD)

• Cameron Dickie joins Nomura's crypto arm (EFC)

• Celebrating Women in Blockchain, Crypto, & Web3 (@thecryptoscroll)

• Can crypto's value proposition turn into real value? (PYMNTS)

• Game developers can upload their own games to Epic Games store - potential path for blockchain & NFT adoption (PCG)

• You can now buy a Starbucks NFT for $100 (DT)

• How WaaS (Wallet-as-a-Service) actually works (TC)

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