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Nothing new here, Scrollers. Here’s your Monday headline update. #BUIDL something great this week 🖤⛓

• XRP registers biggest single day gain in 3 months (M)

• Bitcoin is back over $30K (Y)

• Tether reveals real time reserves launching 2024 (CB)

• Deutsche Bank and StanChart execute transaction via UDPN blockchain (LI)

• ‘Crypto Winter’ is over according to J.P. Morgan (CS)

• Coinbase expresses confidence in SEC approval of Bitcoin ETF (WGURU)

• Bitcoin hits 3-month high price above $31,000

• Capital One Ventures and MassMutual Ventures back Prove Identity with $40M funding (@ProveIdentity)

• Tel-Aviv based Blockaid raises $33M to combat & discover nefarious crypto wallets (FTNC)

• Crypto game Upland raises $7M before token launch (M)

• Coin Metrics, a crypto data solution, closes $6.7M round following last years $35M from banks including BNY Mellon and Goldman Sachs (BLOCK)

• Squads, a Solana multisig protocol, raised $5.7M from Multicoin & others (BLOCK)

• Takadao receives $1.6M pre-seed round for blockchain investing (FSME)

• Ryder raised $1.2M from Oak Grove Ventures and Bitcoin Frontier Fund for a “seed-phrase-less” wallet (DT)

• Gemini and DCG face $1B lawsuit (P)

• SEC drops charges against Ripple executives (CD)

• Over 100 lawmakers voice concerns of crypto (TB)

• California Governor signs web3 licensing regime into law (x)

• Hong Kong tightens regulation in crypto (U)

• Hong Kong changes view of spot-crypto ETFs (CD)

• Bitcoin Lightning Network developer warns about major technology vulnerability (NBTC)

• California to limit crypto ATM withdrawals to $1,000 for security purposes (CT)

• Coinbase open sources code for layer 2 Base (M)

• US seeks to label crypto as National Security threat amid money laundering concerns (M)

• A personal story released of man losing $400k from crypto scams (CTVN)

• $1.6M web3 game exit scam with fake actors (CT)

• How blockchain analysis helps recover stolen funds (CT)

• Oracle Altcoin next steps in staking (DH)

• ETH wallet wakes up after 8 years (U)

• ETH developers talk Deneb release for the blockchain (UT)

• Base launches 8 week developer program (CT)

• MicroStrategy currently has $60M in unrealized gains on BTC investments (@WatcherGuru)

• MultiversX partners with Google to boost AI (CS)

• Morgan Stanley say crypto winter is over (CS)

• BlackRock CEO is bullish on the crypto market (CP)

• Will the halving stick to historic standards (CT)

• Can Bitcoin hit Trillion dollar market cap? (AMBC)

• How to simplify web3 adoption (CT)

• How we can implement social recovery (CS)

• Web3 industry growth expected by 2030 (FE)

• Bitcoin Lightning Network security risk explained (CCN)

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