March Madness: Crypto Edition

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Today’s edition is a mic of the madness that occurred in March, along with some crazy headlines from the last 4 days 😳 SBF thought he did nothing wrong; VCs invested over $1B in crypto startups in March; ETFs are still on the rise - including interest for ETH and others; and the memecoin madness digresses as we enter April. Keep on Scrolling 🖤🙌

• U.S. government sends 30k+ BTC ($2.1B) seized from Silk Road to Coinbase

• Coinbase partners with Lightspark to integrate the Bitcoin Lightning Network (CGP)

• Memcoin trading leads the way for DEX volume records in March (DFNT)

• Bitcoin halving is in 19 days (TD)

• Bitcoin passes ETH in volatility as halving approaches (CD)

• ProShares launches leveraged and short Bitcoin ETFs (BBG)

• Tether purchased $629M of Bitcoin (@BitcoinMagazine)

• Crypto investments just hit a 18 month high (TB)

• Dormant BTC wallet with over $35M wakes up after 12 years (MR)

• Crypto VC Paradigm in works to raise up to $850M for a new crypto venture fund (PMNT)

• A16Z sets aside $75M for gaming startups, including web3 and blockchain games (CT)

• Helika launches $50M accelerator for web3 and gaming (B)

• Gomble Games raises $10M in funding for web3 platform (I)

• Australian DeFi startup PrismaStake scores $6M in seed funding (FSME)

• Moongate closes $2.7M seed round led by CMCC’s Titan Fund for modular web3 engagement layer for real world activations (DT)

• Greyscale is launching a proof-of-stake fund for millionaires (TB)

• March overview: $1.1B invested across 180 deals, a 53% increase Month-over-Month (CT)

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• FTX bankruptcy aiming to begin repaying creditors by end of 2024 (TB)

• Tron says SEC lawsuit should be tossed for overreach (TD)

• U.S. SEC calls for comments on Spot ETH ETF (CD)

• UK Regulators set guidance draft for digital securities (CD)

• Q1 sees $336M of crypto hacks, a concern for crypto adoption (CPED)

• FixedFloat sees another hack of $2.8M (CTI)

• Ozempic meme coin rug pulls millions of traders (M)

• SOL trading Telegram bot to shut down after users drained of $523K (M)

• DefiLlama reports $7.7B of crypto hacks, exploits, and scams since 2016 (CN)

• Vitalik encourages ETH devs to target millions of users post Dencun (TD)

• Vitalik begins ushering in the Purge (FXS)

• A look into Vitalik’s holdings of crypto net worth (N)

• ERC-20 design flaws are a crypto scammers best friend (CTM)

• Crypto trader Cobie launches beta of angel investor platform Echo (TB)

• Thailand’s biggest crypto exchange hiring for IPO in 2025 (B)

• Diga Labs partners with Ambrus Studio (YF)

• $150M was liquidated from crypto markets in one hour on April 1 (@WatcherGuru)

• $1.4B of $USDC was transferred in a single transaction to Coinbase recently (@martypartymusic)

• 35+ organizations are fighting to get a Bitcoin emoji (CT)

• SBF feels bad about his actions after receiving 25 year prison sentence (CD)

• Wormhole debuts at $3B valuation with token drop (CD)

• Bitcoin ETF inflows reach $111B in March (@BitcoinMagazine)

• Bitcoin ETF purchases tripled the Bitcoin mined in March (@BitcoinMagazine)

• Bitcoin Miner IREN stock price surges ahead of halving (M)

• How has the Bitcoin performed historically after the halving (TD)

• Volatility increase of Bitcoin around the halving event (CD)

• Will Bitcoin halving have an effect of adoption of web3 gaming? (CN)

• Hedge fund manager predicts $150K Bitcoin by end of year (TB)

• Why SBF thought he was doing ‘nothing wrong’ (WG)

• How a memecoin dev gambled $30M bet (@0xWinged)

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