Pump It Up! $35k Bitcoin Is Back 📈

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Another Wednesday = More Scrolling! It’s time to scroll and learn about Bitcoin’s crazy pump this week, hitting the $35k mark; BlackRock’s preparation for BTC ETF approval; Walmart’s newest web3 accelerator companies; and the bidding for a potential FTX reboot 👀👇🏼

• BlackRock’s iShares Bitcoin Trust ETF is relisted on the DTCC site (WGURU)

• Bitcoin hits $35k biggest high since May 2022 (CNBC)

• Greyscale application for flipping fund into ETF will be re-reviewed by court order (BLOCK)

• Binance halts visa debit card in Europe (TB)

• The US and Canada are responsible for almost ¼ of transaction volume (TB)

• Michael Saylor’s MicroStrategy now has unrealized BTC gains of $70M+ (@WatcherGuru)

• Andreesen Horowitz backs Nym’s $300M crypto privacy innovation fund (M)

• Security Firm Blockaid receives $33M in latest funding (M)

• Nocturne Labs raises $6M from Vitalik Buterin, Bain Capital Crypto and others for ecosystem private accounts (BLOCK)

• NASD raises $3.3M seed round (M)

• Walmart and Outlier Ventures partnered accelerator launches 5 web3 startups (TC)

• Circle and TBD aim to launch DeFi focused foundation (P) 

• BlackRock readies Bitcoin ETF with ticker IBTC for potential approval and launch (DT)

• Solana’s largest DeFi protocol blocks UK users (M)

• California bill to cap crypto ATM withdrawals at $1000 a day (M)

• Coins.ph lost $6M worth of XRP in latest hack (FKST)

• Developer exposes potential issue in lightning network (M)

• Binance finally resumes withdrawals after technical issues (WGURU)

• Ethereum fees are up again from the meme coin use (CD)

• Ethereum account abstraction explained (CN)

• Maestro, a Telegram bot, refunded 610 ETH to potential victims (CN)

• POL contracts are now live on Ethereum to power all smart contracts on the Polygon network (CD)

• FTX has 3 bidders for restarting the trading exchange (BBG)

• Constellation Network is allowing devs to build scalable blockchains (MR)

• Worldcoin is switching operator rewards from USDC to WLD tokens (CD)

• Bitcoin tops $35k, a 23% gain since last week!

  

  Pinch Us. Must Be Dreaming. ATH Soon!?

• What is SocialFi? (M)

• How banking crisis destroyed institutional crypto trading (M)

• DeFi is feeling heat by rising interest rates (CD)

• Idle crypto liquidity (@gaby_goldberg)

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