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It’s SB-Friday! As we are sure you are all aware of, the founder of FTX, Sam Bankman-Fried was found guilty on all 7 charges against him. He is now potentially facing up to 110 years in prison. The crypto space is crazy, and these people/events/activities hurt us in the eyes of mainstream viewers and late adopters, but these actions to stop frauds are going to propel the crypto community. We are forever long on crypto, web3, blockchain, and startups in the space - if you are and know other people that are forever bullish, make sure they subscribe and follow us on Twitter! Get to scrolling & enjoy the weekend ⛓🖤

• Sam Bankman-Fried has been found guilty on all charges 🥳 (REUT)

• OpenSea launches an open-source tool of Solidity contracts, Shipyard (@OpeanSea)

• The National Bank of Georgia makes Ripple its official technology partner, willing to test CBDCs (CJ)

• Coinbase narrows net loss to $2M in Q3, “pleased” with activity and direction (CT)

• Celestia launches its mainnnet network (TB)

• Swiss National Bank to work with 6 digital exchanges (CD)

• Adidas pairs up with Bugatti to bring “phygital” soccer shoes (TB)

• Modulus raises $6.3M from Variant, 1kx, Blockchain Builders Fund and more to bring crypto security via ZK proofs to AI (M)

• ByteTrade backs Waterfall with $2.1M round ahead of mainnet launch (NFTG)

• Alfred Lin, partner at Sequoia Capital tweets about SBF sentence and the investment decision into FTX (@Alfred_Lin)

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• HSBC tests with blockchain to innovate London’s gold market (BBG)

• Turkey in final stage of regulation (CD)

• Abu Dhabi introduces formal regulation for DAOs as a leader in the Middle East innovations (CT)

• The SEC messed up in handling contentious crypto (CD)

• Hong Kong will allow some tokenized securities (M)

• SEC Subpoenas Paypal about USD stablecoin (M)

• The update of the arrest of Safemoon founders by the U.S. government (WGURU)

• Anti Coalition refuses to pay hackers (P)

• Frax Finance regains control after potential hijacking (M)

• MultiChain resumes confirming transactions 117 days after $126M hack (UCC)

• Ex/Ante, a new $33M Fund for for “agentic” tech, investing in personal privacy and ownership, closely tied to web3 (F)

• Horror stories of losing wallets (CT)

• Ethereum Mainnet reclaims dominance from Layer 2s (M)

• Vitalik drops a post about ETH layer 2 ecosystem (MR)

• Vitalik moves large ETH chunk to Coinbase (U)

• ProShares launches Short ETH Futures ETF, seeing investor interest in betting against Ether (CS)

• Why Sam Bankman-Fried’s charges matter for crypto & web3 (AX)

• Paypal UK registers as crypto provider (M)

• Maple Finance launches on Base Network (M)

• Tokenized Treasury Market increases by 600% (CD)

• Steve Aoki is working with STEP’N for a digital sneaker collection (DT)

• Mainstream companies like Shopify attend Solana Breakpoint to showcase & utilize web3 use-cases (CT)

• Crypto Ethics: SBF + FTX (EU)

• Is Web3 really improving mainstream products & services? (CT)

• VanEck’s Bearish, Neutral, and Bullish estimates for Solana (VECK)

• Katie Haun’s dataset estimates SBF could be sentenced to 100+ years (@katie_haun)

• Properly protect your crypto during the Bull Market (INVZ)

• How blockchain can revolutionize copyright offices according the Law Professor (CT)

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