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Friday through this morning has included quite the events in the crypto community. SBF is being housed in the Brooklyn jail; SEC denies Spot Bitcoin ETFs; FC Barcelona takes on 9 figure investment for web3; and Donald Trump’s financial records show his 6 figure holdings of ETH! We love this amazing community of scrollers and are so excited to continue bringing you the top headlines 3x per week! Remember to hodl and keep on scrolling ⛓👇🏼

  • Sam Bankman-Fried sent to jail over tampering with evidence before trail (CNBC)

  • Circle reveals it’s web3 infrastructure strategy (U)

  • MicroSoft is up 206% since BTC adoption (B)

  • SBF to be housed in Brooklyn jail, known for it’s crappy conditions (WGURU)

  • FedNow shows off DLT payments as service provider (CT)

  • Illuminati Capital raises $50M to back web3 startups (W)

  • FC Barcelona takes on €120M investment for web3 vision (CTVP)

  • Moonbox closes strategic $2.5M funding round valued at $50M with participation from OKX Ventures & Bing Ventures (DJ)

  • Hong Kong based Xverse secures $5M in seed funding (PBF)

  • Shima Capital and Makers Fund back HypeLab’s $4M seed round for web3 advertising (INVC)

  • A16Z announces two new technologies for blockchain, Lasso & Jolt (@a16zcrypto)

  • SEC pumps breaks on ARK 21Shares BTC ETF (D)

  • SEC plans to appeal XRP sales ruling in Ripple case (D)

  • Crypto lobbyists & U.S. Senators urge court to dismiss SEC Coinbase lawsuit (CD)

  • Zumami Protocol hit by $2.1M blockchain exploit with hackers utilizing Tornado Cash (UCC)

  • SlowMist reveals Libbitcoin Bitcoin Explorer hit by $900k security breach (BTCIST)

  • Visa trials ETH gas fee payments using cards (D)

  • DeBank launches Layer2 on Optimism (DT)

  • DeGods move from Polygon to Ethereum (D)

  • Donald Trump has up to $250K - $500K in ETH according to financial records (CP)

  • The Private Sector’s role in CBDCs (P)

  • Boleros song share model proves web3 potential (D)

  • Cardano successfully mints BTC (U)

  • More Bitcoin ETF slowdowns from the weekend (BBG)

  • MetaMask, Banxa roll out Apple-Pay 1-tap payments (DT)

  • How AI chatbots will fuel web3 development (CT)

  • What is Antinomy? (A)

  • PayPal’s new CEO could accelerate crypto efforts (VRG)

  • 2021 Seed Stage Retrospective by Lattice (LAT)

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