Spot Bitcoin ETF Trading Day 1: $4.6B

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Anyone else trading with the Spot Bitcoin ETF yet? Well if you use Vanguard, Charles Schwab or Merrill - you can’t! This has caused a ‘crypto bro outrage’ and many transferring retirement + other accounts so they can have access via another brokerage. People really want in on this $6B action! That’s right, as of this newsletter release, nearly $6B in trading volume has been transacted for these ETFs!

Plenty of other news about Decentralized Recovery for crypto wallet recovery; Circle’s IPO plans; and Cathie Wood’s insane 🐂Bullish $BTC prediction 🚀 Keep on Scrolling 🖤

• The SEC approves all 11 applicants for Bitcoin ETF trading (CD)

• Gary Gensler releases statement on Spot Bitcoin ETF approval (WG)

• Vanguard is blocking all Spot Bitcoin ETF investment trades (BW)

• X removes support for NFT profile pictures (TC)

• Ripple commits to buying back over $285M in shares (BW)

• Stablecoin firm Circle, issuer of $USDC, files for Initial Public Offering (RT)

• A single Bitcoin whale moved $550M+ to Coinbase in just 4 transactions (@WhaleWire)

• Bitcoin ETFs crush first-day trading records (3.5x Gold ETFs)

• Finoa reaches $100M valuation with $15M strategic funding from Maven11 and Balderton (BLOCK)

• Lightspeed Ventures, Kraken Ventures and other top investors back web3 developer platform Pontem with $6M (NFTG)

• Ta-da complestes $3.5M funding round from layer-1 protocol(TD)

• Kasu secures $3M from Woodstock, Morningstar Ventures, and Faculty Group for real world asset lending (GNW)

• Bracket Labs raises a $2M pre-seed round from Binance Labs (season 5 incubation cohort), FJ Labs, Cypher Capital and other notable crypto firms to support their volatility trading product, Passage (YF)

• VC investment in crypto has plunged, with 2023 recording $9.5B invested (P)

• Female-founded web3 startups received <7% of web3 venture dollars invested in 2023 (CT)

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• South Korean regulators give warning about U.S. Bitcoin ETF approval (CT)

• Senators are demanding an explanation for fake approval tweet (M)

• Multiple Exchanges served notice by Indian government removed from apple store (CD)

• Nigerias central bank greenlights stablecoin for February launch (CT)

• El Salvador President tweets about Bitcoin entry before Wall Street (@nayibbukele)

• Did SEC’s X account actually get compromised (TD)

• FTX Creditors seek court guidance to not value crypto assets based on 2022 low prices (CT)

• Secret Network and Hacken partner up to strengthen web3 privacy (PRW)

• North Korea was responsible for $600M in crypto theft in 2023 (CD)

• Euler co-founder loses $3.8M in governance tokens after hardware failure (DLN)

• Hedera and Algorand partner to bring a decentralized wallet recovery system (M)

• ETH inflows saw a $30M surge before ETF approval (CN)

• Ether jumps 20% as BlackRock plans for ETH ETF next (CT)

• Wall Street analysts believe ETH ETFs now have ‘straight shot’ for approval (CT)

• ETH Whales are lurking and collecting 4.5K+ ETH (U)

• Ethereum developers announce concerns regarding Buterin’s proposal to increase gas limits 33% (CT)

• Cathie Wood reveals 25% of her $250M+ net worth is in Bitcoin (@BitcoinMagazine)

• Phoenix acquires Bitcoin mining machines for $187M (M)

• $9M $Dogwifhat memecoin investment believed to be marketing stunt, loses 60% to slippage (CD)

• 90% of bitcoin addresses are currently profitable (@intotheblock)

• Grayscale releases newest Bitcoin ETF commercial (@Grayscale)

• BitWise plans to donate 10% of profits to Bitcoin open-source development (@WatcherGuru)

• Cathie Wood predicts Bitcoin’s Bear case to be $250k… Check out her Bullish prediction 👀 (@AltcoinDailyio)

• Crypto Bro’s took to X (Twitter) to boycott multiple leading investment firms that will not offer Spot Bitcoin ETFs #BoycottVanguard

• 3 reasons web3 has failed its original vision (@sullydoesitall)

• Why DAOs need privacy for governance (M)

• MakerDAO wants 2024 to have a “DeFi Summer” (CTM)

• Venture Capital within NFTs & Web3 x Sports (SC)

• Experts discuss importance of attracting blockchain developers for L1, L2, and ZK-rollup technology (CT)

• Decentralized streaming platforms could be the next big thing in music and other streaming services (Callum Carlstrom)

• Decentralized Recovery (DeRec) will revolutionize wallet security and recovery, spearheaded by Leemon Baird (CSM)

• Bitcoin and crypto market take a 5% hit in last 24hrs even with ETF inflows

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