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• Cathie Wood dumps all ArkInvest’s Grayscale Bitcoin (~ $200M) ahead of ETF news (CPOT)

• BlackRock CEO Larry Fink says “tokenization will be the next generation for markets” (@MilkRoadDaily)

• Industry leaders eyeing Hong Kong as next ETF hub (TB)

• Binance founder CZ’s fortune ballooned by $25B (P)

• Bitcoin faces protocol level censorship (TB)

• 1.83M SOL (~ $183M) transferred from unknown wallet to Coinbase yesterday (@whale_alert)

• 3,143 BTC (~ $134M) moved from unknown wallet to Coinbase (@whale_alert)

• Binance increased it’s customer base by 30%, totaling 170M in 2023 (CT)

• $11B of options via Deribit expire today, with around $5M in the money (CD)

• Chinese web3 VC GBA Capital pledges $10B for web3 fund + accelerator (CT)

• CESS completes $8M Series A from 13 leading Web3 VCs for data decentralization (YF)

• Web3Mine raises $6M seed funding from 1kx and PL Ventures for staking protocol (W3M)

• Formless secures $2.2M backing from A16Zcrypto, Zypsy and others (@formless_xyz)

• Centi closes seed round from Archblock and Bloomhaus Ventures (PRN)

• Morningstar Ventures leads MOOVE Protocol seed funding (HMS)

• Framework tweets about strategic investment in Immutable (@hiFramework)

• Eclipse Fi raises $1.9M to build web3 launch hub (Y)

• Web3 investments jump 52% in November from October, with $467M+ raised (BiC)

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• Nigeria lifts restrictions on bank accounts for crypto firms (TB)

• Paxos receives approval for expansion to Solana (TB)

• ARK 21Shares files 5th amendment to Spot Bitcoin ETF filing (@BitcoinMagazine)

• The importance of Japan scrapping unrealized gains tax on crypto (CT)

• A judge approves bankrupt crypto lender Celsius to convert to Bitcoin Mining firm (REUT)

• India to ban access to 9 crypto exchanges (WG)

• Hackers stole $2B in crypto in 2023 (TC)

• Biggest exploits and hacks of 2023 (M)

• Telecoin hacked for $1.3M (MR)

• Levana Protocol loses $1.1M from liquidity pools in recent hack (SA)

• Man loses $1M in ‘pig butchering’ fraudulent crypto scam (CNN)

• zkSync crashed for 5 hours on Christmas Day (CT)

• Top 10 most expensive NFT sales (TB)

• Vitalik wants to modify its PoS model (TD)

• Render is switching to Solana (TD)

• OKX wallet inscription ecosystem integrates Ethscriptions Facet protocol (OKX)

• Wallet linked to Donald Trump transfers $2.4M Ether to Coinbase, suspicions of dumping gains from latest NFT project (CD)

• ETH jumps above $2444 on December 27th, before dropping below $2350 yesterday (DT)

• Microstrategy BTC play has made over 300% gain for investors (CNBC)

• Coinbase’s BTC reserves hit 411k, lowest since 2015 (CS)

• Solana DEXs book record volume following airdrops (M)

• Billy Silbert and Mark Murphy to exit Grayscale board (BW)

• Avalanche Foundation to utilize $100M NFT fund towards memecoin investing (CT)

• A Fatwa written expressing Bitcoin is acceptable under Islam faith (@bitcoinlfgo)

• 3AC founders had $1B in assets frozen (CD)

• Sotheby’s sold $35M worth of digital art in 2023 (CT)

• VanEck releases commercial for Bitcoin ETF - “Born to Bitcoin” (@vaneck_us)

• HashDex drops 2nd Bitcoin ETF advertisement (@hashdex)

• What to expect of web3 in 2024 (M)

• XRP prediction over $300 (CN)

• Recover your crypto wallet without a seed phrase (CT)

• GenZ Web3 Visionary and founder of Zeebu is utilizing blockchain for the telecom industry (DJ)

• History of finance, crypto, and Islam (WP)

• Inflationary vs. Deflationary token models (CT)

• Vested token release schedule explained (CT)

• 2024, the year of crypto funding revival (INV)

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