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Another mid-week update in your inbox! If you’re friends aren’t reading this but want a simple way to keep up with the biggest industry headlines, share Crypto Scroll with them! A little TLDR headlines: Elon’s Twitter rebrand to X is creating speculation with crypto usage; Sam Altman launched Worldcoin and Vitalik Buterin raises concerns over it; Last week crypto VC funding hit > $200M and seems to continue it’s pace this week. Is the bull run finally beginning??? 👀

• Elon’s Twitter rebrand could create a catalyst for crypto - specifically DOGE (CD)

• BTC wallet moves $30M after sleeping 11 years (CT)

• Kraken launches new web interface (K)

• Sam Altman launches Worldcoin (CNN)

• BitInstant founder Charlie Shrem, one of the first Bitcoin millionaires and previously jailed for crypto violations, is now advising crypto startups (WSJ)

• Zyber 365 breaks funding records with $100M Series A, reaching unicorn status just 2 months after founding (VCC)

• Ethereum Flashbots provider raises $60M Series B (CS)

• Avalanche creates $50M incentive program to purchase tokenized assets (TB)

• Pixion Games receives $5.5M backing from Shima Capital and Yida Gao (PRN)

• Delabs Games raises $4.7M for Polygon build (D)

• Releap Protocol bags $2.1M from Sui Foundation (BR)

• PointOne Capital and Cloud Capital back Singapore-based GameFi startup Kandle with $1.7M (FSME)

• Hibiki Note, a web3 music platform, raised a $1M seed round from NEAR Foundation and more (BR)

• Multi-chain infrastructure startup DMail raises Pre-A round from Haskey Capital, Outliers Fund, Drapers Dragon, Kraken Ventures and other leading web3 VCs (CS)

• North Dakota opts in for digital wallets of students on the blockchain (BW)

• Binance withdrawals German crypto license application (CD)

• Binance plans to file motion to dismiss the CFTC complaint for ‘derivatives trading’ (CD)

• SEC charged Quantstamp $28M over ICO, and no rebuttal will be made (BLOCK)

• Alphapo hot wallets drained for $23M (TB)

• DOJ doubles size of crypto crime team (CP)

• Arkham Intel Exchange rewards two blockchain sleuths over first ever bounty for Do Kwon wallets, rewarding ~$5,000 or 9,520 $ARKHM (BLOCK)

• Vitalik warns against WorldCoin technology (D)

• EigenLayer wants to ‘dissolve into Ethereum’ (BW)

• Ethereum Flashbots provider raises $60M Series B - a bullish fundraise for the Ethereum ecosystem (CS)

• Market update below 👇🏼

• SBF’s little brother tried to buy an ‘apocalypse bunker’ (CNBC)

• Dogecoin jumps 9% after some speculation with Elon’s Twitter rebrand to X (BLOCK)

• JPMorgan and Citi Group want Wall Street on the blockchain (CNBC)

• Binance Academy releases intermediate educational courses to advance web3, blockchain, and crypto education (BR)

• What does the FedNow release mean for the digital dollar (CD)

• Web3 play for Climate Financing strategies (NASDAQ)

• Why now is the perfect time to invest in crypto (UCC)

• Everything you need to know about WorldCoin (F)

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