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Written by Chris McCann, General Partner @ Race Capital. More about me.

• Traditional financial firms face a lot of scrutiny for using messenger apps for work communication, this could be coming to crypto firms as well.
• Read Elon Musk’s text messages in all of their full detail. (released from Twitter lawsuit)
• FTX and Visa partner to make spending in crypto more accessible (Disclosure, Race Capital is a seed investor in FTX).
• In fintech (and other fields) there is value in doing the hard things and solving customers' problems end-to-end as opposed to relying on 3rd party services. 
• Crunchbase does not capture Web3 companies’ fundraises very well, here is an alternative source by DeFi Llama.
• The state of decentralized finance in 15 charts. 
• Strategies for founders with less than 12 months of runway.

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