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Hi all, Julie here.

New podcast episode out with Charley! After he wrote about NFTs and his conversation with SHL0MS last week, I wanted to get him to dive deeper into this topic. Take a listen here!

Also, not really fintech related but wow this story is WILD.

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Company News

Inside Robinhood During Its Crisis

Our dear executive friends at Robinhood were saying one thing publicly and another internally, according to new court documents. From CNBC:

“According to the suit, in one instance, Robinhood Chief Operating Officer Gretchen Howard messaged internally that the start-up was facing a ‘major liquidity crisis.’ Publicly, the company’s chief executive said the opposite’... ‘There was no liquidity problem,’ CEO Vlad Tenev told CNBC’s Andrew Ross Sorkin a day later, on Jan. 29."

Crypto Watch

As we mentioned on Friday, Beijing implemented a new blanket ban on all cryptocurrency trading and mining, and it’s continuing to have a large impact this week. Crypto exchanges and service providers are scrambling to sever business ties with mainland Chinese clients. Crypto wallet company TokenPocket, for instance, sent a notice to clients that said it would terminate services to mainland Chinese clients that risk violating Chinese policies and would "actively embrace" regulation.

Coinbase Gets Into Direct Deposit

If you are in our FTT Slack, you knew about this on Friday ;) Amongst a few feature announcements at Coinbase is the ability to get direct deposits in crypto. Customers will be able to deposit a portion of their paycheck into Coinbase, of which you can opt to have it converted into crypto automatically. It doesn't have to be Bitcoin either, with any of the cryptos Coinbase offers being an option. Users can also get rewards on Coinbase Card purchases including 1% back in DAI, ETH, DOGE or BTC and 4% back in GRT, XLM, AMP or RLY. Here’s to hoping people get paid on days after Bitcoin decides to fall 🤷🏼‍♀️

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Julie VerHage-Greenberg is the co-founder of Fintech Today, where she focuses on editorial content and brand. Prior to joining, she was Bloomberg’s first fintech reporter, covering Robinhood from before it was a billion dollar company, breaking the news that Plaid was acquiring Quovo, and interviewing executives on Bloomberg TV and at several large conferences.

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