Sequoia and Paradigm’s invest $1.15B in Citadel Securities

Elrond Foundation Acquires Crypto Payments Firm Utrust

NYDIG-Owned Payments Startup Bottlepay Obtains FCA Registration

Polygon Stakes Claim to Fastest Zero-Knowledge L2 With ‘Plonky2’ Launch

Arbitrum Goes Down Citing Sequencer Problems

Associated Press launches NFT marketplace for photography

NFT aggregator Flip raises $6.5M Seed

Vitalik Sounds Alarm on Security of Cross-chain Bridges

Bitcoin, related investments make up half of Bill Miller’s personal portfolio

Kim Kardashian, Floyd Mayweather Sued Over Ethereum Max Promotion

China Offers Digital Yuan at Olympics to Test Overseas Appeal

Investors remain very bearish with record weekly outflows of $207M

Cash App begins rolling out the Lightning Network to its users

Food for thought

Debunking More Overreactions to Macro & a Ronin Case Study

On-Chain Data: A Framework to Evaluate Bitcoin (ARK Invest)

Helicopter Tokens: the Data Behind Some of the Largest Airdrops on Ethereum

Crypto Talent Wars Fuel Sweeter Salaries, Better Perks for Employees

How DAOs Will Transform the Customer Experience: Stakeholder Alignment

Rollups, Validiums and Volitions: the Hottest Ethereum Scaling Solutions

Web3 Takes Trust Too

Outlook 2022: A new DeFi summer and the emergence of ‘RDeFi’

Crypto Traders Move Into Carbon Markets

Governance Participation: Perils and Promise

Optimizing Your Token Distribution

Richard Chen (1confirmation) Interview with Crypto @ Stanford

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