Ecosystem – Silvergate / SVB / Signature Bank

• FDIC: PR-16-2023 3/10/2023
• Federal Reserve Board announces it will make available additional funding to eligible depository institutions
• Signature Bank Faced Criminal Probe Ahead of Firm’s Collapse – Bloomberg
• The Banking Crisis Is Not Crypto’s Fault – CoinDesk
• US regulator eyes Friday bids for SVB, Signature Bank – Reuters

Ecosystem – Stablecoins

• An Update on USDC and Silicon Valley Bank
• Tether Becomes Unlikely Crypto Winner in Banking Crisis – WSJ

Regulation – Gensler

• Gary Gensler on Meeting With SBF and His Crypto Crackdown
• Attorney General James Continues Crackdown on Unregistered Cryptocurrency Platforms – NY Gov
• Ether and stablecoins are commodities, CFTC’s Behnam argues – Fortune Crypto
• SEC Chairman Gensler Suggests Again That Proof-of-Stake Tokens Are Securities – CoinDesk
• Gensler suggests proof-of-stake tokens are securities – The Block

Markets – Bitcoin

• Bitcoin price is up 50% this year outperforming stocks and gold

Ecosystem – TradFi

• Fidelity Crypto quietly went live, giving millions of retail customers access to bitcoin, ether – The Block
• Santander, HSBC, Deutsche Bank, Others Still Willing to Serve Crypto Clients – CoinDesk

Markets – Altcoins

• Shiba Inu Token Falls 10% Amid Shibarium Code Drama – CoinDesk staked-eth-withdrawals-being-processed-on-ethereum-goerli-testnet-ahead-of-shanghai-fork)
• Euler Finance flash-loan attacked for an estimated $197 million – The Block

Ecosystem – DCG / CoinDesk

• CoinMarketCap Acquisition of CoinDesk ‘On Hold’ – Blockworks

Ecosystem – Binance

• Binance GBP Funding On-/Off-Ramp to Be Suspended in May – CoinDesk
• Voyager-Binance.US Pause Denied by Bankruptcy Judge – CoinDesk
• https://twitter.com/cz_binance/status/1635131601884700674?s=46&t=XzbnTdc77eNFU4ZZp70Gxw

Ecosystem – Terra/USD

• Justice Department Probes Collapse of Do Kwon’s TerraUSD Stablecoin – WSJ

Ecosystem – FTX

• FTX Paid Around $2.2B to Sam Bankman-Fried, New Management Says – CoinDesk

Ecosystem – Meta / NFT

• https://twitter.com/skasriel/status/1635386565487898624
• Meta announces plans to stop working on NFTs – The Block
• Meta Will End Support for NFTs on Instagram, Facebook – CoinDesk
• Meta’s Ditching NFTs. It Sends a Stark Message About the Company and Crypto. – Barron’s

Ecosystem – Ethereum

• Staked ETH Withdrawals Being Processed on Ethereum Goerli Testnet Ahead of Shanghai Fork – CoinDesk
• https://twitter.com/coinbase/status/1636047279793528833?s=20

Tech – Bitcoin

• Ordinals: A New Innovation Powering Bitcoin NFTs and Maybe More – Chainalysis