Ecosystem - Kraken

• CEO of Crypto Exchange Kraken Steps Down - WSJ
• Kraken announces leadership succession plan - Kraken
• Kraken Co-Founder Jesse Powell Steps Down as CEO of Crypto Exchange - Bloomberg
• Crypto Shakeout Engulfs C-Suite - Bloomberg

Ecosystem - FTX and Alameda

• FTX in talks to raise $1 billion at valuation of about $32 billion - CNBC
• Binance and FTX Make Top Bids for Bankrupt Lender Voyager - WSJ

Ecosystem - Ethereum Pow (ETHW)

• Ethereum PoW ETHW Network Hashrate Chart - 2Miners
• Grayscale files for rights to ETHPoW tokens after The Merge - The Block

Ecosystem - Tornado Cash

• Ethereum Coin Mixer Tornado Cash Is Back on GitHub - Decrypt

Ecosystem - ETH vs BTC

• MicroStrategy’s Saylor Sees Bitcoin Getting Stronger After Merge - Bloomberg

Ecosystem - TradFi

• JPMorgan CEO Jamie Dimon Calls Crypto Tokens Like Bitcoin ‘Ponzi Schemes’ - Bloomberg

Ecosystem - Nasdaq

• Nasdaq Makes First Big Crypto Push to Lure Institutional Clients - Bloomberg
• Nasdaq Starts Crypto Custody Service for Institutional Clients - Coindesk

Ecosystem - Miscellanea

• Crypto Fees Are High. The Stock Market May Hold the Answer. - WSJ
• Don’t Let the Crypto Winter Go to Waste - Bloomberg
• The lawless world of crypto scams - Financial Times
• Crypto-Tracer Chainalysis Busts Bitcoin Anonymity - Bloomberg

Regulation - ECB

• ECB Picks Amazon, Nexi, 3 More to Prototype Digital Euro Apps - Coindesk
• ECB selects external companies for joint prototyping of user interfaces for a digital euro - ECB

Ecosystem - Stablecoins

• Stablecoin Issuer Tether Ordered to Produce Documents Showing Backing of USDT - Coindesk
• Tether, Bitfinex ordered to show financial documents over USDT stablecoin - The Block
• Robinhood Lists USDC as First Stablecoin on Trading Platform - Decrypt

Ecosystem - Terra Luna

• Do Kwon says he is “not on the run,” cooperating with authorities - The Block
• South Korea Asks Interpol to Issue ‘Red Notice’ for Terra Co-Founder Do Kwon - Coindesk
• South Korean prosecutors ask Interpol to issue red notice for Do Kwon - Financial Times
• FatMan “Only in crypto” - Twitter

Regulation - US

• House Stablecoin Bill Would Put Two-Year Ban on Terra-Like Coins (XUT) - Bloomberg
• CFTC files lawsuit against decentralized autonomous organization - The Block
• Why the SEC Is Calling More Cryptocurrencies Securities and What That Means - Bloomberg

Ecosystem - Wintermute

• Wintermute - Twitter
• Crypto market maker Wintermute hacked for $160 million - The Block
• Crypto Market Maker Wintermute Hacked for $160M, OTC Services Unaffected - Coindesk

Ecosystem - DeFi

• DeFi Trader Nets Over $500K by Using DEX GMX to Manipulate Avalanche Token - Coindesk

Tech - Cardano

• What Cardano’s Highly Anticipated Vasil Hard Fork Will Bring - Coindesk

Tech - Ethereum

• What kind of layer 3s make sense? - Vitalik Blog

Tech - Bitcoin

• Newsletter #218 - Bitcoin Optech