CryptoWeek #75

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Ecosystem – Lending crisis: Celsius

• Crypto Crash Drags Lender Celsius Network Into Bankruptcy – WSJ
• Crypto Lender Celsius Files for Bankruptcy After Freezing Withdrawals – Bloomberg
• Celsius is ‘Deeply Insolvent,’ Alleges Vermont Department of Financial Regulation – Coindesk
• Celsius Reclaims $410M of ‘stETH’ Tokens After Paying Down $81M Debt to Aave – Coindesk
• Celsius Pays Off Aave Loan, Moves $418M ‘stETH’ Stack to Unknown Wallet – Coindesk
• Celsius Pays Off Last DeFi Loan, Reclaims Nearly $200M of Wrapped Bitcoin From Compound – Coindesk
• Wobble in stETH’s Price Shows Fear Celsius Might Dump $435M Stake – Coindesk
• Inside Celsius: how one of crypto’s biggest lenders ground to a halt – Financial Times

Ecosystem – Lending crisis: Three Arrows Capital

• Crypto hedge fund Three Arrows’ liquidators get OK to claim U.S. assets – Reuters
• Singapore’s crypto aspirations shaken by Three Arrows collapse – Reuters
• Three Arrows Capital’s Zhu Su breaks silence, accuses liquidators of ‘baiting’ – TheBlock
• Three Arrows Founders Davies, Su’s Whereabouts Unknown, Foiling Liquidators – Bloomberg
• How Crypto Hedge Fund Three Arrows Capital Fell Apart (3AC) – Bloomberg

Ecosystem – Lending crisis: Others

• Crypto Exchange Blockchain.com Faces $270M Hit on Loans to Three Arrows Capital – Coindesk
• Update on Customer USD and Crypto – Voyager
• Voyager Clarifies USD Deposit Status in Update – Coindesk
• Vauld issues letter to its creditors, disclosing $70 million shortfall – TheBlock
• BlockFi softens stance, says it could accept GBTC as collateral – TheBlock

Ecosystem

• Why the 2022 ‘crypto winter’ is unlike previous bear markets – CNBC
• Crypto Startup Funding in Q2 Falls to a One-Year Low – Bloomberg
• For Crypto Survivors, There Are Deals to Be Had – WSJ

Regulation

• Global regulators back ‘same risk, same regulation’ for stablecoins – Reuters
• G20 regulators call for new global rules on cryptocurrencies – TheBlock
• SEC Chair Gary Gensler: Crypto Lenders Offered ‘Too Good to Be True’ Returns – Decrypt
• SEC Weighs Waiving Some Rules to Regulate Crypto, Gary Gensler Says – Bloomberg
• Gensler: SEC could tailor disclosures for crypto firms – TheBlock

Regulation – ETF

• SEC extends window to decide on ARK 21Shares spot Bitcoin ETF to August – Cointelegraph

Regulation – Stablecoins

• Key objectives of the digital euro – ECB
• The case for a digital euro: key objectives and design considerations – ECB

Ecosystem – Mining

• Mining the environment – is climate risk priced into crypto-assets? – ECB
• Bitcoin (BTC) Miners Shut Off Rigs as Texas Power Grid Nears Brink – Bloomberg
• Texas’ fragile grid isn’t ready for crypto mining’s explosive growth – The Verge

Ecosystem – DeFi

• Uniswap Users Lose Over $8M Worth of Ethereum in Massive Phishing Attack – BeInCrypto

Ecosystem – NFT

• Deep in Crypto Winter, a CryptoPunks Ethereum NFT Sells for $2.6M – Decrypt

Tech

• Ethereum devs confirm the perpetual date for The Merge – Cointelegraph
• BIP draft: Half-Aggregation of BIP-340 Signatures – bitcoin-dev
• Half-aggregation of BIP340 signatures – Blockstream
• Add a -mempoolfullrbf node setting by ariard · Pull Request #25353 – GitHub

I report trimestrali del Digital Gold Institute

• 2002Q2 Report – DGI