🟢 Mastercard to allow crypto payments in Web3 via USDC settlements

The Mastercard-Immersve partnership uses decentralized protocols to settle real-time cryptocurrency transactions on outlets accepting Mastercard payments online.

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🟢 Hong Kong’s crypto ambition gets a subtle nod from Beijing

While China has cracked down on cryptocurrencies in the mainland, it’s apparently taking a softer approach to Hong Kong’s crypto hub aspirations.

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🟢 Layer 2 Network Arbitrum Surpasses Ethereum in Daily Transactions

Arbitrum’s dominance among the layer 2 landscape continues to grow in quarter one of 2023, as the number of unique addresses on Arbitrum reaches an all-time high.

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🟢Blur to airdrop $300 million in extra tokens to 'Loyal' NFT traders [dets]

🟢PolygonScan went down, causing unwarranted concern of blockchain outage [dets]

🟢⁠MOOAR Season 2 voting officially started [dets]

🟢⁠⁠Only 0.04% of Ethereum validators have been slashed since 2020, says core dev [dets]

🟢Gate.io to enter Hong Kong following city’s $6.4M budget allocation to Web3 [dets]

🟢ChatGPT-Creator OpenAI Hires Around 100 Ex-Google and Meta Employees [dets]

🟢Is Uniswap making its own wallet? [dets]

🟢Iraq to Allow Chinese Trades to be Settled in Yuan [dets]
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🟢 Google Cloud partners with Tezos blockchain to develop Web3 tech

Google’s cloud computing arm has added another string to its Web3 bow, with a new partnership to see it becoming a network validator on the Tezos blockchain.

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🟢 PayPal co-leads $20M seed funding for on-chain risk optimizer Chaos Labs

Chaos Labs protects crypto protocols against external exploits and risks with an automated risk management platform.

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🟢 Spotify Is Testing Token-Enabled Music Playlists

The pilot is currently only available for Android users in the U.S., U.K., Germany, Australia and New Zealand.

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🟢 Crypto Company Circle Focuses on Growth After Canceled SPAC Merger

Circle, which operates the USD Coin stablecoin, is still hiring even as many crypto companies are laying off staff.

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🟢 Uniswap will allow buying and selling NFTs on its platform

The leading decentralized crypto exchange Uniswap officially announced an NFT marketplace that will allow users to exchange and trade NFTs across marketplaces.

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🟢Polygon co-founder sees no future for Solana, Aptos, Avalanche, Cardano [dets]

🟢Simple trading strategies with Cryptomom [dets]

🟢⁠Snow Crash manuscript that coined the term ‘metaverse’ to be auctioned by Sotheby’s [dets]

🟢⁠IMF exec board endorses crypto policy framework, including no crypto as legal tender [dets]

🟢Block’s Q4 Bitcoin revenue down 7% on crypto price decline [dets]

🟢xSafe Launches on the MultiversX Mainnet [dets]

🟢Web3 Music Streaming Platform Audius Integrates TikTok [dets]

🟢Sam Bankman-Fried Hit With Additional Bank Fraud Charges in New Indictment [dets]
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🟢 Israeli startup to create blockchain chips with $70M of fresh funds

The Israeli startup Chain Reaction raised $70 million in its pursuit of developing blockchain chips.

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🟢 3AC Liquidators to Sell Multi-Million Dollar Portfolio of Seized NFTs

Teneo, the liquidator for the bankrupt crypto hedge fund, has listed out hundreds of NFTs that are subject to a forthcoming sale.

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🟢 DeFi Protocol Platypus to Repay at Least 63% of User Funds After $9M Hack

The Avalanche-based protocol worked with crypto exchange Binance to identify the exploiter responsible for last week's attack.

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🟢 Coinbase Launches Layer 2 Blockchain Base to Provide On-Ramp for Ethereum, Solana and Others

Base is built on Optimism and Coinbase has no plans to issue a new network token.

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🟢 Microsoft Researchers Are Testing ChatGPT in Robots

In a paper published this week, Microsoft researchers have revealed they are testing ChatGPT in robots.
They are noting their desire to “extend the capabilities of chatGPT to robotics, ” in a variety of ways.

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🟢Jump Crypto & Oasis.app 'counter exploits' Wormhole hacker for $225M [dets]

🟢Whale sells 1,010 NFTs in 48 hours in ‘largest NFT dump ever’ [dets]

🟢⁠Bitcoin on-chain data highlights key similarities between the 2019 and 2023 BTC price rally [dets]

🟢⁠Ethereum core developers plan new testnet called Holli [dets]

🟢Bankman-Fried asks court for more time to negotiate bail [dets]

🟢ZigZag has announced airdrops [dets]

🟢Trust Wallet announced a partnership with Ledger [dets]

🟢Microsoft $MSFT is testing ChatGPT in robots [dets]
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🟢 Whale sells 1,010 NFTs in 48 hours in ‘largest NFT dump ever’

With the Blur marketplace set for a second airdrop soon, Nansen’s Andrew Thurman theorized that this major NFT dump could be a play to reap extra BLUR token rewards while also booking some profits.

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🟢 Oasis Exploits Its Own Wallet Software to Seize Crypto Stolen in Wormhole Hack

Decentralized Finance (DeFi) platform Oasis said Friday it seized assets tied to last year’s $140 million exploit of the Wormhole bridge and returned them to an “authorized third party” after being ordered to do so by a British court.

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🟢 Inflation Firmed, Consumer Spending Jumped in January

The Fed’s preferred inflation gauge—the personal-consumption expenditures price index—rose 5.4% in January from a year earlier, the Commerce Department said Friday.

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