Market - DeFi liquidity crisis

• Voyager Digital to pursue Three Arrows Capital for $650 million loan
• Voyager Digital shares crash after warning of Three Arrows crypto loss - Financial Times
• Crypto broker Voyager lowers daily withdrawal limits from $25K to $10K
• CoinFLEX Pauses Withdrawals Amid ‘Extreme Market Conditions’ and Counterparty Uncertainty
• BlockFi Receives $250M Credit Facility From FTX
• Crypto exchange FTX bails out lending platform BlockFi - Financial Times

Ecosystem - DeFi

• New Solend vote invalidates governance decision to take over whale account
• Harmony’s cross-chain bridge hit by ETH theft worth nearly $100 million
• Avalanche Bridge Adds Native Bitcoin Support - Avalanche
• Send and receive crypto on multiple networks, starting with Polygon and Solana - Coinbase

Ecosystem - NFT

• Uniswap Labs Acquires NFT Startup Genie
• Gm, NFT frens - Uniswap Labs Has Acquired Genie

Regulation

• Bitcoin whale Microstrategy CEO Michael Saylor urges governments to regulate crypto - Fortune
• ECB President Lagarde: Crypto Staking and Lending Must Be Regulated - Decrypt
• Fed Chair Powell Says Soft Landing Will Be ‘Challenging,’ Calls for Crypto Regulation
• US Fed Evaluating SEC’s Position on Digital Assets Custody, Powell Says

Regulation - CBDC

• Fed’s Powell: a U.S. digital dollar could help maintain international primacy - Reuters
• Powell Says Fed Plans Recommendation to Congress on CBDC
• CBDCs, Not Crypto, Will Be Cornerstone of Future Monetary System, BIS Says

Ecosystem - Stablecoins

• Tether to Issue Sterling-Pegged Stablecoin, GBPT

Ecosystem - FalconX

• FalconX Doubles Valuation to $8 Billion Despite Crypto Downturn - Bloomberg
• FalconX Raises $150M at $8B Valuation

Ecosystem - Binance

• Binance.US Targeting $50M Follow-On Raise at $4.5B Valuation
• Soccer Superstar Cristiano Ronaldo Is Making NFTs for Binance - Decrypt

Ecosystem - Coinbase

• Moody’s downgrades Coinbase (senior debt Ba2) and places ratings under review for further downgrade - Moody’s

Ecosystem - Deloitte and NYDIG

• Deloitte, NYDIG To Help Institutions Adopt Bitcoin - Bitcoin Magazine
• Deloitte and NYDIG Announce Alliance to Provide Banking for All With Bitcoin

Ecosystem - Mining

• Bitcoin Miner Bitfarms Sells Coins After Ending Holding Strategy - Bloomberg
• Bitcoin mining difficulty falls by 2.35 %
• Bitcoin Total Hash Rate - blockchain.com

Tech

• Lightning Network - Kraken
• Newsletter #205 - Bitcoin Optech