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10/2/2023: CryptoPunks Takeover Charleston As SBF Prepares For Battle 🤘🏛️🪙

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Valko
October 02, 2023

Today’s Top Stories ⌐◪-◪

  • 🤘 Beeple hosts historic CryptoPunks meetup with Yuga & Larva Labs

  • 🏛️ SBF’s trial is about to start with very few pathways to acquittal

  • 🪙 Coinbase granted full license in Singapore for institutional and retail

Beeple Hosts Historic CryptoPunk Meetup In Charleston with Larva Labs

Beeple, Yuga Labs, Larba Labs, and hundreds of CryptoPunks from around the world traveled to Charleston this weekend to celebrate the community.

⌐◪-◪ → CryptoPunk founders Matt and John engage with the broader CryptoPunk community IRL for the first time in history. Prior to this weekend, and Larva Lab’s sale to Yuga Labs, Matt and John kept the community at arms length to let the project speak for itself - sort of like Satoshi and Bitcoin. But this weekend, Matt and John finally had their moment in the spotlight. Best and largest CryptoPunks meetup ever, thank you Beeple.

Will upcoming trial final let crypto forget Sam Bankman-Fried?

With SBF's trial about to start, The Block had a few questions we assume you might share. We did our best to answer them.

⌐◪-◪ → SBF’s trial starts tomorrow, October 3rd, so brace yourself for massive headlines and movement on the FTX front. We’re already starting to see ridiculous headlines about the exchange, from their attempts to buy an island nation to ideas of paying $5B to stop Trump from running for president.

Coinbase granted full license in Singapore

Coinbase, the crypto exchange operator, was granted a key license in Singapore.

⌐◪-◪ → Coinbase lands Major Payment Institution (MPI) license a year after Signapore granted preliminary approval. This move further establishes Singapore as a global crypto hub and crypto friendly region, where 32% of citizens already own cyrpto.

Peripheral Vision ⌐◪-◪

⛓️ Crypto & DeFi

  • FTX hacker moves 15,000 ETH through privacy tools and bridges

  • Token unlocks for Axie Infinity, Optimism, and Aptos later this month

  • SBF apparently considered paying Trump $5B to not run for president

  • Solana total value locked (TVL) hits $338.8M, a new all-time high

  • Babylon reveals minimum viable product for Bitcoin staking protocol

  • Honda now accepts Ripple (XRP) and Shiba Inu (SHIB) for payments

  • Satoshi Nakamoto’s undisclosed email to Wei Dai comes to light

🏦 Wallstreet

  • UBS launches live pilot of tokenized money market fund on Ethereum

  • Crypto investment firm Deus X Capital launches with $1B in assets

  • SEC is suing FTX’s former auditor Prager Metis

  • Chainlink partners with New Zealand Banking Group

🏛️ Legal & Regulatory

  • FTX memo reveals plans to buy island nation of Nauru to build bunker

  • SBF not allowed to blame FTX counsel in opening statement

  • SBF trial prosecution previews the witnesses it plans to call

  • FTX creditor payouts more than triple from expectations this year

  • SEC court filing shows leaked chat between Do Kwon and Daniel Shin

  • Binance customers brace for legal action against the US exchange

  • Ex-CEO of B2C accused of drug abuse and relationship with intern

  • Paradigm accuses SEC of overstepping in Binance case

  • BlockFi chapter 11 plans received approval earlier this week

🌎 Rest of the World

🖼️ NFTs

  • Chromie Squiggles donates royalties to artist fund

  • Machi, famous NFT investor, to join Friend Tech on Friday

  • NFT artists raise $114,00 at Edinburgh charity to support cancer

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