Coinbase power move 🪙🍁🚔

Top Stories ⌐◪-◪

🪙 Coinbase buys minority stake in Circle (USDC)

🍁 Maple Finance raises $5M to grow in Asia

🚔 Sam Bankman-Fried allowed limited hours outside jail

• $USDC is integrating with 6 new blockchains

• Coinbase is increasing support for stablecoins

• Circle will take full control over $USDC issuance

• Investment was led by BlockTower Capital and Tioga Capital

• Other investors: Cherry Ventures, Spartan Group, GSR Ventures

• Protocol will return to Solana after halting lending on the network

• Court filing issued Monday to let SBF meet with lawyers outside jail

• Lawyers seek to extend these visits to deal with “voluminous discovery”

• Lawyers allowed to bring “one internet-enabled laptop”

Peripheral Vision ⌐◪-◪

• $BTC whale builds $3 position - becoming 3rd largest holder 🤑

• Thailand demands Meta cracks down on crypto scam ads 🇹🇭

• Dogecoin community riled up over Proof of Stake 🤬

• Chinese official gets life in prison for crypto mining corruption 🇨🇳

• Game devs finding clever ways around Steam’s crypto bans 🕹️

• Random man claims to be Bitcoin’s inventor - wants $2.5B 🤣

• Avalanche will unlock $99M USd this Saturday ❄️

• Crypto hedge funds failing - 13% shut down this year 🪦

• $SHIB devs working to relaunch with an ‘enhanced’ version 🚀

• Dubai grants crypto film Komainu full license 🇸🇦

• China planning dystopian social score for Metaverse 😳

• SEC charges Titan Global Mgmt for crypto violations 🏛️