Tornado Cash: What You Didn't Hear Yet! 🌪️💳🃏

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🌪️ Tornado Cash founders charged with money laundering

💳 Shopify adds Solana Pay, enabling fee-free $USDC payments for merchants

🃏 Trump’s NFT trading cards surge after Tucker Carlson interview

• Founders Roman Storm and Roman Semenov charged by DOJ in NY

• Facing accusations of money laundering and sanction violations

• Storm was arrested in Washington, Semenov is still at large

• Great (non-lawyer) breakdown by ex-lead maintainer of Monero

• Shopify merchants can now accept $USDC payments via Sol Pay

• No-fees for merchants through end of 2023 → will boost adoption

• Solana considering other assets like $SOL and $BONK (a meme coin)

• Polygon-based NFT collection surges 1.45x since last week

• Tucker Carlson’s Trump interview went viral - 100M views within hours

• Trump trading cards has growing base of 14,000 unique holders

Peripheral Vision ⌐◪-◪

• Rarible tweets manifesto in support of creator royalties

• PancakeSwap expands Consensys-powered ETH L2, Linea

• FTX bankruptcy burning through $1.5M in legal costs every day

• FTX wants to appoint billionaire’s firm to manage their token assets

• FTX lawyers intend to show evidence of Sam’s plausible deniability

• Blue-chip NFT floor prices down over 25% in the last month

• dYdX expected to launch cosmos-based blockchain next month

• NFL crypto game gaining traction with millions of downloads

• Unstoppable Domain, ENS competitor, to add messaging feature

• EigenLayer secures $160M in deposits after raising deposit caps

• Israeli police accuse business magnate of $290M crypto scam