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Dapper Labs will be forced to face a lawsuit from the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) alleging that the NFT Top Shot NFT Moments on its platform are unregistered securities, following a judge’s refusal to dismiss the case on Wednesday. United States District Court Judge Victor Marrero ruled that such NFTs may plausibly qualify as securities under the Howey Test.  Are NFTs Securities? Per Marreno’s ruling, part of what makes the SEC’s allegations “facially plausible”...

Tencent Cloud announced strategic collaborations with prominent companies in the crypto industry namely – Ankr, Avalanche, Scroll, and Sui – to support the development of the Web3 ecosystem. According to the official statement by the subsidiary of the Chinese tech giant, the latest move aims to establish close relationships with industry partners to assist developers to accelerate the adoption of Web3. Tencent Fortifying Presence in Web3 Tencent Cloud International’s Senior...

Calls for more transparency in the process of crypto regulation in the U.S. are mounting. The latest to join the trend is the Blockchain Association, with the spate of enforcement action continuing as the Securities and Exchange Commission ramps up its war on crypto. On Feb. 22, Blockchain Association CEO Kristin Smith told Bloomberg that the crackdown has been a “behind closed doors” operation targeting specific companies for certain circumstances. “What we really need is a...

Mike Pence – former Vice President of the United States – believes his country is en route to a debt crisis within the next 25 to 30 years due to the government’s irresponsible fiscal policy. Within 3 decades, he claimed that the nation’s debt could balloon to $150 trillion. Insurmountable Debt In an interview on CNBC’s Squawk Box on Wednesday, Pence commented on the United States’ record high inflation, pinning its cause largely on “unnecessary” covid relief spending from...

Arbitrum has already been leading the pack in the layer 2 roll-up. However, the daily transactions on the protocol hit 1.14 million on February 21st, surpassing Ethereum mainnet, which recorded 1.05 million. According to the on-chain data on Dune Analytics, this is a new record high for the scaling solution. Since the beginning of the year, daily transactions on the blockchain have been on an uptrend surging by over 273% in less than two months. In comparison, the same metric...

Crypto exchange Coinbase reported net revenue of $605 million in Q4 2022, according to its latest earnings report published after the bell on Tuesday. Since its release, COIN shares briefly jumped 3% to $64 before falling back to $62 in after-hours trading.  Coinbase Survives the Bear The exchange’s latest numbers present a 5% boost compared to the previous quarter’s $576 million figure, and a touch above analysts’ estimates of $588 million.  According to the company’s...

Despite the market turbulence brought about by collapses and scams, Coinshares’ Chief Executive Officer Jean-Marie Mognetti asserted that the group’s “financial health remained solid.” Its earnings did take a severe beating, though. CoinShares released the fourth-quarter report for 2022 in which it recorded £14.5 million in combined revenue, gains, and other income. This was a massive drop of 65% from the fourth quarter of 2021 when the European asset manager fetched a...

Alex Gladstein – CSO of the Human Rights Foundation – thinks bitcoin symbolizes some of the USA’s values based on the Declaration of Independence: free speech, property rights, and open capital markets. He argued that the primary cryptocurrency could thrive in democracies and struggle in totalitarian countries. ‘It’s Financial Privilege’  In a recent episode of Simply Bitcoin, Alex Gladstein presented himself as a keen advocate of the leading digital asset and pointed out its...

Venture capital money is fleeing crypto as regulators tighten their noose around the industry in a post-FTX crackdown, according to Shark Tank star Kevin O’Leary. The investor claimed on Monday that VC funding is now headed toward artificial intelligence.  Why Regulators Are Mad During an interview published on Twitter, O’Leary described his experience attending various Capitol Hill hearings related to FTX’s collapse and interacting with the politicians involved.   “These...

Decentralized finance (DeFi) protocol Hope Finance suffered a $2 million exploit on February 20th. The hacker purportedly stole everything from the protocol genesis, according to its Twitter account, which was the first to announce that the community was scammed. The Arbitrum-based protocol also shared the information of the person while attaching a photograph with a voter’s card. The post alleged the hacker to be a Nigerian named Ugwoke Pascal Chukwuebuka who carried out the...