News
African crypto-asset exchange, Yellow Card raises a $40 million (Link)
Ethereum: An Introduction to The Merge and the ETH Staking Ecosystem - Figment Networks (Link)
10M ETH in known providers --> 73%
8.13M in Top 4 --> 59.3%
4.17M in Lido, 1.92M in Coinbase ,1.14M in Kraken, 0.9M in Binance
Stripe launches USDC payments (Link)
The US CFTC imposes a $250k penalty against bZeroX, LLC & its founders & charges successor Ooki DAO for offering illegal, off-exchange Digital-Asset trading, registration violations, & failing to comply with Bank Secrecy Act (Link)
“Bitcoin is settling trillions of dollars of value per month” - Riot Blockchain report (Link)
Crypto-asset data provider, Messari raises $35 million (Link)
MicroStrategy (MSTR) acquires an additional 301 Bitcoin for $6 million (Link)
MSTR now holds 130,000 BTC in total
Spiral: Fast, High-Rate Single-Server Private Information Retrieval - PIR (Link)
PIR protocols enable a client to download an element from a public database without revealing to the database server which record is being requested
Canadian digital asset brokerages, Coinsquare & CoinSmart will merge (Link)
The number of addresses holding 1+ Bitcoin just reached an all time high of 904,351 (Link)
BTC mining firm Compute North files for bankruptcy (Link)