A Crypto Custodian Becomes the Latest Casualty



BitGo has agreed to buy Prime Trust as the crypto custodian becomes the latest casualty of the bear market (and the government’s assault on the industry). Binance is also pulling fiat rails from the US in advance of their hearing next Tuesday.

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TradFi Wants To Run Crypto



Operation Chokepoint 2.0 hasn’t stopped savvy tradfi investors from smelling an opportunity. This week, revealing and emblematic comments from the leader of Soros’ funds show how tradifitional financiers are seeing opportunity in the carnage.

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The Fed Pauses For The First Time In 15 Months (But Don't Call It A "Pause"!)



For the first time since this hiking cycle began, the Fed has chosen not to raise interest rates. NLW explores how they’re trying to control the narrative around it, and what markets think is actually going on behind the scenes.

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Is BlackRock's Bitcoin ETF Application A Political Message?



World’s largest asset manager BlackRock has filed for a Bitcoin spot ETF. They’ve been approved for 575 out of their last 576 ETF applications. Given that there are no indications that the SEC has changed its tune on spot ETFs, the industry is left asking: what does Larry Fink know that we don’t?

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The Prometheum WTF: Is This an SEC Grift Just to Mess Up Crypto Legislation?



This is truly one of the weirdest stories in crypto this year. Today NLW dives deep on Prometheum, a company that only showed up on most people’s radar this week when their CEO inexplicably testified before Congress. Was it all a big SEC Grift?

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Are Memecoins Silly Fun or an Existential Grift?



On Long Reads Sunday, NLW reads The Memecoin Grift and How It Threatens Ethereum Culture by Dr. Paul J. Dylan-Ennis Enjoying this content?

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Does Anyone Care About Tether's Chinese Paper?



On today’s episode, NLW looks at the (non) reaction of the crypto community to news that Tether held Chinese bank debt in 2021. The show also covers reactions to the Binance-SEC hearing last week.

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Do Kwon Goes To Jail



On this episode of crypto shennanigans, Do Kwon sentenced to four months for fake passport; ZachXBT raises $1M to fight lawsuit; Sam still going on trial in October (despite viral tweets saying otherwise).

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Bitcoin SMASHES Through $30,000 As Institutional Excitement Returns



Bitcoin is up above $30,000 and the return of the institutional narrative is driving it. NLW explores the good and bad.

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The Bear Market is Over with Dan Tapiero



Dan Tapiero has deployed more than a billion dollars into growth stage digital asset companies in the last few years. He’s also convinced that the bear market is over. In this conversation, he and NLW discuss the narrative resilience of crypto with institutional investors; why companies are looking global, and more.

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