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A whole lot of information transpired in the wild world of web3: Solana Mobile’s new device introduced in over 30,000 preorders, the extremely anticipated Electric Capital developer report confirmed good — and unhealthy — information for builders, Coinbase went to courtroom and India confronted extra crypto woes. More particulars beneath.
This week in web3
- Buying frenzy for Solana Mobile’s second cellphone drives preorders sky excessive
- Coinbase argues for movement to dismiss SEC’s ‘securities violation’ allegations
- Number of month-to-month lively crypto devs fell 25% in 2023
- Google pulls Binance, different international crypto apps from India retailer
- How low can bitcoin ETF charges drop earlier than it hurts a enterprise?
Crunching numbers
As the crypto house soaks in the spot bitcoin ETF approval from final week, buying and selling volumes throughout all 11 issuers hit $11.95 billion with property in combination round $27.7 billion inside 4 days, in accordance to a publish on X by James Seyffart, an ETF analyst at Bloomberg Intelligence.
Prior to the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission’s approval of the spot bitcoin ETFs, some specialists advised me they anticipated buying and selling volumes to hit $10 billion in a 12 months, not every week. So it’s protected to say these numbers are approach forward of the beforehand anticipated demand.
Our favourite web3 publish on X
Franklin Templeton, a 77-year-old agency, which manages over $1.4 trillion in AUM, has a PFP with laser eyes (a nod to the Bitcoin group) and is posting about memecoins like dogwifhat. Bet you didn’t have that in your 2024 bingo card.
You are not sure how to really feel about Laser Eye Ben? Just suppose as an alternative of Ben wif hat
— Franklin Templeton (@FTI_US) January 17, 2024
The newest pod
For this week’s episode, I interviewed Monica Long, the president of Ripple, a blockchain-based digital cost community and protocol.
Ripple has been round since 2012 and is without doubt one of the oldest crypto entities. Monica has spent the final 10 years at Ripple, working her approach up from the director of communications to now, president.
We talked about Monica’s profession progress, cross-border funds, conventional finance and the necessity for regulatory readability.
We additionally dove into Ripple’s go well with with the SEC, the XRP Ledger, its focus for 2024 and recommendation for the group.
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Follow the cash
- Inception Capital closes flagship $30M fund of funds centered on crypto rising managers.
- Staking expertise supplier Kiln raises $17 million in uncommon crypto funding spherical
- COTI launches $25M ecosystem progress fund to concentrate on privateness on Ethereum
- Crypto change WOO Network raises $9M to increase its liquidity
- Digital asset buying and selling tech agency Flowdesk raises $50M in Series B spherical
This record was compiled with data from Messari in addition to Ztoog’s personal reporting.
What else we’re writing
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- I spent the morning with the Apple Vision Pro
- The objective of a startup is to stop present
- Will startup valuations begin to get well in 2024? Investors aren’t so positive
- As hacks worsen, SEC turns up the warmth on CISOs