Daily | Jan 11, 2022
The final week
Sequoia and Paradigm’s invest $1.15B in Citadel Securities
Elrond Foundation Acquires Crypto Payments Firm Utrust
NYDIG-Owned Payments Startup Bottlepay Obtains FCA Registration
Polygon Stakes Claim to Fastest Zero-Knowledge L2 With ‘Plonky2’ Launch
Arbitrum Goes Down Citing Sequencer Problems
Associated Press launches NFT marketplace for photography
NFT aggregator Flip raises $6.5M Seed
Vitalik Sounds Alarm on Security of Cross-chain Bridges
Bitcoin, related investments make up half of Bill Miller’s personal portfolio
Kim Kardashian, Floyd Mayweather Sued Over Ethereum Max Promotion
China Offers Digital Yuan at Olympics to Test Overseas Appeal
Investors remain very bearish with record weekly outflows of $207M
Cash App begins rolling out the Lightning Network to its users
Food for thought
Debunking More Overreactions to Macro & a Ronin Case Study
On-Chain Data: A Framework to Evaluate Bitcoin (ARK Invest)
Helicopter Tokens: the Data Behind Some of the Largest Airdrops on Ethereum
Crypto Talent Wars Fuel Sweeter Salaries, Better Perks for Employees
How DAOs Will Transform the Customer Experience: Stakeholder Alignment
Rollups, Validiums and Volitions: the Hottest Ethereum Scaling Solutions
Outlook 2022: A new DeFi summer and the emergence of ‘RDeFi’
Crypto Traders Move Into Carbon Markets
Governance Participation: Perils and Promise
Optimizing Your Token Distribution
Richard Chen (1confirmation) Interview with Crypto @ Stanford
A brief personal update: I have tremendously enjoyed doing this newsletter over the last 3.5 years. Thanks for being such a great audience! Sadly, this will be the final week of "The Digital Asset" Daily. As my work responsibilities have evolved the time has come to redirect my morning attention elsewhere.
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