In this weekly recap, we cover:
- Ryan Salame’s guilty plea in the FTX case.
- Bankman-Fried’s defense team’s fervent release requests.
- Controversies surrounding FTX’s Super Bowl ad campaign.
- Robinhood’s $605 million share repurchase from Bankman-Fried.
- FTX’s potential token dump fears and extravagant expenditures.
- DOJ freezing former Celsius CEO Alex Mashinsky’s assets.
- Celsius filing a complaint against EquitiesFirst to recover assets.
- Genesis suing parent company DCG for $600 million.
- Genesis winding down US spot crypto trading operations.
- FBI and SEC discussing fraud allegations with Cameron Winklevoss.
- MakerDAO’s proposal to create a new blockchain using Solana fork.
- Grayscale urging SEC to reconsider stance on Bitcoin ETF.
- Ripple Labs’ legal tussle with the SEC.
- Ark Invest and 21Shares filing for a spot Ether ETF.
- Coinbase’s Base network experiencing its first major outage.
- Visa partnering with Solana and USDC for cross-border payments.
- Stake.com recovering swiftly after a $40 million security breach.
