Apple vs. Web3, Azuki Elementals and China Making Blockchain Moves

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Market sits slightly lower today, with Bitcoin down around 2% and Ethereum down around 3%.

NFT market shaken up after Azuki Elementals launch

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• Fidelity preparing to submit spot bitcoin ETF filing

• The first leveraged crypto ETF in the U.S., BITX, saw about $500k worth of shares traded in the first 15 minutes, according to data from Bloomberg

• MicroStrategy buys another 12,333 bitcoins for $347 million. The company now holds a total of around 152,333 bitcoins [~$4.6 billion]

• Warner Music & Polygon Labs launch a Blockchain Music Accelerator

• Cathie Wood's ARK Invest has amended its filing for a spot bitcoin ETF to include a surveillance-sharing agreement. Surveillance-sharing agreements involve the sharing of information about market trading activity, clearing activity and customer identification to protect against the possibility of market manipulation

• Prime Trust Covered Up Balance Sheet by Buying Crypto with Customer Money

In our previous newsletter, we shared the news about Damus being removed from the App Store over Bitcoin tipping. Brian Armstrong and Jack Dorsey speak up against Apple…

Crypto twitter has been fired up claiming Azuki dropped a new collection that is identical to the original collection and tainted the value of the main collection.

Azuki floor price down 48% 📉

Coinbase CEO, Brian Armstrong, shares interesting writeup on China moving to control blockchain.

• The Bank of China issued $28 million of debt on Ethereum through its Hong Kong-based investment arm, leveraging open blockchain networks while maintaining control over citizens' financial activity

• Regulators in Hong Kong are pressuring banks to provide services to crypto exchanges, and HSBC reportedly offers clients access to Bitcoin and Ethereum investments, allowing China to exert financial controls internally while exploring global crypto networks' potential

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