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The SEC will have to produce communications related to a speech by previous SEC director William Hinman on Bitcoin and Ether.

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Quick Take

• As part of a new transparency initiative, Coinbase released a roster of tokens that it was considering listing.
• The new efforts were in part a response to earlier accusations of insider trading on small-cap tokens in advance of listing. 
• Ethereum network data suggests that the owners of some crypto addresses may have known those considerations were soon to be made public.

Meta announced earlier this week that a select group of Horizon creators will be able to sell items and experiences on the gaming platform.

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Hours after announcing a $41.4 billion cash offer to buy Twitter, Elon Musk explained his motivation on a TED conference stage on Thursday.

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The Texan securities regulator has issued an emergency cease and desist order to a metaverse investment scheme it has accused of being fraudulent

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The US government drew a connection between the North Korean hacking unit Lazarus Group and last month’s exploit of the Axie Infinity’s Ronin sidechain network.

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Jassy adds that he doesn’t own bitcoin or NFTs, and doesn’t think Amazon is close to adding crypto payment options in the future.

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Quick Take

• Arweave is a decentralized data storage protocol that is content-agnostic and designed to provide scalable and permanent on-chain storage in a sustainable manner.
• The blockweave data structure and Proof-of-Access consensus mechanism form the foundations of the Arweave network’s data layer.
• Mechanisms like blockshadows, wildfire and storage endowment keep the network fast, responsive and sustainable.
• The permaweb is a decentralized web interface for hosting both traditional and decentralized applications on top of the Arweave network.
• Arweave has experienced massive growth recently, driven by the deployment of SmartWeave decentralized applications and the need for censorship resistance.

Terraform Labs has supplied the Luna Foundation Guard with more ammo as it seeks to strengthen its bitcoin reserve.

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The EPNS team says it will use the funds to expand its workforce and messaging capabilities beyond Ethereum.

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