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Just over 1,700 venture capital deals focused on the crypto space occurred in 2021, netting these startups, projects and protocols some $25.1 billion in financing.

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Donald Trump reiterated his negative stance on cryptocurrencies during a Dec. 20 Fox Business interview.

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Arcade, a platform that facilitates loans against NFTs as collateral, has raised $15 million.

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The floor price of Bored Ape Yacht Club NFTs has flipped that of Larva Labs’ CryptoPunks for the first time.

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As part of a massive product and brand overhaul, L2 Labs, the team behind ZKSwap, has announced the launch of the new comprehensive ZKSpace platform on December 20th.

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The Chinese state media agency said its collection of photography-based NFTs will “imprint digital memories into the metaverse.”

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Arsenal had partnered with Socios, which uses blockchain technology to provide fan tokens, collectibles and other digital assets to sports organizations.

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Quick Take

• If everything goes according to plan, 21 public and 5 pending-listing Bitcoin mining firms in North America will add more than 95 EH/s next year to the Bitcoin network.
• Their collective billion-dollar contracts have been made after an unprecedented growth of the Bitcoin mining force in North America this year.
• That means the network is poised to reach or even cross the 300 EH/s threshold if these institutions don’t default on the monthly installments for miners preorders.

On Tuesday, crypto exchange service Kraken announced that it had acquired Staked, a non-custodial staking startup.

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A digital asset-focused bank in Switzerland is seeking to become whitelisted on Arc, the institutional-focused platform developed by the team behind DeFi lending protocol Aave.

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