🎧 Weekend Highlights in Crypto!

🚀 Major Updates Around the Globe:

🇺🇸 US Crypto ETF & Political Moves:

• Trump appoints a pro-Bitcoin figure to lead his Economic Council.

• Spending bill passes to avoid shutdown; Biden signs the stopgap bill.

• Ripple donates $5M in XRP to Trump’s inauguration fund.

• Kraken & Ondo pitch in $1M each for the inauguration fund.

• Nexo 7RCC files an S-1 amendment for Spot Bitcoin & Carbon Credit Futures ETF.

🇱🇺 Luxembourg: New law simplifies the issuance of digital funds.

🇪🇺 Germany: DekaBank secures a license to store cryptocurrencies from the ECB.

🇦🇪 UAE: CZ suggests UAE may hold $40B in Bitcoin.

💰 Big Investments:

• Tether invests $775M in Rumble.

• Tether’s CEO forecasts $10B net profit for 2024.

👨‍⚖️ Legal Drama:

• Tai Mo Shan to pay $123M for misleading Terra USD stability (#LUNC #LUNA2 #USTC).

🔥 Market Buzz:

• Marathon Digital uses mining heat to warm ~80K Finnish homes!

• Ethena Labs gets praise from Arthur Hayes (#ENA).

• Hamster Kombat (#HMSTR) launches beta testing for new games.

• Securitize proposes adding BlackRock’s BUIDL to back Frax USD Stablecoin (#FXS).

• Wormhole (#W) announces DAO launch in Q1 2024.