The Daily Spin. *Wet Wednesday Edition. *April 18th saw the absolute grilling that SEC Chair Gary Gensler received yesterday at the hands of the House Financial Services Committee – noting in the opening remarks that under Chair Gensler’s lead, 53 new regulations have been introduced haphazardly with “half-baked” cost-benefit analyses supporting their justification, and that “regulation by enforcement” is not conducive to the mandate of the SEC and the Congressional oversight thereof. While t...

The Daily Spin. *Wet Wednesday Edition. *April 18th saw the absolute grilling that SEC Chair Gary Gensler received yesterday at the hands of the House Financial Services Committee – noting in the opening remarks that under Chair Gensler’s lead, 53 new regulations have been introduced haphazardly with “half-baked” cost-benefit analyses supporting their justification, and that “regulation by enforcement” is not conducive to the mandate of the SEC and the Congressional oversight thereof. While t...

*The Daily Spin. ***The Fintech Times Thursday Edition. As the US and South Korea fights over who gets first crack at the notorious Do Kwon, Montenegro says hang on – we caught him with fake passports and other internal charges so you guys are going to have to wait your turn – basically, he’s f&cked. No FBI US Marshall escort rushing this one back to his parent’s guest room in sunny Palo Alto. Call me cynical – but something just ain’t right here. Nor is it right that Andrew Tate is still in ...

*The Daily Spin. ***The Fintech Times Thursday Edition. As the US and South Korea fights over who gets first crack at the notorious Do Kwon, Montenegro says hang on – we caught him with fake passports and other internal charges so you guys are going to have to wait your turn – basically, he’s f&cked. No FBI US Marshall escort rushing this one back to his parent’s guest room in sunny Palo Alto. Call me cynical – but something just ain’t right here. Nor is it right that Andrew Tate is still in ...

**The Daily Spin. Man it’s Hot Monday Edition. **As we enter Q2 of the year at furious pace and almost unbearable heat, there are currently so many moving issues at hand to keep everyone on their toes during the start of April. If you haven’t received your copy of The Coinweb Monthly Spin - Sixth Edition, make sure to catch it at the top of the links provided below. LFG!! Bitcoin and the crypto market has firmly held its ground, continuing its three-month green streak and outperforming all as...

**The Daily Spin. Man it’s Hot Monday Edition. **As we enter Q2 of the year at furious pace and almost unbearable heat, there are currently so many moving issues at hand to keep everyone on their toes during the start of April. If you haven’t received your copy of The Coinweb Monthly Spin - Sixth Edition, make sure to catch it at the top of the links provided below. LFG!! Bitcoin and the crypto market has firmly held its ground, continuing its three-month green streak and outperforming all as...

**The Daily Spin. Altcoin Wednesday Edition. **Much in the news today as we find a long edition of the Daily – with coverage over Trump’s arrest, Xi’s visit with Macron, the OPEC+ oil supply, and Toronto-Dominion becoming the world’s biggest bank short at $3.7B! Bernard Arnault flies past $200B net worth, world-class douchebag Jamie Dimon chimes in, and Finland officially joining NATO. And not to mention, Elon Musk’s replacement of the Twitter bird with the Doge logo throwing the speculators ...

**The Daily Spin. Altcoin Wednesday Edition. **Much in the news today as we find a long edition of the Daily – with coverage over Trump’s arrest, Xi’s visit with Macron, the OPEC+ oil supply, and Toronto-Dominion becoming the world’s biggest bank short at $3.7B! Bernard Arnault flies past $200B net worth, world-class douchebag Jamie Dimon chimes in, and Finland officially joining NATO. And not to mention, Elon Musk’s replacement of the Twitter bird with the Doge logo throwing the speculators ...

The Daily Spin. Tokenomics Tuesday Edition. Coinweb closes $2m fundraising round from SAVA Investment Management. Dogecoin rallies 30% after Twitter logo changes to DOGE, Elon Musk asks court to dismiss $258B Doge racketeering case. Arbitrum DAO governance is in shambles after the first proposal fails, leading to whales dumping and the token taking a hit. Bakkt acquires Apex Crypto for $155m, DFinity releases Chain-Key Bitcoin, OpenOcean launches Kava Network’s first DEX aggregator. Bitquery ...

The Daily Spin. Tokenomics Tuesday Edition. Coinweb closes $2m fundraising round from SAVA Investment Management. Dogecoin rallies 30% after Twitter logo changes to DOGE, Elon Musk asks court to dismiss $258B Doge racketeering case. Arbitrum DAO governance is in shambles after the first proposal fails, leading to whales dumping and the token taking a hit. Bakkt acquires Apex Crypto for $155m, DFinity releases Chain-Key Bitcoin, OpenOcean launches Kava Network’s first DEX aggregator. Bitquery ...

The Daily Spin. CFTC Tuesday Edition. A veritable hodgepodge of news from the markets today, mostly revolving around the US-global-systemic banking crisis, Bitcoin’s small correction back to $27k, one hack for about $7m, BTC’s ATH hashrate, SVB acquisition by First Citizen’s Bank, $160m inflows into crypto breaking a six-week negative streak, the DJIA, S&P500 rebounding; the NASDAQ not, along with shares of Deutsche Bank and other Euro banks sliding further… But the news that took the headlin...

The Daily Spin. CFTC Tuesday Edition. A veritable hodgepodge of news from the markets today, mostly revolving around the US-global-systemic banking crisis, Bitcoin’s small correction back to $27k, one hack for about $7m, BTC’s ATH hashrate, SVB acquisition by First Citizen’s Bank, $160m inflows into crypto breaking a six-week negative streak, the DJIA, S&P500 rebounding; the NASDAQ not, along with shares of Deutsche Bank and other Euro banks sliding further… But the news that took the headlin...

The Daily Spin. Fractal Friday Edition. Arbitrum airdrops 1.2B ARB tokens into the crypto markets. Coinbase stands their ground against the SEC, moves select staking products on-chain. Uphold folds like Kraken did and shuts down staking products. Justin Sun gets hit with a subpoena. Do Kwon was arrested in Montenegro, and is being charged with 11 counts by the NY Attorney General’s office. It is unclear whether the US had a hand in making the apprehension, but the extradition seems to be swif...

The Daily Spin. Fractal Friday Edition. Arbitrum airdrops 1.2B ARB tokens into the crypto markets. Coinbase stands their ground against the SEC, moves select staking products on-chain. Uphold folds like Kraken did and shuts down staking products. Justin Sun gets hit with a subpoena. Do Kwon was arrested in Montenegro, and is being charged with 11 counts by the NY Attorney General’s office. It is unclear whether the US had a hand in making the apprehension, but the extradition seems to be swif...

The Daily Spin. Meek Monday Edition. With the BTFP “stealth quantitative easing” of $4.4T dollars underway, one can only feel for the sorry buggers that were caught up in the flare-up of what was certainly the beginning of a systemic banking meltdown – now delayed further away as the FED turns that money-printer back on. And yes, it went “Brrrrrr” People got to keep their jobs. The FDIC was able to insure all deposits for an unlimited amount of time. Bankers that were telling us that “it’s ov...

The Daily Spin. Meek Monday Edition. With the BTFP “stealth quantitative easing” of $4.4T dollars underway, one can only feel for the sorry buggers that were caught up in the flare-up of what was certainly the beginning of a systemic banking meltdown – now delayed further away as the FED turns that money-printer back on. And yes, it went “Brrrrrr” People got to keep their jobs. The FDIC was able to insure all deposits for an unlimited amount of time. Bankers that were telling us that “it’s ov...

**The Daily Spin. Ramadan Thursday Edition. **LFG! The FED raises interest rates for the 9th consecutive time, yesterday by 25 basis points, and stands by the narrative that “isolated bank failures” could lead to contagion and that they acted swiftly and decisively – but that the economy is strong, the banking system is strong, unemployment is low – and oh let’s not mention the $300B added to the balance sheet, the BTFP and the stealthy delay of the shit hitting the fan when bailout treasury ...

**The Daily Spin. Ramadan Thursday Edition. **LFG! The FED raises interest rates for the 9th consecutive time, yesterday by 25 basis points, and stands by the narrative that “isolated bank failures” could lead to contagion and that they acted swiftly and decisively – but that the economy is strong, the banking system is strong, unemployment is low – and oh let’s not mention the $300B added to the balance sheet, the BTFP and the stealthy delay of the shit hitting the fan when bailout treasury ...

The Daily Spin. A *New Monday Edition. *Andd we’re back from our local Songkran “Thai New Years” holidays, after being gone from the scene for about nine days – feels like a lifetime in the crypto space. This edition includes most of the post-analysis of market events that occurred last week, including the ETH-Shapella upgrade, the CPI inflation data, and more. Also, we have a special feature from Andressen Horowitz’s (a16z) State of Crypto Report 2023 – introducing the “State of Crypto Index...

The Daily Spin. A *New Monday Edition. *Andd we’re back from our local Songkran “Thai New Years” holidays, after being gone from the scene for about nine days – feels like a lifetime in the crypto space. This edition includes most of the post-analysis of market events that occurred last week, including the ETH-Shapella upgrade, the CPI inflation data, and more. Also, we have a special feature from Andressen Horowitz’s (a16z) State of Crypto Report 2023 – introducing the “State of Crypto Index...

**The Daily Spin. Pre-Easter Friday Edition. **Coinweb publishes the wallet addresses of its token reserves and their intended usage in a medium post that asserts the team’s commitment to transparency and community, which can be viewed at the most recent entry of the “Ongoings at Coinweb” section. This information was released shortly after the capital investment made by SAVA and CWEB’s allocation of tokens into custodial management with Ceffu (formerly Binance Custodial). Binance has remaine...

**The Daily Spin. Pre-Easter Friday Edition. **Coinweb publishes the wallet addresses of its token reserves and their intended usage in a medium post that asserts the team’s commitment to transparency and community, which can be viewed at the most recent entry of the “Ongoings at Coinweb” section. This information was released shortly after the capital investment made by SAVA and CWEB’s allocation of tokens into custodial management with Ceffu (formerly Binance Custodial). Binance has remaine...

The Daily Spin. ZK-Wednesday Edition. Zero. Knowledge. Proofs. Yesterday, three – I repeat, 3 – ZK Protocols raced to become the first to launch a ZK-based mainnet. Matter Labs won, successfully launching ZKSync’s “Era” mainnet for public use, followed by Polygon’s ZK-EVM rollup which also went live on mainnet; and Starkware, launched Ethereum-tested ZK-proofs on the Bitcoin blockchain. How coincidentally does such a big step forward for the entire industry happen all in one day? One thing’s ...

The Daily Spin. ZK-Wednesday Edition. Zero. Knowledge. Proofs. Yesterday, three – I repeat, 3 – ZK Protocols raced to become the first to launch a ZK-based mainnet. Matter Labs won, successfully launching ZKSync’s “Era” mainnet for public use, followed by Polygon’s ZK-EVM rollup which also went live on mainnet; and Starkware, launched Ethereum-tested ZK-proofs on the Bitcoin blockchain. How coincidentally does such a big step forward for the entire industry happen all in one day? One thing’s ...