A featured crypto industry brief, with a focus on DeFi and MEV.

• Bitcoin, NFT, ftx, 2023, Ethereum

• Facebook Parent Meta’s Metaverse Division Lost $13.7B in 2022 from CoinDesk

• Meta Metaverse Division Posts $4.3B Net Loss in Q4 2022 from Blockworks

• First Mover Americas: Bankrupt With $1.4B Cash from CoinDesk

• Bankrupt Crypto Exchange FTX Had Around $1.4B Cash at End of 2022 from CoinDesk

• Bitcoin bulls plan to flip $23K to support by aiming to win this week’s $1B options expiry from Cointelegraph

• Voyager Creditors Reject Alameda’s Attempt to Recover $446M from CoinDesk

• Ripple Sold $226M of XRP in Q4; Sees Strong Growth in On-Demand Liquidity Product from CoinDesk

• US Air Force Pumps $30M Into Blockchain for Supply Chains from Blockworks

• Blockchain Company SIimba Chain Received $30M Funding Increase From US Air Force from CoinDesk

• Cardano-Based Djed Stablecoin Has Attracted 27M ADA Tokens as Reserve Backing from CoinDesk

• ENS DAO’s $16M ETH Sale Would Cover up to 2 Years Runway from Blockworks

• Founder of $7.5M ‘brazen fraud scheme’ gets 8 years behind bars from Cointelegraph

• MakerDAO launches $5M legal defense fund from Cointelegraph

• AllianceBlock Token Plunges 51% After $5M Exploit of Bonq DAO from CoinDesk

• DeFi Marketplace Archimedes Raises $4.9M in Seed Round Led by Hack VC from CoinDesk

• ARK Invest Maintains Prediction Bitcoin Price Will Hit $1M by 2030 from CoinDesk

• Bitcoin Price Could Reach $45K by Christmas: Matrixport from CoinDesk

• Bitcoin awaits Fed Powell speech as sellers cement $23.5K resistance from Cointelegraph

• Bitcoin Blasts Through $23.5K as Powell Speaks Following Fed Rate Hike from CoinDesk

• Here’s why India held on to older crypto reforms in national budget 2023 from Cointelegraph

• Retail giant Pick n Pay to accept Bitcoin in 1,628 stores across South Africa from Cointelegraph

• Crypto exploit losses in January see nearly 93% year-on-year decline from Cointelegraph

• Bitcoin meets FOMC after 39% January gains with Fed path ‘uncertain’ from Cointelegraph

• Federal Reserve Lifts Interest Rates Another 25 Basis Points from CoinDesk

• Gangsters, cats and Bitcoin: 9-year-old Henry takes BTC to the classroom from Cointelegraph

• My Big Coin Founder Gets 8-Year Jail Sentence for Fraud from CoinDesk

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• AllianceBlock Token Plunges 51% After $5M Exploit of Bonq DAO from CoinDesk

• Stargate to Reissue STG Tokens Following Alameda Wallet Hack from CoinDesk

• DeFi Marketplace Archimedes Raises $4.9M in Seed Round Led by Hack VC from CoinDesk

• 2022 Biggest Year Ever For Crypto Hacking with $3.8 Billion Stolen, Primarily from DeFi Protocols and by North Korea-linked Attackers from Chainalysis

• US Senators: Silvergate 'Further Introduced' Crypto Risk Into Traditional Banking from decrypt

• Crypto exploit losses in January see nearly 93% year-on-year decline from Cointelegraph

• First Mover Asia: Lido DAO Governance Token Down, Staked Ether Stable as Withdrawal Proposal Comes Into Focus; Bitcoin Rises as Fed Rate Decision Nears from CoinDesk

• Bitcoin Miner Argo Blockchain's CFO Alex Appleton Quits from CoinDesk

• US Treasury lists BTC, ETH addresses tied to Russian sanctions evasion group from Cointelegraph

• US Blacklists Bitcoin, Ether Addresses Tied to Russian Sanctions-Evasion Efforts from CoinDesk

• Bitcoin and Hang Seng's Stalled Rally Might Mean Wider De-Risking Ahead, TradFi Firm Says from CoinDesk

• Bitcoin advocate Najah Roberts explains why BTC is a tool for empowerment from Cointelegraph

• Bitcoin Little Changed on Soft Economic Data Ahead of Fed Meeting from CoinDesk

• Bitcoin Open Interest at Month-Long High Ahead of FOMC Decision from Blockworks

• Bitcoin Could Be in the Later Stages of the Bear Market, On-Chain Data Suggests from CoinDesk

• Luxor Starts First-of-Its-Kind Bitcoin Mining Rig Marketplace for Large-Scale Orders from CoinDesk

• Coinbase NFT Pauses New Collection Drops, Denies Shuttering Marketplace from CoinDesk

• Doodles 2 NFT Mint Opens, Dooplicators Price Soars on OpenSea from CoinDesk

• Rally Leaves Social Token NFTs in Limbo After Abrupt Exit from Blockworks

• Why Venture Capitalists Won’t Be Held Accountable for Investing in FTX from CoinDesk

• Tiffany Fong flames Celsius, FTX and NY Post: Hall of Flame from Cointelegraph

• Judge Bans Sam Bankman-Fried From Contacting FTX Employees and Using Signal from CoinDesk

• Federal judge bars SBF from contacting FTX and Alameda employees via Signal from Cointelegraph

• New FTX documentary to spotlight SBF-CZ relationship from Cointelegraph

• FTX debtors seek subpoenas for inner circle of Sam Bankman-Fried from Cointelegraph

• What Is the Ethereum Blockchain’s Shanghai Hard Fork, and Why Does It Matter? from CoinDesk

• Market Maker B2C2 Teams With Blockdaemon, Stakewise to Provide Ethereum Staking Liquidity from CoinDesk

• Ethereum's Shanghai fork is coming — but it doesn't mean investors should dump ETH from Cointelegraph

• 📌Bitcoin Optech Newsletter #236 from Bitcoin Optech

• ⚡Investors Are Sitting on $5 Trillion from Trustnodes

• ⚡UK Announces Plans to Regulate Crypto from Trustnodes

• ⚡Celsius Sold Bitcoin and ETH to Buy Own Token Says Examiner from Trustnodes

• ⚡Central Banks Now Need a Bailout from Trustnodes

• Understanding Retention in Crypto from Kerman Kohli

• State of USDD Q4 2022 from Messari Crypto News Feed

• State of dYdX Q4 2022 from Messari Crypto News Feed

• Analyzing DYDX Tokenomics from Messari Crypto News Feed

• Episode 262: Ethereum’s KZG Ceremony with Trent & Carl from ZK Podcast

• 7 Revelations From Celsius’ Examiner Report from Unchained Podcast

• The Power to Mint Money from Bankless

• SNXweave Weekly Recap 74 from Synthetix Blog

• 1inch Monthly Digest: January from 1inch

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• Toyota to Experiment With Blockchain Use Cases by Sponsoring Astar Network's Hackathon from CoinDesk

• Toyota to explore blockchain use cases via DAO hackathon from Cointelegraph

• Bitcoin's Blockchain Data Offers Evidence of Continued Investor HODLing During Bear Market from CoinDesk

• Toyota Tests Developer Skills on Popular Japanese Blockchain from Blockworks

• Blockchain IM apps to reach over half-billion dollar valuation by 2030 from Cointelegraph

• Aptos Labs Issues Grant to Blockchain Lab at Cornell University from CoinDesk

• Cool Cats Claws at Mainstream Strategy, Rebrands to Expand Audience Beyond Web3 from CoinDesk

• Web3 could seize on the decades-old software-as-a-service business model from Cointelegraph

• Binance delves into decentralized Web3 storage with BNB Greenfield from Cointelegraph

• Decentralized Exchange Dexalot Starts a Hybrid DeFi Subnet from CoinDesk

• Fed Opts for Lower Rate Increase, Crypto, Equities Shimmy from Blockworks

• UK Crypto Firms to Get Broad Laws, May Need New Authorization from CoinDesk

• UK Crypto Proposal Would Tighten Screws on Crypto Even Harder from Blockworks

• UK Treasury publishes crypto framework paper: Here’s what’s inside from Cointelegraph

• Crypto scammers abuse ‘lax’ UK company laws to fool victims: Report from Cointelegraph

• Bankrupt Crypto Lending Platform Celsius Names Users Eligible to Withdraw Assets from CoinDesk

• Celsius publishes list of users eligible to withdraw majority of assets from Cointelegraph

• ‘Categorically false’ — Attorney denies bids for Celsius assets were rejected from Cointelegraph

• Tether CTO denies borrowing from bankrupt lender Celsius from Cointelegraph