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These Four Key Charts Shed Light on the FTX Exchange's Spectacular Collapse
Nansen’s on-chain metrics suggest several reasons why FTX decided to sell itself to Binance.

Yuga Labs, Circle, SkyBridge Among Investments FTX Ventures Made Prior to Liquidity Issues
FTX Ventures invested in some of the biggest names in crypto. Meanwhile, TradFi giants such as Tiger Global participated in FTX's funding rounds.

In Praise of White-Hat Hackers, but Overreliance Is Foolish
A white hat Nomad exploiter says stronger incentives are needed to reward the good Samaritans who help protocols identify and patch vulnerabilities.

Vitalik Buterin's 'Proof of Stake': The CoinDesk Megareview
What a decade of essays – covering everything from Soulbound tokens to superrational DAOs – says about Ethereum and crypto.

Maren Altman: Crypto’s TikTok Astrologer
Vitalik Buterin once likened blockchain to magic. Altman uses another type of trading system to be “your personal poet for the stars.”

Popular Bitcoin Astrologer’s Star Falls on Twitter Following $30K in Celsius Payments
Twitter critics accused Maren Altman, who has more than 1.8 million social media followers, of not being forthcoming about her deal with the now-bankrupt crypto lender. The influencer says her marketing sponsorship role is no different than doing fashion ads.

Sustainable Bitcoin Protocol Wants to Make Bitcoin a Climate-Positive Asset
"I don’t think there’s ever been an asset before that would drive so much capital into sustainability," co-founder Bradford Van Voorhees told CoinDesk.

Lit Protocol: Public Key Infrastructure for a Decentralized World
Lit Protocol's David Sneider, a presenter at the CoinDesk I.D.E.A.S. conference, wants to decentralize public key cryptography.

Student Organizations Pull Their Weight in DeFi Protocol Governance
Crypto-curious students find valuable hands-on experience and empowerment in policy elections, a typically low-participation area of the Web3 ecosystem

Digital Asset Manager Safe to Offer Governance Token for SafeDAO
The multibillion-dollar digital asset management platform aims to decentralize its growth and governance through SAFE and SafeDAO.
