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Sphere 3D Acquires Exclusive Rights to Hertford Advisors’ Crypto Mining Assets
Sphere 3D has already bought 60,000 mining machines and plans to buy 160,000 more.

Janet Yellen Has Been Lobbying Against Wyden-Lummis-Toomey Crypto Amendment: Report
Senators had hoped to pass the bipartisan bill on Thursday night, but issues remained unresolved around the cryptocurrency regulations.

Hedge Fund Billionaire Steven Cohen's Point72 Leads $21M Funding Round in Messari
Messari will use the funding to triple its engineering and research headcount and beef up its analyst hub.

FTX Strikes Deal With Yield Guild Games to Sponsor Axie Infinity Players
The deal gives FTX lifetime naming rights to sponsor 137 players from developing countries.

Telecoms Giant Swisscom Launches Chainlink Node for DeFi Data
Swisscom joins Deutsche Telekom in providing data to the oracle service.

British Fashion Brand Burberry Releases First NFTs
The label said that the digital B Series collection will feature limited-edition product drops.

MakersPlace Raises $30M in Funding Round Led by Pantera Capital and Bessemer Venture
Other investors included rap artist Eminem, Coinbase Ventures and Sony Music Entertainment.

Chinese Miner The9, KazDigital to Build Crypto Mining Plant in Kazakhstan
The two firms will launch a new mining site in Kazakhstan that will be used to deploy The9's mining machines and potentially other third parties' machines.

Crypto.com Hires Former Spotify Exec as Head of Growth
Henrik Johansson has set himself a target of taking the firm to 100 million-plus users in two years.

FinCEN Names New Acting Director to Replace Michael Mosier
National security expert Himamauli “Him” Das will become acting director of FinCEN while a search for a permanent director gets underway.
