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Finance

Fintech Startup TrueLayer Trimming 10% of Staff, Citing Challenging Market Conditions

About 45 employees will be laid off from the firm, which was valued at over $1 billion a year ago.

TrueLayer to lay off 10% of its staff. (Pawel Chu/Unsplash)

Policy

South Korea Looks to Invalidate Terra Co-Founder Do Kwon's Passport: Report

The CEO of Terra along with five others were issued with an arrest warrant on Wednesday.

Terraform Labs CEO Do Kwon on CoinDesk TV in December (CoinDesk)

Layer 2

A Peculiar Flavor of NFTs Is Thriving in China – One Regulators Can Abide

Unlike most non-fungible tokens, China’s “digital collectibles” are built on closed networks and designed to appease regulators who frown on trading and speculation.

"First Supper," exhibited through a projector at the 'Virtual Niche" exhibit in Beijing in April 2021. The artwork is composed of 22 pieces, each individually encoded as a NFT. (Eliza Gkritsi/TechNode)

Finance

Bitcoin Mining Difficulty Edges to All-Time High

The bump in mining difficulty comes as hashrate remains strong, despite bitcoin’s price edging downward.

(Midjourney/CoinDesk)