Here we go again with the Last week’s Hot Altcoin events
- El Salvador bought 80 BTC at $19,000 each.
- MicroStrategy has purchased an additional 480 bitcoins for ~$10 million at an average price of ~$20,817 per bitcoin.
- SEC Chair Gensler said Bitcoin is the only cryptocurrency that is a commodity.
- Grayscale Investments has sued the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) barely an hour after the regulatory agency rejected its application to convert its flagship Grayscale Bitcoin Trust product to an exchange-traded fund (ETF).
- VanEck has filed a new application for a spot bitcoin ETF.
- FTX has signed a deal with an option to acquire BlockFi for up to $240 mln. FTX has also agreed to provide BlockFi with a $400 million revolving credit facility.
- The Monetary Authority of Singapore (MAS) has reprimanded Three Arrows Capital Pte. Ltd. (TAC) for providing false information to MAS and exceeding the assets under management (AUM) threshold allowed for a registered fund management company (RFMC).
- Facebook begins testing Ethereum and Polygon NFTs on profiles.
- Binance has announced the signing of an MoU with the Securities and Exchange Regulator of Cambodia (SERC).
- Euro Coin (EUROC) is now live via the Circle Account.
- OP Crypto, a cryptocurrency venture capital firm founded by former Huobi executive David Gan, launches $100M fund to back early-stage crypto VCs.
- An employee of OpenSea‘s email vendor, Customer.io, misused their employee access to download and share email addresses with an unauthorized external party. Email addresses provided to OpenSea by users or newsletter subscribers were impacted. Malicious actors may use this information to impersonate OpenSea in email phishing attempts.
- Blockchain.com and Deribit confirmed that they are among creditors that sought for the liquidation of Three Arrows at a court in the British Virgin Islands.
- Mercedes has announced a partnership with MBSJQ, a digital artist, to launch its NFT collection on FTX.
- Lossless managed to recover the AAG Ventures tokens that were stolen during the attack on the Harmony’s Horizon bridge. Lossless returned 73 million AAG tokens, after deducting the recovery fee of 7% for reward distribution
