Kyptos Weekly (March 6 – March 12): Bad news – the most serious USDC depeg in history

Bitcoin lost the $20,000 mark, the crypto market crashed back to mid-January levels because of a series of negative news that flooded the market in just the past 7 days. Then on March 10, the crypto industry fell into a new crisis when the second largest stablecoin in the market was USDC depeg seriously.

Let’s review it all with Kyptos to make sure you don’t miss any important news! 😉

Top Cryptocurrencies Value Movements compared to 7 days ago, screenshot at 10:00 AM on 12/03/2023. Source: Coin360

📌 Kyptos Originals – Must-read articles

– Kyptos Blog:

📺 Kyptos TV

DeFi Discussion ep.86: Zero-Knowledge Decoding – Is ZK synonymous with privacy?

Weekly news:

Knowledge: What are “Layer 0”, “Layer 1” and “Layer 2” and why are they important?

📰 News point

Central point 🔥

A series of bad news makes Bitcoin Plunge to 7-week low:

Stablecoin USDC drops to 0.88 USD, all-time low:

MT. Gox continue to postpone the Bitcoin debt payment schedule to April

CFTC disagrees with SECsaying stablecoins and Ethereum are not “securities” –

Big Cap

Vitalik Buterin “discharge” the coins that are given for free, collecting $ 700,000

Token price HT Huobi’s “crash” 93%, then recovered

Token LDO Lido Finance’s share dropped after rumors of receiving “bad news” from the SEC

Stablecoin cash flow on layer-2 solutions Ethereum crosses the $2 billion mark

Hedera Hashgraph (HBAR) Having technical problems, suspected of being hacked?

DeFi and Layer 2 🦄

Rollkit support Rollup development on the infrastructure of Bitcoin

– Solution layer-2 Scroll raise capital 50 million USD

– Solution layer-2 Shibarium by Shiba Inu (SHIB) coming out this week

MakerDAO Proposing to buy an additional $750 million in US bonds

– Arbitrum-based Tender.fi lending platform hack 1.59 million USD

Safeheron discovered the vulnerability “revealing private key” when interacting with dApp on StarkNet

NFT, GameFi and Metaverse 🖼🎮🌐

Tensor Announcement of airdrop plan for NFT investors on Solana

Blur accounted for 84% of NFT transactions on Ethereum in the first week of March

– NFT collection “reputable” Vitalik Buterin to the top of OpenSea

Starbucks “sold out” the first NFT collection in just 18 minutes

Yuga Labs will test the second version of the metaverse game Otherside on March 25

Yuga Labs Open auction of Bitcoin NFT TwelveFold collection, entangled with criticism from the community

The Sandbox (SAND) about to release NFT king chef Gordon Ramsay

Large organizations 💰

– Spot trading market share of Binance 4 months in a row

Coinbase introduces “Wallet-as-a-Service” and multi-signature wallet approach

FTX/Alameda sue Grayscale and Digital Currency Group

Babel Finance want to issue stablecoin to cover the loss of 766 million USD

CoinFLEX reached agreement on debt restructuring, clearing the way for 3AC’s OPNX exchange

– Floor Gemini Denies the loss of US banking partner

Bybit suspending USD deposits and withdrawals because of the loss of banking partners

Kraken plan to set up their own bank despite the difficult legal situation

Blockchain.com Dissolution of asset management department

Legal and Reception

Singapore Start investigating Terraform Labs by Do Kwon

Binance once invited SEC Chairman Gensler as an advisor

Thailand Tax exemption for companies issuing tokens to raise capital

– After FTX, the Esports team TSM chose to cooperate with Avalanche

Sui reached a cooperation agreement with Alibaba Cloud

– Advertising of crypto companies gradually disappears from F1 race

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