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1. Japanese billionaire Yusaku Maezawa will sell his collection of paintings for $70 million, accepting cryptocurrency payments

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2. Automata Network, a decentralized privacy service agreement, announced to provide integrated services for zkSync

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3. Yam, founder of the World of Women NFT series, created an NFT cover for Billboard

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4. The digital collection of Shandong warships is launched on the Tencent Magic Core platform

According to news on March 1, the digital collection of the first domestically-made aircraft carrier Shandong Ship was launched on the Tencent Magic Core platform. The Shandong ship is the first domestically-made aircraft carrier independently designed, developed and built by China. It is of great significance to my country's military system construction, economic development and cultural communication.

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5. The Ethereum Foundation announced the academic research funding plan for Ethereum and blockchain-related fields

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6. Arthur Hayes, Founder of BitMEX: Conflict will make inflation the new normal, and be cautiously bullish on Bitcoin

On March 2, Arthur Hayes, the founder of BitMEX, published an article "Annihilation", saying that the current complex geopolitical situation will have a profound impact on the future financial market. Arthur Hayes said that the conflict will make inflation the new normal. For trading reasons, he is cautiously bullish on Bitcoin and holds some call options on Bitcoin and Ethereum.

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7. NFT platform Snowcrash announces cooperation with Sony Music Entertainment and Universal Music Group

On March 3rd, Solana-based NFT platform Snowcrash announced a partnership with Sony Music Entertainment and Universal Music Group, planning to launch Bob Dylan and Miles Davis series of NFTs later this year.

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8. Messari: NFT will restructure the music industry, and the trading volume of the Sound.xyz secondary market is approaching $1 million

On March 4th, the blockchain analysis company Messari released the "Report on the Impact of NFT on the Music Industry", which pointed out that NFT will change the way the music industry is created and consumed. At present, the NFT music market worthy of attention in the market includes: Catalog, SongCap, Mint Songs, and Sound.xyz, among which the secondary market trading volume of Sound.xyz has approached 1 million US dollars.

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9. Coinbase CEO: Coinbase will abide by sanctions laws, but will not preemptively ban all Russians from using services

On March 4th, Coinbase CEO Brian Armstrong posted on social media that the sanctions law applies to all US individuals and companies, and Coinbase will abide by it, but Coinbase believes that the risk of Russian oligarchs using cryptocurrencies to avoid sanctions is not high , this idea also agrees with the views of the US Treasury Department and NSC experts.

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10. Axie Infinity-related NFT ranks first in the global search volume

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11. Billionaire Bill Gross calls himself a "small investor" in Bitcoin

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12. ByteTree founder: BTC holdings of funds and ETFs hit a record high

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13. Bitcoin mining company Digihost signed a US$250 million on-site equity issuance agreement to accelerate the development of its mining business

On March 4th, Bitcoin mining company Digihost announced that it had signed an on-site equity issuance agreement (ATM agreement) with investment agency HC Wainwright.

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14. The chain burger brand Shake Shack offers BTC rebate rewards to customers who purchase goods through the Cash App

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15. Circle, the USDC issuer: Temporarily ban all fiat currency payments from Russia

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1. Changpeng Zhao predicts that SoicalFi will be the main driving force this year. Where are the new opportunities?

Changpeng Zhao published a commentary in the India section of Fortune magazine. He said: "DeFi has seen rapid innovation in 2021, and we may see booming interest and innovation in 2022, of which SocialFi and GameFi will be the main drivers."

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2. Two dark horses have risen in this track, one has pushed its public chain into the TOP10, and the other is the most compliant

According to CoinGecko data, as of March 4, the circulation of stablecoins on the entire network has exceeded 180 billion US dollars, of which USDT ranked first with 79.5 billion US dollars, and USDC ranked second with 53.2 billion US dollars.

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3. Messari: NFT will reorganize the music industry, starting with the way music is created and consumed

The renaissance of NFT is transforming all media from traditional formats and business models to digital native models. Visual art has always been a prominent form, with sales in the billions and a market size and players that continue to grow. Art NFTs are already seeing trading activity around profile pictures (PFPs), generative collectibles, visual effects, digital/physical works, game objects, and more.

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4. Female theme NFT PFP: psychoanalysis, gaze and future market guide

At the beginning of writing this article, I was troubled by a thorny question and couldn’t write: Does being a man make my writing about women inherently biased? This is perhaps the question all writers who try to talk about identity have to face. Later, I discovered that the author's position does not matter whether he is qualified or not, because writing is an inquiry from outside the matter, an unresolved judgment.

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5. Bloomberg "March Encryption Outlook": Bitcoin, Bonds and Crude Oil

Crude oil prices broke through the $100 per barrel mark again after a lapse of 14 years, which seems to be a bullish benefit for Bitcoin in the later stage. As for the crude oil market, I am afraid that it will repeat the trend of first rising and then falling in 2008, and it will face the fate of collapse and recession.

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1. The DeFi lending agreement Hashstack Finance completed a $1 million seed round of financing

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2. PieDun: In February, the stolen funds of DeFi exploits reached 339 million US dollars

According to news on March 2, Paidun released a data report on vulnerability attacks on social media. The data shows that in February 2021, the stolen funds of Defi vulnerabilities on the entire network reached 339 million US dollars.

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3. Pendle, a DeFi fixed interest agreement, will launch a permissionless project "Project Permissionless"

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4. Circle postponed the release of DeFi API products, saying that further regulatory guidance is needed

On March 4th, USDC issuer Circle announced the postponement of its DeFi API (application programming interface) product launch, citing the need for further regulatory guidance on it. The product plans to provide seamless, secure, reliable and regulated access to the infrastructure of DeFi lending protocols.

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5. Zerion, a one-stop platform for DeFi, announced the integration of the Solana chain to support users to track Solana assets

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6. DeFi quantitative hedge fund Force DAO announced its dissolution and liquidation

On March 6th, the DeFi quantitative hedge fund Force DAO announced its dissolution and liquidation. At the same time, it stated, "ForceDAO has never really recovered after being attacked by hackers, so it officially ends the operation of ForceDAO. The official advice is that anyone who is still investing in the treasury users, please withdraw any remaining funds."

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1. Encrypted asset trading platform VALR received US$50 million in Series B financing, led by Pantera Capital

VALR, a South African encrypted asset trading platform, has received US$50 million in Series B financing, led by Pantera Capital and participated by Alameda Research. This round of financing is the largest financing in the African encryption field so far. After the financing, VALR's valuation will reach 240 million US dollars.

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2. Electric Capital announced that it has raised a total of $1 billion for its two new encryption funds

On March 1, Electric Capital announced that it has raised a total of US$1 billion for its two new encryption funds. The funds will invest in start-up companies in the encryption industry. One of the funds has a scale of US$400 million. to invest in equity and Token; another fund with a scale of US$600 million completed fundraising last month and will be used to invest in Token and Stablecoin.

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3. Fanatics, a sports goods giant, completed a financing of US$1.5 billion at a valuation of US$27 billion, and Fidelity Investments and others participated in the investment

On March 3, sports goods giant Fanatics announced that it had completed financing of US$1.5 billion at a valuation of US$27 billion, with Fidelity Management & Research Co (Fidelity Investment) and others participating.

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4. Lido, a liquidity staking protocol, received a $70 million investment from a16z

According to news on March 4, Lido, a liquidity staking protocol, received a $70 million investment from a16z, and a16z used Lido to pledge part of its ETH holdings on the beacon chain.

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