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Quick Take Alameda filed a lawsuit against Aleksandr Ivanov, the founder of Waves, to recoup assets worth $90 million previously deposited with Vires. The FTX estate has filed more than 20 lawsuits against various entities over the past few days to claw back funds.
Quick Take The organization behind the Ethereum Naming Service announced today that it is building its own Layer 2 network called Namechain. Namechain is designed to prioritize interoperability and allow users to start ENS from “any L2 network.” Namechain’s launch is expected around the end of 2025.
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Quick Take Web3 investor and ex-ParaFi Capital partner Santiago Roel Santos announced the launch of Inversion Capital, a new private equity fund designed to acquire traditional businesses and transform their operations by adopting crypto.
Quick Take FTX has filed some 25 lawsuits seeking to claw back funds from various individuals that received funds from FTX, including Anthony Scaramucci, the team behind StoryBook Brawl, an exploiter who siphoned hundreds of millions of dollars from FTX, and the head of a bank that received a massive investment. The exploiter, despite allegedly profiting hundreds of millions of dollars from FTX while it was in operation, filed a bankruptcy claim with his personal information for $13 million stranded on the
Quick Take Over the past 30 days, The Block’s DeFi index has surged by ~102%. The following is an excerpt from The Block’s Data and Insights newsletter.
Quick Take In his “Digital Asset Framework” published on Friday, MicroStrategy founder Michael Saylor supports the idea of creating a strategic bitcoin reserve to help eliminate the national debt. The document also argues for creating a universal taxonomy and set of industry standards for the wider crypto industry.
Quick Take Tether, the world’s largest stablecoin issuer, has made a “strategic investment” of $775 million into the right-leaning streaming platform Rumble. Last month, it announced it would allocate up to $20 million of its excess cash reserves to bitcoin.
Quick Take Welch’s team launched the memecoin HAWK on Dec. 4, where it quickly rose and plummeted in market capitalization. Twelve investors filed a lawsuit against Welch’s team on Dec. 19, alleging the HAWK memecoin launch violated securities laws.
Quick Take An NFT trader has shared an early look at Opensea’s upcoming redesigned platform, which includes an ‘XP’ points system with retroactive rewards for early traders, a redesigned interface, and more. The points system hints at a possible token drop from OpenSea, which is set to launch the redesigned marketplace in December, though no such token has been confirmed.
