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Here's a quick preview of today’s content: Nearly $1T has been wiped from crypto markets, BTC dips below $82k, Trump tariff announcements spook investors, Paradigm recruits ZachXBT, web3 x AI applications are finding major use cases, Oklahoma Bitcoin bill is moving forward, and so much more.
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Market Snapshot

As of 2/26/2025. Data per CoinMarketCap.
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Crypto has seen a $800B sell-off so far in 2025, with $300B liquidated in just the last few weeks
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Trump announced 25% tariffs against Canada and Mexico in his first week in office, which led to a negative market reaction
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Trump recently announced plans for tariffs against the European Union, which has created negative market sentiment for American investors
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Institutions (that offer spot ETFs) have also been selling major amounts of Bitcoin in February
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Ark, Grayscale, Fidelity, and Blackrock are institutions that have sold off large quantities of BTC this week
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Headline Roundup
The major headlines driving crypto markets
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Trump announces 25% tariffs on the EU (WG)
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Over $800B has been wiped from crypto markets in recent weeks (FT)
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Bitcoin fell to a 2025 lows below $83K (CB)
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SEC closes its investigation into Gemini (CT)
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Bank of America plans to launch USD-pegged stablecoin if legislation passes (X)
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Bitcoin miner Mara Holdings beats Q4 earnings expectations as 2024 revenue grew 69% YoY (TB)
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DeFi platform Kava unveils the largest decentralized AI model to date (CD)
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Former crypto-friendly congressman Patrick McHenry joins a16z as a senior advisor (CN)
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Polygon risks losing over $300M in TVL as Aave community votes to halt lending on PoS chain (TB)
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Crypto sleuth ZachXBT joins the Paradigm as an incident response advisor (TB)
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SEC and Justin Sun ask a court to pause the SEC’s case against the crypto entrepreneur (CT)
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Ark Invest acquires $8.7M of Coinbase shares and sells $8.6M of its own spot Bitcoin ETF (TB)
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Uniswap Labs spent ‘tens of millions’ fighting the SEC (BW)
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Tron’s ‘Gas Free’ feature to support USDT payments expected to go live next week (CT)
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A former chief attorney at the CFTC believes the agency should regulate memcoins (CT)

M&A Announcements
Launches
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Moca Network partners with SK Planet for web3 expansion via OKI launch (CT)
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Fetch.ai launches ASI-1 mini web3 native LLM for agentic AI workflows (AI)
Venture Capital
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QuickNode launches its $65M accelerator program for L2 projects (TB)
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Blockchain-powered payments and loyalty company Raise raises $63M in a funding round led by Haun Ventures (FN)
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ZKP technology startup Ligero raises $4M in a seed round led by Galaxy Ventures and 1kx (CC)
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Bitcoin-backed stablecoin developer Aegis raises $2M in a pre-seed round led by on-chain DAO Dewhales (BW)
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Endless announces $1M strategic backing from Foresight Ventures (MS)
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SatoshiPay raises $890K to support its blockchain-based payments solution Vortex (SP)
Regulation
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US legislators push back their timeline for passing comprehensive crypto framework legislation (DC)
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The House of Representatives will consider a resolution to prevent the IRS from imposing tax reporting requirements on DeFi (DC)
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Oklahoma's strategic Bitcoin reserve bill passes its House Committee (WG)
Cybersecurity
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India is cracking down on an eight-year-old $75.8M Bitcoin ponzi scheme (CT)
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A Washington man amassed $287K in crypto from selling drugs on the dark web (KN)
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Pump.fun’s X account is hacked to promote a fake PUMP scam token (BC)
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A recent GrassCall malware campaign has been installing malware using fake Web3 job interviews to drain crypto wallets (BC)

Extra Reads
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Robinhood is blending TradFi and DeFi and onboarding users to crypto
Listen to co-founder & CEO Vlad Tenev discuss accelerating the future of crypto
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President Trump is in trade negotiations with the European Union that could include tariffs

Chart of the Day
Just a friendly reminder where Bitcoin adoption currently stands & its long-term potential


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