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Here's a quick preview of today’s content: Haley Welch and Faze Banks ‘talk to-us’ about Hawk Tuah memecoin rugpull, Gemini eyes 2025 IPO, VanEck drops bullish Solana prediction, pump.fun hit with cease & desist, Czech President makes pro-crypto move for long-term hodlers, and so much more below 👇
Happy Friday, the weekend is near – Let’s dive in.
Market Snapshot

As of 3/6/2025. Data per CoinMarketCap.
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Crypto had one of it’s roughest full weeks in many months
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BTC finishes down 6.6%, ETH and SOL down ~17%, while XRP, DOGE, ADA fall 24%
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Lots of news headlines were potential impacts for crypto’s week in the red
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Trump’s tariff announcements
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Memecoin madness and legal concerns
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Market liquidity reached new outflow records higher than Luna and FTX market collapses’
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Headline Roundup
The major headlines driving crypto markets
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‘Hawk Tuah’ girl, Haliey Welch, broke down into tears while talking about the alleged rugpull of her coin, watch here
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NEOS Investments announced a 29.5% distribution yield for their Bitcoin High Income ETF, BTCI
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Franklin Templeton awaits SEC approval for crypto index ETF (CT)
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VanEck predicts Solana will reach $520 in 2025
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Ripple’s Brad Garlinghouse could be appointed to the White House Crypto Council (CT)
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Crypto exchange Gemini is considering an IPO as soon as this year (TB)
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Trump Media and Technology Group plans to launch a Bitcoin ETF (CD)
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71% of institutional traders have no plans to trade crypto this year (CT)
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Satoshi Nakamoto's Bitcoin stash may be worth over $108B (CT)
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Coinbase executive links Satoshi Nakamoto's wallets to activity as late as 2014 (TB)
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Coinbase’s chief lawyer testifies in Congress about crypto debanking (CD)
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Grayscale files to list its Litecoin trust as an ETP on NYSE Arca (CT)
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Cboe BZX Exchange files 19b-4s for Bitwise, 21Shares, and Canary Capital for an XRP ETF (TB)
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Former Celsius CEO Alex Mashinsky seeks a one-month delay in his sentencing (TB)
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Tornado Cash developer Alexey Perstev to be released from prison as he appeals his money laundering conviction (DC)
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Bybit completes registration in India after paying $1M fine for unauthorized operations (CD)
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1inch Network integrates ZKsync integration to offer faster and cheaper cross-chain swaps (CD)
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Traders push BNB Chain’s tutorial video token to a $35M market cap (CT)
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Texas Rep. Al Green criticizes Trump for launching his own memecoin (CT)
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CME crypto trading volumes hit a record of $285M in January (CT)
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Two law firms issue cease & desist orders against Pump.fun for IP issues with 200+ memecoins (CT)

M&A Announcements
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Textile and 3Box Labs announce merger for decentralized data play (YF)
Launches
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Berachain launches its mainnet and BERA token, which hits a $1B marketcap (BW)
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Ondo Finance announces release of Layer-1 blockchain for institutional RWA tokenization, Ondo Chain (OF)
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Kuroro Wilds launches play-to-airdrop campaign ahead of KURO token launch (DC)
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Laurence Day’s Wildcat defi platform launches new version on Ethereum (TB)
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Ethereum’s Pectra upgrade expects testing to begin this month with hopes to launch on mainnet in April (CD)
Venture Capital
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0G Foundation launches $88.8M fund to support decentralized AI applications (CD)
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Near Foundation launches $20M AI Agent Fund to support AI-powered agent tokens (CS)
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Tevau announces $10M valuation in latest pre-seed financing (TV)
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INXY Payments raises $3M from Flashpoint Ventures and angel investors (TEU)
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Fraktion raises €1.1M from Cabrit Capital, Tezos Foundation, and others for tokenization and fractionalization of real-world assets (FL)
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Nextrope secures $1M for web3 security project (GNW)
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Keystone Hardware Wallet backed by Avalanche Foundation ‘infraBUIDL()’ program (KW)
Regulation
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Czech President signs bill to waive capital gains tax on bitcoin holdings of over three years (TB)
Cybersecurity
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Jupiter’s X account is hacked to promote fake memecoins (TB)
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XRP ledger back online after hour long technical glitch (CCN)
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This week’s crypto hack roundup (BiS)

Extra Reads
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ChatGPT was down globally around 10am ET on Thursday
Here’s how it impacted crypto & DApps
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Haley ‘Hawk Tuah’ Welch makes her first social appearance in 3 months

Chart of the Day
With Ethereum’s Pectra Upgrade expected in April, here’s a look at the ETH Supply Total throughout the years


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