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3 High-Value Base DeFi Plays

Citizen Brief: gm, it's been an uneasy week for investors following a chaotic start to the month. Let's dig into some investing opportunities on Base.
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Mar 20, 20253 min read
3 High-Value Base DeFi Plays
Published on Mar 20, 2025
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NEED TO KNOW
Kraken's Big Buy
  1. 🥷 Kraken is Acquiring Futures Platform NinjaTrader for $1.5B. The mega deal will serve Kraken's ambitions to expand beyond crypto.
  2. 🦄 Uniswap DAO Approves $165M Funding Plan. One of the two approved proposals includes steps toward making Uniswap Governance a legal entity.
  3. 🚔 Gotbit Founder Pleads Guilty to Wire Fraud, Forfeits $23M. Alex Andryunin, founder of Gotbit, pled guilty to wire fraud and market manipulation.
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Daily Market Snapshot: Crypto prices inched lower Thursday as traders grappled with dropping tech stocks. Even a surprise conference address from Trump where he vowed to make the US a 'bitcoin superpower,' couldn't reignite BTC price action.
Prices as of 5pm ET 24hr 7d
Crypto $2.76T ↘ 1.7% ↗ 5.3%
BTC $84,247 ↘ 1.8% ↗ 4.8%
ETH $1,975 ↘ 3.3% ↗ 7.4%
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PLAY OF THE WEEK
3 High-Value Base DeFi Plays
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