Crypto's Misinformation War
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- 🗞️ WSJ under fire: Elliptic, the analytics firm that the WSJ cited in their much-criticized report on crypto terror financing, says that its data was misinterpreted.
- 🚔 Binance gets heat. A crypto-friendly Senator wants the DoJ to prosecute Binance over terror financing. The referenced WSJ report is wrong, but Binance has a complicated history.
- 👨⚖️ SBF takes to the stand. SBF kicked off testimony to a jury-less court Thursday as the judge determines what will be off-limits.
| Prices updated at 4:00 pm ET | 24HR |
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Crypto Market Cap $1.26T | ↘ 1.1% |
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Bitcoin $34,139 | ↘ 1.8% |
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Ethereum $1,796 | ↗ 0.2% |
📈 Decoupling from TradFi Crypto is up 24% from September lows while the S&P 500 is down 8% in a clear decoupling. BlackRock CEO Larry Fink might call it a Flight to Quality.
There's been plenty of grumbling from $UNI holders over the past couple weeks after Uniswap Labs launched a small swapping fee on their frontend.
The $UNI fee switch has always been a spicy topic of governance debate. In today's Bankless article, two analysts on our research team take opposite sides on whether or not $UNI has a bright future ahead of it.
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