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Nov 23

Q9 Weekly | Nothing More to CZ Here

23 November 2023 · Changpeng Zhao to step down as Binance CEO · Binance reaches $4.3bn settlement with US authorities · Bitcoin reaches new all-time-high (in Argentina) Changpeng Zhao (CZ) will step down as the CEO of Binance and pay a $50mn fine personally as part of a $4.3bn total…

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Nov 16

Q9 Weekly | Satisfy My SOL

16 November 2023 · Solana surge continues, up 650% this year · New SOL price may help make FTX creditors whole · Yearly crypto fund inflows cross $1bn mark Solana’s SOL jumped 51.7% to lead the charge among crypto majors in an otherwise range-bound market this week. …

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Nov 10

Q9 Weekly | Into High Alt-itude

9 November 2023 · Alt-coins rally, BTC dominance falls · Grayscale’s Chainlink Trust trading at 200% premium · Crypto funds see highest inflows since 2021 As has been the case in previous bull runs, Bitcoin leads, Ethereum follows, then everything else takes off. This time is no different. This week…

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Oct 26

Q9 Weekly | ETF Excitement

26 October 2023 · BTC passes $35k, highest point in 1½ years · BlackRock lists its Bitcoin ETF on DTCC database · ATH institutional interest for BTC on CME Bitcoin rose above $35k this week on the back of recent ETF excitement, touching its highest point in over a year-and-a-half…

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Oct 20

Q9 Weekly | False Alarm

20 October 2023 · BTC rallies on false rumour of spot ETF approval · Why do investors care so much about a spot ETF? · Morgan Stanley says crypto winter could finally be over The price of Bitcoin briefly jumped to $30k this week on both a false rumour that…

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Oct 12

Q9 Weekly | Layering Up for Autumn

12 October 2023 · Layer-2 and Liquid Staking activity explodes · VC funding in crypto hits multi-year low · Caroline Ellison testifies in court Despite all the gory detail emerging in the court case against Sam Bankman-Fried, Q3 has largely been a quiet and forgettable quarter for crypto. On the…

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Oct 5

Q9 Weekly | Play it Again, Sam

5 October 2023 · Trial of Sam Bankman-Fried begins · Former billionaire charged with defrauding customers and investors · Michael Lewis’ book on SBF “Going Infinite” released Almost a year after the collapse of FTX, the high-profile trial of Sam Bankman-Fried has officially kicked off, with plenty of activity both…

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Sep 28

Q9 Weekly | Monkey See, Monkey Do

28 September 2023 · 95% of NFTs ‘are now worthless’ · NFT trading volumes hit multi-year lows · Future use cases of nun-fungible assets Are NFTs dead? In 2021, the non-fungible tech trend swept up artists and celebrities, with digital art and monkey jpegs exchanging hands for eye-watering sums of…

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Sep 21

Q9 Weekly | Tons of Fun

21 September 2023 · Fed holds rates steady, BTC rises above $27k · Correlation with Nasdaq increases · Toncoin replaces Solana in crypto Top 10 Bitcoin has broken out of its recent sideways trading range, moving above $27k for the first time since August. This came as the Fed held…

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Sep 14

Q9 Weekly | SOL Long, Farewell?

14 September 2023 · FTX to liquidate $3.5bn of cryptoassets · Sale includes $1.2bn of Solana, plus other alt-coins · Will the sale cause an alt-coin crash? Much has been made this week of an impending altcoin crash after FTX announced they will sell $3.5bn worth of their cryptoassets (including…

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