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1. 3iQ’s Canadian Bitcoin Fund Hits C$1B in Market Cap

   The digital asset manager passed a key milestone this week.

2. K-Pop Sensation Mamamoo to Mint Digital Collectibles on Polkadot

   The popular K-Pop girl band's parent company RBW will be selling its singers' digital products on the blockchain.

3. Kraken to Halt XRP Trading for US Residents

   Clients residing outside the U.S. will be unaffected.

4. Optimism ‘Soft Launches’ Ethereum Throughput Solution With DeFi’s Synthetix

   A potential fix for Ethereum's costly congestion problems.

5. Market Wrap: Bitcoin Dips to $34.4K as Big-Name DeFi Tokens Trounce ETH

   Bitcoin may be down now but there is still growing demand for crypto assets, one analyst said.

6. Goldman Sachs to Enter Crypto Market ‘Soon’ With Custody Play: Source

   Goldman, JPMorgan and Citi are all said to be looking at crypto custody.

7. Wireline Settles SAFT Suit With SEC; Peirce Partially Dissents

   Wireline is now barred from distributing the tokens it promised investors in its 2018 SAFT sale.

8. Will Mayor Suarez’s Miami Be the First Major City to Buy Bitcoin?

   The entrepreneurial mayor brings his recruitment of tech talent to the crypto space with the potential of a 1% investment of the city’s reserves into BTC.

9. Fixing Crypto’s Silos

   Our fragmented status quo – thousands of tokens, hundreds of dapps – will not work indefinitely without interoperability.

10. Mt. Gox Creditors Can Claim 90% of Bitcoin Left in Bankruptcy: Bloomberg

    The agreement is subject to creditor acceptance.

11. Why Celsius Thinks CEL Won’t Receive the Same SEC Treatment as XRP

    In an interview with CoinDesk TV, CEO Alex Mashinsky explained why CEL has drawn recent interest from altcoin investors.

12. Blockchain Bites: Coinbase Wants to Crowdsource Asset Listings; What’s Up With Tether’s Bank?

    Deltec invested some clients' funds in bitcoin, but not Tether's, the bank confirms. So what exactly is backing tether?