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Prices shoot higher intraday on high volume, only to reverse course later in the day. Market Wrap is CoinDesk’s daily newsletter diving into what happened in today’s crypto markets.

Christie’s 3.0 has teamed up with Chainalysis, Manifold, and Spatial to sell NFTs on Ethereum.

President Xi wants China to be the world’s leader in blockchain technology but has banned its most popular uses. Students and faculty wonder whether universities can successfully teach blockchain with Chinese characteristics, and if graduates can find jobs.

California’s financial regulator brought enforcement actions against 11 little-known crypto companies Tuesday, alleging they stole customer funds or operated like Ponzi schemes.

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FTX has been steadily building up its presence in southern Florida, including purchasing the naming rights to the NBA’s Miami Heat arena in 2021 for $135 million.

The Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC) sued Ooki DAO, a decentralized autonomous organization, last week. The CFTC alleged Ooki DAO was offering leveraged and margin trading products without registering as a Futures Commission Merchant (FCM), a legal requirement in the U.S.

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The U.S. dollar is soaking up global liquidity, so “everything else is starved,” Glen Goodman, a longtime trader and author, said on CoinDesk TV’s “First Mover.”

El Centro de Finanzas Alternativas utiliza información pública disponible para ejecutar un modelo teórico que estima la huella medioambiental de la minería de bitcoin.

The $9 million seed round was co-led by Tribe Capital and Tabiya, and follows an earlier $6 million in pre-seed funding.

A project involving multiple Asian central bank digital currencies (CBDCs) has been badged a success, facilitating over $22 million in foreign-exchange transactions, the Bank for International Settlements (BIS) said Tuesday.

Liberty City Ventures, which incubated the startup, led the funding round

Space and Time decentralized data platform, set to launch later this year, will integrate with Microsoft Azure

Harrison will be moving into an advisory at FTX over the next few months.

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Compass Point gave Core a buy rating and $4 price target.

Jihan Wu, crypto billionaire and founder of bitcoin miner maker Bitmain, is setting up a $250 million fund to purchase distressed assets from mining firms, Bloomberg reported Tuesday.

The CEO of bankrupt crypto lender Celsius, Alex Mashinsky has resigned, according to a press release.

La principal criptomoneda por valor de mercado subió más de 5% y alcanzó US$20.350, según datos de CoinDesk. Por su parte, ether, la segunda criptomoneda más importante, aumentó 4% y llegó a US$1390.

La empresa está en búsqueda de asesoramiento legal para ayudarlos a entender las regulaciones en criptomonedas, NFTs y DeFi a medida que expande su estrategia Web3.

Strike, the Lightning Network-based Bitcoin payment provider, has raised $80 million in a Series B funding round led by Ten31, according to a press release.

The partnership signals the growing institutional adoption of crypto.

Cryptocurrency lender Nexo has acquired a minority stake in Summit National Bank, a financial institution regulated by the Office of the Comptroller of the Currency (OCC).

The latest price moves in bitcoin (BTC) and crypto markets in context for Sept. 27, 2022. First Mover is CoinDesk’s daily newsletter that contextualizes the latest actions in the crypto markets.

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The partnership gives Betterment’s 730,000 customers access to customized crypto investment plans based on their risk profiles and interests.

The cross-chain lending protocol has raised almost $40 million since June 2021.

Robinhood has been steadily moving away from its original “walled garden” approach to crypto over the past year.