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Crypto Pulse # 62- Former FTX executive to plead guilty to fraud Tuesday,21st Feb 2023 | Powered by GenShards 🌍 Here's all you need to know about what's been up in the Web3-sphere lately 👉 Read the issue | 🐧 Read tweet thread |👇Read highlights below ⛰ Macro Landscape 📌 A former executive of the collapsed exchange FTX is planning to plead guilty to fraud (source) 📌 The SEC is targeting celebrities endorsing crypto projects, as it charges retired NBA star Paul Pierce for promoting EthereumMax (source) 📌 The Bank of Russia will pilot a CBDC in April, with digital ruble payments for retail purchases and P2P transactions (source) 📈 Markets and Ecosystem 📌 Could the upcoming week kickstart a BTC rally? Here's what you need to know (source) 📌 Over 1.3 million addresses are now holding Shiba Inu ($SHIB) on the Ethereum blockchain, ahead of the expected launch of Shibarium (source) 📌 After being hacked, Platypus protocol received help from blockchain security firm BlockSec to recover at least $2.4 million in USDC stablecoin (source) 🀄️ NFTs, Metaverse & Gaming 📌 NFT lending is experiencing a surge, driven by BendDAO and Yuga Labs' collections (source) 📌 Starbucks NFTs on Polygon are becoming super popular and trading in the thousands of dollars (source) 📌 Here's an opinion piece on how Ordinals could positively impact the Bitcoin network (source) 👉 Read the newsletter for the latest in the Web3 and NFT world (and for some of the choicest memes 😉). Subscribe to get it directly in your inbox ! Next issue drops coming Friday- stay tuned ! 📺 🐧 Spread the word - retweet !