Crypto Pulse #63- Coinbase launches Ethereum L2 'Base' Friday,24th 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 📌 Coinbase is building its own Ethereum Layer-2 Network called 'Base' (source) 📌 Cryptocurrency should not be granted legal tender status, the International Monetary Fund’s (IMF) Executive Board said in a statement (source) 📌 DZ Bank,the second-largest German bank by assets, is set to offer digital asset custody services (source) 📈 Markets and Ecosystem 📌 Mastercard is set to allow crypto payments in Web3 via USDC settlements (source) 📌 Tezos signs up Google Cloud as a validator on its blockchain (source) 📌 Stacks (STX) Soars as Bitcoin Ordinal craze drives network building momentum (source) 🀄️ NFTs, Metaverse & Gaming 📌 The legal officer of the Blockchain Association thinks it's absurd for a US court to consider digital assets on private blockchains as securities, after a lawsuit against Dapper Labs's NBA Top Shot NFTs was allowed to proceed (source) 📌 Real-world artifacts from the famous Titanic wreckage are set to be tokenized as NFTs (source) 📌 Friendsies NFT creators have denied ‘abandoning’ project amid a $5M rug pull allegation (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 Tuesday- stay tuned ! 📺 🐧 Spread the word - retweet !