Pavel Durov breaks silence

14/2024

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• Analysts’ insight on Doge potential (coinmarketcap)  

• Filmstudio raising funds via Avalanche (decrypt)  

• DePin to be the “crypto’s next big use case” (cointelegraph)  

• U.S. CFTC issued a $175k penalty against Uniswap (@wublockchain)  

• Crypto trader sentiment drops to ‘extreme fear’ (cointelegraph)  

• Helium Mobile’s subscriber count surpasses 112,000 (cointelegraph)  

• Skytravel integrates with Travala to offer bookings in crypto (theblock)  

• Bybit’s liquid staking token boosts Solana ecosystem (cointelegraph)  

• Trump to establish a government efficiency commission led by Elon Musk (coinmarketcap)  

• Pavel Durov breaks silence for the first time  (cointelegraph)

• London didn’t rank among the top 5 cities chosen by millionaires (cnbc)

• Tesla will launch full self-driving tech in Europe and China early next year (cnbc)

• X’s future on the line in Brazil (cointelegraph)  

• Movie director says AI is a ‘Wild West’ and everything is possible (cnbc)

• S&P 500 tumbles Friday (cnbc)  

• YouTube to safeguard against AI-generated Deepfakes (coinmarketcap)

• Big day for Bored Apes (@tyler_did_it)  

• Church of Smoking Chicken Fist to build a physical church in Texas (decrypt)  

• Magic Eden dominates NFT trading volume (cointelegraph)  

• New BINGO format launched on Polymarket (@0xtyrael)  

• BONK founder breaks Guinness word record (@degeneratenews)  

• Magic Eden faces backlash in the U.S. (cointelegraph)  

• Claynosaurz to launch a NETFLIX show in 2024 (@tyler_did_it)  

• SUPERBASEDD a degen media company spent $1.5M on a CryptoPunk buy (@superbasedd)  

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