Matt and Nic return for another week of news and deals. In this episode: 

• The Merge takes place without incident
• Will the Merge silence Ethereum critics on the left?
• Will the ESG narrative around crypto get louder?
• FTX takes a stake in Skybridge
• Castle Island is not an island
• If you make an NFT of a diamond and destroy the diamond, do you still have a diamond?
• CME launches Ether options
• Starbucks launches an NFT loyalty platform
• Tungsten cubes are selling off
• South Korea issues an arrest warrant for Do Kwon
• The thin line between visionary and scammer
• What Terra teaches us about why disclosures matter in capital markets
• Huobi delists privacy coins
• Can you take delivery of Tornado Cash-dusted Ether?
• Coinbase launches their Crypto Action Network
• Matt and Nic evaluate the ratings members of Congress are getting from Coinbase
• Chainalysis releases their 2022 global crypto adoption index
• Hodlnaut’s CSW case begins
• The NSA Bitcoin lab leak hypothesis
• OTB goes live!

Mentioned in this episode:

• Jake Chervinsky's thread on Tornado Cash
• Chainalysis 2022 Global Crypto Adoption Report

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