First Mover Asia: Crypto Liquidity Providers Can Be Profitable by Considering Trade Volume, Volatility and Other Factors, Data Firm Says

ALSO: Ether falls but still outperforms bitcoin for another day as investors look hopefully at the Shanghai upgrade.Source

Arbitrum Foundation Offers Crypto Governance Concessions After ARB Holder Uproar

Arbitrum Foundation pledges not to move remaining 700 million ARB tokens without DAO approval of new proposals.Source

Ether Circles Above $1.9K as Shanghai Hard Fork Nears

Liquid staking tokens also rise on Wednesday. Bitcoin holds steady above $28,000.Source

DWF Labs Invests $16M in RACA to Spur Web3 Gaming Ecosystem

Radio Caca has evolved from managing the NFT collection of Elon Musk’s mom to a Steam-like blockchain gaming ecosystem.Source

M11 Credit Resumes Crypto Lending on Maple Finance After FTX-Spurred Pause

The firm introduced an upgraded credit underwriting process and appointed a new head of credit. The developments came after M11 Credit suffered $36 million of loan defaults on lending protocol Maple Finance following FTX’s November collapse.Source

Swiss Government-Owned Bank PostFinance to Offer Customers Crypto

PostFinance will begin offering its 2.5 million customers access to buy, store and sell Bitcoin (BTC) and Ethereum tokens (ETH), thanks to a partnership with Switzerland’s Sygnum Bank.Source

Deribit Parent Company Leads $4.4M Seed Funding Round Into Dutch Crypto Exchange Finst

The oversubscribed funding round will be used to expand Finst’s range of products drive its international expansion plans.Source

As Bitcoin Platform Paxful Closes, Co-Founder Youssef Talks Up Alternatives

A whitepaper for Civilization Kit, a decentralized bitcoin peer-to-peer marketplace that also allows users to build their own decentralized marketplaces, will be published in several weeks. Noones, a new “Bitcoin peer-to-peer super app for the Global South,” is already available in private beta.Source

First Mover Asia: Chilly DOGE, While Bitcoin Simmers Over $28.6K

ALSO: The head of markets for crypto research firm Delphi Digital said Binance’s loss of market share has stemmed largely from its struggles with regulators. He also called bitcoin’s current threshold at about $28K “a tough spot.”Source

‘Shark Tank’ Star Kevin O’Leary Calls Litigating Your Crypto Regulator ‘Really Stupid’

In Coinbase’s case, O’Leary said, it would be “better to sit down and work it out” with regulators, and if a “U.S. regulator doesn’t want staking or lending, so be it.”Source