10# The Ape Board - 21st February 2022

Curated feed sharing Alpha, events and insights into the crypto economy...

This will be a long issue covering everything we missed. Lets discuss Macros first.

Markets are in correction mode.

Volatility levels are higher than usual in the past few weeks, indicating expected market movement:

Hong Kong to allow retail to participate in crypto:

China pumping up its economy after falling back on zero covid policy and reopening its economy:

Zipmex to restart withdrawals after a successful takeover:

Huobi planning to shift base to Hong Kong:

Galois Capital shuts shop:

FTX Japan resume withdrawals:

Lets get into crypto specifics:

Polygon Labs is firing 20% of its headcount after a $450M raise an year back:

hangry on Ethereum block space:

Blur surpasses Opensea as the largest NFT marketplace:

EigenLayer releases its Whitepaper:

blocmates with their list of 30 midcap projects:

Chainlink on Real World Assets:

Redacted Cartel 🤝 Camelot:

Microsoft 🤝ANKR to offer node services:

Statement from Umami core contributors:

We have purposedly decided not to cover protocol level alphas in this issue to keep the blog to a decent length.

Finally some parting thoughts: I decided to go full time into crypto in 2022 after realizing that it offers the most asymmetric bet available to mankind. It has been a tough and unforgiving learning experience and I don’t plan to stop. Our newsletters are set to go a major upgrade with a lot of cool things underway:

Have a nice day folks!

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